Poultney Bigelow Papers at the New York Public Library
Introduction:
. _.Poultney Bigelow was born in New York in 1855, the son of
John and Jane Poultney Bigelow. His father was at that time co-owner
and co-editor of the of the New York Evening Post. At the beginning
of the Civil War, the elder Blgelow was appointed United States
consul in Paris; after the war, he was named minister to France.
Poultney Bigelow was educated in France, Germany, and the United
States. In Berlin in the early 1870''s, he was invited to become
a playmate of Prince William of Hohenzollern, later the Emperor
William II of Germany. The friendship persisted and a correspondence
ensued. Poultney Bigelow entered Yale in 1873 and graduated in
1879, with a two-year hiatus during which, for health reasons,
he took passage aboard a sailing ship bound for the Orient; he
was shipwrecked off the coast of Japan, Just short of the vessel's
destination.
After college Poultney Bigelow studded Law and practiced briefly;
from the early 1880''s until his semiretirement in 1906, however,
he was active largely as a Journalist and author based in New
York and London. He traveled extensively and his writings cover
a wide subject range with travel observations politics, and colonial
Studies being most prominent. From this Period of Poultney Bigelow's
life there are sizable collections of letters from such associates
as Henry Mills Alden (the Harper's editor), James Bryce, Roger
Casement, Henry George, Mark Twain, and Israel Zangwill (the English
writer), along with smaller groups of letters from many others.
After 1906 Poultney Bigelow wrote little for the periodical press
but neverthe less published five books, including a two-volume
autobiography. ( In all, he published eleven books.) His correspondence
from this Later period includes sizable collections of letters
from such figures as Geraldine Farrar, Percy Grainger and Ells
(Mrs. Percy) Grainger, Edgar bee Masters, Frederic Remington,
and George S. Viereck (and smaller collections of letters from
many others ).
Particularly well represented in the correspondence are figures
from literature, the arts, and politics, in both the United States
and Great Britain, as well as figures from countries of special
interest to Poultney Bigelow, such as Germany and Japan.
Poultney Bigelow Papers
Organization of the Collection
The papers of Poultney Bigelow are divided into five sections:
Section I, "Family Correspondence," contains some 2,200
letters exchanged by Poultney Bigelow, his parents, brothers and
sisters, and other relatives, mostly between 1864 and 1954. A
few letters from others , from the years before 1880, are also
included here.
Section II, "General Correspondence," contains some
6,500 letters, mostly addressed to Poultney B Bigelow but also
including copies of some of his letters. The general correspondence
covers the years 1880-1954.
Section III, "Poultney Bigelow's Writings," contains
manuscripts of books and articles by Poultney Bigelow, clippings
of his newspaper and magazine articles, unpublished manuscripts,
reviews of his writings, and related matter.
This section also contains other materials brought together under
various geographical and subject heads, reflecting some of Poultney
Bigelow's major areas of interest: Germany, Japan, Panama, Africa,
colonialism, and others. In some instances letters and diaries
are included under these headings, as indicated in the Inventory.
Section IV, "Biographical Materials," contains diaries,
scrapbooks, clippings, and other materials of biographical interest.
Section V, "Papers of Lilian Pritchard Bigelow and Edith
J. Bigelow," contains letters and other materials relative
to Poultney Bigelow's second and first wife, respectively.
Section VI, "Outsize Materials," one large carton with
various outsize memorabilia.
Section I
Family Correspondence
(One transit file, one legal file, one box; approx. 2,200 letters
in all).
Transit File 1. Correspondence with parents, brothers and
sisters (to 1911). Contains about 1,300 letters written by PB,
his parents and siblings, from 1864 to John Bigelow's death in
1911.
Box 1. Four letterbooks and two folders with letters from
family and friends; about 670 letters in all.
1. Letterbook 1, 1870- 1871.
2. Letterbook 2, January - April 1872.
3. Letterbook 3, April 1872 to January 1873 (labeled "March
1872-January 1873).
4. Letterbook 4, labeled "Jan.-Feb.-Mar. 1874;" also
contains letters from December 1873.
