Box 33
Container
Contains 16 Results:
Correspondence, 1869-07-23 - 1869-08-05
File — Box: 33, Folder: 1
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July 24, 1869. Ezra Cornell to Mattie Curran from Ithaca:
"Miss Mattie Curran There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. Please study the subject and see what can be done for them. Respectfully yours Ezra Cornell"
July 26, 1869. Thomas N. Rooker to Ezra Cornell:
"Come away from Ithaca to the seashore for a short time. It will do you all good?. My wire window shades and wire doors are in their places and I am glad to tell you that my wife says, now that they are...
Dates:
1869-07-23 - 1869-08-05
Correspondence, 1869-08-06 - 1869-08-31
File — Box: 33, Folder: 2
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Topics: agricultural machinery; Cornell University; Wisconsin lands Personal names: LeGrand, A.J.; Lewis, G.F.; Chace, Miller; Fowler, L.N.; Cleveland, W.C.; Cornell, D.B.; Bonesteel family Geography:
Dates:
1869-08-06 - 1869-08-31
Correspondence, 1869-09-01 - 1869-09-18
File — Box: 33, Folder: 3
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September 15, 1869. Cornell University "Rules for the Halls and Public Rooms."
September 18, 1869. George L. Shepard to Ezra Cornell proposing establishment of a voluntary labor plan for students unable to pay for their education.
Topics: women's education; Cornell University; Cornell family genealogy and history; land scrip sales and taxes
Personal names: Cooke, H.J.; Bessac, Mary A.; Bonesteel family; LeGrand, A.J.; Whitlock, William; Shepard, S.E.; Shepard, G.L.; Cornell, D.B.
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Dates:
1869-09-01 - 1869-09-18
Correspondence, 1869-09-21 - 1869-10-13
File — Box: 33, Folder: 4
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October 7, 1869. Andrew Dickson White to Ezra Cornell from Philadelphia:
"Am a little nervous at having received no news from the University. I have to keep it out of my mind as much as possible or I should 'strike a bee line' for Ithaca."
Topics: women's education; Photo-lithography business; Cornell University: student voluntary labor plan; Horticultural School for Girls; Missouri State University.
Personal names: LeGrand, A.J.; Mann, Mary (Mrs. Horace Mann); Manedel, Miss; Rooker,...
Dates:
1869-09-21 - 1869-10-13
Correspondence, 1869-10-14 - 1869-10-29
File — Box: 33, Folder: 5
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October 19, 1869: Malvina Higgins to Ezra Cornell from Maryville, East Tennessee:
"Mr. Cornell will permit one who has been teacher among the Freedmen in different states, to thus tax his valuable time with a note of thanks that he does not exclude colored persons from the benefits of his University. Seeing the universal horror with which such a suggestion is received in our schools at the south, and yet seeing that "Cornell" has become a subject of interest among the intelligent of these...
Dates:
1869-10-14 - 1869-10-29
Correspondence, 1869-11-01 - 1869-11-23
File — Box: 33, Folder: 6
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November 18, 1869. E.C. Ward to Ezra Cornell thanking him on behalf of the Woman's Parliament for his offer of aid to Miss Manedel in the establishment of her Horticultural School for Girls:
"?allow me in the name of the Parliament to express their gratitude and appreciation of your kindly endeavors to furthur the advancement of all worthy efforts in the cause of progress and increased usefulness everywhere, as well as for your interest in the specific work which engages the attention of...
Dates:
1869-11-01 - 1869-11-23
Correspondence, 1869-11-24 - 1869-12-10
File — Box: 33, Folder: 7
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Topics: Newcomb's Central American expedition; land scrip sales and taxes; Cornell University; Albany Agricultural Works Personal names: Newcomb, Wesley; Lewis, G.F.; Cornell, Keturah M.; Cornell, J.W.; Allen, W.F.; Baldwin James S.; Manedel, Miss; Fuller, Andrew S.; Emery, Horace L. Geography:
Dates:
1869-11-24 - 1869-12-10
Correspondence, 1869-12-11 - 1869-12-30
File — Box: 33, Folder: 8
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December 27, 1869. Wesley Newcomb to Ezra Cornell from Panama:
"I have just completed packing and marking a large case of specimens the results thus far of my collecting in this place, at the Islands of Flamenco and at Taboga. At this latter place we have spent two weeks, dredging and collecting on the beach. Independent of shells I have had the good fortune to have presented me by I.B. Akin Esqr. Commercial Agent of the English Line of West Coast Steamers, some 15 or 16 specimens of pottery...
Dates:
1869-12-11 - 1869-12-30
Correspondence, 1869-12-31 - 1870-01-10
File — Box: 33, Folder: 9
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January 1, 1870. John Stanton Gould to Ezra Cornell:
"The University will certainly triumph gloriously but it will have some severe fighting before the victory is won. Goldwin Smith's lecture published in the Atlantic is about as comprehensive and important a paper as I have ever seen. If school girls had not degraded the word so much I shuld say it was magnificent?"
January 7, 1870. Copy of Ezra Cornell's agreement with the Commissioners of the Land Office of New York State for the purchase...
Dates:
1869-12-31 - 1870-01-10
Correspondence, 1870-01-11 - 1870-02-03
File — Box: 33, Folder: 10
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January 31, 1870. Wesley Newcomb to Ezra Cornell from the Steamer Costa Rica, Bay of Panama:
"My excursion has made the University favorably known throughout the Central American States and in good time will I trust bear fruit for the advancement of it's interests."
Topics: Photo-lithography business; land scrip sales and taxes; Albany Agricultural Works; Newcomb's Central American expedition
Personal names: Esty, Joseph; Steel, Henry; Emery, Horace L.; Newcomb, Wesley.
Geography:...
Dates:
1870-01-11 - 1870-02-03