Hyde family papers, 1863-1957.
Collection Number: 1670
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Hyde family papers, 1863-1957.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1670
Abstract:
Largely correspondence and other papers of Florence Elise Hyde of Ithaca, New York,
relating to her literary activities, her support of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment,
and her interest in national politics and American foreign policy.
Creator:
Hyde family.
Quanitities:
3.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Largely correspondence and other papers of Florence Elise Hyde of Ithaca, New York,
relating to her literary activities, her support of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
(1926-32), and her interest in national politics and American foreign policy (1932-53).
The remainder of the collction consists of clippings of reviews of her books, brochures
used in advertising them, and printed or typescript copies of her plays and novels;
scattered correspondence and other papers of Miss Hyde's father, Orange Percy Hyde,
chiefly concerning Ithaca social and civic life, and various public issues; and family
correspondence of her brother, Walter Woodburn Hyde (Cornell Class of 1893), much
of it from the years he taught at Northampton High School (Massachusetts) and Princeton
University, travelled in Great Britain, or studied in Athens, Rome, Halle, and other
European cities. Correspondents include George Lincoln Burr, George Washington Cable,
A. Stanley Copeland, Luigi Criscuolo, George De Grassi, Lewis E. Dofflemeyer, John
S. Fine, Frederick Treman Johnson, Alfred M. Landon, Clark S. Northup, Frances Folsom
Cleveland Preston, Pauline Morton Sabin, Grace Alvana Seeley, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Stanley
Shaw, Jouett Shouse, John Taber, Robert A. Taft, Jessie M. Thilly, James W. Wadsworth,
Jr., Andrew D. White, and William Allen White.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Hyde family papers, #1670. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925.
Copeland, A. Stanley.
Criscuolo, Luigi.
De Grassi, George.
Dofflemeyer, Lewis E.
Fine, John S.
Hyde, Florence Elise.
Hyde, Orange Percy.
Hyde, Walter Woodburn.
Johnson, Frederick Treman.
Landon, Alfred M.
Northup, Clark S.
Preston, Frances Folsom Cleveland.
Sabin, Pauline Morton.
Seeley, Grace Alvana.
Shaw, Stanley.
Shouse, Jouett.
Sze, Sao-Ke Alfred, 1877-1958.
Taber, John.
Taft, Robert M.
Thilly, Jessie M.
Wadsworth, James W., Jr.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
White, William Allen.
Places:
United States -- Politics and government.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Subjects:
College teachers.
Women authors.
Authors.
Women -- Political activity.
Prohibition.
Politics, Practical.
Literature.
Form and Genre Terms:
Manuscripts for publication.
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