Box 1

Scope and Contents note The collection comprises a variety of documents from the late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, most being from the first half of the twentieth century. They were collected and donated by various individuals. One of them was Mrs. Phyllis Bass, from Florida, who donated her husband's book collection to Oakland University along with autographs of Presidents Lincoln, Jackson, Madison, and Monroe as well as Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo. With this exception, little is known about the...