Diary, 30 April-2 December 1918

Verdun commemorative coin and photocopy of Robert March Hanes information

Travel diary, 15 June-1 September 1912

Release from service for Charles R. Brewer, January 1919, and stationary

Notes from officer courses, undated

Leather field wallet

Scrapbooks

Diaries, 1949-1950

Associated Press photograph of Robert March Hanes and other officials of the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C., 20 December 1938

Black-and-white image. Left to right: P. D. Houston, Nashville, Tenn.; Robert V. Fleming, Washington, D.C.; Robert M. Hanes, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Dr. Harold Stonier, New York, N.Y.; and Philip A. Benson, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Correspondence, 1900 and 1907

In a letter dated 1 August 1900 to her father and written from Wytheville Sanatorium, nine-year-old Mildred Borden (later Hanes) describes the doctor's removal of "something" from her nose. In a letter 29 October 1907 to Mildred at St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., her mother makes clothing recommendations including "pretty cloaks and suits at Weil's" [Department Store in Goldsboro, N.C.] and expresses empathy for Mildred's "having such a time with [her] music teacher."

Correspondence, 1908

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from her mother, father, and one other correspondent writing from College Park, Va., while she was attending St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C. In a 14 January 1908 letter, her father writes, "I am ambitious for you to do well and succeed well in everything you undertake and if you cannot, with credit to yourself, with proper effort, keep up all studies you have, you have my permission to drop history. This I will leave to you. I have no fear...that you will in any way be a discredit to the name, you have everything to stimulate you to be ambitious, that is love and I might truthfully say idolization of parents."

Correspondence, 1909

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from her mother, father, young sister Sara Borden, brother Paul Borden, and cousin Edwin Coles of Goldsboro, N.C., while she was attending St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., and Gunston Hall boarding school in Washington D.C. In a 14 March 1909 letter, her sister describes the refreshments for their mother's club meeting in Goldsboro, N.C., that included "Waldorf salad, cheese straws, sherbert, and cake."

Correspondence, 1909

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from her mother, father, young sister Sara Borden, sister Julia Borden writing from St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., and cousin George writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, while she was attending Gunston Hall boarding school in Washington D.C. In a 24 October 1909 letter, her cousin George writes for advice. "Now suppose you had asked a girl up here to the dances last Easter and she wrote you that she couldn't get away from school but would like to come some other time. You hadn't seen or heard from the girl since, except to receive a box of candy from her a few days ago. Would you invite her up to the Nov. dances or not? Don't you think that if I asked her up here, she would think that she had worked me very nicely?"

Correspondence, 1910

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from her mother, father, and sister Julia Borden writing from St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., while she was attending Gunston Hall boarding school in Washington D.C. Letters from her mother frequently mention dressmaking.

Correspondence, 1911

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from a suitor named George Thomas writing from Charlotte, N.C. and from Elsie Faison writing from New Orleans, La. In a 6 December 1911 letter, George writes, "I did note that you said several times that you thought of me quite often, but always you said 'you and your family.' I want to tell you right here and now that that is not the way to talk love."

Correspondence, January 1912

Letter dated 6 January 1912 received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Elsie Faison writing from Yokohama, Japan. The letter is written on Japanese stationary with color botanical graphics. Faison writes, "We landed here yesterday morning + took a rickshaw ride around the city + then went by train over to Tokio [sic] which is the capital of Japan and one of the largest cities in the world."

Correspondence, January-April 1912

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from a suitor named George Thomas writing from Charlotte, N.C., and Elsie Faison writing from Pampanga province in the Philippines. In a 26 January 1912 letter, Faison writes, "We left Manila Tuesday morning, and plunged without a moments warning 'as it were' from civilization to the very heart of the wilds. Whoever said there Philippine Islands were civilized--lied...This town is only a little ways from the foot of a big mountain and we walked over there this afternoon. You can't imagine how beautiful it was. We took a little path through the rice fields and all around us were palm, banana and bamboo trees...we found a water fall with a spring under it and we didn't do anything but pull off our clothes and stand under the water fall. We were hot + tired and it felt like ice water tumbling down. Think of doing a stunt like that at home."

