Melvil Dewey papers, 1870-1931

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Series I: Catalogued Correspondence



Box CC1 Addams, Jane


Box CC1 Ade, George


Box CC1 Bacheller, Irving


Box CC1 Beach, Rex


Box CC1 Bell, Alexander Graham


Box CC1 Bok, Edward


Box CC1 Bowker, Richard Rogers


Box CC1 Carnegie, Andrew


Box CC1 Cortelyou, George Bruce


Box CC1 Dreiser, Theodore


Box CC1 Funck, Isaac Kaufman


Box CC1 Gilman, Daniel Coit


Box CC1 Hayes, Rutherford B.


Box CC1 Ochs, Adolph Simon


Box CC1 Rogers, Bruce


Box CC1 Scott, Charles Payson Gurley


Box CC1 Smith, Alfred E.


Box CC1 Smith, Benjamin Eli


Box CC1 Veblen, Thorstein


Box CC1 Walcott, Charles Doolittle


Box CC1 Washington, Booker T.


Box CC1 Whittier, John Greenleaf



Box Flatbox 43 Wright, Silas - appointment of Joel Dewey as colonel of the 55th Infantry Regiment of NY, 1844