Oneida Community Collection An inventory of the collection at Syracuse University


Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Oneida Community.
Title:	Oneida Community Collection
Inclusive Dates:	1811-1912
Quantity:	30.5 linear ft.
Abstract:	Community and personal records, biographical materials, and memorabilia pertaining to the Perfectionist community established by John Humphrey Noyes in Madison County, New York, its predecessor community in Putney, Vermont, and its branch communities in Wallingford, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York, and the successor joint stock organization, Oneida Community, Ltd.
Language:	English
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu

The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in the town of Oneida in Madison County, New York. Noyes, born in Vermont in 1811, attended Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological College and received his license to preach in 1834. He formed his first utopian community in 1836 in Putney, Vermont, practicing "complex marriage" in which every male was considered married to every female. In 1847 pending arrests for adultery spurred Noyes and several other Putney members to move to Oneida, New York, where they established the Oneida Community.

The Oneida community practiced communal property and possessions and believed in a form of Perfectionism -- Christ's Second Coming had occurred in the year 70 CE thus making it possible for them to bring about Christ's millennial kingdom and be free of sin and perfect in this world. (Noyes' declaration in 1834 that he himself was "Perfected" had resulted in the revocation of his license to preach.) To help members overcome character defects, all members -- including Noyes himself -- were subject to formal constructive criticism by committee, or by the community as a whole, a practice known as "mutual criticism."

As in Putney, the community rejected monogamy and practiced complex marriage. Noyes believed that sex had social and spiritual elements; members were expected to improve themselves via sexual relations with those who were their spiritual superiors. Noyes frequently suggested or encouraged particular pairings, and beginning in 1869 members who wished to have children could do so only with the partner selected for them by a committee based on personal, spiritual, and moral qualities (such controlled reproduction is known as "stirpiculture").

The community was self-supporting, primarily through the sale of animal traps, silk thread, and vegetables. (Silverware, for which the Oneida name would become well-known, was not produced until 1877.) Men and women were expected to work equally and had equal voice in community governance. At its height in 1878 the community had 306 members, but the community faltered the next year when Noyes attempt to pass on leadership of the community to his son, Theodore Noyes. By 1880 some members had left, many had embarked upon traditional marriages, and the community itself had been reorganized as a joint-stock company named Oneida Community Ltd. The animal trap, silk thread, and canned vegetable enterprises were all abandoned or sold off by 1916 but Oneida Community Ltd. became well-known for its silver and cutlery, production of which continued until 2005.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Oneida Community Collection contains community and personal records, biographical materials, and memorabilia pertaining to the Perfectionist community established by John Humphrey Noyes in Madison County, New York, its predecessor community in Putney, Vermont, and its branch communities in Wallingford, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York, and the successor joint stock organization, Oneida Community, Ltd.

Of particular significance are the materials of William Alfred Hinds. William A. Hinds was a lifelong disciple of John Humphrey Noyes and lived for more than sixty years in the Oneida Community, and among the papers in this collection are Hinds' original research files for the revised editions of his American communities (Oneida, N.Y.: Office of the American Socialist, 1878). These files include his correspondence with individuals and communities, together with those documents which he received in connection with his questionnaire. This collection is an important and largely untapped resource available to those interested in the history of nineteenth-century communistic societies in America.

Architectural plans and renderings contains blueprints and pen-and-ink sketches of the Mansion House and Children's House.

Archives (George Wallingford Noyes) consists of photocopies of typed transcriptions of original documents, letters and other manuscripts relating to the Noyes family and the Oneida Community (1811-1880) compiled by George Wallingford Noyes. Original transcriptions in the possession of Mrs. Imogen Noyes Stone, Kenwood, New York.

Biographical material includes family registers, census schedules, membership lists, birth and death records, and other genealogical material.

Community records comprises more than twenty boxes of agreements, scrapbooks, indexes, inventories, sales books, record books, meeting minutes, requests for appropriations, and other community records. Included here are instances of "mutual criticism" for a number of members as well as a small number of photographs.

