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Series II: Family correspondence and related materials, 1827-1935, inclusive

Scope and Contents note

This series contains extensive correspondence exchanged between Elmer Brown and his wife Fanny, 1886-1929, including letters from Elmer Brown when he was in Berkeley during the San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906; correspondence and miscellaneous papers of members of the Eddy family and Brown family; collections of verse written by Elmer Brown, Fanny Brown, other relatives and friends; and wills, obituaries, and tributes concerning Fanny Brown.

Elmer E. Brown to Fanny Eddy, 1886 November

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Elmer E. Brown to Fanny E. Brown, 1896 July

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1898 June-July

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1901 June

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1904 July, September

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB: San Francisco Earthquake, Apr. 18, 1906, 1906 April-May

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB (from Washington DC), 1906 June-September

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1907 June, September

Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1908 May-June, September

Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1909 June-July

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1911 March

Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1919 September-October

Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1925 October-December

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1926 January-March

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, 1929 May-July

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB (from Lake Mohonk), 1929 September

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB (from Coney Island), 1929 October

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB (enroute to/from Cuba), 1929 November

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB (enroute to/from Costa Rica and Cuba), 1929 November

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB (telegram), 1931 November

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EEB to FEB, undated

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fanny Eddy to Elmer E. Brown, 1889 June

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fanny E. Brown to EEB, 1904 June

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1908 August

Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1910 May-September

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1911 February, 1912 March-November

Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1919 April-October

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1924 February-April

Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1925 January-February, October-December

Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1926 January-March

Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1927 December

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1929 May

Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1929 June

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1929 September

Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, 1929 October-December

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB, undated

Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB: Verse, 1891-1932, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB to EEB: Verse, undated

Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB: Manuscripts of Verse, 1886-1929, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB: Collection of Modern Verse in University Library, 1923-1933, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

FEB: Wills, Obituaries, and Tributes, 1931-1932, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Browning, Dorothy (niece), 1927, 1932, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cochran, David H. (uncle), 1903-1904, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Curtiss, Alice Eddy (sister) and Edward (brother-in-law), 1934, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eddy, Frank W. (brother) and Florence (sister-in-law), undated

Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eddy, Zachary (father): Sermons, Notes, Correspondence, circa 1820s-1890s, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lyons, Albert E. (nephew; son of Edith and Albert Lyons), [1931]-1935

Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lyons, Edith (sister) and Albert (brother-in-law), 1890, 1926, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lyons, Lucia E. (niece; daughter of Edith and Albert Lyons), 1932-1934, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lucking, Frances Eddy (niece), undated, 1935

Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mundy, Kathleen (niece; daughter of Frank W. Eddy), undated, 1932-1935

Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Munger, Florence (niece), 1927, undated

Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Standish, Mrs. Colburn (niece; daughter of Frank W. Eddy), 1923 ,1930, 1933

Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treat, Alice (niece), 1901, 1922-1935, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treat, Ethel (niece), undated, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treat, Leonard A. (brother-in-law): The New England Primer, (1887) 1889

Box: 4, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treat, Rev. Roger Eddy (nephew), 1932-1935, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brown, Alice (niece), 1934-1935, undated

Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brown, Electa Louisa Sherman (mother), 1889, 1899, 1900, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brown, Isaac Eddy (brother), 1891-1927, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brown, Russell McCrary (father), 1887, 1888, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fairchild, Lillian (sister), undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

McMurry, Fred R. (nephew; son of Lida B. McMurry), 1922-1935, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

McMurry, Karl F. (nephew; son of Lida B. McMurry), 1911-1935, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

McMurry, Lida B. (sister), 1889-1933, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

McMurry, Lida B. (sister), 1934 January-October

Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

McMurry, Lida B. (sister), 1934-1935 November

Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ponafidine, Madame Emma (distant cousin? and author), 1922-1935, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Folder not found

Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Family Correspondence re: Position of Chancellor at New York University: Isaac Eddy Brown, Frank W. Eddy, and Leonard A. Treat, 1911 March-April

Box: 5, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Family Correspondence, Miscellaneous and Unidentified: Corydon Brown, Fred Cowles, Frances Marvin Eddy, Samuel A. Eddy, Florence Knapp, Frank M. McMurry, Janet Munger, Mary[?], Lorraine[?], and Peggy [?], 1900-1934, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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