The collection contains various documents pertaining to the lives of Frederick Caldecott Slee and his wife, Alice, including music-related writings by Frederick Slee, correspondence, clippings about the Slees, documents concerning the Slee Bequest to the University of Buffalo, and concert programs. The collection contains eighteen photographs of friends and family. The majority of the family photographs are of Frederick C. Slee and his wife, Alice. There are two photographs of Slee's Sunday morning string quartet, taken in his music room, and a photograph of the Slee home at 59 Saybrook Place in Buffalo.
One of the highlights of the collection is a typewritten daily log of a sailing trip taken in 1914, by Frederick C. Slee and his friends, George T. Moseley and Louis Wright Simpson. The log includes 46 leaves, with 30 photographs taken during their three week journey. The author of this log was also the purser, Louis Wright Simpson. Frederick Slee signed on as Captain, and Mr. George Moseley was the yacht's Mate. Mr. Slee and his companions left the Buffalo Yacht Club, begining their trip on Lake Erie. The second day they traveled through the Welland Canal to Lake Ontario. Most of their time was spent sailing the northern shoreline of Lake Ontario. Many of the photographs show life aboard the Althea: hoisting the sails, cleaning up after cooking, and taking turns behind the wheel. The sailing trip commenced on July 11, 1914 and ended on August 1, 1914. The first world news they saw after twenty-one carefree days was the newspaper headline, "Germany Declares War", the beginning of World War I.
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