Guide to the Louise Spieker Rankin Papers,
1937-1952

Collection Number: 1438

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Louise Spieker Rankin papers, 1937-1952.
Collection Number:
1438
Creator:
Louise Spieker Rankin, 1897-1951.
Quantity:
.4 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, a notebook, a diary, and a manuscript.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Thirty-eight letters (1937) from Rankin mainly to her mother concerning social life, household management, and travels to India where her husband, Everett H. Rankin (Cornell University Class of 1912), was a Standard Oil representative; a notebook of information she collected on Indian trees (1938); and her diary (1939-1943). Also, her unfinished biography of Liberty Hyde Bailey (319 page typescript) and a letter (1952) from Romeyn Berry, who comments on the completed portion, which deals with Bailey's life up until the time he came to Cornell.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Thirty-eight letters (1937) from Rankin mainly to her mother concerning social life, household management, and travels to India where her husband, Everett H. Rankin (Cornell University Class of 1912), was a Standard Oil representative; a notebook of information she collected on Indian trees (1938); and her diary (1939-1943). Also, her unfinished biography of Liberty Hyde Bailey (319 page typescript) and a letter (1952) from Romeyn Berry, who comments on the completed portion, which deals with Bailey's life up until the time he came to Cornell.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Rankin, Louise Spieker, 1897-1951.
Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.
Berry, Romeyn, 1881-1957.
Rankin, Everett H.

Subjects:
Women--Diaries.
Authors.
Women authors.

Places:
India--Description and travel.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Louise Spieker Rankin papers, #1438. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Typescript copy of Louise Spieker Rankin's biography of Liberty Hyde Bailey.
 Box 1
Correspondence ( 1937 )
Box 2
Thirty-eight letters (Jan. 8-Dec. 27, 1937, 65 pcs.) from Louise Rankin written during her stay in India with her husband Everett Horace Rankin (Cornell '12), a Standard Oil representative. Almost entirely to her mother, the letters concern her social life, her difficulties in managing the household and servants, and her travels in India. See accession folder for a detailed description of letters.
Mrs. Rankin's diary ( 1939-1943 )
Box 2
One volume containing information on Indian trees collected by Mrs. Rankin ( 1938 )
Box 2