Manuscripts and personal papers contains nearly forty boxes of correspondence (also included are writings and other material for some individuals). Here also are located the papers (both correspondence and research) of Oneida resident and Utopian community scholar William Alfred Hinds (see above). More than 15 members of the Noyes family -- including George Wallingford Noyes, George Washington Noyes, Harriet Holton Noyes, John Humphrey Noyes, Pierrepont Noyes, and Theodore Richards Noyes -- are represented.

Oneida Community members for whom the collection contains significant amounts of material include Alfred Barron, George Cragin, Charles J. Guiteau, and Erastus Hamilton. Oneida Community materials also include documents relating to Beulah Hendee, James B. Herrick, Ann S. Bailey Hobart, Annie E. Kelly, Jessie Kinsley, Charlotte M. Leonard, Stephen R. Leonard, Charlotte A. Noyes Miller, George Noyes Miller, Helen Campbell Miller, Tirzah Miller, Seymour Nash, and Milford Newhouse. Materials also include documents relating to Harriet Noyes Skinner, John Langdon Skinner, Joseph John Skinner, Theodore H. Skinner, James W. Towner, Francis Wayland-Smith, Cornelia Worden, Harriet Maria Worden, Marquis de LaFayette Worden, and others.

Newspapers contains more than 50 local or northeastern United States alternative newspapers, including Banner of Light and Hull's Crucible (Boston); Daily Graphic and Worker (New York); Progressive communist (Kansas); Social-smasher (Berlin Heights, Ohio); Labor vindicator (New Martinsville, W.Va.); and Chariot of wisdom and love (Portland, Me.).

Maps, stored separately from the collection in the map case, contains maps of Oneida Community buildings and grounds as well as lands belonging to the Wallingford (Connecticut) community.

Two items of Realia, a short dress and a plaster bust of John Humphrey Noyes, complete the collection.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Architectural plans and renderings are arranged chronologically. George Wallingford Noyes' archives are arranged chronologically. Biographical material is in no particular order. The Community records series is roughly but not consistently ordered with general material first, followed by socio-cultural material (dress, education, music, etc), business material (sales books, inventories, etc), and photographs; within these general topics material is roughly but not entirely chronological. Manuscripts and personal papers are arranged alphabetically by name of originator (sender, writer, or author). Newspapers are arranged alphabetically by name of the paper. Maps are arranged chronologically. Realis is in no particular order.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

All access restrictions on this material have been lifted as of January, 2007. The collection now has no access restrictions.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Related Material

See also the P. Geoffrey Noyes Papers. Selected books about the Oneida Community, and photographs of the Community buildings, members, and groups, have been scanned and are accessible in digital format here. The library also has numerous pamphlets, books, and other published material on the Oneida Community in its Rare Books holdings and in the general circulating collection; please refer to SUMMIT, our main catalog for a complete listing.

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Subject Headings

Persons

Barron, Alfred.

Cragin, George, 1808-1884.

Guiteau, Charles Julius, 1841-1882.

Hamilton, Erastus Hapgood, 1821-1894.

Hendee, Beulah Foster (Barron), 1847-1903.

Herrick, James Burton, 1837-1912.

Hinds, William Alfred, 1833-1910. American communities.

Hobart, Ann S. Bailey (Skinner), 1846-1908.

Kelly, Annie E. (Miller), 1852-1931.

Kinsley, Jessie Hatch, 1858-1938.

Leonard, Charlotte Miller, 1846-1928.

Leonard, Stephen Rose, 1820-1892.

Miller, Charlotte A. Noyes, 1819-1874.

Miller, George Noyes, 1845-1904.

Miller, Helen Campbell (Barron), 1847-1932.

Miller, Tirzah Crawford (Herrick), 1843-1902.

Nash, Seymour, 1814-1881.

Newhouse, Milford James, 1847-1926.

Noyes, George Wallingford.

Noyes, George Washington, 1822-1870.

Noyes, Harriet Ann Holton, 1808-1895.

Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886.

Noyes, Pierrepont, b. 1870.

Noyes, Theodore Richards, 1841-1903.

Skinner, Harriet H. Noyes, 1817-1893.

Skinner, John Langdon, 1803-1889.

