Contents

• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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Harry Clifford Reed papers, 1948-1952.
Collection Number: 1580

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Link to a partial finding aid.
		Scope and Contents All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
		Series I. Manuscript Items
Box 4		Education	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Typed Mss. - 5 Copies
Box 4		"A Layman Looks at the Supreme Court"	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Typed copy
Box 4		"Dina van Bergh"	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Typed copy
Box 4		"The Frelinghuysen's"	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Typed copy
Box 4		"Gramp"	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Typed copy
Box 4		Poem: "The Doctor's Garden"	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Typed copy
Box 4		"The Winds"	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Copy of "The Winds" by Ellen Coit Elliott, inscribed to Reed.
		Series II. Genealogy: Notes and Correspondence
Box 5		Nivison Family	1950-1952
		Scope and Contents Typed notes and longhand
Box 5		Van Hoevenberg Family	1950-1952
		Scope and Contents Typed notes
Box 5		Waring Family	1950-1952
		Scope and Contents Typed notes
Box 5		Yaple Family	1950-1952
Box 5		Ellis Family	1950-1952
Box 5		McGraw Family	1950-1952
Box 5		Southworth Family	1950-1952
Box 5		Wood Family	1950-1952
Box 5		Stevenson Family	1950-1952
		Scope and Contents Correspondence (1950-1951) W. Willard James S. (1950); and notes. Pictures - people, houses, coat of arms. Letter - "Colonial records the Stevensons" (typescript of records found in the Land office, Annapolis, Maryland. Correspondence with cousin, Mrs. John Collins in Laurel, Delaware.
Box 5		Marie Fields Hinckley	1950
		Scope and Contents Correspondence (1950) and notes (T&H)
Box 5		Dumont	1950-1952
Box 5		Dumond	1950-1952
Box 5		Reed	1952-06
		Scope and Contents Picture of Reed - Reunion at Barton Hall - Duplicate in Box 6
Box 6		Notes on History of Cornell	1865-1952
		Scope and Contents History of Cornell University (buildings and people); "Cascadilla Place" - Mss. and notes
Box 6		Reed at 1952	1952
		Scope and Contents Pictures of Reed at 1952 reunion, Mrs. Reed and daughter (?) (also negative), postcard photographs of scenes in Vermont (?).
Box 6		Family letters	1950-06-23-1950-07-04
		Scope and Contents Letters from relatives and Reed
Box 6		Biographical Notes - Los Angeles from E. C. E.	1882-1952
		Scope and Contents Class of '82 - employed in A. D. White's library next 2 years working on his projected catalogue of certain historical collections he had gathered in Europe. Lived in Cascadilla (1884-1891). Author of autobiography "It Happened This Way". Married in 1886 to O. L. Elliott, '85, aided David Starr Jordan in organization of Stanford. (original and typed copy)
Box 6		Nivison Family Notes from Reed
		Scope and Contents Prof. George Sylvanus Moler - "One of the greatest minds in University plans to write biography. Prof. S. H. Gage cooperated with him in making tests of the light values of different lamp bulbs made by the Corning Company. Cornell - biographies "To me a University is not a campus with its buildings and lawns; it is the men who teach in it" - "mechanized education"
Box 6		Nivison - Notes from E. C. E.	1950-07-11
		Scope and Contents Cornell Faculty and University education in general.
Box 6		Biographical Notes from Reed	1950-07-18
		Scope and Contents Wife died 1926; son - Bill; daughter - Margaret (Peggy): engineer - 10 years with Northwestern telephone Exchange Co. in Minneapolis. Father had clothing store in Ithaca. H. C. R. shared management thereafter, then sold out. Also mentioned elsewhere: Fairview Manor Realty Co., Inc.
Box 6		Notes from Ezra Cornell	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Comments - refers to letter from Sam. Nivison to Cornell which makes C. appear a "very queer" light which he considers to be "entirely false"
Box 6		Notes from Judge Francis M. Finch	1950-05-02
Box 6		Notes from Sam Nivison	1950-06-01
Box 6		Notes from Elliott	1950-07-25
		Scope and Contents Concerning her contemplated eye operation. Her family.
