COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, mainly relating to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the status of freed blacks, the tariff and international trade, passage of the Land Grant College Act, and other public questions; scrapbook containing a photocopy of Morrill's Wanderings and Scribblings, or A Journal of a Journey South and West in May, June and July, A.D. 1841; a scrapbook of obituary notices; a scrapbook and other items relating to the 75th anniversary of the Land Grant College Act, 1937; and photographs and other personal items. Correspondents include George T. Brown, Schuyler Colfax, John H. Freeman, James A. Garfield, Horace Greeley, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Dean Howells, Nellie Grant Sartoris, Jacob Gould Schurman, John Sherman, Horatio King (who wrote letters to Morrill on his birthday), A. D. White and President Grover Cleveland.
Note: Item lists of letters and speeches are available in the accession folder.
Dates
- 1814-1937, 1982.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Justin S. Morrill was a congressman and financier.
Extent
3.3 cubic feet. (3.3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, mainly relating to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the status of freed blacks, the tariff and international trade, passage of the Land Grant College Act, and other public questions.
Physical Description
Correspondence, drafts of speeches, pamphlets and other printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, and other personal items.
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:
- E. Engst, M.E. Warren
- Date completed:
- May 1990
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2003
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2015
- African Americans.
- Brown, George T.
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
- Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885.
- Commerce.
- Education -- New York (State)
- Freedmen.
- Freeman, John H.
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
- Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901.
- Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893.
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
- King, Horatio, 1811-1897
- Legislators -- United States.
- Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
- Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
- Obituraries.
- Photographs.
- Sartoris, Nellie Grant.
- School lands.
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sherman, John, 1823-1900.
- Speeches.
- Tariff.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Voyages and travels.
- White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by E. Engst, M.E. Warren
- Date
- April 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