Skinner, Joseph John, 1842-1919.

Skinner, Theodore Hobart, 1878-1944.

Towner, James William, 1823-1913.

Wayland-Smith, Francis, 1841-1911.

Worden, Cornelia, 1847-1928.

Worden, Harriet Maria, 1840-1891.

Worden, Marquis de LaFayette, 1813-1891.

Corporate Bodies

Oneida Community -- Archival resources.

Oneida Community -- Archives.

Oneida Community, ltd.

Oneida Community.

Oneida, ltd.

Putney Community (Putney, Vt.)

Wallingford Community.

Subjects

Christian communities -- United States.

Collective settlements -- United States.

Eugenics -- United States.

Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Utopias.

Genres and Forms

Architectural plans.

Autograph albums.

Birth registers.

Clippings.

Correspondence.

Death registers.

Diaries.

Financial records.

Genealogies.

Inventories.

Journals.

Ledgers.

Legal documents.

Maps.

Membership lists.

Minute books.

Periodicals.

Photographs.

Reminiscences.

Sales records.

Scrapbooks.

Sketches.

Stereographs.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Oneida Community Collection,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Oneida Community Historical Committee.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: [Summit record]
Date: Feb 1996
Revision history: 27 Nov 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC); 8 Jan 2007 - updated restrictions (MRC); 25 Mar 2008 - restrictions removed (MRC); 16 Jun 2008 - corrections (MRC)

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Inventory


	Architectural plans and renderings
Map-Case 73		Mansion House south front rendering, pen-ink-water color wash; 34.5 x 52 cm. (original in OCMH Collection) 1850?
Map-Case 73		Mansion House east front rendering, pen-ink-water color wash; 22 x 63.5 cm. (original in OCMH Collection) 1850?
Map-Case 73		Mansion House west front rendering, pen-ink-water color wash; 23.5 x 61 cm. (original in OCMH Collection) 1850?
Map-Case 73		Set of 5 blueprints for 'New House,' prepared by L.W. Leeds & co., New York Basement; 1st floor; 2d floor; 3d floor; roof; 52.5 x 72 cm. (originals in OCMH Collection) 1877
Map-Case 73		Foundation plan, 56 x 71.5 cm., and Section, 46.5 x 62.5 cm. (originals in OCMH Collection) 1877
		Mansion House south(?) elevation. By Mr. Whatley(?)
Map-Case 73		Children's House elevation rendering undated


	Archives (George Wallingford Noyes)
		Restrictions removed January 2007.
Box 1		1811-1840
Box 2		1848-1878
Box 3		1879-1880


	Biographical material
Box 4		Genealogical data cards
Box 4		Biographical data cards (incomplete)
Box 5		Hilda Herrick Noyes, M.D. Collection (copy)
Box 5		Genealogical information re: Oneida Community families compiled by Hilda Herrick Noyes copied with the permission of the present owner, Sylvia Noyes Paquette.
		Census schedules
Box 6			Federal census schedules (Madison Co., N.Y.) 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
Box 6			New York state census schedules (Madison Co., Town of Lenox) 1855, 1865, 1875
Box 7		Members of Putney Community and date of joining
Box 7		Children of the Putney Community
Box 7		Original list of O.C. members by Harriet A. Noyes (12 p.)
Box 7		O.C. Family Register Ja 1 1849 (16 p. typescript + 2 copies and alphabetical card file)
Box 7		Record of members
Box 7		List of children brought here under the age of 16: alphabetical list, chronological list 1848-1876
Box 7		O.C. & W.C. Register with typescript 1862-1869
Box 7		O.C. & W.C. Census by M.L. Worden 1869
Box 7		Members joining O.C. in 1849
Box 7		Signatures of members
Box 7		Persons coming and going 1865-1867
Box 7		Registers - Kept by John Abbott 1871-1881
Box 7		Weight of O.C. babies 1869-1877
Box 7		W.C. census 1872-1876
Box 7		Marriages 1879-1880
Box 7		Members of O.C. & W.C. under 5 years Ja 1, 1880
Box 7		Community register Ja 1, 1880
Box 7		O.C. register undated
Box 7		Record of births undated
Box 7		Record of deaths undated
Box 7		Names of seceders
Box 7		Persons born in the O.C.
Box 7		Hinds List of O.C. Members
Box 8, 9		Kenwood Interviews - Conducted by Maren Lockwood Carden 1961 - transcripts (copies) of 75 interviews processed to guarantee respondents' anonymity
			Restrictions removed January 2007.
Box 10		Genealogical data sheets (photocopies), compiled by Sean Devlin and John Teeple 1980-1983


