Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall, 1890-1976,-1920-1958 (bulk)
Collection Number: 3782
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall, 1890-1976,-1920-1958 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3782
Abstract:
Includes photocopies of correspondence with Margaret Isherwood, Eloise Elmhirst Sharman,
Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne and correspondence concerning Willard Straight Hall; lecture
notes, notebooks, diaries and travel journals; an inventory for the records room at
Dartington Hall and a diary describing World War I by an unknown author. Also, microfilmed
correspondence between Leonard K. Elmhirst and Dorothy Whitney Straight; her diaries,
clippings, social appointments, notes and addresses.
Creator:
Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight.
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Philanthropist, educator, publisher, patron of the arts and social activist.
Dorothy Payne Whitney, daughter of William C. Whitney, a financier and Secretary
of the Navy under President Grover Cleveland, married Willard Dickerman Straight in
19ll. Straight died in 1918, and she married Leonard Knight Elmhirst in 1925. Dorothy
and Elmhirst purchased Dartington Hall, Devon, England, reconstructed the 14th century
manor and founded a school on the property. Dartington Hall became a center for the
arts and a leading coeducational progressive school. The New School for Social Research
in New York was begun with the backing of the Whitney Estate in 1919. Dorothy was
involved with the New York State Food Commission, the Women's Liberty Loan Committee,
the Social Unit Plan, the Junior League, the War Camp Service Committee, the Women's
Emergency Committee of the European Relief Council, the New School for Social Research,
the Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children, the Pueblos Defense Committee, and the
Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense. She supported individual students
at Bordentown Military Academy and Hobart College, and helped to found THE NEW REPUBLIC.
Includes photocopies of correspondence with Margaret Isherwood, Eloise Elmhirst Sharman,
Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne and correspondence concerning Willard Straight Hall (1920-1967);
also lecture notes, notes about lectures taught at Dartington Hall, notebooks, diaries
and travel journals; contains originals of letters by Ruth Morgan (1926-1933), Margaret
and Helen Isherwood (1932-1968), Susan Sedgwick Hammond (1940-1968), Louise E. Croly
(1926-1940) and letters by Dorothy and Leonard to Margaret and Helen Isherwood, Nancy
Green, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne, and Gilbert Harrison; also included are notes
by E.A. Stettner, the transcriber of the Croly correspondence, an inventory for the
records room at Dartington Hall and a diary (n.d.) describing World War I by an unknown
author. Also, microfilmed correspondence between Leonard K. Elmhirst and Dorothy Whitney
Straight (1920-1925) discussing travels, love and their subsequent marriage; correspondence
(1932-1935) discussing psychology, sociology, Dartington Hall, education, religion
and literature between Henry F. Heard, Gerald Heard, Margaret Isherwood and Dorothy
Whitney Straight Elmhirst; her diaries (1927-1928), clippings, social appointments,
notes and addresses. Also, clippings concerning events at Dartington Hall (ca.1926-1949),
and photographs of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst's penthouse on Park Avenue (ca.1928).
Also an inventory catalog of the Dartington Hall Archives.
Related collection:Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst. Papers, #3725.
Related collection:Willard Dickerman Straight. Papers, #1260.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall, #3782. Division of
Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974.
Isherwood, Margaret.
Sharman, Eloise Elmhirst.
Browne, Ellen Van Volkenberg.
Morgan, Ruth.
Isherwood, Helen.
Hammond, Susan Sedgwick.
Croly, Louise E.
Green, Nancy.
Stettner, E.A.
Heard, Gerald, 1889-1971.
Harrison, Gilbert.
Cornell University -- : Willard Straight Hall.
Dartington Hall -- : Totnes -- : Devon -- : England.
Subjects:
Whitney, Dorothy Payne, -- 1887-1968.
Straight, Dorothy Whitney, -- 1887-1968.
Heard, Henry FitzGerald.
Women social reformers.
Social reformers.
Women -- Diaries.
Education.
