Series II. Cecil family photographs and papers, 1872-2003, inclusive
Arrangement
Series II is organized in four sub-series. Material within each sub-series is sorted alphabetically by document type or topic.
Sub-series II.A. Russell LaFayette Cecil, 1880s-1975
Sub-series II.B. Eileen Cumming Cecil, 1890s-1982
Sub-series II.C. Russell Cumming Cecil, 1920s-2003
Sub-series II.D. Other Cecil and related families, 1872-1986
Sub-series II.A. Russell La Fayette Cecil, 1880s-1975, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Sub-series II.A includes some magazine profiles and memorial tributes recounting the contributions of Dr. Russell LaFayette Cecil (1881–1965) to the field of rheumatology, but the accompanying letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, Princeton University memorabilia, and other material is of a familial, non-professional nature. (See Sub-series II.C for correspondence between Dr. Cecil's grandson and an author studying the former's Textbook of Medicine.) Three folders hold apparently unpublished autobiographical material, and a diary chronicles his golf scores between 1950 and 1963.
Article about: "Textbook Titan," MD Medical Newsmagazine, vol. 2, no. 3, 1958 March, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Profile pp. 78-79.
Article about: "Focus on Dr. Russell L. Cecil," Image, vol. 4, no. 2, 1962 June, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Profile pp. 21-24.
Article about: "In Dedication to Russell L. Cecil, M.D.," Arthritis and Rheumatism: Official Journal of the American Rheumatism Association, vol. 6, no. 4, part II, 1963 August, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Entire issue dedicated to Dr. Cecil.
Article about: Obituary, Time, 1965 June 11
Scope and Contents
Brief obituary, p. 92.
Article about: (eulogy) "Russell LaFayette Cecil, 1881-1965" (6 copies), [1965 June 4]
Article about: (tribute) "Russell Lafayette Cecil, 1881-1965" (4 copies), [1965], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Biographical pamphlet issued by McNeil Pharmaceutical.
Article about: "Men of Medicine: 'You Must Do Everything With Love',", undated, inclusive
Article by: "Studies on Pneumococcus Immunity," reprinted from The Journal of Experimental Medicine, vol. 38, no. 2, 1923 August 1
Scope and Contents
With Edward Mott Wolley's "Robbing Pneumonia of Its Terrors," Good Housekeeping, November 1923.
Article by: "Present Status of Arthritis," Modern Medicine, vol. 24, no. 19 (2 copies), 1956 October 1
Article by: "The Editing of a Modern Medical Textbook," International Record of Medicine, vol. 169, no. 11, whole number 2885, 1956 November, inclusive
Autobiography (3 folders), undated, inclusive
Baby hair, [1880s], inclusive
Blueprints, Cecil residence, 153-155 East 61st Street, 1950 January 20
Calling cards, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Cards stamped "Doctor Russell L. Cecil" in Tiffany & Co. box.
Cecil family genealogical material (2 folders), 1870s-1965, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a family tree drawn by the processing archivist, Joseph Ditta, and added to the collection for user reference (2019).
Diary (personal), 1908 April 2 - May 2, inclusive
Diary (golf), 1927-28, 1950-63, inclusive
Diary (travel), 1931 Summer, inclusive
Diary (engagements), 1960, inclusive
Ephemera, circa 1930s-1959, inclusive
Letters, 1898-1900, inclusive
Letters, 1905-1910, 1912, 1917-1918, inclusive
Letters, 1923-1950, inclusive
Letters, etc., 1951-1971, inclusive
Letters (undated), undated, inclusive
Letters of condolence to widow, Eileen Cumming Cecil, 1965 June-October, inclusive
Letters of condolence to son, Russell Cumming Cecil, 1965 June-July, inclusive
Motion picture film, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
"Pop's Senate Hearing Film / Dr. Russell L. Cecil."
Restricted
Until this film has been preservation formatted, it may not be played. In any case, N-YHS lacks the required playback equipment.
Newspaper and periodical clippings, 1938-1975, undated, inclusive
Newspapers (facsimiles), [1854, 1861-1864], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Reprints [?] of the [London] Times (1854 October 9, November 13); New York Herald (1861 February 11, April 20); New York Tribune; (1861 April 15); Daily Richmond Examiner (1862 June 3); [Richmond] Daily Dispatch (1863 October 20); and Charleston Daily Courier (1864 September 26).
Photographs, personal, circa 1891-1965, inclusive
Photographs, personal (oversize), [1900s-1940s], inclusive
Photographs (slides), travel, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
"Cecil trips to Egypt, Italy, Greece."
Poetry, 1923, 1964, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Poems composed for his wife, Eileen Cumming Cecil (1923) and granddaughter, Sarah Cecil (1964).
Princeton University, Class of 1902 armband [?], [1902?], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Orange felt armband with black "02."
Princeton University, Class of 1902 photograph, 25th anniversary, [1927], inclusive
Princeton University, Class of 1902, Septennial Record of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Two, 1910, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Russell L. Cecil entry p. 31.
Princeton University, Class of 1902, Twenty-Fifth Year Record of the Class of 1902, Princeton University, 1902-1927, [1927], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Russell L. Cecil entry pp. 64-65.