5. Folder 1. Miscellaneous letters, mostly after 1911, from and
to;
- Poultney Bigelow
- Annie Bigelow (sister)
- Grace Bigelow (sister)
- Jane Bigelow Tracy (sister)
- Flora Bigelow Guest (sister) and husband
- John Bigelow, Jr. (brother) and wife
- Anne Tracy Eristoff (niece)
- John Bigelow (1836)
- Other relatives
(about 500 letters in all)
Legal file 1. Letters from various family members, mostly
after 1911; arranged and indexed by PB's niece, Anne Tracy Eristoff.
About 230 letters.
Note: For PB's letters to his family from Potsdam in the early
1870's , see Section III, Box 18 (William II and Germany).
Section II
General Correspondence
(2 transit files, 7 boxes) (approx. 7,500 letters in all)
Box 1. Three letter copybooks with copies of PB's letters,
1880-1883. All three indexed by PB. About 825 letters in all.
1. May 1880-June 1882.
2. June-October 1882.
3. October 1882-May 1883.
Box 2. Letters to PB from notable persons. About 500 letters
in all. Includes letters from the following (approx. number of
items in parenthesis):
- (5) Edward, Lord Acton
- (4) Brooks Adams
- (7) Charles Francis Adams
- (29) Henry Mills Alden
- (1) R. A. Alger (Secretary of War, 1898)
- (2) Frederic Bancroft (historian)
- (2) Henry Ward Beecher
- (1) Hilaire Belloc
- (11) James Gordon Bennett (editor and publisher)
- (1) Karl Blind (German poet and revolutionary)
- (8) Gutzon Borghum
- (4) John Bright
- (38) James Bryce
- (1) Pearl Buck
- (31) Philippe Bunau-Varilla
- (20) John Burroughs
- (1) Nicholas Murray Butler
- (1) Jules Cambon (French Premier)
- (1) Bliss Carman
- (2) Andrew and Louise Carnegie
- (35) Roger Casement
- (13) Admiral F.E. Chadwick, USN
- (6) Joseph Chamberlain
- (9) Cora Crane (Mrs. Stephen)
- (1) Irwin S. Cobb
- (1) Bainbridge Colby (Wilson's last Secretary of State)
- (1) Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer
- (1) Josephus Daniels
- (5) Albert Deakin (Australian Prime Minister)
- (12) Admiral George Dewey, USN
- (2) Charles Dilke
- (3) A. Conan Doyle
- (6) Theodore Dreiser
- (1) Thomas A. Edison
- (85) Geraldine Farrar
- (12) Amelita Galli-Curci
- (6) Hamlin Garland
- (3O) Henry George (and see scrapbooks)
- (2) William Gladstone
- (3) Colmar, Baron von der Goltz
- (44) Percy Grainger
- (65) Ella Grainger (Mrs. Percy)
- (5) H. Rider Haggard
- (5) Ernst ("putzi") Hanfstaengl (includes one from
sister, one from secretary)
- (9) John Hay
- (73) G. A. Henty (British author)
- (1) Myron T. Herrick
- (1) William Dean Howells
- (15) Robert H. Ingersoll
- (4) Henry Irving
Box 3. Letters to PB from notable persons. About 360 letters
in all. Includes letters from:
- (1) W. W. Jacobs (author)
- (3) Henry James
- (1) Jerome K. Jerome (author)
- (1) Joseph Joachim (violinist)
- (Rudyard Kipling
- (1) Senator William Langer (with copy of Langer letter to
Attorney General Tome Clark)
- (1) Robert Lansing (secretary of State)
- (2) Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- (1) Seth Low (president of Columbia University)
- (9) A. Lawrence Lowell
- (6) Count Felix Luckner
- (1) General Douglas MacArthur, USA
- (1) Admiral Alfred T. Mahan, USN
- (1) John Masefield
- (3) Vincent Massey (Governor General of Canada)
- (30) Edgar Lee Masters (with texts of several poems)
- (1) H. L. Mencken
- (2) E.D. Morel (British publicist)
- (4) J.P. Morgan, Jr.
