From Herbert D. Miles to Mr. and Mrs. [Fred] Seely regarding financial problems at 'Oakhurst' formerly Asheville School for Girls, and requesting assistance for director Miss Corbett [?] so the school may continue operation.

"Dear Mr. and Mrs. Seely,

Your daughter has the letter addressed to the parents of the children attending Asheville School for Girls, by Miss Corbett [?]; and its endorsement by Mr. [Vance] Brown and Mr. [Frank] Weave, etc.

Now, these letters are all right, but, as I was personally instrumental in getting you to sign an agreement to a limit of $200.00, (standing back of Miss Corbett, with other parents, to the extent of half her loss for the year, if any.) I feel that it is due you, that I express my view, that I would not have asked your co-operation in a guarantee, (suggested by Mr. Brown,) had I known of a possibility of this present unusual measure. It seems to me, that if this 50% assessment is to relieve Miss Corbett of loss, then the guarantee signed, should be first returned.

Yours sincerely,
Herbert D. Miles"

Fred Seely responds on November 3rd, 1915

"Dear Mr. Miles,

I have received your letter of the 2nd and beg to thank you for same.

I have written the school a letter telling them that I hope they will be able to continue under the enclosed rate.

Very respectfully yours,

FLS"

Receipt for contribution by Fred Seely:

"Contribution to fund for flood sufferers."

To be paid to H.D. Miles, Treas. [for fund] in the amount of $250.00.

"My Dear Mr. Seeley,

I have pleasure in notifying you of your election at the Annual meeting of the Mozatt Society of Asheville, as a Director of the Society.

On behalf of my fellow-directors I welcome you, and may I hope that in service of a public-spirited and unselfish nature for Music and its promotion in Asheville, covering the encouragement of local performance and local patronage and education, you will derive no small satisfaction from your election.

The first meeting of the new Board is called for next Monday evening at 8:30 P.M. at the Masonic Temple. We hope you will make it a point to be present, and can assure you a welcome.

Yours very truly,

Herbert D. Miles, Secretary pro tem.

Letter of response to Herbert Miles from Fred Seely regarding the appointment as Director of Mozart Society of Asheville.

"Dear Mr. Miles:

I have your letter of the 28th, notifying me of my election to the directorate of the Mozart Society.

I told Mr. Meacham some time ago that it would be quite impossible for me to accept this honor, for I am so closely confined here that I do not find it possible to be interested in out-side matters just at present.

I thank you for your letter, but trust you will not consider me a member.

Very truly yours,

FLS"

"My Dear Mr. Seely,

The enclosed may be of interest to you. My impression, from talking with the Senator since his writing this, is that he is heart and soul with you in the matter.

I notice that you are in favor of taxing or otherwise putting out of existence the uncared for or useless dog. There is a mountain hut, above us, on your land or Mr. Grove's where some benefactor of your bounty resided, (and perhaps still resides) which, in its two rooms, provided a home for several people and four curs. I don't know whether this ever came to your attention.

Yours sincerely

Herbert D. Miles"

Note written in Mr. Miles' hand at top:

"Memo. I wrote this to enclose Senator Overman's letter, but find I have mislaid it. However, he said he could probably be one of Lafollette's judges, and while appreciating what I said could hardly commit himself now."

"Dear Mr. Seely,

I have written Senator Overman and Senator Simmons that I am a native of *Lafollettes's state, and that as such I am the more anxious that the stain upon Wisconsin shall be removed in so far as that man's expulsion from the Senate can do it. That I have a nineteen year old boy [Holbert Miles]  today at the front along the Chemin des Dames, and that he has just renewed his enlistment, for the full period of the war, after going through Hell, over and over again; and that his wholesome feeling as to "right", pledging his life to its truth, is worth all the sophistries and cold, cruel philosophies that Lafollette and his kind can muster.

I have cut out your heading in Monday's newspaper and enclosed it. You in your way, are doing what Roosevelt started in his way, and they are both sterling leadership. Your boys are not old enough to give themselves, but they will be mighty proud of their father when they read back of these wonderful days, in the future.

With best regards, I am Sincerely yours,

Herbert D. Miles."

