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Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, records, 1899-1921

Title: Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, records 1899-1921

The records contain the official correspondence of Arthur Twining Hadley during his tenure as president of Yale University. The papers document the rapid change and expansion which occurred at Yale during Hadley's presidency. The incoming correspondence contains letters with members of the Yale faculty and administration; requests for personal appearances and speeches and articles; inquiries from educational administrators; and correspondence with alumni relating to fund-raising and class reunions. The outgoing correspondence, in letterbook form, consists of carbon copies of Hadley's official outgoing correspondence from 1899 to 1921. Also included are subject files relating to ROTC and other military training programs; acceptances and regrets to invitations to Hadley's inauguration; newspaper clippings relating to Hadley's activities; copies of three addresses by Hadley; a notebook kept by one of Hadley's students in Economics 20 (1894-1895); Hadley's office appointment books (1900-1920); and two photograph albums.

ArchivalResource: 51.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ru.0025 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

Speer, Emory. Emory Speer letter, 1897.

Title: Emory Speer letter, 1897.

The collection consists of a letter from Judge Emory Speer to William H. Baldwin. The letter talks about the "little volume" which refers to Lectures on the Constitution of the United States before the Law Class of Mercer University, 1897. The second letter is from Hon. Edward J. Phelps of Yale to Judge Speer, Jan. 16, 1898.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (0.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276229213 View

Sutlive, John Laffiteau, 1899-1979. John Laffiteau Sutlive papers, 1959-1971.

Title: John Laffiteau Sutlive papers, 1959-1971.

This collection consists of photocopies of papers written by John L. Sutlive and read before the Cosmos Club in Savannah, 1959-1971. Subject include Pleasant A. Stovall and William G. Sutlive, society in Savannah as reported in the Savannah Evening Press, Rebecca Latimer Felton and Gen. John B. Gordon, the Congressional inquiry of Judge Emory Speer, society in Savannah as reported by Harriet Ross Colquitt, the last chapter of the Alvah Chapman-Mills Lane partnership in Savannah newspapers, reflections of books on Georgia, and Georgia politics. The original papers remained in his possession. The collection is arranged alphabetically by title.

ArchivalResource: 9 folders (.20 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/163567228 View