Box 3

Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: Series II contains letters, telegrams, and greeting cards from, to, and between Johnny and Ginger Mercer and their friends and relatives. Major topics include Ginger Mercer's stage career and beaux in the 1920s, when she performed under the stage name "Ginger Meehan"; the courtship of Johnny Mercer and Ginger Meehan; Johnny Mercer's career; Mercer's repayment, in 1955, of a large debt remaining from the failure of his father's business in 1927; and Mercer's final illness and death...