Container List
Series VI: Matilde Stuyvesant
Scope and Contents noteMatilde Stuyvesant (18??-1948) was the second wife of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. Most of the series consists of letters from her sons, Lewis and Alain. The series also contains a folder entitled [Matilde Stuyvesant] - Letters Received. Matilde Stuyvesant was the most likely recipient of the letters this folder. |
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| Subseries 1 Matilde Stuyvesant - Letters Received N.D., 1902, 1917
Scope and Contents noteMost of the letters in this subseries are from Matilde Stuyvesant's two sons, Alain and Lewis R. ("Stuyve"). The letters concern the boys' studies and activities at school. Herbert H. Hawkins, who appears to have been the headmaster of one school the boys attended, Ecole de L'Ile de France, occasionally writes regarding the boys' academic progress. A form letter from the Ecole de L'Ile de France, dated September 1914, informs parents that the area of Liancourt, where the school was located, has been occupied by the Germans. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Box: 13 | Folder : 1 | Matilde Stuyvesant -- Letters Received |
N.D. | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 2 | Matilde Stuyvesant -- Letters Received |
N.D., 1902 - 1914 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 3 | Matilde Stuyvesant -- Letters Received |
1915 - 1917 | |
| Subseries 2 Matilde Stuyvesant - Postcards Received 1910-1912
Scope and Contents notePostcards from her sons, while the boys were on vacation. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 4 | Matilde Stuyvesant -- Postcards Received |
1910 - 1912 | |
| Subseries 3: [Matilde Stuyvesant] - Letters Received N.D., 1903
Scope and Contents noteLetters, some in French, addressed to "Madame" or to "Elisabeth." These letters are probably to Matilde Stuyvesant. Mrs. Stuyvesant's middle name was Elisabeth, and no other person of that name appears in the collection contemporary with these letters. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 5 | [Matilde Stuyvesant] -- Letters Received |
N.D., 1903 | |
| Subseries 4: Matilde Stuyvesant - Accounts, Bills, Receipts 1903, 1905, 1907
Scope and Contents noteFor clothes and household items, including two from Tiffany's. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 6 | Matilde Stuyvesant -- Accounts, Bills, Receipts |
1903, 1905, 1907 | |
| Subseries 5: [Matilde Stuyvesant] - Bill 1931
Scope and Contents noteProbably to Matilde Stuyvesant, who was the only "Mrs. Stuyvesant" in 1931. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 7 | [Matilde Stuyvesant] -- Bill |
1931 | |
| Subseries 6: Matilde Stuyvesant - Newspaper Clippings 1904
Scope and Contents noteSubseries consists of clippings about Mrs. Stuyvesant's appearances at the opera, theater, etc. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 8 | Matilde Stuyvesant -- Newspaper Clippings |
1904 | |
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