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Kenneth P. Whiting papers (Ms. 81.4)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Fax: 401-863-2093
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Correspondence and memoranda, 1925-1926
12 folder(s)

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Meadowcroft, W. H. to Kenneth P. Whiting
 1925 Jul 13
Box 1, Folder 1 Meadowcroft, W. H. to Kenneth P. Whiting
 1925 Jul 07
Box 1, Folder 1 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1925 Sep 16
Box 1, Folder 1 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1925 Sep 25
Box 1, Folder 1 Anderson, H. S. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1925 Sep 25
Box 1, Folder 2 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1925 Oct 16
Box 1, Folder 2 Edison to Kenneth P. Whiting
Contents Note: Attached to preceding.
 undated
Box 1, Folder 2 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1925 Oct 30
Box 1, Folder 2 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1925 Oct 30
Box 1, Folder 2 Boarman, L.H. to Mr. Farrier
 1925 Nov 07
Box 1, Folder 3 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1925 Nov 09
Box 1, Folder 3 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1925 Nov 19
Box 1, Folder 3 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1925 Nov 20
Box 1, Folder 3 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1925 Nov 25
Box 1, Folder 3 Whiting's memo of conversation with Edison
 1925 Dec 12
Box 1, Folder 4 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1925 Dec 17
Box 1, Folder 4 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1925 Dec 21
Box 1, Folder 4 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1925 Dec 21
Box 1, Folder 4 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1925 Dec 24
Box 1, Folder 4 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Jan 07
Box 1, Folder 5 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Jan 09
Box 1, Folder 5 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Jan 11
Box 1, Folder 5 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Jan 14
Box 1, Folder 5 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Jan 19
Box 1, Folder 5 Anderson, H.S. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Jan 20
Box 1, Folder 6 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Feb 01
Box 1, Folder 6 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Feb 01
Box 1, Folder 6 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Feb 04
Box 1, Folder 6 Partial draft of preceding
 1926 Feb 04
Box 1, Folder 6 Attached draft of note to Walsh
 undated
Box 1, Folder 7 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated "not sent".
 1926 Feb 12
Box 1, Folder 7 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Feb 13
Box 1, Folder 7 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Feb 15
Box 1, Folder 7 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Feb 18
Box 1, Folder 8 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: 2 copies.
 1926 Feb 24
Box 1, Folder 8 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Mar 03
Box 1, Folder 8 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Mar 03
Box 1, Folder 8 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Mar 05
Box 1, Folder 9 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Mar 11
Box 1, Folder 9 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Attached to preceding.
 undated
Box 1, Folder 9 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Mar 19
Box 1, Folder 9 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926-03-24
Box 1, Folder 9 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Apr 09
Box 1, Folder 10 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Apr 14
Box 1, Folder 10 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Apr 14
Box 1, Folder 10 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
 1926 Apr 21
Box 1, Folder 10 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Apr 27
Box 1, Folder 10 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 undated
Box 1, Folder 11 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 Apr 28
Box 1, Folder 11 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 May 04
Box 1, Folder 11 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1926 May 14
Box 1, Folder 12 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1925 Sep - 1926 May
Box 1, Folder 12 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Annotated by Edison.
 1925 Oct
Box 1, Folder 12 Whiting, Kenneth P. to Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Draft.
 1926 May

Series 2. Form letters, 1925
4 folders

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 13 Form letters
 1925 Dec 02, undated
Box 1, Folder 14 Form letter
 1925 Dec 02
Box 1, Folder 15 Form letters
2 versions

 undated
Box 1, Folder 16 Form letters
2 letters

 undated

Series 3. Printed material concerning demonstrating sample records
2 folders

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 17 Order form and list of record contents
Contents Note: Order form; list of contents of record no. 7; same for record no. 8; instructions for operating the demonstrating instruments.
undated
Box 1, Folder 18 Labels for records 1-7
 undated

Series 4. Miscellaneous
4 folders

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 19 Advertising brochure and instruction booklet
Contents Note: Advertising brochure: "The New Edison Phonograph" (Form 4726), [16] p.' "List Prices of New Edison Phonographs" (Form 4739), 1 page; instruction booklet: "Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs" (Form 15230-25 M-10_23), 12 pages
 undated
Box 1, Folder 20 Autographed photo of Thomas A. Edison
Contents Note: Inscribed to K. P. Whiting. Supplement to The Courier (of Orange, NJ); with lead article on Edison. Copyright Walter Scott Shinn, NY
 1926 Jan 29
Box 1, Folder 21 Talk given by Kenneth P. Whiting to fourth grade students at Connecticut Farms School
Contents Note: Xerox copy of talk; illustrated article from the Union Leader (Union, NJ) concerning this talk; glossy print of illustration for this article.
1976 Feb 11-1976 Feb 19
Box 1, Folder 22 Duplicate of items in folders 17-19
 undated
Box 1, Folder 22 Edison As I Know Him by Henry Ford, in collaboration with Samuel Crowther (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Co.), in original wrappers
 1930

Series 5. Edison disc records
2 folders

Container Description Date
Box 1X, Folder 1X No. 80294
Contents Note: Armand Vecsey and his Hungarian Orchestra playing Franz Lehar's Pretty Edelweiss and Alone at Last and R. Drigo's Serenade from Les Millions d'Arlequin.
 undated
Box 1X, Folder 2X No. 82551
Contents Note: Rendition by Frieda Hempel and the Criterion Quartet of Aloha oe by Queen Liliuokaani and My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen C. Foster.
 undated