Archives Accession # 11

4.0.0.L45 Leissler correspondence

Date statement: : 1938-1990
Summary:

 1 folder

Description:

 1983-1990, 1 folder of letters, many with early history of WPA. Includes 1990 obituary.

Clipped together:
4/9/1990 Thank you note from Barbara Bender to Scot Medbury, with note about 1944 photo.
1/5/1990 obituary on 11/28/1989 death of Leissler, Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, photocopy.
12/28/1989 letter from Scot Medbury to Barbara Bender enclosing material for obituary, 3 pp.
12/24/1989 letter from Barbara Bender to Scot Medbury asking for obituary information.
1948 photo of Leissler, photocopy.
9/22/1983 - 2/1/1989, 17 letters from Leissler to Barbara Bender, with Leissler biographical information and his work on Arboretum.

2/21/1989 - 3/1/1989, 4 letters between Barbara Bender and Scot Medbury, photocopies

Clipped together:
     3/29/1989 - 10/3/1989, 7 letters between Leissler and Scot Medbury, who was seeking biographical information.
Clipped together:
     5/2/1984 - 2/5/1985 - 2 letters from Leissler to Jeanne Gardiner, 1 letter from Barbara Bender to Jeanne Gardiner, photocopies.
5/17/1939 and 6/30/1939, letters to Leissler from Donald Wyman complaining that WPA fired Leissler, clipped with 1938 photo including Leissler, carbon copies and photocopy.

Accession date: 2011-12-27 Last updated: 2025-04-01 16:29:34
Subjects: Washington Park Arboretum--history

Names	Role	Function
Leissler, Frederick, 1904-1989		Source
Medbury, Scot		Subject
Roosevelt, Eleanor		Subject
Johnson, Caroline P.		Subject
Gardiner, Jeanne		Subject
Bender, Barbara		Subject

Location	Note
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