- (1) Samuel Eliot Morison
- (5) Alton B. Parker (Democratic presidential candidate, 190-4)
- (9) Admiral Robert E. Peary, USN
- (9) General John J. Pershing, USA
- (7) Gifford Pinchot
- (1) Raymond Poincare (president of France)
- (14) George Haven Putnam (publisher)
- (1) Jeannette Ranking (American agitator)
- (17) Whitelaw Reid and Helen Rogers Reid (of the New York
Herald Tribune)
- (85) Frederic Remington (copies of originals in the library
of St. Lawrence University)
- (33) Ringling family (of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey)
- (1) Will Rogers
- (25) Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and secretaries
- (5) Nicholas Roosevelt
- / G. Hall Roosevelt/ Mrs. James Roosevelt
- (4) Sara Delano Roosevelt
- (9) Theodore Roosevelt (copies, some fragmentary)
- (3) Secretaries to Theodore Roosevelt
- (6) Elihu Root
- (1) Bertrand Russell
- (9) Margaret Sanger (Slee)
- (1) John Singer Sargent
- (7) Emma Middleton von Schirach (mother of Baldur von Schirach,
Nazi youth leader and later Gauleiter of Austria)
- (2) Gustav Schmoller (German political scientist)
- (2) Jacob Gould Schurman (president of Cornell University)
- (5) Carl Schurz
- (2) William Nassau Senior (British political scientist)
- (15) Ernest Thompson Seton , Grace Gallatin Seton (American
naturalists)
- (1) General William Tecumseh Sherman, USA
- (2) I.I. Sikorsky
- (7) Otis Skinner
- (2) Alfred E. Smith
- (1) Herbert Spencer
- (1) Dorothy Stanley (wife of the explorer
- (5) "S. Stepniak" ( Sergei Mikhailovich Kranchinskii,
Russian revolutionist)
- (2) Martinus T. Steyn (president of the Orange Green State)
- (1) Henry L Stimson
- (1) Bram Stoker (author of Dracula)
- (1) Artur Hays Sulzberger
- (3) William Sulzer (New York gubernatorial candidate, 1912)
- (6) William Graham Sumner
- (1) Sen. Robert A. Taft
- (9) William Howard Taft
- (1) May Templeton (Mrs. Alec)
- (1) Count Leo Tolstoy, Jr.
- (1) Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- (38) Mark Twain (typewritten transcripts of letters in PB's
library, with a memoir and a eulogy of Twain by PB, and transcripts
of PB's letters to Twain)
- (72) George S. Viereck (with related materials on Viereck's
prosecution)
- (9_ Henry Watterson (American journalist)
- (6) J. Alden Weir, John F. Weir (American painters)
- (7) David a. Wells (American economist)
- (4) Andrew Dickson White
- (8) Caspar Whitney (American journalist)
- (5) Woodrow Wilson and secretary
- (5) general Leonard Wood, USA
- (24) Israel Zangwill (British author)
Transit File 1. Letters to PB from various correspondents,
with last names beginning with "A" through "H".
About 2,700 letters in all.
Transit File 2. Letters from various correspondents, with
names beginning with "I" through "P." about
1,700 letters.
Boxes 4-5-6. Letters from various correspondents, with
names beginning with "Q" through "Z." About
2,000 letters.
1. Box 4. "Q" through "Slocum"
2. Box 5. "Small" through "T"
3. Box 6. "U through "Z"
Box 7. Scrapbook, about 9 1/2 " by 14" marbled
cover, containing letters from ca. 1888 to 1896; indexed by PB.
About 150 letters, from (among others):
- Bismarck, Herbert von
- Blind, Karl
- Bryce, James
- Bunsen, Gorg von
- Chadwick, Admiral F. E., USN
- Cleveland, Grover
- Curtius, Ernst
- Davis, Mrs. Jefferson
- Gorge, Henry
- Godkin, E. L.
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Hay, John
- Kennan, George (the elder)
- Lecky, W. H.
- Lincoln, Robert
- Lowell, James Russell
- Phelps, W. W. (American diplomat)
- Reclus, Elisee (French geographer and social thinker)
- St. Gaudens, Augustus
- Schurz, Carl
- Massau, William Senior/ Senior, William Massau
- Sherman, General William T., USA
- Stepniak, S.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Sumner, William Graham
- Zitzewitz, Count C. von
Notes:
Transit File 1 contains a notebook listing names of correspondents,
through the letter "M"; the names are also written on
individual folders.
