This material overlaps in subject matter with that of McCormick Series 1E and 2E. The correspondents include numerous family members, lawyers Cyrus and Richard Bentley and Edwin Cassels, and various individuals involved in caring for Stanley McCormick. Also present are papers on the McCormick Historical Association, on Nettie Fowler McCormick, and on the Nettie Fowler McCormick Biographical Association.
The papers of Anita's husband, Emmons Blaine, are limited in amount due to his early death in 1892. They include business correspondence; financial records; letters from Anita, his father (James G. Blaine) and mother, and others; and press clippings. Letters and business records of the Blaines' son, Emmons Jr., who was educated at Harvard University and chose agriculture in Wisconsin as a career, are much more extensive. His death in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight left Anita to carry on the operation of his Milford Meadows Stock Farm, Lake Mills, Wisconsin, through agents until 1947, at which time she gave it and a trust fund to the University of Wisconsin.
In addition, the papers include correspondence with Anita's only grandchild, Anne (Nancy) Blaine, the wife of Gilbert A. Harrison, editor of the New Republic. Many records appear concerning conferences among Mrs. Harrison, lawyers, and secretaries in the years just preceding and following the death of Mrs. Blaine.
