Letter - Jane Eliot Tait to James D. Tait

Letter written to “my dear” [James D. Tait] and it asks the recipient to tell Belle to give back the white tablecloth and napkins, bookcase, chafing dish and other items. The letter is signed “with love, your wife, Jane Eliot [Tait], n.d.

Letter to Messrs. Stuart, Eliot and Williams of St. Louis

Letter to Messrs. Stuart, Eliot and Williams of St. Louis, Mo. (1 page, printed) regarding the probate of Samuel DeVeaux’s will. This letter is unsigned, Feb. 17, 1905.

Average White Band poster, ca. 2000

The Average White Band's debut album, Show your hand, was released in 1973. The "classic funk and R & B" band included members Alan Gorrie, Owen "Onnie" McIntyre, Malcolm "Mollie" Duncan, Roger Ball, Robbie McIntosh, and Mike Rosen. Rosen was quickly replaced by Hamish Stuart. The band, comprised of Scotsmen, released a second album in 1974 that featured the US number 1/UK Top 10 single "Pick up the Pieces". That same year, Robbie McIntosh died of a heroin overdose and was replaced by Steve Ferrone. The song "Cut the Cake" from their third album made the US top 10, and subsequent releases in the late 1970s and early 1980s proved successful. The members largely pursued individual projects in the years that followed, but re-formed in 1989 (with original members Gorrie, Ball and McIntyre, and new members Alex Ligertwood and Eliot Lewis) and released the album Aftershock. Over the years, the band's members have changed, and the band is currently comprised of Onnie McIntyre, Rocky Bryant, Alan Gorrie, Fred "Freddy V" Vigdor and Klyde Jones. Their most recent album, Times Squared, was released in 2009.

Letter - E.C. Schmon to Arthur A. Schmon, 7 January 1919

Eleanore Celeste is teaching at Eliot School and has five boys in detention. The children were asking questions about her engagement ring. She also mentions that the mail delivery is slow and she hasn't received Arthur's letters from the last week in October.