Guide to the Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Papers,

Collection Number: 3725

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
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Compiled by:
J. Vargo
Date completed:
June 1979
EAD encoding:
Julia Guarneri, August 2002

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers, 1887-1978, 1887-1926 (bulk)
Collection Number:
3725
Creator:
Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight Elmhirst
Quantity:
10 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends and relatives. Also materials on civic activities, correspondence on Willard Straight Hall, and correspondence on The New Republic and Asia magazines.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Philanthropist, educator, publisher, patron of the arts and social activist.
Dorothy Payne Whitney, daughter of William C. Whitney, married Willard Dickerman Straight in 1911. Straight died in 1919, and she married Leonard Knight Elmhirst in 1925.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends, and from her sister-in-law Gertrude V. Whitney and other relatives.
Also notebooks, guardianship papers, newspaper clippings, guest books and photographs documenting her early life; correspondence, newspaper clippings, and certificates for her civic activities; communications about Willard Straight's death and funeral arrangements, his will and photographs; correspondence about the building of Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University, and correspondence on The New Republic and Asia magazines. Major correspondents include Beatrice Bend (later Mrs. Henry Prather Fletcher), Katharine L. Barney (later Mrs. Courtlandt D. Barnes), Maurice Casenave, Herbert and Louise Croly, James Curtis, Henry P. Davison, William A. Delano, Richard Derby, Margaret (Myra) G. Dix (later Mrs. Charles Lawrance), Martin Egan, Alfred W. Fiedler, Henry Prather Fletcher, Florence (Daisy) Jaffray Harriman, Louise (Tottie) R. Knowlton (later Mrs. Buell Hollister), and George D. Marvin.
Also, William and Caroline D. Phillips, Ethel C. Roosevelt (later Mrs. Richard Derby), Susan R. Sedgwick (widow of Arthur Swann, later Mrs. Paul L. Hammond), Hazel Straight (later Mrs. James Forest Sanborn), Eliza Morgan Swift, May Tuckerman (later Mrs. Hermann Kinnicutt), Pauline P. Whitney (later Mrs. Almeric H. Paget), Anna L.B. Williams, and Gladys M. Vanderbilt (later Countess Szechenyi), A. Piatt Andrew, J. Howland Auchincloss, Robert and Martha W. Bacon and their son Robert Low Bacon, Frances P.B. Bolton, William J. Calhoun, Wilbur R. Chenoweth, Winston Churchill, Ellen Straight Cross, Richard Harding Davis, Charles D. Draper, Lord Charles French, John Foord, Mary Harriman (later Mrs. Charles C. Rumsey), Herbert C. Hoover, Colonel Edward M. House, Delancey K. Jay, Walter Lippmann, Charles Merz, Ruth Morgan, Annah D. Ripley (later Countess de Viel Castel), Alice L. Roosevelt (later Mrs. Nicholas Longworth), Corinne Roosevelt (later Mrs. Douglas Robinson), Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Lillian Wald, Lloyd Warren, William Fitz Hugh (Sheldon) Whitehouse, and Stark Young.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight.
Andrew, A. Piatt(Abram Piatt), 1873-1936.
Auchincloss, J. Howland.
Bacon, Martha W.
Bacon, Robert Law.
Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919.
Barney, Katharine L.
Bend, Beatrice.
Bolton, Frances P. B.
Calhoun, William J.
Casenave, Maurice.
Chenoweth, Wilbur R.
Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947.
Croly, Herbert David.
Croly, Louise.
Cross, Ellen Straight.
Curtis, James.
Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.
Davison, Henry P.
Delano, William A.
Derby, Ethel Roosevelt.
Derby, Richard.
Dix, Margaret G.
Draper, Charles D.
Egan, Martin.
Elmhirst, L. K.(Leonard Knight), 1893-1974.
French, Charles,
Fiedler, Alfred W.
Fletcher, Henry Prather.
Foord, John.
Harriman, Florence Jaffray.
Harriman, Mary.
Hoover, Herbert(Herbert Clark), 1874-1964.
House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938.
Jay, Delancey K.
Knowlton, Louise R.
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980.
Marvin, George D.
Merz, Charles.
Morgan, Ruth.
Phillips, Caroline D.
Phillips, William.
Ripley, Annah D.
Roosevelt, Corinne.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937.
Sedgwick, Susan R.
Straight, Hazel.
Straight, Willard Dickerman, 1880-1918.
Swift, Eliza Morgan.
