Walter W. Edwards items

Collection — manuscript box: 4 - folder 1

Identifier: 583m

Scope and content

Collection includes a letter of Eliphaz Fish to his mother, Joanna Fish, from "Campbell's settlement," containing family news, 1806; typewritten letter from Yale University thanking Walter W. Edwards for donating a portrait of Andrew Dickson White, 1947; letter from Robert Collyer about a book, New York, 1894; letter from Jacob D. Seaman to his cousin, from Mead, Michigan, 1866; printed fast day sermon A discourse delivered on the occasion of our national fast, January 4, 1861, by Rev. S. Ottman; one-dollar note from Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, stamped "payable in merchandise," Salt Lake City, 1870; and part of the December 29, 1933 issue of the Ithaca Journal-News, containing an article on Cascadilla Cottage, former residence of Hiram Corson.

Dates

1806-1947.

Creator

Edwards, Walter W. (Person)
Fish, Eliphaz. (Person)
Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912. (Person)
Seaman, Jacob D. (Person)
Ottman, S. (Sefferenas.) (Title of work: Discourse delivered on the occasion of our national fast, January 4, 1861..) (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Walter Wallace Edwards, Cornell University Class of 1893, was born in Forest Home, New York in 1871. He was a teacher from 1901 to 1904; a traveling inspector for Solvay Process Company, Syracuse, N.Y. from 1905-1921; from 1921 to 1940 did assorted work; retired in 1940; and served in World War II in ordnance.