Lincoln Cromwell papers
Scope and Contents
Included is correspondence (1894-1942), events and memorials, business, compositions and papers relating to academic life and scrapbook
The correspondence (ca. 20 items, almost exclusively letters to Cromwell) relays information on Cromwell's engagement to Mabel W. Smith and from her after marriage, his engagement and promotion by the firm of Wm. Iselin & Co., on his daughter's progress at the Mt. Kemble School and in 1942 a letter on Cromwell's fine character.
Events and memorial include The Hermean Society, The Society for Literary Knowlege, a dinner for Charles Eisenman and memorial upon Cromwell's death (1952).
Business includes 2 leases.
Compositions (2): "The Mem[orial] of B[arry] L[yndon]," 189? and "Old Mortality," 1890
Papers relating to public school, Brooklyn Polytechnic and Columbia University
The scrapbook, which includes an index, includes Cromwell's speeches, reports, copies of his letters, poems or odes to various people, several family trees
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Extent
3 folders
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