Correspondence, June-July 1912

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from a suitor named George Thomas writing from Charlotte, N.C., another suitor named John Hall writing from Durham, N.C., and Elsie Faison writing from Pampanga province in the Philippines. In a 5 July 1912 letter, Faison writes about an American serviceman who "got drunk - dressed up in civilian clothes and visited a 'bad house' inhabited by Japanese women. They refused to let him in, so he pulled out his pistol and shot up a few."

Correspondence, August-October 1912

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Elsie Faison writing from Pampanga province in the Philippines. In a 2 October 1912 letter, Faison writes about American idiomatic expressions the Filipino servants had started to use, including "hello sport" and "good business."

Correspondence, November-December 1912

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Elsie Faison writing from Pampanga province in the Philippines and from a suitor named George Thomas writing from Charlotte, N.C. In a 3 December 1912 letter, Faison writes about sitting through an eight course Thanksgiving dinner, "the stimulants I was obliged to take in order to do so would make Judge Humphrey blush _ People over here drink like fishes _ women and all."

Correspondence, April-September 1913

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Elsie Faison writing from Tayabas, Philippines. In a 4 June 1913 letter, Faison writes about her baby and the departure of his nurse, "Can't bear for Filipinos to touch my baby so I do everything for him myself."

Correspondence, October-December 1913

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Elsie Faison writing from Tayabas, Philippines and Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C. In an October 1913 letter, Hanes writes that his brother John Wesley Reynolds, Jr., "has accepted a place with the R.J. Reynolds Co. and is going to work this week - He says it will only be a short time until he will have his nest lined and be ready for a mate. Tell her [Julia Borden] to have a good time while she is single as I think he has serious designs on her future."

Correspondence, 1914-1915

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C. In his letters, Hanes expresses his devotion. "You are the dearest thing in all the world to me."

Correspondence, June-August 1916

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C., and from a suitor S.W. Anderson writing from Wilson, N.C. Anderson dated one letter "Blue Monday" and wrote "After so much frankness, so many confessions, and so little encouragement I am as blue as indigo."

Correspondence, September 1916

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C., and from a suitor S.W. Anderson writing from Wilson, N.C.

Correspondence, November-December 1916

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C. In a November 1916 letter, Hanes writes about the election, "We have been going as hard as we could since seven o'clock this morning hauling men to the various polls to vote. I think we have won by a good majority. These Republicans have been so dirty that they have got everyone here hot against them."

Correspondence, circa1916

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C. and from another suitor named Chip writing from Fort William McKinley in the Philippines.

Correspondence, 1917

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C. In a 9 January letter, Hanes writes, "Dearest you certainly are getting brave to tell your mother about our getting married. I see you have fixed a warm reception for me when I come down. You will get me thrown out the back door I guess I am glad your mother hasn't any objection to me more than she will naturally have to anyone who will take you away from her."

Correspondence, February 1917

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C. In a 22 February 1917 letter, Hanes expresses relief that his fiancee Mildred is willing to leave the "pure country air" and "may prefer even my snoring to the song of the cricket and frog."

Correspondence, March-April 1917

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C. and from New York, N.Y. In a March letter written from New York, Hanes writes, "The labor situation in the north is frightful at present. Yesterday Mr. Chapman's superintendent came in and said one department of his mill was going to strike if he didn't raise their wages. He is paying now a great deal more than Jim is for the same class of work and he is going to have to increase even more."

Correspondence, May 1917

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C. In a 17 May 1917 letter, Hanes writes, "Tell Kennon the moving picture we took Easter has come and it is fine. His rescue of the stolen baby is worth a trip up here to see. I was very much surprised at it. I was afraid it wouldn't turn out to be anything at all but it is as good as any 'movie' you see."

Correspondence, June 1917

Letters received by Mildred Borden (later Hanes) from Robert March Hanes writing from Winston-Salem, N.C., and Washington, D.C., and Hanes's sister also writing from Winston-Salem, N.C.

Correspondence, August-September1917

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from Wachovia Bank and Trust Company and a former suitor named Chip writing from Fort William McKinley in the Philippines.

Correspondence, January-May 14, 1918

Letters from Mildred Borden Hanes to Robert March Hanes, who was a captain in the United States Army. Also included is a 23 April 1918 letter to Mildred from her brother Kennon Borden writing from Aviation School at Fort Sill, Okla. Borden writes, "I have become an expert flyer now. You ought to see me standing up on the tail of one of the ships, shooting machine guns, while sailing along at about 100 miles per hour. This is more fun than anything I have done yet."

