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Ellen Coit Brown Elliott and Orrin Leslie Elliott papers

 Collection — manuscript box: 13 - folder 1
Identifier: 41-5-2655

Scope and content

Reminiscences, 1953-1954, of Ellen Coit Brown, who married Orrin Leslie Elliott, include descriptions of Cornell University President Andrew Dickson White and Professor George Lincoln Burr (with whom Miss Brown worked as an assistant in President White's library after graduation), and a description of women students at Cornell, their attitudes and activities (1878-1882). Also, a small book of poems by Ellen Coit Brown Elliott; annotated volume of The Cornell Review, 1880-1881; A.D. White's Outlines of Lectures on History, with shorthand notes by O.L. Elliott; and scrapbook of O.L. Elliott, 1881-1889.

Dates

  • 1880-1954.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

. Ellen Coit Brown Elliott - Cornell University Class of 1882; Orrin Leslie Elliott - Cornell University Class of 1886.

Extent

.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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