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Burt Green Wilder papers, 1841-1925

Title: Burt Green Wilder papers, 1841-1925

Diaries; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, Wilder's career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War; activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both during and after the war, Negro troops, his training under Louis Agassiz, Asa Gray, and Jeffries Wyman, and his career as a professor at Cornell University.

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Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925. Burt Green Wilder papers, 1841-1925.

Title: Burt Green Wilder papers, 1841-1925.

Includes diaries, 1866-1920; notes and charts pertaining to family genealogy; a copy of Professor Wilder's will; clippings concerning vivisection; correspondence, photographs, and printed material pertaining to spiders, phrenology, hygiene and education, writing music, Nantucket Island, the Field family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., temperance, natural history, his career as a medical cadet and military surgeon during the Civil War, activities of members of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry both during and after the war, Negro troops, Wilder's training under Louis Agassiz, Asa Gray, and Jeffries Wyman, and his career as a professor at Cornell University, 1867-1910, the WILDER QUARTER CENTURY BOOK, the Wilder Brain Collection, and the Department of Zoology at Cornell; and notebooks, pictures, and other materials relating to Louis Agassiz. Correspondents include J.F.A. Adams, Elizabeth Agassiz, Harrison Allen, Arthur Bean, Robert Bean, George L. Burr, Andrew Carnegie, John Codman, Anna B. Comstock, John H. Comstock, Eugene Corson, Hiram Corson, George W. Curtis, Margaret Deland, Alice Drew, Charles W. Eliot, Simon Henry Gage, C.L. Herrick, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Holt, William Dean Howells, G.M. Humphey, T.H. Huxley, David Starr Jordan, John Harvey Kellogg, D.S. Lamb, Charles Minot, Hugh D. Reed, Jacob G. Schurman, Louis Livingston Seaman, Goldwin Smith, Edward A. Spitzka, Henry Van Dyke, and Jeffries Wyman. Also a recommendation letter from Alexander Graham Bell. Also includes pamphlets compiled by Wilder: "Health Notes for Students" and "Hygiene and Morality" for distribution to students at Cornell; and "Last Night" sheet music by Wilder.

ArchivalResource: 6.8 cubic ft.

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Eugene Rollin Corson family papers, 1858-1948.

Title: Eugene Rollin Corson family papers, 1858-1948.

This collection consists of publications of Eugene R. Corson, Eugene R. Corson, Jr.'s diary from a family trip to France in 1913, letters from Harry Hervey to Pauline Corson Coad, photographs, and four volumes of gynecological and obstetrical notes from Corson's medical practice (1882-1920). Also included is a biography of Corson written by E.H. Skinner and photocopies of Corson's obituaries. Also included are three photographs, one depicting Dr. Eugene R. Corson and two depicting unidentified subjects. The folder containing photographs is noted as "VM" (visual materials) in the collection inventory.

ArchivalResource: 1 box, 4 volumes, 1 folder (1.05 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38728044 View

Eugene Rollin Corson family papers, 1858-1948.

Title: Eugene Rollin Corson family papers, 1858-1948.

This collection consists of publications of Eugene R. Corson, Eugene R. Corson, Jr.'s diary from a family trip to France in 1913, letters from Harry Hervey to Pauline Corson Coad, photographs, and four volumes of gynecological and obstetrical notes from Corson's medical practice (1882-1920). Also included is a biography of Corson written by E.H. Skinner and photocopies of Corson's obituaries. Also included are three photographs, one depicting Dr. Eugene R. Corson and two depicting unidentified subjects. The folder containing photographs is noted as "VM" (visual materials) in the collection inventory.

ArchivalResource: 1 box, 4 volumes, 1 folder (1.05 cubic feet)

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Corson, Hiram, 1828-1911. Hiram Corson papers, 1842-1956.

Title: Hiram Corson papers, 1842-1956.

Thirty scrapbooks containing letters, clippings, photographs, and printed materials relating to Corson's travels, life, and career; correspondence exchanged between Corson and colleagues on Shakespeare, Chaucer, Tennyson, Browning, and other figures of English literature; reviews of books and articles by Corson and other scholars; announcements, programs, letters, notes, and reviews pertaining to Corson's activities as public lecturer and reader; letters from friends and family members dealing chiefly with personal matters: health, progress of career, daily activities; one scrapbook devoted to spiritualism, including letters from and about Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, co-founder of the American Theosophical Society. Unbound material includes large numbers of family letters with extensive comments on the early days of Cornell University and life in Ithaca, New York, accounts of the travels of Corson, his wife, Caroline, and their son Eugene, their daily work and activities; clippings, pamphlets, reprints of articles relating to Corson's work in the field of English literature and that of his son in medicine; drafts of lectures and articles; anatomical, physiological, and surgical drawings; photographs; a syllabus; and miscellaneous books. Also, a tape recorded interview with Signe Sjoegren conducted by Gould P. Colman concerning the activities of Corson during the last seven years of his life. Correspondents include Louise Andrews, Matthew Arnold, Henry Ward Beecher, Madame Blavatsky, Edwin Booth, Robert Browning, Francis James Child, Mary Cowden Clarke, George William Curtis, Edward Everett, Willard Fiske, Jessie Fothergill, Horace Howard Furness, Frederick J. Furnivall, Daniel Coit Gilman, Samuel Stehman Haldeman, Edward Everett Hale, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, William James, Pierre Janet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John M. D. Meiklejohn, J. Parker Norris, Goldwin Smith, Andrew D. White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 4.8 cubic ft.

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