Box 6		From Reed	1950-08-03
		Scope and Contents "Women at Cornell"
Box 6		Letter from E. C. E.	1951-07-16
		Scope and Contents Concerning Comstocks
Box 6		Letter from Reed	1951-08-09
		Scope and Contents Praise for Ithaca, Comstocks
Box 6		Letter from Reed	1952-01-02
		Scope and Contents Concerning Gov. Warren
Box 6		Letter from E. C. E.	1952-01-08
		Scope and Contents Concerning Gov. Warren
Box 6		Letter from E. C. E.	1952-04-21
		Scope and Contents Concerning Burdett; Brown family; Woodward family
Box 6		Letter from Reed	1952-05-05
		Scope and Contents Concerning Sir Francis Burdette; Burdett
Box 6		Letter from E. C. E.	1952-05-10
		Scope and Contents Concerning Woodward family
Box 6		Letter from Bob	1948-12-15
		Scope and Contents Concerning Family matters; Cascadilla
Box 6		Social Security (F&T)	1949-01-28-1952-02-14
		Scope and Contents Social Security, returned check - earned more than $50.
Box 6		Letter from F&T Jared Van Wagenen	1949-08-27-1949-09-05
		Scope and Contents Concerning Dumonds, Van Wagenen; Cornell - living expenses - biographies of faculty Boarding in 1887-91; Ithaca - 14 Linn St. - oldest structure in Tompkins County
Box 6		Letter from Frank R. C. Nivison	1949-09-08
		Scope and Contents Has a picture of Miss Nivison taken about 1893. Reed: research for Cascadilla Place" Ms. and Miss Nivison - suggests picture be given to DeWitt Historical Society.
Box 6		Reed to Nivison	1949-09-30
		Scope and Contents Question of whether Dumont, Yaple and Hinepaugh were first settlers
Box 6		Reed to U.S. Copyright Office	1949-10-19-1949-10-24
		Scope and Contents Copyright of "Cascadilla Place" - USCO - forms
Box 6		Reed to N.Y.G.& B. Society	1950-04-08-1951-06-12
		Scope and Contents Reed to N.Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society - Reed offers his material on Dumonts, Hinepaughs, Yaples, Woodworths and McDowells
Box 6		Reed to N.Y.G.& B. Society	1951-05-26
		Scope and Contents Inquiring about Somerset County Historical Quarterly which contains several articles on the Dumonts by John D. B. Vol. I, 1912
Box 6		N.Y.G.& B. Society to Reed	1951-05-31
		Scope and Contents Postcard - forwarding information
Box 6		Lou to Reed	1951-02-02
		Scope and Contents "Lou" in Binghamton to Reed - death of wife
Box 6		Reed to Lou	1951-02-24-1951-07-23
		Scope and Contents Five letters exchanged between Lou and Reed
Box 6		Reed to Howard Critchlow	1951-09-25
		Scope and Contents Letter from Reed to Howard T. Critchlow, Trenton, N.J. - requesting that he find out where the University Library might acquire a copy of "History of Somerset County, N.J.
Box 6		A. H. Wright to Reed	date unknown
Box 6		Reed to Frank	1951
		Scope and Contents Reed to Brother Frank - Bills, receipts, withholding statement
Box 6		Reed to Brink	1952-03-19-1952-04-04
		Scope and Contents Correspondence Reed to Brink; Dumont, Brink and Jared van Wagenen to Reed - genealogy
Box 6		Reed to Brink	1952-04-09
		Scope and Contents Correspondence Reed to Brink, Huybertse, Dumont - genealogy
Box 6		Miscellaneous letters after operation	1952-10-17-1952-12-29
		Scope and Contents "Thank you's" lodge, nurses and doctors
Box 6		Miscellaneous notes	date unknown
		Scope and Contents List of states, electoral votes, how voted (D. or R.) (1952?); copy of letter written by T. B. Macaulay to Hon. Henry S. Randall (Secretary of State in N.Y. 1851-1853) re: Jeffersonian democracy.
Box 6		"Cascadilla Place"	1862-1867
		Scope and Contents Three typescript copies of Ms. Including 2 with corrections; notes (excerpts from various sources; copies of letters from Samantha Nivison to Cornell and other papers
Box 6		Cornell, Ezra & Family	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Typed and long hand notes
Box 6		Cornell University	1868-1882
		Scope and Contents Buildings, notes from Ithaca Journal and other papers with items pertaining to Cornell University, Cascadilla Place and Women at Cornell, Miss Samantha Nivison, Crane and other faculty and student body.
