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Guide to the Romeyn Berry family papers,1636-1960.
Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960.
Correspondence includes personal and business correspondence; Berry's letters from Kenneth Roberts, E.B. White, and Allison Danzig; one letter from Major William B. Miles concerning the activities of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard; correspondence of Berry's second wife, Hester Bancroft Berry, her father, Wilder D. Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family. Writings include copy and clippings from his "Talk of the Town" columns in The New Yorker; articles from the Ithaca Journal and Cornell Alumni News; radio broadcasts; and books and pamphlets by others. Diaries and journals by Berry, Katherine Bott Bancroft, and Hester Bancroft Berry, 1943-1951; farm accounts from "Stoneposts," Jacksonville, N.Y., 1936-1938; drawings; family and other photographs; legal documents and related items referring to the Berry and Gould families; newspaper clippings relating to Professor Wilder D. Bancroft; items having Ithaca or local interest, including Lyceum Theater accounts, 1893-1923; and miscellaneous family items. Also, student scrapbook of Olive Nutting Berry at Wells College, with material about social events at Cornell University.
Also, correspondence between Romeyn Berry, his grandmother Hannah Wright Gould, his mother, and others, mostly when he was an undergraduate at Cornell; condolence letters after Berry's death, written to his widow Hester Bancroft Berry, to his daughter, Hilda Berry Sanford, and to Ruth Berry McDonald; program from the memorial stone dedication in 1988; magazine and newspaper articles; trust agreement; and typescript version of Hannah Wright Gould's 1871"Garden Journal," with a pen-and-ink drawing on wood of Romeyn and Harriet Berry as children.
Bancroft, Wilder D. (Wilder Dwight), 1867-1953.
Romeyn Berry family papers, #2531. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Papers largely relate to Lee Nutting but include Arietta, Marcus Nutting, and others. Folder 5 includes photograph of unidentified woman.
Nutting v. The Joice Contracting Co.
Rumsey and Co. v. Morey, L.A.
Rumsey and Co. v. Travis, Walter W.
Prarie State Grain and Elevator Co.
Fred Young and Co., Inc.
Carew, Joseph J. v. Keefer, Daniel H.
Fertig, Henry v. Carew, Joseph J.
Carew and Co. v. Perry Winckler and Co.
The Life Saving Devices Co.
Includes some invitations, programs, and publications like "The Winged Foot". Also includes handwritten loose speeches and articles. The back of the scrapbook has clippings on the Progressive Party, Berry's certification as attorney (1914), and a photograph of a Progressive Party banner with Berry running for assembly.
Copy of letter to Amos Dean Esq.
Content includes boat travel and trip out west.
Manuscript letter dated "Saturday," on Beta Theta Pi House stationery, in which Berry asks his mother's advice on whether to accept a job offer as editor of the Cornell Alumni News. At the upper left is a note in ink, "The plot thickens; please return."
Includes letters from Kenneth Roberts and booklet titled "Kenneth Roberts: biographical sketch, an informal study, his books and critical opinions"
Includes "Manual for the Use of Troops in Aid of the Civil Authority"
Contains documents, correspondence, and unidentified photographs of military men.
Includes copy of the Cornell Deadly Sin spring day edition (1906), Beta Theta Pi programs, dance list and attendance, handwritten list fraternities with descriptions like "some angels are faithful" and " no sheep are carnivorous"
Cornell Dramatic Club script and programs for "Traffic Signals"
Scrapbook includes: photographs of people and athletic events (baseball, boating, and football), clippings, invitations and programs, ticket stubs, football programs, Beta Theta Pi material, Athletic Association documents and programs, trade stakes, "The Widow" documents and programs, track documents, ribbons and awards, 1903 red beanie, and a Macaronigram.
A small notebook partially filled with notes on animal diseases and notations "Stock Book" (owner unknown).
Letters to George and John C. Bancroft (the letter to George appears to be from John, but the last page is missing) of May 11 and 12, 1881, concerning the will of Abisha Larned of Oxford, Mass., a copy of the will, and other relevant information; a letter from Peter Cantine (location?) to Charles F. Mulks (Ithaca), Jan. 15, 1895, re: Cantine's family genealogy, which Mulks had apparently requested, and in turn requesting information from Mulks in order to "prove" the will of a Samuel W. Ransom; two letters to Wilder D. Bancroft from Mark A. DeWolfe Howe (July 15 and Dec. 14, 1904); fifteen letters (Nov. 20-23, 1906) from various British scientists to Sir William Ramsay, regarding Wilder Bancroft's suggestion that the Journal of Physical Chemistry be published in England; letters to Hester Bancroft in Europe (ca. 1926), including a letter from Morris Bishop (Feb. 18, 1926); and other letters to Hester and Romeyn Berry, pertaining to Hester Berry's sculptures, the launching of the U.S.S. Bancroft, publication of Romeyn's work by Putnam's, and other topics. Also a printed Christmas card from Sir Wilfred and Lady Grenfell (undated.) and a Christmas card from a drawing by Hester Berry (May 11, 1881-Mar. 31, 1953).
Art objects displayed and stored at the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass. Acc. Nos. given by each item.
Clippings (25 items) from many newspapers relating to Professor Wilder Bancroft's experiments in rain-making (1923); a page from the Ithaca Journal about early explorers and travellers in Tompkins County (Jan. 26, 1955); and other items.
"Stoneposts - Stock on Hand," a book kept by Hester Berry - egg, cream sales, etc.
A notebook of poems written about or during World War I compiled by Hester Bancroft.
Includes invitations to social functions at Cornell University and elsewhere, programs, postcards, photographs; Wells College material including a manual, constitution and by-laws and two copies of the Wells College Chronicle, correspondence, poetry from Romeyn Berry to Olive, formal announcement of the their wedding, calling cards, a copy of the Cornell Alumni News and photographs of fraternity parties at Cornell.
Back engrave, "W.B.Berry, Dec. 5th 1776"
Back engraved, "1922, 349 Romeyn Berry"
Back engraved, "To Romeyn Berry, with best wishes, from Gustavus T. Kirby"

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