Tuckerman, May.
Vanderbilt, Gladys M.
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940.
Warren, Lloyd.
Whitehouse, William Fitz Hugh.
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1877-1942.
Whitney, Pauline P.
Williams, Anna L. B.
Young, Stark, 1881-1963.
Bordentown Military Academy.
Cornell University--Buildings.
Hobart College.
Junior League.
Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense.
New School for Social Research.
New York State Food Commission.
Pueblos Defense Committee.
Social Unit Plan.
Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children.
War Camp Service Committee.
Willard Straight Hall (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Women's Emergency Committee of the European Relief Council.
Women's Liberty Loan Committee.

Titles:
New republic.

Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918.
Social reformers.
Women social reformers.

Places:
Asia.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Restrictions on use:
Edward C. Carter letter may not be copied.
Cite As:
Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers, #3725. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
NOTES

Related collection:Willard Dickerman Straight. Papers, #1260.
Related collection:Dorothy Whitney Straight. Papers from Dartington Hall, #3782.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence Boxes 1-4, 13
Series II. Other papers through 1911 Boxes 5-7, 9
Series III. Other papers, 1912 through 1925 Boxes 8-10
Series IV. The New Republic Boxes 11-12
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Series I. Correspondence
Willard D. Straight to Dorothy Whitney Straight
Sept. 4, 1909 - Oct. 20, 1909
Box 1 Folder 1
Nov. 2, 1909 - Nov. 29, 1909
Box 1 Folder 2
Dec. 7, 1909 - Dec. 25, 1909
Box 1 Folder 3
Jan. 1, 1910 - Jan. 31, 1910
Box 1 Folder 4
Feb. 1, 1910 - Feb. 23, 1910
Box 1 Folder 5
Mar. 6, 1910 - Mar. 30, 1910
Box 1 Folder 6
Apr. 2, 1910 - Apr. 30, 1910
Box 1 Folder 7
May 10, 1910 - May 31, 1910
Box 1 Folder 8
June 2, 1910 - June 20, 1910
Box 1 Folder 9
June 21, 1910 - June 27, 1910
Box 1 Folder 10
July 2, 1910 - July 31, 1910
Box 1 Folder 11
July 22, 1910 - July 31, 1910
Box 1 Folder 12
Aug. 1, 1910 - Aug. 12, 1910
Box 1 Folder 13
Aug. 13, 1910 - Aug. 23, 1910
Box 1 Folder 14
Aug. 24, 1910 - Aug. 31, 1910
Box 1 Folder 15
Sept. 1, 1910 - Sept. 10, 1910
Box 1 Folder 16
Sept. 12, 1910 - Sept. 26, 1910
Box 1 Folder 17
Oct. 8, 1910 - Oct. 31, 1910
Box 1 Folder 18
Nov. 4, 1910 - Nov. 13, 1910
Box 1 Folder 19
Nov. 16, 1910 - Nov. 30, 1910
Box 1 Folder 20
Dec. 1, 1910 - Dec. 20, 1910
Box 1 Folder 21
Dec. 21, 1910 - Dec. 31, 1910
Box 1 Folder 22
May 25, 1910 - Nov. 2, 1910 (cable code)
Box 1 Folder 23
Jan. 1, 1911 - Jan. 15, 1911
Box 1 Folder 24
Jan. 16, 1911 - Jan. 29, 1911
Box 1 Folder 25
Feb. 2, 1911 - Feb. 15, 1911
Box 1 Folder 26
Feb. 16, 1911 - Feb. 28, 1911
Box 1 Folder 27
Mar. 1, 1911 - Mar. 29, 1911
Box 1 Folder 28
