Personal material

AFM's day planner with handwritten notes.   

Consists of AFM's day planner with notes, appointments, etc.   

Handwritten notes  

Includes itineraries, brochures, etc. for personal trip taken by AFM and Theresa, his wife, to Washington, DC

Also includes a story written by AFM as a child.   

Handwritten lists of individuals to whom AFM sent copies of his book The New Measures and those who sent him congratulations.

Handwritten to-do list.

Cards to AFM on the death of his mother, Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Moritz. Fall 2016.

Cards related to the death of AFM's nephew, Istvan Moritz. Summer 2016.

Handwritten notes.

AFM's daily planner with handwritten notes, appointments and ticket stubs.

AFM's daily planner with handwritten notes.

AFM's day planner with handwritten notes. Also includes programs and travel guides from his trip to Iceland where he performed at the Reykjavik International Literary Festival in September 2009.

AFM's day planner with handwritten notes.

AFM's day planner with handwritten notes.

AFM's copy of King Lear with a large amount of marginalia.

AFM's letters to his mother as found in her effects in the Fall of 2016.

AFM's monograph on foresting schools given to him by his father. Includes a handwritten note with additional explanation.

Souvenir book from a family trip to NYC, Gettysburg and Washington, DC.

Souvenirs from a family trip to Kentucky.

Photograph from the Niles Daily Times of AFM in the front row of his 2nd grade class. Also included is a handwritten note by AFM with additional description.

13 photographs of AFM as a baby with his parents and grandparents from his "Baby's Book". 

AFM's baby book from his first year, written in his mother's hand. Includes handwritten notes of milestones and gifts given, a lock of hair, and photographs of the first 6-12 months of his life. See 2017.07 4-16 for loose photographs.

Photographs showing the presentation of the Moritz Biological/Science Award to a Youngstown State First-Year Student. After AFM's father's death.

AFM's father's booklet on The Corps of Engineers, given to him by his father.

AFM's father's certification to the National Forensic League - participation. February 1935.

AFM's father's translation of the French poem/song Symphonie, sent from France to AFM's mother.

AFM's father judging a science fair, featured in the Niles Daily Times newspaper.

Leather-good boxed scholarship bookmark commemorating the loss of AFM's nephew Istvan Moritz.

AFM's father's commission into the United States Army as 1st Lieutenant, Army Engineers.

Four large comic sketches for AFM's wife Theresa Moritz and grandson Tobias Moritz.

Mementos of Pete Nutini's life and his visit to Toronto in 2012, a photo related to Nutini, correspondence and Nutini's funeral mass card.

Photographs and other items belonging to Albert Moritz Sr. Items include:

- A photo of Albert holding AFM as a baby;

- Albert's mailing address during the war, noted on a torn envelope addressed to his wife Betty;

- Albert's photo album during his service in North Africa in 1943. He was with Mark Clark's soldiers in preparation for the invasion of Southern France. Contains 31 photographs;

- A portrait of Albert drawn by a street artist in North Africa, probably in 1943 and likely in Algiers

AFM's family tree and history, from an interview with his mother Betty for the most part. Also included is Betty Moritz's collection of obituaries of family members, a handwritten list of family members and a photostat of more family tree information.

Miscellaneous family mementos. Includes photographs of AFM's sister, Rosanne, including a local newspaper clipping on her fashion sense; mementos of Rosanne's schooling; and an envelope containing a lock of Rosanne's hair kept by Betty Mortiz.

Miscellaneous family mementos. Includes a photograph of AFM as a young man; a birthday card from Betty Mortiz with a photo of AFM and his father; and a letter from AFM's father, Albert, addressed to AFM, Theresa and their son.

Miscellaneous family mementos. Includes sketches of AFM's mother, Betty Mortiz, possibly by his sister Rosanne; a sheaf of paper from Betty's participation in a school speech tournament with French practice on the back; a poem by Betty, "The Last Day", with commentary by a teacher or mentor; a family photograph; and a photograph of AFM's father, Albert, and his colleagues at the Youngstown State University Biology Department.

Invitation to the Istvan Moritz Memorial Scholarship Ceremony.

Small postcard/broadside of AFM’s former student Carleton Wilson’s Junction Sonnets II (Junction Books, 1999).

Two small fine-press booklets, reproductions of The Book of Trades, 1568, printed at Nova Dreadnaught, Bear River, Nova Scotia.

A brochure picked up in St. Mary’s parish on AFM’s trip to Niles-Warren, Ohio in August 2019.

AFM’s copy of the late Luciano Iacobelli’s artist book Open Cut, designed and produced by Deborah Barnett at Someone Editions. Edition 18/40. Signed by Barnett.

NOTE: The record is delicate and must be handled carefully.

Contains a one-of-a-kind, hand-drawn, lettered and collaged card commemorating the 1979 exhibition of AFM’s close friends, the artists and writers Susana Wald and her partner Ludwig Zeller, at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. The card was originally given to AFM’s son Blaise (nicknamed “Bob”) and signed to him as such by both Zeller and Wald. The drawing on the envelope, the collage on the card’s interior, and the lettering were created by Blaise in 2019 to commemorate the death of Zeller.

Invitations and program related to AFM’s attendance at the 2024 Convocation in which Blake Goldring received his honorary doctorate. AFM served as the Goldring named chair until his official retirement and the two became friends over the course of his tenure.

Limited-edition broadside of Canadian poet Jim Johnstone’s poem, “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” from Baseline Press.

Miscellaneous correspondence, thank-you cards, pamphlets, invitations, tickets and newsletter articles.

AFM’s annotated copy of José Ortega y Gasset’s The Revolt of the Masses.