HARRIET CONNOR BROWN PAPERS
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Harriet Connor Brown (1877-1959), author, journalist, and civil servant
reflect and document her interest in social and political issues of her times including the struggle
for woman suffrage, world disarmament and peace.
Harriet Chedie Connor was born in Burlington, Iowa on September 11, 1872.
Following graduation from Burlington High School, she spent a winter at Wheaton Seminary,
Norton, Massachusetts before entering Cornell University where she received her A.B. degree
in 1894. Among other honors, she was the first woman on the staff of Erg, the University
newspaper. Having received a scholarship from the Association of Collegiate Alumnae,
predecessor of Association of American University Women, she had a year of study in Berlin.
Beginning in 1896, she served intermittently on the staffs of the New York Tribune,
Washington bureau of the New York Journal, and the Buffalo Enquirer. Freelance writing from
this time include reports, which are present in the papers, on the National Republican and
Democratic conventions of 1896. From 1903-07 she prepared the United States Geological
Survey's regular press bulletin.
As the wife of Herbert D. Brown, whom she married in 1897, she collaborated with
him in preparing reports on superannuation in the Civil Service of the United States, and for
Congressional committees; studies for the Bureau of Labor, and President Taft's Commission
on Economy and Efficiency. She also participated in official missions to Caribbean countries.
In 1929, Harriet Brown was awarded the Atlantic Monthly prize for biography
Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827-1927 was the story of Harriet's mother-in-law of
Ft. Madison, Iowa, a study of early American pioneer life. Drafts and other materials for this
work are a part of the collection. Also among her manuscripts and notes are stories of her
girlhood days in the schools of Iowa and New England, of college years at Cornell University,
political life in Washington, official missions to Virgin Islands and Panama, and a history of the
Bureau of Efficiency.
Correspondence File
Box Contents
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General
1890-96
1901-14
1982-27
1930-39
1941-47
1953-59
Dawes, Charles G., 1929-57
Duniway, Clyde A.
1894
1895
1896
1897
Family
Brown, A.P. "Gus", 1898-1933
Brown, Chita, 1927-26
Brown, Constance, 1911-30
Brown, D.T. and Maria Foster, 1856-1927
Brown, Herbert, 1899-1935
Connor, (Edward, Kate, Margaret, Kathleen & Frank)
1889
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1890
January - June
September - October
November
December
1891
January
February
March - April
May - June
October – November
December
1892
January
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February - May
September - December
1893
January - February
March - May
November - December
1894
January-March
April - August
September December
1895
1899
1900-1906
1907-08
1910-13
Kuhn, Constance Brown and Kathleen, 1937-83
Hoover, Herbert and Lou Henry, 1929-54
LaFollette, Robert M. and Belle C., 1920-52
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1940
Taft, William Howard, 1911
Subject File
BOX CONTENTS
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American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1911, 1923
American Association of University Women, 1944-49 Brown, Harriet
Connor
Brown, Harriet Connor
Biographical Data, 1877-1944
Sick Room Memoranda, 1910
Bryan and the Democratic National Convention
See: Manuscripts & Notes, Campaign of 1896
"Business Tides" by Henry Hazlitt, 1955, 1957
Clippings
1891-1928
1930-58
n/d
Committee for Enrollment Against War, n/d
Diary, 1921-33
Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1922
Hoover Report, Commission on Organization of Executive Branch of
Government
General
1949-50
1954
1955
1956.
