2019, ISBN: 97cd4e672173b284e1bf75f3408153cf

293 letters, 573 pp, (76 retained mailing envelopes), dated 4 May 1848 to 27 December 1954; bulk of letters date from 1910s to 1950s; with 3 manuscript journals (1904; 1909-1911; and 1943… Plus…

293 letters, 573 pp, (76 retained mailing envelopes), dated 4 May 1848 to 27 December 1954; bulk of letters date from 1910s to 1950s; with 3 manuscript journals (1904; 1909-1911; and 1943), a newspaper clipping scrapbook, an estate ledger, and a pedigree register; plus 44 photographs and approximately 130 pieces of related printed and manuscript ephemera. Interesting collection of letters, many from the turbulent economic times of the 1930s.The Family of Eliot Tuckerman, Esq. (1872-1959) Eliot Tuckerman was born in New York City on March 12, 1872, the son of Gustavus Tuckerman, Jr. (1824-1897) and Emily Goddard Lamb (1829-1894), eldest daughter of Thomas Lamb (1796-1887) and Hannah Dawes Eliot (1809-1879). Gustavus Tuckerman, Jr. was a Boston, Massachusetts, merchant who was involved in the China India trade during the mid-19th century. Tuckerman was born on May 15, 1824 at his grandfather's house in Edgbaston, England, the second son of Gustavus Sr. and Jane Francis Tuckerman. As a boy, he was tutored by A. Bronson Alcott, and Mr. George Ripley, and attended the Boston Latin School. Upon completing his early education, Tuckerman was expected to attend Harvard College, following his brother John Francis Tuckerman (Class of 1837). Instead, he joined the Boston merchant shipping firm of Curtis & Greenough. In 1847, he was sent to Palermo, Sicily, to represent the firm in purchasing and shipping cargoes of goods to America, including fruit, wine, linseed, licorice, cream of tartar, and other provisions. Two years later he made a second journey to Sicily to represent the firm. Upon his return to Boston in 1849 he was made partner in Curtis & Greenough. He continued as a partner in Curtis & Greenough, and also established business relations for Tuckerman, Townsend & Co. in Sicily. Tuckerman, Townsend & Co. was a partnership with Thomas Davis Townsend, also an employee of Curtis & Greenough. Located at 48 Central Wharf in Boston, Tuckerman, Townsend & Co. was heavily involved in the import trade with the Mediterranean, China, and India, especially the ports of Palermo in Sicily, Singapore and Penang in Malaysia, and Calcutta, India. Tuckerman acted as the local roving agent for the firm from 1853 to 1859. He purchased goods and coordinated shipments back to Boston. In 1859 Tuckerman, Townsend & Co. took heavy financial losses, and Tuckerman decided to dissolve the firm rather than continue with business on credit. He moved his family from Boston to New York City and took a job as the treasurer of the Hazard Powder Company, a gunpowder company that thrived during the Civil War. Tuckerman died on 11 February 1897 at his West 54th Street home in New York City. Gustavus, Jr. & his wife had at least four other children besides Eliot: Jane Frances Tuckerman (1852-1947); Hannah Elliot Tuckerman (1855-1860); Emily Lamb Tuckerman (1858-1943); and Margaret Eliot Tuckerman (1860-1948). Eliot Tuckerman's aunt was Jane Francis Tuckerman (1818-1856). She was good friends with Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) and the two women were known correspondents. Fuller was an American journalist, editor, critic and women's rights advocate and associated with the American transcendentalist movement. She wrote many letters to Fuller and was one of Fuller's private pupils, and later her assistant on the Dial, the chief publication for the Transcendentalists. Jane married John Gallison King (1819-1888), a Boston lawyer from a Salem family, however, the marriage did not work out. King was part of the circle of friends with Emerson, Elizabeth Hoar, Cary Sturgis, etc. Jane was said to be good friends with Elizabeth Hoar (1811-1878), a classmate of Henry David Thoreau. Hoar was to wed Charles Emerson, brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson, but Charles died before they married. Emerson treated her as a sister. There are a couple of letters in this collection written to, and by, this Jane Francis Tuckerman, as they are dated too early for Eliot Tuckerman's sister of the same name. Eliot Tuckerman received his A.B. (cum laude) from Harvard College in 1894 and his LL. B (cum laude) from Harvard Law School in 1897. He was accepted into the bar in 1898 and by 1899, Tuckerman was working with the firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman in New York City. In 1895, Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Eliot Tuckerman founded the Stockbridge Golf Club, making it one of the first 100 golf clubs in the U.S. In 1918 Tuckerman was elected as a New York Republican Assemblyman for the Tenth District. There are a couple of pieces of ephemera in this collection for the Republican Assembly Tenth District. Tuckerman married Mary Ludlow