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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: MS 383

Contains 58 Results:

Loose papers found in Sylvia Beach, 1960

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 59
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Café de Flore cocktail menu and UNICEF card

Dates: 1960

Catalogue No. 3 de Livres en Vente á la Librairie Droz S. A., May 1964

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 60
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With envelope addressed to Mrs. C.J.K. Hinman

Dates: May 1964

Miscellaneous items

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 61
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Loterie Nationale advertisement, English Roads at a Glance map number 11, and a handwritten copy of the inscription on Sarah Fletcher's memorial in Dorchester on Thames.

"Jane Cunningham van Meter A.K.A. [also known as] the Blue Lady" by Wayne Propst and photographs, 1972, 2020

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 62
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Brief biography of van Meter written by Propst for a new version of the book Embattled Lawrence; photocopies and photographs of van Meter and friends, including one with Sylvia Beach, and a photograph of van Meter in her casket; and a 1972 photo of Sam Mumford. Also includes a photocopy of an inscription in A Farewell to Arms from Hemingway to van Meter.

Dates: 1972, 2020

Letters to Wayne Propst, 1982, 1985, 1992

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 63
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Two postcards from friends and one letter from Suki Hinman, van Meter's daughter, thanking Propst for his assistance in dealing with her mother's death.

Dates: 1982, 1985, 1992

"Jane Memorial" [photographs]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 64
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Labeled envelope and color photographs of people at a reception.

"Jane van Meter circa 1930" [photograph], circa 1930s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 65
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Black and white studio portrait of van Meter with a brief note and the labeled envelope in which it was sent from [Suki] Hinman to Wayne Propst.

Dates: circa 1930s

Photographs of Jane van Meter and others, 1923, 1949, 1978, 1986, 1989, [1992]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 66
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A 1923 photograph of Jean and Charlton Hinman, photographs of Hinman and van Meter with Suki, and numerous black and white and color photos of van Meter with friends. Also photographs of Propst with the Rambler given to him by van Meter and photocopied images of van Meter in her coffin.

Dates: 1923, 1949, 1978, 1986, 1989, [1992]