Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search results

Box 5

 Container

Contains 457 Collections and/or Records:

Carbon Copy of typed manuscript "Scanning Poetry.", 1941

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 23
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_23_0001
Scope and Contents Carbon copy of a single page of a typed manuscript conforming to a section of chapter IV (pp. 36 – 40) of William H. Murray's The Finished Scholar (noted as FS): "Poetry." The typescript page to chapter IV discusses poetry as either metric or blank verse (FS, pp. 37 – 38). The typescript draft keeps to the general structure of the final. published chapter, but the latter contains further additions to the text.

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).

The Most Important Thing., undated

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_25_0003
Scope and Contents Two typescript pages, likely from other parts of William H. Murray's text Essay on the Forms of Government: from Theocracy to Foolocracy, on the connection between politics and religion. Murray esp. notes that the endurance of our republic owes to "the composite product of white men's brains and Christian Principles," and when this ceases "there will be no Republic --no liberty for anyone."

Hon. Lloyd Noble, 5/18/1942

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_25_0004
Scope and Contents Copy of a typewritten letter from William H. Murray to (Samuel) Lloyd Noble sending the latter a copy of Essay on the Forms of Government: from Theocracy to Foolocracy.

Receipt for Publication Costs, 8/17/1945

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 26
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_26_0006
Scope and Contents An apparent receipt (but resembles a check) for moneys "received from Gov. Wm H. Murray" for $5450.00 for "full payment on the Contract for publishing "THE MEMOIRS OF GOVERNOR MURRAY AND TRUE HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA." This apparently deals with point # 5 of the contract (previous item # 0004): "It is agreed that the author shall advance to the publisher the proceeds of four hundred copies of sales of sets (offered at $15.00 each--handwritten parenthetical note)to be used in the...