Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900.

John S. Hart letters

Collection

Identifier: 4637

Scope and content Consists mainly of letters to Hart from a variety of correspondents, including school and college teachers and administrators, clergymen, and authors. Many letters provide biographical and bibliographical information on authors, including authors of religious works, for a book Hart was compiling on American literature, probably his Manual of American Literature (Philadelphia, 1873). Also included is considerable correspondence from fellow editors evaluating poems submitted to Sartain's Union...

Dates: 1834-1877.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John S. Hart letters

Letters and notes from prominent New Yorkers

Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239372]

Identifier: 161m

Scope and content

Routine letters and notes on business and social matters from prominent people who hailed from New York State, including William Henry Seward (writing to painter Jocelyn Nathaniel), Oliver Phelps, Gideon Granger (writing to Justin Ely, a former representative to the Massachusetts General Court), Antoinette L. Brown, and Moses Coit Tyler.

Dates: 1794-1897.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters and notes from prominent New Yorkers

Letters, notes, and fragments from New York State luminaries

Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243358]

Identifier: 115m

Scope and content Routine letters and notes signed by famous New Yorkers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, William Henry Seward, Russell Sage, Moses Coit Tyler, Jacob Gould Schurman, and Edward Eggleston. The letter from Stanton and one of the notes from Schurman is a fragment. Stanton's letter expresses her reaction to the tributes received on her 70th birthday. The letter from Seward (1864), written on Department of State letterhead, is addressed to Charles Sumner, Chairman of the...

Dates: circa 1851-1902.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters, notes, and fragments from New York State luminaries

Moses Coit Tyler collection

Collection — Bound manuscript 48++ (index--photocopy): [Barcode: 31924117272827]

Identifier: 14-17-2641

Abstract

Diaries, lecture notes, and commonplace books by Moses Coit Tyler, and letters to him from others.

Dates: 1779-1900-(bulk 1850-1900)

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Moses Coit Tyler collection

Moses Coit Tyler papers

Collection — Manuscript box 22 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065306999]

Identifier: 14-17-m.839

Scope and content

Letters from Tyler to Charles Mumford, August 19, 1869 and February 25, 1870; to Mr. Abbot, February 8, 1888; to Mr. Wingate, June 23, 1890; and to the American Press Company, March 30, 1898; and one manuscript sheet signed by Taylor.

Dates: 1869-1898.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Moses Coit Tyler papers

William Elliot Griffis papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 750

Scope and content Three notes to Griffis from Moses Coit Tyler concerning a review of Tyler's recently published book; one note from Professor Charles H. Hull acknowledging a note of congratulation; and photocopy of a certificate from the DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, signed by Griffis, to the Province of Friesland. Also, lecture notes, clippings, and correspondence on religions of Japan and China, circa 1883-1897, together with notes on Japanese music and modern Japan. Religions discussed...

Dates: 1883-1908.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William Elliot Griffis papers

Archives at Cornell

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