Grace E. Barstow Murphy papers, 1835-1973

Mss.B.M957.g

Date: 1835-1973 | Size: 4 Linear feet, Ca. 3500 items

Abstract

This collection consists primarily of correpondence and writings by Murphy. The correspondence is both family and professional, the former being largely of a social nature and including letters of her grandfather (Amos Chafee Barstow), mother (Grace P. Barstow), and sister (Mary Mason Barstow). Much of the correspondence with her sister reveals Murphy's interest in, and dedication to, conservation. There are articles and speeches pertaining to her interest in conservation or relating to the various trips she took with her husband, Robert Cushman Murphy.

Background note

Grace Emeline Barstow Murphy 1888-1975 was an author and a conservationist.

Collection Information

Physical description

Ca. 3500 items, 4 linear feet.

Provenance

Presented by Grace Emeline Barstow Murphy and accessioned, 05/22/1973 (1973 1130ms, 1513ms). Additional papers donated by Alison M. Conner and accessioned, 06/12/1975 (1975 727ms).

Indexing Terms


Genre(s)

  • Articles.
  • Diaries.
  • Notebooks.
  • Speeches.

Geographic Name(s)

  • Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration.
  • Venezuela -- Description and travel.

Personal Name(s)

  • Barstow, A. C. (Amos Chafee), 1813-1894
  • Barstow, Grace Palmer, 1850-1933
  • Guernsey, Mary Mason Barstow, 1879-1967
  • Keller, Helen
  • Murphy, Grace Emeline Barstow, 1888-1975

Subject(s)

  • Conservation of natural resources.
  • Ecology.
  • Environmental protection.
  • Voyages and travels.


Detailed Inventory

 Series I Correspondence
1835-1973 
 Action Committee Against the Bridge
  

Conservationists United for Long Island

 Adams, Laura C
  
 Alexander, Wilfrid B.
  
 Allison, Brooks
  
 Amadon, Dean
  
 American Embassy, Lima, Peru
  
 American Geographical Society
  
 The American Ornithologists' Union.
  

Other Descriptive Information: Includes correspondence with Reuban Allyn Moser, Josselyn Van Tyne and Richard H. Pough

 American Philosophical Society
  
 The American Red Cross
  
 Andrews, Sara Bache
  

Other Descriptive Information: Husband: Charles B Andrews

 The Antarctic
  
 Antarctic Avian Population Studies
1968-1969 
 Arms, Mrs. John Taylor to George P Brett
  
 Atkinson, Brooks
  
 Austin, Mrs. Oliver L.
  
 Automobile Club of New York, Inc.
  
 Avila, Enrique to Carlos Llosa Belaunde
  
 Bacon, Leonard
  
 Baiardi, John C
  
 Bailey, Percy Laurance, Jr
  
 Baker, Ann F.
  
 Baker and Spicer
  

in re Ed Williams

 Barbash, Murray
  
 Barstow, Amos Chafee
  

Correspondence with: Barstow, Mrs. Amos Chafee, Knight, Jacob C., Breed, William J.

 Barstow, Mrs. Amos
  
 Barstow, Amos Chafee, Jr.
  
 Barstow, Grace P.
1902 
 Barstow, Grace P.
1904 
 Barstow, Grace P.
1905 
 Barstow, Grace P.
1906 
 Barstow, Grace P.
undated 
 Barstow, Herbert Phillips
  
 Barstow, Mary Mason
1904 
 Barstow, Mary Mason
1905 
 Barstow, Mary Mason
1906 
 Barstow, Mary Mason
undated 
 Beckwith, Jean
  
 Belt, Mrs. Charles Banks
  
 Benton
  
 Bigelow, Mrs. Bruce M.
  
 Blackman
  
 Borland, Connie
  
 Bradford, Emma T.
  
 Briarlea
  
 Broadhurst, Jean
  
 The Brooklyn Museum. Gimbel Brothers
  
 Brown University. President and Mrs. Ray Heffner,
  
 Buck, Pearl S.
  
 Burgess, Mrs. Alex M.
  
 Butcher, Devereux
  
 Cape Cod Magazine
  
 Cape Cod National Seashore
  
 Carl, Ann
  
 Carlino, Joseph F.
  

Fowler, James A Mummert, Orlando

 Carson, Rachel. Nephew
  
 Chafee, Zech
  
 Chapman, Bruce
  
 Chapman, Frank M
  

Corresponds with Evans

 Clark, Mary
  
 Collingwood, Charles
  
 Community Service Society of New York
  
 Conner, Mrs. Steven L.
  

see: Alison Barstow Murphy

 Conover-Mast Publications, Inc
  
 Conservation Planners, Inc.
  
 Conservationists United for Long Island Pike
  

Correspondent: Otis G See also: Fowler, James A

 Coolidge, Harold J.
  
 Cooper Ornithological Club
  
 Costigan and Graham
  
 Coulter, J Wesley
  
 Crystal Brook Sound Beach Co., Inc.
  
 Cunningham, Samuel
  
 Curran
  
 Curtis, Howard S.
  
 Dana, Dorothy
  
 Dawson, Carolyn C.
  