* A reference to Republican Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin who was a leader of the Progressive Party in the early years of the nineteenth century and was a leader of the pacifist movement in the Senate that opposed American involvement in World War I. He ran for President on the Progressive ticket in 1924, but failed to gain sufficient support, carrying only Wisconsin and 17% of the national popular vote.

Dear Mr. Miles:

Permit me to thank you for your kind letter of the 16th and better yet for your appeal to Senators Overman and Simmons. I feel the importance of our doing something and doing it right away and a practical act like yours is the biggest help possible.

Very sincerely yours,

FLS"

"May 1, 1920.

Dear Mr. Seely,

I am writing this in Mr. Miller's office, as he is treasurer of a little purse we are getting up to give Bishop Horner to help make more smooth his journey this month to a  conference of Bishops in England. He is very brave to undertake going, as he is not helped officially as to expense. If you would care to join us will you send what you think best, to Mr. Miller?

Yours very sincerely,

Herbert D. Miles"

Dear Mr. Seely,

I want to express to you the admiration that Mrs. Miles and I feel for the noble project for children that you have undertaken, and we have no doubt that it will furnish you and Mrs. Seely for life with much of great interest and joy, even though it will add not a little to your many responisbilities.

On the same page of yesterday's newspaper you may have noticed the announcement, adjoining that of your hospital, of the acceptance by the Rev. Bramwell Bennett of your call to All Sours. I hope that proximity may augur well for the future relations of you and Mrs. Seely with our church, it it is doing no injustice to any other to have you. You will like Mr. Bennett, I am sure. He is peculiarly modest and quiet in his ways, but quietly efficient, I believe; his record would seem to prove that. He is quite an athlete, incidentally. His preaching is quiet, direct, and simple. Waddell, Van Winkle, Carpenter and I went down to Columbia in my car week before last to hear him and confer with him, and he afterwards ram up here just for a day. He is to live in the Rectory I believe; while single as a boarded with the Rectory tenants.

Again congratulating you, and with sincere regard, I am

Faithfully yours,

Herbert D. Miles"

Dear Mr. Miles:

I want to thank you ever so much for your letter of the 12th, and tell you how I appreciate the encouragement you give.

I was glad to see the notice regarding the new rector at All Souls, and thank you for your invitation. I will let you hear from me later.

Very sincerely yours,

President F.L. Seely"

Dear Mr. Seely,

I thought you might like to see the enclosed, as it mentions you; I sent Mr. Bennett the newspaper clipping as to his coming here, and at the same time the clipping about your new enterprise. Just throw it away when read.

Yours sincerely,

Herbert D. Miles"

Dear Mr. Miles:

I am glad to have your letter of the 17th enclosing the one from Mr. Bennett.

I want to renew my invitation to you to have him come here if our entertainment would help in any way, or add to his comfort.

Very sincerely yours,

President, F.L. Seely"

Dear Mr. Seely,

It so distresses me to have you go along with an idea that does our church an injustice, that I must put for you in condensed form the whole meaning of what you, quite naturally in the circumstances, misunderstood. If I did not respect your judgment, and admire your grasp of affairs, and our whole-souled way of throwing yourself heartily with men whom you know are right, I would not take this trouble. Believe me, it is not a question of whether you give five cents or five hundred dollars, the church wants to do you good, and give you comfort; when you understand us, you will see that. We feel that a fine family like yours is a most welcome addition to any church, on any terms or no terms.

Your fundamental idea, if I got you right, was that our general church is putting on a "campaign" like some other denominations, for some enormous sum. It is not. The Nation-Wide movement with us, is to "get together" in a warm, sociable way such as the Episcopal church has been reproached with not doing, and naturally to get to be, in the same action, much better christians [sic]. The money part of it is, to raise no more than we are expected to raise in any event;  -- that is, our local church budgets, and the amount for "missions",  -- which means business like extension of our work where it is most needed,  -- that we are expected to raise in any event.