Reporganization News, 1952-56
McKinley and the Republican National Convention
See: Manuscripts & Notes, Campaign of 1896
National Council for Prevention of War, 1922
Photographs
1894-1953
n/d
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Schools and Colleges
Burlington High School
General, 1887-1911, n/d
Poppe, Dr. Ewald
Birthday Gift, 1910
Dedication, n/d
Letters, 1893-1917
The Echo, 1896
The Pathfinder, 1914
See Also: Manuscripts & Notes
Cornell University
Alumnae, 1932-55, n/d
Anchors of Delta Gamma, 1930-33
Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs, 1910
Scrapbook, 1894-1955
Thesis, 1894
See Also: Manuscripts Notes
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Wheaton Seminary
1889-1921
1923-40
1942-52
1953-58
See Also: Manuscripts & Notes
Sound Money vs. Free Silver
See: Manuscripts & Notes, Campaign of 1896
Theatre Programs, 1911, n/d
Twentieth Century Club, 1923
"Ultimatum for Man", n/d
U.S. Geological Survey, 1904-11
W.F. Frederick Music Co., n/d
World Disarmament, Hearings, 1921
Ye Colledge Women's Clubbe, 1911-13
Manuscripts and Notes
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A Sea Trip in Maytime, 1897
Allison, William B., Interview, 1900
Annals of a Poor Speller, 1908
Burlington (Iowa)
Campaign of 1896
1. McKinley and the Republican National Convention
2. Bryan and the Democratic National Convention
3. Sound Money vs. Free Silver
Cornell of the Nineties
Book Outline, 1890-94
Freshman Year, 1890-91
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Copy 1
Chapter 1 (fragments)
Chapter 2-5
Chapter 6-10
Chapter 11-15
Chapter 16-20
Copy 2
Chapter 16-25
Chapter 26-33
Copy 3
Chapter 16-20
Chapter 23-27
Chapter 28-32, 34
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Sophomore Year, 1891-92
Copy 1
Chapter 1-6
Chapter 7-12
Copy 2
Chapter 1-6
Chapter 7-12
Fragments
Junior Year, 1892-93
Copy 1
Chapter 1-5
Chapter 6-10
Chapter 11-13
Copy 2
Chapter 1-7
Chapter 8 -13
Fragments
Senior Year, 1893-94
Foreword
Chapter 1-5
Chapter 6-11
Fragments
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Cuba, 1896
Daughter of Hawkeyeland
FDR
Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827-1927
Background Material
Athens Homecoming, 1904
Brown Genealogy, n/d
Brown, Maria Dean Foster, 1927
Foreward, Dawes, Charles G., 1928
Congratulatory Letters
1929-30
A
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B
C
D
E-F
G-I
J-K
Correspondence, 1931-49
Draft Chapters
Early Married Life in Ohio
Middle Years and the End
Northwest Territory
Drafts
1927, April
1928, May
1929
January
April
Library of Congress, 1929
Press Notices
1929
June
October - November
December
1930
January - March
February - April
May
June - November
1931-49
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Publishers
Atlantic Monthly, 1929-35
Little, Brown & Co., 1929-31
Illustrations, 1955, n/d
Indians
Little Maria, 1956
Speaking of China
The Great Revelation
The Old Guard and The New Policy
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What I Have Seen And What I Hope To See
Wheaton Seminary
Before I Entered Cornell
Betrayal of Youth, 1921
Diary, 1890
Getting Started
Girls in Washington
Hebe On The Lawn
Table of Contents, Preface and Introductions
1. On The Way
2. Homesick
3. Adjustments
4. A Harvard Caller
5. Browning Memorial
6. Work
7. Visitors
8. Appreciation
9. Boston
10. Spring
11. Hamlet
12. May Days
13. Convicts
14. Females
15. Last Times
16. Farewell to Hebe
La Primavera
Letter from Eloise
Letters, 1928
New England
Whose Surprise?
Woman Vote, 1922
Women's Peace Society
See Also: Scrapbook II
Scrapbooks
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I. Berlin, 1894-95; Burlington, 1895-96; New York,
1896-97.
II. Journalism--Government; Buffalo--Pan American Exposition,
1901; Cuba, 1902; Washington--U.S. Geological Survey, 1903.
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III. Washington, 1903-10; Civil Service Retirement;VI. Peace and Theatre, 1924; Washington; WIL; Women's Committee
for Political Action; Constance--GW, Cue and Curtain.
VII. Atlantic Monthly Biography Prize, 1929,
Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years by Harriet
Conner Brown.
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VIII. Grandmother Brown's hundredth birthday greetings