Romeyn Berry family papers

Correspondence includes personal and business correspondence; Berry's letters from Kenneth Roberts, E.B. White, and Allison Danzig; one letter from Major William B. Miles concerning the activities of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard; correspondence of Berry's second wife, Hester Bancroft Berry, her father, Wilder D. Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family. Writings include copy and clippings from his "Talk of the Town" columns in The New Yorker; articles from the Ithaca Journal and Cornell Alumni News; radio broadcasts; and books and pamphlets by others. Diaries and journals by Berry, Katherine Bott Bancroft, and Hester Bancroft Berry, 1943-1951; farm accounts from "Stoneposts," Jacksonville, N.Y., 1936-1938; drawings; family and other photographs; legal documents and related items referring to the Berry and Gould families; newspaper clippings relating to Professor Wilder D. Bancroft; items having Ithaca or local interest, including Lyceum Theater accounts, 1893-1923; and miscellaneous family items. Also, student scrapbook of Olive Nutting Berry at Wells College, with material about social events at Cornell University.

Also, correspondence between Romeyn Berry, his grandmother Hannah Wright Gould, his mother, and others, mostly when he was an undergraduate at Cornell; condolence letters after Berry's death, written to his widow Hester Bancroft Berry, to his daughter, Hilda Berry Sanford, and to Ruth Berry McDonald; program from the memorial stone dedication in 1988; magazine and newspaper articles; trust agreement; and typescript version of Hannah Wright Gould's 1871"Garden Journal," with a pen-and-ink drawing on wood of Romeyn and Harriet Berry as children.