 Dawson, Merna E.
  
 DeGraff, Robert F.
  
 Delacour, Jean
  
 Delapierre, Bessie A.
  
 Delporte, Maud
  
 Desmond, Tom
  
 De Zevalloy, Luis Orlig
  
 Dickens, Isabel
  
 Donley, J.C.
  
 The Eastern Temporal Bone Banks Center
  
 The Ecuadorian Corporation, Ltd.
  
 Edge, Mrs. Charles Noel
  
 Edwards, Mrs. Knight
  
 Edwards, William H.
  
 Edwards and Angell
  
 Elwood Junior High School
  
 Emergency Conservation Committee
  

Correspondent Mrs. Charles Noel Edge

 Emlen, John T., Jr.
  
 Evans, C.W.
  
 Everett, Constance
  
 Falla, Molly
  
 Felland, Nordis
  
 First Unitarian Society
  
 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
  
 Fiske, Mrs. Frederic B. to Alison Barstow Murphy
  
 Fitch, Louise H.
  
 Fonda, Lois
  
 Fortson, Bentley & Griffin
  

Including Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury and Parsons

 Fowler, James A. to Ted Kempf
  
 Fowler, James A. to Otis G. Pike
  
 Fowler, James A. to Ben H. Thompson
  
 Fowler, James A to Fay Welch
  
 Fowler, James A. to Bob Davison
  
 Fowler, James A. to Grace Donaldson
  
 Fowler, James A. to Grumman Rod & Gun Club
  
 Fowler, James A. to Suffolk Co. Fish & Game Association
  
 Fowler, James A. to Sportsmen's Council Marine
  
 Fowler, James A. to Ted Kerpez
  
 Fowler, James A to Town of Brookhaven
  

See also: Conservationists United for Long Island

 Galantino, Ruth to Charles R. Dominy
  
 Gamble, Rita
  
 The Garden Club of America
  
 Garrity, Devin A.
  
 Gerry, Mrs. Elbridge E.
  
 Gillie, Mrs. H. F.
  
 Glass, Mrs. Bentley
  
 Gothe, C. M. to Aleden Miller
  
 Gould, Laurence M.
  
 Gravier, Mrs. Louis
  
 Great Neck Estates Garden Club
  
 Guernsey, Henry Hoadly
  
 Guernsey, Henry Hoadly, Jr.
  
 Guernsey, Mrs. Henry Hoadly, Jr.?
  
 Haggerty, John J. to James Fowler
  
 Hanscomb, Paul C.
  
 Harper and Brothers
  
 Harris, Benita S.
  
 Hay, John
  
 Heaps, Pearl
  
 Heffner, Ray L
  
 Heinrich, Helen E.
  
 The Hempstead Town Lands Resources Council
  
 Henry, Earklie
  
 Henry, John to Walter J.Hickel
  
 Hickey, Joseph J.
  
 Hickey, Joseph J
  
 Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury & Parsons
  

Correspondence includes Fortson, Bentley and Griffi

 Hodgson, George
  
 Hodgson, Margaret
  
 Holmberg, Isabel and Jack
  
 Horowitz, Sylvia
  
 Hovey, H,
  
 Howe, W.
  
 Huntington NY Town of
  
 Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island
  

Hutchins, Cox and Stroud Bradberry Realty Co. The Tillman Company Inc. Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury and Parsons

 Ingersoll, Miss
  
 Irving, Mrs. William Gary
  
 The Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine
  

Correspndent John E.Bordley

 Jones, Mrs. Earl M.
  
 Jones, Thomas O
  
 Juliet Lew World Friendship Committee
  
 Kaltenborn, H. V. and O
  
 Kaltenborn, Mrs. H. V.
  
 Keeney, Mrs. Burnaby C.
  
 Keller, Helen
  
 Kempf, Ted A.
  
 Kenly, Robert G.
  
 Kimball, Mary B.
  
 Koch, Richard S.
  
 Koenig, Walt W.
  
 La Fargo, Christopher
  
 Lake Ronkonkoma Civic Association
  
 Laurie, Margaret
  
 Letters: Unknown Identity
  
 Letters of Condolence in Robert C.Murphy's Death
  
 Levin, Jonathan. Peru in the Guano Age
  

Extracts

 Link, W. S.
  
 Long, Dorothy J.
  
 Long Island Commercial Review
  

Correspondent. James J Fowler

 Long Island University
  
 Longifled, Mrs.
  
 Low, George C. W.
  
 MacDonald, Mrs. Edwin A.
  
 Mahoney, Mary
  
 Martin, Johnny
  
 Mathews, Kate
  
 Mathews, Chris
  
 Mathews, Frank P.
  
 Mathews, Mrs. Frank P.
  

See Gregory Mathews

 Mathews, Gregory
  
 Mathews, William R.
  
 Mellon, Mrs. Norman S.
  
 Melville, Ward
  
 Mennell, John
  
 Menninger, Karl A.
  
 Michener, Josephine R.
  
 Middle Country Central School District #11
  
 Miller, Alden Holmes
  
 Millet, John A. P.
  