Transit File 1 also contains a file of unidentified letters,
and Transit File 2 contains a file of miscellaneous business letters.
More letters will be found under subject headings in Part B
of this section immediately following; for example, under "William
II and Germany", "Japan", "Panama", as
indicated in those places.
A few additional letters will be found pasted in various diaries
and scrapbooks, as indicated.
Section III
Poultney Bigelow's Writings
(30 boxes, 2 loose scrapbooks)
A. General
Box 1. Holograph ms., A College Boy's Cruise Around
the World (1876-1876)
Box 2. Miscellaneous materials from PB's voyage
Bundle 1. Travels of a College boy ( holograph ms.)
Folder 1. Photos and PB's sketches from the cruise of the Surprise
Folder 2. Contemporary prints from the Orient
Folder 3. PB's diary of the voyage of the Surprise (with
his sketches)
Folder 4. PB's articles and notes on the voyage of the Surprise
Box 3. Extra chapters from the History of the German
Struggle for Liberty, Vol. IV (published 1905).
Box 4. Binder 1. Materials and several handwritten chapters
for Napoleon IV (biography of Napoleon III's son, the "Prince
Imperial"); ca. 1928-1929. Never published
Folder 1. Materials and several typed chapters for the Napoleonic
Legend (date uncertain). Never published.
Box 5. Two mss. of From the Ends of the Earth (ca.
1900-1914), one handwritten, one typed. Never published
Box 6. Ms. sections of Paddles and Politics Down the
Danube publ. 1892), and other materials
Folder 1. Sections of mss. of Paddles and Politics
Bundle 1. Four chapters on William I of Germany and Napoleon III
of France.
Envelope 1. Letter from a reader containing factual corrections
to Children of the Nations.
Folder 2. Several holograph chapters with related source material
on Prussia 1800-1806
Box 7. Holograph ms. of Seventy Summers (publ. 1925),
part 1.
Box 8. Holograph ms. of Seventy Summers, Part 2.
Box 9. Holograph ms. of The Nations (1933). Never
published.
Box 10. Holograph first draft of John Bigelow (ca.
1940?).
Box 11. Holograph second draft of John Bigelow. Never published.
Box 12. Holograph draft of Attila, with notes and
revised chapters (early to mid-1940's). Never published.
Box 13. Further draft chapters of Attila (never
published).
Box 14. Miscellaneous shorter works (mss.)
Envelope 1. Essay, "Queen Louise of Prussia"
Folder 1. Stories and Verse
Folder 2. Memoir of a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis (fragment)
Folder 3. Several travel essays and descriptions of contemporary
event
Folder 4. Historical essays and lectures
Folder 5. Miscellaneous essays and lectures
Folder 6. Miscellaneous notes and fragments
Box 15. Shorter published works
Envelope 1. Last Voyage of the Surprise (publ. in
Outing, May 1886-February 1887)
Folder 1. Articles from the 1880's
Folder 2. Articles from the 1890's
Folder 3. Articles from the 1900's
Folder 4. Articles from the 1910's
Folder 5. Articles in State Troopers Magazine (1920-?)
Folder 6. Articles form the 1920's (and related letters to the
editor)
Folder 7. Book reviews by PB, 1921-1932
Folder 8. Articles and printed speech from the 1930's
Folder 9. Letters to the editor, 1906-1940
Note: For other writings, see the scrapbooks listed below (separately
and in Box 17; and see also the subject headings under Part B
of see section below (Boxes 18 through 26).
Box 16. Reviews and notices of PB's writings and speeches
Scrapbook 1. Reviews of Paddles and Politics (1892)
Scrapbook 2. Reviews of various books, 1892-1893.
Folder 1. Reviews of various works, 1901-1924
Folder 2. Reviews of Seventy Summers (1925)
Folder 3. Notices of PB's lectures and speeches
Folder 4. PB's speech at the dedication of a statue of Frederick
the Great at Malden (1936), with related materials
Scrapbook 1. About 11" by 16", marbled cover, ca. 240
pp. Articles by and about PB, 1883-1891. Indexed by subject by
PB.