Apr. 2, 1911 - Apr. 29, 1911
Box 1 Folder 29
May 1, 1911 - May 28, 1911
Box 1 Folder 30
June 3, 1911 - June 24, 1911
Box 1 Folder 31
July 6, 1911 - July 31, 1911
Box 1 Folder 32
July 1911
Box 1 Folder 33
Aug. 1, 1911 - Aug. 6, 1911
Box 1 Folder 34
Aug. 7, 1911 - Aug. 31, 1911
Box 1 Folder 35
Sept. 1, 1911 - Nov. 1911
Box 1 Folder 36
Jan. 23, 1912 - July 16, 1912
Box 1 Folder 37
Aug. 8, 1912 - Nov. 26, 1912
Box 1 Folder 38
June 25, 1913 - Oct. 10, 1913
Box 1 Folder 39
Sept. 9, 1914 - Oct. 27, 1914
Box 1 Folder 40
Dec. 7, 1914- Dec. 21, 1914
Box 1 Folder 41
Dec. 22, 1914 - Dec. 31, 1914
Box 1 Folder 42
Jan. 1, 1915 - Mar. 19, 1915
Box 1 Folder 43
May 26, 1915 - Sept. 3, 1915
Box 1 Folder 44
Mar. 11, 1916 - Apr. 6, 1916
Box 1 Folder 45
Apr. 7, 1916 - May 13, 1916
Box 1 Folder 46
July 27, 1916 - Sept. 8, 1916
Box 1 Folder 47
Jan. 2, 1917 - Sept. 9, 1917
Box 1 Folder 48
Sept. 13, 1917 - Sept. 30, 1917
Box 1 Folder 49
Oct. 1, 1917 - Nov. 7, 1917
Box 1 Folder 50
Dec. 10, 1917 - Dec. 31, 1917
Box 1 Folder 51
Dec. 25, 1917
Box 1 Folder 52
Jan. 2, 1918 - Feb. 26, 1918
Box 1 Folder 53
Mar. 2, 1918 - Apr. 30, 1918
Box 1 Folder 54
May 7, 1918 - June 2, 1918
Box 1 Folder 55
June 3, 1918 - June 30, 1918
Box 1 Folder 56
July 1, 1918 - Aug. 2, 1918
Box 1 Folder 57
Aug. 3, 1918 - Sept. 1, 1918
Box 1 Folder 58
Sept. 2, 1918 - Oct. 7, 1918
Box 1 Folder 59
Oct. 7, 1918 - Nov. 17, 1918
Box 1 Folder 60
Willard D. Straight to Others
June 23, 1911 - May 13, 1912
Box 2 Folder 1
Sept. 11, 1910 - July 4, 1911
Box 2 Folder 2
Dec. 10, 1917 - Dec. 11, 1918
Box 2 Folder 3
n.d.
 Box 2 Folder 4
Dec. 15, 1901- July 22, 1918
Box 2 Folder 5
Others to Dorothy Whitney Straight
Feb. 6, 1904 - June 28, 1904
Box 2 Folder 6
July 30, 1904 - Dec. 1, 1904
Box 2 Folder 7
Jan. 10, 1904 - Mar. 28, 1905
Box 2 Folder 8
Apr. 4, 1905 - Dec. 14, 1905
Box 2 Folder 9
Feb. 28, 1906 - June 27, 1906
Box 2 Folder 10
July 3, 1906 - July 26, 1906
Box 2 Folder 11
Aug. 1, 1906 - Aug. 31, 1906
Box 2 Folder 12
Sept. 1, 1906 - Dec. 26, 1906
Box 2 Folder 13
Jan. 14, 1907 - Apr. 23, 1907
Box 2 Folder 14
May 8, 1907 - Dec. 3, 1907
Box 2 Folder 15
Jan. 23, 1908 - Dec. 26, 1908
Box 2 Folder 16
Jan 3, 1909 - Dec. 26, 1909
Box 2 Folder 17
Jan 8, 1910 - July 23, 1910
Box 2 Folder 18
Aug. 8, 1910 - Dec. 30, 1910
Box 2 Folder 19
Oct. 30, 1910 - Apr. 26, 1911, A. Piatt Andrew
Box 2 Folder 20
Jan. 2, 1911 - Dec. 31, 1911
Box 2 Folder 21
Jan. 24, 1912 - Dec. 13, 1911
Box 2 Folder 22
Jan 17, 1914 - Dec. 21, 1915
Box 2 Folder 23
Feb. 7, 1916 - Dec. 29, 1917
Box 2 Folder 24
Feb. 15, 1918 - Dec. 12, 1918
Box 2 Folder 25
1918, Flower cards for WDS's funeral
Box 2 Folder 26
Jan. 16, 1919 - Aug. 21, 1919
Box 2 Folder 27
Aug. 23, 1919 - Nov. 28, 1919
Box 2 Folder 28
Mar. 4, 1920 - Dec. 30, 1920
Box 2 Folder 29
Jan. 5, 1921 - Dec. 27, 1921
Box 2 Folder 30
Feb. 15, 1922 - Dec. 6, 1922
Box 2 Folder 31
Jan. 25, 1923 - Nov. 30, 1923
Box 2 Folder 32
Jan. 22, 1924 - July 7, 1925
Box 2 Folder 33
n.d.
