Box 6

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Contents

Including two letters from Win. A. Dunning, one about having Burr fill-in for a lecture in New Orleans and one on Giddings paper