Distinguished Visitors Files, 1848-[ongoing]

5 boxes (2 linear ft.)

Collection number: RG 12

Abstract:

Contains correspondence, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, press releases and photographs about distinguished visitors to Smith College.

Terms of Access and Use: Restrictions on use:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the files must be requested from the College Archives. The Archives has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any question of copyright.

Smith College Archives
Northampton, MA

Biographical Note

The materials in this collection have been accumulated over the years from various sources in and outside the College.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The distinguished visitors files contain correspondence, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, press releases and photographs documenting the visits of distinguished persons to Smith College since its founding in 1871. The material ranges in date from 1848 to the present, with the bulk of the collection falling between 1888 and the present.

The files are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the visitor.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on use:

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Smith College Distinguished Visitors Files, Box #, Smith College Archives.

History of the Collection

The materials in this collection have been accumulated over the years from various sources in and outside of the College.

Accruals:

Additions to these records arrive in the College Archives on a regular basis. Please contact the College Archives for the most up-to-date information.

Processing Information

Processed by Mariah Levitt

Additional Information

Contact Information

Smith College Archives

Northampton, MA 01063

Phone: (413) 585-2970
Fax: (413) 585-2886

Email: nyoung@smith.edu
URL: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/archives

Language

English.

Sponsor

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Contents List

Guest books (4 files)	1889-1925		Box 1

Visitor list	1878-1945		Box 1

Abbott, Katherine M.	1908		Box 1

Abbott, Rev. Lyman	1914-16		Box 1

Adams, Ansel	1953		Box 1

Adams, Maude	1899-1908		Box 1

Addison, Adele	n.d.		Box 1

Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford	1911		Box 1

Allen, Charles N.	1900		Box 1

Anderson, Marian See also: 12.HD 1943-44 Anderson			Box 1

Angell, Sir Norman	1940		Box 1

Arnold, Matthew	1883-86		Box 1

Avery, Eunice	n.d.		Box 1

Baily, Liberty Hyde	1929		Box 1

Baker, Janet	1972		Box 1

Baker, Newton F.	n.d.		Box 1

Bancroft, Anne	1969		Box 1

Bangs, John Kendrick	1898		Box 1

Barnabee, Henry Clay	n.d.		Box 1

Barr-Browne, (Rev.)	n.d.		Box 1

Barrie, James Matthew	1896		Box 1

Barton, William Eleaser	1923-24		Box 1

Beecham, Sir Thomas	1950-51		Box 1

Bell, Alexander Graham	1916		Box 1

Bennett, William J.	1987		Box 1

Benoyendra, Nath Sen	1905		Box 1

Bernhard, Sandra	1986		Box 1

Bismarck, Otto von	1890		Box 1

Brailsford, Henry Noel	1929		Box 1

Bridges, Robert	1895		Box 1

Brooks, Gwendolyn	1985		Box 1

Brooks, Phillips	n.d.		Box 1

Brownell, Samuel Miller	1954		Box 1

Bryce, James Viscount	1907		Box 1

Burgess, Thornton Waldo	1925-30		Box 1

Burnham, Mary A.	n.d.		Box 1

Burroughs, John	n.d.		Box 1

Burton, Richard See: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?			Box 1

