Mary Winter Letter to Mrs. Tasker (Eleanor) Bliss (SC-301)
Scope and Contents
This two-page letter and accompanying envelope is from Mrs. Francis (Mary) Winter to Mrs. Tasker (Eleanor) Bliss. Mrs. Winter's husband, Major Francis A. Winter, was the surgeon who cared for Orville Wright at the hospital at Fort Myer, Virginia, after Wright's September 17, 1908 crash there. The accident resulted in the death of Wright's passenger, U. S. Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, whose death is considered the first powered airplane fatality. In the letter Winter devotes an entire paragraph to describing the accident. Also included in this collection is a one-page transcript of the letter.
Dates
- Creation: 1908
Creator
- Winter, Mary (Person)
Extent
1 folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This item was purchased from Heinrich Beil, an historic documents dealer in Cantonment, Florida, in 2015.
Existence and Location of Copies
A portion of this letter can be viewed online in Wright State University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives blog, Out of the Box, at https://www.libraries.wright.edu/community/outofthebox/2015/09/17/selfridge-crash-described-in-new-acquisition/.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Wright State University Libraries
Special Collections and Archives
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton OH 45435-0001 USA
937-775-2092
library-archives@wright.edu