Box 17. Two scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine clippings
by and about PB.
Scrapbook 1. 1892-1894
Scrapbook 2. 1894-1896
Section V.
Writings and Other Materials Relating to Various Geographical
and Subject Areas
Scrapbook 2. About 12" by 19". Mementos of the Imperial
German Maneuvers, 1888-1894.
Box 18. Materials relating to William II, Emperor of Germany,
his family and his times.
Folder 1. Letters from William II. Two holograph letters from
1881 and 1887. Two telegrams from 1892 , Eleven holograph letters
and one typed letter from 1928-1936.
Folder 2. Holograph letter from Count A. von Alvensleben, German
Legation, Washington
Folder 3. Letters from Baron A. von Vulow.
Folder 4. Holograph letter from Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau.
Folder 5. Letters from William II's tutor, Gorg Hinzpeter.
Folder 6. Letters from William II's adjutant, von Kessel.
Folder 6. Holograph letter form Count Schlieffen, Chief of the
German General Staff.
Folder 8. Letters from C. von Zitzewitz, William II's adjutant
Folder 9. Letters from the various German military and government
officials
Folder 10. Letters from Hohenzollern court officials.
Folder 11. PB's letters from Potsdam to his father and sister,
1861*
Folder 12. PB's ms. account of German maneuvers in Hanover, September
1889
*See also Section IV (Biographical) for PB's 1861-1862 Potsdam
Diaries.
Box 18. William II. and Germany (cont.)
Folder 13. PB's ms. account of German maneuvers near Glucksburg,
September 890, in form of letters.
Folder 14 Four letters of PB from Germany to his wife, Edith Jaffray
Bigelow, 1892-1901
Folder 15. PB's accounts of various German army maneuvers, publ.
and unpubl. (including diary of 1888 maneuvers)
Folder 16. PB's journal of a voyage to Constantinople with William
II and his entourage in fall 1899, in letter form
Folder 17. Articles by PB about William II, publ. and unpubl.
Folder 18. Works by William II, publ. and unpubl.
Folder 19. Miscellaneous materials relating to William II (photos,
clippings, ms. essay, publ. articles and pamphlets)
Folder 20. Miscellaneous materials relating to Wilhelmine Germany
Folder 21. Two holograph letters from Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern
to PB (with related materials)
Folder 22. Nine letters from Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
and Princess Kyra (with photos, clippings, other related material)
Folder 23. Original serialized publication of Prince Louis Ferdinand's
autobiography, Als Kaiserenkel durch die Welt (incomplete)
Note: A number of letters from William II and his entourage
to PB were deposited earlier in the New York Public Library; they
are not listed in this inventory.
Box 19. eighty-nine numbers of humor magazine Kladderadatsch,
1928-1932, inscribed to "Mr. Poultney Bigelow"
Box 20. Other materials sent b y William II
Bundle 1. Various pamphlet and periodicals
Folder 1. Twenty four numbers of Wolle's Informationsbrief,
1936-1938, sent by William II.
Folder 2. Miscellaneous newspapers sent by William II.
Folder 3. Miscellaneous pamphlets and articles sent by William
II.
Folder 4. Miscellaneous materials from post-Wilhelhelmine Germany.
Box 21. Materials relating to Europe (esp. Germany) in
the 19th century
Folder 1. Prints, notes, and other materials on European history,
1770-1815
Folder 2. Prints and clippings on European history, 1815-1850
Folder 3. Photos and maps (the latter bearing PB's travel notes
and sketches) from imperial Germany.
Folder 4. Diaries, notes, letters, publ. and unpubl. essays on
imperial Germany
Box 22. Materials on Theodore Roosevelt and the Caribbean
Bundles 1. Page proofs of The Actual Roosevelt, a biography
critical of Theodore Roosevelt (author unknown)
Folder 1. PB's notes on parts of The Actual Roosevelt,
with a few draft chapters by PB on Roosevelt (includes a transcript
of a letter from William Loeb , Roosevelt's secretary)
Folder 2. PB's published articles on Theodore Roosevelt
Folder 3. Materials relating to the British West Indies (and other
Caribbean areas) -- esp. sanitary and labor conditions.
