COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in the American Historical Association, the Cornell Alumni Association, the Cornell Christian Association, the Hall of Fame at New York University, the Telluride Association, and in many other social and professional groups.
Correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Charles Kendall Adams, Roland H. Bainton, Carl Becker, Henry Bourne, James Bryce, John Burroughs, Anna and Henry Comstock, Reverend Robert Collyer, Leonard K. Elmhirst, Livingston Farrand, Max Farrand, Simon Henry Gage, Daniel Coit Gilman, Louis Gottschalk, Evarts B. Greene, Charles Gross, George Willam Harris, Albert Bushnell Hart, Charles Haskins, Ernest Huffcut, Charles Henry Hull, Edward M. Hulme, J. Franklin Jameson (mainly having to do with the AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW), David Starr Jordan (extensive, quite impersonal), Louis C. Karpinski, Horace Kephart, Waldo G. Leland, John Bassett Moore, John R. Mott, David Saville Muzzey, Wallace Notestein, Cuthbert Pound, Herbert Putnam (Library of Congress), Jacob Gould Schurman, George H. Sabine, Goldwin Smith, Preserved Smith, H. Morse Stephens, Dorothy and Willard Straight, Alfred and Ernest Sze, Ida Tarbell, Frederick Jackson Turner, Moses Coit Tyler, Hendrik Willem Van Loon (extensive and intimate), Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Frederick White, Burt G. Wilder, and many others.
Letter, 1903, from Andrew Dickson White about his trip to Elba, with comments about Napoleon I, and fourteen postcards, some annotated, of scenes of Elba.
Dates
- 1861-1942.
Creator
- Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of medieval history, librarian of the Andrew Dickson White Library at Cornell University.
Extent
16.9 cubic feet. (16.9 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in the American Historical Association, the Cornell Alumni Association, the Cornell Christian Association, the Hall of Fame at New York University, the Telluride Association, and in many other social and professional groups.
Physical Description
Letters, diaries, manuscripts.
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:
- B. Huth
- Date completed:
- February 1977
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez, January 2003
- Last modified:
- Fredrika Loew, October 2018
General
<emph render="bold">Cross references to added entries</emph>
- Straight, Dorothy Whitney
- Capitol fire of 1911 (Albany, New York)
- Also,
- Cassidy, Owen
- Erasmus, Desiderius, 14667-1536
- Huffcut, Ernest Wilson, 1860-1907
- White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918
- Morse Hall (Cornell University)
- Russia (travel, 1907)
- Travel (Europe)
General
<emph render="bold">Additional List of Correspondents</emph>
- Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915
- Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940
- Becker, Neal Dow
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
- Bryce, James, 1838-1922
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
- Catterall, Ralph Charles Henry, 1866-1914
- Cowl, Jane
- Curtice, Cooper
- Dann, Hollis Ellsworth, 1861-1939
- Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902
- Elmhirst, Leonard K.
- Gannett, Frank Ernest, 1876-1957
- Gladden, Washington, 1836-1918 [directed to Jacob Gould Schurman,*but in Burr Papers]
- Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple, 1856-1929
- Jernegan, Marcus Wilson, 1872-1949
- Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules, 1855-1932
- Jones, (Rev.) Robert T.
- Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878-1956
- Kerr, Abram Tucker, 1873-1938
- Kilborne, Fred Lucius, 1857-1936
- Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941
- Lansing, Robert, 1864-1926
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-
- Lee, Duncan Campbell, 1869-19
- Lima, Casimiro Eugenic Amoroso, 1856-1938
- Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 1856-1943
- Messenger, Hiram John, 1855-1913
- Miller, William Henry, 1848-1922
- Mott, John R., 1865-1955
- Newman, Jared Treman, 1855-1937
- Odell, Benjamin Barker, 1854-1926
- Perkins, Dexter, 1889-
- Pound, Cuthbert Winfred, 1864-1935
- Putnam, Harrington, 1851-1937
- Radin, Max, 1880-
- Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
- Robinson, James Richards, 1885-1953
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
- Rose, Stephen Edward
- Rothschild, Daniel
- Sabine, George Holland, 1880-1961
- Schurman, George Wellington, 1877-1931
- Silliman, Henry
- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
- Singmaster, Elsie (Mrs. Harold Lewars), 1879-
- Speed, Robert Goodloe Harper, 1845-1925
- Sutro, Alfred, 1869-1945
- Thilly, Frank, 1865-1934
- Thompson, James Westfall, 1869-1941
- Treman, Robert Henry, 1858-1937
- Van Laer, Alexander Theobald, 1857-1920
- Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1859-1915
- White, Elwyn Brooks, 1899-
- Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964
- Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918
- Wrench, Jesse Erwin, 1882-1958
General
*Neither the Burr nor Schurman Papers contain other Gladden letters for this period (Sept. - Oct. 1893, but the Schurman letterbooks contain a copy of one letter from Shcurman to Gladden re preaching at Sage, dated October 26, 1893
- Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922.
- Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902.
- American Historical Association
- Bainton, Roland H. (Roland Herbert), 1894-1984.
- Bancroft, Frederic, 1860-1945.
- Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus), 1873-1945.
- Bourne, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox), 1837-1909.
- Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922.
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.
- College students.
- College teachers.
- Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912.
- Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
- Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931.
- Cornell Alumni Association
- Cornell University Christian Association
- Cornell University. Libraries
- Cortland Academy (Homer, N.Y.)
- Diaries.
- Elba (Italy) -- Pictorial works.
- Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney Straight, 1887-1968.
- Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974.
- Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939.
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945.
- Gage, Simon Henry, 1851-1944.
- Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908.
- Gottschalk, Louis Reichenthal, 1899-1975.
- Greene, Evarts Boutell, 1870-1947.
- Gross, Charles, 1857-1909.
- Guyana -- Boundaries -- Venezuela.
- Harris, George William, 1849-1917.
- Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943.
- Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937.
- Historians.
- Huffcut, Ernest W. (Ernest Wilson), 1860-1907.
- Hull, Charles Henry, 1864-1936.
- Hulme, Edward Maslin, 1871-1951.
- Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937.
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
- Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878-1956.
- Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931.
- Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966.
- Librarians.
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947.
- Mott, John Raliegh, 1865-1955.
- Muzzey, David Saville, 1870-1965.
- Napoleon, Emperor of the French, I, 1769-1821.
- New York University. Hall of Fame for Great Americans
- Newark Valley (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Notestein, Wallace, 1878-1969.
- Pound, Cuthbert Winfred, 1864-1935.
- Putnam, Herbert, 1861-1955.
- Rare book libraries.
- Rare books.
- Sabine, George Holland, 1880-1961.
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
- Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910.
- Smith, Preserved, 1880-1941.
- Stephens, H. Morse (Henry Morse), 1857-1919.
- Straight, Willard Dickerman, 1880-1918.
- Sze, Ernest.
- Sze, Sao-Ke Alfred, 1877-1958.
- Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944.
- Telluride Association
- Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932.
- Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900.
- Universität Leipzig (1409-1953)
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944.
- Venezuela -- Boundaries -- Guyana.
- Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949.
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
- Wheeler, Benjamin Ide.
- White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick), 1859-
- Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B. Huth
- Date
- January 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