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  • Collection: Mokarzel Family Papers

A letter from Salloum to his daughter, Alice Mokarzel, written in New York City. In this letter, dated November 23, 1926, Salloum is pleased to hear from Alice and that she is reading every single word in the issue of "The Syrian World" he sent her.…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_03_34.pdf

A letter from Salloum to his daughter, Alice Mokarzel, written in New York City. In this letter, dated October 30, 1926, Salloum has been busy with the publication of "The Syrian World," but made a point to "find" time to write to Alice. Earlier that…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_03_33.pdf

Date: 1926 June 21
A letter from Salloum to his daughter, Alice Mokarzel, written in New York City. In this letter, dated June 21, 1926, Salloum expects that Alice must be very busy because she hasn't written to him as frequently as she used to. This is because as the…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_03_32.pdf

Date: 1926 May 25
A letter from Salloum to his daughter, Alice Mokarzel, written in New York City. In this letter, dated May 25, 1926, Salloum is pleased to witness Alice's academic growth in Arabic and French and artistic growth in painting. In some previous letters,…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_03_31.pdf

Date: 1926 March 3
A letter from Salloum to his daughter, Alice Mokarzel, written in New York City. In this letter, dated March 3, 1926, Salloum explains that he has been writing to Alice as often as he can and hopes that his letters aren't going astray. He responds to…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_03_30.pdf

A letter from Salloum to his daughter, Alice Mokarzel, written in New York City. In this letter, dated February 25, 1926, Salloum explains that his letters must have been lost because he is always writing her back. He wants her to know that he will…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_03_28.pdf

A letter from Salloum to his daughter, Alice Mokarzel, written in New York City. In this letter, dated February 4, 1926, Salloum finally writes Alice back explaining that how endearing her letters are and how much comfort he finds in reading her…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_03_25.pdf

A postcard from Salloum to his daughter Alice Mokarzel Jaoudi sent from Brooklyn, New York dated November 24, 1925. This postcard expresses concern for Alice's health and happiness that he's received a letter from her.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_03_23.pdf

Date: 1988 Oct 25
A letter from an unidentified Sean to an unidentified Ethel about his negative experiences in Belize. The letter was passed from Ethel to Mary Mokarzel
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_08_01_27.pdf

Date: 1989 Mar 2
A letter from Shapiro Ferriera to Mary Mokarzel requesting information about Mokarzel family history. Shapiro was the daughter of Elias Joseph Mokarzel, a relative of the Mokarzels who lived in South Africa. Included is a copy of a letter from…

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_01_08.pdf

Date: 1989 May 20
A letter from Shapiro Ferreira to Mary Mokarzel giving requested information about her father (Salloum Mokarzel's cousin) and her sisters. The photos mentioned in the letter are linked below.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_01_05.pdf

Date: undated
A letter from Mrs. Assad Abood to Mary Mokarzel concerning her trip to Paris and other personal news.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_08_01_33.pdf

Date: 1998 Oct 28
A letter from Souhad Rafey to a curator at the Smithsonian requesting a loan of artifacts for the Centennial Exhibition. The Centennial, celebrated in the Museum of the city of NY, marked the 100th year of the publication of Al-Hoda.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_03_02_22.pdf

Date: circa 1973
A letter, reservation form, and ad subscription form that was sent to the invitees of the Al-Hoda Diamond Jubilee.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_07_01_05.pdf

Date: 1973 Dec 3
A letter from the Bibliotheque Orientale confirming the acceptance of Mary's donation of the Mokarzel Library, valuing it at $9000.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_06_12.pdf

Date: 1972 Mar 8
A letter from Wade Hellew of Bridge Packers to Mary Mokarzel concerning the shipping of the Mokarzel Library.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_06_17.pdf

Date: 1964 May 11
A letter from William Kunstler to Mary Mokarzel concerning the Al-Hoda Golden Jubilee and his legal fees.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_04_01_05.pdf

Date: 1982 Jan 25
A letter from William Raftery of Jesuit Foreign Missions to Mary Mokarzel concerning her donation of the Mokarzel Library.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_06_05.pdf

Date: 1992 Feb 18
A letter from Dr. Eugene Paul Nassar to Mary Mokarzel concerning receipt of two Al-Hoda books to help with the writing of the introduction for the "Annotated Index to the Syrian World." Included is the introduction itself for Mokarzel to review.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_02_05.pdf

Date: 1995 Aug 25
A letter from historian Alixa Naff of the National Museum of American History to Mary Mokarzel thanking her for the donation of family photos and documents.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_01_01.pdf

Date: 1995 Aug 25
A letter from Chief Archivist John Fleckner of the National Museum of American History to Helen Samhan thanking her for the donation of family photos and documents. In the last paragraph of the letter Fleckner mentions that a Deed of Gift is…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_01_02.pdf

