Guide to the Warring Wilkinson Papers, [ca. 1875-1911]

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Guide to the Warring Wilkinson Papers, [ca. 1875-1911]

Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 815

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information:

The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

Processed by:: The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:: ca. 1961
Encoded by:: Charlotte Gerstein

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Warring Wilkinson Papers,

Date (inclusive): [ca. 1875-1911]

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 815

Creator: Wilkinson, Warring, 1834-1918

Extent: Number of containers: 3 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 oversize folder

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Correspondence, MSS of articles and speeches, reports, accounts, notebooks, clippings, and periodicals containing articles by and about him, relating primarily to his career as principal of the California Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, Berkeley, California.

Also included: papers relating to his estate and letters of condolence addressed to his daughter.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Warring Wilkinson papers, BANC MSS C-B 815, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

This collection of papers was given to the Library in March 1961 by Wilkinson's son-in-law, Professor Leon Richardson. They consist of correspondence, manuscripts of articles and speeches, reports, accounts, notebooks, clippings, some student material, periodicals containing articles by and about him, papers relating to his estate, and letters of condolence addressed to his daughter.

Biography

Warring Wilkinson, educator and head of the California Institution for the Deaf and the Blind at Berkeley, California, for over 40 years, was born in Charlton, New York, May 25, 1834, and educated at Union College. He began his educational work with the deaf in 1858, after graduation, at the New York Institution for the Deaf. In 1865 he accepted the offer as principal of the California School for the Deaf and the Blind, a private institution founded in San Francisco in 1860 by Mrs. Frances Augusta Clark. He soon succeeded in securing state support for the school and then, also, a new location. Berkeley was chosen as the site, and in 1869 the school was moved across the Bay, where it became one of the best known in the country. In 1909, his eye sight failing, he retired, and the Board of Directors made him Principal Emeritus. He died on April 7, 1918.

Box 1

Letters written to Wilkinson

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization, with a miscellany of single letters preceding the rest of the file. A list of the more important correspondents follows the Key. Some miscellaneous letters have been grouped by subject, as indicated below, in Box 2.

Box 2

Letters of congratulation on 40th anniversary as director of the Institution, 1905

Letters of congratulation from the pupils of the Institution

Letters re the proposed "Institution Extension," 1905

General letters of inquiry about the school

Miscellaneous letters from students

Miscellaneous letters requesting employment at the school

Boxes 2-3

Letters written by WiIkinson, 1875-1904

Scope and Content Note

Primarily letters addressed to his wife, daughter and his son-in-law, Leon Richardson. Arranged chronologically, with undated letters at the end.

See also letterpress copybook in Carton 1

Carton 1

Letterpress copybook, Apr. 1907-Aug. 1910

Scope and Content Note

Primarily copies of business letters written on behalf of the Institution and in relation to his own business affairs.

Articles and speeches re education of the blind and the deaf

Scope and Content Note

Holograph and typescript copies

Graduation addresses, speeches to pupils of the Institution

Scope and Content Note

Holograph and typescript copies

Speeches (4 folders)

Scope and Content Note

Holograph, typescript and printed copies. Include papers prepared for the Berkeley Club and the Chit-Chat Club.

Sermons on biblical texts

Statement concerning Douglas Tilden

Papers relative to trip to Europe, 1891-1892, to study institutions for education of the blind and the deaf. Include letter of credit, passport, letters of introduction, etc.

California Institution for the Deaf and Blind: names of trustees, resolutions of Directors, etc.

California Institution for the Deaf and Blind: printed reports

Scope and Content Note

Included are biannual reports for 1899-1900 and 1909-1910; Proceedings of Joint Committee to Investigate the Affairs of Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum, 1864; Institution Extension: Extract from the Twenty-Sixth Report of the California Institution; Biographical Statistics of Pupils of the Institution . . . Who Have Entered College

Reports on visits to schools for deaf and blind, Wisconsin, 1901

Compositions by students

Autobiographical sketches written by students and former students

Miscellaneous bills and receipts

Account book

Miscellaneous notes

Invitations, programs, Christmas cards, etc.

Miscellaneous notebooks, address book, etc. (2 folders)

Carton 2

Periodicals containing articles by Wilkinson

Periodicals containing articles re Wilkinson

Photographs

Clippings

Scrapbook of clippings and some photographs

Berkeley Club Memorial tribute to Wilkinson

Letters of condolence addressed to Maud (Wilkinson) Richardson, 1918

Papers relating to Wilkinson's estate

Miscellaneous reports and publications

Miscellany

oversize Oversize

Honorary degree from the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, May 8, 1889

Miscellany (single letters)

Bartlett, William C., Mar. 7, 1897

Berkeley Club, Oct. 30, 1914. From Cornelius B. Bradley, secretary.

Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, Aug. 26, 1880

Blaisdell, Nathaniel, Oct. 1, 1917

California. Controller, Apr. 8, 1909

Crocker, Charles Frederick, 1854-1897, Dec. 1, 1896

Dohrmann, Fred W., Mar. 30, 1903

Dougherty, W. J., Feb. 4, 1903. Writing as member of the State Assembly Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.

Gillett, Philip Goode, 1833-, Nov. 24, 1887

Hague, James Duncan, 1836-1908, Mar. 2, 1902

McClatchy, Charles Kenny, 1858-1936, Oct. 30, 1902

McClatchy, Valentine Stuart, 1857-1938, Nov. 7, 1902

McLean, John Knox, 1834-1914, Mar. 9, 1897

Moffitt, James Kennedy, 1866 ?-1955, Apr. 18, 1911

Moses, Bernard, 1846-1930, May 30, 1901. Concerning his work with the United States Philippine Commission.

Olney, Warren, 1841-1921, June 5, 1909

Reid, William Thomas, 1843-1922, n.d.

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891, Apr. 20, 1884. Typed copy.

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927, Aug. 9, 1909

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?

4 letters, 1895

Brown, Elmer Ellsworth, 1861-

4 letters, 1906-1907. Writing as U.S. Commissioner of Education.

Dewey, John

2 letters, 1903-1904

Fay, Edward Allen, 1843-1923

3 letters, 1897-1901

Foote, W. W.

5 letters, 1895-1898

Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917

4 letters, 1895-1917

Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908

2 letters, n.d.

Howison, George Holmes, 1834-1916

6 letters, 1895-1916. One is addressed to John K. McLean.

Hubbard, Gardiner Greene, 1822-1897

2 letters, 1895

Nye, Alfred Bourne, 1853-1913

8 letters, 1903-1911

Pardee, George Cooper, 1857-1941

4 letters, 1904-1906. Two are addressed to A. J. Ralson.

Perkins, George Clement, 1839-1923

2 letters, 1902-1908

Perry, Newel Lewis, 1873-1961

31 letters, 1888-1905

Tilden, Douglas, 1860-1935

2 letters, 1895-1905

Tryon, James Rufus, 1837-1912

7 letters, 1897-1901