Box 6		Murray Richardson to Reed	1948-08-05
		Scope and Contents Letters to Reed from Murray L. Richardson, Clerk of Orleans County - no record on a J. N. Greene of Medina, N.Y. who was supposed to have contracted to construct first College Building
Box 6		Ezra Cornell to Francis M. Finch	1864-1867
		Scope and Contents Letters to and From Francis M. Finch
Box 6		Correspondence of N. Crittenden	1864-1865
Box 6		Correspondence of A. M. Wilcox	1867
Box 6		Correspondence of A. D. White	1867
Box 6		Thomas Frederick Crane	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Typescript article on Thomas Frederick Crane and excerpts from what others have written
Box 6		Correspondence of E. Jewitt	1867
Box 6		Correspondence of Henry Wells	1866
		Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning Wells College and "the Wells Female Dept. of the Cornell University"
Box 6		Bob to Reed	1950-06-30
		Scope and Contents Bob married to Margaret, granddaughter of C.E.C. - forwarded his letter to C.E.C.
Box 6		Reed to Margaret and Bob	1950-07-04
		Scope and Contents Reactions to first letter from E.C.E. - "She must been astounding woman". Comments on Cornell - Thomas Dewey as possible President of Cornell, also administration of Day: teaching by graduate assistants; the idea of a "State University"
Box 6		Al, Sue & Thad Hoefer to Reed	1950
		Scope and Contents Printed Christmas letter
Box 6		Reed to "Kids"	1952-08-20
		Scope and Contents Speaks of recent illness
Box 6		Bob to Reed	1952
		Scope and Contents Labor Day 1952 - from Bob
Box 6		Peg to Reed	1952-09-09
Box Unknown		? ?	1952-09-18
		Scope and Contents Reed's health
Box Unknown		Peg and Bill to Reed	1952-09-21
Box 6		Nephew (?) to Reed	1952-09-26
Box 6		Reed to (?)	1950-09-30
		Scope and Contents Pending operation for cancer
Box 6		Dear "F.N.'s	1950-10-17
Box 6		Peg to Reed	1950-10-18
Box 6		Bob to Reed	1950-10-22
Box 6		? - Irving Ross	1950-11-18
		Series III. Hobasco Lodge - Freemasonry
		Scope and Contents Lodge # 716, Ithaca - Reed Secretary
Box 6		50 Year Award	1951-02-07
		Scope and Contents Form letter requesting Florida members to attend presentation of 50 Year Service Award to R. W. Blinn in Melbourne, Florida
Box 6		Handwritten notes and minutes of meetings	1951-03-22-1951-04-17
Box 6		Reed to Pittsburgh Lodge	1951-04-06
		Scope and Contents Reed to Pittsburgh Lodge requesting a check on why a prospective member was rejected there.
Box 6		Pittsburgh Lodge to Reed	1951-04-10
		Scope and Contents Letter from Pittsburgh: applicant has not changed his voting resident to Varna, still being considered in Pittsburgh
Box 6		Byron A. Schlag	1952-01-20
		Scope and Contents Concerning Byron A. Schlag - Hobasco wants him.
Box 6		Florida Lodge to Reed	1952-01-22
		Scope and Contents From Florida Lodge - 2nd and 3rd degree
Box 6		Reed to Florida Lodge	1952-01-26
		Scope and Contents To Florida Lodge - explanation of conduct of classes
Box 6		Personal Correspondence	1952-02-29
Box 6		Reed to Friend	1952-04-25
		Scope and Contents Correspondence to a friend just restored to membership
Box 6		Ordering members "ledger sheets"	1952-05-19
Box 6		Reed to C. C. Squier	1952-06-29
		Scope and Contents Reed provides a list of some past Masters of Lodge and dates to Squier, Ithaca
Box 6		Robert Kellogg to Guest Speaker	1952-07-05
		Scope and Contents Letter from Robert C. Kellogg, Master thanking a guest speaker in Aurora.
Box 6		Reed to Bob	1952-10-01
		Scope and Contents Letter to Bob - information for their use while he is in the hospital
		Series IV. Photographs
Box 6		Reed at 1952 reunion	1952
		Scope and Contents Snapshot
Box 6		Mrs. Reed and daughter	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Photograph and negative of Mrs. Reed and daughter (?)
Box 6		Postcard Photographs	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Scenes in Vermont (?)
Box 6		Photos from newspapers	date unknown
		Scope and Contents Photos of old homes in Hurley and Kingston, N.Y.