	Community records
Box 11		1846 Ag 18 Declaration of the family of believers connected with J.H. Noyes at Putney (shorthand document with 7 signatures)
Box 11		1848-1874 Synopsis of Community activity
Box 11		1847-1881 O.C. Annals
Box 11		1849-1850 Brooklyn School Journal (typescript)
Box 11		1852-1853 Wallingford Assocation Day Book & Journal
Box 11		1863-1864 Daily Journal (mss. & typescript)
Box 11		1874 Events
Box 12		1869-1879 Scrapbook
Box 13		1878-1879 Travel to & from O.C. & W.C.
Box 13		1875-1877 Index of O.C. & Willow Place Talks, Reports and Journals with Cozicot Journal
Box 13		Home talks indices (4 volumes)
Box 13		1834-1869 [i.e. 1879] General Index of Community Publications compiled by James B. Herrick
Box 14		1869 Record book of stirpiculture - Stirpicultural data compiled by Hilda Herrick Noyes, M.D.
Box 14		1869 Anita Newcomb McGee Papers - copies; originals in Kinsey Institute
Box 14		1868 A.J. MacDonald Papers - collected, rearranged and commented upon by J.H.N. and T.R.N.
Box 15		1862-1868 Visitor's Register
Box 15		1873-1876 O.C. correspondence (copybook, p. 31-161)
Box 15		1876-1884 O.C. correspondence (copybook) (with Minutes of the session of the Commission appointed July 17, 1880)
Box 16		1865 Personal record - Description of Newman A. Brown by C. W. Underwood
Box 16		Mutual Criticism - criticisms of the following individuals: L.F. Dunn, G.N. Miller, J.B. Herrick, M.L. Prindle, T.C. Miller, Mr. Yoder, E. Newhouse, W. Mills, L. Hobart, R. Burnham, H. Allen, M.L. Worden
Box 16		Herbarium - misc. correspondence between Hope E. Allen and H.D. House
Box 16		Wallingford Water Power
Box 16		Cozicot (Short Beach, Conn.)
Box 16		1878 Wallingford Tornado
Box 16		undated Watchmen's duties
Box 16		undated Minutes of seance
Box 16		1877 Menus
Box 16		Buildings
Box 16		1907-1912 Inquiries to O.C.
		Entertainment
Box 17			Joseph and his brethren 1858
Box 17			Broadsides
Box 17			Trip of O.C. Brass Band to Cazenovia Lake 1862
Box 17		Dress
Box 17		Education
Box 17		Music
Box 17		Art: Community portraits
Oversize 1		Library record book (501 p.)
Box 18		Library catalogue (with entries to 1879)
Box 18		Library Index and Record: Wallingford Library (with H.A. Noyes notation on cover and with records to 1875)
Box 18		List of medical books transferred to New York State Library
Box 19		1855 Statement of the property of the Three Associations
Box 19		1855-1892 Receipts and settlements with seceders
Box 19		1865 (Ap 19) Release of property by the members . . . to J.H. Noyes
Box 19		1865-1879 Inventories of property brought to O.C. by new members
Box 19		1875 Ag 18 Covenant of the Oneida Community (copy)
Box 19		1880 (Ja-N) O.C. Journal
Box 19		1880 (Jl-S) Original notes of the Commission
Box 19		1880 (Jl-N) Record of the proceedings of the Commission
Oversize 1		1880 (Ag) Deposits by present members
Box 20		1880 (Ag 1) Deposits by members on joining
Box 20		1880 (S 1) Agreement to divide & reorganize (signed copy)
Box 20		1880 (S-N) Agreement to divide & reorganize (3 mss., typescript)
Oversize 1		1880 Division of assets: worksheets illustrating various plans
Box 20		1880 (S 15) "Compromise plan"
Box 20		1880 (O 30) Division sheet
Box 20		1880 Agreement to divide & reorganize:
Box 20		Right to inhabit dwellings
Box 20		1880 N 3 Receipt for shares in Oneida Community Ltd. and release of Oneida Community from future liability
Box 20		1880 N 10 Agreement as to control of stock
Box 20		1880 N 10 Mutual release
Box 20		1880 N 10-30 Settlement of O.C. with members
Box 20		1880 N-D Ledger showing settlement
Box 20		1880 D Furniture & bedding assigned to members