Cable, George W.	1884-1933, 1971	Box 1

Photographs	1893, n.d.	Box 1

Publications	1949, n.d.	Box 1

Cadman, Samuel Parkes	1931		Box 1

Cannon, Joseph Guiney	1941		Box 1

Carman Bliss	1896		Box 1

Carmichael, Stokely	1966		Box 1

Carmirelli, Pina	1968		Box 1

Carr, Edward Hallett	1951		Box 1

Carreno, Teresa	1910		Box 1

Carter, Jimmy	1975		Box 1

Chesterton, Gilbert K.	n.d.		Box 2

Choate, Joseph H.	1917		Box 2

Choate, Rufus	n.d.		Box 2

Clapp, Henry A.	1902		Box 2

Clark, Francis Edward	1912		Box 2

Clemens, Samuel Longhorne (aka Mark Twain)	1889		Box 2

Coburn, Charles	1909		Box 2

Colonetti, Gustavo	1949		Box 2

Cone, Helen G.	1988		Box 2

Cooke, Rose Terry	1888		Box 2

Coolidge, Calvin and Grace (Goodhue)	1920-33		Box 2

Coolidge, Calvin & Grace: Coolidge Memorial room	1956		Box 2

Courvoisier, Jaques	1958		Box 2

Curie, Eve	1940		Box 2

Dashwood, Elizabeth Monica See: Delafield E.M.			Box 2

Davis, Angela	1997		Box 2

Davis, Ossie	1991		Box 2

Davis, Richard Harding	n.d.		Box 2

Dee, Ruby	1991		Box 2

Deland, Margaretta Wade Campbell	n.d.		Box 2

Delafield, E.M.	1934		Box 2

De los Angeles, Victoria	n.d.		Box 2

De Mille, Agnes	1953-54		Box 2

Depew, Chauncey	1894		Box 2

Dewey, John	1910-11		Box 2

Dimnet, Ernest	1934?		Box 2

D'Istria, Dora See: Ghica, Princess Helene			Box 2

Dix, William S.	1978		Box 2

Dodds, Harold W.	n.d.		Box 2

Donnell, Annie Hamilton	1910		Box 2

Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripely	1880		Box 2

Drummond, Henry	1893		Box 2

Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni	1895		Box 2

Dumas, Alexandre	n.d.		Box 2

Duthoit, Capitaine Eugene	1918		Box 2

Earhart, Amelia	1918		Box 2

Edib, Halide	1928		Box 2

Eeden, Frederick van	1909		Box 2

Eliot, Charles William	1919		Box 2

Farrarm Geraldine	1939		Box 2

Fiedler, Arthur	n.d.		Box 2

Fields, James Thomas	1879		Box 2

Finley, John Huston	1914		Box 2

Fiske, John See: Green, Edmund Fisk			Box 2

Flagstad, Kirsten	1938-39		Box 2

Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston	1906-15		Box 2

Ford, Eleanor M.	1915		Box 2

Frost, Robert	1956-61		Box 2

Fuller sisters	1891-1914		Box 2

Galbraith, John Kenneth	1961		Box 2

Garfield, Mrs. James Abrams	n.d.		Box 2

Garfield, James Rudolf	1904		Box 2

Garrison, Wendell Philips	1892		Box 2

Gates, Henry Lewis Jr.	1996		Box 2

Gaynor, Jessie L.	n.d.		Box 2

Ghica, Princess Helene	1879		Box 2

Gibson, Charles Dana	1894		Box 2

Gilchrist, Herbert A.	1894		Box 2

Gilder, Richard Watson	1888		Box 2

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader	1997		Box 2

Granville-Barker, Harley	1942		Box 2

Greeley, Horace Missing: June 1999	1850, 1861		Box 2

Green, Edmund Fisk	1886		Box 2

Green, Samuel Swett	1901		Box 2

Gregory, Dick	1968		Box 2

Gregory, Lady	1976, n.d.		Box 2

Grenfel, Wilfred	1911, 1913		Box 2

Grew, Joseph C.	1943		Box 2

Griffis, William Elliot	1913		Box 2

Guilbert, Yvette	1916-17		Box 2

Guiney, Louise Imogen	1922		Box 2

Gulda, Friedrich	1952		Box 2

Hale, Edward Everett	1875-99		Box 3

Hale, Phillip	1926		Box 3

Hart, Albert Bushnell	1916		Box 3

