Guide to the Edwin Hamlin Woodruff Papers,
1888-1938

Collection Number: 18-1-1703

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M.E. Morrison
Date completed:
January 1977
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, February 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Edwin Hamlin Woodruff papers, 1888-1938.
Collection Number:
18-1-1703
Creator:
Edwin Hamlin Woodruff, 1862-1941.
Quantity:
.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, certificates, and a scrapbook.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, certificates, and a small scrapbook of newspaper clippings and handwritten quotations. Letters are primarily from associates at Stanford University and students from Cornell University.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Cornell University LL.B 1888. Edwin Hamlin was Dean of the Cornell Law School from 1916-1921, and taught there until 1927.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, certificates, and a small scrapbook of newspaper clippings and handwritten quotations. Letters are primarily from associates at Stanford University and students from Cornell University; correspondents include Morris Bishop, George Gleason Bogert, Julian Pleasant Britz, Lord Charnwood, Lewis Clinton, Frederick Diamond Colson, Edmund Ezra Day, John Charles Lounsberry Fish, Felix Frankfurter, James Picken Harrold, George S. Hellman, Mary (Mrs. Timothy) Hopkins, Oscar Lewis, Robert Harper Murray, Jackson E. Reynolds, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Martin Travieso, Joseph Edgar Uihlein, and Frederick Campbell Woodward.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Woodruff, Edwin Hamlin, 1862-1941.
Bishop, Morris, 1893-1973.
Bogert, George Gleason, 1884-1977.
Bretz, Julian Pleasant.
Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 1864-1945.
Clinton, Lewis.
Colson, Frederick Diamond.
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
Fish, J. C. L. (John Charles Lounsbury), 1870-1962.
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.
Harrold, James Picken.
Hellman, George Sidney.
Hopkins, Mary.
Lewis, Oscar.
Murray, Robert Harper.
Reynolds, Jackson E.
Sze, Sao-Ke Alfred, 1877-1958.
Travieso, Martin.
Uihlein, Joseph Edgar.
Woodward, Frederick Campbell.
Cornell Law School--Faculty.
Cornell University--Faculty.

Subjects:
Lawyers.
College teachers.

Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Edwin Hamlin Woodruff papers, #18-1-1703. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Correspondence
Feb. 27, 1936
Martin Travieso, San Juan, P.R.
 Box 1
Mar. 11, 1936
Julian Pleasant Bretz, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
 Box 1
Apr. 23, 1936
George Gleason Bogert, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Ill.
 Box 1
May 8, 1936
Felix Frankfurter, Law School of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
 Box 1
June 17, 1936
George G. Bogert, Chicago, Ill.
 Box 1
Oct. 8, 1936
Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Embassy, Washington, D.C.
 Box 1
July 21, 1938
Felix Frankfurter, Cambridge, Mass.
 Box 1
Oct. 8, 1938
George Sidney Hellman, New York, N.Y.
 Box 1
Nov. 14, 1938
James P. Harrold, Chicago, Ill.
 Box 1
Dec. 7, 1938
Edmund Ezra Day, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y.
 Box 1
Dec. 20, 1938
Frederic Woodward, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
 Box 1
Dec. 27, 1938
Felix Frankfurter, Cambridge, Mass.
 Box 1
Other materials
June 21, 1888
Bachelor of Law, Cornell University
 Box 1
Apr. 20, 1888
Degree: Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, State of New York
 Box 1
Apr. 15, 1913
Certificate: Boy Scouts of America, Harrie (Harry) Woodruff
 Box 1