Box 20		1880 Property put into O.C. by each member
Box 20		1880-1884 Financial arrangements establishing O.C.L.
Box 20		various dates Clippings
Box 21		A business history of Oneida Community Ltd. by H.V. Noyes and S.R. Leonard (unpublished typescript)
Box 21		Animal Trap Co. of America by Richard G. Woolworth 1951
Box 21		Leonard, Stephen R. Trap Book (copy; original owned by Mrs. A. Beagle)
Box 21.1		Miscellaneous drafts by S.R. Leonard of business history
Box 22		1842-1848 Putney Store ledger
Box 22		1846 Putney Store ledger
Box 23		1863-1867 Business Board Minute Book
Box 23		1867-1875 Business Board Minute Book
Box 23		1875-1880 Business Board Minute Book
Box 23		1875-1877 Finance Committee Minute Book
Box 24		Report on 'Private speculation' (mss. & typescript), published in quadrangle, pp. 6-8. Ag. 1930
Box 24		1859 Property register of the O.C.
Box 24		1862-1863 Account book
Box 24		1865-1871 Agricultural works sales book
Box 24		1867-1869 General office letter book
Box 24		1869-1871 Estimates & memoranda on manufacturing [George Cragin)
Box 24		1872-1882 Fruit sales and profits
Box 25		1873 Requests for appropriations for projects
Box 25		1874 Requests for appropriations for projects
Box 25		1874 Special appropriations (pp. 10-85)
Box 25		1874-1875 Distribution of work
Box 25		1876-1881 Wallingford Community cash book
Box 25		1877 Weekly summary of Community labor
Box 25		1877 Requests for appropriations for projects
Box 25		1878 Requests for appropriations for projects
Box 25		1878-1879 Distribution of work
Oversize 1		1850 Stereotype plate
Box 26		Noyes, Harriet A. History of the printing business of O.C. (original in H.A. Noyes file) - typescript, 2 copies
Box 26		1863-1866 'Circular' subscription books (4 volumes)
Box 26		1865 Notices of 'Trapper's Guide'
Box 26		1865-1868 Printing Department Account Book (copy)
Oversize 2		1875-1877 Wallingford Printing Company job book
Box 26		1871-1878 Wallingford Printing Co. Minute Book
Box 27		1876-1881 'American Socialist' copybook (p. 5-230)
Box 27		various dates Letters to 'Circular' editor
Box 27		1876- American Socialist subscription book (blank)
Box 28		Tableware department - misc. price lists
		Robert Wallace vs. J.H. Noyes 1882
Box 28			Brief for complainant
Box 28			Complainant's pleadings & proofs
Box 28			Defendants answer & evidence
Box 29		1865-1866 Fruit Department sales/letter book
Box 29		1873-1874 Fruit Department sales book
Box 29		1874-1877 Fruit Department sales book
Box 30		1877-1879 Fruit Department sales book
Box 30		1879-1880 Fruit Department sales book
Box 31		1858-1864 Inventories
Box 31		1865-1867 Inventories
Box 32		1868-1871 Inventories
Box 32		1872 Inventory
Box 33		1873-1876 Inventories
Box 34		1877 Inventory
Box 34		1878-1879 Inventories
Box 35		1880-1882 Inventories
Box 36		1882 Inventory
Box 36		1883 Inventory
		Photographs (stereograms)
Box 37			1871-1872(?) 'Views of the Oneida Community' - Photographer: Ranger & Austin, Syracuse (28 items)
Box 37			[no year] 'Views of the Oneida Community Domain' (4 items)
Box 37			[no year] 'Photographic views of the Oneida Community' - Photographer: D.E. Smith (9 items)
Box 37			[no year] 'View of the railroad trestle on the O.C. domain'
Box 37			[no year] Untitled views - Photographer: Richardson & Clark, Oneida (3 items)
Box 37			[no year] Untitled views - Photographer: A.T. Richardson, Oneida (4 items)
Box 37			[no year] Untitled, unsigned views (12 items)
Box 37			[no year] Bag Bee
Box 37			[no year] Oneida Community, -- Group No. 1 W.F. Richardson, Oneida
Box 37A			John Humphrey Noyes daguerreotype circa 1840


