England -- Description and travel.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Emily Wight Babcock Alward papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1848
Scope and content
Papers primarily relate to Emily Babcock's journey to England for her marriage to Dennis R. Alward, assistant secretary of the United States Legation in London, and the couple's life in diplomatic and court circles (1865-67). Mrs. Alward's papers consist of letters to her mother, Mary Potter Babcock, in which she describes her presentation to Queen Victoria, comments on the status, personality, appearance, and costumes of the Queen, members of the royal family, English noblewomen, and...
Dates:
1806-1919.
Eunice Cornell letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065317384]
Identifier: 6332
Scope and content
11 letters written home to her parents in Ithaca, New York while she was on a grand tour of Europe with Mary Emily Cornell, from England, Germany, Switzerland, and France, describing her travels and the sights seen.
Dates:
1880.
Gabriel family papers
Collection
Identifier: 2482
Abstract
The collection includes primarily the papers of Harry S. Gabriel including letters to his mother and fiancee, Ellen Wigsten, depicting daily life before and after the armistice, written from American training camps and the French front, his war diary (October - November 1918) describing night patrols, documents relating to his military service and awards, photographs of Gabriel in uniform and of Camp Dix, New Jersey, and related printed matter, including an orientation pamphlet titled...
Dates:
1916-1925.
Gould family papers
Collection
Identifier: 2033
Abstract
Diaries, 1799-1832, of Stephen Wanton Gould, concerned with meetings of the Society of Friends, the activities of his family members and friends as well as several public events; extracts from the records of monthly meetings, 1676-1707, held by Rhode Island Quakers; letters, 1862-1868, from John Stanton Gould to his daughter Mary (Gould) Baldwin, relating to the Goulds and the related families, Gould's early life, his interests, and other personal matters; journal, 1866-1869, showing Gould's...
Dates:
1799-[ca. 1869]
Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065186649]
Identifier: 14-22-2521
Scope and content
Oral history interviews with Hans Bethe conducted by Charles Weiner and Jagdish Mehra on Oct. 27-28, 1966, Nov. 17, 1967, and May 8-9, 1972. Subjects include natural radioactivity; ideas of nuclear constitution, size in 1920s; Gamow-Condon-Gurney theory of alpha decay, 1928; discovery of the neutron, 1932; Cambridge as a center of research, 1933; early theories of nuclear forces; analysis of short-range nuclear forces, 1935-1940; reasons for writing Reviews of Modern Physics review...
Dates:
1966-1981.
McGraw family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2355
Abstract
Business and family correspondence, relating to lumbering interests near Canadea, New York; McGraw family genealogy; diaries and accounts of travels in France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Egypt; Jennie McGraw Fiske diaries refer to travels in England and on the Continent, and to Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and New York. Other subjects include Cornell University faculty members, the settlement of the estate of John McGraw, and a memorial to McGraw by the Cornell University Board of...
Dates:
1854-1956.
Sayre and Van Duzer family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 638
Scope and content
Dry goods and grocery accounts (1807-1817) of James Sayre, Tioga County, New York, and deeds, legal documents pertaining to land, property, mortgages, notes, and an insurance policy; also a report of a committee on the abolition of imprisonment for debt, a journal by John H. Van Duzer of a journey to England in 1841, and sixteen letters between Van Duzer and Theodore Roosevelt.
Dates:
1783-1935.
William Wordsworth collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4621
Abstract
Items relating to Wordsworth and his family. Includes first drafts of poems written by Wordsworth. Also included are manuscripts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Hutchinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Robert Southey, Lord Byron, and John Keats.
Dates:
1656 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1798 - 1850