Justin S. Morrill papers, 1814-1937, 1982.
Collection Number: 1146
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Justin S. Morrill papers, 1814-1937, 1982.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1146
Abstract:
Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, mainly relating
to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the status of freed blacks, the tariff and international
trade, passage of the Land Grant College Act, and other public questions.
Creator:
Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Quanitities:
3.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Justin S. Morrill was a congressman and financier.
Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, mainly relating
to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the status of freed blacks, the tariff and international
trade, passage of the Land Grant College Act, and other public questions; scrapbook
containing a photocopy of Morrill's Wanderings and Scribblings, or A Journal of a Journey South and West in May, June
and July, A.D. 1841; a scrapbook of obituary notices; a scrapbook and other items relating to the 75th
anniversary of the Land Grant College Act, 1937; and photographs and other personal
items. Correspondents include George T. Brown, Schuyler Colfax, John H. Freeman, James
A. Garfield, Horace Greeley, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Dean
Howells, Nellie Grant Sartoris, Jacob Gould Schurman, John Sherman, Horatio King (who
wrote letters to Morrill on his birthday), A. D. White and President Grover Cleveland.
Note: Item lists of letters and speeches are available in the accession folder.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Justin S. Morrill papers, #1146. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Brown, George T.
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885.
Freeman, John H.
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901.
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
King, Horatio, 1811-1897
Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Sartoris, Nellie Grant.
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Sherman, John, 1823-1900.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Places:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Subjects:
Legislators -- United States.
Voyages and travels.
Tariff.
School lands.
Education -- New York (State)
Freedmen.
Commerce.
African Americans.
Form and Genre Terms:
Speeches.
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Obituraries.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Speech drafts
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1828-1839 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Sermon, speech drafts
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1840-1849 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Speech drafts
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1850-1859 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence; "On Agriculture, delivered at Woodstock, Vt.", Sept. 27th
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1860 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
"Address at St. Johnsbury, Vt. on the Culture of Man and some of the requisite means."
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1860 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Speech, notes, Act (H.R. 338)
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1861 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Letter (extract), trade circular, Act (H.R. 312)
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1862 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence, Act (H.R. 592), drafts, notes
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1862 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings
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1863-1864 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, address
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1865 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, "Report of ... on The National Statuary Hall",
address
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1866 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence, drafts, report
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1867-1869 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence, newspaper clipping, address
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1870-1872 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence, addresses, newspaper clipping
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1873 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Speech on National Colleges
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1873 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Circular, pamphlets, address, report, annual report
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1874 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence, circulars, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, address annual reports
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1875-1877 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letter from A. D. White.
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Bill (H.R. 3544), speech, Correspondence, comparison of receipts and expenditures
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1878-1879 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence, "Catalogue of the Private Library of Justin S. Morrill", notes, Act
(H.R. 4592)
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1880-1881 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
January-April: Correspondence
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1882 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
May-December: Correspondence, tariff tract, speech
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1882 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letter from A. D. White.
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, drafts and Remarks
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1883 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Jan.-Apr.: Correspondence, Statement
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1884 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Aug.-Dec.: Correspondence, speeches
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1884 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence, "Remarks on the Death of General Grant," speech
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1885-1886 Mar. |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Apr.-Dec.: Correspondence, newspaper clipping, poem, telegram
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1886 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Jan.-Aug., undated: Correspondence, address, "Commemorative Addresses. 1862-1887.
Massachusetts Agricultural College."
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1887 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letter from President Grover Cleveland from the Executive Mansion as well
as letters from Frances Cleveland..
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence, addresses, political tract
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1888-1889 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence, including letter from President Harrison (signed), newspaper clippings,
remarks, Congressional Record, poem
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1890-1891 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letter from Benjamin Harrison
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| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence, Resolution (S.R. 24), poem, newspaper clippings, article, Bills (S.
553, 572, 1280), address, pamphlet
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1892-1893 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes letter from Benjamin Harrison
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
January-June: Correspondence, Bill (S. 1460), Resolution (S.R. 62), Amendment (S.
341), poem, remarks, Bill (S. 2135)
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1894 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
July-December: Correspondence, Tariff Act, address
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1894 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence, Bill (S.2569), poems, newspaper clippings, remarks
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1895 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, poems, speeches
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1896 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, Bill (S.1876), remarks
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1897-1899 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, The Vermonter, The American Magazine
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1900-1910 Apr. 15 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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Apr. 16, 1910-1912 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6-10 |
Tariff and Foreign Trade - copies, rough drafts, and notes for speeches
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Hawaiian Islands: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Party Platform and Records
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| Box 5 | Folder 3-4 |
Education and Schools
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| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Fine Arts and Architecture address
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| Box 5 | Folder 6-11 |
Notes and speeches, miscellany
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| Box 6 | Folder 0 |
15 photographs of Morrill and family
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| Box 6 | Folder 1-2 |
Business, Labor, Industry
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Biographical Materials of J. S. Morrill and Colleagues
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| Box 6 | Folder 4-7 |
Gold and Silver Question; Revenue and Taxation
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| Box 7 |
Gold and Silver Question; Revenue and Taxation
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| Box 8 |
Photographs
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| Box 8 |
Genealogy notebook
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| Box 8 |
Impeachment tickets
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1868 | |
| Box 8 |
Petitions
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| Box 8 |
Bill
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| Box 8 |
Notebook
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| Box 8 |
Miscellaneous family papers
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Scope and Contents
Includes Brigham Young autograph
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| Box 8 |
Ruth S. Morrill funeral service
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1898 | |
| Box 8 |
Receipts
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| Box 8 |
Calling cards
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| Box 8 |
Mounted clippings
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| Box 9 | Folder 0 |
Key to Justin Morrill's Senate Desk
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1897 |
| Box 9 | Folder 1 |
Cornell University Class of 1884 "Morrill Memorial Medal"
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1884 |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 |
Proceedings of the Association of American Colleges and Agricultural Expermient Stations
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1899 |
| Box 9 | Folder 3 |
Land Grant College Radio Hour, Aug. 19
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1936 |
| Box 9 | Folder 4 |
"Energy and Vision" by S.P. Langley
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1888 |
| Box 9 | Folder 5-6 |
Clippings
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| Box 9 | Folder 7 |
Smithsonian Institution certificate signed by Tiffany and Co.
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| Box 9 | Folder 8 |
Portfolio
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| Box 9 | Folder 9 |
Leather
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| Box 10 |
Scrapbook "Wanderings and Scribblings"
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1841 | |
| Box 11 |
Publications by and pertaining to Morrill
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