World War, 1914-1918.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Photocopies
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Cornell: Willard Straight Hall
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1931-1936 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Cornell: Willard Straight Hall
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1935-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Cornell: Willard Straight Hall
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1961-1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Cornell: Willard Straight Hall
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1920-1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Cornell: Willard Straight Hall
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1920-1926 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Cornell: Willard Straight Hall
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1925-1928 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst notes on religion
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
DWSE General Notes
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Orders to Booksellers
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1960-1968 |
Scope and Contents
Part 1
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Orders to Booksellers
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1960-1968 |
Scope and Contents
Part 2
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
DWSE Miscellaneous Notes
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Tribute to Alexander Meiklejohn
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Berkeley Divinity School Correspondence
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1966-1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
DWSE Autobiographical notes
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1949-1973 |
Scope and Contents
Also dates from 1959 to 1968 and undated notes.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Article: "Dorothy Elmhirst and Michael Chekov"
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1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
DWSE Correspondence with Margaret Isherwood
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1946-1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
DWSE Correspondence with Margaret Isherwood
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1952-1965 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Eloise Elmhirst Sharman correspondence
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1940-1959 |
Scope and Contents
Part 1
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Eloise Elmhirst Sharman correspondence
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1940-1959 |
Scope and Contents
Part 2
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
DWSE to Ruth Morgan
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1928-1929 |
Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
DWSE to Ruth Morgan
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
Clippings: Ruth Morgan's Obituary
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Diary
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Notebook
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1931 |
Scope and Contents
Article on Dirac Theory.
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence
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1929 |
Scope and Contents
Regarding Gerald Heard and Margaret Isherwood along with clippings regarding religion,
some of which is undated.
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Notebook
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1934 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Notebook
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1935-1936 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Notes
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1938-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Notes on "The Possessed" and articles of interest.
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Notebook
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1935-1939 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Notes on Steiner
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1937 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Notes on Teaching Opera Students
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1939 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Notes on Blake's Eternity, et al.
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1939 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Notebook
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1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Notebook
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1942 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Notes on Drama Classes
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1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Notebook
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1942 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Six Lectures on U.S.A.
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1943 |
Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Travel Diary, Europe
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1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Notes
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1950-1959 |
Scope and Contents
Notes on architecture and Shakespeare's "Othello."
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Notes
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1950-1959 |
Scope and Contents
Notes on "Ring Around the Moon," "Hamlet" and English furniture.
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Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Notes on Shakespeare lectures
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1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Notebook
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1896-1901 |
Scope and Contents
Notebook on "Books as I have Read Them"
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Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Correspondence: New Republic
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1914 |
Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Willard's Death
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1918 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Notebooks
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1950-1959 |
Scope and Contents
Notebooks on lectures, and on quotations from Pueblo Indian book.
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Notes
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1955 |
Scope and Contents
Notes on English furniture, on the "Tempest", etc. circa 1950's.
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
"Something of What I have Learned in this Year of Grace"
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1955 |
Scope and Contents
for Terry.
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
DWSE Shakespeare Notes
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1955 |
Scope and Contents
"Measure for Measure"
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
DWSE Travel Diary: Italy
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1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
DWSE Travel Diary: France
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1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
DWSE Travel Diary: Italy
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1959-1965 |
Scope and Contents
Specific dates: 1959, 1961, 1964
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
DWSE Travel Diary: Greece
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1963 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
DWSE Shakespeare Notes
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1955 |
Scope and Contents
Notes on "Othello"
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Diary of a Motortrip
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1959-10-12-1959-10-26 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
DWSE Extracts and Notes for a Lecture
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1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Quotes and Notes
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1960-1963 |
Scope and Contents
Quotes and notes on Shakespeare's sonnets and extracts from Neumann's study of Henry
Moore and Bradley on Lear.
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
"How the World Began" by Dorothy
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
DWSE's granddaughter.
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
My Special Anthology
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1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
DWSE notes copied by Leonard K. Elmhirst
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1963-1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Psalms and Quotes
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1965 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Notes
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1966-1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Diaries
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1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Venice
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1964 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Diary and notes
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1967-1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne
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1929-1972 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Notes on the Concept of God
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1922-1923 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Notebook on Bible class
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Notes on Tyson course
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1920 |
Scope and Contents
"Bible and Modern Scholarship" Part 1.
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Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Notes on Tyson course
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1920 |
Scope and Contents
"Bible and Modern Scholarship" Part 2.
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Lecture Notes
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1922 |
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
DWSE Poem Anthology
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1919-1923 |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
DWSE Selected Poems
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1920-1929 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
DWSE Selected Poems and Notes
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1922 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Lecture Notes
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
Dewey-Gates, et. Al.
