5952645John Purroy Mitchel papers5952645Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-09-26 18:18:35 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard2021-12-10Content list published (JR) Rare Book and Manuscript Library John Purroy Mitchel papers Mitchel, John Purroy, 1879-1918 5952645 UA#0070 English . 2 linear feet 2 record cartons 1870s-1900s Restrictions on Access

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Biographical Note

John Purroy Mitchel graduated from Columbia College with the Class of 1899. After graduation, Mitchel went to law school at NYU. He is perhaps best remembered as the "Boy Mayor," since he was elected Mayor of New York (1914-1917) at the age of 34. He died shortly after his mayoral term during a WWI military training flight with the Air Service in Louisiana on July 6, 1918. A gift of the Class of 1899, the John Purroy Mitchel memorial plaque was unveiled in 1921 on the west side of Hamilton Hall.

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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); John Purroy Mitchel papers, box and folder number; University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

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This collection was processed by Joanna Rios in December 2021.

Related Materials

Additional Mitchel materials can be found in the Historical biographical files (UA#0004), including information about the his life but also about the campus memorial and his legacy. You can also find the William Brown Meloney collection of John Mitchel and John Purroy Mitchel materials, 1830-1942 and materials related to Mitchel and the Fusion Committee of 1909 in the Joseph M. Price papers, 1909-1943. There is also an oral history with Bertram de N. Cruger, Mitchel's executive secretary, from 1950. Additional John Purroy Mitchel papers are available at the Library of Congress. His mayoralty papers (Mayor John P. Mitchel records) are available at the Municipal Archives and Records Center, New York City.

Summary

This collections consists of John Purroy Mitchel's (Columbia College 1899) college papers, notebooks, essays and exam books. There are also penmanship handbook and exercise books.

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Notebooks Mitchel, John Purroy, 1879-1918 Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) -- : Students Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) -- : Alumni and alumnae Series I: John Purroy Mitchel papers1870s-1900sScope and Contents

This series includes John Purroy Mitchel's notebooks, essays and exams books. It includes work done before and after Mitchel attended Columbia. There are also some penmanship manuals and some teacher notebooks which belonged to Mary Purroy, Mitchel's mother.

NotebooksScope and Contents

For notebooks that list two courses on the front cover, one set of notes is written starting from the front cover on the right side pages only. The other set of notes is written in the same book, but turned upside down and starting from the back cover on the right side pages only.

Chemistry I laboratory exercises1897-189811Chemistry I and Philosophy A2 folders1897 October-1898 May12-3English XVI and German VIII2 folders1897 October-1898 March14-5Scope and Contents

(English 16 - American Literature with Prof. Brander Matthews; German 8 - History of the German Language with Prof. William Henry Carpenter)

Finances (Science of Finance)1898 October 6-December 1516Scope and Contents

(Economics 4 - Science of finance with Prof. Edwin R.A. Seligman)

German2 Volumes1890s17Greek1890s18History1890s19Latin4 Volumes1890s110Literature3 Volumes1890s111Scope and Contents

(George Elliot, John Dryden, John Milton, etc.)

Math1893112Scope and Contents

(Includes some graded Latin homework from the same year)

On deeds and indentures1900 June-July113Philosophy I and Literature I1898 October-November114Scope and Contents

(Philosophy I - Introduction to philosophy, historical and critical, with Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler and Dr. Walter Taylor Marvin; Literature 1 - The history of modern fiction, with Prof. Brander Matthews)

Political Theories and Economics III1898 October-November115Bound notesScope and Contents

Bound notes means that these are notes (possibly from assigned readings) on loose sheets of paper, which were then bound with metal fasteners.

Economics III1898 October-1899 January116Scope and Contents

(Economics 3 - Practical political economy with Prof. Richmond Mayo-Smith)

Finances2 folders1898 October-1899 May117-18Scope and Contents

(Economics 4 - Science of finance with Prof. Edwin R.A. Seligman)

History A - Synopsis I1897 March 30119Scope and Contents

(History A - Medieval and Modern History, with Dr. Cushing)

Literature I1899 February-May120Scope and Contents

(Literature 1 - The history of modern fiction, with Prof. Brander Matthews)

Philosophy1898 December-1899 January121Philosophy2 folders1899 February-April122-23Political Theories3 folders1898 November-1899 May124-26Unsorted notes1890s127EssaysEconomics III essay1899 May 121Scope and Contents

(Economics 3 - Practical political economy with Prof. Richmond Mayo-Smith)

German VIII essays1898 March 10-2922Scope and Contents

(German 8 - History of the German Language with Prof. William Henry Carpenter)

Literature I essay1899 April 1923Scope and Contents

(On Ivan Turgenev's Smoke)

Exam booksEconomics A, Books 1-44 Volumescirca 189824Scope and Contents

(Economics A - Outlines of Economics with Prof. Richmond Mayo-Smith and Mr. Arthur M. Day)

Political Economics A2 Volumes1898 April 14-2825Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, Book V189226Scope and Contents

(Teubner Latin text, student edition; annotated.)

Daily Journal for 1892189227Scope and Contents

(Inside: ""Blindman's Buff: A farce in one act' by Mlle. Nitouche (The only correct edition.)" Includes notice from Dickson's Uptown Weekly and program from the Webster Park Theatre performance in February 1892.)

Daily Journal for 1897circa 190028Scope and Contents

(inside are possibly law school notes.)

List of official documents re: history of Venezuela, 1813-1826undated29Scope and Contents

(Includes document titles (proclamas, decretos, actas, documentos, constetaciones, etc.), volume and page numbers, in Spanish.)

Miss Purroy's Teacher's Memorandum Books1870s210Scope and Contents

(Miss Mary Purroy's (later Mrs. Mitchel, John Purroy Mitchel's mother) notebooks from her time as a teacher, second class, grammar schools 53 and 58)

Penmanship practice books1880s211Scope and Contents

(Multiple booklets, some completed but some blank.)

Penmanship exercises1880s212Scope and Contents

(Notebook with large letters entered in pencil, then drawn over in pen by John Mitchel. Short practice sentences.)