Box 23. Writings on Panama, with source materials
Folder 1. PB's published writings, and his congressional testimony,
on Panama
Folder 2. PB's ms. articles on Panama
Folder 3. Letters of Tracy Robinson to PB on Panama
Folder 4. Official and private letters to PB on Panama
Folder 5. Press cuttings and cartoons on PB and Panama
Folder 6. Press clippings on Panama -- through 1905
Folder 7. Press clippings on Panama -- January through June 1906
Folder 8. Press clippings on Panama -- July 1906 to 1913.
Folder 9. PB's miscellaneous notes and documents on Panama.
Folder 10. Photos of Panama
Folder 11. Periodical articles on Panama, by various hands.
Folder 12. Private and government publications on Panama.
Box 24. Notes for lectures on "National Expansion",
given by PB at Boston University, 1904-1905, with related materials.
Folder 1. Lectures 1-4
Folder 2. Lectures 5-14
Folder 3. Lectures 15-17
Folder 4. Lectures 18-21
Folder 5. Lectures 22-25
Box 25. Miscellaneous materials on colonialism
Bundle 1. Ms., "Some Reflections on Colonial Administration".
Folder 1. Miscellaneous writings, lectures, and notes by PB relating
to colonialism, the Negro, and his post at Boston University.
Folder 2. Misc. Materials for "National Expansion"
lectures (first folder of two )
Folder 3. Misc. materials for "National Expansion"
lectures (second folder of two).
Box 26. Materials relating to Japan
Folder 1. PB's miscellaneous articles and notes on Japan
Folder 2. PB's articles from Japan magazine (early 1920's)
Folder 3. Letters from Sadao Saburi, Counselor, Japanese Embassy,
Washington.
Folder 4. Letters from Z. Sano, Director, Tokyo University of
Commerce.
Folder 5. Letters from Hirosi Saito, Japanese Foreign Service.
Folder 6. Letters from G. Shiba
Folder 7. Letters from Viscount E. Shibusawa and Viscount K. Shibusawa
Folder 8. Letters from S. Shimada, Foreign Affairs Section, Government
of Chosen (Korea).
Folder 9. Letters from James King Steele, editor, Japan magazine.
Folder 10. Letters from I.M. Tokugawa.
Folder 11. Letters from Isoh Yamagata, managing editor, Japanese
Christian Intelligence
Folder 12. Letters from Kenjiro Yamagawa, president, Imperial
University of Japan.
Folder 13. Letters from S. Yamasaki, Japanese Foreign Office.
Folder 14. Letters from Saji Yukichi, of Dai-Ichi Ginko, Ltd.
Folder 15. Miscellaneous letters from and relating to Japan.
Folder 16. Miscellaneous maps, clippings, prints, documents, memorabilia
relating to Japan.
Folder 17. Photos of Japan.
Folder 18. Photo portraits of Japanese personages.
See also Boxes 1 and 2 in this section for PB's early (1876)
visit to Japan.
Box 26. Materials relating to the Far East (except Japan).
Folder 1. Ms. essay on Australia and New Zealand.
Folder 2. Ms. and photos relating to New Guinea, Solomons, New
Britain, Samoa.
Folder 3. Materials on Dutch East Indies (notes, photos, ms. and
published articles)
Folder 4. Materials on British North Borneo (photos, notes, articles,
mss., documents).
Folder 5. Materials on Singapore (photos, article, mss., notes)
Folder 6. Materials on the Philippines and American Samoa (ms.,
articles, clippings)
Folder 7. Mss. and notes on Macao.
Folder 8. Materials on China (notes, ms. articles, letters, photos).
Box 28. Materials relating to Danubian Europe
bundle 1. Seven small diaries (with sketches) of a trip down the
Danube, July 7-September 2, 1891
Binder 1. Notes of Danube trip, in blue binder labeled "Donau"
Folder 1. Misc. materials on Danubian Europe (notes, maps, ms.
articles documents)
Box 29. Materials relating to Russia, Spain (and Spanish-American
War), Italy.
