Scope and content
Includes board, term, livery, tailor, and other bills rendered to N.T. Sheafe during his years at Dartmouth (1831-35); a series of essays and speeches (1833-37) by Sheafe on subjects as "The Habits of Mind Cultivated by the Study of History," and "The American Revolutionary Eloquence"; a series of letters (1837) from Margarette Sheafe to her brother Nathaniel commenting on the faculty, the curriculum, examinations, and the social life at Canandaigua Academy, Ontario County, New York; papers and letters relating to a dispute over the will of Edmund Sheafe (1839); a notebook (1853-54) containing recipes for cures and remedies; and papers relating to Sheafe's appointment as a court auditor for Orleans County, Vermont (1876).
Dates
- 1813-1876.
Creator
- Sheafe, Nathaniel Tracy, 1815-1892. (Person)
- Sheafe, Margarette. (Person)
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
- Canandaigua Academy -- : Students.
- Dartmouth College -- : Students.
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Sheafe, Edmund.
- Speeches
- 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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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