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Newman, Jared T. (Jared Treman), 1855-1937. Jared Treman Newman papers, 1803-1953, 1803-1937 (bulk).

Title: Jared Treman Newman papers, 1803-1953, 1803-1937 (bulk).

Papers include correspondence, legal documents, reports, accounts, blueprints, maps, clippings, and printed material dealing primarily with the interest of Newman and Charles H. Blood in the development of Cayuga Heights, but also with Renwick Heights and Bryant Park, Ithaca, New York; minutes of the organizational meeting of the Cayuga Heights Land Corporation, 1928. Also, letters and papers concerning banking institutions in Ithaca and elsewhere; real estate in South Dakota, Illinois, and Florida; other business concerns; the expansion and promotion of the New York State Barge Canal system; the affairs of Cascadilla School, Ithaca; alumni activities of the Cornell Class of 1875; manuscript and printed matter concerning the Ithaca Presbyterian Church, the Cornell University Christian Association, and Cornell United Religious Work; letter to Professor Floyd K. Richtmyer concerning his views of a proposed school of religion at Cornell; Newman's appointment as special lecturer in the Cornell Law School, 1897-1899; and his terms of service as a Trustee, including an Alumni Trustee Report, 1898. Also, correspondence with Wilmot Moses Smith, 1875; William Ozmun Wyckoff, 1891, concerning his interest in a Tompkins County, New York judgeship; a letter from Eugene Frayer concerning Cornell President Charles Kendall Adams; letters from George Lincoln Burr, Hiram Corson, Mina Miller Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Leonard Knight Elmhirst, Livingston Farrand, and Harry Emerson Fosdick.

ArchivalResource: 23.2 cubic ft.

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Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences, undated.

Title: Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences, undated.

Recollections (13 pp. typescript) based on dictation that Cornelius Betten, dean of the Cornell University faculty (1932-45), gave to Mrs. Argetsinger while she was his secretary or on statements that he made following their marriage.

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Carl E. Ladd papers, 1932-1943.

Title: Carl E. Ladd papers, 1932-1943.

Includes curricula, budgets, printed material, clippings, and memoranda and correspondence with Cornell faculty and administrators, students, county extension agents, agricultural club leaders, farmers, publishers, state and federal agricultural agencies, credit associations, and state and national politicians. Subjects include administration of the College of Agriculture; appointments, promotions, and resignations of faculty and administrators; Farm and Home Week at Cornell; construction of the Arboretum; the Bailey Hortorium; the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities; the Farm Credit Administration; GLF; USDA Extension Service; Dartington Hall and the South Devon cattle; the Emergency Food Commission; farm labor during World War II, wartime agricultural production, and wartime student enrollment; the "Farm Forum" broadcast on WGY; rural electrification, Dutch elm disease, and rural education. Major correspondents include Charles Poletti, Herbert H. Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Howard E. Babcock, Henry A. Wallace, Flora Rose, Edward Eastman, Leonard K. Elmhirst, and the Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York.

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George Lincoln Burr papers

Title: George Lincoln Burr papers

Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in the American Historical Association, the Cornell Alumni Association, the Cornell Christian Association, the Hall of Fame at New York University, the Telluride Association, and in many other social and professional groups. Correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Charles Kendall Adams, Roland H. Bainton, Carl Becker, Henry Bourne, James Bryce, John Burroughs, Anna and Henry Comstock, Reverend Robert Collyer, Leonard K. Elmhirst, Livingston Farrand, Max Farrand, Simon Henry Gage, Daniel Coit Gilman, Louis Gottschalk, Evarts B. Greene, Charles Gross, George Willam Harris, Albert Bushnell Hart, Charles Haskins, Ernest Huffcut, Charles Henry Hull, Edward M. Hulme, J. Franklin Jameson (mainly having to do with the AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW), David Starr Jordan (extensive, quite impersonal), Louis C. Karpinski, Horace Kephart, Waldo G. Leland, John Bassett Moore, John R. Mott, David Saville Muzzey, Wallace Notestein, Cuthbert Pound, Herbert Putnam (Library of Congress), Jacob Gould Schurman, George H. Sabine, Goldwin Smith, Preserved Smith, H. Morse Stephens, Dorothy and Willard Straight, Alfred and Ernest Sze, Ida Tarbell, Frederick Jackson Turner, Moses Coit Tyler, Hendrik Willem Van Loon (extensive and intimate), Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Frederick White, Burt G. Wilder, and many others. Letter, 1903, from Andrew Dickson White about his trip to Elba, with comments about Napoleon I, and fourteen postcards, some annotated, of scenes of Elba.

ArchivalResource: 16.9 cubic ft.

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Straight, Michael Whitney. Michael Whitney Straight papers, 1931-2002.