Bundle 1. Two small diaries of a journey in Russia and Poland,
September 2-14, 1891.
Bundles 2. Small diary (with sketches) of a journey in Russia,
June 2-11, 1892.
Folder 1. Materials on Russia (photos, letters, mss., article)
Folder 2. PB's writings on Spain and the Spanish-American War,
with related materials (incl. two sketchbooks and a small diary)
Folder 3. Materials relating to Italy (ms. essay, speech, maps,
documents
Box 30. Materials Relating to Africa
Bundle 1. Two diaries of North Africa (with sketches), March 11018,
1894.
Bundle 2. Six diaries (with sketches) of travels in South Africa,
March 31-June 25, 1896. Numbered I0VII; no. IV is missing.
Folder 1. Materials relating to South Africa (articles, notes,
letters of introduction).
Folder 2. Photos of South Africa
Folder 3. Misc. materials relating to East Africa
Section IV.
(11 boxes, 2 loose scrapbooks)
Scrapbook 1. About 10 1/2" by 1`3 1/2". Given to PB
by his father November 1, 1870. Contains clippings, photos, and
prints from newspapers in French, German, and English ca. 1865-1872.
Scrapbook 2. About 12" by 18", pp. 49-348 (front cover
and pp. 1-48 missing). Contents same as above, for years 187201877.
Box 1. Diaries and sketches 186701878
Bundle 1. Diaries 1867-178
Bundles 2. Potsdam Diaries 1871-1872. Four notebooks, about 7"
by 8 1/2", kept during his schooling in Potsdam, May 1871
to December 1872.
Bundle 3. Sketchbooks and lesson books 187101877.
Box 2. Diaries 1879-1899.
Bundle 1. Diaries 1879-1888.
Bundle 2. Diaries 1890-1899 (except 1895).
Notebook 1. Diary and scrapbook, June 16-November 18, 1884. About
6" by 8", 288 pp.
Notebook 2. Diary and scrapbook, November 21, 184, to May 8, 1885.
About 6 1/2" by 9", 168 pp. Indexed.
Box 3. Diaries 1900-1929
Bundle 1. Diaries 1900-1909
Bundle 2. Diaries 1910-1919
Bundle 3. Diaries 1920-1929
Box 4. Diaries 1930-1939
Bundle 1. Diaries 1930-1939
Box 5. Diaries 1941-1950
Box 6. Materials relating to PB and Yale University
Scrapbook 1. About 6" by 9 1/2". Contains clippings
from PB's years at Yale.
Scrapbook 2. About 6 1/2" by 9 1/2". Contains theatrical
and athletic programs, other memorabilia.
Folder 1. Letters, photos, clippings, programs, etc., from Yale.
Box 7. Visiting cards, letters of introduction, address
books, guest books.
Bundle 1. Miscellaneous visiting cards and letters of introduction.
Bundle 2. Two address books, 3" by 6 3/4" and 4"
by 6".
Guest Books 1 and 2. First, 1911-1926; second, 1930-1945. "Bigelow
Homestead" stamped on covers. Also contain some photo and
autographs.
Box 8. Photographs and prints
Folder 1. Photos of Poultney and Lilian Bigelow and children,
house at Malden.
Folder 2. Photos of other relatives and friends.
Folder 3. Misc. photos, prints, views, etc.
Folder 4. Scrapbook of photos 1889-1890 (German maneuvers)
Box 9. Miscellaneous biographical materials (1)
Folder 1. Press clippings and other biographical material (incl.
obituary notices)
Folder 2. Misc. clippings collected by PB.
Folder 3. Legal correspondence and documents (passports, literary
contracts, etc.)
Folder 4. Misc. financial records and correspondence
Folder 5. "Ends of the Earth" Society.
Folder 6. Other club and organizations.
Folder 7. Misc. invitations, banquet menus, etc.
Folder 8. Misc. memorabilia
Folder 9. Misc. biographical material, including sketchbooks.
Box 10. Miscellaneous biographical materials (2)
Folder 1. Genealogical materials relating to the Bigelow and Poultney
families {Temporarily withheld.}.
Folder 2. Materials relating to John Bigelow (photo, PB's essays,
clipping(.
