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Depressions -- 1929, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1939-1945, Depressions, History, Autobiographies, and Sources

The autobiography covers North's life from his birth in San Francisco in 1889 to his life as a silversmith in Pasadena, California in the 1950s. In it, he talks about his life in San Francisco, his friendship with Timothy Hopkins, a voyage he took to Hawaii and Japan in 1903, his living abroad in Europe for several years, World War I, the Great Depression, and his work with Clarke Aero-Hydraulics, Inc. during World War II. Throughout the manuscript, North talks about his grandfather John Wesley North. The manuscript includes a 3-page index at the beginning listing subjects and their pages.

Children -- Health and hygiene and Children -- Hospitals

These records were collected by Ruth Spande Atwood, first superintentdent and administrator of the Stanford Convalescent Home (1923-1961), and include correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings and photographs. Subjects include the history of the Home, individuals who served on Boards and assisted with fund raising, and patients. Of note are the photographs and letters of Sam McDonald. Other correspondents include Dr. Esther Clark, Dr. William F. Durand, Dr. Harold Faber, Timothy Hopkins, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and the artist Wolo (Wolo Trutzschler von Falkenstein). Collection also includes a Memory Book (1917-1977) and Scrapbook (1928-1961) largely containing photographs, with some articles and programs, on the Home, its staff and patients, special events, the artist Wolo and his murals, Ruth Spande Atwood, Sam McDonald, and Dr. David Charles Gardner.

Mormons -- History -- Sources. -- 19th century, Wisconsin -- Surveys, Mormons, Travel, Journals (accounts), Letters (correspondence), Sketchbooks, History, Personal narratives, Sources, and Surveys

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including 9 journals and 2 sketch books), and photographs arranged in three separate groups. The first group of papers concern Gunnison himself: his journal kept in Florida and Georgia in 1840, information about Wisconsin Territory (1841), the Stansbury Expedition (1849-50), life among the Mormons, the expedition that Gunnison led from St. Louis to Utah (1853), and the official communications related to his death. The second group contains letters written by his wife's family in the South during the Civil War and also some Bunnison and Briard family materials. The third group concerns his nephew, Charles Andrew Gunnison, who traveled in Europe and Japan with San Francisco area businessman Timothy Hopkins.

Civil defense, Environmentalism, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1939-1945, Prohibition, Vivisection, Photoprints, Scrapbooks, and Speeches

Medical colleges and Medical education

These records pertain to the merger of Cooper Medical College with Stanford University. They consist largely of correspondence, with a few reports and financial documents. Most of the letters are addressed to David Starr Jordan, although some of the correspondence is that of George A. Clark, the academic secretary of Stanford University. In addition to the details of the merger, the letters address curriculum issues, faculty appointments, fees, facilities, financial matters, future needs and plans, the medical school library, the possible association with the University of California, and the Lane Medical Lectures. Correspondents include Adolph Barkan, Clarence J. Blake, Henry Gibbons, Jr., Timothy Hopkins, Arthur W. Meyer, William Ophuls, Henry S. Pritchett, Howard T. Ricketts, Emmet Rixford, John Maxson Stillman, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and Hans Zinsser.

Cheating (Education), Universities and colleges -- Administration, and Universities and colleges -- Finance

The materials include incoming letters and copybooks or outgoing letters; reports and documents of committees; records and press clippings; annotated copies of the STANFORD REGISTER, 1948-1955; and grade reports [microfilm]. Correspondents include university presidents and other administrators, faculty, trustees, alumni, students. Subjects range from minor questions of administrative procedure to class registration and certification of credits, university finance and academic policy, cheating, limitation of enrollment, admissions for women, and changes in the major subject system.

Photography and Reminiscences

These papers pertain largely to Treat's association with Leland Stanford and the history of the University and include correspondence, a notebook (largely in shorthand), his typescript reminiscences, and two letters by his daughter pertaining to her father. Correspondents include Alice N. Hays, Timothy Hopkins, Herbert Hoover, David Starr Jordan, John B. McCarthy, Herbert C. Nash, and Burt Worthington. Subjects include the Stanford Mausoleum, Treat's photographs, business matters, and Eadweard Muybridge.

Diaries

Diary written during her visit to the Hopkins estate, Sherwood Hall, in Menlo Park, California, with a few entries during her return trip to Massachusetts. Other people mentioned include Jane and Leland Stanford, Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Burrage, and James C. Flood.

Dwellings, Albums, and Photoprints

Images of the home of Timothy Hopkins, Stanford University trustee, including the exterior, the library, the drawing room, the hall, and the view from the library.

Hopkins, Timothy, 1859-1937., Hopkins, Mary Kellogg., and Moran, William.

Photographs by William Moran, 1942, and clippings, 1942-54, regarding Sherwood Hall, the Menlo Park residence of Timothy Hopkins; estate sale catalog, 1942; letters to Hitchcock from Mary Hopkins, 1939, and William Moran, 1943; two postcards; and miscellaneous clippings.

