Constance Pierrepont Noyes Robertson Papers 1837-1972

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Constance Pierrepont Noyes Robertson Papers 1837-1972

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Papers of the American novelist and author of books about the Oneida Community. Granddaughter of Oneida Community founder John Humphrey Noyes. Collection contains correspondence (1931-1972); manuscript articles and novels; research notes and drafts of articles, novels, speeches, stories; and memorabilia, including clippings, photographs, and reviews of her books. Some of the material relates to the Oneida Community and John Humphrey Noyes. Correspondence includes single letters of Carl Carmer and Alexander Wilder.

18.0 linear ft.

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Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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Oneida community

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The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in the town of Oneida in Madison County, New York. Noyes, born in Vermont in 1811, attended Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological College and received his license to preach in 1834. He formed his first utopian community in 1836 in Putney, Vermont, practicing "complex marriage" in which every male was considered married to every female. In 1847 pending arrests for adulter...

Robertson, Constance Noyes

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Constance Pierrepont Noyes Robertson (1897-1985) was an American author, related to the Noyes family who founded the Oneida Community in Oneida, New York. Constance Robertson was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario on September 27, 1897, the daughter of Pierrepont Burt and Corrina Ackley Kinsey Noyes. She was brought up in New York State where her family has long been connected with the Oneida Community, founded by her grandfather, John Humphrey Noyes in 1847. She graduated f...

Carmer, Carl, 1893-1976

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Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886

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Wilder, Alexander, 1823-1908

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Wilder was president of the Eclectic Medical College, 1867-1877, and professor of psychology, U. S. Medical College, 1878-1883. From the description of Alexander Wilder papers, 1881-1908 (bulk 1904-1908). (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14325652 Alexander Wilder was president of the Eclectic Medical College, 1867-1877, and professor of psychology, U. S. Medical College, 1878-1883. Wilder wrote History of medicine. A brief outline ...