Princeton University, sheet music, "Old Nassau", 1905, inclusive
Scrapbook, circa 1923-1974, inclusive
Scrapbook (loose pages), circa 1951-1963, inclusive
Sub-series II.B. Eileen Cumming Cecil, 1890s-1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Sub-series II.B includes photographs, passports, scrapbooks, scattered letters and cards, and other material relating to Eileen Cumming Cecil (1892–1982). Of note are the tear sheets of interior decorating articles she wrote in the 1920s for House Beautiful and Vogue, and a miniature 1927 pamphlet entitled "The Place of the Fashion Magazine," which reprints the text of a lecture that she, a "practical fashionist," delivered for the Department of Fine Arts of New York University. A scrapbook gathers Florsheim Shoes advertisements publicized by her firm, Eileen Cumming Associates.
Address books (2), 1960s-1980s, inclusive
Article by: "The Place of the Fashion Magazine", 1927, inclusive
Article by: "Summer in the Dining Room," Charm, 1924 July, inclusive
Articles by: House Beautiful, 1920s, inclusive
Articles by: Vogue, 1920s, inclusive
Audiotape: "Mrs. Cecil", undated, inclusive
Restricted
Until this tape has been preservation formatted, it may not be played. In any case, N-YHS lacks the required playback equipment.
Audiotape: unidentified, [1961?], inclusive
Restricted
Until this tape has been preservation formatted, it may not be played. In any case, N-YHS lacks the required playback equipment.
Certificate of citizenship, 1932, inclusive
Cumming family tree, 1981, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes notes by Sarah Cumming Cecil (donor) and a family tree drawn by the processing archivist, Joseph Ditta, and added to the collection for user reference (2019).
Ephemera, etc., 1923-1964, inclusive
Financial, 1966-1978, inclusive
Letters and cards, 1913-1980, undated, inclusive
Letters of condolence to son, Russell Cumming Cecil, 1982 September-October, inclusive
Marriage certificate, license, invitations, 1923, inclusive
Newspaper clippings, general, 1937-1970, 1998, inclusive
Newspaper clippings, personal, 1923-1982, inclusive
Odlum Award, 1965 October 7
Scope and Contents
Eileen Cumming Cecil was corecipient of the 1965 Floyd B. Odlum Award presented by the New York Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, Inc. She served on the organization's board of governors.
Passports, 1925, 1932, 1968, 1980, inclusive
Photograph album, 1920s-1960s, inclusive
Photograph album (fragment), undated, inclusive
Photographs, miscellaneous, 1920s-circa 1977, inclusive
Photographs, personal, circa 1890s-1965, inclusive
Photographs, personal (framed), circa 1967, inclusive
Photographs, personal (oversize), [1890s], inclusive
Photographs (negatives), undated, inclusive
Postcards, undated, inclusive
Menu, 1937 June 26
Scope and Contents
Dinner menu, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique French Line.
Scrapbook, 1880s-circa 1965, inclusive
Scrapbook, 1890s-1950s, inclusive
Scrapbook, 1890s-1970s, inclusive
Scrapbook, Eileen Cumming Associates, Florsheim Shoes advertisements, [1930s?], inclusive
Sub-series II.C. Russell Cumming Cecil, 1920s-2003, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Sub-series II.C includes personal material—letters, photographs, and a few youthful school essays—of architect and historic preservationist Russell Cumming Cecil (1926–2009). The sole item regarding his work is a December 1972 House & Garden profile of a house he designed for Wilfred Cohen on Long Island Sound. Also included is a folder of correspondence between Russell C. Cecil's son, Dr. Russell N. A. Cecil, an orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. James A. Pitman Jr., a distinguished professor at the University of Alabama who was (in 1999) preparing a paper on textbooks of internal medicine and, naturally, sought to include information on Dr. Russell L. Cecil's 1927 Textbook of Medicine.
Cecil-Cumming cemetery plot, 1958-1992, undated, inclusive
Childhood drawings, 1936, undated, inclusive
Wilfred Cohen House clippings, 1972-1973, inclusive
Diary (fragment), [?] January 1-20, inclusive
Insurance Appraisal Property of Nancy and Russell Cecil, 1986 September, inclusive
Letters, etc., 1926-2003, undated, inclusive
Newspaper clippings (family), 1894-1986, inclusive
Photograph album, childhood, 1920s-1930s, inclusive
Photographs (loose), circa 1927-1951, inclusive
Photographs, personal (oversize), 1920s-1930s, inclusive
St. Paul's School, 1941, 2010, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes an obituary for Russell Cumming Cecil in Alumni Horae, vol. 90, no. 2 (Winter 2010), 41.
Yale University, 1945-1946, inclusive
Russell N. A. Cecil correspondence re: grandfather, Dr. Russell L. Cecil, 1999, inclusive
Sub-series II.D. Other Cecil and related families, 1872-1986, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Sub-series II.D includes letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other material relating to the relatives of Russell LaFayette Cecil: his parents, the Presbyterian minister Rev. Russell Cecil (1853–1925) and Alma (Miller) Cecil (1858–1948); brothers John Howe Cecil Sr. (1883–1939) and James McCosh Cecil (1891–1954); sisters Alma (Cecil) Cary (1885–1932) and Elizabeth (Cecil) Scott (1900–1948); nieces Patricia Cecil Hass (1928– ) and Amanda (Cecil) Schuster ; and nephews John Howe Cecil Jr. and James M. Cecil Jr.