Assorted Ward and Tongue family papers
Date(s): 1903-1952
Creator(s): Various
Scope & Content: Contents include but are not limited to a letter from Sarah Tongue, Douglas to Marshall Ward, mentioning Polly, his future wife and Manx people he is encountering in North America,1903; an August 1918 letter from Grace Tongue to her niece, Grace Mary Ward describing nursing wounded servicemen and letters from one-time gold prospector, Marshall Ward a 'Oregon, Sea View Road, Onchan to his nephew Tony Hawkins (1951-1952); also a memorandum of agreement for the lease of 1 Royal Avenue, Onchan by Sarah Tongue from Alexander Gill, Builder (January 1904); Oregon school certificate for Grace Mary Ward, 1925 and a souvenir for Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood. In Grace Tongue's 1918 letter to her niece she writes, 'I am now sleeping in the day time and up all night nursing the poor sick officers. They are all very good tonight...The windows are just calico in this big hotel and go flip flop bang all the time. Old Fritz blew out the glass when he nearly got us but God has taken care of us up to now for dear Grannie.' In one letter from Marshall Ward he writes, 'Grace was telling me what a wonderful lot of presents you got from Santa Claus. if he had brought you 4 donkeys and a Saddle pony you and I could have gone out prospecting and I could have shown you how to "Thrown a Deam and Hitch" for security for the packsaddles'. He recaIls attempting to ride a Burro on the Nevada desert, unsuccessfully, 'yet that Burro would carry a heavy pack without a murmur. It was good fun. I would like that 3 years in Nevada, mining and prospecting. Next time you come here I'll show you the map I made of the mining claims I had', 23 January 1951.
For accompanying photographs see PG/14530.
Language: English
Extent: 1 folder
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FONDS
ID number: MS 13780
Record class: Private
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