Amelia and Eliza May letters
Collection — manuscript box: 10 - folder 1
Identifier: 1417
Scope and content
Letters chiefly to Mrs. Amelia Stoddard May of Newport (Herkimer County), N.Y. and her daughter Eliza, from relatives in Connecticut including Mrs. May's father Ebenezer Stoddard, Sr. comment on the Spring legislative session in Connecticut (1836) and the decline of the Whig Party, expansion of shoe manufacturing in New England, family matters and neighbors in Woodstock, Conn. In addition, one letter from a school friend in Warsaw (Wyoming County), N.Y., discusses the local dance school, harvest work, and the coming of the circus.
Dates
- 1836-1854.
Creator
- May, Amelia Stoddard. (Person)
Extent
6 items. (6 items.)
Language of Materials
English
- Circus -- New York (State) -- Warsaw.
- Connecticut. Legislature
- Families -- Connecticut -- Woodstock.
- Families -- New York (State) -- Herkimer County
- May, Eliza.
- Shoe industry -- New England.
- Stoddard, Ebenezer, Sr.
- Warsaw (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Whig Party (U.S.)
- Woodstock (Conn.) -- Social life and customs.
- Wyoming County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- 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
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)