Box 5
Container
Contains 7 Results:
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897): papers
File — Box: 5
Deed of partition, n.d.
Item — Box: 5, Object: 1
Scope and Contents
This Deed is partitioning the estate of Alfred Cope. This copy belonged to Edward Drinker Cope.
Dates:
n.d.
Letters to Alfred Cope, 1848 - 1869
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Letter writers include: E. [A.?] Bassett, John E. Carter, Mrs. W.W. Comfort, J.M. Douglas, William Evans, Jr., John B. Garrett, Fanny M. Jackson, George Scattergood.
Dates:
1848 - 1869
Documents from before his death, 1886 - 1896
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Contents include:
Contract with the American Museum of Natural History. 1891 2/1 [for purchase of Cope Collection of North American Fossil Mammals]
Sierra Grande Mining Company. 1886 [includes: certificate and agreement for 23 shares of stock)
Contract with D. Appleton & Co. to write a book, The Origin of the Fittest. 1886
Dates:
1886 - 1896
Estate documents, 1897 - 1931
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Contents include: Will. 1895Codicil. 1895 [directing that his brain and skeleton be preserved at the Anthropometric Society, and that the remainder of his body be burned and the ashes preserved with those of his friends Joseph Leidy and "Dr. Jno. A, Ryder [sic]"]Will. 1897 [used to distribute his estate]Correspondence re sale of Cope bequest paleontological collection to the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia. 1897-1902 [most of the...
Dates:
1897 - 1931
Estate business and accounting documents, 1897 - 1902
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Contents include:
Receipts and requests for receipts for bequests. 1899-1903
Accounting documents for estate. 1897-1903
Dates:
1897 - 1902