 Box 2 Folder 34
Oct. 26, 1910 - Sept. 15, 1920
Box 2 Folder 35
July 4, 1923 - Dec. 12, 1923
Box 2 Folder 36
1904-1907
Box 2 Folder 37
1908-1911; Nov. 16, 1921
Box 2 Folder 38
1906-1925
Box 2 Folder 39
June 2, 1918 - Apr. 16, 1922
Box 2 Folder 40
1910, 1919
Box 2 Folder 41
1910 - 1918
Box 2 Folder 42
Nov. 28, 1910 - Dec. 1, 1924, Roosevelt family to DWS
Box 2 Folder 43
June 12, 1909 - Jan. 1, 1922, Eliza M. Swift to DWS
Box 2 Folder 44
June 22, 1904 - Aug. 8, 1905, May Tuckerman to DWS
Box 2 Folder 45
May 16, 1906 - Dec. 2, 1907, May T. Kinnicutt to DWS
Box 2 Folder 46
June 17, 1908 - 1922, May T. Kinnicutt to DWS
Box 2 Folder 47
June 16, 1909 - Mar. 2, 1922, Lillian D. Wald to DWS
Box 2 Folder 48
Mar. 3, 1911 - May 10, 1924, Stark Young to DWS
Box 2 Folder 49
1916, Condolence, Pauline's death
Box 2 Folder 50
1918, Condolence - Willard's death
Box 2 Folder 51
Engagement and wedding congratulations, 1911
A-B
 Box 3 Folder 1
C-E
 Box 3 Folder 2
F-G
 Box 3 Folder 3
H-J
 Box 3 Folder 4
Kellogg
 Box 3 Folder 5
K-Lawrance
 Box 3 Folder 6
Lindley-McKnight
 Box 3 Folder 7
Mean-Murphy
 Box 3 Folder 8
N-Ripley
 Box 3 Folder 9
Roosevelt-Spinney
 Box 3 Folder 10
Steele-T
 Box 3 Folder 11
Viel Castel-Wendell
 Box 3 Folder 12
Wheelock-Wright
 Box 3 Folder 13
Organizations
 Box 3 Folder 14
Congratulations on Whitney W. Straight's birth, 1912
B-H
 Box 4 Folder 1
J-W
 Box 4 Folder 2
Unidentified
 Box 4 Folder 3
Dorothy to Willard
Nov. 17, 1909 Dec. 29, 1909
Box 4 Folder 4
Jan. 23, 1910 - Mar. 20, 1910
Box 4 Folder 5
Apr. 12, 1910 - May 31, 1910
Box 4 Folder 6
June 2, 1910 - June 29, 1910
Box 4 Folder 7
July 5, 1910 - Aug. 31, 1910
Box 4 Folder 8
Sept. 4, 1910- Sept. 29, 1910
Box 4 Folder 9
Oct. 8, 1910 - Nov. 25, 1910
Box 4 Folder 10
Dec. 1, 1910 - Dec. 28, 1910
Box 4 Folder 11
Jan. 4, 1910 - Jan. 31, 1910
Box 4 Folder 12
Mar. 5, 1911 - Feb. 28, 1911
Box 4 Folder 13
Mar. 5, 1911 - Apr. 28, 1911
Box 4 Folder 14
May 21, 1911 - June 20, 1911
Box 4 Folder 15
July 13, 1911 - July 31, 1911
Box 4 Folder 16
Aug. 1, 1911 - Aug. 30, 1911
Box 4 Folder 17
Sept. 1, 1911 - Dec. 31, 1911 and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 18
Apr. 23, 1912 - June 19, 1912
Box 4 Folder 19
Aug. 20, 1912 - June 19, 1912
Box 4 Folder 20
June 25, 1912 - Nov. 8, 1913 and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 21
June 21, 1914 - Dec. 29, 1914
Box 4 Folder 22
Jan. 1, 1915 - May 27, 1915
Box 4 Folder 23
July 14, 1915 - Sept. 4, 1915
Box 4 Folder 24
Mar. 17, 1916 - May 19, 1916
Box 4 Folder 25
Jan. 25, 1917 - July 19, 1917
Box 4 Folder 26
Sept. 5, 1917 - Sept. 30, 1917
Box 4 Folder 27
Oct. 2, 1917 - Oct. 19, 1917
Box 4 Folder 28
Dec. 15, 1917 - Dec. 30, 1917 and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 29
Jan. 1, 1918 - Jan. 31, 1918
Box 4 Folder 30
Feb. 6, 1918 - Mar. 31, 1918
Box 4 Folder 31
Apr. 4, 1918 - Apr. 24, 1918
Box 4 Folder 32
May 4, 1918 - May 30, 1918
Box 4 Folder 33
June 5, 1918 - June 26, 1918
Box 4 Folder 34
