COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
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writings published in The Budget, school magazine of The Vail-Deane School in Elizabeth, N.J.; other published and unpublished writings; personal correspondence; financial records; and correspondence with Arthur Johnson Eames, and other botanists in regard to research on gymnosperms;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.
Dates
- 1801-1984.
Creator
- Wilde, Mary Hitchcock, 1905- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
6.7 cubic feet. (6.7 cubic feet.)
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.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Papers of Hitchcock, Reynolds, Wilde Families Boxes 1-4
Series II. Mary Hitchcock Wilde Papers Boxes 5-7
Series III. Hitchcock-Wilde Family Photographs and Other Items Boxes 8-20, mapcase
Physical Description
Papers, clippings, publications, writings, correspondence, photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- M.E. Warren
- Date completed:
- August 1986
- EAD encoding:
- Ann Hubert, July 2003
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2018
- Botanists.
- Botany.
- Children\'s writings.
- Eames, Arthur J., 1881-1969.
- Fairbrothers family.
- Families -- New Jersey -- Bayonne.
- Frost family.
- Gymnosperms.
- Hitchcock family.
- Hitchcock, Mary Ann.
- Hitchcock, Stephen Henry.
- Mann family.
- Marvin family.
- McDonald, Edward.
- New Jersey College for Women
- Photographs.
- Raymond family.
- Reynolds family.
- Stenson family.
- Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836.
- Vail-Deane School (Elizabeth, NJ)
- Waddy family.
- Wilde family.
- Wilde, Mary Louise Stenson.
- Wilde, William Raymond.
- Women scientists.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M.E. Warren
- Date
- July 22, 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu