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Includes one letter from Jacob Gould Schurman (1893) denying Miss Percy (later Mrs. Alton Winslow Leighton) permission to leave Sage College at the beginning of the spring term, and letters from Moses Coit Tyler, Samuel Gardner Williams, Oliver Farrer Emerson, Waterman Thomas Hewett, and George Lincoln Burr recommending her for a teaching position; also, photographs, programs, and other Cornelliana.

Abstract

Personal papers of Ernest Huffcut relating to his time at Cornell University. Includes publications and correspondence.

Scope and content Documentation from George Conger's student days at Cornell (1903-1907); Union Theological Seminary; Columbia University; Paris, France; and Berlin, Jena, and Marburg, Germany includes scrapbooks; letters from George L. Burr, Lane Cooper, Charles Ezra Cornell, Mary E. Cornell, Ralph Catterall, Charles E. Courtney, James Crafts, Edward E. Hale, Jane L. Hardy, W. T. Hewett, Nathaniel Schmidt, Albert W. Smith, Goldwin Smith, Charles M. Tyler, Glenn Warner, Andrew D. White, and Burt G. Wilder,...

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Letters to Hewett, and reports, notes, and drafts of articles by him, including many letters from Andrew Dickson White, and regular reports by Hewett to Cornell President Jacob Gould Schurman on the activities of the German Department. Correspondents besides White and Schurman include Charles S. Francis, Hiram Corson, and William Elliot Griffis.