Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library P.O. Box 400110 University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110 URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/
Ellen Welch
Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Identification
MSS 15732
Title
Clifford Smith correspondence about cockfighting 1936-1956
Clifford Smith correspondence about cockfighting, 1936-1956, MSS 15732, Small Special Collections, University of Virginia
Library, Charlottesville, Virginia
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was purchased from Bartleby's Books by the Small Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library
on April 1, 2014.
Fourteen men correspond about chickens, farming, and cockfighting in 1936-1956 in Boston, Massachusetts. Clifford Smith, E.
T Piper, Frank Fuller, Thomas F. Dillane, J. Elmer Ehrhart, Charles W. Earnest, David M. Kellogg, E. W. Law, Jerome Vogeler,
J. H. Wisecup, Nee P. Patterson, Bill Gorman, Andrew O'Connor, Rudolph Weld, A. S. Wigg, and Ivan Erickson.
This collection of Clifford Smith correspondence about cockfighting in Boston, Massachusetts from 1936 to 1956 is about 235
items, 19 folders, one half-size legal document box, totaling .04 cubic feet. Also included is cockfighting weights and scores.