Gillette family papers, 1876-1922.
Collection Number: 4456
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Gillette family papers, 1876-1922.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4456
Abstract:
Letters and scrapbooks documenting the lives of Edwin S. and Flora Spence Gillette.
Creator:
Gillette family.
Quanitities:
1.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Edwin S. Gillette, sometimes seen as Edwin Jillett, attended Cornell University with
the class of 1873, but left before receiving a degree. He married Flora Spence; their
sons were Douglas Graves Gillette (1890-1964), Class of 1912; Edwin "Red" Spence Gillette
(1891-1961), Class of 1914; and Paul Gillette (1896-1980), Class of 1918 (receives
degree in 1921).
Travel scrapbooks kept by Edwin S. Gillette from Cuba, 1905, Jamaica, 1906, and Europe
and Egypt, 1922; and a scrapbook kept by Flora Spence Gillette commemorating her trips
around the United States and abroad with dried flowers, leaves, and other vegetation.
World War I letters and memorabilia from Paul Gillette when he served with the Medical
Department of the Quartermaster Corps, American Expeditionary Force, to his family,
1917-1918, including letters from the U.S. Army Medical Officers Training Camp, Ft.
Oglethorpe, Ga., the Young Men's Christian Association of the United States National
War Work Council, the YMCA of the City of New York Army Branch, and Evacuation Hospital
#6. Also, portrait of Edwin S. Gillette by Professor I. P. Church.
Series I. Letters | Box 1 |
Series II. Scrapbooks | Boxes 1 and 2 |
Series III. Portrait | Map Case V |
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Gillette Family Papers, #4456. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Gillette, Edwin S., -1926.
Gillette, Flora Spence.
Gillette, Douglas Graves, 1890-1964.
Gillette, Edwin Spence, 1891-1961.
Gillette, Paul, 1896-1980.
United States. Army Medical Department
YMCA of the USA. National War Work Council
Young Men\'s Christian Association (New York, N.Y.)
United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 6th
Places:
Medical Officers\' Training Camp (Ga.)
Egypt -- Description and travel.
Europe -- Description and travel.
Jamaica -- Description and travel.
Cuba -- Description and travel.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, American.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Letters
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letters from Paul Gillette (C.U.'18) to his father, Edwin S. Gillette (C.U. 1873)
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Jan. 1917 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Aug. 1917 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Sept. 1917 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Oct. 1917 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Nov. 1917 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Dec. 1917 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Jan. 1917 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Letters from Paul Gillette
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Feb. 1918 |
To Edwin S. ("Red", C.U.'14), Douglas Graves Gillette, (C.U.'12), and Maude Gillette.
(Edwin S. "Red" and Douglas are Paul's brothers; Maude is the wife of Douglas.)
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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Feb. 1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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March-April, 1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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April, 1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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May-June, 1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Letters from Paul Gillette to Edwin S. Gillette
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July-August, 1918 |
Series II. Scrapbooks
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Flora Spence Gillette's scrapbook
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July, 1876-1887 |
Flowers, leaves and other types of vegetation collected from her travels. (Flora was
the wife of Edwin S. and the mother of Paul, Douglas and "Red.")
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Scrapbook
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1922 |
Consisting mainly of postcards, clippings, and other memorabilia of Edwin S. Gillette's
Mediterranean and European tour.
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Scrapbook
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Feb. 1906 |
Kept by Edwin S. Gillette re his trip to Jamaica. He traveled on the United Steamship
Company's steamship "Admiral Schley" with William Hazlitt Smith and A.J. Brown of
Ithaca, and also many others from around the U.S. The scrapbook consists mainly of
photographs, postcards, and magazine clippings. Of particular interest are magazine
photographs of George Rodney (Lord Rodney) commander-in-chief at Jamaica from 1771-74;
basket, sugar, rum and banana laborers; the hurricane disaster of 1903 and the earthquake
of 1907, and various other island scenes.
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Scrapbook
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July, 1905 |
Kept by Edwin S. Gillette containing postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs and
an eight page typed travel journal re his trip to Cuba. Most of the photographs were
taken by William Hazlitt Smith dealing with scenes around Havana and Santiago, Cuba.
Included in the photos are views of the Cabana fortress, wreck of the battleship Maine,
and monuments in honor of Jose Marti, the Cuban patriot, 1853-1895.
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Scrapbook
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1917-1919 |
Postcards, clippings, telegrams, one page of photographs. The letters contained in
this scrapbook are from Sergeant Paul Gillette to his father, Edwin S., and his brothers,
Edwin S. ("Red") and Douglas and to Art Dean (Arthur Hobson Dean, (C.U.'19.) Several
letters and telegrams were sent from Fort Slocum, N.Y., Camp Greenleaf of Fort Oglethorpe,
Georgia, but the majority were sent from France before November 18, 1918, probably
at Souilly, Meuse, while Gillette was with the Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department,
American Expeditionary Force, Evacuation Hospital No.#6. The rest of the letters were
sent from Coblenz (on the Rhine River) Germany, while Gillette was with the Quartermaster
Corps., Army of the Occupation, Third Army, Evacuation Hospital #27.
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Series III. Portrait
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Portrait of Edwin S. Gillette, aged 73, by Professor I.P. Church. (Size 23" by 27".)
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