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Box 5

 Container

Contains 6 Collections and/or Records:

St.Anthony's Guild Press, 6/10/1941

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0003
Scope and Contents A typewritten letter from the St. Anthony's Guild's Director, Fr. John Forest, to William H. Murray outlining the cost of publishing Murray's The Finished Scholar based on various formatting

Macmillan Company, Aurelia Habekost, 6/24/1941

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0007
Scope and Contents A typewritten letter from Aurelia Habekost to William H. Murray acknowledging the receipt of Murrray's manuscript to The Finished Scholar and that MacMillan will give it "careful attention" and inform Murray of a decision.

Macmillan Company, Aurelia Habekost, 7/11/1941

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0008
Scope and Contents Typewritten letter from Aurelia Habekost to William H. Murray again rejecting Murray's book, The Finished Scholar, owing to its competition with a similar book MacMillan is publishing.

Library of Congress, C.L. Bouve, Register of Copyrights, 12/26/1941

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0015
Scope and Contents Typewritten letterfrom C.L. Bouve of the Library of Congress Copyright Office to William H. Murray noting that the claim of copyright for The Finished Scholar has already been registered by the printer and publisher, Dorrance and Company, Inc., with the Office returning Murray's $2.00 registration fee.

William H. Murray to Burbank Murray, 2/19/1942

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0017
Scope and Contents Typewritten letter from William H. Murray to his son, Burbank, further discussing General Farrand Sayre and his comments to Thomas A Bigger of the prior letter , including Sayre's "Anti-Stratfordian" views of Shakespeare's authorship and the historical timeline of noted Greeks and Romans including Homer, Socates, Alexander and Cicero, with Murray seguing here on more recent figures, like Sam Houston and Al Smith.

The Chief Signal Officer, War Department, to William H. Murray, 8/25/1943

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0019
Scope and Contents Typewritten letter from an unidentified individual to William H. Murray discussing The Finished Scholar, reminiscences of living in Oklahoma and the author's current times in Washington DC. Letter incomplete / missing page(s).