 Mississippi Game and Fish Commission
  
 Moser, Reuben Allyn
  

Correspondent. Mrs. Margaret M. Nice

 Moses, Robert to Edwin J.Hicks
  
 Murphy, Alison Barstow
  
 Murphy, Amos Chafee Barstow to Mrs. Amos Chafee Barstow,
  
 Murphy, Clarissa
  
 Murphy, Deirdre
  
 Murphy, Edward A. C.
  
 Murphy, Miranda Alison
  
 Murphy, Robert Cushman to Josselyn Van Tyne
  
 Murphy, Robert C, Jr. to Paul W. Klabunde
  
 Murphy, Mrs. Robert Cushman, Jr
  
 National Audubon Society
  
 National Council of State Garden Clubs
  
 National Science Foundation
  

Correspondent. Philip M Smith

 Natural History Magazine
  
 The Nature Conservancy
  
 Neary, Gloria
  
 New College. Sarasota, Florida
  
 New York League for the Hard of Hearing
  
 Nice, Margaret M
  
 Niles, Blair
  
 Norris, Harriette
  
 North Suffolk Garden Club
  
 Nowell-Smith, Patrick
  
 The Order of the Poor Brethern of Saint. Francis
  
 Osborn, Alice D.
  
 The Parents' Magazine
  
 Patrick, James L. G. Fitz
  
 Peabody, Mrs. Malcolm E.
  
 Pemberton, Brock
  
 People's Guild
  
 Phelps, William H
  
 Phelps, William Lyon
  
 Pike, Otis G.
  

Correspondence. James Fowler and R.T. Batson

 Pitelka, Frank A.
  
 Post Office Department
  
 Pough, Richard H.
  
 Reilly, Like and Schneider
  
 Remsen, John J.
  
 Rhode Island, State of
  

Correspondent. John Chafee H.

 Rhode Island Historical Society
  
 Rickett, Alys
  
 Ripley, S. Dillon
  
 Risorn, Ole
  
 Robinson, Lennox
  
 Rodell, Marie F.
  
 Roosevelt, Eleanor
  
 Ross, Malcolm
  
 Rowe, L.S.
  
 Russell, Barbara H.
  
 Russell, Margaret
  
 Rye N.Y. Garden Club
  
 Samuels, Bernard
  
 Santos, A. G.
  
 The Sea Pines School for Girls
  
 Shadio, Adele
  
 Shaw, E. H.
  
 Shewring, Douglas Batle
  
 Sladen, William J. L.
  

Correspondents. S.Dillon Ripley and Brian Barnes

 Snyder, E. P., Jr.
  
 The Society of Women Geographers
  

Correspondent. Benita S. Karris

 Sower, O
  
 Spackman, Mrs. Herbert B.
  
 Spicer, Mrs. Edward S.
  
 Sterling, Ann
  
 Stewart, Flora A.
  
 Suffolk Museum end Carriage House
  
 Tholen, Emil
  
 Thomas, Griffith
  
 Thomas, Phyllis M.
  
 Tierman, Jerome
  
 Toll, Johnny
  
 Tyler, Elizabeth du Fresne
  
 Unger, Denis E.
  
 United Nations Association of the U.S.A., Inc.
  
 United States: Department of the Interior
  
 USO Women't Division
  
 Van Liew, Mrs. Harry R.
  
 van Tienhoven, P. G.
  
 Van Tyne, Josselyn
  

Robert Cushman Murphy, Reuben Allyn Moser, Mrs. C Edge

 Vaughan, Anna R.
  
 Walsh, Mrs. Richard J.
  
 Webster, Wilfred
  
 Wedderien, Inc.
  
 Weeden, Jeanie Lippitt
  
 Wellesley College
  
 Whaling Museum Society, Inc.
  
 White, Johnny
  
 'Wildlife Management Institute
  

Correspondent. Ira N Gabrielson

 Wildlife Preserves, Inc.
  
 Williams, Byard
  
 Williams, Helen Moore
  
 Willier, Benjie H.
  
 Witherby, H. F.
  
 Wolff, Lester L.
  
 'Woman's Home Companion
  
 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  
 Woodward, Lady Maud
  
 Series II Articles
  
 Murphy, Grace Emeline Barstow: Arctic Summer
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Around the World
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Aviation's Debt to Birds
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Conservation is the American Way of Life
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Conservation Simplified
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Letter from Mexico
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Miscellaneous Articles and Speeches
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Miscellaneous Notes
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Miscellany
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Music Plays On
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. My Antarctic
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Notebooks. Antarctica
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Notebooks Venezuela
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. On the Birds Payroll
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Mount Sinai Harbor
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Silently Away to Travel
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Silently in the Woods
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Travel, Cash and Children
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. [Traveling with a Naturalist]
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Vacation in Venezuela
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Water Resources on Long Island
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. We Each Need to Understand Conservation
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. We Told the Children
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Your Deafness is Not You
  
 Murphy, Grace E.B. Your Deafness is Not You; Music Plays On
  
 Searles, Harold, Positive Feelings in the Relationship between the Schizophrenic and His Mother
  
 U.S. Department of Interior: Antarctica; official Name Decisions, Gazeteer No. 14-3