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Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Lecture Notes
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Date unknown |
Scope and Contents
John Dewey
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Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Lecture Notes
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Date unknown |
Scope and Contents
John Dewey
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Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Lecture Notes
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1923-10 |
Scope and Contents
Dr. Fosdick
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Box 2 | Folder 31 |
European Diary
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1904-1905 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
European Diary
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1904-1905 |
Scope and Contents
Part 2
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Box 2 | Folder 33 |
European Diary
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1904-1905 |
Scope and Contents
Part 3
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Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Engagement Book
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1904 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Typical pages of uncopied diaries
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1916-1923 |
Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Diary, Part 1
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1906 |
Box 2 | Folder 37 |
Diary, Part 2
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1906 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Diary, Part 3
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1906 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Line-A-Day Diary, Part 1
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1916-1920 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Line-A-Day Diary, Part 2
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1916-1920 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Line-A-Day Diary, Part 3
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1916-1920 |
Scope and Contents
Plus miscellaneous notes.
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Line-A-Day Diary, Part 1
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1911-1915 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Line-A-Day Diary, Part 2
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1911-1915 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Line-A-Day Diary, Part 3
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1911-1915 |
Series II. Originals
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Letters of Ruth Morgan to DWSE, Part 1
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1925-1933 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Letters of Ruth Morgan to DWSE, Part 2
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1925-1933 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
DWSE to Margaret and Helen Isherwood and others
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1932-1936 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
DWSE to Margaret and Helen Isherwood and others
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1937-1941 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
DWSE to Margaret and Helen Isherwood and others
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1942 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
DWSE to Margaret and Helen Isherwood and others
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1928-1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
DWSE to Margaret and Helen Isherwood and others
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1964-1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Susan Sedgwick Hammond correspondence and notes
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1940-1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Susan Sedgwick Hammond correspondence and notes
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1973 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Susan Sedgwick Hammond correspondence and notes
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Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Ellen Van Volkenberg Correspondence and Material re: Dartington Hall
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1929-1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Ellen Van Volkenberg Correspondence and Material re: Dartington Hall
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1952-1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
DWSE miscellaneous correspondence
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Date unknown |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Nancy Green correspondence--Applegreen
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1950-1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Nancy Green correspondence--Applegreen
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Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Index to Records Room Materials, Dartington Hall
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Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Commemorative articles
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1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Commemorative articles
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1960-1969 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Commemorative articles
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous
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Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Croly Correspondence, notes by E.A Stettner
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1920-1929 |
Scope and Contents
see detailed list
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Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Croly Correspondence, notes by E.A Stettner
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1927 |
Scope and Contents
see detailed list
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Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Croly Correspondence, notes by E.A Stettner
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1928 |
Scope and Contents
see detailed list
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Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Croly Correspondence, notes by E.A Stettner
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1928-1929 |
Scope and Contents
see detailed list
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Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Croly Correspondence, notes by E.A Stettner
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1934 |
Scope and Contents
see detailed list
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Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Croly Correspondence, notes by E.A Stettner
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1930-1939 |
Scope and Contents
see detailed list
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Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Croly Correspondence, notes by E.A Stettner
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1940 |
Scope and Contents
see detailed list
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Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Croly Correspondence
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1940-1949 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Croly Correspondence
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Theater Arts Inc. Part 1
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1930-1939 |
Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Theater Arts Inc. Part 2
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1930-1939 |
Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Diary - author unknown
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Undated |
Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Rechristening of the "Dorothy" button
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1972-06-19 |
Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Negatives transferred from collection # 1260
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1981-11 |
Scope and Contents
MH
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Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Correspondence of DWSE and LKE with Susan Sedgwick Hammond
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1951-1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Letters to Gilbert Harrison from Dorothy Elmhirst
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1964-03-07 |
Scope and Contents
August 1951 Accession
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Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Letters to Gilbert Harrison from Dorothy Elmhirst
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1965-12-31 |
Box 3 |
Leonard Elmhirst
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1964-03-28 | |
Series III. Microfilm
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Box 3 |
Diaries
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1927-1928 | |
Scope and Contents
Consists of DWSE's diaries, clippings, social appointments, notes and addresses.
Positive film only.
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Box 4 |
Clippings on events at Dartington Hall
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Box 4 |
Ten photographs of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst's penthouse on Park Avenue
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1928 |