Correspondence, May 14-July 1918

Letters from Mildred Borden Hanes to Robert March Hanes, who was a captain in the United States Army. Mildred frequently expresses her devotion to Robert.

Correspondence, 1919

Letters from Mildred Borden Hanes to Robert March Hanes, who was a captain in the United States Army. Also included is a 31 March 1919 letter to Mildred from Arthur Sack on active service in France. Sack writes, "I am 28 years of age, my best years spent at war + I have not commenced to make my way in Life. I think of a thousand plans, from farm laboring to returning to the University; but each + everyone seems impossible after the past life of thrills + dangers. I hate the thought of returning to the dull routine of civil life, yet the Army offers no prospect beyond plenty of polo [?] so I must strike out afresh."

Correspondence, January 1920

Chiefly letters of congratulations received by Mildred Borden Hanes upon the birth of her son with Robert March Hanes, Frank Borden Hanes.

Correspondence, February-June 1920

Chiefly letters of congratulations received by Mildred Borden Hanes upon the birth of her son with Robert March Hanes, Frank Borden Hanes.

Correspondence, 1921-1922

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from Robert March Hanes, her mother, and her father writing from Goldsboro, N.C.

Correspondence, 1923-1925

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from Robert March Hanes, her brother Kennon Borden, and Arthur Sack writing from the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Correspondence, 1926-1927

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from Robert March Hanes and her son Frank Borden Hanes writing from Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Also included is a letter received from S. Salem of New Bern, N.C. In his August 1926 letter, Frank writes to his mother, "I went to a weenie roast the other night and ate there and drank [Coca Cola].

Correspondence, 1928-1929

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from Robert March Hanes and J.H. Wissler writing Moncure, N.C. Also included are post cards sent from Lausanne, Switzerland.

Correspondence, 1931-1932

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from her mother, her daughter Anne, and Mrs. Floyd Pope, who writes asking for money for her daughter's surprise birthday party. In her March 1932 letter, Anne writes about the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby.

Correspondence, 1933

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from her mother, her son Frank Borden Hanes, and Ernest Johnson writing from Winston-Salem Teachers College seeking afternoon employment with Mildred Hanes. Also included is a letter dated September 1933 to Frank Borden Hanes from "Grannie."

Correspondence, 1934

Chiefly letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from her mother writing from Goldsboro, N.C. Also included is a letter dated October 1934 from Sallie A. Hanes to Robert March Hanes.

Correspondence, 1937-1939

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from her sister Julia, her sister Sara, and her father writing from Goldsboro, N.C.

Correspondence, 1942-1946

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from her sister Julia, Robert March Hanes, and J. Gerald Cowan of Asheville, N.C. Also included are two letters from Frank Borden Hanes who was serving as a reserve officer in the United States Navy to "Sweetheart" and "My Dearest." In his 1942 letter, Hanes writes, "a glaring individual dressed in the attire of a master of ceremonies seized upon me and bodily thrust me out into the area of the dance floor, pushed me into the arms of a perfectly harmless looking female, and told me to demonstrate the Lindy Hop - the band started and I began; not having the slightest idea of what came first, I proceeded to improvise new steps which the unfortunate young lady my partner failed entirely to grasp."

Correspondence, 1947

Letters and telegrams received by Mildred Borden Hanes and Robert March Hanes.

Correspondence, 1949-1952

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes and Robert March Hanes.

Correspondence, 1970-1971

Letters from Frank Borden Hanes, Jr., a first lieutenant in the United States Army serving at Hq Saigon Support Command in Vietnam to his mother and father. In a 31 October 1970 letter, he writes, "Other than hearing out-going artillery and seeing a helicopter being brought back to Long Binh after being shot down, I have seen no action...as things look now, most of the action is in Cambodia, and the retrograde of vehicles, tracks and mem continues here. We are definitely de-escalating, so I figure I got here at a good time. Thank goodness for that, for when they start putting Infantry-types in support jobs, you know that things have quieted down." In a 12 April 1971 letter, Hanes discusses the reaction in Vietnam to Lietenant William Calley's conviction for murder in the My Lai Massacre of 1968 and the massacre itself. "True, Calley's platoon was composed of individuals with little education who could build up a more than intense hatred for an enemy who up until that time had inflicted serious casualties on friendlies without so much as showing himself. This is Vietnam! A horrible civil war in which Americans have been inserted to offset the enormous force of a determined foe. No one is saying now that anything about this war has been easy, but I know men I call friends who have been through just as much as Calley and have come out with a great deal more honor than he." Also included is a letter dated 1 December 1971 to "Bob-Ed" from Louise.

