Frederick William Holls papers, 1880-1903

Creator:: Holls, Frederick William, 1857-1903
Extent:: 9 Linear Feet 22 boxes
Language:: English .
Scope and content:: Letters to and copies of letters, letter books, and miscellaneous papers of (George) Frederick William Holls. There is also an amount of clippings and other miscellanea. The correspondence is with many persons important in the areas of politics and education. The subject content of the letters is international in scope, including such matters as the Suez Canal, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the Dreyfus affair, the Hague Peace Conference, Rhodes Scholarships, unification of education in New York State, the St. Louis Exposition, and tenement reform. Among the principal correspondents represented by groups of letters are John Barrett, Nicholas Murray Butler, Henry W. Diederick, Theodor Lange, Hugo Munsterburg, F.J. Odendahl, Theodore Roosevelt, and Carl Schurz.
Biographical / historical:: 1857-1903. American lawyer, publicist, and Secretary of the United States delegation to the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.

Acquisition information:

Source of acquisition--Sayles, Robert W. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1913. Accession number--M-13.

Custodial history:

A volume of letters to Holls was transferred to this collection when it was found in Columbiana, January 1982. The letters have been removed and separately cataloged.

Processing information:

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/89.

Catalogued correspondence listed by Barrett Hellmann (GSAS '23), 2022 July.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in two series based on the documentary form of the materials. Selected materials cataloged; remainder listed.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred citation:: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frederick William Holls papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Location of this collection:: Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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