Box 5
Container
Contains 457 Collections and/or Records:
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...
The Gainesville Hanging, undated
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 27
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_27_0021
Cook, I.L., 3/9/1944
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 30
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_30_0028
Scope and Contents
A second handwritten letter from I.L. Cook to William H. Murray ordering another double set o fMurray's Memoirs, enclosing two checks for $15, for J. Lee Mann and R.E. Wyrick, both of Atoka.
Delaney, W.A. Jr., 2/15/1944
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 30
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_30_0035
Scope and Contents
A typed single-page letter from W.A. Delaney to William H. Murray enclosing a $15 checkfor a set of Murray's Memoirs.