This folder contains:- Convention Call 43rd Annual Convention of UDC in Dallas, Texas November [1935?] - Invitation to attend dedication of “Confederate Memorial Hall” at George Peabody College for Teachers June 1, 1935 - Announcement of annual meeting of District 2 of UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy to be held at Covington, VA on May 21-22, 1935 - Letter from E.M. Still, Chairman of Second District of Virginia UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy to “My Dear Mrs. Strain” thanking her for being able to attend meeting of Mary Custis Lee Chapter Apr. 22, 1935 - Minutes of Second District Convention in Covington, VA May 21-22, 1935 “[The Goshen Chapter] sent a letter to their representative asking him to vote against the proposed plan for a John Brown Memorial Park at Harper’s Ferry” “That the Pension Committee petition the Legislature to increase the Confederate Veterans pensions from $30 to $50 a month, and that all Confederate widows receive $10 a month.” - Letter from Anne Pendleton Forest, President Virginia Division UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy, to Mrs. James Moffatt, Jr., President Mary Custis Lee Chapter, Nov 8, 1935 naming Lexington as annual UDC convention location for October 1936 - Letter from Ilse M. Smith to President Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy enclosing two of her poems – The Shrines of Lexington, published in the Rockbridge County News, May 2, 1935, vol. 51, No. 27, p.7 and The Ways of Valor, published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 7, 1933, Sect. III, p.7 - Election of delegates from Mary Custis Lee Chapter to 42nd Annual Convention of UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy in Hot Springs Arkansas, Nov 1935 - Letter from Anne Pendleton Forrest, President Virginia Division UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy to “Chapter President” regarding “convention blanks” Oct. 11, 1935 - Pencil-written list of names and addresses of some Mary Custis Lee Chapter members United Daughters of the Confederacy UDC [no date] - Announcement of annual UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting to be held in Charlottesville on May 13, 1937 - List of Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy expenses (no date, but references 1934, 1935) - Thank you letter to Mrs. J. S. Moffatt from Margaret Louise (Walker) Morgan of Roanoke Oct 10, 1936 thanking her for hosting of 1936 UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy Convention - Letter from Sallie Wade of Raphine, VA to Mrs. Strain dated May 9, 1935 requesting pension for daughter of Confederate Veteran Miss Marietta Wade “who observed her eightieth birthday on the 7th of May 1935” - Letter to “My Dear Mrs. Lackey” from Mrs. James Morgan, Registrar VA Division UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy regarding delegates and voting Sept 15, 1936 - Series of letters and notes dated April and May 1937 involving Washington & Lee University regarding subscription to and non-receipt of Southern Magazine - Letter from Mrs. M C. Beall of Birmingham, Alabama May 21, 1935 to Mrs. D.E. Strain, President Mary Custis Lee Chapter UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy “I am a widow, past middle life, a daughter of Captain Robert Cunningham, a civil war veteran of Alabama, and daughter-in-law of Captain Fred Beall of Miss., also a Civil War veteran….. I am asking each member of your Chapter to please lend me $1.00 to help me save my home that I have worked 25 years to make and am now about to lose, with no one to turn to for help….. Four years ago I slipped on a piece of orange peel on the sidewalk, breaking my hip, and am on crutches…..”