Mary Hitchcock Wilde papers, 1801-1984.
Collection Number: 3989
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Mary Hitchcock Wilde papers, 1801-1984.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3989
Abstract:
Letters, photographs and photograph albums, writings and genealogical material of
Hitchcock-Wilde and related families including Fairbrothers, Frost, Mann, Marvin,
Raymond, Reynolds, Stenson, and Waddy.
Creator:
Wilde, Mary Hitchcock, 1905-
Quanitities:
6.7 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Letters, photographs and photograph albums, writings and genealogical material of
Hitchcock-Wilde and related families including Fairbrothers, Frost, Mann, Marvin,
Raymond, Reynolds, Stenson, and Waddy. Letters, writings, and papers concern the military
career of Captain Stephen Henry Hitchcock (1808-1857) who aided in the Texas war for
independence from Mexico and to the land he acquired in Texas. Reynolds family papers
(1837-1893) are mainly letters of Mary Ann Hitchcock and her son Lieutenant Edward
McDonald. Wilde family papers are from William Raymond Wilde (1861-1926), and Mary
Louise Stenson Wilde (1883-1959), parents of Mary Hitchcock Wilde.
Papers of Mary Hitchcock Wilde include writings as a child; student writings published
in The Budget, school magazine of The Vail-Deane School in Elizabeth, N.J.; other published and
unpublished writings; personal correspondence; financial records; and correspondence
with Arthur Johnson Eames, and other botanists in regard to research on gymnosperms;
also, correspondence and records pertaining to the Eames Memorial Fund; and photographs
of Wilde's furnishings used as an inventory after her death. In addition, there are
diplomas, certificates, indentures, calling cards, greeting cards, auction catalogs,
and other memorabilia.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Mary Hitchcock Wilde papers, #3989. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Botanist. Mary Hitchcock Wilde, 1905-1984, graduated from the Vail-Dean School in
Elizabeth, NJ, where she was enrolled in a college preparatory course. During that
time many of her writings were published in the schools publication, The Budget. She
studied at the New Jersey College for Women (now Douglas College) and received a Ph.D.
in botany from Cornell University in 1942.
Names:
Eames, Arthur J., 1881-1969.
Hitchcock, Stephen Henry.
Hitchcock, Mary Ann.
McDonald, Edward.
Wilde, William Raymond.
Wilde, Mary Louise Stenson.
Hitchcock family.
Wilde family.
Fairbrothers family.
Frost family.
Mann family.
Marvin family.
Raymond family.
Reynolds family.
Stenson family.
Waddy family.
New Jersey College for Women
Cornell University
Vail-Deane School (Elizabeth, NJ)
Subjects:
Women scientists.
Botanists.
Children\'s writings.
Botany.
Gymnosperms.
Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836.
Families -- New Jersey -- Bayonne.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Papers of Hitchcock, Reynolds, Wilde Families
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
William M. Hitchcock - Masonic Certificate
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1801 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Hitchcock Family Papers
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1823-1839 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Hitchcock Family Papers
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1840-1853 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Hitchcock Family Papers
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Letters re Stephen Henry Hitchcok's Military Career (recommendations, etc.)
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1834-1842 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
List of Volunteers to Aid Texas under command of Capt. S. Henry Hitchcock
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1835 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Commissions, etc. - Texas Army Muster Roll, Second Company raised in New York City
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1836-1844, 1851 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
S. Henry Hitchcock Letters
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1825-1842, 1856 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
S. Henry Hitchcock Letters to Father, William M. Hitchcock
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1839-1841 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
S. Henry Hitchcock re Texas land
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1840-1857, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
S. Henry Hitchcock Writings
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Cornelia Hitchcock Liborius
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1824-1877 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Clara Hitchcock Flanders
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1857-1918 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Emily Hitchcock Letters
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1846-1865, Undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Emily Hitchcock calling cards, copper plate
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Emily Hitchcock copy and composition books and clippings
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1857 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Reynolds Family Papers
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1837-1849 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Reynolds Family Papers
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Jan. 1850-July 1850 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Reynolds Family Papers
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Aug. 1850-Dec. 1850 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Reynolds Family Papers
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1851-1864 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Reynolds Family Papers
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1860-1864, Undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Reynolds Family Papers
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1882-1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Reynolds, Wilde, etc. - miscellaneous
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Wilde Family
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1840-1903, Undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
William B. Wild(e) Sketchbook
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1853 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
William B. Wild(e) Music
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Wilde Family Miscellaneous
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
William R. Wilde re S.H. Hitchcock heirs, land
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1904-1906 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
William R. Wilde Letters
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1904-1910, Undated |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
William R. Wilde Miscellaneous
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Wilde Honeymoon Scrapbook
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1904 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Wilde
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1904-1919 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Wilde and Mary Hitchcock Wilde
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
William R. Wilde - Will
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1920-1926 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
William R. Wilde - Poetry, book list
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Mary Louise Stenson Wilde and Mary
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138-1943 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Mary Louise and Mary
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1952-1984 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Stenson Whitney Rogers - Will, genealogy, notes
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Notes: Waddy, Wilde Families
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
George A. Waddy: Will, obituaries
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Cards, bookmarks, etc. - hand-crafted
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
"Heirlooms and Objects of Interest"
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Miscellaneous: Greeting Cards, etc.