Correspondence, undated

Letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes from Robert March Hanes and her son Frank Borden Hanes.

Correspondence, undated

Chiefly letters received by Mildred Borden Hanes.

Miscellaneous items, 1926-1935 and undated

Items include receipts and a 1935 bond of the Woman's Club of Winston-Salem, N.C., Incorporated.

Printed items, 1931-2002 and undated

Includes a 1931 art exhibit catalogue for the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., a 1972 issue of The Old Salem Gleaner with an article about Hohns [became Hanes] ancestry, and a 2002 program titled Glimmers in the Gloaming, a special tribute to Frank Borden Hanes, Sr.

Robert March Hanes's pocket diaries, 1943-1944

Robert March Hanes's pocket diaries, 1945-1946

Robert March Hanes's pocket diaries, 1947-1948

Robert March Hanes's pocket diaries, 1949 and 1951

Robert March Hanes's pocket diaries, 1952-1953

Robert March Hanes's pocket diaries, 1954-1955

Robert March Hanes's pocket diaries, 1956-1957

Robert March Hanes's pocket diaries, 1958-1959

Photographs of Robert March Hanes, circa 1890s-1900s

Black-and-White Photographic Prints

2 images

circa 1890s print by Tom Winston Studio, N.C.

Photographs of Robert March Hanes, circa 1910s-1920s

Black-and-White Photographic Prints

1 image

Image depicts Hanes in a military uniform.

Photographs of Robert March Hanes and Mildred Borden Hanes, circa 1940s

Black-and-White Photographic Print

1 image

Photographs of Robert March Hanes family: Mildred Borden Hanes, circa 1900s-1910s

Black-and-White Photographic Print

3 images

Images depicting Mildred Borden Hanes, wife of Robert March Hanes.

Photographs of Robert March Hanes family, circa 1949-1950

Black-and-White Photographic Prints

3 images

Includes images depicting Hanes' wife Mildred Borden Hanes, their children Frank and Sarah, and their grandchildren.

Images are in a Wachovia Bank (employee service award) desktop frame that is engraved: "R.M.H; Wachovia Thanks You; For 30 Years; Leadership"

Photographs of Robert March Hanes family: Sarah Anne Hanes Willis and family, circa 1940s

Black-and-White Photographic Prints

3 images

Includes images believed to depict Sarah Anne Hanes Willis and her family.

Photographs of Robert March Hanes family: Frank Borden Hanes, circa 1930s-1940s

Black-and-White/Color Photographic Prints

3 images

Includes image depicting Frank Borden Hanes with his father Robert March Hanes.

Photographs of Robert March Hanes family: Grandchildren (?), circa 1960s

Color Photographic Print

1 image

Photographs of Borden family: Frank K. Borden, circa 1900s-1910s

Black-and-White Photographic Prints

5 images

Images believed to depict Frank K. Borden.

Photographs of Hanes residence (?), circa 1920s-1930s

Black-and-White Photographic Print

5 images

Photographs of Hanes family: Spencer Joseph Hanes, circa 1860s

Special Format Image (Uncased daguerreotype)

1 image

Photographs of Borden family: Sallie Jones Borden, circa 1890s-1910s

Black-and-White Photographic Print

2 images

Photographs of Hunter family: Archibald N. Hunter, circa 1880s

Black-and-White Photographic Print

1 image

Photographs of Whisler family: Jake W. Whisler, circa 1890s

Black-and-White Photographic Print

1 image

Photograph of unidentified man, circa 1900s-1910s

Black-and-White Photographic Print

1 image

Photograph of unidentified woman, circa 1890s

Black-and-White Photographic Print

1 image

News clippings and other papers, 1954-1959

Birth certificate for Frank Border Hanes, 21 January 1920