Folder 3. Clippings and notes from the Democratic National Convention
at Kansas City (1900)
Folder 4. Hudson River pollution controversy.
Folder 5. Clippings relating to the controversy between PB and
H. G. Wells.
Folder 6. Materials relating to PB's sailing canoe, "Caribee".
Folder 7. Jokes collected by PB.
Folder 8. Misc. pamphlets, dedicated and signed by the authors.
Folder 9. Other, misc. pamphlets.
Box 11. Scrapbook, about 7 1/2" by 13, " 290 pp., loose.
Dates on spine, 1906-1932. Contains photos, clippings, etc., ranging
from ca. 1876 to ca. 1935.
Section V.
Papers of Lilian Pritchard Bigelow and Edith Jaffray Bigelow
(5 boxes)
Box 1. Lilian P. Bigelow, family correspondence.
Folder 1. Letters of LPB to PB.
Folder 2. Letters of LPB to Grace Bigelow.
Folder 3. Undated letters of PB to LPB
Folder 4. Letters of PB to Lilian Pritchard, 1910-1911.
Folder 5. Letters of PB to LPB, 1912-1914.
Folder 6. Letters of PB to LPB, 1916-1918.
Folder 7. Letters of PB to LPB, 1920-1924.
Folder 8. Letters to LPB from Dorothy Bigelow, Edith Jaffray Bigelow,
Grace Bigelow, Jane Bigelow Tracy, Mildred Bigelow Tilton.
Folder 9. Undated letters from the Pritchard family to the Bigelows.
Folder 10. Letters from the Pritchard family to LPB, 1910-1913.
Folder 11. Letters from the Pritchard family to the Bigelows,
1914-1915.
Folder 12. Letters from the Pritchard family to the Bigelows,
1916-1917.
Folder 13. Letters from the Pritchard family to the Bigelows,
1918-1939.
Box 2. Lilian P. Bigelow; general correspondence.
Folder 1. Letters to LPB, undated.
Folder 2. Letters to Lilian Pritchard, 1899-1911.
Folder 3. Letters to LPB, 1912-1919.
Folder 4. Letters to LPB, 1922-1931.
Folder 5. Letters from M. Darle to LPB.
Folder 6. Letters from E. Dessaint to LPB.
Folder 7. Letters from Ella Garve to LPB
Folder 8. Letters from Adele Johnson (Mrs. Arthur) to LPB.
Folder 9. Letters from Alice Edwards Jones to LPB.
Folder 10. Letters from Micheline ______to LPB.
Folder 11. Letters from Marian Moffett to LPB.
Folder 12. Lettters from May Pember to LPB.
Folder 13. Letters from the Saulnieer family (Alice and Lucie
Saulnier, Marth S. Labitte, Suzanne S. Beaumont) to LPB (undated).
Folder 14. Letters from the Saulnier family (Robert and Marthe
S. Labitte, Suzanne s. Beaumont, Jacqueline L. Rohmer) to LPB
(1903-1919_.
Folder 15. Letters from William Seabright and family to LPB.
Folder 16. Letters from George Spragg to LPB.
Box 3. Lilian P. Bigelow; diaries and notebooks.
Bundle 1. Seven small daybooks (for 1910, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1916,
1921, 1922).
Bundle 2. Eight small daybooks for 19261932 (incl. two for 1930).
Bundle 3. Four small address books.
Bundle 4. Three notebooks containing literary extracts, French
exercises, etc.
Bundle 5. Two small devotional books.
Booklet 1. U.S. Garden Club directory.
Box 4. Lilian P. Bigelow; memorabilia
Folder 1. Clippings relating to World War I
Folder 2. Literary clippings.
Folder 3. Miscellaneous memorabilia.
Folder 4. Materials relating to Worcester (England).
Folder 5. Wedding announcements, formal invitations, etc.
Folder 6. Visiting cards.
Folder 7. Greeting cards.
Box 5. Papers of Edith Jaffray Bigelow
Folder 1. Letters to PB.
Bundle 1. Six literary notebooks.
Section VI.
Outsize Materials
(one large carton)
Carton 1. Large carton containing various memorabilia.