Robert E. Lee Hall collection

BOX ONE contains incoming correspondence (1892-1939) beloging to Robert E. Lee Hall. There are approximately 300 items, most of which fall between 1907-1920. Included among his correspondents are various political organizations such as the Democratic State Central Committee (circa 1914); the Young Men's Lee League (circa 1915); the Maryland Democratic Party (circa 1912); and the City-Wide Congress (circa 1911). In addition, there are a number of letters from insurance companies, railroads, electric companies, hospitals, and banks.

BOX TWO contains personal account books, bills, receipts, scrapbooks, and school-books of Robert E. Lee Hall. Several account books deal with Waverly and Friendship farms in Baltimore County. The two scrapbooks (1936-1955) contain clippings and articles concerning various aspects of tax law. They were compiled by Robert E. Lee Hall and his son Reginald Irving Hall.

BOXES THREE AND FOUR contain copies of over 200 deeds and mortgages from 1864 to 1953 for properties located in Baltimore and presumably handled by Robert E. Lee Hall. They provide some clue as to type, number, and location of Hall's clients.

BOX FIVE contains reports, account books, membership lists, etc. for several of the political and civic organizations to which Hall belonged. Items related to the Democratic Party organization--such as census records, membership lists, and voter registration books--are included. Moreover, there are a ledger and a membership list for the Homestead League & Improvement Association, an organization in which Hall served as president, as well as an account book for the Montebello Permanent Building & Loan Association, a bank for which Hall was director and attorney. The remaining items concern the Baltimore Retail Druggists Associations, the Suburban Civic Federation, American Locomotive Company, and the Francis Scott Key Carnival Association of Maryland.

BOX SIX contains two groups of materials. First, there are rentbooks and miscellaneous notes belonging to Robert E. Lee Hall. Secondly, there are several items belonging to three separate individuals whose relationship to Hall is uncertain. Perhaps these individuals were clients, relatives, or neighbors. Within this second group are receipts, a passbook, an account book, and a cash book.

BOX SEVEN, like the preceeding box, contains the papers of individuals whose relationship to Hall is unknown. For example, there are logbooks (1903-1907) and a journal for the Baltimore schooner, the "Kate Darlington." The ship was built around 1887 and remained in operation for approximately 50 years. The second group of papers concern a Chinese family by the name of Lang or Fang. Envelopes addressed to the family contain an address on Gorsuch Avenue, the same street where Hall resided only several blocks away. A laundry supply order book contains a listing of Chinese characters with their English meanings as well as a listing of addresses. In addition, there is a bank passbook.