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
"Texas Centinel" newspaper
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September 9, 1841 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
"The Grand Army of the Republic"
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July 1867 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Staten Island - history (clippings)
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1890, 1893, 1894 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Miscellaneous clippings
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1836, 1844, 1865, 1881 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Exculpation of U.S. Marine Corps in Mexico," Major John G. Reynolds - clippings
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1916 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8-12 |
Genealogical Material
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Series II. Mary Hitchcock Wilde Papers
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Writings
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXII no. 3, June 1919
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1919 |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXIII no. 2,Apr. 1920
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1920 |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXV no. 3, June 1921
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1921 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXVI no. 3, June 1922
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1922 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXVII no. 1, Dec. 1922
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1922 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXVII no. 2, Apr. 1923
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1923 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXVII no. 3, June 1923
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1923 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXVIII no. 2, Marc. 1924
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1924 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXVIII no. 3, May 1924
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1924 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXIX no. 1, Dec. 1924
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1924 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXIX no. 2, Mar. 1925
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1925 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXIX no. 3, May 1925
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1925 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXX no. 1, Dec. 1925
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1925 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXX no. 2, Mar. 1926
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1926 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Vail-Deane Budget (school publication), Vol. XXX no. 3, May 1926
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1926 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
"My Life," 1920 - Story of young daughter of "Earl of Arundel," illustrated with photographs of dolls
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1920 |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
"Literary Accomplishments Book II" with some illustrations (drawings)
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1919-1923 |
| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
"Literary Accomplishments Book III" with some illustrations (drawings)
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1923-1925 |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
"Memoirs of a Young Girl"
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Aug. 1924 |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
"Dream Divine," with Mr. Burrows' Criticism
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1933-1934 |
| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
"Covenant with Time," original illuminated manuscript
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1934 |
| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Story 1 - The Dream Divine
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Lesson 1
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Story 2 - Behind the Fog
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Lesson 2
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Story 3 - The Empty Room, Dr. Hodett's and Mr.Bower's Criticism
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Lesson 3
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Lesson 4
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 19 |
Story 4 - Mademoiselle
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 20 |
Manuscript of Wilde - New Jersey College
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 21 |
English H3 - Carbon copies of lessons and letters to Dr. Hodett
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1936-1937 |
| Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Flight of the Sparrow
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1937 |
| Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Knight of the Lost Cause
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1937 |
| Box 5 | Folder 24 |
Notes for Children of Earth part 1
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| Box 5 | Folder 25 |
Notes for Children of Earth part 2
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| Box 5 | Folder 26 |
Notes for Children of Earth part 3
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| Box 5 | Folder 27 |
Notes for Children of Earth
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| Box 5 | Folder 28 |
Notes for Children of Earth
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| Box 5 | Folder 29 |
Manuscript: Children of Earth Chapter I, II
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| Box 5 | Folder 30 |
Manuscript: Children of Earth Chapter III, IV
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| Box 5 | Folder 31 |
Manuscript: Children of Earth Chapter V, plus
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| Box 5 | Folder 32 |
Thoughts - pen and ink drawings
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| Box 5 | Folder 33 |
Reference notes for book "To Be What I Desire" (Esse Quod Opto)
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| Box 5 | Folder 34 |
Gleanings - manuscripts, drawings, etc.
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| Box 5 | Folder 35 |
Poems
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Personal Papers
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| Box 5 | Folder 36 |
Transcripts
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1930-1937 |
| Box 5 | Folder 37 |
Membership in honor societies
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1930-1950 |
| Box 5 | Folder 38 |
Record of Training
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1954 |
| Box 5 | Folder 39 |
New Jersey College for Women, etc.