Powell Fowler (1879-1955) in New York City in April 1915. She was the daughter of lawyer, author, and Surrogate of New York, Robert L. Fowler (1849-1936) of New York City and his wife Julia Groesbeck (1854-1919). Mary had various interests. She was the president of the International Garden Club and a former vice president of the Humane Society of New York. She was the first person to win the annual award of New York City's Park Association for the restoration of the Bartow Mansion in the Bronx and her aid in securing its conversion to a public museum. Mrs. Tuckerman was also active with the Bide-A-Wee home for animals in New York and a World War II president of Bundles for Britain. She also took an active interest in the Colony Club of New York and the Daughters of Holland Dames, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames. She was related to the Groesbecks of Cincinnati. Her mother's father was U.S. Senator of Ohio, William Slocum Groesbeck (1815-1897) and her aunt was Olivia Augusta Groesbeck Hooker, wife of Union Civil War Major General Joseph Hooker. Eliot Tuckerman and his wife had one daughter, Emily Lamb Tuckerman (1917-2000). Emily married Henry Freeman Allen and had at least three children. By 1947, Tuckerman had succeeded Clifford A. Hand's New York law firm and Hand's firm had become Jones, Bleeker & Tuckerman. He retired about three years before his death. He had for many years lived at 1209 Park Avenue in New York City, before moving to Boston in 1952. Tuckerman was an expert on Constitutional Law and in 1927 he sought to have the 18th Amendment (dry law) declared illegal. There is an essay on Constitutional Law of his in this collection. Tuckerman was also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of the University, Century, Harvard, Down Town, and New York Yacht Clubs, fleet captain of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, and a governor of the Squadron A Club. He was a trustee of the Morristown School, a member of the Pilgrims, the Society of the Cincinnati, and other societies. Eliot Tuckerman died on 29 October 1959 at the age of 87, in Boston, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Eliot Tuckerman was the cousin of poet T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). His mother and T.S. Eliot's grandfather were first cousins. There are two letters and one card in this collection which were written to his sister Jane Frances Tuckerman (1852-1947). T.S. Eliot calls her his "cousin" as he does their sister Emily. The two letters are typed and signed by Eliot. One of the letters he signs it "Tom St. Eliot" the other "T.S. Eliot." The card is written to both Jane and her sister Emily and is addressed to the Misses Tuckerman. It is a printed card, with his "T.S. Eliot" signature.Some of the Correspondents in the collection are:Emily Tuckerman (1858-1943). Eliot Tuckerman's sister, born 22 May 1858 in Boston, Massachusetts. When she was three years old she was brought to New York by her parents. Emily went to Mrs. Griffith's School in New York and was a member of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr's little dancing class. She often visited her most intimate friend Jane Minot Sedgewick in Stockbridge, Massachusetts (in winter as well as summer). She was fond of housekeeping and the greatest help in our home, took diplomas in "invalid cooking" and "first aid to the Injured." She travelled in England and Alaska with her friend Ann Mugar Leight. She was the Vice President of Mrs. Parson's Children's School Farm for 21 years. After the death of her parents she traveled extensively with her sister Jane. She met with a motor accident on the Isle of Wight, and was sent to Egypt by advice of Sir Victor Moreley of London. After the marriage of their brother Eliot, Jane F. and Emily L. made their home together.Jane Frances Tuckerman (1852-1947). Eliot and Emily Tuckerman's sister, Jane Francis Tuckerman, was one of the founders of the Friendly Aid Society and the New York County chapter of the Red Cross. She lived at 1201 Park Avenue. A close friend of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, parents of President Theodore Roosevelt, she gave her services for many years as secretary of the Orthopedic Hospital, of which Mr. Roosevelt was then president. She was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames and had been secretary for twenty-five years of the Causeries du Lundi.Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (1888-1965) "one of the twentieth century's major poets" was also an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. His grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887), was first cousin to Emily Goddard Lamb Tuckerman, the mother of Eliot Tuckerman and his sisters Emily and Jane.Robert Bowman Dodson (1849-1938) Robert B. Dodson was one of the trustees of the James A. Garland Estate, along with Eliot Tuckerman and Maj. Robert Emmet. Dodson was a banker and broker. He married Mary Wells. Dodson was born in Geneva, Illinois, in 1849, the son of Christian B. Dodson and his wife Harriet Warren. Dodson became associated with John J. Cisco & Co, then National City Bank, and later a partner in Fahnestock & Company. Harris Charles Fahnestock (1835-1914) was an American investment banker. He was a successful investment banker and was financial advisor to President Abraham Lincoln. He co-founded First Nation Bank of New York, a predecessor to Citigroup. In 1881, Harris' son William formed his own investment bank at Two Wall Street, Fahnestock & Co., which expanded through the decades and eventually led to the creation of Oppenheimer & Co. in 1950. Dodson was also a trustee of the Bankers' Safe Deposit Co. of 4 Wall Street, NYC. Dodson died at his country home at West Islip, Long Island, on 21 August 1938, at the age of 89.Major Robert Emmet, DSO, (1871-1955) was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on 23 October 1871. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet (1826-1919) a distinguished physician and medical writer, and the great grandson of the Honorable Thomas Addis Emmet, who served as Attorney General of New York State and was an Irish patriot and rebel, who came to the United States in 1804 after the failed 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion. The Honorable Emmet's brother, Robert Emmet, was hanged in 1803 for his part in the rebellion. Major Emmet was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1892. Be began the study of medicine and graduated the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, in 1896. In May 1898 he became a Sergeant of Squadron A, N.G.S.N.Y. and was mustered into active service of the United States as a trooper of New York Volunteers and was ordered to Puerto Rico. He received the D.S.O. (Distinguished Service Order -WWI, Great Britain) and was a Major of the Warwickshire Yeomanry, British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918. Emmet was married on 25 November 1896 to Louise Garland, daughter of James A. Garland and Anna Louise Tuller, of New York. After the death of his wife's father, Emmet became one of the trustees of the James A. Garland Estate, along with Robert B. Dodson and Eliot Tuckerman. Louise Garland Emmet's father, James A. Garland (1840-1902), was a prominent New Yorker, the Vice-President of the First National Bank of New York and a junior partner in the organizing and building of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He came into the orbit of Jay Cooke when Cooke's son was one of his students and was known as an "excellent broker." Garland was a client of Duveen Brothers and a serious collector of tapestries, oriental jades and especially Chinese porcelain. The James A. Garland collection of Chinese porcelain, was one of the largest and comprehensive in the United States and one of the finest in the world. It comprised over a thousand Kangxi (1662-1722) period blue and white and colored porcelains amongst other items. The collection was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum until his death in 1902, when it was sold to the Duveen brothers for $500,000, who then sold it to J.P. Morgan, within hours of, who allowed most of the collection to remain at the Metropolitan Museum.Emmet and his wife had at least three children: Thomas Addis Emmet (1900-1934), who married Evelyn Violet Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Emmet of Amberley (1899-1980), a British Conservative Party politician; Capt. James Albert Garland Emmet; and Aileen "Muffie" Emmet.William Gardner Choate (1830-1920) was a United States federal judge. Choate was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York serving on the court for only three years, resigning on June 1, 1881. He resumed his private practice in New York City from 1881 to 1920. He founded the Choate School (later Choate Rosemary Hall) in 1896, and from 1902 to 1903 he served as president of the New York City Bar Association.Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917), brother of William Gardner Choate., was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was associated with many of the most famous litigations in American legal history, including the Kansas prohibition cases, the Chinese exclusion cases, the Isaac H. Maynard election returns case, the Income Tax Suit, and the Samuel J. Tilden, Jane Stanford, and Alexander Turney Stewart will cases. In the public sphere, he was influential in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933), an American poet, writer and lecturer. She was the younger sister of former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt. She married Douglas Robinson Jr. (18551918). Robinson's maternal grandfather, James Monroe (17991870), a member of the House of Representatives, was a nephew of U.S. President James Monroe (17581831).Sample Quotes:"May 7, 1925D.S. Garland, Esq., PresidentNew