Guide to the Letter to Bill and Marion Topping MSS.2928
Topping, Bill and Marion
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Lydia Wommack
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
September 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2010-09-27T14:47-0500
- Language Usage:
English
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Letter to Bill and Marion Topping
- Unit ID:
MSS.2928
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1992 May 5
- Abstract:
A letter to Bill and Marion Topping of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from Madrid where his parents are vacationing.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Letter to Bill and Marion Topping, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Lydia Wommack, 2010.
Scope and Contents note
The collection consists of a letter to Bill and Marion Topping of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from Madrid where his parents are vacationing. His mother describes the various places they have been and compares the coast of Portugal to that of southern California "at its best, beautiful beaches, flowers everywhere, and trees and green hills". She closes the letter saying that they go on to Nice, France in a day or so and sends "our best love to you both and to our three little darlings."
Biographical/Historical note
In 1992, Bill and Marion Topping lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.