	Manuscripts and personal papers
Box 38		Abbott, Jane L. 1904, 1906
			1904 Mr 28 to William A. Hinds 1906 My 6 to William A. Hinds
Box 38		Abbott, John 1850, 1875
			1850 D 2 to Marcus L. Worden 1875 Mr 28 to Tirzah C. Miller
Box 38		Achilli, Giacinto
			Biographical materials Dealings with the Inquisition (London, 1851)
Box 38		Ackley, Alice 1856-1877
			1856 O 31 to Marcus L. Worden 1871 Mr 12 to Charlotte M. Leonard 1877 F 10 to Charlotte M. Leonard [no year] Ap 28 to Harriet N. Olds
Box 38		Ackley, Joseph C. 1847-1892
			1847 O 22 to H. Cook 1876 D 28 to Julia C. Ackley (copy) 1881 F Mr, Ap Oneida Community Ltd. statements 1888 F 10 to H.G. Allen N 4 to Corinna (copy) 1890 F 15 Last Will and Testament 1891 N 12 Record of Births/Deaths of ancestors and also of brothers & sisters and my own family with excerpts from unpublished? Home talks by John Humphrey Noyes 1892 N 26 to Corinna (copy) undated to James B. Herrick Autobiography (copy)
Box 38		Ackley, Julia Carrier 1870-1895
			1870 Ap 7 to Harriet N. Olds 1877 Mr 19 to Harriet N. Olds 1878 Jl 8 to Mary Louise Prindle 1880 My 21 to Tirzah C. Miller N 1 to Tirzah C. Miller N 15 to Tirzah C. Miller Diaries: 1853-54 1856-60; 1886-88; 1890-92 1876-78 1876-77 (typescript) 1878-81 1887 1893-94 1894 1895 Writings: Mrs. A.'s Story (typescript)
Box 38		Aiken, Eliza 1879-1886
			1879 Je 12 to Mary Louise Prindle Ag 1 to Mary Louise Prindle Ag 2 to Mary Louise Prindle Ag 3 to Mary Louise Prindle 5 4 to Mary Louise Prindle 1880 Jl 27 to Tirzah C. Miller Ag to Tirzah C. Miller 1886 O 7 to M. K. Barron D 26 to M. K. Barron D 31 to M. K. Barron [no year] Ap 20 to Mary Louise Prindle undated Mon. to Mary Louise Prindle
Box 38		Aiken, Laura 1859
			My 22 to Marcus L. Worden
Box 38		Aiken, Manley A. 1875, 1880
			1875 Je 10 to Tirzah C. Miller Je 24 to Tirzah C. Miller 1880 Ag 30 to Tirzah C. Miller
Box 38		Allen, Christine 1891-1911
			Misc. family correspondence
Box 38		Allen, Emily H. 1852-1878
			1852 S 3 to Marcus L. Worden S 13 to Marcus L. Worden 1853 My 24 to Marcus L. Worden 1872 My 12 to Beulah Hendee 1878 Je 13 to Charlotte M. Leonard undated 4 letters to Marcus L. Worden
Box 38		Allen, George D. 1878-1892
			1878 Ap 1 to James W. Towner 1886 N 12 to William A. Hinds 1887 Ja 9 to William A. Hinds Mr 31 to William A. Hinds 1888 F 28 Santa Ana property note 1892 N 27 to William A. Hinds
Box 38		Allen, Grosvenor N. 1893-1911
			1893 N 5 to Dorothy Barron undated to Pierrepont B. Noyes (?) 1895-1911 Misc. family correspondence
Box 39		Allen, Harriet Eliza 1902-1911
			[no year] F 27 to Marcus L. Worden File of family correspondence
Box 39		Allen, Henry 1867, undated
			1867 O 16 to Marcus L. Worden O 24 to Marcus L. Worden Account of Henry Allen Sr. (4 p. w/ Hope Allen's notes)
Box 39		Allen, Henry Grosvenor 1866-1907
