Finch, Francis M. (Francis Miles), 1827-1907.
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Francis M. Finch letter : to J. L. Harrison
Collection — Manuscript box 46 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250411]
Identifier: 2262m
Scope and content
Letter from Ithaca, New York, explaining that Finch wrote the "Smoking Song" "for the boys of Psi Upsilon," and commenting on the song's fame.
Dates:
1907 April 29.
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.
Francis Miles Finch papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 433
Abstract
Legal and business documents and correspondence of Walbridge and Finch, Boardman and Finch, and Francis M. Finch; also, correspondence and accounts of the Finch family, including letters from Daniel Coit Gilman, Chauncey M. Depew, Hiram S. Sage, and others dealing with legal, personal, literary, and educational subjects. Trial testimony, instructions to the jury, and other material pertaining to the Edward H. Rulloff murder case. Also, gold Venetian ceremonial cufflink-coins presented to...
Dates:
1851-1889.
Francis Miles Finch proposal
Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065266359]
Identifier: 2-2-m.28
Scope and content
Proposal by Francis Miles Finch to assume Ezra Cornell's contracts for college lands, October 14, 1874.
Dates:
1874.