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,...

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A dismantled scrapbook of correspondence and Cornelliana, including clippings, official notices, pictures, and programs; texts, syllabi and notes by Knowlton on European History taught by Henry Morse Stephens and George Lincoln Burr, English History in India by Stephens, American History by Moses Coit Tyler, and International Law by Ernest W. Huffcutt; photographs and an expense book.

Abstract Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...