Barnard Archives and Special Collections
Annie Nathan Meyer Papers
Meyer, Annie Nathan
BC20.08
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3.88 Linear Feet
1890-1950
This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.
This collection consists of the personal papers, correspondence, manuscripts, publications, and scrapbooks of Barnard college founder and trustee, Annie Nathan Meyer.
English
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Access
This collection has no restrictions. This collection is located on-site.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard College Archives. The Barnard College Archives approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Reproduction Restrictions
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes.
Preferred Citation
Annie Nathan Meyer Papers, 1890-1950; Box and Folder; Barnard College Archives, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
Acquisition Information
The acquisition date and source is unknown.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Processing History
Processing history is unknown.
Descriptive Rules Used:
Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Encoding:
Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.
Finding aid written in English.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection includes professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of Meyer's plays, her books Barnard Beginnings and The Gallery-Goer's Book, essays, and other writings, 1920s-1940s; playbills from performances of her plays, clippings of reviews of her books and plays, book jackets, clippings of her magazine articles, and other literary ephemera including the copperplate engraving used to print her personal bookplates.
Biography
Annie Nathan Meyer was a founder of Barnard College and served on the Board of Trustees from 1889 through 1951. The idea for the establishment of New York City's first four-year women's college was first promoted in "A Memorial Resolution to the Columbia Board of Trustees" written in 1887 by Meyer with the help of Melvil Dewey and Mary Mapes Dodge. This was followed by an article in The Nation (Jan. 26, 1888). It was Meyer's idea to name the new school after the late Columbia president, Frederick A. P. Barnard. She was instrumental in maintaining a Jewish presence at Barnard and in recruiting African-American students. Meyer was an anti-suffragist, in contrast to her sister Maude Nathan who was prominent in the movement. As a writer, she produced three novels, a number of non-fiction works, articles, short stories and twenty-six plays.
Collection Arrangement
The records are arranged in five series, two of which have been further divided into subseries. The series and subseries arrangement of the records is as follows:
- Series 1, Literary Manuscripts
- Series 2, Literary ephemera
- Series 3, Correspondence
- Subseries 1, Literary correspondence
- Subseries 2, Family correspondence
- Subseries 3, Barnard College
- Subseries 4, Other Correspondence
- Series 4, Publications
- Subseries 1, Articles from magazines
- Subseries 2, Books
- Series 5, Scrapbook
Related Collections
Related materials can be found in the Board of Trustees records (Record Group BC01); the Dean's Office Records (BC05.01), and in the related collection of Meyer's papers at The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (https://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0007/ms0007.html).
College trustees
Barnard College
Literary ManuscriptsSeries 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/9800.125 Linear Feet1/2 Archives Boxundated11-111.1 Barnard Beginnings. Book II and 8 pp. of another version (?) 1 typescript; 1 book jacket/repositories/2/archival_objects/11766111.2 The District Attorney. 1 typescript 1921/repositories/2/archival_objects/11767121.3 Furlough. 1 typescript/repositories/2/archival_objects/11768131.4 The Gallery-Goer's Book. 1 typescript/repositories/2/archival_objects/11769141.5 Genesis I.27. 1 typescript/repositories/2/archival_objects/11770151.6 Park Vignettes. 1 MsS/repositories/2/archival_objects/11771161.7 Puppets. 1 MsS/repositories/2/archival_objects/11772171.8 Soundings. 1 typescript/repositories/2/archival_objects/11773181.9 Untitled (on war work for women). 1 typescript/repositories/2/archival_objects/11774191.10 The Windfall, 1943. 1 typescript/repositories/2/archival_objects/117751101.11 Women's Wiles. 1 typescript/repositories/2/archival_objects/11776111Literary ephemeraSeries 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/9810.125 Linear Feet1/2 Archives BoxundatedEnglish.112-211.12 The Advertising of Kate./repositories/2/archival_objects/117781121.13 Black Souls./repositories/2/archival_objects/117791131.14 Dinner of Herbs/repositories/2/archival_objects/117801141.15 The Dreamer/repositories/2/archival_objects/117811151.16 Helen Brent, M.D./repositories/2/archival_objects/117821161.17 P's and Q's/repositories/2/archival_objects/117831171.18 The Right to Dream/repositories/2/archival_objects/117841181.19 Robert Annys, Poor Priest/repositories/2/archival_objects/117851191.20 Women's Work in America/repositories/2/archival_objects/117861201.21 Miscellanous [note: newspaper articles need preservation photocoying]/repositories/2/archival_objects/11787121CorrespondenceSeries 3/repositories/2/archival_objects/9821.38 Linear Feet2 Archives BoxesEnglish.31-422-19Literary correspondenceSubseries 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/9831 archives box21-9Subseries ArrangementLiterary correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
2.1 A-B/repositories/2/archival_objects/11791212.2 C-D/repositories/2/archival_objects/11792222.3 E-G/repositories/2/archival_objects/11793232.4 H-J/repositories/2/archival_objects/11794242.5 K-L/repositories/2/archival_objects/11795252.6 M-O/repositories/2/archival_objects/11796262.7 P-R/repositories/2/archival_objects/11797272.8 S-T/repositories/2/archival_objects/11798282.9 V-Y/repositories/2/archival_objects/1179929Family correspondenceSubseries 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/9841903-19481 Archives BoxEnglish.210-132.10 Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1920-1903, n.d/repositories/2/archival_objects/118012102.11 Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1931-1937/repositories/2/archival_objects/118022112.12 Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1938/repositories/2/archival_objects/118032122.13 Robert Nathan, 1948; n.d./repositories/2/archival_objects/11804213Barnard CollegeSubseries 3/repositories/2/archival_objects/9851891-19471 archives boxEnglish.214-192.14 Helen Erskine, Assistant to the Dean, 1935-1941, nd./repositories/2/archival_objects/118062142.15 Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve, 1914-1947./repositories/2/archival_objects/118072152.16 Pierre Jay, [1936] incl. 1 editorial to the New York Times, Feb 20, 1936./repositories/2/archival_objects/118082162.17 Dean Millicent C. McIntosh/repositories/2/archival_objects/118092172.18 Ella Weed, 1891-1893/repositories/2/archival_objects/118102182.19 Emily Jane Smith Putman, 1913-1914/repositories/2/archival_objects/11811219Other CorrespondenceSubseries 4/repositories/2/archival_objects/9861937-19511 archives boxEnglish.31-43.1 Annie Nathan Meyer Drama Library, 1937; 1947/repositories/2/archival_objects/11815313.2 Dorothy G, Wayman – donation of a collection of letters sent by Mrs. Meyer to Mrs. Wayman, accompanied by 1 TS: Recollections of Annie Nathan Meyer by Dorothy Wayman, 1951/repositories/2/archival_objects/11816323.3 Response to the New Yorker profiles 'The Doctor, The Lady, and Columbia University,' 1943./repositories/2/archival_objects/11817333.4 General Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1181834PublicationsSeries 5/repositories/2/archival_objects/987Articles from MagazinesSubseries 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/988BooksSubseries 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/989ScrapbookSeries 4/repositories/2/archival_objects/9901 document boxEnglish.2 v. Scrapbook of new clippings, programs and ephemera/repositories/2/archival_objects/1182041-21813 microfilm negatives of scrapbooks/repositories/2/archival_objects/131345