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.
Notebooks
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.
Box 1 Folder 1
Chemistry I laboratory exercises, 1897-1898
Box 1 Folder 2-3
Chemistry I and Philosophy A, 1897 October-1898 May, 2 folders
Box 1 Folder 4-5
English XVI and German VIII, 1897 October-1898 March, 2 folders
(English 16 - American Literature with Prof. Brander Matthews; German 8 - History of the German Language with Prof. William Henry Carpenter)
Box 1 Folder 6
Finances (Science of Finance), 1898 October 6-December 15
(Economics 4 - Science of finance with Prof. Edwin R.A. Seligman)
Box 1 Folder 7
German, 1890s, 2 Volumes
Box 1 Folder 8
Greek, 1890s
Box 1 Folder 9
History, 1890s
Box 1 Folder 10
Latin, 1890s, 4 Volumes
Box 1 Folder 11
Literature, 1890s, 3 Volumes
(George Elliot, John Dryden, John Milton, etc.)
Box 1 Folder 12
Math, 1893
(Includes some graded Latin homework from the same year)
Box 1 Folder 13
On deeds and indentures, 1900 June-July
Box 1 Folder 14
Philosophy I and Literature I, 1898 October-November
(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)
Box 1 Folder 15
Political Theories and Economics III, 1898 October-November
Bound notes
Bound notes means that these are notes (possibly from assigned readings) on loose sheets of paper, which were then bound with metal fasteners.
Box 1 Folder 16
Economics III, 1898 October-1899 January
(Economics 3 - Practical political economy with Prof. Richmond Mayo-Smith)
Box 1 Folder 17-18
Finances, 1898 October-1899 May, 2 folders
(Economics 4 - Science of finance with Prof. Edwin R.A. Seligman)
Box 1 Folder 19
History A - Synopsis I, 1897 March 30
(History A - Medieval and Modern History, with Dr. Cushing)
Box 1 Folder 20
Literature I, 1899 February-May
(Literature 1 - The history of modern fiction, with Prof. Brander Matthews)
Box 1 Folder 21
Philosophy, 1898 December-1899 January
Box 1 Folder 22-23
Philosophy, 1899 February-April, 2 folders
Box 1 Folder 24-26
Political Theories, 1898 November-1899 May, 3 folders
Box 1 Folder 27
Unsorted notes, 1890s
Essays
Box 2 Folder 1
Economics III essay, 1899 May 1
(Economics 3 - Practical political economy with Prof. Richmond Mayo-Smith)
Box 2 Folder 2
German VIII essays, 1898 March 10-29
(German 8 - History of the German Language with Prof. William Henry Carpenter)
Box 2 Folder 3
Literature I essay, 1899 April 19
(On Ivan Turgenev's Smoke)
Exam books
Box 2 Folder 4
Economics A, Books 1-4, circa 1898, 4 Volumes
(Economics A - Outlines of Economics with Prof. Richmond Mayo-Smith and Mr. Arthur M. Day)
Box 2 Folder 5
Political Economics A, 1898 April 14-28, 2 Volumes
Box 2 Folder 6
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, Book V, 1892
(Teubner Latin text, student edition; annotated.)
Box 2 Folder 7
Daily Journal for 1892, 1892
(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.)
Box 2 Folder 8
Daily Journal for 1897, circa 1900
(inside are possibly law school notes.)
Box 2 Folder 9
List of official documents re: history of Venezuela, 1813-1826, undated
(Includes document titles (proclamas, decretos, actas, documentos, constetaciones, etc.), volume and page numbers, in Spanish.)
Box 2 Folder 10
Miss Purroy's Teacher's Memorandum Books, 1870s
(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)
Box 2 Folder 11
Penmanship practice books, 1880s
(Multiple booklets, some completed but some blank.)
Box 2 Folder 12
Penmanship exercises, 1880s
(Notebook with large letters entered in pencil, then drawn over in pen by John Mitchel. Short practice sentences.)