Collections

The collection contains ca. 860 items (2.5 shelf feet) and consists primarily of a variety of keepsakes and memorabilia that reflect on the life and work of Gildersleeve and that appear to have been personally gathered and saved by him and by Elizabethand, in later years, by his daughter, Emma(Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane) and his granddaughter, Katharine Lane Weems. The scattered assortment of letters, notes, diaries, books, reprints, newsclips, published articles, obituaries, photographs, diplomas, mementoes, and other memorabilia that make up the collection have been arranged in four groupings:

Note: As much as possible, the list follows Lesley Payne's filing order and folder headings.

This collection of thirty-eight items, 1776-1894, consists of three groups of unrelated papers. The first group contains eighteenth-century material chiefly concerning the Woodburyand Clappfamilies and includes the following correspondence: a letter of personal and religious sentiment from Edmund Quincyto his granddaughter, Mrs. Mary [Sheatt], December 14, 1780; a letter from Levi Woodburyto Asa Clapp, October 9, 1818, concerning marriage to Clapp's daughter, Elizabeth; Asa Clapp's letter to Elizabeth Woodburyconcerning her husband's estate, April 16, 1829; Isaac Hill's letter, November 8, 1841, to Col. Isaac Barnesdiscussing the suitability of Governor Levi Woodburyfor the presidency of the United States; and a letter from [Charles ?] Woodbury, January 4, 1894, to his sister Ellen Woodburyabout a family dispute.