Collection #

SC 2710

 

 

james l. slack
 family papers, 1912–42

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Paul Brockman
8 July 2003

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

3 folders

COLLECTION
DATES:

1912–42

PROVENANCE:

Charles Apfelbaum Rare Manuscripts, Watchung, NJ, 07069, 30 August 2000

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

2000.1099

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

James L. Slack (ca. 1900–25) from Nineveh (Johnson County), Indiana, served with the 53rd Artillery during World War I, 1917–19.  He attained the rank of corporal before his discharge.

 

Sources:

Information in collection

 

 

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The bulk of the collection consists of twenty-one letters from James L. Slack with Battery E and L, 53rd Artillery CAC to his mother, Mary E. Slack, in Nineveh, Indiana, 1917–19.  Slack writes from Camp Stewart (Virginia), Fort Caswell, (North Carolina), and France.  Presumably because of censorship, they contain very little information of substance other than they are going to defeat the enemy, he was well, and that he would say more when he sees her again.

There also are several letters to other family members written in the 1920s including those to William Brown, Mary Slack’s grandson, who was living with her in Nineveh at the time from parents and relatives in Franklin, Fowler and Logansport, Indiana.  Other items of interest include a letter written by Mary Slack to James in San Jose, California, in August 1924 in which she said she had included the $100 as he requested.  This letter was returned with an address-unknown stamp on the envelope.  There is also a letter to Mary from a granddaughter in April 1927 containing a memoriam for James L. Slack who had died two years earlier. 

 

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

James L. Slack Letters, 1917

Folder 1

James L. Slack Letters, 1918–19

Folder 2

Slack Family Papers, 1912–42

Folder 3

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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