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- Creator
- Bush, Muriel F
- Call number
- Sc MG 293
- Physical description
- 1/2 archival box
- Preferred Citation
- Bush family letters, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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Muriel Fortune Bush was an educator and a photographer in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1935, she married Paul Bush who was from Louisiana. The Bush Family Letters, consists of a small body of correspondence among members of the Bush extended family and friends. Included are letters from adopted daughter June Cross, letters from other relatives dealing with a variety of family issues, a friendly letter from Private Leonard Burwell to Paul, June 24, 1944, vacation postcards, and condolence letters to Muriel Bush following the death of her husband.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, June Cross and Sule Greg Wilson, November 1989Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor