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[Letter from Myron Foster, July 19, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Myron Foster, July 19, 1944]

Letter from Myron Foster discussing a poor delivery of fruit and offering to ship pears in August or peaches in September, but cannot offer a duplicate delivery as it is too late in the season. The letter has the Hesperian Orchards logo printed across the top of the paper; the logo is a blue rectangle with a white drawing of a woman holding an apple. There are yellow stars and two rows of yellow waves on both sides of the rectangle.
Date: July 19, 1944
Creator: Foster, Myron
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Myron Foster, July 21, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Myron Foster, July 21, 1944]

Letter from Myron Foster discussing a poor delivery of fruit and offering to ship pears in August or peaches in September, but cannot offer a duplicate delivery as it is too late in the season. The letter has the Hesperian Orchards logo printed across the top of the paper; the logo is a blue rectangle with a white drawing of a woman holding an apple. There are yellow stars and two rows of yellow waves on both sides of the rectangle.
Date: July 21, 1944
Creator: Foster, Myron
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Lt. J. A. Piperi, March 3, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Lt. J. A. Piperi, March 3, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Lt. J. A. Piperi talking about a postcard he received.
Date: March 3, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 8, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 8, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards discussing the damaged state of a shipment of cherries and requesting a replacement shipment. Kempner mentions a shipment to his daughter in New York.
Date: July 8, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 10, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 10, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner discussing the shipping order received and the shipment mentioned in the July 8th letter arrived in bad condition.
Date: July 10, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 24, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 24, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards discussing a delivery that arrived in poor condition and a delivery for Miss Mary Jean Kempner that hasn't arrived, and the lack of response from the company about the shipments and delivery status.
Date: July 24, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, June 15, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, June 15, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchard ordering various fruit to be shipped at different times to Mary Jean Kempner and Jeane Bertig Kempner.
Date: June 15, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Railway Express Agency, Inc., July 8, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Railway Express Agency, Inc., July 8, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Railway Express Agency, Inc. discussing a box of cherries arriving in poor condition.
Date: July 8, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, August 7, 1944] (open access)

[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, August 7, 1944]

Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner requesting to replace the shipment address with Mammoth Hale Peaches to Mary Jean Kempner in Galveston Texas.
Date: August 7, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, July 28, 1944] (open access)

[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, July 28, 1944]

Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner requesting to replace the shipment with Jumbo pears.
Date: July 28, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 5, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 5, 1944]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards asking for confirmation on the shipping of two boxes of black Hesperian cherries for Kempner, himself, and Lt. Commander Harris L. Kempner.
Date: July 5, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, June 19, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, June 19, 1944]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards discussing an enclosed check to cover Kempner's purchase of two boxes of black Hesperian cherries for himself and Lt. Commander Harris L. Kempner.
Date: June 19, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard Sent to D. W. Kempner - 1944]

Postcard sent from Lt. (JG) J. A. Pipen in Washington state to D. W. Kempner in Galveston, to say hello. The front of the card features an image of a lake surrounded by mountains with sparse trees. Printed text below the image identifies it as "Lake Chelan - 55 miles of fresh water beauty in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State."
Date: February 26, 1944
Creator: Pipen, J. A.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History