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1940-1948 |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Letters - Alice Sadtler
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1948-1983 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Postal cards to (Aunt) Rosalie C. Wilde during Mary's European trip to Botanical Congress
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1950 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Botanical Congress
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1950 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Letters - Dr. Vivia B. Appleton - also, A Doctor's Letters from China Fifty Years Ago, by Appleton
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1971-1977 |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Passports
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1950, 1964 |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Postal Cards - trip to West Indies
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
"Business Letters" and miscellany
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| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
"Business Letters" and miscellany
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| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Christmas Cards
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1983 |
| Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Estate, Will
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| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Obituaries, biography, material related to memorial service
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1984 |
| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Papers related to cemetery plots, Staten Island
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| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
"Shell on Windows," 5 Cornell Walk
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1966 |
| Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Landscape Planting Plan, 5 Cornell Walk
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1967 |
| Box 6 | Folder 16 |
House - correspondence, plans, blueprints
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1966-1967 |
| Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Travel Itineraries - Historic Ithaca
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1979-1982 |
| Box 6 | Folder 18 |
"Among maps and papers that she took with her on vacation to Florida"
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1984 |
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Financial Papers and Miscellaneous
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| Box 6 | Folder 19 |
"Library Catalogue and values - partial list of furniture"
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1913-1918 |
| Box 6 | Folder 20 |
Disposal of property
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1984 |
| Box 6 | Folder 21-24 |
"Christie's Auction Catalog: Sale of Mary's antique furniture and silver, Japanese
prints, Chinese porcelains, fine old furnishings"
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| Box 6 | Folder 25 |
Blue Cross and Medicare
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| Box 6 | Folder 26 |
Blue Cross Instructions
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| Box 6 | Folder 27 |
Sigma Xi Hospital Insurance - claims
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| Box 6 | Folder 28 |
Sigma Xi Hospital Insurance Plan
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| Box 6 | Folder 29 |
Social Security
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| Box 6 | Folder 30 |
TIAA
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| Box 6 | Folder 31 |
Books- Bills
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| Box 6 | Folder 32 |
Bills, receipts
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1969, 1970 |
| Box 6 | Folder 33 |
Bills, receipts
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1970 |
| Box 6 | Folder 34 |
Bills, receipts
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1971 |
| Box 6 | Folder 35 |
Bills, receipts
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1972 |
| Box 6 | Folder 36 |
Bills, receipts
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1973 |
| Box 6 | Folder 37 |
Bills, receipts
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1974 |
| Box 6 | Folder 38 |
Bills, receipts
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1975 |
| Box 6 | Folder 39 |
Bills, receipts
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1976-1977 |
| Box 6 | Folder 40 |
Bills, receipts
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1978 |
| Box 6 | Folder 41 |
Bills, receipts
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1979 |
| Box 6 | Folder 42 |
Bills, receipts
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1980 |
| Box 6 | Folder 43 |
Bills, receipts
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1981 |
| Box 6 | Folder 44 |
Bills, receipts
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1982 |
| Box 6 | Folder 45 |
Miscellany
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| Box 6 | Folder 46 |
Miscellany and Irish Postal Cards - souvenirs from The Irish Industrial Exposition
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1905 |
| Box 6 | Folder 47 |
Miscellaneous - Texas Western College, El Paso
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| Box 6 | Folder 48 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 6 | Folder 49 |
Stocks, bonds, etc.
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Eames-Wilde Research
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| Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Report of the Opening of the Botanical Laboratories, University of Toronto; also,
letters from R.B. Thompson
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1927, 1932 |
| Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Conifers - correspondence
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1942-1955 |
| Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Eames - Letters to Wilde
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1943-1951 |
| Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Eames: "Gymnosperms" Introductory Preface, early draft, correspondence
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1946-1970 |
| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Eames: retirement program
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1949 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Eames: Gynmosperm correspondence
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1962-1966 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Carl Wilson's tribute to Eames
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1967 |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Eames: biographical material
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1969 |
| Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Eames: biography by Wilde
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1969 |
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Arthur Johnson Eames Memorial Fund
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| Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Eames Botanical Preserve
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1969-1970 |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Eames Botanical Preserve
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1971 |
| Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Eames Memorial Fund
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1972-1983 |
| Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Eames Memorial Fund records
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1969 |
| Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Eames Memorial Fund records
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1969-1977 |
| Box 7 | Folder 15 |
Eames Memorial Fund records
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| Box 7 | Folder 16 |
Natural Areas Sub-committee
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1976-1983 |
| Box 7 | Folder 17 |
Dr. Vivia Appleton
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1971 |
| Box 7 | Folder 18 |
Dr. Vivia Appleton - news clippings
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| Box 7 | Folder 19 |
Dr. Lawrence H. MacDaniels
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1983 |
| Box 7 | Folder 20 |
Photographs
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| Box 7 | Folder 21 |
News clippings - proposed route 13 and others
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Series III. Hitchcock-Wilde Family Photographs and Other Items
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Eames-Wilde Research
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| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
William Raymond Wilde (?)
