[Letter from Sidney J. Jackson to I. H. Kempner, October 11, 1949]

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Letter from Sidney J. Jackson to I. H. Kempner recounting a legal case from some decades ago that involved reparations for the Choctaw Indians. Jackson asks for any information that Kempner remembers about the case, and offers the information he remembers in turn.

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Jackson, Sidney J. October 11, 1949.

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Letter from Sidney J. Jackson to I. H. Kempner recounting a legal case from some decades ago that involved reparations for the Choctaw Indians. Jackson asks for any information that Kempner remembers about the case, and offers the information he remembers in turn.

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[1] p.

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Handwritten note which reads, "Dear Ike, I hope the surprise of a note from me will not prove too much of a shock for you, but I have a favor to ask, as you may surmise! First of all, [...] and I send our love to Hennie and trust you both and all the young people fare well. We are [...] staying here until Willis and leave in a couple of weeks to spend Christmas with Sidney Jr. and family in Hong Kong. Here is my story. I have a dim recollection that, some 30/40 years ago, about a dozen of our friends in Galveston, Charlie Moore, Harvey [...], Billy [...], and some in Houston paid small individual sums, aggregating a few thousand dollars, to a firm of Houston lawyers, as a retaining fee to act in a case which was to have been [...] in righting some wrongs that have been done by the U. S. President to the Choctaw tribe of Indians, with the possibility of considerable recompence to the contributors. Strange to say our younger daughter Kelley is [..] [...] through the and [...] state [...] to meet an attorney, who gave her a copy of a booklet brief, submitted by him to Dept. of [...] and [... ...] expected to be [...] I seem to recall that you [...] one of the [...] to the [...] farm. If so, do you remember their name, and is it your opinion that any importance still attendees to a claim on our part for participation in the proceeds. In other [...] have you any recollection of the [...] and would you be interested in reading the brief? Or, please forget it? Kindest regards, [...] Sidney J. Jackson"

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One of Galveston’s most iconic families, the Kempner family influenced the social and philanthropic landscape of Galveston, and its members created an expansive economic empire. This collection includes both personal papers and documentation of the family's involvement in business and industry.

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Jackson, Sidney J. [Letter from Sidney J. Jackson to I. H. Kempner, October 11, 1949], letter, October 11, 1949; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1476561/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.

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