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                  <text>Binder marked "autographs" containing letters and other papers, each featuring a signature of a prominent person, including artists, politicians, and authors. &#13;
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Many of the items are letters sent to museum director Janet Hutchinson or to Village editor Emeline Paige.  Letters added later (after the list was made) are generally addressed to Elizabeth Press.&#13;
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A list of autographs in the binder indicates that three autographs are in 2025 were missing:&#13;
- Willard M. Kiplinger, Washington editor - 6/28, 10/30, 11/9/56, 5/3/57 &#13;
- Raymond Owen - author - 4/4/84 &#13;
- Guy Wiggins, artist - Christmas 1948 </text>
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                  <text>Scans gift of the Historical Society of Martin County.</text>
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                <text>Includes letters with signatures of prominent persons. Chiefly addressed to Janet Hutchinson or Emeline Paige, often responding to invitations or content in Paige's newspaper The Villager.&#13;
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01 Reuben Askew, Governor, State of Florida - 4/20/1973 &#13;
02 L. A. 'Skip' Bafalis, U.S. House of Representatives - 11/11/1976&#13;
03 Hettie Gray Baker, Writer - 10/27/1952 &#13;
04 Regina Baily, Harper &amp; Row Publishers - 9/30/1965 &#13;
05 Kaye Ballard, Actress, Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater program  - undated&#13;
06 Dorothy Beffman - 6/6/1963&#13;
07 Marion Benasutti, author - 11/27/1965&#13;
08 Jeffrey L. Belyea, artist - 2/17/1987&#13;
09 James Best - 10/12/1976&#13;
10 Dr. Norbert F. Capek - undated&#13;
11 Elizabeth Carpenter, Press secretary, White House - 9/8/1965&#13;
12 Lawton Childs, Florida U.S. Senator - 10/15/1975&#13;
13 Bessie F. Collins, author 12/9/1977&#13;
14 LeRoy Collins, governor, State of Florida - 3/19/1958&#13;
15 Anna L. Curtis, author - 5/30/1965 [2 pages]&#13;
17 Vivian Cristol, author - 10/15/1966&#13;
18 Donald Demarest, Pellegrini &amp; Cudahy Publishers - 7/25/1950&#13;
19 Martin Dibner, author - 1/11/1976&#13;
20 Jessica Dragonette, singer - 3/3/1970&#13;
21 Charlotte Dinwiddie, sculptor - 2/26/1966 &#13;
22 Eleanor Early, author - 1/12/1951&#13;
23 Duke Ellington, singer, 1st A.M.E. Zion Church Program - 3/10/1966 &#13;
24 Ralph Evinrude, Outboard Marine Corp. owner - 8/14/1967 &#13;
25 William Fisher, Artist - 2/10/1966  [2 pages]&#13;
27 Juliette May Fraser, Mural Artist - 1/10/1957  [2 pages]&#13;
29 John B. Gambling, announcer for WOR - 7/11/1961, 8/21/1969 [2 pages]&#13;
31 Mary Garden, American soprano - [12/1951]&#13;
32 Carter Glass, Senator, U.S. Senate Chamber Pass - 4/2/1935 &#13;
33 Yun Gee, Artist - Dec.? &#13;
34 Alan Gershwin, son of George Gershwin - undated&#13;
35 Cleo Hartwig, sculptor - undated&#13;
36 Hans Holzer, author - undated&#13;
37 Vladimir Horowitz (photo copy) - 1/20/1967 &#13;
38 Fannie Hurst, author - undated&#13;
39 Illegible, U.S. Senate Chamber Pass - March 1933&#13;
40 Will Irvin, American journalist - undated &#13;
41 Ronald P. Johnson, Vice President of Barre Publishers, 7/19/1966&#13;
42 Claude R. Kirk Jr., governor of Florida, 9/18/1969&#13;
43 Edward I. Koch - 2/18/1965 &#13;
44 Edward I. Koch, Counselor at Law - 6/30/1966 [2 pages]&#13;
46 Edward I. Koch, House of Reps, Washington, D.C. - 9/26/1977 &#13;
47 Edward I. Koch, Mayor, City of New York - 5/6/1981&#13;
48 Fritz Kreisler, Violinist (postcard), 1915&#13;
49 Bill Kughler, mural artist - 5/6/1963 &#13;
50 Frances Langford, singer - 3/17/1988 &#13;
51 Louis J. Lefkowitz, N. Y. Attorney General - 3/10/1966 &#13;
52 Jan Legere, Artist (printed exhibition guide) - undated &#13;
53 John V. Lindsay, House of Representatives, Washington D.C. - 7/30/1962 &#13;
54 John V. Lindsay, Mayor, New York City - 12/2/1966 &#13;
55 Lilyan &amp; Son - undated&#13;
56 Peter Lipman-Wolf, artist - 3/24/1962 [2 pages], 2/1/1964 [2 pages]&#13;
60 Ernest Lyons &amp; James Hutchinson, authors - undated&#13;
61 Connie Mack, U.S. Senator - 12/20/1995&#13;
62 Tom Mahoney, Readers Digest - 8/2/1963 &#13;
63 Mayanre Marks, wife of composer Johnny Marks - 11/21/1951? [2 pages]&#13;
65 Mary Margaret McBride, actress - [April 1956]&#13;
66 Marian B. Monroe, wife of singer Vaughan Monroe - undated&#13;
67 Pierre Monteux, Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Program - 4/4/1955 &#13;
68 Patricia Murphy, Candlelight Restaurants - 11/21/1974&#13;
69 Edmund S. Muskie, U.S. Senator - 8/4/1970 &#13;
70 Edwin Newman, Broadcaster - 9/19/1983 &#13;
71 Richard M. Nixon - 6/1/1967 &#13;
72 Gloria Noble - [8/1954]&#13;
73 Charles Norman - 3/27/1966 &#13;
74 Michael H. Olenick, attorney - 5/8/1990&#13;
75 John Parker - Tallahassee Democrat - undated&#13;
76 Charles Pintchman, Asst. Director of Public Affairs for Readers Digest - 3/3/1965 &#13;
77 Art Pottier, cartoonist - 10/7/1963&#13;
78 Ronald Reagan - 7/3/1975&#13;
79 Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of New York - 2/24/1966&#13;
80 Marisol Rodriguez, U.S. Senator - 8/1/1996&#13;
81 Paul G. Rogers, U.S. House of Representatives for Florida - 6/25/1969&#13;
82 Robert Sagendorff, Publisher of Yankee, Inc. - 11/1/1963&#13;
83 Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary - 7/23/1963 &#13;
84 Lizette Sarnoff, Chairman of Volunteers of the N.Y. Infirmary - 1/12/1962 &#13;
85 Carl L. Schmitz - Christmas Card 1966 &#13;
86 Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator - 7/30/1970 &#13;
87 Marie Peary Stafford, daughter of Robert E. Peary - 9/25/1951 [2 pages]&#13;
89 Henry King Stanford, President of the U of Miami, - 6/8/1970 &#13;
90 Percy E. Sutton, President of the Borough of Manhattan - 3/2/1967 &#13;
91 Rudy Vallee, singer - undated&#13;
92 DeWitt Wallace, editor of the Readers Digest - 2/25/1965&#13;
93 Charles Weidman, artist - 3/28/1966 &#13;
94 Suzanne Wilkins, artist - [4/1968]&#13;
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