Hopkins, Timothy, 1859-1937., Stanford University, and Stanford University. Board of Trustees.

Letter from H.C. Hoover to Timothy Hopkins, President of the Board of Trustees, July 30, 1913, regarding the location of athletic fields on the Stanford campus.

Authors, American -- 19th century, Plantations -- Management, and Slavery

Chiefly literary drafts, scrapbooks, lectures, poetry, fiction, drama, printed articles, "Memorials notebook," andrelated manuscripts and correspondence of writer William Gilmore Simms, the father of Charles Carroll Simms, along with a small amount of papers of C.C. Simms.
Letter, 30 Oct. 1861 (Woodlands plantation [now located in Bamberg County, S.C.]) from Mrs. [Chevilette Eliza Roach] Simms to Augusta Simms, describing visitors and other events at home, and expresses concern for her safety; ten certificates, 1864-1865, of Confederate States bonds acquired by W.G. Simms; letter from W.G. Simms, 3 Aug. 1866 (Yonkers, N.Y.), to a daughter, expressing great concern for the family's welfare, especialy those living at Woodlands plantation, with emphasis on methods of preventing illness, requests her to secure two copies of "the miniature" from Mrs. John Laurens, and commenting on cholera in New York; a poem, 24 Sept. 1868, titled "Communion Hymn, "written by William Kellogg Sherwood (b.1822) of Great Barrington, Mass., that was presented to Mary Lawson Simms.
Woodlands plantation journal, 1845-1874 [a site in present-day Bamberg County, S.C.; formerly in old Barnwell District, S.C.], consisting of records of farming operations, planting of cotton, rice, potatoes, and other crops; shearing of sheep; weather observations; directions for curing bacon; useful formulas related to farmers and and overseers, such as a formula for determining volume of bushels of corn in a crib (as well as for wheat, rye, oats etc.) and preparation of seed wheat; record of shoes, food, and other items distributed to African American slaves identified by name, including record of "Axes given out" in 1857; post Civil War entries dating to Reconstruction record days of work completed by freedmen sharecropping on Simms family property; and record of births of 32 African American slaves identified by name, 1842-1862 [p. 43].
Volume, Sept. 1881, consisting of journal entries documenting Charles Carroll Simms' trip from his home in Barnwell, S.C., to [Great Barrington] Massachusetts in order to accompany Mrs. Mark Hopkins [Mary Frances Sherwood Hopkins-Searles, the widow of railroad barron Mark Hopkins (1813-1878)] and her party to San Francisco; entries describe Mrs. Hopkin's house and her private railroad car, "the 'Sacramento' ... [with] 2 bedrooms for the ladies ... (4 berths) 2 of which Tim & myself occupied - & the other 2 ... for ... the Cook, Butler, & Mrs. H's servant." Commenting on the cross-country trip, C.C. Simms records his impressions of Chicago, the Rocky Mountains, with a description of San Francisco, Mrs. Hopkins' home [an elaborate Queen Anne-style mansion on Nobb Hill] and reception of the party in San Francisco society.
Letter, 30 Sept. 1926 (Paris, France), from Timothy Hopkins to C.C. Simms discusses problems connected with the settlement of his father's estate and compliments Simms on his success at the Bar.
Letter, 3 Mar. [19]30 (Barnwell, S.C.) to [William Gilmore Simms (Orlando, Florida)], thanking his son for $1.00 sent "out of his savings," re his illness, the kindness of his children, and recalling his youth when he earned $1.00 a week in a German music store and his sister would take fifty cents as payment for his board, although she actually saved the money to purchase shoes or clothing for Simms, "I had no father or mother and she wanted me to learn to be independent and to be self-supporting and it was a good lesson and made a man of me." Transcript includes note, that at this time, W.G. Simms was "living with his brother John Govan Simms in Orlando, Florida."
Nine items detail genealogical notes on the Govan, Hart, Roach, Rowe, Chevilette, and Simms families.

Universities and colleges -- Administration, Railroads -- Management, Executors and administrators, Claims against decedents' estates, Clippings, Eulogies, Speeches, and Wills

The papers of Jane L. Stanford pertain largely to the founding and administration of Stanford University, along with her personal and social affairs; included in the papers are correspondence, business records, legal and financial papers, speeches, news clippings, and biographical materials. Correspondence, dating from 1860 to 1905, makes up the larger part of the collection. Most of the correspondence concerns the University. Other topics include personal and social matters, her travels, religious discussions, and her interest in kindergartens. Correspondents include David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University, Charles Lathrop, Susan B. Anthony, Timothy and May Hopkins, Julia D. Grant (Mrs. Ulysses Grant) and other members of the Grant family, Caroline Harrison (Mrs. Benjamin Harrison), and Andrew D. White. There are also a large number of condolence letters on the death of Leland Stanford and of begging letters.