Cornelia Ann Ludlow notebooks, 1796-1803
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Summary
- Creator:
- Willink, Cornelia Ann Ludlow, 1788-1865
- Abstract:
- Cornelia Ann Ludlow Willink (1788-1866) used these notebooks as a young girl in New York studying penmanship, mathematics, and geography. The math workbook (dated 1796) is hardback bound, with arithmetic lessons on numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and measurements. The five copybooks (dated approximately 1800-1802) are bound in marbled paper, with school assignments and lessons on penmanship, geography and history about the United States and Canada, repeatedly copied sentences about manners, morals, and character, and other assorted assignments. Collection assembled by Lisa Unger Baskin, and was acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
- Extent:
- 0.5 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English
- Collection ID:
- RL.11892
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of a mathematics manuscript workbook and five manuscript copybooks used by Cornelia Ann Ludlow as a young girl between the ages of approximately eight and fourteen years old (dating between 1796 and 1802). The math workbook (dated 1796) is hardback bound, with arithmetic lessons on numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and measurements. The five copybooks (dated approximately 1800-1802) are bound in marbled paper, with school assignments and lessons on penmanship, geography and history about the United States and Canada, repeatedly copied sentences about manners, morals, and character, and other assorted assignments.
Acquired as part of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection.
- Biographical / historical:
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Cornelia Ann Ludlow Willink was born on 1788 June 13 to parents Charles Ludlow and Elizabeth Van Horne in New York City. Cornelia married John Abraham Willink, heir to a Dutch banking family, on 1816 May 2, and the couple had one daughter, Maria P. Selleck. J.A. Willink died on 1852 May 31. Cornelia Ann Ludlow Willink died on 1865 November 18. Her surviving sister, Elizabeth Ludlow, oversaw the laying of the cornerstone for Ludlow-Willink Hall at Bard College on Cornelia Ann's birthday, 1866 June 13; the hall was a gift from the sisters to Bard College and was originally built to house the college president. Cornelia Ann's daughter Maria (who after marriage became Mrs. W.K. James) later donated significant Ludlow family historical furniture and artifacts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Materials cited here include: Johnson, Samuel Roosevelt. Address, being a tribute to Cornelia Ann Ludlow Willink and personal recollections, 1866.
Guide to the Anita Lott Cruikshank collection of Kings County, N.Y. Family Papers, Brooklyn Public Library [accessed online April 2021].
- Acquisition information:
- Collection acquired as a purchase in 2015. Forms part of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Meghan Lyon, April 2021.
Accessions represented in this guide: 2015-0050.
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- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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