July 4, 1918 - July 25, 1918
Box 4 Folder 35
Aug. 1, 1918 - Aug. 19, 1918
Box 4 Folder 36
Aug. 22, 1918 - Sept. 3, 1918
Box 4 Folder 37
Sept. 7, 1918 - Sept. 29, 1918
Box 4 Folder 38
Oct. 6, 1918 - Nov. 5, 1918
Box 4 Folder 39
Nov. 15, 1918 - Nov. 17, 1918
Box 4 Folder 40
Undated
Box 4 Folder 41
Dorothy to Others
Nov. 18, 1909 - July 24, 1911 [Katherine L. Barnes]
Box 4 Folder 42
1904, 1909, 1918
Box 4 Folder 43
Others to Willard
Mar. 1, 1910 - Aug. 1, 1911 [Beatrice Bend]
Box 4 Folder 44
Mar. 21, 1910 - Aug. 20, 1910 [John O. P. Bland]
Box 4 Folder 45
Oct. 10, 1910 - July 26, 1917 [Henry P. Fletcher]
Box 4 Folder 46
1910 - 1911 and n.d. [Margaret D. Lawrence]
Box 4 Folder 47
1910-1911 [George D. Marvin]
Box 4 Folder 48
1910 [Pauline P. Paget]
Box 4 Folder 49
1916-1918 [Straight children]
Box 4 Folder 50
1910-1913, 1916
Box 4 Folder 51
1910-1924 [B-H]
Box 4 Folder 52
1909-1911 [J-M]
Box 4 Folder 53
1910-1917 [N-S]
Box 4 Folder 54
1909-1916 [T-Y]
Box 4 Folder 55
July 9, 1910 - Feb. 15, 1918 and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 56
Oct. 15, 1910 - Nov. 8, 1912 [Peter Bowditch]
Box 4 Folder 57
Wedding congratulations (to Leonard K. Elmhirst), 1925
1925
Box 4 Folder 58
Transcripts of Correspondence (not microfilmed or indexed)
Willard to Dorothy, Nov. 2, 1909 - May 27, 1909
Box 13 Folder 1
Willard to Dorothy, June 15, 1910 - Sept. 26, 1910
Box 13 Folder 2
Willard to Dorothy, Nov. 5, 1910 - Dec. 31, 1910
Box 13 Folder 3
Willard to Dorothy, Jan. 1, 1911 - Feb. 13, 1911
Box 13 Folder 4
Willard to Dorothy, Feb. 15, 1911 - Mar. 29, 1911
 Box 13 Folder 5
Willard to Dorothy, Apr. 2, 1911 - Aug. 11, 1911
Box 13 Folder 6
Willard to Dorothy, May 30, 1918 - Sept. 30, 1918
Box 13 Folder 7
Willard to Dorothy, Oct. 1, 1918 - Dec. 10, 1918
Box 13 Folder 8
Dorothy to Beatrice Bend, Oct. 29, 1911 - Nov. 30, 1911, Jan. 9, 1912 - Jan. 19, 1912
Box 13 Folder 9
Willard to others, Feb. 15, 1910 - Apr. 24, 1910
Box 13 Folder 10
Series II. Other papers through 1911
Photographs, documents, miscellany
Notebooks
 Box 5 Folder 1-7
Reprint, "A Gallant Lady"; correspondence concerning Flora P. Whitney biography - Mark Hirsh
 Box 5 Folder 8
Photos and newspaper clippings concerning W. C. Whitney, Old Westbury, Long Island (pre-1904)
 Box 5 Folder 9
Newspaper clippings concerning W. C. Whitney's death
 Box 5 Folder 10
Account of Harry P. Whitney, Dorothy's Testamentary Guardian, 1904-1908
Box 5 Folder 11
Guardianship papers, 1909-1910
Box 5 Folder 12
Photos of Dorothy and friends
 Box 5 Folder 13
Guestbook, 1906
Box 5 Folder 14
Newspaper clippings, 1906-1911
Box 5 Folder 15
Notes and clippings, Yale Junior Prom, 1907
Box 5 Folder 16
Aiken, South Carolina and W. C. Whitney's houses in Westbury, Long Island and New York City
 Box 6 Folder 1
Photos of house of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Payne, parents of Flora P. Whitney, Dorothy's mother
 Box 6 Folder 2
Home of George Washington, Mount Vernon - photo
 Box 6 Folder 3
