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Box 1

 Container

Contains 104 Results:

Disappointment in not hearing from him; avoiding keeping them in suspense because they “know just enough about conditions down there to make us uneasy and not enough to give us confidence”; how he did on examinations, 1905-06-29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 52
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-06-29

Glad to hear from him; social and moral conditions of miners; taking precautions to make himself safe, 1905-07-01

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-01

Grades received; money-making prospects, 1905-07-08

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 54
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-08

Financial transactions; would like to see the Kentucky mines; danger of explosions, 1905-07-11

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 55
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-11

Glad to hear he is feeling well, about the educational value of the trip, and the interest he seems to take in that feature of it; request for more information about mineral springs; news of family and acquaintances, 1905-07-15

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 56
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-15

Finding some Ballingers in Kentucky; arranging to see those Barboursville people to get ancestry details; interest in mineral springs, 1905-07-21

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 57
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-21

News from home; seeing the interior of a mine; financial matters; coming home soon, 1905-07-25

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 58
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-25

What it is like to write a letter on a typewriter; visiting Barboursville people; Ballinger family history details, 1905-07-28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 59
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-28

How things are at school, 1905-09-20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 60
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-09-20

Description of day’s activities; news of family and acquaintances; advice about staying away from temptation; thoughts about hazing, 1905-09-25

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 61
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-09-25