[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum #2] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum #2]

Orders for WASP Gayle D. Ewing to ferry an AT-6 aircraft from Dallas, Texas to Spence Field Air Force base in Moultrie, Georgia.
Date: May 29, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, November 29, 1942] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, November 29, 1942]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing correspondence with Jackie Cochran about joining the Women's Flying Training Detachment, exams on airplane instruments, and a Navy pilot friend unable to visit for Thanksgiving.
Date: November 29, 1942
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Martha V. Carswell and Vella Carswell to T. N. Carswell - January 29, 1949] (open access)

[Letter from Martha V. Carswell and Vella Carswell to T. N. Carswell - January 29, 1949]

A letter written to Uncle Norwood [T. N. Carswell] from Martha V. Carswell & SIS [Vella Carswell], Homerville, Georgia, dated January 29, 1949. Martha and Vella advise Carswell about the folks at home. Ashley, at 24 years of age, is having financial difficulties and his wife Martha is five months along and has been advised by Dr. Schanze to stay in bed. They advise that Homerville is changing; paving roads and cutting down trees about which Papa is pitching a fit. Martha advises that Mama wrote the letter and she typed it. She has a nice job down in the Ordinary's Office.
Date: January 29, 1949
Creator: Carswell, Martha Virginia & Carswell, Vella Peagler
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Allen Carswell - August 29, 1959] (open access)

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Allen Carswell - August 29, 1959]

A letter written to Allen N. Carswell from Norwood [T. N. Carswell], dated August 29, 1959. T. N. Carswell acknowledges his receipt of the Trust Agreement and discusses certain points in the Trust suggesting that Allen have a good lawyer draw up a will.
Date: August 29, 1959
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reported Missing (open access)

Reported Missing

An article printed by the Clinch County News (Iverson H. Huxford, Editor & Publisher), Homerville, Clinch County, Georgia, titled "Reported Missing," dated December 29, 1944. The article is regarding 2nd Lieutenant Ashley J. Carswell, reported as "missing" this week, according to advices reaching his parents here; that he was commissioned a bombardier in the Air Force in September and has been in action in Europe.
Date: December 29, 1944
Creator: Huxford, Iverson H.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. N. Carswell to John H. Hewlett - April 29, 1938] (open access)

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to John H. Hewlett - April 29, 1938]

A letter written to Mr. John H. Hewlett, Colleen Moore's Doll House, Atlanta, Georgia, from T. N. Carswell, Sec.-Mgr. [Abilene Chamber of Commerce], dated April 29, 1938. Carswell expresses to Hewlett that the Chamber is exceedingly anxious to have the Doll House in Abilene.
Date: April 29, 1938
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History