[Letter from Miss Frankie Waits to Miss Glenda Sartain, November 25, 1953]

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Letter from Miss Frankie Waits to Miss Glenda Sartain, discussing Miss Sartain's request for clippings about her school, L. V. Stockard Middle School, from the Daily Times Herald's records. She suggests Miss Sartain come to the Times Herald Building to look through the clippings personally, and asks her to call ahead. The letter is folded inside an official Daily Times Herald envelope, that has been torn open along the top edge.

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[1] p. ; 28 x 21 cm. + 1 envelope (1 p. ; 9 x 16 cm.)

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Waits, Frankie November 25, 1953.

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Letter from Miss Frankie Waits to Miss Glenda Sartain, discussing Miss Sartain's request for clippings about her school, L. V. Stockard Middle School, from the Daily Times Herald's records. She suggests Miss Sartain come to the Times Herald Building to look through the clippings personally, and asks her to call ahead. The letter is folded inside an official Daily Times Herald envelope, that has been torn open along the top edge.

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[1] p. ; 28 x 21 cm. + 1 envelope (1 p. ; 9 x 16 cm.)

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  • November 25, 1953

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Waits, Frankie. [Letter from Miss Frankie Waits to Miss Glenda Sartain, November 25, 1953], letter, November 25, 1953; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth833988/: accessed May 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell.

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