Instead of making so-called "begging sermons" this new plan does away with them. Bishop Horner, for example, will no more go North to beg through pulpits for his mountain schools. People in all our churches are being so educated in what "missions" means, and how handled and administered, that they take more interest, and give by the same pledge that supports their home church; instead of by impulse and by the old means of begging sermons. I never heard such a sermon in Biltmore church in my life. Neither did you, as what you took to be such, was only preparing our people for what I have explained above. Dr. Carstenson is here wholly as a revivalist; a spiritual revivalist.

At our supper and general parish meeting on Friday night at seven, all this will be explained, and we will get acquainted. You will not get as good a supper as at Grove Park Inn, but you'll "feed your soul." May we count upon your and Mrs. Seely's coming?

With best wishes, I am

Very sincerely yours,

Herbert D. Miles"

Mr. H.D. Miles,

Albemarle Park,

Asheville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Miles,

Your letter of the 29th has been received during Mr. Seely's absence from town.  We will see that it has his attention upon his return.

Very truly yours,

Grove Park Inn.

Dear Mr. Seely,

I happened to see the enclosed in my Chicago Tribune, and suppose you have already seen it, but will send it to you.  It is a fine free advertisement for you and for Asheville!

Long before this, I had expected to have the pleasure of seeing you and also of hearing Mr. Hall.  But alas!  The confounded sprained ankle of mine is not yet, after seven weeks, so that I can get a shoe on.  I am glad you got through with your embarrassment on the Organist question so well, and hope that Mr. Hall will prove all that you could wish, permanently.  At our Vestry meeting the other day, we made Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Murphy, and Mrs. Ernst a committee to see Mr. Hall, and report back their recommendations to our August meeting.

It was so wise of you to avoid any public "washing of dirty linen" in spite of you annoyance, on that Organist matter.  It is never wise policy to turn any but the pleasantest face to the public on everything, as you and every other really big man realizes.  An I am sure you were sorely tried.

With sincere regard, I am

Yours very faithfully,

Herbert D. Miles

Dear Mr. Seely,

I though you might like to read the enclosed Citizen editorial of yesterday - possibly you already have.  Once in a while I give them an editorial:  so few newspapers have any economic news.  If you think it worth while, send it to your friend who runs the Manufacturer's Record.

H. D. Miles

Mr. Herbert D. Miles,

Albemarle Park,

Asheville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Miles,

Thanks for your letter to the Editorial.

I didn't know you took time to do such things in addition to your other activities.

Very sincerely yours,

F. L. Seely, President.

The Citizen has been favored in the receipt of many sincere letters, from persons in all walks of life and of varying degrees of education and ability, which have been discussed from numerous angles the present-day disturbances due to labor strikes in essential industries.  The Citizen has been glad to print them.  It has an abiding faith in the final good sense of its readers and their own ability, eventually, to do their own work of analysis, and for the most part it has neither indorsed these communication nor dissented from them.  It has published, at the request of labor men, an article by one of their spokesmen, aimed at setting forth the enormous amount of money that, since the passage of the Esch-Cummins act in 1920, the railroads should have had from the increase in freight rates as compared with the decreased freight rates as compared with the decreased freight receipts, after the turn came.

That article ingenuously passes over the fact that the railroads were losing tremendous sums, under government control, before the enactment of that law, which losses came out of the United States Treasury, and that there followed a period when offering of freight at the new rates were considerably shortened.  That argument also disregards the fact that the shopmen's union needs to have the railroads so situated that they may build up a surplus for credit and for a rainy day quite as much as the workers need a roof over their heads in the shops.  But a newspaper is in one sense a forum; the public can read and judge.

Nevertheless, it is a pity that the public could not have had an opportunity when at school (and this of course includes the labor union men and their leaders), to learn at least the basic principles of economics.  It would have saved so many misunderstandings and heart-burnings, so much agony of mind, so much printer's ink.  We recommend that a Primer of Economics, short and simple, be prepared and made a compulsory study in every grammar school, in every trade union hall, in every business organization.  It should state first that capital is not wealth.  Capital, joined with labor, produces wealth; neither produces it alone, although labor leaders have been known to make the opposite claim.  If labor alone could produce wealth, Russia would today be the richest country instead of the world's tragedy.  Old Father Abraham, almost as far back as Adam, was a capitalist, but the darkest ages of history contained none.  The countries of those periods were as Russia today, made up of non-capitalistic autocrats and oppressors (knowing nothing of enterprise) and slaves.  Capital is enterprise, specialized knowledge and good credit.  It is very shy, always.  And wealth is dependant upon circulation of capital; movement.  Rob and pillage a merchandise shop, and what have you?  Perhaps one-fiftieth of the goods the shop puts out in a year, and then a dead shop - a dead goose that lays for the community no more golden eggs:  stagnation.  That is Russia.  By all means, let us have a few lessons in economics.