Title: Michael Whitney Straight papers, 1931-2002.

Loose-leaf volumes of letters to Michael Straight, 1931-1968; letters of Leonard K. Elmhirst, 1935-1973; letters of Margaret Barr; letters relating to Cambridge University, including the Cambridge University Union Society, H. J. Laski, the Totnes Labour Party, the Apostles, the South African Grand Prix, academics, Gerald Heard, and Teresa Major; letters of John Cornford; letters from Herta Thiele; correspondence with Belinda Crompton; papers relating to work in Washington, 1938-1943, including the Committee for Democratic Defense, the Fight for Freedom Rally, the Foreign Correspondents Dinner, the Economic Policy Club, and the Mont Tremblant Conference (organized by the Institute of Pacific Relations); papers relating to the American Veterans Committee; papers relating to the American section of Amnesty; miscellaneous correspondence; papers relating to the American Dance Theatre, 1965-1967; papers relating to Cornell University; items relating to research on Caravaggio; files on paintings and painters, including Rico Lebrun, Giorgione, Melzi, and Samuel Morse; files relating to the National Endowment for the Arts; FBI files requested under the Freedom of Information Act; clippings and letters relating to Anthony Blunt, papers relating to Straight's book After Long Silence; and files relating to Nancy Hanks (NEA). Also, notes for his novel CARRINGTON; copy of play "Caravaggio," typescripts on Anthony Blunt and notes on The Haunted Wood, 2002.

ArchivalResource: 21 cubic ft.

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Betten, Beatrice Argetsinger. Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences, undated.

Title: Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences, undated.

Recollections (13 pp. typescript) based on dictation that Cornelius Betten, dean of the Cornell University faculty (1932-45), gave to Mrs. Argetsinger while she was his secretary or on statements that he made following their marriage, describing how hotelman John McFarlane Howie, Howard B. Meeks, Betten, professors of home economics Beulah Blackmore, Flora Rose, and Martha Van Rensselaer, and others contributed to the establishment of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell; how financial problems of the Cornell Cosmopolitan Club and Leonard Elmhirst's friendship with Dorothy Straight led to the founding of Willard Straight Hall; and how President Edmund Ezra Day was unsuccessful in an attempt to abolish the hygiene requirement at Cornell. Also, several anecdotes concerning the entomological research of Betten and Professor James Needham and the friendship of the two men.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney Straight, 1887-1968. Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers, 1887-1978, 1887-1926 (bulk).

Title: Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers, 1887-1978, 1887-1926 (bulk).

Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight, whom she married in 1911, dealing with their courtship, and with World War I while he was stationed in France, 1917-1918; letters from friends concerning social engagements and activities in New York State and Washington, D.C.; letters from her brothers, her sister-in-law Gertrude V. Whitney, and various nieces and nephews. Also notebooks from her school days, guardianship papers, newspaper clippings concerning her father's death, guest books and photographs documenting her early life; correspondence, newspaper clippings, and certificates documenting her civic activities; inventory (l volume) and miscellany concerning the house at 1130 Fifth Avenue; communications concerning Willard D. Straight's death and funeral arrangements in Paris, his will and photographs; correspondence about the building of Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University, and correspondence and statements concerning THE NEW REPUBLIC and ASIA magazines. Major correspondents include Beatrice Bend (later Mrs. Henry Prather Fletcher), Katharine L. Barney (later Mrs. Courtlandt D. Barnes), Maurice Casenave, Herbert and Louise Croly, James Curtis, Henry P. Davison, William A. Delano, Richard Derby, Margaret (Myra) G. Dix (later Mrs. Charles Lawrance), Martin Egan, Alfred W. Fiedler, Henry Prather Fletcher, Florence (Daisy) Jaffray Harriman, Louise (Tottie) R. Knowlton (later Mrs. Buell Hollister), and George D. Marvin. Also, William and Caroline D. Phillips, Ethel C. Roosevelt (later Mrs. Richard Derby), Susan R. Sedgwick (widow of Arthur Swann, later Mrs. Paul L. Hammond), Hazel Straight (later Mrs. James Forest Sanborn), Eliza Morgan Swift, May Tuckerman (later Mrs. Hermann Kinnicutt), Pauline P. Whitney (later Mrs. Almeric H. Paget), Anna L.B. Williams, and Gladys M. Vanderbilt (later Countess Szechenyi), A. Piatt Andrew, J. Howland Auchincloss, Robert and Martha W. Bacon and their son Robert Low Bacon, Frances P.B. Bolton, William J. Calhoun, Wilbur R. Chenoweth, Winston Churchill, Ellen Straight Cross, Richard Harding Davis, Charles D. Draper, Lord Charles French, John Foord, Mary Harriman (later Mrs. Charles C. Rumsey), Herbert C. Hoover, Colonel Edward M. House, Delancey K. Jay, Walter Lippmann, Charles Merz, Ruth Morgan, Annah D. Ripley (later Countess de Viel Castel), Alice L. Roosevelt (later Mrs. Nicholas Longworth), Corinne Roosevelt (later Mrs. Douglas Robinson), Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Lillian Wald, Lloyd Warren, William Fitz Hugh (Sheldon) Whitehouse, and Stark Young. Also one leather-bound writing set containing paper, pencil, and pen; marked in gold letters: "D. W. June 1910" (Dorothy Whitney).

