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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.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00038/catalog View

Mark Tobey papers

Title: Mark Tobey papers

Biographical material; correspondence; financial records; Baha'i material; music; writings; art works; printed material; and photographs.

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Willard Dickerman Straight papers, 1825-1925

Title: Willard Dickerman Straight papers

Microfilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09).

ArchivalResource: 28.6 cubic ft.

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM01260.xml View

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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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM03782.xml View

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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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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074695 View

Van Volkenburg Browne, Ellen, b. 1882. Autograph letters signed (48) and telegram : Seattle, Los Angeles, Victoria (British Columbia), Florence, New York, Windsor (Vermont), West Brooksville (Maine), Totnes (Devon), to Edward Wagenknecht, 1933-1973 and [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letters signed (48) and telegram : Seattle, Los Angeles, Victoria (British Columbia), Florence, New York, Windsor (Vermont), West Brooksville (Maine), Totnes (Devon), to Edward Wagenknecht, 1933-1973 and [n.d.].

Discussing productions of Iphigenia (1934) and Eastward in Eden (1947), which she directed; declining to write a memoir about the Chicago Little Theater; mentioning the actresses Beatrice Straight, Margaret Rawlings, and Dorothy Tutin; thanking him for sending various books; commenting on his work on Longfellow; saying she found Claire Bloom "vocally monotonous and not yet of genuine tragic stature" in Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1954); reporting Nellie C. Cornish's death and asking him to rework her autobiographical account of the Cornish School; explaining why she moved from the Barbizon Plaza to the Hotel Laurelton (later the Laurelton-Wellington Hotel); complimenting Michael Whitney Straight's novel Carrington (1960); remembering hearing Paul Robeson in Othello; thanking him for dedicating his book on Chicago to her; noting that she is sorting her papers and Maurice Browne's for the theater collection at the University of Michigan; regretting Geraldine Farrar's death; appreciating his Merely Players (1966); regretting Nixon's election in 1968; reporting Dorothy Elmhirst's death. Many signed "Nellie Van."

ArchivalResource: 49 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270867539 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63944154 View

Swanberg, W. A., 1907-. W. A. Swanberg Papers, ca.1927-1992.

Title: W. A. Swanberg Papers, ca.1927-1992.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, memoranda, notebooks, notecards, proofs, photographs, microfilms, and printed materials. The Papers include the manuscript research materials and correspondence for each of his books except his biography of Theodore Dreiser. Among the correspondents are William Benton, Bruce Catton, Carey McWilliams, Mrs. Fremont Older, and Thornton Wilder.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear ft. (ca.20,300 items in 77 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435637930 View

Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney, 1887-1968. Radiogram, 1936 Dec. 26, Totnes [Eng.] to [Ellen] Ven[!] Volkenburg, New York.

Title: Radiogram, 1936 Dec. 26, Totnes [Eng.] to [Ellen] Ven[!] Volkenburg, New York.

Sends thanks for gifts and season's greetings.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Typescript signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34365219 View

Delano & Aldrich. Porch & bathroom for Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst, Esq., Westbury, L.I. [graphic] / Delano & Aldrich.

Title: Porch & bathroom for Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst, Esq., Westbury, L.I. [graphic] / Delano & Aldrich. 1930-1931.

ArchivalResource: 12 sheets : various media ; 104.7 x 72.5 cm. (41 1/8 x 28 1/2 in.) or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80407591 View

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.

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMA00022.html View

Willard Dickerman Straight papers, 1825-1925

Title: Willard Dickerman Straight papers

Microfilmed papers of Willard D. Straight consist of personal and official correspondence, both original and typescript copies, and reports chiefly concerning his association with the Chinese Imperial Customs Service (1902-04). Documented is his employment with Reuters during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05); with the United States Department of State in Korea and Manchuria (1904-09); and with Edward H. Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan and Company (1904-09).

ArchivalResource: 28.6 cubic ft.

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM01260.xml View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64071632 View

Bogue, Anna. Correspondence to Doris Humphrey, 1933-1941. 3 folders (12 items).

Title: Correspondence to Doris Humphrey, 1933-1941. 3 folders (12 items).

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122467805 View

David W. Stewart Papers, 1980-1987

Title: David W. Stewart Papers 1980-1987

Papers relating to Stewart's book on Eduard Lindeman, educator and social philosopher. Includes interviews, correspondence, notes, drafts, photocopies of many of Lindeman's papers from Columbia University

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft.

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Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796447 View

Family papers, 1853-1954.

Title: Family papers, 1853-1954.

Family papers of Corinne Douglas (Robinson) Alsop Cole, daughter of Douglas Robinson and Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, younger sister of American president Theodore Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/trc00018/catalog View

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project. Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project interview transcripts, 1971-1976.

Title: Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project interview transcripts, 1971-1976.

Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Karolyn Gould for a project concerning Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst; includes interviews with Roger Baldwin, Bruce Bliven, Frances Bolton, Ellen von Voltenberg Brown, George Cushman, Josephine Whitney Duveneck, Leonard Elmhirst, Milton Rose, Frances Tower Thatcher, and notes concerning Whitney Park. Also, proposals, correspondence, and draft chapters for a biography of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63939257 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072903 View

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

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM03725.xml View

Straight, Willard Dickerman, 1880-1918. Willard Straight papers at Cornell University, 1857-1925 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Willard Straight papers at Cornell University, 1857-1925 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers consist of personal and official correspondence, reports, diaries, writings, memoranda, and family papers of Willard D. Straight, American diplomat and financier, relating chiefly to his activities in the Far East and to his service during World War I. There are also many papers of Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight following the death of her husband.

ArchivalResource: 12 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122501465 View