Guide to the Justin S. Morrill Papers,
1814-1937, 1982

Collection Number: 1146

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:
E. Engst, M.E. Warren
Date completed:
May 1990
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, April 2003
Date modified:
RMC Staff, January 2012

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Justin S. Morrill papers, 1814-1937, 1982.
Collection Number:
1146
Creator:
Justin S. Morrill, 1810-1898.
Quantity:
3.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, and other personal items.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Justin S. Morrill was a congressman and financier.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885.
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
King, Horatio King, 1811-1897.
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Sherman, John.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.

Subjects:
Afro-Americans.
Commerce.
Freedmen.
Education--New York (State)
School lands.
Tariff.
Voyages and travels.
Legislators--United States.

Places:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Form and Genre Terms:
Obituaries.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Speeches.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Justin S. Morrill papers, #1146. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1828-1839
Speech drafts
Box 1 Folder 1
1840-1849
Sermon, speech drafts
Box 1 Folder 2
1850-1859
Speech drafts
Box 1 Folder 3
1860
Correspondence; "On Agriculture, delivered at Woodstock, Vt.", Sept. 27th
Box 1 Folder 4
1860
"Address at St. Johnsbury, Vt. on the Culture of Man and some of the requisite means."
Box 1 Folder 5
1861
Speech, notes, Act (H.R. 338)
Box 1 Folder 6
1862
Letter (extract), trade circular, Act (H.R. 312)
Box 1 Folder 7
1862
Correspondence, Act (H.R. 592), drafts, notes
Box 1 Folder 8
1863-1864
Correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings
Box 1 Folder 9
1865
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, address
Box 1 Folder 10
1866
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, "Report of ... on The National Statuary Hall", address
Box 1 Folder 11
1867-1869
Correspondence, drafts, report
Box 1 Folder 12
1870-1872
Correspondence, newspaper clipping, sddress
Box 2 Folder 1
1873
Correspondence, addresses, newspaper clipping
Box 2 Folder 2
1873
Speech on National Colleges
Box 2 Folder 3
1874
Circular, pamphlets, address, report, annual report
Box 2 Folder 4
1875-1877
Correspondence, circulars, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, address annual reports
Box 2 Folder 5
Includes letter from A. D. White.
1878-1879
Bill (H.R. 3544), speech, Correspondence, comparison of receipts and expenditures
Box 2 Folder 6
1880-1881
Correspondence, "Catalogue of the Private Library of Justin S. Morrill", notes, Act (H.R. 4592)
Box 2 Folder 7
1882
January-April: Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 8
1882
May-December: Correspondence, tariff tract, speech
Box 2 Folder 9
Includes letter from A. D. White.
1883
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, drafts and Remarks
Box 2 Folder 10
1884
Jan.-Apr.: Correspondence, Statement
Box 3 Folder 1
1884
Aug.-Dec.: Correspondence, speeches
Box 3 Folder 2
1885-1886 Mar.
Correspondence, "Remarks on the Death of General Grant," speech
Box 3 Folder 3
1886
Apr.-Dec.: Correspondence, newspaper clipping, poem, telegram
Box 3 Folder 4
1887
Jan.-Aug., undated: Correspondence, address, "Commemorative Addresses. 1862-1887. Massachusetts Agricultural College."
Box 3 Folder 5
Includes letter from President Grover Cleveland from the Executive Mansion as well as letters from Frances Cleveland..
1888-1889
Correspondence, addresses, political tract
Box 3 Folder 6
1890-1891
Correspondence, including letter from President Harrison (signed), newspaper clippings, remarks, Congressional Record, poem
Box 3 Folder 7
Includes letter from Benjamin Harrison
1892-1893
Correspondence, Resolution (S.R. 24), poem, newspaper clippings, article, Bills (S. 553, 572, 1280), address, pamphlet
Box 3 Folder 8
Includes letter from Benjamin Harrison
1894
January-June: Correspondence, Bill (S. 1460), Resolution (S.R. 62), Amendment (S. 341), poem, remarks, Bill (S. 2135)
Box 3 Folder 9
1894
July-December: Correspondence, Tariff Act, address
Box 3 Folder 10
1895
Correspondence, Bill (S.2569), poems, newspaper clippings, remarks
Box 4 Folder 1
1896
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, poems, speeches
Box 4 Folder 2
1897-1899
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, Bill (S.1876), remarks
Box 4 Folder 3
1900-1910 Apr. 15
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, The Vermonter, The American Magazine
Box 4 Folder 4
Apr. 16, 1910-1912
Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 5
Tariff and Foreign Trade - copies, rough drafts, and notes for speeches
Box 4 Folder 6-10
Hawaiian Islands: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850
Box 5 Folder 1
Party Platform and Records
Box 5 Folder 2
Education and Schools
Box 5 Folder 3-4
Fine Arts and Architecture address
Box 5 Folder 5
Notes and speeches, miscellany
Box 5 Folder 6-11
15 photographs of Morrill and family
Box 6 Folder 0
Business, Labor, Industry
Box 6 Folder 1-2
Biographical Materials of J. S. Morrill and Colleagues
Box 6 Folder 3
Gold and Silver Question; Revenue and Taxation
Box 6 Folder 4-7
Gold and Silver Question; Revenue and Taxation
Box 7
Photographs
 Box 8
Genealogy notebook
 Box 8
1868
Impeachment tickets
 Box 8
Petitions
 Box 8
Bill
 Box 8
Notebook
 Box 8
Miscellaneous family papers
 Box 8
Includes Brigham Young autograph
1898
Ruth S. Morrill funeral service
 Box 8
Receipts
 Box 8
Calling cards
 Box 8
Mounted clippings
Box 8
1897
Key to Justin Morrill's Senate Desk
Box 9 Folder 0
1884
Cornell University Class of 1884 "Morrill Memorial Medal"
Box 9 Folder 1
1899
Proceedings of the Association of American Colleges and Agricultural Expermient Stations
Box 9 Folder 2
1936
Land Grant College Radio Hour, Aug. 19
Box 9 Folder 3
1888
"Energy and Vision" by S.P. Langley
Box 9 Folder 4
Clippings
Box 9 Folder 5-6
Smithsonian Institution certificate signed by Tiffany and Co.
 Box 9 Folder 7
Portfolio
Box 9 Folder 8
Leather
Box 9 Folder 9
1841
Scrapbook "Wanderings and Scribblings"
Box 10
Publications by and pertaining to Morrill
Box 11