ArchivalResource: 10 cubic ft.

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Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers, 1887-1978, 1887-1926 (bulk)

Title: Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers, 1887-1978, 1887-1926 (bulk)

Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends and relatives. Also materials on civic activities, correspondence on Willard Straight Hall, and correspondence on and magazines. The New Republic Asia

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Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974. Leonard K. Elmhirst reminiscence, 1920.

Title: Leonard K. Elmhirst reminiscence, 1920.

32 page reminiscence by Leonard Knight Elmhirst.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Victoria Ocampo papers, 1908-1979.

Title: Victoria Ocampo papers, 1908-1979.

Papers of Victoria Ocampo (d.1979), the Argentine writer, translator, publisher,feminist, and founder of the review Sur.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (11.3 linear ft.)

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Jared Treman Newman papers, 1803-1953, 1803-1937 (bulk)

Title: Jared Treman Newman papers, 1803-1953, 1803-1937 (bulk)

Jared Treman Newman was an Ithaca, New York attorney, 1893-1896, and mayor, 1907-1908; Cornell University Trustee, 1895-1903 and 1907-1933; and a bank official.

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Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall, 1890-1976, 1920-1958 (bulk)

Title: Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall, 1890-1976, 1920-1958 (bulk)

Includes photocopies of correspondence with Margaret Isherwood, Eloise Elmhirst Sharman, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne and correspondence concerning Willard Straight Hall (1920-1967); also lecture notes, notes about lectures taught at Dartington Hall, notebooks, diaries and travel journals; contains originals of letters by Ruth Morgan (1926-1933), Margaret and Helen Isherwood (1932-1968), Susan Sedgwick Hammond (1940-1968), Louise E. Croly (1926-1940) and letters by Dorothy and Leonard to Margaret and Helen Isherwood, Nancy Green, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne, and Gilbert Harrison; also included are notes by E.A. Stettner, the transcriber of the Croly correspondence, an inventory for the records room at Dartington Hall and a diary (n.d.) describing World War I by an unknown author. Also, microfilmed correspondence between Leonard K. Elmhirst and DorothyWhitney Straight (1920-1925) discussing travels, love and their subsequent marriage; correspondence (1932-1935) discussing psychology, sociology, Dartington Hall, education, religion and literature between Henry F. Heard, Gerald Heard, Margaret Isherwood and Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst; her diaries (1927-1928), clippings, social appointments, notes and addresses. Also, clippings concerning events at Dartington Hall (ca.1926-1949), and photographs of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst's penthouse on Park Avenue (ca.1928).

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Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney Straight, 1887-1968. Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall, 1890-1976, 1920-1958 (bulk).

Title: Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall, 1890-1976, 1920-1958 (bulk).

Includes photocopies of correspondence with Margaret Isherwood, Eloise Elmhirst Sharman, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne and correspondence concerning Willard Straight Hall (1920-1967); also lecture notes, notes about lectures taught at Dartington Hall, notebooks, diaries and travel journals; contains originals of letters by Ruth Morgan (1926-1933), Margaret and Helen Isherwood (1932-1968), Susan Sedgwick Hammond (1940-1968), Louise E. Croly (1926-1940) and letters by Dorothy and Leonard to Margaret and Helen Isherwood, Nancy Green, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne, and Gilbert Harrison; also included are notes by E.A. Stettner, the transcriber of the Croly correspondence, an inventory for the records room at Dartington Hall and a diary (n.d.) describing World War I by an unknown author. Also, microfilmed correspondence between Leonard K. Elmhirst and Dorothy Whitney Straight (1920-1925) discussing travels, love and their subsequent marriage; correspondence (1932-1935) discussing psychology, sociology, Dartington Hall, education, religion and literature between Henry F. Heard, Gerald Heard, Margaret Isherwood and Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst; her diaries (1927-1928), clippings, social appointments, notes and addresses. Also, clippings concerning events at Dartington Hall (ca.1926-1949), and photographs of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst's penthouse on Park Avenue (ca.1928).

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft.

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