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Dear Mr. Seely,

Mr. Stoddart is here today, and say that the Southern Fermo people, on the grounds of already having all they can handle, declined to bid on record work here and elsewhere.

Possibly, if you wrote your friend of that concern, and told him this is a $600,00.00 hotel job, he might, because it is Asheville and because of you, ask to have plans, etc.

Will you do this for me, or do you see an objection to this?  Thanking you sincerely, I am

Yours faithfully,

Herbert D. Miles

Dear Mr. Seely,

No one knows better than you how to analyze such a financial statement as that of ours upon the enclosed card.  We are proud of this.  I know you have humorously "run down" this investment sometimes, especially to me, but I never took it seriously.  Goodness knows, we are only providing a substitute for the Lawyer!  And as to Govt. making good,- well, I notice I am paying for a room in N.Y and Chicago this year, just 33.3% more, that for the same room in 1918!

I am not sending this to make you one of our stockholders -altho' we would be delighted to have you.  We have authorized the final 500 shares to be available to investors this month.

Yours sincerely,

Herbert D. Miles

Mr. Herbert D. Miles

Breezemont,

Albemarle Park,

Asheville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Miles;

I have just this minute received and read you kind letter from Cape Town and for fear I won't see you promptly upon your return I want to register this note of thanks for you interesting in Louise and in your analysis of that section.

I think you are right and am glad to tell you that in this mornings mail I received letters from both of them telling me they would be on their way back home in three weeks to stay.  We are very much relieved and delighted.

I hope we will see you as soon as you return and I want to hear about you wonderful trip.

We all send lots of love and good wishes and beg remain,

Very sincerely yours,

F. L. Seely, President.

Dear Mr. Seely,

 In October, I sent you a letter from our Secretary, Jack Woodcock, as to certain telephone charges at the Vanderbilt Hotel, - which I assume goes for all other Hotels - notably our having paid, we figure, for ten years past, 100% upon cost each year for 192 branch rooms phones, in addition to paying all proper charges for the phoning.  The cost is for each 35 cents per month, or $4.20 per year, and we doubt if these cost the company $4.20 each.

What do you think can be done about this?

Yours very truly,

Herbert D. Miles, Pres.

George Vanderbilt Hotel

Asheville

North Carolina

A Foor-Robinson Hotel

July 24, 1924

Mr. Herbert D. Miles,

106 Miles Bldg.,

Asheville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Miles;

W have your letter of the 14th and beg to advise that Mr. Seely is out of the City at the present time.  Your letter will have his attention as soon as he returns.

Very truly yours,

Biltmore Industries

Dear men,

Replying to your letter which come in my absence, beg to say I took [scribble] Mr. Woodcocks letter in Raleigh, but inasmuch as the Telephone Company have taken [scribble] the matter of reduction of telephone rates to court, the Commission has delayed handling some of the questions that are being raised just at the present time.  I shall see if anything can be done however.

Vy ty

Mr. Herbert D. Miles,

106 Miles Bldg.,

Asheville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Miles;

Replying to your letter which came in my absence, beg to say I took Mr. Woodcocks letter to Raleigh, but inasmuch as the Telephone Company have taken the matter of reduction of telephone rates, to court, the Commission has delayed handling some of the questions that are being raised just at the present time.  I shall see if anything can be done however.

Very truly yours,

F. L. Seely

Mr. Herbert D. Miles,

106 Miles Bldg.,

Asheville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Miles;

Have just received carbon of your letter to Mr. Winborne which I have noted carefully.  I will take it with me on my next visit to Raleigh.

