Title: Anita McCormick Blaine Additional Papers Received in 1971
Inclusive Dates: 1850-1958

Creator:

• Blaine, Anita McCormick

Call Number: McCormick Mss 5E

Quantity: 39.2 cubic feet (98 archives boxes and 1 volume)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Chicago philanthropist Anita Blaine, received from her granddaughter in 1971, composed of diaries, some of her most private correspondence, information relating to her own estate and those of her husband and son, and papers of her husband and son.

Note:

Forms part of the McCormick Collection.

Language: English

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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.

Anita McCormick Blaine Correspondence and Papers (Series 1E and 2E)

Anita McCormick Blaine Operation of Household Papers (Series 3E)

Anita McCormick Blaine Office Records (Series 4E)

Acquisition Information

Presented by Anne Blaine Harrison, September 1971.

McCormick Mss 5E	Series: Anita McCormick Blaine
	General, circa 1903-1957
Box   1	Adams, Robert McCormick to Bentley, Cyrus
Box   2	Bentley, Cyrus (continued)
Box   3	Bentley, Cyrus, history of Stanley McCormick case
Box   4-5	Bentley, Cyrus, memo regarding Stanley McCormick case
Box   6	Bentley, Richard to Brush, Nathaniel H.
Box   7	Buckner, Emery R. to Cassels, Edwin Henry
Box   8	Cassels, Edwin Henry (continued) to Coleman, Cyril
Box   9	Coleman, Cyril (continued) to Hoskins, R.G.
Box   10-14	Hubbard, Muriel McCormick (Mrs. Elisha Dyer), correspondence, court papers, press clippings, 1943-1948
Box   15	Ingham, Dr. to Lawrence, John B.
Box   16	Lee, Roger L. to McCormick, Harold Fowler Note: Includes one folder of Cyrus H. McCormick II (Jr.), 1903-1934.
Box   17-18	McCormick, Harold Fowler (continued), including letters regarding Ganna Walska, to McCormick, Mrs. Robert Sanderson (Katherine Medill)
Box   19	McCormick, Stanley, correspondence and history
Box   20	McCormick, Mrs. Stanley (Katherine Dexter) to Plimpton, Francis T.P. Note: Includes four folders of Adolph Meyer, 1908-1941.
Box   21	Plimpton, Francis T.P. (continued) to Russell, Ernest F.
Box   22	Russell, Ernest F. (continued) to U.S. Treasury Department (taxes)
Box   23	Walker, Grace T. to Wyman, Austin L.
Box   24	Wyman, Austin L. (continued) to Young, Arthur and Company
Box   25	Young, Arthur and Company (continued)
	Personal Note: Mrs. Blaine's correspondence, notebooks, and personal memoranda. Originals and copies. See also Diaries, Box 88-98.
Box   26	1897-1905
Box   27	1906-1909
Box   28	1910 Note: Includes family history regarding Stanley McCormick.
Box   29	1911-1920
Box   30	1921-1929
Box   31	1930-1932 May
Box   32	1932 June-December
Box   33	1933-1940 April
Box   34	1940 May-1941
Box   35	1942-1945
Box   36	1946-1957 Note: Later dates concern gifts and taxes.
	Miscellaneous
Box   37	Letters regarding Anita McCormick Blaine
Box   37	Letters taken from the Nettie Fowler McCormick Papers in years past and given to Anne (Nancy) Blaine Harrison Note: Small group of original personal and family letters, many of them private.
Box   37	Photocopies of both personal and business letters regarding Mrs. Blaine, her life, and activities Note: Large folder. Originals retained by Anne (Nancy) Blaine Harrison.
Box   37	Photocopies of letters from Nancy while she was a student at Vassar, 1936-1938 Note: Large folder. Originals retained by Mrs. Harrison.
Box   38	Bequests, etc.
Box   38	Employees
Box   38	Foundation for World Government
Box   38	Foundation and estate, including letters from Brown Brothers, Harrison, and Company
Box   38	Inventory
Box   39	McCormick Historical Association, including investigation of a possible place to which to give the McCormick Collection, 1950-1954
Box   39	Nettie Fowler McCormick mailing lists, biography, and Biographical Association
Box   40	Nettie Fowler McCormick personal property
Box   40	Real estate
Box   40	Will and trustees meeting
Box   40	Business, 1950
Box   40	Miscellaneous, 1951-1952
Box   40	Correspondence regarding 1953-1954
Box   41	Estate, 1954-1958 Note: Some miscellaneous letters from Mrs. Blaine are in the folder at the back of this box.
Box   42	Estate, 1951-1958
	Diaries and memoranda books Note: True diaries become less common after 1910. Thereafter many volumes, varying greatly in size and content, are jotted reminder books, including random thoughts.
Box   88	1876-1901
Box   89	1902-1930
Box   90	1931-1939
Box   91	1940-1949
Box   92	Instructions regarding Emmons Jr.'s meals and care when he was ill, 1899-1900
	Memoranda and philosophical ideas and thoughts
Box   93	1921-1928
Box   94	1929
Box   95	1930-1932
Box   96	1933-1939
Box   97	1940-1948
Box   98	Selections from the ideas and thoughts recorded in the memoranda books (Box 93-97), 1902-1949 Note: No indication of who made the selections, or for what purpose.
	Series: Emmons Blaine Note: Papers of Mrs. Blaine's husband, deceased 1892.	⇧
Box   43	Business correspondence, 1891-1892
Box   43	Cash book, 1889-1890
Box   43	Expense book, 1889-1891
Box   44	Accounts, ledgers, check book stubs, 1889-1892
Box   44	Estate, 1892
Box   44	Personal letters from Anita McCormick Blaine to Emmons, 1889-1892
Box   45	Correspondence of Emmons Blaine, 1869-1891
Box   45	Press clippings at time of death, 1892
Box   46-54	Letters to Emmons Blaine from others Note: Filed alphabetically by correspondent. Includes four folders, 1850-1892, from his father, James G. Blaine, and many folders of letters from his mother.
	Series: Emmons Blaine Jr. Note: Papers of Mrs. Blaine's son, deceased 1918.	⇧
	Correspondence
	Received, circa 1912-1918
Box   55	Abercrombie and Fitch Company to Baker, Phil
Box   56	Bakhmetieff, Boris A. to Blaine, Anita McCormick
Box   57	Blaine, Anita McCormick (continued) to Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Box   58	Bowan, Joseph T. to Cooke, Flora J.
Box   59	Collidge, Mrs. Charles A. to Fridolin, Julius
Box   60	Friedberg, Stanton A. to Harvard University
Box   61	Harvard University (continued) to Keller, Herbert A.
Box   62	Kenney, Frank D. to McCormick, Mrs. Cyrus H., Jr. (Harriet Hammond)
Box   63	McCormick, Cyrus III to Milford Meadows Stock Farm
Box   64	Milford Meadows Stock Farm to Peterson, Marie
Box   65	Phillips Exeter Academy to Sippy, Bertram W.
Box   66	Sitz, H. J. to Union Society of the Civil War
Box   67	United Charities of Chicago to YMCA
Box   68	Sent, 1896-1918
	Business records
Box   69-73	Business records and estate information Note: These records include a total of 22 volumes exclusive of check stub books and bank deposit books, plus one oversize volume on the shelf.
	Personal
Box   74	Diaries and appointment books, 1901-1916
Box   75	Drawings and sketches
Box   75	Insurance and legal papers
Box   76	Mementos
Box   76-87	School materials Note: 80 folders. School notebooks have not been counted as volumes.