Box 2
Contains 20 Results:
Condolence letters, 1918-02 - 1918-03
Includes letters from military personnel, including Noel C. Sampson (Commander of Vernon's squadron) and a letter from Johnnie Coats describing the accident, among others.
Letter from Louis H. Rosswill, 1918-02-20
Rosswill discusses sending Vernon's personal effects, as well as Jeffrey the monkey.
Condolence letters from close family and friends, 1918-02
Originally housed in wooden memorial box.
Irene's hand-written note about Vernon's birth and death, 1918-02
Irene's hand-written prayer worn by Vernon during dangerous flights or battle., 1914 - 1918
Vernon describes wearing this prayer in a letter from June 4, 1916.
Vernon's handwritten will, 1911-01-02
Witnessed and signed by Irene's mother.
"There's no one like you!" poem by Charles T. Greenawald, 1918
Dedicated to the memory of Vernon Castle. Includes clipping.
Condolence letters, 1918-02 - 1918-03
Includes letter from Carl Laemmle (regarding a film of Vernon flying), Irving Berlin, Willie Europe, and G. Hepburn Wilson, Ina Claire, Bessie McCoy Davis, Julia Marlow and Edward Sothern, Elizabeth Marbury, James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle, Edgar Selden, Marion Davis, Frank Crowninshield, among others. Also includes letter from Will Stewart, who later proposed to Irene.
Condolence letters, 1918-02 - 1918-03
Includes telegrams from Milton and Gladys Sills, George and Nesta Wellesley, RM Hurd (Chairman, American Defense Society), David Belasco, Gene Burk, Frank Crowninshield, Ford Dabney, Arnold Daly, Baroness Deymeyer, Louise Drew, Arthur Jimmy King, Max H. Manne, Elizabeth Marbury, Jack Russell, Stage Womens War Relief, Maurice and Florence Walton, Watch Your Step Co. and Bessie Pardue, and Clifton Webb among many others.