Yours very sincerely,

F. L. Seely

Hon. Stanley C. Winborne,

Raleigh, N.C.

Dear Mr. Winborne,

In further reference to my letter to you of 22nd protesting certain telephone rates assessed against the George Vanderbilt Hotel, Asheville:  May I add, that the number of local calls for the May account from our 190 Room phones, is 1855, after allowing 85 calls not charged.  At 4 cents, the price paid, this amounted to $74.20.  At 3 cents, the price charged in other cities outside Charlotte, it would have cost $55.65.

The point is, the entire arbitrary and monopolistic character of the whole proceeding.  If we ask correction of an apparent or evident wrong, they turn their backs upon us and we are helpless.  The above figures as to Room phones local calls (and they are used largely for long-distance) show approx. 10 per month per phone.  As we pay them $29.50 per month for rental of our Switchboard, power, etc., and pay our three operators salaries, in addition to paying this toll upon each local call, and as the original cost of installation of the 190 phones was met ten years ago, fail to find reason for meeting it 100% of more yearly now.  We paid them for long-distance calls in the month from these phones, $518.64.  In addition, they have been for ten years charging us for and "extra gong" in Boiler Room $6.00 per year, and for 13 feet of cord there, $3.00 per year, and turn their backs upon all protest.

Yours very truly,

Herbert D. Miles, Pres.

Mr. Herbert D. Miles,

Albemarle Park,

Asheville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Miles:-

We purchased our coke from the Chattanooga Gas Company, Chattanooga, Tenn., and our business was done through Mr. S. E. DeFrese.

We found these very fine people to do business with and only stopped using coke when the war made it impossible for us to get it.

Very sincerely yours,

F. L. Seely

Mr. Herbert D. Miles,

Franklin Motor Co.,

Asheville, N.C.

Dear Mr. Miles:

You will be interested in the enclosed letters and I am sure that if an opportunity presents itself, you will see Mr. Wallin.

I cannot tell you how many good wishes I feel for your enterprise, and you may rest assured that I will do everything I can to encourage the development.

We need such a hotel as the one you are projecting and while you must not expect it without a lot of troubles, still nothing worth while comes without these drawbacks.

Very sincerely yours,

F. L. Seely,  President.

Mr. Henrik Wallin, Architect,

23 Abercorn St.,

Savannah, Georgia.

Dear Mr. Wallin:

I am ever so glad to have you letter of the 22nd., and to know that you and Mrs. Wallin remember us.

I am very much interested in what you say about the Organ.  You cannot possibly go wrong on the Skinner Organ.

There has been quite an active movement here in the direction of erecting a new Commercial Hotel, and although I am not sure that it has, up to now, reached a positive stage, yet I sincerely hope it will materialize.

My very good friend, Mr. Herbert Miles, is one of the moving sprits in it.  In fact, I believe he is the most active man in the promotion and development of the enterprise, and I am sending your letter on to him and shall see him personally in a day or two in you behalf.

I wish you could know Mr. Miles.  He is one of our best Citizens, and if you could find the time to run up here, you would be very well re-paid.

Give our sincerest regard to Mrs. Wallin, and with all good wishes to yourself, believe me to be

Very sincerely yours

F. L. Seely, President.

My Dear Mr. Seely,

It is with pleasure, in writing at present, that I recall you hospitality to Mrs. Walling and myself while you guests in Asheville last year.  I hope that pleasure, if not business will direct me again shortly to your wonderful hotel and city.

I am sure you will be pleased to hear of the completion and success of the Skinner Organ installation in the First Baptist Church of this City, which we discussed with Mr. Skinner while visiting you.  This Organ is now being praised as one of the best in this section of the country in tone, quality, and color blending.

I chanced to hear last week from a friend that there is contemplated in Asheville the erection of a very large hotel and I feel quite sure that if such is the case you will be active in its organization.  If I am correctly informed, I shall be be very happy to submit my Architectural Services for such a project. Having had previous experience in the designing and planning of large hotels both in the North and the South I feel that I am in the position to offer efficient and satisfactory Architectural work for a hotel of this character.  Mr. Fred Muschenheim, President and Manager of the Hotel Astor will give you any recommendation that may be necessary as to my hotel ability. 

Trusting that you will favor me with an early response, I remain

Yours very truly,

Henrik Wallin.

Marjorie M. Chipman
Blessing Premises

Asheville, NC 28804

Dear Mr. Bruce Johnson,

Here more facts about Father-Hebert de la Haye Miles-H. D. Miles as usually known, were mail addressed merely H. D. Miles, Asheville, N. C. reached him! Well, (1) he was head of "Associated Charities" as social services designated then. (2) Vestry member of All Souls Episcopal Church-Biltmore where we went while renting Me Dowell house on Victoria road in 1913 when I was 12, the first year here where moved from Kenilworth, 111, 15 Miles north of Chicago, (3) He gave speeches from platform in movie theater on Patton Avenue where Wachovia's been built; speeches that ousted the un­ethical politicians ruling the city causing a re-election & in the interim he and 2 other men together ran Asheville. (4) His poem, "Asheville, Queen of the Land of the Sky," won the Asheville Citizen Paper contest. (5) As a baby, his mother & 5 children returned to her mother, Sally Chipman married to a druggist surnamed Smith, in St. John, New Brunswick (so he christened me M« Chipman) as her husband Fred Billing Miles had gone to England to make another fortune where he'd been born Billing but his mother Eliza de la Haye went to Boston and married Baptist pastor Miles since Billing died; when together again they lived in Toronto where father was at 15; then at 20 the family back in Chicago & with Armour & Co. there in meat, as had been with Armour in Milwaukee in grain, where Fathered been born-so he grew up in Canada & was English German descent thru Billing & French thru his de la Have grandmother (6) He became head of a department at Armour & Co,and (?) brothers William (?) & Frank with Armour (........ ) (......... ) & Co. He consulted- Armour that is- with Frank a lot. One was based at the Omaha plant. My father was very successful himself, and mother's prominent lawyer Dad in Chicago became wealthy also. (6) He & my sister Eleanore went around the world. My mother, Delia Hulburd (?) Gallrys (?) (Miles) had the Breezemont walls the same lovely green as those at your wife's office waiting room. My place here shaded by trees across the back by that fence and along east side by that fence, (....,....) 2 huge trees in front plus a birdbath large apple tree in back results in a cool shady blessing; plus the outdoors & convenient to P. O., drug store, movies, markets, banks & restaurants, a blessing & the (........ ) house, plan & (........ ) and better for my health than mountain altitude.

Sincerely, Marjorie Chipman whoever (?) you said you feel like family because I lived in "Breezemont" for 10 yrs. But Lydia does not.

Marjorie M. Chipman Blessing Premises

Asheville, NC 28804

Dear Mr. Bruce Johnson,

Here more facts about Father-Hebert de la Haye Miles-H. D. Miles as usually known, were mail addressed merely H. D. Miles, Asheville, N. C. reached him! Well, (1) he was head of "Associated Charities" as social services designated then. (2) Vestry member of All Souls Episcopal Church-Biltmore where we went while renting Me Dowell house on Victoria road in 1913 when I was 12, the first year here where moved from Kenilworth, 111, 15 Miles north of Chicago, (3) He gave speeches from platform in movie theater on Patton Avenue where Wachovia's been built; speeches that ousted the un­ethical politicians ruling the city causing a re-election & in the interim he and 2 other men together ran Asheville. (4) His poem, "Asheville, Queen of the Land of the Sky," won the Asheville Citizen Paper contest. (5) As a baby, his mother & 5 children returned to her mother, Sally Chipman married to a druggist surnamed Smith, in St. John, New Brunswick (so he christened me M. Chipman) as her husband Fred Billing Miles had gone to England to make another fortune where he'd been born Billing but his mother Eliza de la Haye went to Boston and married Baptist pastor Miles since Billing died; when together again they lived in Toronto where father was at 15; then at 20 the family back in Chicago & with Armour & Co. there in meat, as had been with Armour in Milwaukee in grain, where Fathered been born-so he grew up in Canada & was English German descent thru Billing & French thru his de la Haye grandmother (6) He became head of a department at Armour & Co,