York Law Review Corporation280 Broadway, New YorkDear Sir,The Constitution, as originally made, was simply intended to guarantee to the individual citizen a government which would protect his life, his liberty, and his right to pursue happiness.That original Constitution, which contained few controversial matters, was not intended to be flexible, and its amendment was not meant to be easy.Since the intrusion into the Constitution of the var, 0, New York: New York Institute of Technology, 1965. Manuscript. Loose leaf. vg. Quarto. (2) 64 (3) leaves , 5pp., one mimeographed, one diagram with original drawings, 11pp., 3pp. plus two with original drawings, 22 diagrams with original drawings, 5 diagrams with text in Hungarian as well as a complete set of copies of the original manuscript in English. Leslie Szak had emigrated from Hungary to New York in 1957. He started as a draftsman in the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and in 1961 joined the firm of Edward Durell Stone, a world renowned architect of dozens of well known buildings throughout the US and all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, Radio City Music Hall, General Motors at 5th Ave., the US Embassy in New Dehli, the 1858 US World Fair building, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., among others. Among other projects Leslie Sazk worked on the design of the so-called Uptown Campus of the New York State University in Albany, a manifestation of the vision of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller for a public university system. He was later hired by Philip Johnson and subsequently worked on the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, a project designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster. The twelve-story, 425,000 square feet structure is the main library of the New York University at 70 Washington Square in New York City was built in 1972. He took part in the development of the atrium with its noted symmetrical stair cases and the geometric floor. The atrium was hailed as "one of New York's most spectacular experiences" by Paul Goldberger, the architectural critic of the New York Times in 1973. Philip Johnson was ranked 4th in a 2019 post of Time Out New York "Best Architects of all Time" by Howard Halle: "Johnson... helped to shape architectural trends from 1935 onwards... his work achieved iconic status in a number of cases, most notably in the residence he built for himself in 1949." Szak taught architectural design during a twenty year tenure as a lecturer in 1962 and then, as a professor at the New York Institute of Technology, from December 1967 to 1982. He also was a guest lecturer at three New York architectural institutions and is an emeritus member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Leslie Szak's particular and unique approach to architectural design as an educator lies in the fact that he combined the professional laboratory design work with corresponding lectures. A proficient practice that he had experienced during his architectural education in Hungary and that he had carried over into his professional work in the US. In his view the separate lectures, in combination with lab-design, constituted a structural difference that may have had some advantages. 1. Complete original typed manuscript mockup of "Basics of Architectural Design" by Leslie Szak, in ring binder with stiff gray wraps and original sketch in red on back cover. The manuscript with illustrated architectural drawings and diagrams was considered for publication by Harry Abrams and Prentice Hall publishers. Leslie Szak was encouraged to expand on the subject. It was rejected only on the grounds of lack of volume. The manuscript contains printed and mounted measured drawings, prospectus' and plans of interior and exterior views, geometric forms used in the connection of masses, along with examples of geometric symmetry and asymmetry, among others. All original drawings were hand drawn by Szak. Following page 64 of the original typed manuscript there are two pages entitled "Ramp & Stairs" (title page unnumbered and page two numbered 60) and a detail table of content, numbered 62, at rear. These pages become 65, 66, 67 in the final manuscript. A copy of the final manuscript in an additional ring binder, with the table of content corrected in pencil by hand by Leslie Sazk, representing the exact flow of the manuscript, is furnished. Szak's text elaborates on the responsibility of the architect as well as the process of architectural work. 2. Five page manuscript handwritten on New York Institute of Technology stationary describing and questioning the process of presenting contemporary architecture to the students. "A building is contemporary if the requirements are answered economically by logical planning using the right material and structural system with the best available technical advancement of the given period. As a contemporary camera, or a locomotive, or a bridge can be pointed out, so can one determine whether a building is up to date or not." Another section of this manuscript elaborates on style in historical perspective. It is entitled "Building from Outside In or From Inside Out," including design and systems of architecture, the value of the building and formalism as they relate to architecture in general. Includes a mimeographed page showing spaces bound by three or four planes, and an inserted, transparent paper page with original drawings showing various interior design options for office spaces illustrating the text. 3. "Architecture is a Creative Process," a handwritten manuscript of eleven pages on lined paper. "The architect has an idea, a motion which he wants to express in terms of structure. His intention to go beyond mere utility to create something of greater human meaning. The observer knows nothing of the building, nothing of the architects intention. He has an image what he interprets as his emotions respond to it depending upon his personal sensitivity and the degree of his training. If the emotion is weak, the architecture is weak if it is great, the architecture is great. If there is no emotion, there is no architecture, there is only a building." This work contains chapter heading (keywords) for each of the detailed texts, relating to their respective keyword dealt with in the text: Unity, Scale, Intimate, Monumental, Rhythm, Proportion, Sequence, and Composition. The quoted text above became the foreword for the work "Basics of Architectural Design." 4. Twenty two pages of transparencies with original drawings and diagrams headlined 'Principles in Design.' The subtitles on the transparencies relate to the table of content of 'Basics of Architectural Design': Foreword, The architect's Responsibility, Design development, The Study, Design Approach, Graphic Delineation, Representation of Building, Elevations, Spaces, Masses, Unity, Scale, Composition, Symmetry, Asymmetry, Proportion, Rhythm, Sequence, accent, Contrast, Silhouette, Color. Although the subtitles on the twenty-two transparencies used for overhead projection are not exactly structured as the table of content, they are clearly relating to the instruction. "Basics of Architectural Design" represents material developed for classes at the New York Institute of Technology. Five mimeographed transparencies on regular paper with text in Hungarian are added, plus three typed pages of "Basics for Architectural Design," the title page, a table of content and the foreword, and two pages on the proportions in architecture, written by hand in pencil with original drawings. Ring binder with wear along edges, chips and closed tears, and sunned around edges. Title page with upper two punch holes torn. Label removed from cover. The transparency "The Architect's Task" lightly sunned with light wear along edges, small chips and creasing. Transparencies with Hungarian text with wear. Some of the transparencies with light sunning along edges. Else in very good condition. Binder in good-, interior in very good condition., New York Institute of Technology, 1965, 3, Large Archive of approximately 1297 letters, 4593 manuscript pages, (many with retained mailing envelopes), dated 1909-1960, mostly handwritten, some typed. Of the approximately 1297 letters, 655 letters are outgoing letters written by Margaret Bancroft to her brother, Richard Bancroft, an attorney. She also wrote 9 letters to her parents. There are 613 incoming letters in the collection, of which 39 letters were written to Margaret by her brother Richard, 3 letters written to Margaret from her mother, and 13 letters written to her from her father, Edward E. Bancroft, the remaining 558 incoming letters being written by various individuals to Margaret Bancroft, mostly friends and colleagues, many of whom were other professional women, women of very wealthy families, etc. Several incoming letters were written by other family members, such as her "Aunt Barite" who lived in England. There are also some miscellaneous letters not written to, or by Bancroft.Plus, a Manuscript Journal, Papers and Related Ephemera as follows:1. Journal of Margaret Bancroft, written in German and English, 44 pp., entries dated 26 September 1913 - 3 February 1914, not signed, but internal evidence indicates that it is her journal. Margaret Bancroft reveals in her journal that she was in a relationship with a woman named Florence and writes on several occasions about her turmoil over this relationship (see examples below). While the journal is not signed (there is the letter "M" though at the end), it is the journal of a person who is studying medieval history and attending or working at Columbia University. All of which Margaret Bancroft did.2. Papers include: Christmas Book (notebook) of Margaret Bancroft of "Names of People to whom to send cards and gifts, lists of cards and gifts receive," 1947-1952, plus 146 manuscript pages of miscellaneous notes, by Margaret Bancroft, related to her work as a professor; and 1 Notebook of Bancroft's brother, Richard Bancroft, of "Notes for New York State Bar Examination 1923."3. The collection includes over 650 ephemeral items, such as: 88 index cards, filled with notes for a Tertullian project Bancroft was working on; 117 postcards, both used and unused; 17 telegrams (1927-1935); 82 used/unused envelopes, some could likely be matched to letters in collection; 6 photographs; 86 newspaper clippings; over 100 greeting cards, or calling cards, as well as a number of pieces of printed material (pamphlets, circulars, brochures, legal documents, advertisements, etc.); and a number of pages of manuscript documents and notes, both personal and work related, etc.Margaret Bancroft (1891-1979)Margaret Bancroft was born about the year 1891, the daughter of Edward Erastus Bancroft (1858-1950) and his wife Josephine Augusta Given (1857-1924), of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Margaret's father appears to have attended Amherst College and eventually became a physician. Margaret attended the local schools at Wellesley and graduated with an A.B. in 1912 from Wellesley College and then an A.M. in 1913 from Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation at Columbia was titled "The Popular Assemblies in the Municipalities of Spain and Gaul." In the 1920 Census she is found living at home, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with her parents and siblings and working as a teacher at Wellesley College, where she worked for four years.In 1920, Margaret is stated to have lived in Canada for one month; her mother's family appears to have been originally from Canada. By 1923, Bancroft had become a professor of history at Columbia University and worked there from 1923 to her retirement in 1960.A passport application found on ancestry.com shows that in March of 1923 Bancroft was planning to embark on a grand tour of Europe. She listed Wellesley, MA as her permanent address, but she also kept an apartment on Morningside Drive in Manhattan. Her passport photo shows her with a cropped haircut and wearing a suit. Her witness on the passport application is a woman by the name of Nell Vandenburg, whom she had known just one month. A ship passenger manifest on ancestry.com shows that Margaret returned from a second European trip in 1927. Bancroft is found in the 1930 Census lodging at the home of Cora Hill, with another female lodger. Margaret was listed as a teacher at "University," presumably Columbia University, as she began teaching at Columbia's School of General Studies in 1923. In 1930, she was 38 years old and still single. In 1931 and 1932 she is back in New York after two trips to Europe. In 1936 she went to Quebec, Canada, from England, again giving her address as Wellesley, Massachusetts. She was still single. She had other trips to Europe as well. After her retirement in 1960, Margaret kept an informal salon once a month at her Morningside Heights apartment, where students and friends would drop in. Margaret Bancroft died in June 1979 of cancer in New York. She was 87 years old and never married. Her journal of 1913-1914 (in the collection), indicates she had a relationship with a woman by the name of Florence. One of Margaret's correspondents, a woman by the name of Helen Knowlton Goss Thomas, is known to have been a lesbian, and is enumerated in the census records with her female "partner". While in England, Margaret Bancroft spent time with Lady Hoskyns (1895-1994), nee Mary Trym Budden, grand-daughter of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. Lady Hoskyns, was a mathematics don at Newnham College, she married Sir Edwyn Clement Hoskyns (1884-1937) in 1922. Sir Edwyn was a priest of the Church of England, academic and theologian. He was also 13th Baronet of Harewood, County Hereford.The correspondence shows that Margaret made at least six trips to Berne, Switzerland, to receive medical treatment at a well-known clinic, the Kocher Klinik. Bancroft also went to Italy for medical treatment. She appears to have some sort of spinal problem and/or gland problem that was treated and may have been cured, or greatly helped by the clinic in Switzerland.Description of Collection:Outgoing Letters:Outgoing letters written by Margaret Bancroft to her family were written mostly to her brother Richard Bancroft, an attorney, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. This section of the archive consists of 664 letters written by Margaret Bancroft and can be broken down as follows:There are 9 letters written by Bancroft to her parents in Wellesley, Massachusetts, dated 1913-1935, and are written by her from New York City. There are 13 letters written by Margaret to her brother Richard at Wellesley in 1926, from New York; Kingston, Pennsylvania; Atlantic City and Princeton, New Jersey. Richard Bancroft spent his entire life in Wellesley, thus all