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BOX II:3-II:4 |
Part II: Writings File, 1868-2015
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Writings by Schuyler including printed copies of magazine and newspaper articles
by him, copies of the 1901 edition and 2015 reprint of his Selected Essays, handwritten manuscripts recounting his travels in Turkestan and Utrecht,
the Netherlands, and miscellaneous other writings including notes, transcriptions,
and translations. Also included are writings by Schuyler’s wife Gertrude Wallace
King Schuyler concerning her father Charles King; King family history in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, Oyster Bay, New York, and Rome; and events during the Civil
War including the New York City draft riots in 1863. The series also contains
notes in an unidentified hand on Anthony Jenkinson’s travels in central Asia. |
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Arranged by author and therein alphabetically by type of material. |
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BOX II:3 |
By Schuyler |
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BOX II:3 |
"Byzantium Churches," undated
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BOX II:3 |
Handwritten transcription of Sam Willson's Ghost by John Pierson, undated
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BOX II:3 |
Handwritten translations and transcriptions
of poems, prayers, and quotations by others, 1877-1879, undated
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BOX II:3 |
Lists, undated
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BOX II:3 |
Magazine articles, 1877-1889
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(2 folders) |
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BOX II:3 |
Newspaper articles, 1868,
1889-1890
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BOX II:3 |
Other writings and notes,
undated
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BOX II:3 |
Selected Essays, with a Memoir by Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer
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BOX II:3 |
1901 edition
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BOX II:3 |
2015 reprint |
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BOX II:4 |
Travels |
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BOX II:4 |
Turkestan, Central Asia, 1868
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BOX II:4 |
Utrecht, the Netherlands,
undated
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BOX II:4 |
By Gertrude Wallace King Schuyler (wife),
undated
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BOX II:4 |
By unidentified writer, notes on Anthony
Jenkinson's travels in central Asia, undated
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BOX II:4 |
Part II: Printed Matter, 1868-1925
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Magazine and newspaper articles mentioning Schuyler as well as articles on other
topics collected by him. Included in the series is a scrapbook detailing
Schuyler’s family history, diplomatic service, appointments and nominations,
investigation of the atrocities in Bulgaria, and translation of The Cossacks (1852) by Leo Tolstoy as well as his other literary works, lectures,
social life, health, and death. The series also contains a message by the United
States president about revolt in the Turkish provinces in 1877, a report on the
atrocities in Bulgaria, and a Greek pamphlet on canon law. |
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
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BOX II:4 |
Magazine articles |
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BOX II:4 |
Mentioning Schuyler, 1876-1901
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(3 folders) |
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BOX II:4 |
Other articles, 1888, 1890
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BOX II:4 |
Message from the president of the United States
relating to the revolt in the Turkish provinces, 1877
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BOX II:4 |
Newspaper articles |
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BOX II:4 |
General, 1868, 1877-1880, 1909, 1925,
undated
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BOX II:4 |
Mentioning Schuyler |
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BOX II:4 |
Loose clippings, 1874, 1885-1901,
1925, undated
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BOX II:4 |
Scrapbook, 1874-1891
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BOX II:4 |
Pamphlet on canon law in Greek,
1872
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BOX II:4 |
Report of the Central Committee for the Relief of Distress in Bulgaria, 1877
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BOX II:4-II:5 |
Part II: Miscellany, 1663-1905
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Cards and stationary; a certificate awarded to Schuyler; family genealogy
pertaining to the Cochrane, Schuyler, and Van Rensselaer families; a graphite
sketch; a black and white map of the famine in Russia; obituaries and memorials;
photographs, including those of Schuyler and his wife; a passport; and royalty
statements. The series also contains letters concerning the donation of Schuyler’s
library and unidentified items including a drawing of a plaque and a manuscript
titled "Lettre de Yozgat." |
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
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BOX II:4 |
Cards and stationery, undated
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BOX II:4 |
Certificate, 1861
See Container II:OV 1 same heading
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BOX II:4 |
Family genealogy, 1663, 1698, 1718, 1857,
1877-1901
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(2 folders) |
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BOX II:5 |
Family genealogy, undated
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BOX II:5 |
Graphite sketch, undated
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BOX II:5 |
Letters referring to the donation of Schuyler’s
library to the New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., and Department of
State, Washington, D.C., 1901, 1905
