Erminie F. Shimm
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: 1875-1936
container: label: Container
content: Box 11-12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAAHC.A2010.26, Subseries 2.6
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content: Archival materials
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content: Chiefly letters regarding family and social news, illnesses, deaths, and travel. Other letters include correspondence with United States Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia regarding sidewalk tax assessments, 1932; M.W. Clair, Fannie T. Hays, Isaiah B. Scott discussing missionary work in Monrovia, Liberia with the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1907-1910, 1921; correspondence with Alphonso Morris about Shimm loaning him money, and his non-payment of the debt, 1907, 1911; and letters from her sister Grace E. Shimm Cummings discuss family news, descriptions of attending a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, 1902 August 10, and her declining health in 1910.