of Margaret's letters to him are addressed to that place. In November of 1926, Margaret took a trip to Europe and wrote 35 letters to Richard from Rome, Italy, and the Rome suburb of Tivoli, Italy, as well as from London, and other places in England between Nov 1926 through the summer of 1927. Margaret was abroad to study at this time and to receive medical attention. She had her gall bladder removed in Rome and checked positive for no malignant growth. She had been in pain for years. There are also 25 letters to her brother Richard dated from 1928-1929, from New York City, and from Wale Cove Cottage, Grand Manan, NB, Canada, where Margaret spent the month of August in 1928.Bancroft took trips to Europe every summer from 1930 to 1936. During this period, she wrote 376 letters to her brother Richard during this time, not all though were from Europe. In 1930, she took a trip to Scotland, and then to Cambridge, England. In 1931, she again visited Cambridge and London. At Cambridge she visited family, friends, colleagues, did some studying, and took in Cambridge life, the city, fairs, races, etc. She appears to have had family and a number of friends in Cambridge.Margaret made seven trips to Berne, Switzerland, every summer during the years 1930-1936. At Berne she attended the "Klinic Dr. Kocher," for an unspecified chronic medical ailment, which have been a spinal problem, or gland problem. These trips to Berne were for medical treatment, and also for pleasure. The correspondence tells of her medical problems and treatment. When she wasn't in Europe in the summers, she was at home, at her apartment in Manhattan, on Morningside Drive, near her work as a professor at Columbia University. In 1933, while in Berne, she made a trip to Heidelberg, Germany and comments on the Nazis and the Hitler Youth. She also comments on the attitude that has developed in Switzerland and Germany towards Jews, as well as the political landscape in Switzerland and their Socialists. In 1935, she wrote from the ship M.S. Lafayette while crossing the Atlantic to Europe. During the 1936 Olympics in Germany, she writes her brother about not having any joy that most of the medals America won were won by "Negroes." This is the Olympics when Jesse Owens won four Gold medals in Berlin, much to the dismay of Hitler who was trying to use the Olympics in Berlin to show the resurgence of Nazi Germany.Bancroft wrote 184 letters to her brother Richard dated 1937-1952, from her home in New York. She wrote several letters in the late 1930s from Midtown Hospital in New York City, where she was being treated. There are no letters from the years 1944-1946. The collection also includes 20 letters to her brother Richard that are not dated, with several of these letters being incomplete.Margaret's correspondence to her brother speaks not only of family matters and friends, but also about her work at Columbia University, her colleagues, mutual friends and acquaintances and her various trips to England, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, her medical problems, of meeting an anti-Semite Dr. von Steiger in Switzerland, etc.Incoming Correspondence:The incoming correspondence to Margaret Bancroft consists of 613 letters, dated 1913-1959. Of the incoming letters, 39 letters were written to Margaret Bancroft by her brother Richard Bancroft dated 1924-1955; 3 letters written to Margaret from her mother, Mrs. Bancroft, dated 1913-1937; and 13 letters written to Margaret from her father, Edward E. Bancroft, dated 1934-1949. In addition, Richard Bancroft wrote 10 miscellaneous letters to other individuals and received 16 letters from various individuals. Some of these concern legal matters which he was working on.The letters of Richard Bancroft to his sister were usually written on the letterhead of his law office in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and were sent to Margaret at her home in New York City. Richard Bancroft (1893-), Margaret Bancroft's brother, was a graduate of Amherst College (Class of 1915) and worked as an attorney, admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1920. During WWI, he served in the C.A.C. (Coast Artillery Corps) as Assistant Adjutant at Base Hospital No. 7. Margaret's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bancroft, lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where Edward Bancroft was a doctor.The remaining 558 incoming letters are written by various individuals to Margaret Bancroft, mostly friends and colleagues, many of whom were other professional women, professors, and some quite prominent (Lillian Procter, Alta Rockefeller Prentice, Lady Hoskyns, etc.); some of these incoming letters were written by other family, such as her "Aunt Barite" Barton, who lived in England.There are also 12 miscellaneous letters, 36 manuscript and typed pp., written by other correspondents.Some of the more prominent correspondents, either by fame, or by the number of