			1866 Ag 8 to Mary Louise Prindle 1871 Ap 22 to Mother (copy) 1873 N 2 to Beulah Hendee 1879 O 29 Marriage license (P.M. Underhill) (copy) N 1 'To the Family' (copy) 1880 N 10 Receipt for 132 shares of O.C.L. stock (copy) N 10 Receipt to P.M. Underhill for purchase of 68 shares of O.C.L. stock (copy) 1894 Je 3 to Judge G. A. Forbes--in George Campbell file 1899-1904 Misc. family correspondence 1905 Misc. family correspondence 1906-1907 Misc. family correspondence [no year] S 14 to Mary Louise Prindle 1878 Daybook 1877-1879 Estimate Book 1907 Ja Notes from O.C.L. Annual Banquet
Box 40		Allen, Hope Emily 1899-1912
			Misc. correspondence
Box 41		Bailey Family 1875-1903?
			File of letters, primarily from Jane Bailey to Lily Cragin
Box 41		Baker, Mary Victoria 1879-1880
			1879 N 2 to Harriet N. Olds N 11 to Harriet N. Olds N 18 to Harriet N. Olds D 5 to Harriet N. Olds D 11 to Harriet N. Olds D 26 to Harriet N. Olds D 27 to Harriet N. Olds 1880 Ja 1 to Harriet N. Olds
Box 41		Barron, Alfred 1852-1893, undated
			See also Hendee-Barron
			1852 N 24 to Alvah and Fannie Barron 1853 Mr 20 to Alvah and Fannie Barron 1854 Ap 10 to Fannie Barron 1855 Ap 27 to Fannie Barron 1861 Ag 14 to Fannie Barron 1863 Ja 4 to Alvah Barron 1864 D 12 to J. Homer Barron 1865 F 4 to Fannie Barron Mr 21 to Fannie Barron Ap 8 to Fannie Barron Ap 10 to Fannie Barron Je 15 to Fannie Barron 1866 Je 22 to Fannie Barron O 10 to George E. Cragin O 26 to M. E. Kellogg 1868 F 4 to Fannie Barron 1876 N 29 to Maud K. Barron 1878 D 27 from Hopson, Shepard (Utica) re: Shakespeare bust 1879 Ja 3 invoice from Hopson, Shepard Mr 15 to John Humphrey Noyes Je 28 to Harriet H. Skinner Jl 17 to G.W. Hamilton O 23 to Harriet H. Skinner D 2 Marriage license (copy) D 17 Contract of marriage (Husband's copy) 1880 Mr 25 to Tirzah C. Miller Ap 2 to Tirzah C. Miller Jl 26 to Annie Hatch 1882 O 26 to Maud K. Barron O 3 to James B. Herrick 1883 Ja 18 to Maud K. Barron Mr 16 to Maud K. Barron My 12 to Maud K. Barron My 28 to Maud K. Barron My 28 Supoena for appearance at Vaill trial D 14 to Maud K. Barron 1884 F 21 To Tirzah C. Miller Mr 22 to Maud K. Barron Ap 28 to Maud K. Barron Je 9 to Maud K. Barron 1888 Ag 5 to Godfrey Noyes 1889 D 30 to Maud K. Barron 1890 D 9 to Maud K. Barron 1891 Mr 26 to Maud K. Barron Ap 30 to Maud K. Barron My 7 to Maud K. Barron N 11 to Maud K. Barron S 8 to Maud K. Barron 1892 Ap 17 to Maud K. Barron S 18 to Maud K. Barron O 20 to Maud K. Barron N 14 to Maud K. Barron D 8 to Maud K. Barron 1893 Ja 30 to Maud K. Barron F 5 to Maud K. Barron Obituary Ja 29 to Tirzah C. Miller (copy) [no year] D 8 to Fannie Kinsley Barron v.d. Early records of the Barron family 1870-1884 Incoming correspondence Includes correspondence re: Footnotes and correspondence from New York Tribune Footnotes scrapbook & list of book reviews Footnotes scrapbook taken from The Circular with Alfred Barron's mss. additions and corrections