Hayne, Paul Hamilton	1883-88		Box 3

Heifetz, Jascha	1927-28		Box 3

Henschel, George	1906		Box 3

Herrick, Myron Timothy	1917		Box 3

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow	1884		Box 3

Hitchcock, Edward	1908		Box 3

Hoover, Herbert	1943		Box 3

How, George F.	1988		Box 3

Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward	1911		Box 3

Howells, William Dean	1905		Box 3

Housman, Laurence	1931		Box 3

Hubbell, Rose	1910-11		Box 3

Hughes, Charles Evans	1917		Box 3

Humphrey, Hubert H.	1964		Box 3

Humphrey, Hubert: Photographs	1964		Box 3

Jacks, Lawrence Pearsall,	1931		Box 3

Jackson, Helen Maria Hunt	1879-80		Box 3

James, Edmund Janes	1911		Box 3

James, George Wharton	n.d.		Box 3

James, Henry	1905	Box 3

Photographs (3 files)	1905	Box 3

Jefferson, Joseph	1895-1902		Box 3

Johnson, Rev. Nelson	1997		Box 3

Johnson, Thor	1950-51		Box 3

Keller, Helen	n.d.		Box 3

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald	1958		Box 3

King, Martin L.	1968		Box 3

Kingston, Maxine Hong	1989		Box 3

Koch, Frederick H.	1932		Box 3

Kossuth, Lajos	1950		Box 3

Kreisler, Fritz	1928, 1942		Box 3

Leacock, Stephen	1941		Box 3

Lee, Gerald Stanley	1897-1917, 1976		Box 3

Lerner, Max	1944		Box 3

Lewis, Charles	1921		Box 3

Lin, Yutang	1937		Box 3

Lodge, Henry Cabot	1915		Box 3

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	1879		Box 3

Lovett, Rev. Sidney	n.d.		Box 3

Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone	n.d.		Box 3

MacCausland, Dr. Isabelle	1928		Box 4

MacKaye, Percy	1917		Box 4

MacManas, Seumas	1915		Box 4

McCutcheon, George Barr	1913		Box 4

McGovern, George	1981		Box 4

McKinley, William	1996		Box 4

Mabie, Hamilton Wright	1900		Box 4

Macauley, Dame Rose	1941		Box 4

Mansfield, Richard	1891		Box 4

Marlowe, Julia	1894		Box 4

Matthews, James Brander	1898		Box 4

Mead, Margaret	1975		Box 4

Menon, Lakshmi N.	1959		Box 4

Menuhin, Yehundi	1932-82		Box 4

Meridith, George	1878		Box 4

Merrill, Selah	1908		Box 4

Miller, Cicinnatus Hiner	n.d.		Box 4

Miller, Joaquin	n.d.		Box 4

Mitchell, Silas Weir	1887		Box 4

Mitford, Algernon Bertram Freeman	1871		Box 4

Morrison, Toni	1996		Box 4

Muensterberg, Hugo	1902		Box 4

Nash, June	1996		Box 4

Nash, Odgen	n.d.		Box 4

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein	1962		Box 4

Newton, Alfred Edward	1927		Box 4

Niebuhr, Rev. H. Richard	1958		Box 4

Olds, George	n.d.		Box 4

Oppenheimer, J. Robert	1949		Box 4

Paderewski, Ignance	1893-96		Box 4

Page, Thomas Nelson	1898		Box 4

Painter, Nell Irvin	1996		Box 4

Palmer, Alice Freeman	1899		Box 4

Palmer, Charles Ray	1910		Box 4

Parker, James Reid	n.d.		Box 4

Parker, Sir Gilbert	1900		Box 4

Parks, Rosa	n.d.		Box 4

Pavlowa, Anna	1920		Box 4

Peary, Robert E.	1919		Box 4

Perkins, Frances	1933-40		Box 4

Perry, Bliss	1913-21		Box 4

Pershing, John J.: Smith College Relief Unit	1920		Box 4

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart	1888-1906		Box 4

Poole, Ernest	1924		Box 4

Pryor, Roger Atkinson	1911		Box 4

Rachmaninoff, Sergei	1909-42		Box 4

