Boxers (Sports) -- Biography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gene Tunney Family Letters Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_2001
Scope and Contents
This small collection of letters were mostly written by Gene Tunney to his friend Robert R. Gros. The collection also includes three letters written by Tunney to other correspondents, notably Hamilton Fish III, one telegram from Gros to Tunney, and five letters/postcards from Tunney’s wife, Mary Lauder "Polly" Tunney, to Gros written mostly after Tunney had died. The letters primarily involved family matters, coordinating visits, and sharing family news, with some mentions of politics,...
Dates:
1938-1980; Majority of material found within 1955-1961
Gene Tunney Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates:
1858 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945