Dana Colburn letter of recommendation for student (CA-0109)
Special Collections
Rhode Island College600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-8380
email:digitalcommons@ric.edu
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Acquisition: | After Rhode Island College of Education President William Gaige received the letter, it was given to "Miss O'Neill" for an exhibition (likely for the college centennial in 1954) and then filed in the “archives.” In 1978, the letter was transferred from a safe in the Rhode Island College Records Office to Special Collections by Burt Cross. |
| Custodial history: | The letter was in the possession of "Mrs. Buffum," who was a secretary for A.L. Kelley, President of The Old Stone Bank in Providence, RI. Buffum, whose mother might have been Susan Howland based on a note on the original letter, gave the letter to Kelley, who then sent the letter to Rhode Island College of Education President William Gaige in 1954. |
| Processing information: | The collection was described by Veronica L. Denison, Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, in 2025. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by Veronica L. Denison. |
| Encoding: | This finding aid was encoded by Veronica L. Denison, 2025 |
| Descriptive rules: | Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |
