George F. Kunz papers
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The collection includes about 2400 letters to gemologist and mineralogist George Frederick Kunz (1856-1932), with some carbon copies of his outgoing letters and some ephemera related to his activities. The letters are from hundreds of correspondents, and date mostly from the early 1900s and into the 1920s, though there are many from earlier and later years. The subject matter ranges across Kunz's professional and personal interests, including correspondence with publishers and editors; academics and others seeking or providing information about gems and precious stones; members and fellow officers of the many committees and clubs he participated in, concerning organizational activities; and individuals and organizations seeking his financial or other support.
Biographical / Historical
George Frederick Kunz (1856-1932) was a renowned mineralogist and gemologist. He was born in New York City and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. He attended public schools and Cooper Union, but did not earn a degree there. Rather, he was largely self-taught, and developed an expertise that led to honorary degrees from Columbia University, University of Marburg and Knox University. He also earned international recognition, including the Legion of Honor of France and an officer of the Rising Sun of Japan. At the age of 23, in 1879, he joined Tiffany & Company as a gem expert; he remained with the firm for the rest of his life.
Kunz was enormously productive. He was in charge of the mining exhibits at the Paris Exposition (1889), the Kimberley, South Africa, Exposition (1892), and the Chicago Columbian Exposition (1893) and was a special agent at the Paris Exposition (1900) and commissioner on radium at the St. Louis Exposition (1904). A gem collector and discoverer, he traveled the world in search of pearls and gemstones, which he sometimes named after his associates and patrons, calling one rare find tiffanyite, after Charles L. Tiffany, and another morganite, after J. Pierpont Morgan. Kunzite, a mineral, is named after him. He wrote prodigiously; a bibliography maintained by the Gemological Institute of America is 23 pages long. Among his books was Natal Stones, Sentiments, and Superstitions connected with Precious Stones, which was printed each year and given as gifts to customers of Tiffany & Co.
Kunz was active in a large number of social, literary, cultural, and religious organizations. Among these were the American Numismatic and Archeological Society (later the American Numismatic Society), Authors Club, Grolier Club, Century Association (also known as the Century Club), Union League Club, City History Club of New York, Church Club of New York, the Layman's Club of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, American Scenic and Historic Society for Preservation, and the New-York Historical Society. He was a founder of the Sulgrave Institution and the Museums of the Peaceful Arts in New York.
Beyond his ongoing professional and organizational work, Kunz was also active in a variety of single purpose initiatives, including the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission (1909), serving with Cornelius Vanderbilt on the Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet (1915), president of the Joan of Arc Statue Committee (Riverside Park, 1915), and the Central Park Shakespeare Garden Committee (1915).
Kunz married Sophia Hanforth in 1879. They had two children. Sophia died in 1912. Kunz later married Opal Logan Giberson (1896?-1967); the marriage was annulled in 1929, though the couple continued to live together. Kunz maintained a country home in Mohegan Lake, Westchester County, New York, where he was Senior Warden of St. Mary's Church. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in June 1932.
(This note was derived from various on-line sources, including Paul F. Kerr's memorial in "The American Mineralogist" of March 1933, a biographical note on the American Numismatic Society's website, Wikipedia, and others, as well as documents in the collection.)
Arrangement
The collection is organized alphabetically by correspondent, meaning the individual signing the letter, not, in the case of organizations, the name on the letterhead. It is unlikely that the arrangement precisely reflects Kunz's original order. At the close of the collection are a few dinner menus, receipts, and other printed formats.
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily includes over 2400 letters to George Frederick Kunz. The letters range across hundreds of correspondents, many of whom are represented by only one item. There are many letters from the 1880s-1890s, but most date from the early 1900s and into the 1920s, with a few from the last years of Kunz's life. The collection also holds some carbon copies of Kunz's outgoing letters. Kunz's intended replies or other disposition are noted in his hand on some of the letters; many of the letters also have shorthand notation on them, whether by Kunz or, perhaps more likely, a Tiffany secretary.
The subject matter ranges across Kunz's professional and personal interests. A sizable amount is fairly mundane, and includes acknowledgements of books received from Kunz, acceptances/regrets of invitations, courtesies, pleasantries, and letters of introduction or requests for them. Correspondence with publishers and editors comprise much of the correspondence, and this includes acceptances or rejections of proposed articles, editorial arrangements for publications, and the like. Requests of Kunz for information about gems and precious stones or providing him requested information is common. One of the most interesting documents in this regard was from the Burmese archaeologist Taw Sein Ko, who provided his paper on Burmese necromancy, with hand-drawn figures.
Much of the collection documents Kunz's involvement with an array of organizations. Letters request his financial support (including one from Helen Keller for the American Foundation for the Blind); for nomination to the Grolier, Century, or other club Kunz was affiliated with; and for invitations to events. More personal appeals to Kunz as mentor and patron are also documented here. These include women such as Laura Ivins, who in 1908 describes her work as a newspaper reporter in seeking Kunz's help in finding a position in the field in New York; and Isabelle Stone, who describes her struggles in 1906 to advance as a professor of physics. Along these lines, there is exceptional, extensive correspondence ranging from 1896 to 1924 with writer and editor Gardner C. Teall (1876-1956). In his letters, Teall describes his financial, health, and career struggles and his employment in various publishing houses (with Phelps Publishing, Robert Grier Cooke, House & Garden, and American Homes & Garden, among others); Kunz provides financial support, encouragement, job leads, and recommendations over the years.
The container list below provides a list of almost all correspondents in the collection. (Some are illegible or a few could not be fully discerned and so are in alphabetical "miscellaneous" folders.) To the extent that an individual correspondent was perceived by the processing archivist to be writing on behalf of an organization or was affiliated with an organization in some meaningful way in relation to the letter's content, an attempt was made during processing to identify that and include the organization's name in the container list as well. It is likely, however, that many such organizational references, particularly for routine invitations and the like, are not recorded in the container list.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to qualified researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is owned by the New-York Historical Society. The copyright law of the United States governs the making of photocopies and protects unpublished materials as well as published materials. Unpublished materials created before January 1, 1978 cannot be quoted in publication without permission of the copyright holder. Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to 20 exposures of stable, unbound material per day.
Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as: George F. Kunz Papers, MS 358, The New-York Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was compiled from two sources: About 2100 items were purchased on November 21, 1939, at Parke-Bernet Galleries Sale 134 (lot 28). A donation of about 300 additional documents was received in August 1975 from E.L. Sampter.
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Processing Information
At some point, likely in the 1980s, the 1975 accession of Kunz letters was interfiled with the collection purchased in 1939. All documents were refoldered and boxed, likely circa 2010.
The collection, though represented in N-YHS's card catalog and in a typed list of all correspondents in the collection that was compiled likely in the 1980s, was not included in N-YHS's on-line catalog. In early 2019, volunteer Alison Barr created an on-line inventory of correspondents, to which archivist Larry Weimer added additional details and front matter, resulting in this published finding aid. Weimer also created an on-line catalog record for the collection.
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Abbe, Catherine A.B., 1907
Abbott, James, 1914
Adams, Edward D., 1901, 1917-1918, inclusive
Adams, Francis M. (St. Mary's Rectory, Lake Mohegan, NY), 1916
Adams, Thomas (Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs), 1924
Adamson, Robert (National American Bank), 1925
Adler, Elmer, 1924, inclusive
Agar, John, 1917-1918, inclusive
Alden, Henry Mills (Harper & Brothers), 1890-1898, inclusive
Aldrich, H.L. (Scientific American), 1893
Alexander [first name is unclear. Possibly two different correspondents] (Century Association), 1916, 1920, inclusive
Alexander, Charles B. (New York State Department of Education), 1916
Alexander, Mary H., 1929
Allen, A.W. (Engineering and Mining Journal), 1930
Allen, Thomas, undated
Allen, William H., 1925
Scope and Contents
Director of the Institute for Public Service requests Kunz's support for the attached "Proposal submitted to the City News Association for cooperative governmental research and news service by the leading newspapers of Greater New York."
Alliot, Hector (Grolier Club), 1888-1889, inclusive
Ames, Louis Annin (Sons of the American Revolution, Empire State Society), 1913
Scope and Contents
On committee together to conserve Thomas Jefferson's birthplace.
Anderson, Eunice G. (State of Wyoming, Historical Department), 1920
Appleton, Charles H., 1896
Arctowka, Jane, 1917, undated, inclusive
Armbuster, Anna, 1916
Armstrong, Frank C. (Rev.), 1926, 1931, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Armstrong provides names of members of the committee to erect a World War I shrine in the nature of a chapel in St. Paul's Church, Hoboken, NJ.
Armstrong, Mary Stuart, 1894
Arsdedt, Countess d', undated
Arzruni, 1898, inclusive
Atkins, A.B. (Encyclopedia Britannica), 1908
Austin, Henry, 1895
Avery, Samuel P., 1893-1915, inclusive
Bache, Rene, undated
Backus, Emma S., 1913, inclusive
Bacon, George A. ("The Academy" Journal of Secondary Education), 1892, inclusive
Badel, Emile, 1921
Joseph Baer & Co., 1885
Bain, George G., 1907, inclusive
Bancroft, Margaret, undated
Barker, George F. (American Philosophical Society), 1906
Barlow, Samuel L.M., 1885, 1888, inclusive
Barnouw, A.J. (Columbia U., Department of Germanic Languages), 1928
Barrett, John, 1926
Barrett, Laura Day, undated
Barrus, C., undated
Bartlett, E.E. (Gutenberg Memorial Committee), 1925
Bartlett, Henrietta C., undated
Baskerville, Charles, 1904
Bass, Mrs. James Madison (National Shakespeare Federation/Shakespeare Club of New York), 1921, inclusive
Batchelder (editor), 1884
Bates, Albert C., 1917, 1927-1930, inclusive
Bates, L., 1929
Battle, George Gordon, 1913, 1915, 1927-1928, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Church Club; Civic Forum; Mayor's Independence Day Committee
Baward, George Grey, 1918
Baxley, William H. (Westchester County Committee, Young Men's Christian Association), 1924, inclusive
Beale, William G., 1910
Beard, Daniel Carter (Boys Life magazine), 1925, inclusive
Beatty, W. Gedney, 1924, inclusive
Beekman, W.S., 1905
Beer, William (Howard Memorial Library), 1907, 1915, 1922, inclusive
Belknap, Waldron P. (Bankers Trust), 1929
Bell, A. (Rev.) (West Pennsylvania Synod), undated
Bellis, Berton (Classic Press), 1925
Benedict, Harry E., 1929
Benedict, Henry Harper, 1921-1931, inclusive
Benjamin, Marcus (Appleton's Cyclopedia), 1887, inclusive
Benjamin, William Evarts, 1912, inclusive
Bennitt, Mark (Universal Exposition Publishing Co), 1905
Bentley, Walter E. (Rev.) (Actors' Church Alliance of America), 1923, inclusive
Benton, Edmund S., 1919
Berg, Charles I., 1896
Berk, Carl, 1909
Berkey, Charles P. (Columbia U., Department of Geology and Mineralogy), 1913-1914, 1930, inclusive
Bertram, James, 1919
Bickerton, Spencer, 1921, inclusive
Bickmore, Albert S. (American Museum of Natural History), 1907
Biddle, A.J. Drexel (Drexel Biddle Bible Classes of the Middle Atlantic States), 1915, inclusive
Bigelow, Francis H., 1907, inclusive
Bigelow, F.S. (Saturday Evening Post), 1906-1909, inclusive
Bigelow, John, 1904, inclusive
Bigelow, Poultney, 1920-1930, 1938, inclusive
Biggers, V.W. (Associated Press), 1925
Scope and Contents
Biggers, of the Associated Press, presents himself as a candidate for the director of publicity for Kunz's Museum of Peaceful Arts.
Bingham, Hiram (Yale U,; Harvard U.), 1902-1916, inclusive
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Correspondence relating to books and expeditions to South/Central America and Mexico.
Bingham, Theodore A., 1915
Bishop, Caroline, 1919
Bispham, William (Grolier Club), 1889
Blake, W.B. ("The Independent"), 1913, inclusive
Blake, W.W., 1899, 1908, inclusive
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1917, 1920, inclusive
Bliss, Cornelius Newton, Jr., 1915
Bliss, Dwight, undated
Bliss, Robert, 1907, 1920, inclusive
Bocock, John Paul, 1901, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Some of Bocock's letters refer to attempts to place a pistol collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bok, Edward W. (Ladies' Home Journal), 1912, 1917-1928, inclusive
Boldt, G. (Waldorf Astoria Hotel Co), 1914
Bolton, Charles Knowles (Boston Athenaeum), 1902
Bolton, H. Carrington (Trinity College, Conn), 1885
Bordon, Bertram H., 1931
Bostwick, C.D. (Cornell U), 1915
Boswell, Helen Varick, 1930
Scope and Contents
Invitation to Mrs. Kunz (Opal Kunz), aviatrix and head of the Ninety-nine Club, to be a guest speaker at The Woman's Forum on the topic of women in aviation and her new organization.
Bowdoin, W. (The Independent), 1903-1910, inclusive
Bowen, Clarence W. (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society), 1929
Bower, Claude G., 1931
Bowman, Isaiah (American Geographical Society), 1925
Boykin, J.C. (U.S. Department of the Interior), 1924
Brauman, John W. (Century Association), undated
Braun, W.A. (Columbia U., Roosevelt Memorial Exhibition), 1919
Brennecke, Ernest (The World), 1922, inclusive
Brett, Everett & Margaret, 1918, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
A letter of thanks from Everett and a poem "The Flag" by Margaret.
Bridge, Jr., H.P. (Keystone Publishing Co), 1931
Brigham, A.F., 1929
Brinton, Daniel H., 1898
Brisbane, Arthur (New York Evening Journal), 1907, 1917-1932, inclusive
Brisbane, Phoebe Cary, undated
Bristol, George P. (Cornell U), 1908
Britt, Albert (Knox College), 1928
Britton, Elizabeth (Columbia College, Torrey Botanical Club), 1886
Britton, N.L. (Columbia College, Department of Botany), 1895, 1915, inclusive
Bromley, Allan R. (Columbia College, Library), 1894
Brooks, Emerson (Boy Rangers of America), 1931
Brooks, John Graham (National Consumers' League), 1906
Brown, Elmer Ellsworth (New York University), 1915-1931, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Invitations to annual dinner of the Council of New York University
Brown, Francis (Union Theological Seminary), 1912, inclusive
Brown, Henry Collins (Museum of the City of New York), 1921-1924, undated, inclusive
Brown, W.T. Watkins, 1913
Bruno, Guido (Bruno's Weekly), 1916
Bucher, John Calvin (Peekskill Military Academy), 1925
Buck, J.H. (Gorham Manufacturing Co), 1902
Budge, E.A. Wallis (British Museum), 1915
Buel, C.C. (Century magazine), 1891, 1908, inclusive
Buhler, M.E., 1918
Bullen, Henry Lewis (Typographic Library and Museum), 1925
Bumpus, H.C. (Tufts College; American Museum of Natural History), 1908-1915, undated, inclusive
Burleigh, George W. (Church Club of New York), 1926
Burlingame, Gayle, 1916
Burrage, Albert C., 1916
Bush, Irving T. (Bush Terminal Co), 1924-1925, inclusive
Butler, Nicholas Murray (Columbia U), 1906-1931, inclusive
Misc. B., 1890, 1894, 1901,1931, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes, among others, a letter from the Director-General of the Pan-American Exposition 1901.
Cadman, S. Parkes (Rev.) (Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America), 1931
Caldwell, Edward, 1929
Carlton, Henry Guy, 1893
Carnegie, Margaret, undated
Carryl, Charles (Grolier Club), 1888
Scope and Contents
On Grolier Club stationery, informs Kunz that he has been appointed as chairman of a subcommittee to organize the exhibition of Americana.
Carus, Paul ("The Monist" and "The Open Court"), 1906
Scope and Contents
Carus comments on his experience with his compositors in relation to the 8 hour workday.
Cary, Edward (New York Times), 1902
Cassot, Arthur (Manhattan Press Clipping Bureau), 1915
Cattell, J. McKeen (Science magazine), 1912-1919, inclusive
Cattell, Ware (Scientific Monthly), 1930
Cauldwell, William (Successful American magazine), 1902
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 1899-1902, inclusive
Chamberlin, Rollin T. (University of Chicago), 1915
Chandler, J.A.C. (College of William & Mary), 1923
Chapple, Joe Mitchell (National Magazine), 1915-1919, inclusive
Chase, Charles F. (National Conference of Church Clubs), 1916, inclusive
Chase, John Carroll, 1932
Chester, Georgiana W., 1903, 1931, inclusive
Chichester, Chas. F. (Century Co), 1892-1906, inclusive
Childs, William Hamlin, 1925
Chisholm, Hugh (Encyclopedia Britannica), 1905
Chittenden, L.E., 1885
Church, A.H., 1891, 1900, inclusive
Church, Jr., John A., undated, inclusive
Clark, Lotta A. (American Pageant Association), 1913, 1930, inclusive
Clark, Mary O., 1912
Clark, William A., 1913, 1918, inclusive
Clark, William Bullock (Johns Hopkins U, Geological Lab), 1907
Clarke, John M. (New York State Museum), 1901-1904, inclusive
Clarke, Lewis L. (Mayor's Committee on National Defense and Preparedness), 1915-1917, inclusive
Clearwater, Alphonso T., 1899-1927, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Among other subjects, Clearwater, who is president of the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara, sends passes to the reservation's features (1924).
Cleveland, Mary B., undated
Clifford, William (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library), 1904, inclusive
Clos, Jean Henry (Yorktown Historical Society), 1925
Cochran, Jr., Thomas (Astor Trust Co), 1909, 1919, inclusive
Cole, Alfred Bartlett, 1913, inclusive
Colles, Julia Keese, 1912
Collins, Laura Sedgwick, 1915-1916, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Among other documents, includes the sheet music for Collins's "Hail! Gentle Peace" (1909), written for the Young People's League for International Federation, and "The New Patriotism" (1916), from Marion Mills Miller's pageant "The Declaration of Independence."
Colloque, E.W. (Rev.), 1910-1916, inclusive
Comparetti, T.L., undated
Compton, George Brokaw (Hughes National College League), 1910, 1916, inclusive
Condon, Nellie Louise, 1924
Conrad, (Rev. Fr.) ("Veronica's Veil" Executive Committee), 1919
Cooke, Helen Temple, 1924, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Holds a letter and written statement about Cooke from Mabel (Jenkins?) to Opal Kunz concerning the possibility of George Kunz asking the Japanese ambassador to honor Cooke in some way; a copy of the resulting typed request from Kunz to the Japanese Consul-General is also enclosed.
Cooke, Robert Grier (publishers), 1907, 1916-1923, inclusive
Coolidge, William D. (General Electric Co), 1929, inclusive
Coomaraswamy, A., 1903
Coon, Spencer H., undated
Copeland, Melvin T. (Harvard U., Bureau of Business Research), 1922
Copsey, Vivian, 1929
Corcoran, W.W., 1880
Corning, Edward, 1915
Cox, Charles F., 1909, inclusive
Coyney, Weston (N.Y. Recorder), 1894
Cozzens, Horatio G., 1907-1916, inclusive
Craigie, Mary E. (National Shakespeare Federation), undated, inclusive
Crary, R. Fulton Jr., 1907
Cravath, Paul D., 1920-1921, inclusive
Crocker, Stuart (General Electric Co), 1925
Crocker, William H., 1915
Crofut, Hobart L.S., 1927-1928, inclusive
Crompton, William, 1915
Cromwell, William Nelson, 1920
Cromwell, John Franklin, 1922
Crowningshield, Frank (Conde Nast), 1913-1915, inclusive
Cuddihy, R.J. (Funk & Wagnalls), 1919
Cuntz, John H., 1917
Currey, J.B. (Metropolitan Savings Bank), 1903
Curtis, Cyrus H.K. (Public Ledger Co), 1923
Curtis, William E. (Chicago Record), 1894
Cutting, W. Bayard (Mrs.), 1917
Misc. C, 1919
Daggett, Windsor P., 1923
Dala'l, Virchand Premchand, 1931
Dalton, Annie Charlotte, 1929
Dalton, Mary Louise (Missouri Historical Society), 1904
Dalzell, Frederick B. (Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission), 1909, inclusive
Dana, C.A. (The Sun), 1893, inclusive
Dana, Edward S. (American Journal of Science), 1885-1929, inclusive
Dana, John Cotton (Newark, NJ, Public Library), 1919
Dana, Paul (The Sun), 1891
Darbyshire, Leonard, 1899
Darlington, James H. (Diocese of Harrisburg), 1919-1921, inclusive
Davis, Gherardi, 1915, inclusive
Davis, Harriet L., undated
Davis, James J., 1929
Scope and Contents
Requests a contribution to the Mooseheart school in Illinois; includes an aerial photograph of the school and campus.
Davis, W.M., 1912, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Two letters concerning plans for a Transcontinental Excursion under the aegis of the American Geographical Society of New York.
Dawe, Grosvenor (Society of American Authors), 1903
Dawson, Edward M. (U.S. Government Board, Louisiana Purchase Exposition), 1904, inclusive
Dean, Bashford, 1904-1912, inclusive
Deavan, A., 1929
de Beel, Francis W., 1929
Scope and Contents
Archeological Dig at Alexander Bay Area of Namaqualand
DeForest, Robert W., 1916-1924, inclusive
DeForest, Henry W., 1925
DeGraff, James W., 1925
de Kay, Charles, 1906
Delafield, Joseph L., 1904-1914, inclusive
Dellenbaugh, F.S., 1928
Demarest, H., 1915
Demarest, W. (Rutgers College), 1918
Dennis, L.M. (Cornell U, Department of Chemistry), 1927, inclusive
Denny, Jr., George V. (The Town Crier), 1932
Detmer, Julian Francis, 1925 - 1926, inclusive
Deudy, F. (Encyclopedia Britannica), 1928
De Vinne, Theodore L. (De Vinne Press), 1884, 1903-1906, inclusive
Dewart, William T. (The Sun), 1928-1932, inclusive
De Witt, Marguerite E., 1925
Dexter, James V., 1887-1893, inclusive
Dillingham, W.P., 1901
Dix, William Frederick (New York Peace Society, Board of International Hospitality), 1912, 1928, inclusive
Dixon, Joseph K. (Rodman Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the North American Indian), 1912-1914, 1925, inclusive
Dodge, Cleveland H., 1915, 1917, inclusive
Dodge, Grace H., 1913
Dodworth, Helen M., undated
Dole, Nathan Haskell (American Dictionary & Cyclopedia), 1900
Doubleday, Francis N. (Doubleday Page & Co), 1904, 1913, inclusive
Doubleday, Russell (Doubleday Page & Co), 1917, inclusive
Douglas, James, 1902, 1915, inclusive
Douglas, Norman, 1916
Dow, Edmund LeRoy, 1914
Downer, Charles A. (Alliance Francaise de New York), 1922, inclusive
Doyle, Hartley J. (Keystone Publishing Co), 1930
Drake, A.W. (Century Co), 1893-1899, inclusive
Draper, A.S. (State of New York, Education Department), 1907, 1909, inclusive
Drew, D.W. (P&P Co), undated
Drinker, Henry Sturgis (Lehigh U), 1908-1920, inclusive
Drummond, I., 1906
Duffield, Howard, 1926
Duneka, F.A. (Harper & Brothers), 1904
Dunlap, Charles J., 1924
Scope and Contents
Dunlap, president of the Westchester County Historical Society, acknowledges Kunz's payment of dues. The folder also holds the Westchester County YMCA financial statement for the 9 month period June 1, 1923-February 29, 1924.
Dunn, Harris A. (Union League), 1931
Durden, Henry S., 1902
Dwight, Anne & Col., undated
Dyer, A.M., 1904, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Among other documents, holds Kunz's draft, on Pan-American Exposition 1901 letterhead, of a proposal for a William McKinley monument.
Misc. D.
Earle, Raymond Bartlett (Hunter College), 1918
Eaton, Charles Frederick, 1904
Eaton, Elizabeth K. (Recitation Classes for Girls), 1908, inclusive
Edmunds, Catherine Torr, 1930
Edwards, George Wharton, 1923-1928, inclusive
Edwards, Harry, undated
Edwards, R.F. (Prudential Insurance Co), 1921, inclusive
Egelston, G. Washington, undated
Egleston, Thomas, 1891-1895, inclusive
Eileis (Eilers?), Emma, 1905
Eilers, Karl, 1914
Ellis, F., 1886
Ellsworth, W.W. (Century Co), 1906, undated, inclusive
Ely, Robert E. (City History Club; Civic Forum), 1907-1908, 1917, inclusive
Erb, Frederic W. (Columbia U., Library), 1924, inclusive
Ernst, C.W. (The Beacon), 1887
Erskine, John, 1915
Erskine, Robert S., 1911
Estes, J. Irving (Boston Herald), 1895
Evans, Clara Therese (Bookplate Quarterly), 1919
Evans, E.C. (Bank of the Metropolis), 1913
Evans, Thomas (Grolier Club), 1902
Fabyan, Francis W., 1931
Fairbanks, C.M. (The Sun), 1891
Fairchild, Helen L. (University of Rochester, Department of Geology), 1902
Fairchild, Samuel W. (Union League), 1912, inclusive
Fagnani, Charles P. (Union Theological Seminary), 1926
Farnham, Paulding, 1901, 1907, inclusive
Farwell, Grosvenor (Union League), 1926
Faxon, William Bailey (Century Association), undated
Fenyes, Eva S., 1902, inclusive
Ferris, Jr., Ezra F. (Rev.) (St. Mary's Church, Mohegan Lake, NY), 1922, inclusive
Ferris, Maude Schuyler, 1922-1923, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Letters appear to relate to St. Mary's Church of Mohegan Lake.
Filch, James Monroe, 1912
Finley, John H., 1909-1929, inclusive
Scope and Contents
State of New York Department of Education; City College of New York; New York Times; Playground and Recreation Association of America
Fish, Stuyvesant, 1919
Fisher, Irving, 1912-1916, 1929, 1931, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Irving writes to Kunz as a fellow member of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1912, 1916)), and for financial support of the American Eugenics Society (1931), among other matters.
Fletcher, Angus, 1922
Fletcher, Isaac D., 1915
Fletcher, Jonathan (Yale University Press), 1916
Flint, William (Library of Parliament, South Africa), 1920, inclusive
Flower, Archibald D., 1917, 1923, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Relates to various matters memorializing Shakespeare at Stratford-Upon-Avon
Folger, Jr., Henry Clay, 1917
Scope and Contents
One letter from Folger in which he says he cannot help a Dr. Wallace in his research because Folger's collection is packed away in New York and Brooklyn warehouses. He hopes for a building in the future where his "treasures can be unpacked and arranged for examination."
Foord, John, 1893
Foote, A.E., 1884-1890, inclusive
Foot, Katherine B., 1902-1903, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Several letters, with many references to Gardner Teall. See also the folders of Teall correspondence below.
Forbes, Jesse F., 1917
Fortier, Jr., Matthew L. (Fordham U), 1929-1930, inclusive
Foss, E., 1917
Scope and Contents
A Memorial for National Prohibition
Franklin, Fabian (The Review), 1920
Franklin, U.B. (North American Review), 1902
Franklinton, John (State of New Jersey, Executive Department), 1909
Scope and Contents
One brief letter concerning lack of plans for signal lighting for the Hudson Fulton Celebration.
Free, E.E. (Scientific American), 1925
Freeman, S., 1914
Freidus, A.S. (New York Public Library), 1921
French, Daniel C., undated
Frey, A.R. (Astor Library), 1885, inclusive
Frickmann, Gustav J. (Committee on Distribution, Messages & Papers of the Presidents), 1899
Friederman, Emilie, 1926
R. Friedlander & Sohn, 1885, 1907, 1920, inclusive
Friedrick, L., 1913, 1916, inclusive
Friman, Ellen, 1902
Frinberg, Harry (Durland Club), 1915, inclusive
Froelick, Louis D. ("Asia"), 1925
Fuller, Harold de Wolf ("New York"), undated
Fuller, William (Union League), 1904
Fullerton, George S., 1914
Funk, Isaac, 1893
Furness, Caroline E. (Vassar College, Department of Astronomy), 1925
Gager, C. Stuart (National Institute of Social Sciences), 1932
Gallagher, C. (The Gift Shop), undated
Garland, Hamlin (Town Hall Club), 1925
Garland, J.A., 1895, undated, inclusive
Garrett [Garnett?], Mary B.P., 1902
Gates, Milo H. (Trinity Parish, Chapel of the Intercession), 1908, 1921-1930, inclusive
Gavin, John H. (The World), undated
George, Edwin Stanton, 1916
George, Frank, 1930, inclusive
Gesner, Ida (Hudson Observer), 1913, inclusive
Gilbert, Cass, 1924, 1930, inclusive
Scope and Contents
One letter from Gilbert and one document (unsigned draft from Kunz?) concerning the finances of a club, possibly the Century Association. One letter from Gilbert declining, as a Century Association officer, to second W. Gedney Beatty's nomination to membership. One letter from Gilbert acknowledging congratulations from Kunz on Gilbert's receiving a doctorate from Columbia.
Gilder, Jeannette L. (The Critic and Literary World), 1905, inclusive
Gilder, R.W. (The Century magazine), 1900, 1908, inclusive
Gildersleeve, Virginia C. (Barnard College), 1929
Gilliss, Walter (Doubleday Page & Co), 1910-1924, inclusive
Gilman, Daniel C. (Carnegie Institution of Washington), 1903
Glassford, John (Cooper Union Alumni Association), 1917, inclusive
Goetze, Frederick A. (Columbia U), 1906, inclusive
Goldsmith, Peter H. (American Association for International Conciliation), 1916, inclusive
Gordon, Samuel G. (American Mineralogist), 1918
Gotteril, Richard (Columbia College), 1893
Gould, Charles W., 1916-1918, inclusive
Gould, E.R.L. (Church Club), 1915, inclusive
Gould, Florence, 1916-1917, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Concerns, in substantial part, the Central Park Shakespeare Garden Committee, of which Kunz is Honorary President and Gould (Mrs. G. Glen Gould) is Vice-President and Secretary.
Gould, S.C. ("Notes and Queries"), 1892
Grace, Joseph Peter, 1915, inclusive
Granniss, Ruth Shepard (Grolier Club Library), 1906-1924, inclusive
Grant, G. (Century Association), 1904
Grant, Percy, 1916
Grant, U.S. (Northwestern U), 1921
Grasty, Charles H. (New York Times), 1919
Graves, Frank Pierrepont, 1926, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Two letters concerning Kunz's appointment as representative of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Executive Committee named in connection with the New York State Board of Regents' plans for the 150th anniversary of the American Revolution.
Graves, H.S. (Yale U), 1922, inclusive
Graves, Ralph H. (New York Times), 1913, 1919, inclusive
Gray, Annie E. (Women's Peace Society), 1931, inclusive
Greene, Belle da Costa (Pierpont Morgan Library), 1908-1930, undated, inclusive
Greene, Edward L., 1909
Greenough, John, 1912
Greer, David H., 1915
Gregory, Henry E., undated
Gregory, Jackson, 1932
Griffith, Mrs. D.P. (Mary E.) (Woman's Literary Work of New Jersey for Columbian Exposition), circa 1899
Griffiths, Caroline H. (Mrs. John Lewis Griffiths) (Book Committee, Art War Relief), 1919, inclusive
Grinnell, George Bird, 1925, inclusive
Grossman, Bernard A. (American Times), 1921
Grossman, Moses H. (Arbitration Society of America), 1924
Grosvenor, Gilbert H., 1903, 1914, 1929, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The 1903 letter is an invitation for Kunz to speak before the National Geographic Society on his experiments with radium, which Kunz does on November 3.
Grover, Fredrick O. (Oberlin College, Department of Botany), 1909, inclusive
Misc. G, 1916
Hackett, James K., 1921
Scope and Contents
One letter to the Shakespeare Society via Kunz in which Hackett discusses the positive response to his opening at the Odeon Theatre in Paris.
Haldane, Mary H. (Putnam County Historical Society), 1924
Hall, Edward Hagaman (American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society), 1899-1907, inclusive
Hall, Henry W. (The World), 1915
Hall, James P. (New York Tribune), 1903-1905, inclusive
Hall, W.H. (Rockwood Hall Country Club, Winter Sports Committee), 1925
Hallock, William (Columbia College), 1895
Halsey, Francis W. (D. Appleton & Co), 1903
Hamilton, A., undated
Hamlin, Aug. C., undated
Hammond, John Hays, 1907, 1925-1930, inclusive
Hampden, Walter, 1924
Handforth, Walter S., 1908
Harding, Edward, 1917
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne (Cosmopolitan Magazine), 1894
Harper, William, 1909
Scope and Contents
Extensive comments by Harper regarding his support and proposal for an American Exposition in Berlin in 1910 (Kunz is Chairman of the American Advisory Committee for the event).
Harris, Frank S., 1915
Hart, Charles Henry, 1907, inclusive
Haskell, William H. (Rev.), 1903
Haskins, Caryl Davis, 1901-1902, inclusive
Hatch, Frank C., 1920
Hawkes, McDougall (Museum of French Art, French Institute in the United States), 1912-1915, inclusive
Hawkins, William W. (United Press Associations), 1922, inclusive
Hawn, Henry Gaines, 1916-1921, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Principally includes testimonials about Hahn's lectures on "The Soul of Things" in connection with his proposal to give the talk to some of Kunz's organizations.
Hayes, Patrick (Cardinal), 1924, 1929, inclusive
Hegeman, Adrian G. (Union League), 1918
Hendrick, Ellwood (Century Association), 1924, inclusive
Henry, Philip W., 1918
Hepburn, A. Barton (History Club of New York), 1915-1920, inclusive
Herman, Grace, 1930
Heron-Allen, Edouard, 1926
Herring, Hubert C. (Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America), 1931
Hewitt, Eleanor Garnier, 1918
Hewitt, Varal Cooper, 1908, undated, inclusive
Heydt, George F., 1916-1932, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes an image of George Kunz
Heyworth, Emerson O. (Men's Club of St. Paul's Church), 1913, inclusive
Hibben, John G. (Princeton U), 1920, 1929, inclusive
Higgins, Frank C. (American Numismatic Association), 1909
Hildebrand, William A., 1924
Scope and Contents
Sends Kunz a Jenny Lind-related item for the New-York Historical Society.
Hill, Edwin C., 1917, inclusive
Hill, Elsie (City History Club of New York), 1909, 1922, inclusive
Hill, John Wesley (International Peace Forum), 1913
Hill, Robert T. and Justina Robinson Hill, 1903, 1909, inclusive
Hill, Ruth (Richard G. Badger Publisher), 1930
Hinton, John H. (American Folklore Society), 1902, inclusive
Hitchcock, Frank H. (Rockwood Hall Country Club), 1925-1926, inclusive
Hitchcock, Mary E., 1901, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes, among other documents, a list of lectures to be given by Hitchcock in 1901.
Hitchcock, R., 1882
Hitchcock, Ripley (D. Appleton & Co), undated
Hobbs, William Herbert (Century Association), 1930
Hodge, F.W. (American Anthropologist), 1906
Hoffman, William Wickham, undated
Holden, E.G. (Grolier Club), 1894
Holder, Charles Frederick (Californian Illustrated Magazine), 1891
Hollis, Austin N., 1905
Holloway, Edward S. (J.B. Lippincott Co.), 1915-1916, 1929, inclusive
Holloway, Emory (Authors Club, Walt Whitman Memorial Committee), 1925-1926, inclusive
Holls, Frederick William, 1903
Holmes, W., 1893
Holt, Hamilton (The Independent), 1912-1916, 1931-1932, inclusive
Holt, Mary B., undated, inclusive
Horwood, H.A. (Doubleday Page & Co), 1917
Houston, Herbert S. (Doubleday Page & Co), 1910
Hovey, E.O., 1904
Hoving, Helga, undated
Howland, William B., 1901
Hubbard, Elbert and Elbert Hubbard II (The Roycrofters), 1908-1919, inclusive
Hubbard, Gardiner G., undated, inclusive
Hubbard, Henry G., undated
Scope and Contents
The document appears to be Kunz's introductory remarks about Hubbard, written for someone else to present in Kunz's absence.
Huebsch, Mrs. Daniel H., undated
Hughes, Thomas (William Wesley & Son), 1888
Humphrey, Wolcott J., 1925
Humphreys, Alex C. (Stevens Institute of Technology), 1925
Humphreys, Mrs. M.G. (City History Club), 1912, inclusive
Huntington, Archer M., 1913-1922, inclusive
Huntington, Henry E., 1918, inclusive
Huntington, Oliver, 1893-1901, inclusive
Huse, H.P., undated
Hussey, Mary (Mount Holyoke College, Department of Biblical Literature), 1920
Hutton, S. Janney (General Theological Seminary), 1923-1924, inclusive
Hutchins, L.W. (American Institute), 1928
Hylan, John F., 1926
Hyslop (Hyslof?), James H., 1915
Misc. H, 1886, 1904, 1923, inclusive
Iddings, Joseph P., 1917
Ihlseng, Axel O. & Olga (New York City Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration), 1916-1918, inclusive
Iles, George (Authors Club), 1918, inclusive
Ingalls, Walter Renton (Engineering and Mining Journal), 1908-1909, inclusive
Ingersoll, E.P., undated
Ingersoll, Ernest (Authors Club), 1894, 1916-1920, inclusive
Ingersoll, Mary, 1901, undated, inclusive
Ives, Ray, 1903
Ivins, Laura A., 1908
Scope and Contents
8 page letter in which Ivins recapitulates her career to date (6 years of experience) as a newspaper reporter for the Jersey City (NJ) Evening Journal in connection with asking Kunz for job leads.
Jaccaci, August F., undated
Jackson, A.V. Williams (Columbia U, American Oriental Society), 1912
Scope and Contents
Provides Kunz with information about early historical references to elephants.
Jacobi, Harold (Century Association), 1910, inclusive
James I, Patriarch of Windsor, 1930
James, Arthur Curtiss (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915, inclusive
James, Edward J. (University of Illinois), 1916
Jameson, J. Franklin (Dictionary of American Biography), 1925
Jastrow, Jr., Morris (University of Pennsylvania), 1908
Jeglum, C.H. (American Chemical Society), 1928, inclusive
Jenks, Judor(?) (St. Nicholas press), 1895
Jenney, William R. (St. Paul's Rectory, Hoboken, NJ), 1899-1913, inclusive
Jesup, Morris K., 1903
Johnson, Allen (Dictionary of American Biography), 1926
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1987-1925, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Century Magazine; American Academy of Arts and Letters; New York University Hall of Fame
Johnson, Rossiter (Authors Club), 1919-1924, inclusive
Johnson, Douglas Wilson, 1911, inclusive
Johnston, H.P. (College of the City of New York), 1909, inclusive
Johnston, Isabel M. (Mrs. John Parry), 1902
Johnston, William (The World), 1912-1925, inclusive
Jones, E. Alfred, 1906-1909, undated, inclusive
Jones, Henriette Ord (New York Bird and Tree Club), 1920, inclusive
Jones, John Carleton (and other signers) (University Travel Association), 1928
Jordan, [first name?] S., undated
Jordan, L.C. Levin (Cooper Union), 1916
Joyce, C.M., 1909, inclusive
Juen, Emile C. (Museum of French Art, French Institute in the United States), 1915, inclusive
Misc. J, 1892, 1918, inclusive
Kahn, Albert, 1925, inclusive
Kaldenberg, F.R., 1916
Keeler, Annie, 1911
Keene, John Harington, 1900
Keller, Helen, 1930
Scope and Contents
Typed letter, signed. Appeal for financial support for the American Foundation for the Blind.
Keller, William (New York Times), 1917
Kelley, J.D. Jerrold (New York Herald), 1915
Kelley, Frank Bergen (City History Club of New York), 1922, inclusive
Kelly, N., 1930
Kemp, James F. (Columbia U), 1899, 1908-1925, inclusive
Kennedy, John B. (Collier's), 1930
Scope and Contents
Invitation to speak on the Collier's Hour radio broadcast.
Kent, H.W. (Grolier Club), 1903-1904, undated, inclusive
Kern, Albert J.H., 1907
Kerr, Helen C. (Woman's League for the Protection of Riverside Park), 1924
Kimball, L.L., 1906
Kingsley, Darwin P., 1916-1929, inclusive
Kirby, Gustavus T. (American Olympic Committee), 1920
Scope and Contents
American Olympic Committee, Seventh Olympiad, Antwerp, Belgium, 1920 letterhead. Thank you for contribution.
Kirby, Thomas E. (American Art Association), 1912
Klebs, Arnold C. (Grolier Club), 1918, inclusive
Knecht, Marcel (Le Matin, Paris), 1928-1932, inclusive
Knight, Annie H., undated
Knight, Charles P(or R?)., 1926
Knowles, Horace G., 1920
Scope and Contents
Speech by Mr. Tejada suggesting that U.S. loan money to Europe through Latin America.
Kramer, Ella, 1909
Kraus, Edward H. (University of Michigan), 1918-1925, inclusive
Kyle, Howard, 1916-1917, inclusive
Misc. K, 1903, 1916, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Grolier Club; University of California
Ladd, A.C. (Cosmopolitan Magazine), 1893
de Lagerberg, J., 1918, 1932, inclusive
Lambert, M.D., Samuel W. (Century Association), 1913
Lamprectit, Sterling P., 1921
Langeloth, Mrs., 1924, undated, inclusive
Langford, Charles W., 1931
Larned, William Trowbridge, 1911
Lawrence, Alice W., undated
Lawrence, Richard W., 1915
Lawrence, William (Century Association), 1924, inclusive
Leach, Henry Goddard (The Forum; Church Club), 1924-1931, inclusive
Leary, Theresa, 1931
Lebour, Nona, 1915-1916, inclusive
Lee, Ambrose, 1908, inclusive
Lee, Ivy L., 1918, 1930, inclusive
Lee, Sidney (Trustees & Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace), 1916-1919, inclusive
Leet, George, 1921
Leidy, Joseph, 1909, undated, inclusive
Leigh, H.M. (Harper & Brothers), 1913, inclusive
Leppert, R.E. (Literary Digest), 1929
Letchworth, William P., 1908-1910, inclusive
Levy, Emile, 1889-1907, inclusive
Lewis, J. Volney (Rutgers College), 1913-1918, inclusive
Lewisohn, Sam, 1928
Lilley, Robert (Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia; Century Co), 1889-1894, inclusive
Lincoln, Charles (New York Times; The World), 1908-1915, inclusive
Lindsay, H. (Century Co), 1913
Lindsay, Samuel M. (Columbia U., Academy of Political Science), 1921
Lippincott, J. Bertram, 1930
Littauer, Kenneth (Collier's), 1931
Little, H.A. (New York Times), 1924
Little, Joseph D. (Maiden Lane Historical Society), 1924
Livingston, Philip (Metropolitan Club of New York), 1921
Linde, Curtis, 1930
Locke, Bessie (National Kindergarten Association), 1921
Logan, Charles Thomas (Palisadian), 1910, inclusive
Lloyd, Cyrus D., 1922, inclusive
Long, Constantine(?) Fairchild (C.B. Richard & Co), 1900
Long, Ray (International Magazine Co), 1926
Loomis, Seymour C., 1921
Lord, Chester S. (New York State Department of Education; The Sun), 1894, 1921-1925, inclusive
Lorimer, George Horace (Saturday Evening Post), 1908, inclusive
Lothrop, Stanley (Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation), 1920
Lowell, A. Lawrence (Harvard U), 1930-1931, inclusive
Lowell, Augustus, 1893-1895, inclusive
Lowell, S.A. (Pendleton Tribune), 1891
Lowry, Helen Bullitt, 1922, inclusive
Lucas, F.A. (American Museum of Natural History), 1918, undated, inclusive
Lucas, Jannette May, 1924
Luckhurst, Charlotte Taylor, 1930, inclusive
Lull, Richard S. (Yale U, Peabody Museum), 1915
Lummis, Charles F. (Landmarks Club of California), 1918, 1927, inclusive
Lunt, Carroll (China Digest), 1931
Luther, Agnes Vinton, 1921
Lydenberg, H.M., 1916
Lyons, Henry (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor), 1903, undated, inclusive
Misc. L, 1899-1915, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Doubleday Page & Co; American Monthly Review of Reviews; Columbia U Library (in German); African World and Cape-Cairo Express.
MacAdam, George, 1925, inclusive
MacCracken, Henry M. (New York University), 1908, inclusive
MacDonald, George, 1930
Macfarlane, Anna M., 1892
MacGrath, Harold, 1932
MacNeil, H.A., 1906
McClenahan, Howard (Princeton U), 1925-1931, inclusive
McClure, S.S. (McClure's magazine), 1921-1929, inclusive
McConnell, Francis J. (American Association for Old Age Security), 1931
Scope and Contents
Typed appeal pamphlet for the Association
McDonald, James G. (Foreign Policy Association), 1921
McKay, George L. (Grolier Club), 1924
McKnight, Edna C. (Netherlands-America Foundation), 1924, inclusive
McRoberts, Samuel (American Arbitration Association), 1928
McWatters, Marie Wilson (Mrs. Frank), 1930, undated, inclusive
Macy, Valentine Everit, 1925
Maillard, Maurice, 1921, inclusive
Mallon, George B. (The Sun), 1902
Mallory, W.H. (The Churchman), 1903
Manning, Mary Margaretta, 1917
Manning, William T. (Diocese of New York; Trinity Parish), 1919-1931, inclusive
Mansfield, Howard, 1905
Manville, T.F. (Roosevelt Memorial Association), 1919-1915, inclusive
Marble, James E., 1911
Markham (Department of Mines, Brisbane), undated
Markham, Edwin, 1917
Marks, Marcus M. (New York Daylight Saving Committee), 1921, inclusive
Marshall, Edward, 1912, inclusive
Marshall, Horace R., 1909
Martin, T. Commerford (Scientific and Industrial Information Bureau), 1920
Martin, W.A. (Hispanic Society), 1908
Mason, C.B. (Rockwood Hall Country Club), 1926, undated, inclusive
Matthews, Brauder, 1909, inclusive
Mayer, Jasper J., 1921-1925, inclusive
Mead, Walter H., 1882
Meloney, Marie M. (Mrs. William Brown) (The Delineator), 1922-1924, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The letters make clear that Meloney was acting as a go-between for Madame Curie and George Kunz. Dr. Kunz sent Madame Curie a few small pieces of Kunzite and wanted a small piece of radium in return. Madame Curie could not send radium for the American Museum of Natural History.
Menkel, W. (American Review of Reviews), 1914
Menken, S. Stanwood (National Security League), 1927
Merkel, Otto Julius, 1919
Scope and Contents
Impressions of post-World War I Germany in 1919
Merrill, F.J.H. (New York State Museum), 1898-1901, inclusive
Metcalfe, James S., 1923, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Invitation to dinner to honor John Drew's 50th anniversary of stage acting.
Meyer, Fredrick Fischer (Union League), 1926, inclusive
Mezes (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915
Mickelson, Albert H., 1906
Middleton, Merle, undated
Miers, Henry A. (Oxford University Press), 1901, inclusive
Milbury, Arthur Wellesley (Industrial Christian Alliance), 1894, 1924, undated, inclusive
Miller, Benjamin L. (Lehigh U), 1918
Miller, C.R. (New York Times), 1916
Miller, Edgar G. (Grolier Club), 1892
Miller, Jacob W. (Hudson-Fulton Commission, Naval Parade Committee), 1909, inclusive
Miller, Lewis, 1925
Scope and Contents
The documents are a biography of Lewis Miller (1829-1899) written by his daughter, Mary Miller Nichols.
Miller, Marion Mills (Civic Congress), 1919, inclusive
Miller, Thomas, 1918-1819, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a 1917 train schedule for the Putnam Division Main Line. Letters include inquiries about visiting Tilly Foster mine.
Mitchell, E.P. (The Sun), 1916, inclusive
Mitchell, Henry S., 1909
Miyaoka, T., 1924, inclusive
Moffat, W.D. (The Mentor/Crowell Publishing), 1924-1925, inclusive
Moffett, Cleveland, 1904
Montgomery, James Mortimer (Sons of the Revolution), 1924, inclusive
Moodey, Margaret W. (United States National Museum), 1929, inclusive
Moore, Alfred D. (Presbyterian Church of the Sea and Land), 1920-1921, inclusive
Moore, Ann Louise, 1929, inclusive
Moore, Charles (Library of Congress), 1918, inclusive
Moore, Clarence B., 1907, inclusive
Moore, Ernst .D., 1930-1931, inclusive
Moore, Isabel, 1907-1908, inclusive
Moore, Jacob B. (New-York Historical Society), 1884
Moore, R.B., 1925
Moorehead, Warren K. (The Indian: A History series), 1901, 1915, inclusive
More, Paul E. (The Nation), 1910-1914, inclusive
Moreland, James (Georgetown College), 1929
Morgan, Appleton, undated, inclusive
Morris, Anna Wharton, 1910, inclusive
Morris, Benjamin Wistar (Union League), 1931
Morris, Gertrude, 1930
Morton, Joseph L. (Grolier Club), 1893-1904, inclusive
Moses, Alfred (Columbia U., Department of Mineralogy), 1913
Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 1885
Muller, K., 1889
Munroe, Charles E., 1906
Munsey, Frank A., 1919
Murphy, Andrew E. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), 1909
Scope and Contents
Letter regarding discovery of diamond mine in Arkansas
Murphy, Franklin, 1916, inclusive
Murphy, Jeanette R., 1921-1924, inclusive
Muschenheim, William C., 1908-1915, inclusive
Misc. M, 1915-1926, inclusive
Nason, Arthur Huntington (Authors Club), 1924, inclusive
Nast, Conde, 1925
Nelson, George Francis (Cathedral of Saint John the Divine), 1911-1916, inclusive
Nelson, Robert W., 1925
Neumuller, Walter, 1907
Newell, Edward T. (American Numismatic Society), 1921, undated, inclusive
Newell, F.H., 1917
Newell, W.W. (American Folklore Society), 1900
Nicholas, G.S., 1912
Nichols, S.Van B. (Grolier Club), 1924
Nichols, William H., 1925
Norris, Jr., Hower, 1903
Northcliffe (The Times, London), 1908-1914, inclusive
Noyes, Alfred, 1918
Noyes, F.K. (The Sun), 1909, inclusive
Noyes, W.A., 1927, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Enclosed with letter is poetry by Charles Noyes, son of W.A. Noyes.
O'Brien, Morgan J. (St. Vincent's Hospital, Advisory Board), 1926
Ochs, Adolph S. (New York Times), 1915-1932, inclusive
Ogden, R.(?) (New York Times), undated
Olcott, Eben Erskine, undated, inclusive
Olschki, Leo S., 1908
Scope and Contents
One letter in which Olschki acknowledges Kunz's recommendation of Gardner Teall as a correspondent for his magazine La Bibliofilia; notes that a similar rrecommendation had been received from Belle da Costa Greene. See also the folders of Teall correspondence from 1908 (1908) below for further references to this matter.
Opdycke, L.E., 1905
Oppenheimer, Ida (Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement), 1922, inclusive
Orne, Henry M., 1908
Osborn, Henry Fairfield (American Museum of Natural History), 1913-1922, undated, inclusive
Osborn, William Church, 1915-1930, inclusive
Scope and Contents
N.Y. Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled; Economic Club of New York (regarding The Town Hall debt).
Osborne, Duffield (Authors Club), 1912, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Letter to Kunz informing him of his election to the club, with carbon copy of Kunz's response.
Osborne, Thomas Mott (National Committee on Prisons & Prison Labor), 1914
Owen, Henry H. (France-America Society Executive Committee), 1923
Owen, Paul Stevens (Mohegan Lake School/St. Mary's Church), 1930
Page, Howard (Van Cortlandt House), 1910
Page, Walter H. (The World's Work), 1909-1911, inclusive
Painter, H.M. (Grolier Club), 1911, inclusive
Palache, Charles (Harvard U, Mineralogical Lab), 1899
Palmer, Bertha H. (World's Columbian Exposition, Board of Lady Managers), 1892-1893, inclusive
Paret, Thomas Dunkin (Grolier Club), 1903
Paris, Francis(?), 1932
Parish, Jr., Daniel (American Numismatic & Archaeological Society), 1894, inclusive
Parish, Edward C., 1915
Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1904-1905, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Two letters from Parker in which he discusses his interest in establishing an industrial training school for Indians (specifically Iroquois) and the translation and archaeological work he is doing, thanks to Kunz's help. Two related letters from New York Governor B.B. Odell, Jr. to Kunz are included here. The set of documents also includes a small pamphlet advertising a lecture series "The Historic Iroquois Indians" by Parker (who is referred to in the pamphlet as Gah-wah-so-wah-neh, of the Seneca Nation Bear Clan).
Parker, Katherine L., 1924-1925, inclusive
Parks, G. Elton, 1915
Parsons, William Barclay, undated
Parsons, Jno. E. (Hudson-Fulton Tercentenary, Inwood Park Committee), 1908
Paterson, A., 1903
Patlsits, Victor H. (New York Public Library), 1921-1926, inclusive
Patten, Henry A. (Union League), 1924, inclusive
Patterson, Ernest Minor (American Academy of Political & Social Science), 1930
Patterson, Howard (Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission), 1909
Patton, C.A. (Aldine Club), 1896
Payne, John Barton (American Red Cross), 1926
Peabody, Charles J., 1923
Peabody, George Foster, 1910, inclusive
Pegram, George B. (Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission), 1909, inclusive
Pell, Theodore Roosevelt, 1918, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a Seventy-first birthday testimonial to John Stuart White, LLD., Head Master of the Berkeley School, NY.
Penniman, Josiah H. (University of Pennsylvania), 1928
Scope and Contents
One letter from the University Provost to Clarence S. Bement expressing their enthusiasm at having his collection of minerals deposited there.
Pepper, William, 1890
Perkins, George Walbridge, 1913-1919, inclusive
Perry, Edward Delaware (Century Association), 1928-1930, inclusive
Perry, Lucy W., 1903, inclusive
Perry, Raymond (Salmagundi Club), 1922
Peter, Harry (Grolier Club), 1931
Peters, John P. (Century Association), 1919
Petit, Georges (Dr.) (Societe Contre l'Abus du Tabac), 1899
Scope and Contents
One letter, in French.
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, 1912
Phillips, Nathaniel (League for American Citizenship), 1928
Phipps, Annie, 1919
Pierce, John (John Skinner, dealer), 1895-1896, inclusive
Pierson, B.W. (Grolier Club/Century Association), 1905
Pierson, Mary J., undated
Pitcher, Charlotte A., 1915
Pitt, Victor (Wide World magazine), 1914, inclusive
Planter, Louise E. (Joan of Arc Statue Committee), undated
Plummer, John, 1908
Poillon, William (American Numismatic and Archaeological Society), 1907-1908, inclusive
Polifeme, Carlo (Mme.) ("Le Lyceum" Société des Femmes de France à New York), 1915, undated, inclusive
Pollock, Channing, 1926
Pope, Virginia, undated
Porter, George D., undated
Porter, Polly, undated
Porter, Robert R. (The Times, London), 1910
Post, Regis H. (Metropolitan magazine), 1916
Potter, Henry C., 1906, inclusive
Potter, Henry Noel, 1905
Powell, Vrancia Chace (Mrs. George Townsend Powell), undated
Poynton, John A. (Century Association), 1921
Pratt, Frederic B. (Century Association), 1908, 1917, 1931, inclusive
Pratt, Helen Marshall, 1913
Prentice, John H. (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915, inclusive
Presley, Frank (Dinner in Honor of Dan Beard Committee), 1919
Preston, Blanche Preston, 1920, undated, inclusive
Preusser, R.F.
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of Preusser's poem "The Diamond" from his book "Brain Food for Old & Young."
Price, Ira M. (University of Chicago), 1905, inclusive
Pritchett, Erastus(?) Allister, 1901
Pritchett, Henry S. (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), 1920
Pritchett, Thomas James (Social Life magazine), undated
Proctor, Thomas Redfield, 1915
Pryibil, Letitia P., 1918
Pulitzer, Ralph (The World), 1915
Purington, C.W., 1917
Putnam, G.H. (G.P. Putnam's Sons), 1907-1918, inclusive
Pyne, 2nd, Percy R., 1915, inclusive
Misc. P (Cooper Union), 1892
Quackinbas, John D. (Columbia College), undated
Quaritch, Bernard (bookseller), 1885-1903, inclusive
Quinby, Florence C., 1928
Rand, C, 1925
Raney, W.L. (American Library Association), 1919
Rasor, Paul E. (Union League), 1916, inclusive
Rathom, John R., 1923
Redfield, William C. (National Institute of Social Sciences), 1926
Reed, Thomas P. (Royal Geographical Society of Australasia), 1912
Rees, J.K. (Columbia U., Astronomical Observatory), 1900-1901, inclusive
Reid, Sarah H., 1913
Reinach, Salomon (Musee de St. Germain), 1910, inclusive
Remick, Carrie A., 1908
Remsen, Ira (Johns Hopkins U), 1906-1908, inclusive
Reynolds, Cuyler (Albany Institute), 1909
Rhinelander, Philip, 1915
Rice, Calvin W., 1926
Richardson, Lucy C., 1921
Richmond, Lizzie D., undated
Rickard, T.A., 1925
Ridder, Herman (New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung), 1906-1913, inclusive
Riggs, Arthur Stanley (Art and Archaeology Press), 1925-1928, inclusive
Rines, George E. (Scientific American), 1903, 1918, inclusive
Riordan, D.M., 1918
Ritti, Paul, 1922-1930, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Two letters and a bulletin, all in French.
Robbins, Emily (Committee of One Hundred on National Health), 1912
Robbins, Howard C. (Cathedral of St. John the Divine), 1919
Robins, Thomas, 1931
Roderick, Stella Virginia (Everybody's Magazine), 1912, inclusive
Rogers, Howard (New York State Department of Education), 1907
Rogers, Sara B., 1906
Rogers, Saul E. (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915
Rogers, Theodore, 1901
Rogers, W.A., 1921
Rolt-Wheeler, Francis (Current Literature Publishing), 1911, inclusive
Romero, Bolivar S., 1931
Roorback, E. (The Craftsman), 1915
Rosenbaum, Robert, 1916
Roush, G.A. (Mineral Industry journal), 1914, 1926, inclusive
Rowe, Leo S. (American Academy of Political and Social Science), 1929, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Informs Kunz of his enrollment in the academy.
Rowan, Edward B., 1931
Rowland, Mirwin Dwight, 1921
Rudler, F.W., 1892
Rupp, George P. (Girard College), 1892-1897, inclusive
Ruppel (Gutenberg Museum at Mainz), 1930
Russ, Edward, 1908
Rustomjee, J. Cama-Rustom, 1912, inclusive
Ryerson, Martin A., 1903
Misc. R, 1903, undated, inclusive
Sabin, Charles H. (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915, inclusive
Sabine, Lillian, 1931
Sackett, [?], 1912
Sackett, Alan [or Clara?], undated
Sackett, Elizabeth Titus
Safford, May
Scope and Contents
The item is a postcard with a picture of Mr. & Mrs. Bok's house in Mountain Lake.
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1901
Saltus, J. Sanford, 1900-1921, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes several letters from Saltus on various topics, including proposals to acquire or strike medals, apparently in connection with the Numismatics Society.
