White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Person
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Cornell University miscellaneous autograph collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070744143]
Identifier: 47-1-3692
Scope and content
Letters and documents to, from, or relating to Cornell people and subjects. Items include letter from Reuben G. Thwaites to Charles Kendall Adams, 1874; award to Cornell University from the U.S. Centennial Commission, 1877; poem, "Naenia" by Willard Fiske for Jennie McGraw Fiske; John Lyons ('83) to [A. Luzerne]? Coville, n.d.; Hiram Corson to Charlotte Porter, 1888; M. W. Stryther to Henry W. Sage, n.d.; Edward P. North to Estevan A. Fuertes; Samuel Willi Brown ('73), 1897; E. Singleton,...
Dates:
1874-1929.
Cornell University placement correspondence
Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065263869]
Identifier: 38-1-m.223
Scope and content
Collection of about 90 letters and other items addressed to or from President Andrew Dickson White or President Charles Kendall Adams concerning the placement of graduates and other, either on the staff of the University or in various other schools, September 24, 1882-June 8, 1886.
Dates:
1882-1886.
Cornell University White Administration miscellany
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203881]
Identifier: 1-2-355
Scope and content
Printed items from the early history of Cornell University, including pamphlets, newspaper articles about the University, tickets to public lectures given by faculty, and speeches. Includes a course catalog for the Cornell University Preparatory School (1878); a ticket to the University's first Commencement (July 1, 1869); President White's address to the students "in reply to certain attacks upon the institution" (May 4, 1883); early examinations in English, history, foreign languages,...
Dates:
circa 1869-1915-(bulk 1869-1883).
Eugene Frayer recommendation letter
Collection — Manuscript box 16 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065304432]
Identifier: 1-2-m.500
Scope and content
Letter of recommendation from Andrew Dickson White for Eugene Frayer, August 15, 1876.
Dates:
1876.
Francis Miles Finch letters
Collection — Manuscript box 50 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251237]
Identifier: 2547m
Scope and content
Letters to Finch from Ezra Cornell, Andrew Dickson White, and Timothy Dwight. White's letter, and Ezra Cornell's letter of 1868, accompanied friendly gifts of buttons and books that they sent to Finch. Dwight's letter (1905) contains news of classmates who have died recently, and comments on how leading universities such as Yale and Cornell have grown over the past 50 years. Ezra Cornell's letter of 1866 concerns the future of Cascadilla Place and its relation to Cornell University and...
Dates:
1866-1905.
Frank Asa Darrow miscellany
Collection — Manuscript box 63 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256640]
Identifier: 3965
Scope and content
Two letters from Andrew Dickson White to Frank A. Darrow of Orwell, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The letter dated December 19, 1870 concerns consent to Darrow's request to practice on the Cornell University chimes; the letter dated December 7, 1874 is White's affirmative reply to Darrow's readmission inquiry. Also, typescript copy of "Franklin Asa Darrow, 1849-1922, A Biographical Sketch," by John M. Parker III, 1986 and excerpts from Darrow's diary entries relating to Cornell University...
Dates:
1870-1874, 1986.
Frank Owens Smith incoming correspondence
Collection — Manuscript box 55 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252334]
Identifier: 3081
Scope and content
Letters from Andrew Dickson White (January 19, 1915), W.F. Willcox (December 15, 1914), Liberty Hyde Bailey (December 23, 1914), and Allyn A. Young (December 15, 1914), concerning the proposal that the United States cede the Alaska Panhandle to Canada.
Dates:
1914-1915.
Frederick S. Ryman papers
Collection — Manuscript box 58 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252870]
Identifier: 3365
Scope and content
Letters to Frederick Ryman from Andrew Dickson White, Will Carleton, H.E. Rounds, and Mark M. Pomeroy.
Dates:
1881-1887.
Gail and Stephen Rudin Cornelliana Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-1-4159
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...
Dates:
1848-1931.
George Morland sketch
Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065266367]
Identifier: 1-2-m.19
Scope and content
Pencil sketch of a dog drinking from a pond, and mounting board from which picture has come loose and on which Andrew D. White has written: "This sketch by George Morland (1763-1804) was given me by the late George Wansey Esq. I give it to my daughter Clara. Ithaca, Oct. 1904. A.D.W." The picture belonged to Andrew D. White. He gave it to his daughter, Clara Newberry, and she gave it to her aunt Emily Outwater. When Emily Outwater died, she left it to Mrs. John Winslow, who left it to her...
Dates:
n.d.
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