Waterman Thomas Hewett papers, 1857-1920,-1870-1905 (bulk)
Collection Number: 47-1-591
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Waterman Thomas Hewett papers, 1857-1920,-1870-1905 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
47-1-591
Abstract:
Papers of Waterman Thomas Hewett, a professor of German language and literature at
Cornell University.
Creator:
Hewett, Waterman Thomas, 1846-1921.
Quanitities:
3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor of German language and literature.
Research notes, correspondence, printed material, clippings, and drafts pertaining
to Hewett's Cornell University: A History, including material on the Morrill Act, which provided land grants to state educational
institutions; information on the founding of Cornell University; biographical notes
on Andrew Dickson White, Henry W. Sage, Jacob Gould Schurman, and other Cornell professors
and benefactors; histories of the various schools, departments, buildings, clubs,
athletic teams, scholarships, and libraries; material on military training; university
statistics; and records concerning the Jennie McGraw Fiske will suit and other lawsuits
involving the university. Also included are letters to Professor Hewett concerning
his bibliography of the writings of Goldwin Smith, as well as a copy of the bibliography;
a note (1903) and a letter (1920) concerning Hewett's anonymous donation of the German
Prize; notebooks and classbooks for courses taught by Hewett, 1870-1905; and bound
manuscript and typescript volumes of Hewett's writings on German Literature.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Waterman Thomas Hewett papers, #47-1-591. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Fiske, Jennie McGraw -- : Estate.
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Cornell University -- : Athletics.
Cornell University -- : Biography.
Cornell University -- : Buildings.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell University -- : Finance.
Cornell University -- : Funds and scholarships.
Cornell University -- : History.
Cornell University -- : Libraries.
Cornell University -- : Presidents.
Cornell University -- : Statistics.
Subjects:
Germanists.
College teachers.
Wills.
German literature.
Federal aid to higher education.
Form and Genre Terms:
Drafts (rough).
Biographies.2aat
Bibliographies.
CONTAINER LIST
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letters of Amos Brown (Rev.)
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Scope and Contents
Brown was an educator, administrator, President of People's College at Havana, New
York, for several years, lobbyist for the 2nd Morrill Bill, and assisted in groundwork
for the establishment of Cornell University. May 30, 1857-Apr. 23, 1865. Concerned mainly with affairs of the People's College at Havana, New York, and with
progress of Morrill Act. (12 items)
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Report on the trends in education and events leading up to the founding of Cornell
in 1865 .
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1865 |
Scope and Contents
Much material on Rev. Amos Brown and his efforts with the agricultural college at
Ovid. Written by W.H. Brewer, Mar. 11, 1894, and Apr. 3, 1894. (80 pages)
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Secret Societies
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
University Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Woodford Prizes - The 1886 Memorial Prize Speakers; The 1894 Memorial Prize Debators
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1886, 1894 |
Scope and Contents
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Copy of The Cornell Era, vol. XXVI, NO. 10,
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Dec. 2, 1893 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Clubs - Notes on founding and activities of clubs at Cornell
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Musical and Drama Organizations
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Two Envelopes, The Cornell Navy
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Second Envelope
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Illustrations
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Tennis, Basketball, Golf, etc.
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Football
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Histories of Fencing and Chess
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
A Short sketch (typed) of Lacrosse at Cornell and lists of teams; also letter from
Walter Finlay who wrote a sketch for Hewett
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Baseball
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Handwritten Preface to Hewett's History of Cornell
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Handwritten Introduction
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Handwritten table of Contents
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Statement of fundamental ideas behind Cornell's organization
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Athletic Contests - statistics (dates of races, winners, and their times); Athletic
Council - statistics and short history
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Military Instruction and Manual Labor
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Bibliography - two envelopes (first envelope)
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Second Envelope
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Copy of proceedings in the House of Representatives over Morrill Act
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Statistics
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Scope and Contents
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Pages from The History of Cornell University by Hewett in Landmarks of Tompkins County with photos of Henry W. Sage and Hiram Corson
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
The Precursors of Cornell University
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
The National Land Grant
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
The United States Government and Higher Education - a short handwritten account by
Hewett
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Box 1 | Folder 31-32 |
The Fiske Will Suit
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Box 1 | Folder 33-35 |
Miscellaneous - 3 Envelopes
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
The University Library
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Box 1 | Folder 37-38 |
Biographies - Benefactors and Professors - 2 Envelopes
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Scope and Contents
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Box 2 | Folder 1-3 |
Biographies - Benefactors and Professors (con't)
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Sibley College Photographs - 7 line drawings, 4 photographs
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Notes and Statistics on the Debating and Literary Societies and on the Cornell University
Christian Association
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Box 2 | Folder 6-8 |
Department - 3 Envelopes
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Scope and Contents
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Letters from various professors relating to the different departments and colleges
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
The Daily Times, Troy: devoted entirely to article about Cornell with pictures (pp. 7 and 8), Oct. 14, 1893
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
J.G. Schurman
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Scope and Contents
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Henry W. Sage
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Scope and Contents
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Andrew D. White
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Scope and Contents
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Campus and University Buildings
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
The Summer School
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Notes and correspondence concerning Hewitt's research on Goldwin Smith, ca. 1912-1919
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Letter to Cornell University Comptroller Bostwick re Hewitt's donation for the German
Prize, June 21, 1920
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Box 3 | Volume 1 |
Notebooks and classbooks, 1870-1905 (67 small volumes)
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1870-1905 |
Box 4 | Volume 1 |
History of Cornell, manuscript,
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1894 |
Box 4 | Volume 2 |
Cornell University: A History, manuscript, 1904 , vol. 1
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1904 |
Box 4 | Volume 3 |
Cornell University: A History, manuscript, 1904 , vol. 2
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1904 |
Box 4 | Volume 4 |
Cornell University: A History, manuscript, 1904 , vol. 3
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1904 |
Box 4 | Volume 5 |
"The History of Cornell University," annotated typescript from The Landmarks of Tompkins County,
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n.d. |
Box 5 | Volume 1 |
Hermann and Dorothea, manuscript,
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1891 |
Box 5 | Volume 2 |
Letter from A.D. White on his role in the founding of Cornell University,
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1894 |
Box 5 | Volume 3 |
Upland's Poems, manuscript,
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1896 |
Box 5 | Volume 4 |
The History of Goethe's Printed Text and Hermann and Dorothea, manuscript,
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1899 |
Box 5 | Volume 5 |
A German Reader, manuscript,
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1899 |
Box 5 | Volume 6 |
Cornell University: A History, manuscript,
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1904 |
Box 5 | Volume 7 |
A Bibliography of the Writings of Goldwin Smith,
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1913 |
Box 5 | Volume 8 |
Index to Era and Sun, also Journal of New York Legislature,
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n.d. |