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Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, April 25, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Letter to wife. Topics include new Senate chambers; mailing of government documents and speeches by Collamer; social life.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, January 20, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Letter to wife. Topics include war steam ship Princeton explosion, killing Secretary of State Abel Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs Captain Beverly Kennon and others.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, June 18, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Letter to son. Topics include traveling to Washington; election of a Speaker of the House to replace Representative Henry Clay (KY) held up by split between northern and southern Representatives on slavery question; constitution of Missouri and slavery
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Cotton Babes
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- Creator: Weinrich, Percy.
- Date Created: 1940-1959
- Description: "Cotton Babes" was the signature musical piece used for Kake Walk.  All Kake Walkers choreographed their high-stepping dances to the beat of this instrumental piece. It was performed live by the UVM band during the Walk. The syncopated melody was composed by Percy Weinrich around 1910 in the easy-to-follow musical style of the national cakewalk dance craze, then in its height.  "Cotton Babes" was used as the Kake Walk theme starting in 1912 or 1913. Tradition holds that the university's sheet music was destroyed in a fire in 1929 and that UVM Band Director Joseph Lechnyr rewrote the music from memory. The original record was probably produced in the 1940s - 1950s. Its green and gold label reads: University of Vermont / Cotton Babes / Arranged by Dr. Joseph F. Lechnyr / University of Vermont Band / Director, Dr. Joseph F. Lechnyr / 77764
- Parent Collections: Kake Walk at UVM
Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, May 13, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Letter to wife. Topics include boarding houses; new House chambers and difficulty of hearing speakers.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, May 23, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Letter to son. Topics include mail robbery north of Baltimore; duel between Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron resulting in the death of Decatur; Decatur's funeral.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, June 6, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Letter to wife. Topics include negotiations with Spain.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, June 23, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Letter to son. Topics include debate in Congress over the establishment of a system of domestic manufactures.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, August 20, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Letter to wife. Topics include traveling from New York to Washington, DC; lodgings in Washington, DC; start of Congress with organizational matters and election of a Speaker of the House.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress
Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, January 2, 1940
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- Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
- Description: Topics include debate over vacant West Virginia seat in the Senate; bill to authorize acquisition of foreign ships in our harbors.
- Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress