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Ruth Goddard Jackson Collection

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: MSS-0064

Scope and Contents

The first piece of correspondence is to the Honorable Henry B. Gonzalez of Washington D.C. from Mrs. W.W. Jackson dated October 4, 1962. The second set of correspondence from 1966 (with a typo of 1965 on Dr. Friend’s letter) involves Mrs. W.W. Jackson and Dr. Llerena B. Friend, a librarian at the Barker Memorial Library in Austin, Texas. These letters discuss resources regarding Dr. Samuel Peterson and included is a page of notes and a biography of Dr. Peterson. The third and final set of correspondence from 1969 to Mrs. Jackson includes two letters from John B. Blake, Ph.D. at the National Library of Medicine and one from Katherine M. Richards, Assistant Librarian at the Yale Medical Library. Also included is a page of notes stapled to Katherine Richards’s letter and photocopies of a collection of German medical works titled Artzneybuch. Following the correspondence is a program for the 17th Annual Session of the Texas Folk-Lore Society at the Witte Museum and Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas in April 1931. The publication of Man, Bird, and Beast by the Texas Folk-Lore Society edited by J. Frank Dobie from 1930 is included next. The program previously mentioned was found in the publication of Man, Bird, and Beast. A Notice of an Election to Amend the City Charter of the City of San Antonio was found in a charter of San Antonio booklet that is catalogued. This notice is included here and is addressed to Craig Jackson. Signatures of famous Texas (J.D. Giddings, Joseph D. Sayers, M.C. Hamilton) are included and on one sheet of black paper, the date is unknown.

Dates

  • 1930 - 1969

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Southwestern University Distinctive Collections and Archives is the owner of the physical materials in the collections and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from SU Distinctive Collections and Archives before any publication use. Distinctive Collections does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners. Consult repository for more details.

Biographical / Historical

Ruth G. Jackson [Liilian Ruth Goodard] born in 1895. She graduated from Southwestern University in 1917 and went on to study at the Yale Graduate School of English in 1929. She began collecting English and American literature after graduating from Southwestern University. She inherited her father’s library in the 1950’s and began collecting religious works, including works of Wesleyana. Ruth married Will Woodward Jackson, a 1916 graduate of Southwestern University, in 1919. She died in 1987.

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and other materials related to Ruth Goddard Jackson.

Arrangement

Correspondence is together and arranged chronologically, pamphlets, notice of election, and page of signatures follow.

Physical Location

Special Collections Small Collections Box 2

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Jackson-Greenwood

Processing Information

Lauryn Brandon, 2021

Title
Ruth Goddard Jackson Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Lauryn Brandon
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the SU Special Collections & Archives Repository

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