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Margaret Terry Chanler family papers, 1815-1939 (inclusive) 1845-1939 (bulk).

Title: Margaret Terry Chanler family papers, 1815-1939 (inclusive) 1845-1939 (bulk).

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Margaret Terry Chanler and her family.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00334/catalog View

Alexander Woollcott correspondence, ca. 1856-1943 (inclusive), 1920-1943 (bulk).

Title: Alexander Woollcott correspondence, ca. 1856-1943 (inclusive), 1920-1943 (bulk).

Correspondence with the American drama critic Alexander Woollcott from authors and actors about the theater and the film industry.

ArchivalResource: 27 boxes and 11 volumes (22.5 linear ft. )

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00746/catalog View

Adams, Marian, 1843-1885,. Marian Hooper Adams photographs, ca. 1846-1885.

Title: Marian Hooper Adams photographs, ca. 1846-1885.

Three albums contain photographs taken by Marian Hooper Adams from 1883-1885. These images include formal and informal portraits of U.S. politicians, various members of the Adams and Hooper families, and family friends. Family members represented include her husband, Henry Adams, Abigail Brooks Adams, Brooks Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), Charles F. Adams (1835-1915), Charles F. Adams (1866-1954), George C. Adams, Mary Adams, Mary Ogden Adams, and Robert W. Hooper. Also represented in the portraits are George Bancroft, Rebecca Dodge, William Maxwell Evarts, John Hay, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), John La Farge, Thoedore Lyman, Francis Parkman, H.H. Richardson, and Helen Hay Whitney. The albums also include photographs of Washington, D.C., Bladensburg, Md., Old Sweet Springs, Va., and the Adams family homes in Quincy and Beverly Farms, Mass. Two boxes also contain portaits taken by others of Marian Hooper Adams as a young girl and an adult; loose duplicate photographs of the images in the albums; and slides and modern copy negatives of the duplicates. The collection includes one daguerreotype, tintypes, glass-plate negatives, and paper-based photographs.

ArchivalResource: 138 photographs in 2 boxes (1 narrow) and 3 v. in cases.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50009108 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927 (inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk).

Title: Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927(inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk).

Correspondence of the American poet, Amy Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00100/catalog View

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933. Papers, 1847-1933

Title: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson papers, 1847-1933

Papers of Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, younger sister of American president Theodore Roosevelt and wife of Douglas Robinson; a published poet and active member of the Republican party.

ArchivalResource: 64 boxes (32 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/trc00017/catalog View

Whitney, Helen Hay. Autograph letter signed : Aiken, S. C., to George S. Hellman, 1907.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Aiken, S. C., to George S. Hellman, 1907.

Refusing to sell the John Hay copy of Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (24mo) + with envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270586720 View

New Yorker records

Title: New Yorker records

Weekly magazine founded in New York City in 1925 by Harold W. Ross, Jane Grant, Alexander Woollcott and Raoul Fleischman. The records consist of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, edited and corrected manuscripts and typescripts, drawings, statistical reports, lists of story and art ideas, photographs, and sound recordings and printed materials created during the foundation and day-to-day operations of the magazine from 1924-1984. This material documents the production of every issue of the magazine and provides insight on the careers of its staff and contributors.

ArchivalResource: 1058.76 linear feet; 2566 boxes; 7 microfilm reels; 18 sound recordings

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2236 View

Whitney cookery collection, ca. 1400-1895

Title: Whitney cookery collection ca. 1400-1895

Collection consists of seventeen English and American manuscripts dating from the early 15th century to the late 19th century. In addition to cooking recipes, most of the manuscripts also contain medicinal recipes and remedies, as well as mixtures for cleaning solutions and other household items.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (17 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3318 View

Greentree Stud and Stable records, 1903-2000

Title: Greentree Stud and Stable records 1903-2000

The records document the organization and activities of Greentree Stud and Stable, a family-owned thoroughbred horse racing and breeding enterprise established by Helen Hay Whitney and Payne Whitney in the 1910s. The collection primarily consists of meeting minutes, reports, financial and legal records, correspondence, photographs, topical files, and newspaper clippings created or maintained by Greentree Stud and Stable. The records document many aspects of the organization, including its history, structure, and activities, primarily from the 1950s to its dissolution in 1994. Its horses, legal and financial activities, and dissolution are particularly well documented. The records provide a valuable resource on one of the most enduring and successful family thoroughbred racing and breeding operations in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 42 linear feet (85 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1953 View

Whitney, Helen Hay, 1875-1944,. Whitney cookery collection, ca. 1400-1895.

Title: Whitney cookery collection, ca. 1400-1895.

Collection consists of seventeen English and American manuscripts dating from the early 15th century to the late 19th century.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (17 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122431757 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View