Scope and content Letters and documents from and to Ezra Cornell relating to the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira Railroad, to Douglass Boardman regarding the telegraph business, from Thomas Rooker about an "acoustic telegraph," and from Conrad Milton about a "percussion shell." Letters from Andrew Dickson White to. W. C. Crane about the possible purchase of a newspaper for the Library and to Abner I. Phipps doubting a visit to New England. A manuscript written by Jacob Gould Schurman for an anthology to be produced...

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Programs of plays and concerts, clippings, class and stunt items, the New York Association of Cornell University by-laws and Constitution, with a list of member officers, a report by John Dewitt Warner, a reprint of an address by President Andrew Dickson White in answer to the report, a letter, apparently to Schenck from Warner regarding the report, the angry reactions which resulted, and other trustee business. Also, some sketches and genealogical records.

Scope and content Includes a letter (Syracuse, 1910) to Effie Dallas Morse (Mrs. Virgil D. Morse) from Ellen M. Mitchell; a typescript copy of a letter (Copenhagen, 1915) to Mrs. Morse from her son, Robert V. Morse (Cornell University Class of 1911, LL.B. 1915) concerning the anti-American attitude in Germany; a letter (Albany, 1930) from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to Virgil D. Morse expressing his regrets at being unable to attend the opening of the Ithaca Reconstruction Home; a scrapbook (1903-1909) of...