Abstract: This collection consists of a combination of personal and public correspondence of Silvio Lanza, a New York based lawyer.
Vito (Silvio) Francis Lanza served the United States in World War I, seeing action in France. As a civilian, Lanza resided in Long Island, New York, where he acted as managing clerk in a law office. Lanza received a law degree from New York University in 1915 and passed the New York State Bar Examination in 1916.
This collection consists of a combination of personal and public correspondence and documents. Several letters are from “Bill” to “Aunt Kitty” (their relationship with Silvio Lanza is unclear), all dated 1918. The collection also contains official documents issued by the government, dated 1917-1918, the first three issues of “The Lakehurst Bomb”, a newsletter printed in 1918, and an essay written after 1945 about the effects of centrifugal force on pilots.
This collection should be cited as: Manuscript Group 1587, Silvio Lanza Papers, The New Jersey Historical Society.
Purchased by the New Jersey Historical Society in January 2003.
1 3 Letters: W. H. Cowls to Mrs. C. W. Cowls. 1918 June-Sept.