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A financial record from the United States Internal Revenue Collector's Office in Chicago, Illinois. This document includes income tax information for William A. Lee, dated September 13, 1865 and signed by the collector.

This work offers a summary of the book 'IACOCCA: An Autobiography' by Lee Iacocca with William Novak.At the age of thirty-six, Lee Iacocca was the general manager of the biggest division in the world's second largest company: Ford Motors. Later in his career, he took the Chrysler, which had 100,000 cars unsold in 1979, and turned it around: by 1983, when it showed a $925 million profit. He attributes his success to simple principles: 'I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something! Don't just stand there, make something happen.'Iacocca and Novak tell a compelling story of how Iacocca dealt with the massive challenges of the motor industry: gas prices, competition from Japanese companies, and personalities -such as Henry Ford - within the business. Crucially, though Iacocca was fired from Ford (despite it having the most successful two years in its history), he decided to take on Chrysler, even though it meant reducing his salary to $1 a year. Iacocca also sets out his financial vision for industry future in the US: he recommends more investment in students who want to go into technology investment in the national transport infrastructure, and encouraging greener energy. Lee Iacocca is a fascinating success story.

Through a comparison of Chinese and Chinese American (auto)biographical accounts, this article facilitates a transpacific literary exchange that tracks cultural persistence and diffusion, offers a transnational perspective on the alleged absence of indigenous Chinese autobiography and the controversial use of fake "Orientalist" material in Chinese American life-writing, and highlights the need for bicultural literacy in grappling with this literature. Contesting Frank Chin's categorical condemnation of autobiography (as a Western Christian contraption laden with self-hatred), I trace its manifestations in transpacific texts and the convergences in those texts: melding of autobiography and biography, salience of maternal legacies, and interdependent self-formation. Unlike the Chinese authors who lavish compliments on their forebears, however, the Chinese American authors do not scruple to disclose unseemly family secrets or to defy the boundaries between history and fiction—practices that some Asian American critics find vexing. I demonstrate that the critical qualms about Chinese American life-writing have to do with the politics of representation and that bicultural literacy can obviate cultural misreading.

Through a comparison of Chinese and Chinese American (auto)biographical accounts, this article facilitates a transpacific literary exchange that tracks cultural persistence and diffusion, offers a transnational perspective on the alleged absence of indigenous Chinese autobiography and the controversial use of fake "Orientalist" material in Chinese American life-writing, and highlights the need for bicultural literacy in grappling with this literature. Contesting Frank Chin's categorical condemnation of autobiography (as a Western Christian contraption laden with self-hatred), I trace its manifestations in transpacific texts and the convergences in those texts: melding of autobiography and biography, salience of maternal legacies, and interdependent self-formation. Unlike the Chinese authors who lavish compliments on their forebears, however, the Chinese American authors do not scruple to disclose unseemly family secrets or to defy the boundaries between history and fiction—practices that some Asian American critics find vexing. I demonstrate that the critical qualms about Chinese American life-writing have to do with the politics of representation and that bicultural literacy can obviate cultural misreading.

Wishes to place his son, William R. Lee, in the Academy.

William R. Lee asks that if Alden Partridge intends to come to Boston, to please bring his son, William Raymond Lee. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

William Lee sends his son, William Raymond Lee (1807-1891), to the Academy; discusses his course of study. ; Encloses recommendations from William R. Lee's teachers, Henry Colman and Charles W. Greene. See letter dated 4 October 1822.

This service record is an account of military actions during the American Civil War by veteran William Lee Hall, 1848-1920, dated from 1900. ; All descriptive lists and service records in this United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans manuscript collection believed to be based out of Robert E. Lee Camp #158 of the United Confederate Veterans (Fort Worth, Tex.). ; The Southwest Collection Manuscript Record can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00119/tsw-00119.html ; 1 leaf, 2 pdf pages. ; Regiment mentioned: Confederate States of America. Army. Missouri Brigade, 2nd.

William Little Lee writes that he is pleased with Alden Partridge's selection of Mr. Buck (Oel Buck?) to take his place at the school in Portsmouth, Virginia; mentions Mr. Davis and Mr. Pierce as well as Norwich University and Partridge's school in Bristol, Pennsylvania; would like to be able to call on Partridge for advice in the future. Also contains a note from William Collins who encourages Partridge to make a suitable replacement for Mr. Lee in Portsmouth. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

William Little Lee writes from Troy, New York, to Alden Partridge in Bristol, Pennsylvania, regarding the 25th anniversary celebrations to be held at Norwich, Vermont; he has heard there is some surprise among the Norwich University trustees regarding Partridge's return to establish another academy in Norwich. ; Transcription by Bernadette Ewertz. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

William Little Lee writes from Honolulu that he will pay Alden Partridge the money due him; he has decided to practice law there, rather than go to Oregon; would Partridge write him a letter of recommendation? Writes about the political situation of the "Sandwich Islands" (Hawaiian Islands) and the important role he has been entrusted with in legal matters. Includes a "confidential" postscript mentioning a fire (possibly in Norwich, Vermont?). ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Must give up his position there in August due to his health; the school there is flourishing but there is no money to erect new quarters at this time; denies being "spleeny"; pleased to read of the sword presented to Partridge by the Philadelphians.