Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search results

Box 5

 Container

Contains 457 Collections and/or Records:

Nance, J.C., undated

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0023
Scope and Contents Handwritten note by J.C. Nance to William H. Murray to send him some copies of The Finished Scholar.

St.Anthony's Guild Press, 6/3/1941

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0001
Scope and Contents Copy of a typewritten letter from William H. Murray to the St. Anthony's Guild Press on the cost of privately printing of book.

Sayre, General Farrand, to Thomas S. Biggar, 1/19/1942

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0016
Scope and Contents A prefatory letter from Willaim H. Murray to his son, Burbank discussing the history of General Farrand Sayre (Burbank's Father-in-law) with an enclosed typewritten copy of a letter from Farrand Sayre to Thomas A Bigger praising the book, The Finished Scholar.

Publicity flyer, "Gov.Murray's SOS Call to His Friends.--Shadid, Dr.M., undated

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0021
Scope and Contents The same publicity flyer from file 23, item # 8 (5.23.0008) with modified title outlining the The Finished Scholar . Includes handwritten note from Dr. M. Shadid, Community Hospital, Elk City, OK, to send a copy.

Stewart, Paul, 8/27/1941

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_24_0010
Scope and Contents Typed book order request on a 3 x 5 in. memo pad sheet from Paul Stewart to William H. Murray for The Finished Scholar, with $1.00 enclosed.

Laconic Essay on Forms of Government., undated

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_25_0001
Scope and Contents Two typewritten drafts of "Laconic Essay on the Forms of Government," that inform his publuished book Essay on Forms of Government: from Theocracy to Foolocracy (1942) one with corrections written in ink. One a letter- sized typescript (17 pp.) the other a legal-sized carbon copy (13 pp., unpaginated). Nearly identical--the very last section of the two on Foolocracies (p. 17 and 13, resepctively) are thematically equivalent, but worded slightly differently. The letter-sized...

Essay on Forms of Government from Theocracy to Foolocracy., undated

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_25_0002
Scope and Contents Two typewritten drafts of the eassy "Essay on Forms of Government: from Theocracy to Foolocracy" as informing the book of the same name (1942). One a letter- sized carbon-copy (17 pp.), the other a legal-sized typescript (13 pp., unpaginated). The former has corrections that show up in the latter, along with a penciled note at the top by Murray ("If you wish to run this do so...."). Both identical in content as matching the 17 pg. typescript of the previous record (5.25.0001) with its...

Jno W. Nix (i.e., John W. Nix), 6/11/1942

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_25_0005
Scope and Contents Copy of a typewritten letter from William H. Murray to John ("Jno") W. Nix noting the late arrival of a reunion notice and under separate cover sending the latter a copy of Essay on the Forms of Government: from Theocracy to Foolocracy.

Handwritten Draft Prospectus for Book, undated

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 26
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_26_0008
Scope and Contents Handwritten draft by, presumably,William H. Murray on the True History of Oklahoma (aka: his Memoirs) noting it will published in in two editions, the first, a popular edition bound in cloth abd a deluxe edition bound in Morrocan leather with "guilt" [sic] edges.

Prospectus for book, "True History of Oklahoma.", 2/14/1944 (postmark); undated

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 26
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_26_0002
Scope and Contents Fold out addressable prospectus detailing William H. Murray's upcoming book True History of Oklahoma (aka: his Memoirs). Includes one complete foldable prospectus, unaddressed (and undated) and one partial copy torn off but folded to include the prospectus announcement on one side and the address space on the other, addressed to Herbert Pate of Madill, OK and postmarked 2/14/1944.