Sandberg, Fred W., 1902
Sammis, Theodore (J.W. Bouton, dealer), 1887
Sargent, Irene, 1909
Sargent, Porter (publisher), 1922
Saunders, William Lawrence, 1921-1925, inclusive
Sawyer, F.L (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915, inclusive
Sayford, Irving S., 1925
Sayre, Francis Bowes (Williams College), 1914
Schenck, Edwin S., 1915, inclusive
Scherer, James A. B. (Throop Polytechnic Institute), 1913
Schernikow, Ernest, 1904, 1922, inclusive
Schling, Louise, undated
Schling, Max, 1921
Schmal [Schmab?], J., 1893
Schofield, Sim, 1908, 1917, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a poem "On Mi Retirement to 'The Nook,' Thornton-le-Fylde" (1917) by Schofield.
Schroder, Catherine, 1918
Schuman, Jacob Gould (Cornell U), 1914-1920, inclusive
Schwarz, Herbert F. (American Museum of Natural History), 1921-1922, inclusive
Schweinfurth, Charles Frederick, 1915
Scott, John Winfield, 1913
Scott, Walter (Union League), 1909, 1922, undated, inclusive
Scribner, Arthur H. (Charles Scribner's Sons), 1916, undated, inclusive
Seaman, Louis Livingston, 1920, 1924, inclusive
Seccombe, Mary F., 1929
Secor, David Pell, 1902
Secor, Florence Romola, 1909, inclusive
Seever, W.J. (Seever & Co, engravers), 1890
Seinecke, Ferdinand (Deutscher Press Club), 1911
Seitz, Mildred E. (Mrs. Don C.) (Daughters of the Revolution), 1915
Selfridge, Lois Frances, undated
Seligman, Edwin R., 1920
Sellig, W.L., 1915
Seton, Ann, 1923
Seton, May Thompson, 1923
Settleton, Martin W., 1915
Shanahan, W.F. (Hotel Elysee), 1931
Shane, William, 1922
Shattuck, Mary, 1920
Shaw, Albert (American Monthly Review of Reviews), 1906-1913, inclusive
Shelton, William Henry (Washington Headquarters Association), 1910
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter written by Shelton to the New York Times about a New York Pageant
Shepard, Charles U., 1907
Shepard, Finley Johnson (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915
Sherwood, Alserda B., 1924
Shipp, Thomas R. (Joint Committee on Conservation), 1909
Short, Frank L. (Shakespeare Fellowship of America), 1929, inclusive
Sickels, David Banks, 1916-1917, inclusive
Silskey, Edward (New York Public Library), 1894, 1909, 1913, inclusive
Scope and Contents
1894 letter, on Columbia College Library stationery, is in German.
Sinclair, R.R. (Harper & Brothers), 1891
Skiff, Fredrick J.D., 1903, 1909, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Universal Exposition, 1904; Field Museum of Natural History
Skinner, Charles M. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle), 1893, inclusive
Skinner, John, 1902
Sleicher, John A. (Leslie's Weekly), 1911-1916, inclusive
Sloan, Robert S. (Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission), 1909, inclusive
Sloane, William, 1914
Sloane, William Milligan, 1906, 1917, inclusive
Scope and Contents
An exchange of letters primarily from 1917 concerning New-York Historical Society. Sloane, of Columbia University, is a member and on a committee to consider the work and scope of N-YHS. He solicits suggestions from Kunz, who offers two concerning annual meetings and banquets intended to make the Society more public, useful, and likely to attract funding.
Smith, Acheson (Union League), 1931, inclusive
Smith, Anna Walton, undated
Smith, Benjamin E. (Century Co), 1900, 1906, inclusive
Smith, Courtland (American Press Association), 1912
Smith, David Eugene, 1924-1932, undated, inclusive
Smith, Edgar F. (University of Pennsylvania), 1914, 1920, inclusive
Smith, Edward (Columbia U. Library), 1916
Smith, E.E. (National Magazine), 1916
Smith, George Otis (U.S. Geological Survey), 1906
Smith, Isabelle Dwight Sprague, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
One letter concerns a George Montgomery Tuttle Memorial Fund Committee. and a second letter (to Mrs. Kunz) concerns a circular for a school.
Smith, R. Hobart, 1890, 1910, inclusive
Soeding, Emil, 1889, inclusive
Solch, Joseph M. (New-Yorker Staats-Beitung), 1906
Southard, George F., 1921, 1928, inclusive
Southwick, Albert A., 1912
Sprague, Frank J. (Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1925
Spencer, Alexander H., 1912
Spencer, J. Beaumont (National Security League), 1915
Spice, Robert (Cooper Union), 1916, inclusive
Springer, Frank, 1912
Stanton, Ella O'Gorman, undated
Stanton, Gilman S. (Stanton Brothers, manufacturers), 1918, inclusive
Star, E.G., 1903
Starr, Frederick (University of Chicago), 1905
Stedman, Arthur, 1906
Stedman, Edmund C., 1903
Stedman, Laura, 1914, inclusive
Stedston, C.A. (J.B. Lippincott Co), 1928
Stephens, Annie W. (National Shakespeare Federation), undated
Stetson, Clarence (New York Herald), 1891
Stevens, Horace J. (Peninsular News Bureau), 1908
Stevens, Mary S., undated
Stevens, W. LeCoute (Packer Collegiate Institute), 1886
Stewart, Albert S., 1918
Stewart, Edith Adams, 1924, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes note about lecture, program of lecture, "Series of Four Lecture-Readings on Continental Contemporary Drama at the Hotel Majestic (72nd Street) and news article on same.
Stewart, John A. (Sulgrave Institution), 1920-1925, inclusive
Stewart, William J., 1913, 1915, inclusive
Stillman, James A., 1913
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of the pension plan put in place by The National City Bank
Stimson, Margaret, 1914
Stitt, Edward W., 1914
Stokes, I.N.Phelps, 1916
Stokes, James, 1911
Stone, Isabelle, 1906
Scope and Contents
Stone writes at length about her time as a physics professor at Vassar, her inability to advance to head of the Physics Department, her resignation from Vassar, and her career/professional prospects and search as a woman in the field at that time.
Stone, Melville E. (Associated Press), 1915, 1919, inclusive
Stowe, Lyman Beecher (Doubleday Page & Co), 1922
Stoudt, John Baer (Huguenot-Walloon New Netherland Commission), 1924, inclusive
Strachey, J.S.Loe (The Spectator), 1923
Stratton, S.W., 1925, inclusive
Straubenmuller, Gustave (School Garden Association of New York), 1926
Street, George A., 1913
Stripley, A.R. (Christ's College), 1906
Scope and Contents
Includes short biography on William - 4th Earl of Fitzwilliam.
Strong, Benjamin, 1918
Struthers, Joseph (American Institute of Mining Engineers), 1908
Sturgis, Lyman B. (Century Co), 1930
Sturgis, Russell, 1907
Sullivan, George M. (Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Layman's Club), 1915-1921, inclusive
Sunday, William A. (Billy Sunday), 1923
Scope and Contents
The letter informs Kunz that Sunday is sending a string of crystal beads to be fixed. Includes a sheet from a serial, The Fra, (pp. 185-186) about Billy Sunday.
Swart, Mary (City History Club), 1924-1930, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Documents, including a progam, for the club's 34th Annual Entertainment, chaired by Kunz and held at the American Museum of Natural History.
Swope, Herbert Bayard (The World), 1917
Symthe, Jr., J.Henry (National Republican Club), 1929
Misc. S, 1893-1932, inclusive
Tack, Augustus Vincent (Century Association), 1919
Takamine, Jokichi, 1909
Tanner, Virginia (American Pageant Association), 1921, inclusive
Taw Sein Ko / Toʻ Cinʻ Khui (Archaeological Survey, Burma), 1910
Scope and Contents
Typed article on Burmese Necromancy with hand-drawn figures.
Taylor, Frederic (Taylor & Walsh, financial brokers), 1885
Teall, Gardner C. (2 folders)
Terry, Jr., John T., 1915
Thatcher, John Boyd, 1893, 1900, inclusive
Thayer, [first name?], 1928
Thayer, Stephen Henry (Authors Club), 1912-1918, inclusive
Thomas, John Lloyd, 1896
Thomas, Theodore (Century Association), 1916, inclusive
Thompson, Robert M. (Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission), 1909, inclusive
Thompson, Vance (or Laura?), undated
Thompson, W.C. (Columbia U., "The Dorms"), 1909
Thomson, Elihu, 1901
Thorndike, Ashley H., 1928
Thurston, Ada, 1916
Thruston, Gates P. (Tennessee Historical Society), 1907, inclusive
Tihanyi, Paul P., 1916
Tiffany, Louis C. and Katerina Ely Tiffany, 1901, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
2 letters from Louis, one from Katerina. In the 1901 letter, Louis responds to Kunz saying that the "signs for fountain" (?) are being made but going slow. In an undated letter, Louis thanks Kunz for specimen sent and for berry branches. In an undated (circa 1901) letter, Katerina thanks Mrs. Kunz for the bracelet and telegram of congratulations.
Tillinghast, C.B. (State Library of Massachusetts), 1897
Tod, J.Kennedy, 1896
Toedteberg, Emma (Long Island Historical Society/Hudson-Fulton Celebration), 1910
Tolman, William H., 1900, 1908, inclusive
Tombo, Lorraine, undated
Tombo, Jr., Rudolf, 1910
Torrey, Lillie Gay, undated
Toscanini, Walter (bookseller), 1929
Tower, Ralph W. (American Museum of Natural History), 1913
Towne, Henry R., 1904, 1907, inclusive
Townsend, R.D. (The Outlook), 1908
Trask, Katrina, undated
Treadwell, H.H. (Tiffany & Co), 1911
Scope and Contents
One announcement of a Tiffany stockholders meeting.
Treadwell, Villa Gray, 1902
Treman, Robert H., 1925
Trent, W.P., 1915
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of Trent's poem "Austria-Hungary: 1914-1915.", by W.P. Trent
Trout, S. Edgar, 1925
Trowbridge, M.E.D. (Mrs. L.H.), 1908
Trumble, Alfred (The Collector), 1892, 1894, inclusive
Tucker, John F. (Twilight Club), 1918
Tuckerman, Eliot (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915
Turle, Kathleen G., 1913
Turner, Homer G. (Lehigh U), 1925
Tyler, Viola, undated
Updike, Berkeley, 1926, 1929, inclusive
Vail, Charles D. (Hobart College), 1908-1909, inclusive
Vail, Theodore (Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1913, inclusive
Valentine, Herbert (American Numismatic and Archaeological Society), 1899, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Two documents concerning specifications for two volumes regarding a General Grant Monument Medal.