letters written to Margaret Bancroft are as follows:Margaret Clapp (1910-1974)4 letters, 5 manuscript pages, of Margaret Clapp, written to Margaret Bancroft, from Wellesley, Massachusetts, dated 1950-1951.Margaret Clapp was an American scholar and educator. She became President of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Clapp graduated from Wellesley College in 1930. She taught English literature at the Todhunter School for Girls in New York City for twelve years while working on her master's degree, which she obtained from Columbia University in 1937. During and after World War II, she taught history at City College of New York, Douglass College, Columbia University, and Brooklyn College. Her doctoral dissertation at Columbia grew into the biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, published in 1947 and winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. While she was president of Wellesley College from 1949 until her retirement in 1966, the college's resources and facilities were substantially expanded. Clapp was a strong advocate of careers for women. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1952. After leaving Wellesley, Clapp served briefly as administrator of Lady Doak College, a women's college in Madurai, India, then as United States cultural attaché to India, and then as minister-councilor of public affairs in the United States Information Agency until her retirement in 1971. The library at Wellesley is named for her. She does not appear to have married.Andree Madeleine de Bosque (1897-) and Huguette de Bosque (1923-) 28 letters, 56 pp., dated 1948-1952.Andree and Huguette de Bosque were a mother and daughter from Paris, France and were friends of Margaret Bancroft. Huguette studied book illustration and became an illustrator, her mother may have been an art historian and the father, Andree's husband Pierre de Bosque (1877-1961), also of Paris, France, may have been an academic as well. Andree Crombez was born in Belgium, the daughter of Jonkheer Henri Crombez (1856-1941) and Desiree Leclercqz (1862-1927). Jonkheer Henri Crombez was a son of François Crombez and a cousin of Louis Crombez, all being of low ranking nobility of Belgium and also all politicians. Henri Crombez became municipal mandatary in Taintignies: city councilor (1881-1895 and 1890-1921), ships (1881-1895 and 1895-1900), Mayor (1900-1919). He also became a liberal senator from 1898-1900 and Member of Parliament, both mandates for the district of Tournai - Ath from 1900 to 1905. Andree married Pierre de Bosque in December 1920 and they made their home in Paris. Andree and her daughter Huguette made a number of trips to America (Washington, New York, California, North Carolina, etc), with the correspondence mentioning their arrivals, where they would be, arranging meetings, and discusses the work they are doing.Margaret Bateson Heitland (1860-1938)16 letters, 36 pages, dated 1931-1935, written from Cambridge, England.Heitland was a British journalist and social activist (suffragette). She was the daughter of William Henry Bateson, master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and his wife Mrs. Anna Bateson, and the sister of activists Anna and Mary Bateson, and the geneticist William Bateson. She was honorary assistant secretary of the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association when it was foun, 0, Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company; Cambridge: Brown, Shattuck and Co, 1833. 3 volumes, 8vo. xxxiv, [2], [1]-494; [2], [1]-555, [1]; [2], [1]-776pp. Contemporary sheep, expert repairs to joints Provenance: James Jackson (early signature) First edition of the first substantial treatise on the Constitution. Story's Commentaries was the most substantial and influential work written on the American Constitution since the Federalist Papers. Written while serving as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the work defends both the powers of the federal government and economic liberty. The work begins with a review of American history before the Constitution, an analysis of the Articles of Confederation and a history of the writing and adoption of the Constitution. The chapters which follow lay out the rules of interpretation of the Constitution and then go through each of the provisions of both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, line-by-line, to explain their intent, justification and application. Chief Justice John Marshall, to whom Story dedicated the work, wrote to Story after reviewing his copy: "I have finished reading your great work, and wish it could be read by every statesman, and every would-be statesman in the United States. It is a comprehensive and an accurate commentary on our Constitution, formed in the spirit of the original text." Howes S1047; Sabin 92291; Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2914., Hilliard, Gray and Company; Cambridge: Brown, Shattuck and Co, 1833, 0<