Dorothy's trip to Europe, 1904 - mounted photos
 Box 6 Folder 4
Photos of Dorothy and friends through 1911
Box 6 Folder 5
Wedding photo, 1911, Geneva
 Box 6 Folder 6
Photo album, 1905-1909
Box 7 Folder 1
Honeymoon scrapbook, 1911-1912
Box 9 Folder 1
Notes
Notes, no date
 Box 5 Folder 17
Notes, 1905, 1906
Box 5 Folder 18
Series III. Other papers, 1912-1925
1130 Fifth Avenue
Residence budget, miscellany
 Box 8 Folder 1
World War I menu with recipes
 Box 8 Folder 2
Recipes
 Box 8 Folder 3
Correspondence
 Box 8 Folder 4
Inventory list of furnishings
 Box 8 Folder 5
Accession Books I & II
 Box 8 Folder 6-7
Civic activities
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, documents
 Box 8 Folder 8
Photos 1912-1925 (including wedding photo of Dorothy Whitney to Leonard K. Elmhirst)
 Box 8 Folder 9
Scrapbook, 1917-1919
 Box 8 Folder 10
Newspaper clippings, 1912-1926
 Box 8 Folder 11
Scrapbook of clippings, 1912-1918
Box 9 Folder 2
Maps: New York, Long Island
 Box 9 Folder 3
Photo, 1917 (Wedding, Beatrice Bend - Henry Prather Fletcher)
 Box 9 Folder 4
Willard D. Straight in France, 1917-1918 (see also #1260, reel 7)
Appointment as Major of the infantry, July 9, 1918
Box 8 Folder 12
Handwritten copies of cables sent and received by Dorothy during and after Willard's illness
 Box 8 Folder 13
Cable exchnage relating to Willard's illness and death (Nov. 25, 1918 - Dec. 1, 1918)
 Box 8 Folder 14
Correspondence and photos relating to "Suresnes American Cemetary and Memorial"
 Box 8 Folder 15
WDS's last Will (two copies), filed 1919
Box 8 Folder 16
India House
Receipts, 1914-1918
Box 8 Folder 17
Newspaper clippings, 1914, 1915
Box 8 Folder 18
Members and by-laws, 1915
Box 8 Folder 19
Financial records, 1914-1915
Box 8 Folder 20
Financial records, 1916-1917
Box 8 Folder 21
Financial records, 1920, 1921, 1925 (including documents relating to sale)
 Box 8 Folder 22
Asia magazine
Correspondence, 1919-1920
Box 8 Folder 23
Correspondence, 1916-1920
Box 8 Folder 24
Minutes, miscellany, 1915-1924
Box 8 Folder 25
Constitution, 1914, report on audit, 1920, 1922, 1925
Box 8 Folder 26
Willard Straight Hall
Correspondence, 1922-1925
Box 8 Folder 27
Other student unions, pamphlets, reports
 Box 10 Folder 1 & 2
Newspaper clippings, 1922-1925
Box 10 Folder 3
Blueprints
 Box 10 Folder 4
Correspondence concerning Cornerstone ceremony, 1924
Box 10 Folder 5
Photo album
 Box 10 Folder 6
Photo album, Willard Straight Hall (being built)
 Box 10 Folder 7
Series IV. The New Republic
Correspondence
1914
Box 11 Folder 1
1915
Box 11 Folder 2
1916
Box 11 Folder 3
1917
Box 11 Folder 4
1918
Box 11 Folder 5
1919
Box 11 Folder 6
1920
Box 11 Folder 7
1921
Box 11 Folder 8
1922
Box 11 Folder 9
1923
Box 11 Folder 10
1924 (January-July)
Box 11 Folder 11
1924 (August-December)
Box 11 Folder 12
1925
Box 11 Folder 13
1915-1917
Box 11 Folder 14
undated
 Box 11 Folder 15
Accounts
Financial Records, 1915-1925
Box 12 Folder 1-8
Financial Correspondence, 1915-1925
Box 12 Folder 9-14