COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, journals, notebooks, scrapbooks, manuscripts, diaries, clippings, articles, sketches, and autobiographical notes pertaining to Taylor's life as a writer and traveler in North Africa, Scandinavia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Also, a watercolor landscape by Taylor acquired by Dr. Francis Harvey Green and given to William F. Rochow in 1950, with "Gems of Thought," a card with excerpts from Taylor's writings selected by Green.
Dates
- 1837-1878.
Creator
- Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes 14 and 15 are closed until processed.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Traveler, translator, writer, man of letters, non-resident professor of German literature at Cornell University.
Extent
9.2 cubic feet. (9.2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, journals, notebooks, scrapbooks, manuscripts, diaries, clippings, articles, sketches, and autobiographical notes pertaining to Taylor's life as a writer and traveler in North Africa, Scandinavia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Diaries, Newspapers, Scrapbooks
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- Various
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, December 2007
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- December 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)