Van Amringe, J.H. (Columbia College), 1906-1907, inclusive
Van Anda, C.V., 1920
Van Anda, Louise D. (City History Club), undated
Van Brunt, Jeremiah R. (Union League), 1929
Vance, Arthur T. (Woman's Home Companion), 1902
Vanderbilt, Cornelius and Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., 1915, 1922, inclusive
Scope and Contents
One Vanderbilt letter to Kunz and one from Kunz regarding the Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. One letter of introduction for Frederick Hamill from Vanderbilt Jr.
Vanderlip, Frank A. and Narcissa Cox Vanderlip, 1914-1919, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Among other documents, Kunz writes briefly to Mr. Vanderlip (President of the City National Bank of New York) in response to Vanderlip's article on food shortages, and Vanderlip writes about his position on the adverse impact on business of the war (World War I). Mrs. Vanderlip requests financial assistance to establish at Lake Mohegan a unit of the Woman's Land Army.
Van Dusen, Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel C.), undated, inclusive
Van Hise, Charles R. (University of Wisconsin), 1906, inclusive
Veazie, Henry Pursell (Cathedral of St. John the Divine), 1925
Scope and Contents
One letter in which Veazie briefly explains his resignation as Precentor of the Cathedral.
Verplanck, William E. (Century Association), 1904-1906, inclusive
Vickers, George E., 1904
Scope and Contents
Offer of barium from his mine in Maryland for exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition
Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1921
Vincent, George E. (Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1925
Vizitelly, Frank H. (Funk & Wagnalls), 1912, 1921, inclusive
Voynich, Wilfred M., 1918, inclusive
Vrooman, John W., 1925
Scope and Contents
Includes a short biographical sketch of John Wright Vrooman
Wade, Blanche Elizabeth, 1923, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a St. Patrick's Day rhyme written by Wade.
Walcott, Charles D. (Carnegie Institution; Smithsonian), 1904, 1918, inclusive
Walker, E.D. (Harper & Brothers), 1886-1887, inclusive
Walker, John Brisben (Cosmopolitan Magazine), 1891-1893, 1903, undated, inclusive
Walker, William Bogart (Christ Church, Herkimer, NY), 1884
Wall, Alexander J. (New-York Historical Society), 1924, 1928, undated, inclusive
Wallace, Celia W., 1894
Wallace, Charles William, 1917, inclusive
Scope and Contents
One letter with an extensive description by Wallace of his financial needs for continuing his (unspecified) research.
Wallin, William J., 1932
Walters, H. (Century Association), 1899
Wannamaker, Rodman, 1912
Ward, Herbert D. (The Independent), 1885
Ward, J.H. (Bethlehem Steel, for Charles M. Schwab), 1919
Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley, 1916, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a program for Summer School for Children at the Free Library, Wyoming, New York
Ward, William Hayes (The Independent), 1891-1908, 1919, undated, inclusive
Wardwell, Allen (Legal Aid Society), 1929, inclusive
Warfield, Edwin, 1903
Waring, Vechten, 1916
Warner, F. (British Museum), 1901
Warner, Worchester Reed, 1929, undated
Waterman, Frank D., 1925, inclusive
Watson, Albert C., 1890
Watson, Archibald R. (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915
Watson, Mark S. (The Sun), 1930, inclusive
Webster, William King, 1917, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes several flyers explaining the TIPI Order of America, Original American Indian Order Founded by Indians -- William King Webster is the Acting Great Tally Chief. Letter from Webster to Kunz indicates Kunz was a member.
Weekes, Gladys O., 1929
Weinman, Adolph Alexander (Century Association), 1921
Welcher, Manfred P. (Anti-Cigarette League of America), 1912
Weld, Jr., De Witt C., 1915, inclusive
Weldon, M.L. (New York Times), 1923
Welling, Richard, undated
Wells, Charles H. (Piedmont Exposition; "The Dixie"), 1887-1888, inclusive
Wells, T. Tileston, 1912
Scope and Contents
Letter from president of the Alliance Francaise de New York informing Kunz of his election to membership.
Wellstood, Frederick C. (Trustees & Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace), 1919, inclusive
William Wesley & Son (booksellers), 1884-1890, inclusive
Westervelt, Leonidas, 1923
Whalen, Grover A. (Mayor's Committee of Welcome to Home-Coming Troops), 1919
Wheeler, Amy L. (Needle and Bobbin Club), 1921
Scope and Contents
Letter informing Kunz of his acceptance as club member.
Wheeler, Edward J. (Current Opinion), 1916
Wherry, Edgar (U.S. Department of Agriculture), 1918, inclusive
Whidden, Bradlee (bookseller), 1886
White, Andrew D. (Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1913, inclusive
White, W.A., 1917
Whitfield, E.A., 1907
Whitehouse, Vira Boarman, 1915
Whiting, F. Allen (Handicraft magazine), 1911, inclusive
Whiting, Gertrude (Needle and Bobbin Club), 1921
Whitlock, Herbert P. (New York State Museum), 1917-1918, inclusive
Whitney, Evelyn J., 1929
Wickersham, George W., 1929-1931, inclusive
Scope and Contents
American Society of the French Legion of Honor; National Probation Association
Wilcox, Ella M., undated
Wilder, Eric (Laymen's Club), 1929
Wile, Ira S. (Civic Club), 1916
Wiley, Harvey W. (Good Housekeeping), 1913, 1928-1929, inclusive
John Wiley & Sons (publishers), 1903
Wiley, Louis (New York Times), 1923-1931, inclusive
Williams, Arthur, 1915-1916, 1927, 1932, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; American Museum of Safety
Williams, Daniel (Century Association), 1905
Williams, H.B., undated
Williams, Robert Leslie (International Who's Who), 1909
Williams, Stephen G., 1925-1926, inclusive
Williams, Talbot, undated
Williamson, E.D. (New York Evening Post), 1924-1925, inclusive
Wilmot, F.M. (Carnegie Hero Fund Commission), 1917, inclusive
Wilson, Christine Towne, 1922, inclusive
Wilson, F.T. (Youth's Companion), 1884
Wilson, James Grant, 1903, 1909, inclusive
Wilson, L.B., 1909, undated, inclusive
Wilson, Theodore (The Pilgrims club), 1919
Wilson, W.P. (Commercial Museum, Philadelphia), 1924, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Letter from Museum Director Wilson describes the collection in response to Kunz's question of removing it to New York.
Winchell, Edward Everett (printer), 1894
Winecoff, Thomas E. (Rev), undated
Scope and Contents
Incomplete letter
Wingate, George Albert (Mayor's Committee for the Entertainment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet), 1915, inclusive
Winship, George S. (Harvard U. Library), 1924, inclusive
Wirts, Walderman, 1907, inclusive
Wise, Joseph H., 1915
Witherbee, Frank S., 1912
Wittpenn, Caroline B., 1920
Wolbarst, Abraham L., 1915
Wood, H.T., 1891
Woodford, Stewart L., 1903, inclusive
Woodhouse, Henry, 1929
Scope and Contents
Includes as part of Christmas letter - A copy of letter from Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Letter re Aerial League of America, and invitation to visit Washington D.C.'s new Thousand Acres Airport
Woodman, Edward, 1913
Woods, William Seaver (Literary Digest), 1921, 1929, inclusive
Woodward, R.S. (Carnegie Institution), 1907, 1919, inclusive
Wright, Orville, 1925
Scope and Contents
One carbon copy of a letter to Wright regarding the possibility of an industrial museum in New York and proposing to acquire Wright's "machine" for it.
Wright, Richardson (Authors Club), 1918-1919, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Two letters, one of which is Wright's proposal to Kunz that Gardner Teall be nominated to membership.
Wright, Thomas T., undated, inclusive
Wright, W. Aldio (Trinity College, Cambridge), 1892
Wucher, Father (St. Vincent de Paul's Rectory), 1928, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Request for contribution for memorial to the French of New York who died in World War I. In French.
Misc. W, 1887-1925, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Grolier Club; Century Association; others.
Yardley, Margaret, 1901
Young, (James?) Carlton, 1908
Young, M.I. (Mrs. William H.), undated
Zerban, F.H., 1929
Scope and Contents
Tells Kunz of his support for introducing the metric system.
Illegible Correspondent Signatures, 1893-1917, inclusive
Dinner/Luncheon Menus, 1896-1930, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Dinner given to Professor Henry Moissan (with various autographs); dinner in honor of European Members of Transcontinental Excursion of 1912 (with various autographs); dinner of the Hunters Fraternity of America to Monsieur Maurice Maeterlinck (1920); Society of Chemical Industry banquet (1928); luncheon tendered to the officers, passengers and crew of the Graf Zeppelin by the Advertising Club of New York [1928]; dinner in honor of D. Bryson Delavan (1930), with Kunz's notes on Edward Partridge who sat at Kunz's table but later fell ill and died; one card with autographs (undated).
Acknowledgements from Libraries of Books Received from Kunz, 1899-1912, inclusive
Invitations, 1887-1890, 1908, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Several meeting invitations from Grolier Club; one ticket to loan exhibition at Aldine Club; invitation to celebration of 250th anniversary of founding of Kingston, NY (1908).
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 1909, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Forms soliciting patrons and patronesses for the Committee on the Entertainment of Naval Officers and the Foreign Guests; publicity letters sent to organizations; draft of description of College of the City of New York exhibition.
Receipts & Statements, 1888-1925, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Dues receipts for Grolier Club (1888) and American Folk-Lore Society (1893); transmittal of check to Kunz for articles for Saturday Evening Post (1908); invoice for medals in connection with Authors Club Walt Whitman Memorial Committee (1925).
Poem, 1862
Scope and Contents
Manuscript poem "Line." "Written on our troops crossing the Potomac, March , 1862." Unsigned.