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John F. Schrank Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-148
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters from John F. Schrank, who in 1912 attempted to assassinate President Theodore Roosevelt, to his doctor, Dr. Adin Sherman, during 1914-1918 when Schrank was committed to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Waupun, Wisconsin. Schrank's letters contain his gratitude for and desire to maintain his friendship with Dr. Sherman, his commentary on World War I, and general observations and revelations on the current status of his life. A selection...
Dates:
1913-1919, 1943, 1990, 1998; Majority of material found within 1913-1919
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Thomas E. Cooper Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-045
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a studio portrait of Thomas E. Cooper as a young man, two printed items, and nineteen items of correspondence. The early handwritten letters, from 1905 to 1907, are primarily from Cooper to his wife, Jane Collins, written while Cooper was working in Mullins, South Carolina. Later letters from 1925 are typewritten to his wife while Cooper was serving a prison sentence in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Cooper had been charged and sentenced, along with...
Dates:
1905-1949
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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