Ellison Correspondence mss., 1875-1945
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
Creator
Ellison, Robert Spurrier
TitleEllison Correspondence mss., 1875-1945
Collection No.
LMC 1323
Extent
444 items
Language
Materials are in English.
Abstract
The Ellison Correspondence mss. consist
of correspondence of Robert Spurrier Ellison, 1875-1945, relating to his collection
of Western Americana.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
An oil producer, Ellison was from Casper, Wyoming, vice-president of Midwest
Refining Company, and dedicated to preserving historic reminders of pioneer
virtues.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged following original order.
Scope and Content Note
It is mainly letters of William H. Murray, book scout, to Mr. Ellison relating to
the Joseph Lane and Joel Palmer mss. Some of the Lane material mentioned by Murray
is not included in the Lane collection as it was turned over to the Indiana
University Library. Photographs added to the collection include two of Buffalo Bill
Cody. A folder of printed brochures and leaflets and a folder of newspaper
clippings, 1904-1944, complete the collection.
Six letters from General William Carey Brown, 1934-1937, dealing with the Battle of
Little Big Horn, 7th regiment U. S. cavalry with a list of men in companies A-F, and
personal matters; a letter from Mrs. Elizabeth (Bacon) Custer about autographing a
Custer booklet, Feb. 19, 1927, and letters from Frank Phillips, Oct. 30, 1940, and
Leon C. Phillips, Oct. 31, 1940, to Clarence Isaiah Pontius dealing with a farewell
party on the retirement of Ellison as president of Stanolind Crude Oil & Pipe
Line Company and as local president of the Boy Scouts of America.
Correspondents include Horace Marden Albright, William Alonzo Allen, Paul McClelland
Angle, Clarence Booth Bagley, Lucy Ball, Frances (Birkhead) Beard, Herbert Cody
Blake, William Cody Bradford, Morris Henry Briggs, Earl Alonzo Brininstool, William
Carey Brown, Robert Bruce, Miles Cannon, Horace Bailey Carroll, George Mosely
Chandler, Orrin Sylvester Clark, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Robert Ernest Cowan,
Elizabeth (Bacon) Custer, Glen Dawson, Charles P. Deatherage, Peter Decker, Frederic
M. De Witt, Fred Dustin, Charles Francis Eberstadt, Robert Spurrier Ellison, Edwin
P. Essick, Anna Maria (Vincent) Green, Frank J. Green, Daniel Wallace Greenburg,
James Bradshaw Griffith, William J. Hamilton, Grace Raymond Hebard, William Francis
Hooker, John Gilson Howell, Charles Kelly, Andrew Jenson, John Alexander Kress, John
Thomas Lee, Alexander Leggat, Clarence Guy Littell, Francis Marion Lockard, Fred
Lockley, James Fairfax Loughborough, A. William Lund, Douglas Crawford McMurtrie,
Andrew J. McNemee, Joseph G. Masters, William H. Murray, Chase Salmon Osborn, Alson
Bowles Ostrander, Frank Phillips, Leon C. Phillips, C. F. Robertson, John Elijah
Rosser, Joseph Schafer, Charles Angelo Siringo, Charles Wesley Smith, George W.
Soliday, Elsa Spear, Frank V. Stearns, Louise Stegner, Isabel Allis (Brown) Stuart,
Zena Irma Trinka, George Burwell Utley, Herman Lansing Vail, Stallo Vinton, and
Harry Leon Wilson.
Photographs added to the collection include two of Buffalo Bill Cody. A folder of
printed brochures and leaflets and a folder of newspaper clippings, 1904-1944,
complete the collection.
Related Material
Ellison mss.,
Ellison mss. II, also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Acquired: 1946, 1947, 1967, 1991
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however,
patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in
advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Ellison Correspondence mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana.
Processing InformationProcessed by Staff.
Completed in 2013
Box 1
Biographical, etc.
Correspondence. 1915-1927
Correspondence. 1928-1931
Correspondence. 1932-1934
Correspondence. 1935, Jan.-Aug.
Correspondence. 1935, Sept.-Nov. 15
Correspondence. 1935, Nov.16-Dec.
Correspondence. 1936, Jan.-Mar.
Correspondence. 1936, Apr.-Jun.
Correspondence. 1936, Jul.-Dec.
Box 2
Correspondence. 1937
Correspondence. 1938
Correspondence. 1939-1940
Correspondence. 1941-1953
Correspondence. undated
Printed-miscellaneous.
Printed-newspaper clippings.
