Selected items from the Hitchcock-Coit papers
odd: label: Other Title
content: Hitchcock-Coit papers (microfilm title).
name: label: Creator
content: Hitchcock, Charles, 1827-1881
label: Names
content: Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861
label: Names
content: Massett, Stephen C.
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Hitchcock-Coit papers were donated to Mills College Library by Mrs. Paul Scott Foster of San Anselmo, a cousin of Floride Green, biographer and companion of the Hitchcock's daughter Lillie Hitchcock Coit. The Archives of American Art microfilmed only 12 of the 2037 items in the papers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hitchcock, Charles, 1827-1881
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Medical doctor; San Francisco, California. Friend of George Derby. Relationship to vocalist, lecturer, and newspaper writer Stephen Massett is unclear.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1851-1871
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hitcchar
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2295 available at Archives of American Art offices, Mills College Library, and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Mills College Library, Oakland, California.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Material relating to George Horatio Derby and Stephen Massett. Included are: two letters, with typescripts, undated and 1851, to Hitchcock from Derby and a typescript of a letter, 1855 to his wife, Martha Taliaferro Hunter Hitchcock from Derby, an obituary clipping on Derby, and a scrapbook containing a manuscript fragment and clippings of Derby's writings under the pen name "John Phoenix"; and a letter, 1871, from Massett (aka Jeems Pipes of Pipesville) to the Hitchcocks enclosing sketches and a manuscript "All About Pipesville," a clipping on Massett, a sketch, and two of his calling cards.