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1892-1896 |
| Box 8 | Folder 2 |
"Pictures of Ireland taken Apr. 1901"
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1901 |
| Box 8 | Folder 3 |
William Raymond Wilde pre-1905
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Undated |
| Box 8 | Folder 4 |
"Mary Hitchcock Wilde - Daughter of Mary Louise and William Raymond Wilde"
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1905-1913 |
| Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Wilde Family
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1915-1922 |
| Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Mary Hitchcock Wilde
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1924-1935 |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 |
"My School-Day Memory Book," inscribed "Mother to Sweetness"
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1925-1962 |
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Other Items
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| Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Pamphlet: A Conclusive Exculpation of the Marine Corps in Mexico... by Brevet-Major John G. Reynolds
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1852 |
| Box 8 | Folder 9 |
Navy Register of the United States
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1855 |
| Box 8 | Folder 10 |
Receipt Book - William Mann Hitchcock
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1809-1825 |
| Box 8 | Folder 11 |
William R. Wilde Diary
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1892-1935 |
| Box 20 |
Keepsake box fashioned as Shakespeare's Comedies containing holiday greetings and
other miscellaneous items
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Wilde-Hitchcock and Related Families Photographs
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| Box 9 |
Family Photographs: Fairbrothers, Rogers, Stenson, Waddy
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| Box 10 |
Family Photographs: Flanders, Frost, Hitchcock, Reynolds, Stenson, Wilde; also, Long
Island, homes
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| Box 11 |
Family Photographs: Frost, Hitchcock, Raymond, Wilde; also homes
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| Box 12 |
Glass-frame Photographs: Frost, Hitchcock, Wilde - FRAGILE
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| Box 13 |
Daguerreotypes, framed photos, glass negatives: Dallimore, Flanders, Hitchcock, Raymond,
Reynolds, Salmon, Stenson, Vail, Wilde - FRAGILE
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| Box 14 |
Mary H. Wilde photographs re botany, Cornell University, etc.
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| Box 15 |
Mary H. Wilde photographs and slides
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| Box 16 |
Mary H. Wilde - photographs of 5 Cornell Walk, and of furnishings, used as inventory
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Photographs, Certificates and other, rolled
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| Box 17 | Folder 1 |
Naturalization Papers - William Basil Wild(e)
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1880 |
| Box 17 | Folder 2 |
Certificate of Marriage - William Stenson and Lucia Laura Waddy
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1883 |
| Box 17 | Folder 3 |
Certificate - Mary Louise Stenson - American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association
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1899 |
| Box 17 | Folder 4 |
Certificate of Marriage - William Raymond
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1904 |
| Box 17 | Folder 5 |
Certificate - William R. Wilde - The Lincoln Farm Association
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1906 |
| Box 17 | Folder 6 |
Certificate/Diploma - Vail-Deane School
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1926 |
| Box 17 | Folder 7 |
Navigational Chart - Kill Van Kull, NY-NJ
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1917 |
| Box 17 | Folder 8 |
Photograph - Vail Deane School group
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1921 |
| Box 17 | Folder 9 |
Photograph - Botanical Society Banquet
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1940 |
| Box 17 | Folder 10 |
Citation and Certificate - Phi Beta Kappa
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1946 |
| Box 17 | Folder 11 |
Set Up of "In Memoriam" (Mary H. Wilde)
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1984 |
| Box 17 | Folder 12 |
Register of Pedigree - Hitchcock Family
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| Box 18 |
Mary Hitchcock Wilde postal cards and commercial slides
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| Box 19 |
Scapulary "found in the chapel attached to the church situated at 'Hacienda Tacubuya'..."
- see description in 2-6; Bead bag brought from either Texas or Mexico, see description
in 1-8
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| Mapcase Folder 1 | Folder 1 |
The Decalogue written by Stephen H. Hitchcock, Dec. 25, 1820
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1820 |
| Mapcase Folder 2 |
Muster roll of men under S. Henry Hitchcock
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1837 | |
| Mapcase Folder 3 |
Indentures - Texas
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1842, 1846, 1855 | |
| Mapcase Folder 4 |
Indenture - John Hinton-Esther Wild, St. George Hanover Square, County of Middlesex
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1823 | |
| Mapcase Folder 5 |
Co. E. 13 - Regiment - Resolution of Condolence: Ernest Liborius, Brooklyn, NY, killed
by mine explosion in attack on Petersburg, Va. New York Herald, Nov. 1864
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1864 | |
| Mapcase Folder 6 |
Rutgers-New Jersey College Diploma
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1930 | |
| Mapcase Folder 7 |
Rutgers-New Jersey College Diploma
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1932 | |
| Mapcase Folder 8 |
Cornell University Ph.D. Diploma
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1942 | |