Box 1
Contains 20 Results:
William E. Rittenberg (attorney) business card, undated
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Life World Library advertisement, undated
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Letter from Alex Haley to Dr. Willard C. Goley, 1973 April 26
Haley writes seeking Goley's assistance in identifying Murrays connected to his maternal grandmother's family.
Letter from Haley to Goley, 1974 August 29
Haley updates Goley on his recent writing and film work on Roots. He also thanks Goley for his assistance in seeing the old Murray place.
Brief article, In His Roots
Search Alex Haley Feels His Link
from an unidentified source, undated
RootsSearch Alex Haley Feels His
Link
The article summarizes Haley's meeting Goley and Goley's assistance in Haley's research.
Working Report: Before This Anger
by Alex Haley, undated
This collection houses an undated manuscript of Alex Haley's Working Report: Before This Anger. This item features an account of some of Haley's travels in West Africa (with photographs) and Haley's genealogy. Also included are two biographical sketches describing Haley and a personal memoir and description of Haley's intent for this work.
Biographical information, undated
This collection houses an undated manuscript of Alex Haley's Working Report: Before This Anger. This item features an account of some of Haley's travels in West Africa (with photographs) and Haley's genealogy. Also included are two biographical sketches describing Haley and a personal memoir and description of Haley's intent for this work.
Memoir, undated
Discusses Haley's expectations for the project that eventually became Roots.
Sewing Models by Mary Annie Landry, undated
The collection contains a bound volume of sewing samples and notes by Mary Annie Landry. The binding is stamped University of Tennessee. Most of the pages have various sewing samples. The final four pages consist of a section titled "Physical Tests for Adulteration" with notes on different fabrics (cotton, wool, silk, and linen). Several of the fabric samples are missing.
Letter from Aaron V. Brown to Peter Vroom, 1842 August 24
Stifel & Pfeiffer Brewery Letter, 1873 January 15
The collection contains a single letter written to [Johan] Graf from the Stifel & Pfeiffer Brewery in Nashville, Tennessee, dated January 15, 1873. The letter appears on the brewery's letterhead and is written in German. The contents concern a (potential?) business deal and the price of selling beer to and in Knoxville.
Record Louis C. Blau's deposit in Alex Haley account, 1969 January 2
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Statement from the law offices of Loeb and Loeb to the Kinte Corporation, 1974 December 31
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Statement from the law offices of Loeb and Loeb to the Kinte Corporation, 1975 January 31
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Handwritten note, undated
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Justice Douglas Not Retiring Yet
in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner,, 1963 June 14
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Mayor Proposes Ellis Island Park,
, 1963 October 30
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Variety,, 1969 March 12-1981 February 5
Stan Margulies sent this item to Haley with a note dated February 5, 1981.
David L. Wolper 25th Anniversary Film Retrospective Programs, 1974 September 9-13
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.
Envelope with four handwritten notes, undated
This collection houses financial statements, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notes documenting Alex Haley's work between 1963 and 1975. Among these items are statements regarding Haley's Kinte Corporation and a brief article on an intended work between Haley and Warren Beatty in Variety.