and (?) brothers William (?) & Frank with Armour (........ ) (......... ) & Co. He

consulted- Armour that is- with Frank a lot. One was based at the Omaha plant. My father was very successful himself, and mother's prominent lawyer Dad in Chicago became wealthy also. (6) He & my sister Eleanore went around the world. My mother, Delia Hulburd (?) Gallup (Miles) had the Breezemont walls the same lovely green as those at your wife's office waiting room. My place here shaded by trees across the back by that fence and along east side by that fence, (....,....) 2 huge trees in front plus a birdbath large apple tree in back results in a cool shady blessing; plus the outdoors & convenient to P. O., drug store, movies, markets, banks & restaurants, a

blessing & the (........ ) house, plan & (........ ) and better for my health than

mountain altitude.

Sincerely, Marjorie Chipman whoever (?) you said you feel like family

because I lived in "Breezemont" for 10 yrs. But Lydia does not.

Ms. Marjorie Chipman

Dear Mr. Bruce Johnson;

Thanks for informing us of your projects concerning the Miles family and "Breezemont" built for them. May a Happy 1993 give you the (St........... ???) for success in all that and in general. You wanted the enclosed obituary of my Father Herbert De la Haye Miles. It was enclosed in a book of poetry he'd written sent back to me, lately by a second cousin on Mother's side with his 2'nd poetry book also that contained two more copies of his obituary. When more vim returns 1*11 show you pictures of Eleanore, Mother & me sitting in Breezemont living room, and wedding pictures of me standing on bottom stairs there, and wedding party in sun porch, & friends in swimming pool, etc.

Pictures of you with your family & cute unusual Xmas card to be treasured thankfully as almost extended family! Sometime I'll write, before too late, about Father youth and Mother & Edward born 1898, (Princeton ?) Phi Beta Cappa (sic), Red Cross Ambulance driver with French in 2'nd Princeton (?) Unit before U. S. in the war & his only child (Jeanne?) who married Jack (?) Blackburn (?) until he retired, Dean or Chancellor of Duke. & And me born 1901, mother of 3, my son Jerry. Winston Jerome Jackson Jr. that is one of 4 in nation to earn a (certain?) graduate scholarship to go to college he chose-Duke-PhD. in (Chem.?); His Dad my husband until I divorced him, brought material for atomic bomb, top secret, a purchasing engineer for N. S. A., & engineer of his brothers L. B, Jackson building on the square in 1924 -year we married! & Eleanore, single, died at 66. & Hulbred (?) born 1906 you know

Ann& (Bl...... ?)& Ann has John & Elizabeth. My Barbara had Phil, Bob-both engineers & Phil has Eric, 6 yrs. Old

My Carol had Marjorie, Cameron, David. Her Cam now head of lab at Highlands hospital & he has sons Ben & Josh. Her Margie in Danbridge (?) Tenn has Hollie a senior in high school, Richard (?) 20 in Fla. Her David played 3 instruments in a band all over from Alaska to Mexico to Finland to Montreal & Miami for years, but now in Tex. in Army.

My brother Edward's daughter Jeanne has 2 sons & a lawyer daughter Kit (?) who has baby Benjamin (sons???) (Parkinson?) & David her mother Elise Parkinson (?)

Hulbred (?) has two sons Elwood (?) Billing Miles & Alden (?).

I have B.A. from N. Wis, got when 46 but in 1920's had 3 years at Smith College in Mass majored in Philosophy.

Our Mother, Delia Hulbred Gallup (?) her father a prominent Chicago lawyer, Benjamin E. Gallup & has over 40 patents for inventions for Tenn. Eastman.

P. S. Edw. El. Hulbred & I all born in Chicago and lived in Kenilworth, 111. & from 1907 to 1913 move to Asheville. Father's mother from St. John New Brunswick & his mother took them to her mother Sarah Chipman his grandmother when small. Separated from Fred Billing Miles but later together again in Toronto.

Legally dropt my last 2 names in 1958 in Michigan.