Box 42		Barron, Dorothy 1889-1911
			1889 Jl 6 to Hilda 1889-1890 3 letters to Dorothy Barron from Milley? 1906 Mr 5 to John Leonard 1896 Jl 14 to Gertrude Noyes 1910 S 12 to Mary and Catherine Leonard S 19 to Mary and Catherine Leonard S 22 to Mother Charlotte 1911 D 15 to ? Noyes Miscellaneous poetry, sketches, etc.; includes The literary sextette (1891), a file of letters from Caroline Ebinger, a Shaker (1894-1925), and letters to Miriam T. Noyes (Earl)
Box 42		Barron, J. Homer 1876-1904
			1876 Jl 31 to Tirzah C. Miller? 1879 F 2 to Mary Louise Prindle 1890-1904 File of letters to Maud K. Barron
Box 42		Barron, Maria 1893, undated
			1893 F 3 to Alfred Barron Ap 27 to Maud K. Barron My 24 to Maud K. Barron My 26 to Maud K. Barron 1910 Ja 18 to Dorothy Barron Leonard re: William Tinsley [no year] Mr 11 to Alfred Barron and Beulah (Hendee) Barron
Box 43		Barron, Maud K. 1892-1893, undated
			1892 D 11 to Alfred Barron 1893 F 5 to Alfred Barron [no year] Je 16 to Alfred Barron undated Thurs to M. E. Kellogg 'Recollections of children's occupations,' recorded by Hope E. Allen The care of children in 'The Oneida Community' (188-)
Box 43		Barron, Minerva S. 1879, 1933, undated
			1879 Marriage application, license, and certificate -- in John Norton file Miscellaneous reminiscences Recollections (1933)
Box 43		Barron, Ruth undated
			to George [W. Noyes?]
Box 43		Bloom, Clarence 1875, 1908
			1875 Je 6 to Tirzah C. Miller 1908 Ap 10 to William A. Hinds
Box 43		Bloom, Sophia L. (Nunns) 1886
			O 15 to William A. Hinds
Box 43		Bolles, Rachel M. undated
			D 28 to Harriet Matthews
Box 43		Bradley, Constance 1871
			Ag 28 to Harriet N. Olds
Box 43		Bradley, Sarah undated
			Jl 2 to Charlotte M. Leonard O 2 to Charlotte M. Leonard [with additional note by Harriet A. Noyes]
Box 43		Bristol, Birdseye 1850s
			My 26 to Marcus L. Worden
Box 43		Burgess, L. 1852, undated
			1852 Je 8 to Marcus L. Worden Je 12 to Marcus L. Worden undated to Marcus L. Worden
Box 43		Burnham, Abigail Scott 1852, undated
			1854 Ja 23 to Edwin Burnham [no year] Jl 15 to Harriet N. Olds
Box 43		Burnham, Almira undated
			Criticism of Marcus L. Worden
Box 43		Burnham, Edwin Scott 1875
			F 17 to Tirzah C. Miller
Box 43		Burnham, Evalyn A. 1903, 1909
			1903 Je 8 to William A. Hinds Je 17 to William A. Hinds Je 23 to William A. Hinds N 19 to William A. Hinds 1909 O 26 to William A. Hinds
Box 43		Burnham, George Henry 1870-1903
			1870 Je 29 to John Humphrey Noyes [with John Humphrey Noyes's reply] 1872 Ja 19 to Tirzah C. Miller Jl 14 to Tirzah C. Miller 0 16 to Tirzah C. Miller 1903? Schedule o

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