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Photographs
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The collection contains correspondence between James Clinton Cook and his family exchanged during his Civil War service from 1862 to 1863. Also includes Mary Cook's letter to Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland (1825-1903), her husband's regimental surgeon, and a letter from her relative, Luther Perkins, a ship carpenter in St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are family photographs, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, a portrait of Lemuel Cook made after a famous photograph taken of him in approximately 1864, and genealogical correspondence, genealogical charts, and other materials assembled by Flora Cordelia Cook in the 1950s.
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Correspondence
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The collection contains correspondence between James Clinton Cook and his family exchanged during his Civil War service from 1862 to 1863. Also includes Mary Cook's letter to Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland (1825-1903), her husband's regimental surgeon, and a letter from her relative, Luther Perkins, a ship carpenter in St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are family photographs, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, a portrait of Lemuel Cook made after a famous photograph taken of him in approximately 1864, and genealogical correspondence, genealogical charts, and other materials assembled by Flora Cordelia Cook in the 1950s.
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Cook family papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence between James Clinton Cook and his family exchanged during his Civil War service from 1862 to 1863. Also includes Mary Cook's letter to Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland (1825-1903), her husband's regimental surgeon, and a letter from her relative, Luther Perkins, a ship carpenter in St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are family photographs, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, a portrait of Lemuel Cook made after a famous photograph taken of him in approximately 1864, and genealogical correspondence, genealogical charts, and other materials assembled by Flora Cordelia Cook in the 1950s.
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VI. Genealogical Material
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In the early 1940s, Wallace Stevens began an extensive correspondence to trace his family ancestry. Elsie Stevens also took an active interest in tracing her roots. Over 2,000 pieces of genealogical material resulted, in the form of letters, documents and typescripts. The material dates primarily from the 1940s. Why Stevens took such pains to trace his ancestry is open to speculation, but two possible reasons could be 1) the death of most of his family (i.e. brothers and sisters) in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and 2) Holly Stevens' decision to leave Vassar College without a degree in 1942. Stevens' attempt to define and describe his family could well have been to reassure both himself and his daughter of their heritage.
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Biographical
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Contains student records from Cook's Playhouse years; resumes; memos and meeting minutes from Cook's service as a director at the Foundation for Performing Arts; performance and publicity photographs of Cook and others; and a disbound scrapbook.
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Cook, Don
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4 items: 23-pp. transcript of "Taping with Don Cook," 1/14/1975. Subjects include: Cook's wide-ranging duties as Paris correspondent and European "diplomatic beat" writer (pp. 1 - 2) ; the Common Market (pp. 6) ; French news outlets making use of Los Angeles Times-Wash. Post News Service (pp. 9) ; Cook's memories and experiences in general on covering France and Europe for a decade (pp. 10+) ; letter, 4/4/1975, to Jim Bassett from Don Cook, remarking on the interview transcript and also on Bassett's book, Commander Prince, USN ; cover letter, 4/10/1975, to Cook from Bob Gottlieb asking questions in prep for writing his book on Los Angeles Times,and 3-pp. report, n.d., from Cook to Gottlieb, answering the questions ; letter, 4/16/1975, to Jim Bassett from Don Cook to accompany info about the Gottlieb Q&A correspondence (Cook writes that Gottlieb "seems...to be a bit naive to be writing a book about journalism."
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