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BOX II:5 |
Map of famine in Russia, undated
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BOX II:5 |
Obituaries and memorials, 1890
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BOX II:5 |
Passport in Russian, 1874
See Container II:OV 2, same heading
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BOX II:5 |
Photographs, undated
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BOX II:5 |
Royalties from Charles Scribner's Sons,
1902-1905
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BOX II:5 |
Unidentified items |
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BOX II:5 |
Drawing of a plaque, circa 1868
See Container II:OV 3, same heading
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BOX II:5 |
Summary of "Lettre de Yozgat" concerning the
treatment of Armenians in Yozgat İli, Turkey, author unknown,
undated
See Container II:OV 4, same heading
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BOX II:OV 1-II:OV 4 |
Part II: Oversize, 1861-1871
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An oversized certificate, a passport, drawings, and a manuscript. |
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Arranged according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items
were removed. |
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BOX II:OV 1 |
Miscellany |
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BOX II:OV 1 |
Certificate awarded to Schuyler,
1861 (Container II:4, same heading) |
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BOX II:OV 2 |
Passport in Russian,
1871 (Container II:5, same heading) |
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BOX II:OV 3 |
Unidentified items |
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BOX II:OV 3 |
Drawings of a plaque,
circa 1868 (Container II:5, same heading) |
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BOX II:OV 4 |
Summary of "Lettre de
Yozgat" concerning the treatment of Armenians in Yozgat İli, Turkey,
author unknown, undated (Container II:5, same
heading) |
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BOX III:1-III:3 |
Part III: Correspondence, 1859-1933
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The Correspondence series contains correspondence to and from Schuyler as well as
some third-party correspondence. The series is divided into family, general and
third party. The bulk of Schuyler’s writings to his family consists of letters to
his sister, Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer. Correspondence to Schuyler include letters
from George H. Boker, Samuel S. Cox, Nicholas Fish II, Edward A. Freeman, Sir
Henry H. Howorth, Marshall Jewell, and Frederick William Seward and mostly relate
to Schuyler's professional work. Third-party correspondence includes letters
written to Schuyler’s wife, Gertrude Wallace King Schuyler from her sister, Mary
King Waddington from Paris during World War I, as well as some correspondence to
Schuyler’s sister Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer and her husband, Charles Ashmead
Schaeffer. |
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Arranged largely as family, general, and third-party correspondence and therein
chronologically. |
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BOX III:1 |
Family correspondence from
Schuyler |
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BOX III:1 |
1859-1868
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BOX III:1 |
1870-1873
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BOX III:1 |
1879
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BOX III:1 |
1882-1890, undated
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(9 folders) |
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BOX III:1 |
General
correspondence |
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BOX III:1 |
From Schuyler |
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BOX III:1 |
1871-1890,
undated
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(5 folders) |
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BOX III:1 |
To Schuyler |
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BOX III:1 |
1868-1890,
undated
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(14 folders) |
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BOX III:2 |
Letters to Schuyler from
Marshall Jewell, 1874-1881,
undated
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(2 folders) |
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BOX III:2 |
Lists of correspondents,
undated
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BOX III:2 |
Official diplomatic
correspondence, 1872-1876,
undated
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BOX III:2 |
Telegram regarding Napoleon
III's surrender to Prussia, 1870
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BOX III:2 |
Third party |
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BOX III:2 |
Letters between Evelyn
Schuyler Schaeffer (sister) and The National Cyclopedia of American
Biography, 1932-1933
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BOX III:2 |
Letters to Charles Ashmead
Schaeffer (brother-in-law), 1870, 1889-1896
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BOX III:2 |
Letters to Evelyn Schuyler
Schaeffer, 1892, 1898, 1905,
1911, 1918
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BOX III:2 |
Letters to Gertrude Key
Schuyler Schaeffer (niece) from Eugene Schaeffer (nephew), 1894-1898
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BOX III:2 |
Letters to Gertrude Wallace King Schuyler
from |
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BOX III:2 |
Miscellaneous, 1903, 1915,
undated
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BOX III:2 |
Waddington, Mary King
(sister), 1892, 1910-1915
undated
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BOX III:3 |
Miscellaneous, 1870, 1887-1893, 1898-1905,
1915, undated
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BOX III:3-III:4 |
Part III: Writings File, 1855-1890
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The Writings File contains writings by Schuyler, including diary entries,
translations, and writings by other authors on Schuyler's life and additional
translations. Diary entries include fragments of Schuyler’s diary from 1868-1890.
