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Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer Family Papers
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Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer (1846-1942) was a fiction writer and essayist from Ithaca, New York, with several books and numerous magazine articles to her credit. She married Charles Ashmead Schaeffer, a chemistry professor at Cornell University and president of the University of Iowa, with whom she had several children, including Elizabeth Schaeffer Fuller, George Schuyler Schaeffer, and Gertrude Schaeffer Dunlop. After her husband's death, Schaeffer moved to Washington, DC; after 1919, she spent her final years in Pasadena, California.
Schaeffer's maternal uncle, Charles Scribner (1821-1871), was founder of the publishing house Charles Scribner's Sons, which often published her work.
This collection consists primarily of the papers of author Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer, including manuscripts, mostly typescript short stories and essays, correspondence, and other personal effects. Also included are the papers of some of Schaeffer's relatives, particularly her father, George Washington Schuyler (1810-1888), a businessman and Cornell University trustee in Ithaca, New York, and her maternal uncle, Charles Scribner (1821-1871), founder of the publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.
Purchase, 2017. (AM 2017-114)
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This collection was processed by Faith Charlton in May 2017. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in May 2017.
No materials were separated during 2017 processing.
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- 2017
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Collection Inventory
Consists of typescripts, primarily essays and short stories, as well as an unpublished draft novel and memoir, correspondence, a few photographs, literary contracts and royalty statements, clippings, photographs, financial documents, materials relating to the National Society of Colonial Dames, and other personal effects. A few materials relate to Schaeffer's immediate family.
Physical Description3 boxes
Consists of typescript works, primarily short stories and essays, as well as a copy of Schaeffer's memoir, "From Sunrise to Sunset," and an unpublished draft novel, "She Would Be Loved." Many are proofs that Schaeffer sent to magazines and other publications. Some have handwritten corrections and annotations.
Also included are a couple of works that appear to have been written by family members.
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Essay
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Schaeffer's memoir; photocopy sent to Schaeffer's granddaughter. (1974)
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Unpublished novel draft
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Genealogy; history of Schaeffer's parents
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Includes short stories, essays, opinion pieces, and poems.
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Likely authored by Schaeffer's son, George S. Schaeffer; includes rejection letter from Ainslee's Magazine
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Potentially authored by Elizabeth Pierson.
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Primarily incoming correspondence from editors and others in the publishing industry, friends and affiliates, and the public, about Schaeffer's publications.
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Includes letters from Scribner's magazine editors, Robert Bridges and Alfred Dashiell.
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Most of the correspondence is to and from John Black of Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Includes a few letters from various family members.
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Correspondents include British historian Goldwin Smith, Cornell professor James Morgan Hart, critic William Lyon Phelps, and novelist Alice French, among others. Several letters relate to Schaeffer's novels Isabel Stirling (1920) and Fortune's Yellow (1925).
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Includes correspondence, ephemera, and various publications, including annual reports, yearbooks, and member lists.
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Includes photographs of various family members and properties. Also included is a diploma for Schaeffer's granddaughter from the Montessori School.
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Various personal documents relating to Schaeffer, her husband, and other family members.
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Includes various clippings, pamphlets, and journal issues.
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Consists primarily of correspondence and estate papers of George Washington Schuyler (1810-1888), Charles Scribner (1821-1871), and Nicholas Schuyler, a physician who served as a surgeon during the Revolutionary War, as well as some genealogical materials and ephemera.
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Includes materials relating to two antiquarian books he published through Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Consists of a couple of outgoing letters, including one to Charles R. and Rogers Scribner (1879) and his unaccepted resignation letter to Cornell (1887), and a couple of financial papers, among other materials.
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Includes materials relating to his two books, Colonial New York and Philip Schuyler and His Descendants.
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Includes letters to his brother-in-law George Washington Schuyler of Ithaca, NY, letters from his brother Walter Scribner, 3 leaves of pencil financial calculations (apparently by Schuyler), and 2 envelopes addressed to Schuyler
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Includes research materials created by various family members.
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Includes a family register through 1854.
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