Wrote it all now after all! ~

Sincerely,

Marjorie Chipman Miles Jackson

(From a Christmas Card 1993) 34 Gracelyn Rd. Asheville, NC 28804 12th Day of Christmas)

Ms. Marjorie Chipman

Dear Mr. Bruce Johnson;

Thanks for informing us of your projects concerning the Miles family and "Breezemont"

built for them. May a Happy 1993 give you the (St........... ???) for success in all that and in

general. You wanted the enclosed obituary of my Father Herbert De la Haye Miles. It was enclosed in a book of poetry he'd written sent back to me, lately by a second cousin on Mother's side with his 2'nd poetry book also that contained two more copies of his obituary. When more vim returns 1*11 show you pictures of Eleanore, Mother & me sitting in Breezemont living room, and wedding pictures of me standing on bottom stairs there, and wedding party in sun porch, & friends in swimming pool, etc.

Pictures of you with your family & cute unusual Xmas card to be treasured thankfully as almost extended family! Sometime I'll write, before too late, about Father youth and Mother & Edward born 1898, (Princeton ?) Phi Beta Cappa (sic), Red Cross Ambulance driver with French in 2'nd Princeton (?) Unit before U. S. in the war & his only child (Jeanne?) who married Jack (?) Blackburn (?) until he retired, Dean or Chancellor of Duke. & And me born 1901, mother of 3, my son Jerry. Winston Jerome Jackson Jr. that is one of 4 in nation to earn a (certain?) graduate scholarship to go to college he chose-Duke-PhD. in (Chem.?); His Dad my husband until I divorced him, brought material for atomic bomb, top secret, a purchasing engineer for N. S. A., & engineer of his brothers L. B, Jackson building on the square in 1924 -year we married! & Eleanore, single, died at 66. & Hulbred (?) born 1906 you know.

My Jerry has been around the world (While?) having been asked to give papers in many Gountries-as he was head of research at Tennessee Eastern Co. in Kingsport, Tenn. Papers given in England, Scotland, France, Austria (Country ???) China, Japan, etc. has

Ann& (Bl...... ?)& Ann has John & Elizabeth. My Barbara had Phil, Bob-both

engineers & Phil has Eric, 6 yrs. Old.

My Carol had Marjorie, Cameron, David. Her Cam now head of lab at Highlands hospital & he has sons Ben & Josh. Her Margie in Danbridge (?) Tenn has Hollie a senior in high school, Richard (?) 20 in Fla. Her David played 3 instruments in a band all over from Alaska to Mexico to Finland to Montreal & Miami for years, but now in Tex. in Army.

My brother Edward's daughter Jeanne has 2 sons & a lawyer daughter Kit (?) who has baby Benjamin (sons???) (Parkinson?) & David her mother Elise Parkinson (?)

Hulbred (?) has two sons Elwood (?) Billing Miles & Alden (?).

[cont.]

I have B.A. from N. Wis, got when 46 but in 1920's had 3 years at Smith College in Mass majored in Philosophy.

Our Mother, Delia Hulbred Gallup (?) her father a prominent Chicago lawyer, Benjamin E. Gallup & has over 40 patents for inventions for Tenn. Eastman.

P. S. Edw. El. Hulbred & I all born in Chicago and lived in Kenilworth, 111. & from 1907 to 1913 move to Asheville. Father's mother from St. John New Brunswick & his mother took them to her mother Sarah Chipman his grandmother when small. Separated from Fred Billing Miles but later together again in Toronto.

Legally dropt my last 2 names in 1958 in Michigan.

Wrote it all now after all! ~

Sincerely,

Marjorie Chipman Miles Jackson

Bible verse:  "To give light to them that sit in darkness ... to guide our feet into the say of peace." Luke 1:79

From a 1994 Christmas card.34 Gracelyn Road, Asheville,NC  28804

Dear Bruce & Lydia Johnson-
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year at "Breezemont in fireplace turkey sandwiches.

But (...?) drivers license required one's maiden name before the last thus Marj: Miles Chipman since probate court had consented to shortening the name to Marj. Chipman after my divorce from Winston Jerome Jackson, dropping Jackson and Miles to shorten the 2 Christian names.
P. S. Have a great 1994, All of you!

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