Walter Berry papers, 1885-1927.

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Walter Berry papers, 1885-1927.

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The collection of lawyer and arts patron, Walter Berry, spans the years 1885-1927 and consists primarily of notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, postcards, and copies of some of his published works. Notebooks and scrapbooks comprise the bulk of the collection. Many are undated and written in French; those that have been dated span the years 1913 to 1927. Of note in the collection are a postcard tentatively identified as having been written by Edith Wharton, and a handwritten manuscript identified as copies of two short poems by her.

3.00 boxes.

eng,

fre,

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...

Berry, Walter, 1859-1927

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Walter Van Rensselaer Berry was born to Nathaniel and Catherine (nee Van Rensselaer) Berry in July, 1859 in Paris, France. The Berrys lived a few years in Paris, then returned to Albany, New York. Berry graduated from Harvard in 1881; he began studying law in 1883, and opened a law office specializing in international law in Washington, D.C. in 1885. From 1908 to 1911 he was a judge at the International Tribunal in Cairo, Egypt, but resigned due to poor health. From 1916 to 1923 he was president...