Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960.

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Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960.

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Correspondence includes personal and business correspondence; Berry's letters from Kenneth Roberts, E.B. White, and Allison Danzig; one letter from Major William B. Miles concerning the activities of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard; correspondence of Berry's second wife, Hester Bancroft Berry, her father, Wilder D. Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family. Writings include copy and clippings from his "Talk of the Town" columns in THE NEW YORKER; articles from the ITHACA JOURNAL and CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS; radio broadcasts; and books and pamphlets by others. Diaries and journals by Berry, Katherine Bott Bancroft, and Hester Bancroft Berry, 1943-1951; farm accounts from "Stoneposts," Jacksonville, N.Y., 1936-1938; drawings; family and other photographs; legal documents and related items referring to the Berry and Gould families; newspaper clippings relating to Professor Wilder D. Bancroft; items having Ithaca or local interest, including Lyceum Theater accounts, 1893-1923; and miscellaneous family items. Also, student scrapbook of Olive Nutting Berry at Wells College, with material about social events at Cornell University.

1.6 cubic ft.

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Cornell University Library

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Wells College

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Berry, Olive Nutting.

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Berry, Romeyn, 1881-1957

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Columnist, author, lawyer, farmer. From the description of Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934107 From the guide to the Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Columnist, lawyer, and graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. From the description of Romeyn Berry papers,[ca. 1898-1956]. (Cornell University Library)...

Cornell University

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Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957

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Novelist. From the description of Papers of Kenneth Lewis Roberts, 1919-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063732 American author specializing in the writing of richly detailed historical fiction. From the description of Papers of Kenneth Roberts, 1911-1947. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136005 American novelist, born Kennebunk, Maine, 1887. Staff correspondent for the Saturday evening post, 1919-; author of many historical novels ...

Berry family.

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Bancroft, Wilder D. (Wilder Dwight), 1867-1953

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Professor of chemistry, Cornell University. From the description of Wilder Bancroft papers, 1896-1953. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64048531 ...

Lyceum Theater (Ithaca, N.Y.)

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Berry, Hester Bancroft, 1899-1963.

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White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985

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American author and humorist E.B. White was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell. After graduation he worked on odd jobs and travelled; while working as a copywriter, he submitted some essays to the newly founded New Yorker, which led to his long-term relationship with the magazine. White is generally credited with supplying New Yorker's signature style, a clever, whimsical, and highly allusive tone; over the years he contributed everything from essays and stories to photo capt...

Bancroft, Katherine Bott.

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Danzig, Allison

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