Ida R. Cummings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Byrd, Charlene Hodges, 1929-2009
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content: Charlene Hodges Byrd collection
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content: Charlene Hodges Byrd collection / Series 2: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896-1925 and undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAAHC.A2010.26, Subseries 2.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The bulk of the correspondence are letters from Grace E. Shimm Cummings. Topics include family illnesses, the declining health and death of Carroll [Cummings?], the weather, and religion. Other letters include a fragment of a letter from her friend Cattie, and a telegram announcing Cattie's death in 1925. Also Included are letters probably written to her friend Annie Crockett discussing the death of her niece Lucille Theresa, family news, travel plans, The Woman's Home Missionary Society, and her work as an educator.