The series also includes a speech given by Schuyler on the superstitions connected
with days of the week, a report on a conference in Constantinople (Istanbul) in
1877, and several translations by Schuyler of Russian accounts of pilgrimages and
journeys to Constantinople (Istanbul) and Jerusalem in the fifteenth century.
Writings by others include a paper entitled “Prelude to Turkistan” by Frank G.
Siscoe on the events in Schuyler’s life that led to him writing his book Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand,
Bukhara, and Kuldja (1876). In addition, there are several items written
in an unknown hand on the various European Orders, and several translations
including “The Bondage and Travels of Johannes Schiltberger” and a translation of
Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol Sketches.” |
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Arranged by author and therein alphabetically by type of material. |
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BOX III:3 |
By Schuyler |
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BOX III:3 |
Diary entries, 1868-1869, 1875-1878,
1888-1890
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(3 folders) |
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BOX III:3 |
"Myths. Sagas. Mährchen.
Skazki." circa
1867
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BOX III:3 |
Other writings and notes,
undated
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(2 folders) |
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BOX III:3 |
Report from the Conference
of Constantinople, 1877
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BOX III:3 |
"Superstitions Connected
with the Days of the Week," 1877-1878
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BOX III:3 |
Translations |
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BOX III:4 |
"Journey of Simeon of
Suzdal to Italy," undated
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BOX III:3 |
"Journey of the Deacon
Ignatius from Moscow to Tsargrad and Jerusalem," undated
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BOX III:3 |
"Journey of the Monk
Arsenius Sukhonuf to Jerusalem," undated
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BOX III:4 |
"Journey to Tsargrad of
Alexander the Scribe," undated
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BOX III:4 |
"Lost Child," undated
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BOX III:4 |
"Pilgrimage and Stay in
Tsargrad and Jerusalem of the Sinful Monk Zosmius Deacon of the Monastery
of Sergius," undated
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BOX III:4 |
Stephen of Novgorod's
"Wanderer," undated
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BOX III:4 |
By Frank G. Siscoe, "Prelude to
Turkistan," undated
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BOX III:4 |
By unidentified
writers |
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BOX III:4 |
Information about the orders
and decorations of Europe, circa
1889, undated
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BOX III:4 |
Miscellaneous writings and
notes, circa 1880s,
undated
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BOX III:4 |
Translations |
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BOX III:4 |
"Bondage and Travels of
Johannes Schiltberger," undated
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BOX III:4 |
"Pilgrim's Book of the
Monk Daniel," undated
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BOX III:4 |
"Sevastopol Sketches," by
Leo Tolstoy, circa
1855
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BOX III:4 |
"Travels of Afanasiĭ
Nikitich Nikitin," undated
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BOX III:4 |
Part III: Printed Matter, 1868-1914
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The Printed Matter series consists mainly of newspaper clippings documenting
Schuyler's career as a writer and author, and miscellaneous pamphlets. Newspaper
clippings are separated by subjects, such as reviews of Selected Essays with a Memoir by Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer in 1901, clippings related to Schuyler’s “Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria”
(1876), clippings regarding Schuyler’s career as a diplomat, and Schuyler’s
obituary as collected by a clipping service. Also included are miscellaneous
pamphlets related to Schuyler’s social and academic activities. |
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material. |
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BOX III:4 |
Newspaper clippings |
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BOX III:4 |
The
Egyptian Gazette, 1890
See also Container III:OV 1,
same heading
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