Date: 1998 Aug
Letters between Helen Samhan, Mary Mokarzel, and Fares Stephen concerning the planning of the Al-Hoda Centennial celebration.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_07_01_12.pdf

Date: 1966 April
A letter from Charles LaHood of the Library of Congress to Mary Mokarzel concerning the microfilming of Al-Hoda. Included is a draft of her reply.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_03_21.pdf

Date: 1966
A letter from Charles LaHood of the Library of Congress to Mary Mokarzel concerning her issues of Al-Hoda. Included is a draft of her reply.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_03_20.pdf

Date: 1973
A letter from Edward Zraick to Mary Mokarzel inviting her to the Al-Hoda Diamond Jubilee followed by letters of thanks from Mary Mokarzel. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated the 75th anniversary of Al-Hoda at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_03_02_23.pdf

Date: 1970-1971
A series of letters exchanged between S. Marley of the Library of Congress and Mary Mokarzel concerning the disposal of many bound volumes of Al-Hoda, which had been provided by Mary to be microfilmed.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_03_10.pdf

Date: 1987 July 1
Letters from Mary Mokarzel's Lebanese cousins thanking her for the money she sent and discussing the situation in Lebanon.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_08_01_12.pdf

Date: 1966
Letters from Charles LaHood of the Library of Congress to Mary Mokarzel concerning the Microfilming of Al-Hoda. Included are Mary's notes taken throughout the process.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_03_19.pdf

Date: 1968-1969
Letters from staff of the Library of Congress's photoduplication service to Mary Mokarzel concerning problems with the delivery and microfilming of her issues of Al-Hoda.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_03_13.pdf

Date: 1966-1967
Letters from Jennings Wood of the Library of Congress concerning the shipping and microfilming of Al-Hoda papers.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_03_17.pdf

Date: 1967-1968
Letters from Joan Kord of Doubleday & Company, Inc. to Mary Mokarzel concerning copyright on recipes that had been printed in the Lebanese American Journal.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_05_01_06.pdf

Date: 1972 Apr 26
Letters from John Williams of the University of St. Joseph concerning the shipping of Mary's donation of the Mokarzel Library.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_06_14.pdf

Date: 1998
Letters from Joseph Michael to Mary Mokarzel concerning the death of friends and family and memories of the past.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_08_01_16.pdf

Date: 1992, 1998
Two letters from Joseph Sfair discussing the history of Al-Hoda and the Mokarzel family.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_03_02_28.pdf

Date: 1969
Letters containing advice from Goldstein & Goldstein on how to approach the Library of Congress concerning her microfilmed issues of Al-Hoda.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_03_12.pdf

Date: 1972
Letters from the Library of Congress Exchange and Gift Division to Mary Mokarzel concerning microfilming and appraisal of Al-Hoda and the Lebanese American Journal.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_03_03.pdf

Letters to Mary Mokarzel related to Salloum Mokarzel's Estate and the Al-Hoda Golden Jubilee affair.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_04_01_06.pdf

Date: 1970s
Letters from Joseph Paquet of Jesuit Foreign Missions and Martin McDermott of the Bibliotheque Orientale concerning Mary Mokarzel's donation of the Naoum and Salloum Library.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_06_06.pdf

Date: 1926 Apr
A photo of Mokarzels in Beirut, Lebanon. Left to right: Lila Mokarzel and Helen Kalil Mokarzel. The caption on the back of the photo states "Nadi Al-Sayaddy."
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_01_15.pdf

Date: circa 1940
A photo of Lila and Yemna Mokarzel as young women.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_07_04.pdf

Date: circa 1940s
A photo of Lila and Yemna Mokarzel as young women.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_02_02.pdf

Date: circa 1930
A photo of Lila (left) and Yemna Mokarzel playing in the snow in front of their home in Cranford, New Jersey.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_07_05.pdf

Date: circa 1940
A photo of a young Lila Mokarzel, outside in front of a garden. "Lila" is written on the bottom of the photo.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_05_11.pdf

Date: circa 1940
A photo of a young Lila Mokarzel, sitting on a stone wall in front of a garden.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_05_12.pdf

Date: circa 1940s
A photo of Lila Mokarzel in front of a car. The caption on the back reads "Lila- the doll."

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_05_13.pdf

A photo of Lila Mokarzel as a child. The caption reads "Lila- on the boat."

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_07_01.pdf

Date: circa 1920s
A photo of a young Lila Mokarzel in front of the Mokarzel home in Cranford, New Jersey.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_07_12.pdf

Date: 1925-1927
A photo of Lila Mokarzel, standing outside in a white dress, taken during her stay in Beirut, Lebanon.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_07_13.pdf

A photo of Lila Mokarzel with a young girl identified only as Millicent.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_07_08.pdf

A photo of Lila Mokarzel with a young boy on a swing set, identified only as Peter.

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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_01_07_07.pdf
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