1674-1 Charles E. Nash • NEWSPAPERS
A DIVISION OF COX ENTERPRISES,INC.
14520 Southwest 79th Court
MIAMI. FLORIDA 33158
HOWARD KLEINBERG TEL:(305)235-1130
NATIONAL COLUMNIST FAX (305)233-0522
Aug. 19, 1992
Mrs. Charles Edgar Nash
Route 3 Box 87
Centerville, MD 21617
Dear Mrs. Nash,
Thank you for speaking with me on the telephone
the other day. I am the fellow who is doing the
history book on Miami Beach. I also am the former
editor of The Miami News, a wonderful newspaper
that went out of business in 1988. Presently, I
write a national column for Cox newspapers and a
Miami-area history column for The Miami Herald. I
also put out in book form an anthology of history
pieces I did for The Miami News -- a copy of which
I am sending you under separate cover.
As I told you on the phone, the work of your late
husband is critical to the history of Miami Beach
for it appears that all subsequent historians got
their early Miami Beach information from his book.
Unfortunately, Mr. Nash did not use footnotes,
bibliography or acknowledgements; thus the primary
source of much of his writing on the Lums, Osborns
and Fields is unknown.
I have been speaking with John Bailey Lloyd at the
Ocean City Library in New Jersey because he has in
his possession much of the material Mr. Nash used
for his history of Long Branch. Also there are
other materials but, mysteriously, nothing of his
work on the Miami Beach book.
Mr. Lloyd says Mr. Nash was meticulous about
keeping his correspondence which would lead me to
believe that he did same with the Miami Beach
material -- particularly the letters from Effie
Lum which I am beginning to conclude was the
Atlanta Constitution and Journal • Austin American-Statesman • Chandler Arizonan • Dayo . r.y News • Gilbert Tribune
Grand Junction Daly Sentinel • Longview News-Journal • Lufkin Daily News• Mesa Tribune • Nacogdoches Daly Sentinel • Palm Beach Daily News
Palm Beach Post • Springfield News-Sun • Tempe Daily News • Waco Tribune-Herald • Yuma Daily Sun
primary source basis for the early Beach history.
Forgive me for not knowing, Mrs. Nash, but did you
and your husband have children to whom he might •
have passed on this material? Or perhaps a brother
or sister? It would be a pity if this material has
been lost forever because it not only represents a
rich part of our history but also contains the
only evidence in support of what Mr. Nash wrote in
the book.
If you have any idea of whether this material
still exists -- or if you know for certain that it
absolutely has been destroyed -- I would
appreciate hearing from you. In the meantime, I
thank you for your attentiveness and wish you the
best.
Sincerely,
Howard Kleinberg