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Annotated correspondence with John Spencer; letters from Anna Botsford Comstock to Clara Keopka; recollections by Clara Trump of Spencer and the Comstocks; correspondence with the Cornell Alumni News about Spencer and the Comstocks; and publications, notes, and articles relating to the history of Westfield, N.Y. and the First Presbyterian Church of Westfield.

Abstract Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and illustrative material pertaining to books published by the Cornell University Press and the Comstock Publishing Company; correspondence pertaining to a merger of the Nature Study Review and Nature Magazine; and correspondence pertaining to John W. ("Uncle John") Spencer's stories and letters for children on nature study and rural life; correspondents include Anna Botsford Comstock, Mary Eleanor Davis, Paul S. Galtsoff, Albert H. Hartzell, Frank E....

Abstract

Correspondence, printed matter, and photographs concerning efforts to obtain funds from the state legislature for the construction of agricultural college buildings at Cornell University. The principal correspondents are Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Craig, George Malby, Isaac Phillips Roberts, Jacob Gould Schurman, John Spencer, Edwin Stewart, John Lemuel Stone, Henry Hiram Wing, and Daniel Parrish Witter.