Box 1
Container
Contains 22 Results:
Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown-Le Conte and Zeppanah Stewart, 1958-1964
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Two letters from Le Conte and two from Zeppanah, thanking McQuown for her patronage and assistance with a catalogue of Stewart's paintings.
Dates:
1958-1964
Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown-Sandra and Jerald Tanner, 1967
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
One letter from Sandra and one from Jerald in response to requests for information on Brigham Young by McQuown.
Dates:
1967
Correspondence--Brigham Young Research, 1949-1968
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Letters from McQuown requesting information pertinent to her research.
Dates:
1949-1968
Correspondence--Brigham Young's Land Ownership in New York, 1952-1964
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
From McQuown to various people requesting information on the ownership of land by Brigham Young and his family in New York. There are several responses to these inquiries.
Dates:
1952-1964
Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown-Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1950-1952
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Four letters from John Selby, editor-in-chief of Rinehart, to McQuown concerning her Brigham Young manuscript. Each inquiry is a combination of encouragement and prodding. In January 1952 Selby wrote: "Next month four years will have elapsed since we began our correspondence, and I can't resist sending you a sort of anniversary inquiry."
Dates:
1950-1952
Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown-Stanford University Libraries, 1961-1962
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
From the Division of Special Collections asking McQuown to donate her correspondence with Bernard DeVoto and any of his literary manuscripts she might own. The letters do not indicate whether a transaction was ever made.
Dates:
1961-1962
Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown-Kurt Vonnegut
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Handwritten draft of a letter from McQuown to Vonnegut requesting permission to use a phrase from Cat's Cradle in the prologue to her Brigham Young book. The phrase illustrates her approach to the Young manuscript: "Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either."
Dates:
1803-1976
Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown-General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, 1958-1967
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Three letters to McQuown in response to requests for information and copies from the National Archives.
Dates:
1958-1967
Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown-Yale University Library, 1947-1965
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
Two letters from Yale University granting McQuown permission to use the William R. Coe Collection and to publish portions of various manuscripts in her biography of Brigham Young.
Dates:
1947-1965
Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown, N. D.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Incomplete, single, handwritten page from McQuown to an unknown person reflecting on her relationship with her terminally ill mother.
Dates:
1803-1976