Ratcliffe, S. Kerkham	1918-23		Box 4

Repplier, Agnes	1921		Box 4

Richards, Laura E.	n.d.		Box 4

Riddle, George	1895		Box 4

Rogers, William Penn Adair	1927		Box 4

Root, Elihu	1915		Box 4

Ross, George H.	1911		Box 4

Rossi, Alice S.	1975		Box 4

Royce, Josiah	1895-1910		Box 4

Sainte-Marie, Buffy	1996		Box 4

Sanchez, Sonia	1998		Box 4

Sarg, Tony Marionettes	1923		Box 4

Saltonstall, Leverett	1945		Box 4

Serkin, Rudolf	1988		Box 4

Seton-Thompson, Ernest	190?		Box 4

Seymour, Charles	1921		Box 4

Seymour, Thomas Day	1889		Box 4

Shedlock, Marie L.	1916		Box 4

Sidney, Margaret	1897		Box 4

Skinner, Cornelia Otis	n.d.		Box 4

Smith, F. Hopkinson	1899		Box 4

Sousa, John Philip	n.d.		Box 4

Soyinka, Wole	1996		Box 4

Speer, Robert Elliott	1906		Box 4

Spofford, Ainswoth Rand	1901		Box 4

Stedman, Edmund Clarence	1880		Box 4

Stein, Gertrude	1935		Box 4

Stodland, William Leavitt	n.d.		Box 4

Stuart, Ruth McEnery	1898		Box 4

Sunday, William Ashley	n.d.		Box 4

Swing, Raymond Gram	1942		Box 4

Szell, George	1947		Box 4

Taft, William Howard	1914		Box 4

Tangeman, Nell	n.d.		Box 4

Taylor, Elizabeth See: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?			Box 4

Terry, Ellen	1910-11		Box 4

Thomas, Martha Carey	1907		Box 4

Thompson, Dorothy	1941		Box 4

Tracy, Hugh	1960		Box 4

Tropp, Vladimir	1988		Box 4

Twain, Mark See: Clemens, Samuel L.			Box 4

U.S. Treasury	1912		Box 5

Van Dyke, Paul	n.d.		Box 5

Vetter, Noemi C.	n.d.		Box 5

Wallace, George Corley	1963		Box 5

Wallace, Henry A.	1942-43		Box 5

Walpole, Hugh	n.d.		Box 5

Warner, Charles Dudley	n.d.		Box 5

Warren, Robert Penn	1963		Box 5

Washington, Booker T.	1901-14		Box 5

Wendell, Barrett	n.d.		Box 5

West, Cornel See: Gates, Henry Lewis Jr.			Box 5

Wharton, Edith Newbold	n.d.		Box 5

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Warner Brother's film production (WAVW): Newspaper clippings	1965	Box 5

Newspaper clippings	May 1965- Aug 1965, 1966	Box 5

Newspaper clippings	Sep 1965-Jul 1966	Box 5

Alumnae Reaction	1965	Box 5

Warner Brothers	1965-55	Box 5

Contract	1965	Box 5

Smith Location Filming	1965	Box 5

Photographs	n.d.	Box 5

The Warner Brothers Episode: Mr. Herbert N. Heston	1965-66	Box 5

Wiggins, Kate Douglas	1892-1900		Box 5

Whittier, John Greenleaf	n.d.		Box 5

Wilder, Thornton	1955, 1975		Box 5

Wilkie, Wendell L.	1943		Box 5

Williams, Harrison	1960		Box 5

Williams, Jody	1998		Box 5

Wilkinson, Florence	n.d.		Box 5

Wilson, Woodrow	1897-1913		Box 5

Winter, William	1880		Box 5

Wister, Owen	n.d.		Box 5

Wolf, Gustav Art	1938-44		Box 5

Woolley, Mary Emma	1910		Box 5

Woolsey, Theodore Dwight	1875		Box 5

Worchester, Dr. Elwood	n.d.		Box 5

Wright, Carroll Davidson	1897		Box 5

Wright, Mabel Osgood	1907		Box 5

Wyche, Mimi	1994-95		Box 5

George W. Cable: His Life and Letters Lucy Cable Bikle	1928		Box Bk

The Grandissimes George W. Cable	1907		Box Bk

Old Creole Days George W. Cable	1897		Box Bk

Women Aloft Valerie Moolman	1981		Box Bk

Henry James matted photographs			Box OV

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