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Series II: Manuscripts and documents, 1881-1945, undated

Frederick L. Hoffman Papers, 1881-1989

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Series IV: Hoffman and Rigney family, 1885-1986, undated

Series IV contains materials from the Hoffman, Hay, and Rigney families. Subseries IV.1 contains correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and printed matter of Ella Hoffman Rigney, daughter of Frederick L. Hoffman and founding director of the Raphael House, a shelter for single mothers experiencing homelessness, in San Francisco. Subseries IV.2 contains materials belonging to other family members, especially Hoffman's wife, Ella Hay Hoffman. Most of these items are of a personal nature, but there is substantial information about her involvement with the United Daughters of the Confederacy. There are also several genealogical charts and family histories documenting the lineage of the Hoffman and Hay families.

Subseries IV.1: Ella Hoffman Rigney, 1936-circa 1978, undated


Box 33 Quarterly Review, N.Y.C. Cancer Committee, 1936 April-1941 October

Box 33 Quarterly Review, N.Y.C. Cancer Committee, 1942 January-1944 October


Box 28 Ella Hoffman Rigney. History of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, 1913-1943. New York: New York City Cancer Committee, 1944


Box 34 Raphael House Annual Reports, 1978- , with Francis Rigney article about Raphael House, circa 1978


Box 33 Letters received on the death of Francis S. Rigney, undated

Box 33 Ella H. Rigney Vista Reports: Mission District, San Francisco, California, undated

Box 33 Ella H. Rigney Vista Reports: North Carolina, undated

Box 33 Ella H. Rigney Vista Reports: Sandy, Oregon, undated

Box 33 Focus, San Francisco Unit, American Cancer Society article about Ella H. Rigney, undated

Box 33 Ella H. Rigney corrected revolutionary charts (photocopies), undated


Box 35 Ella Hoffman Rigney assorted writings, undated, 2 folders

Box 35 Ella Hoffman Rigney clippings, undated, 2 folders

Box 35 Ella Hoffman Rigney correspondence, undated

Box 35 Ella Hoffman Rigney printed matter, undated


Box 36 Ella Hoffman Rigney miscellaneous notes, undated

Box 36 Ella Hoffman Rigney Raphael House materials, undated

Box 36 Ella Hoffman Rigney school notebooks, undated

Box 36 Ella Hoffman Rigney school papers, undated

Subseries IV.2: Genealogical and family documents, 1885-1986, undated


Box 30 Charles H. West, "Brief Sketch of Sidney Lanier", 1887


Box 33 "Records and Papers of My Pneumonia Illness" manuscript volume, author not identified, 1927 April-May


Box 37 Pedigree Charts, Family Charts, and Cognate Branches of Frederick L. Hoffman and Ella George Hay and John Rigney and Jane Clancy. Volume 1, 1986


Box 38 Pedigree Charts, Family Charts, and Cognate Branches of Frederick L. Hoffman and Ella George Hay and John Rigney and Jane Clancy. Volume 2, 1986

Box 38 Hoffman family genealogical charts, 1986, 2 items


Box 33 Hay Genealogy, undated


Box 27 Ella Hay Hoffman family correspondence, 1887-1949

Box 27 Ella Hay Hoffman correspondence, 1892-1918


Box 28 Letters from Frances Morgan Armstrong to Ella Hay Hoffman, 1893-1901


Box 27 Letters from Lula [Hay?], 1896-1898


Box 35 Ella Hay Hoffman printed matter, undated

Box 35 Ella Hay Hoffman Southern Club of Boston materials, undated

Box 35 Ella Hay Hoffman United Daughters of the Confederacy materials, undated


Box 36 Ella Hay Hoffman United Daughters of the Confederacy materials, undated


Box 35 Ella Hay Hoffman miscellaneous materials, undated


Box 29 Hoffman daughters' correspondence, 1897-1941

Box 29 Letters about Frances, 1919-1921


Box 36 Biographical information on Frederick L. Hoffman gathered by Hoffman daughters, circa 1970s


Box 35 Frederick L. Hoffman clippings and correspondence, undated

Box 35 Harry A. Mellor address book, undated

Box 35 Hoffman family photographs, undated


Box 36 Hoffman family miscellaneous correspondence, undated

Box 36 Hoffman family miscellaneous notes, undated


Box 32 Biography of Frederick L. Hoffman by his daughter, Ella Hoffman Rigney, undated

Box 32 Hoffman genealogy, undated, In four black looseleaf binders.