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R.T. Fisher Historical Papers

• HF-ID: HF1934-08
• Category: Administrative Materials
• Creator: Fisher, R.T.
• Date: 1893-2011
• Location: Harvard Forest
• Media: Paper
• Keywords: harvard forest history, education and policy
• Abstract:
  • A collection of miscellaneous materials related to R.T. Fisher and his family, some pertaining to the Harvard Forest
  • R.T. Fisher Correspondence
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  • Various envelopes not matched to letters in the Fisher correspondence collection
  • Photocopies of letters in the Fisher correspondence collection with notations handwritten by David Tatlock
  • Photocopies of miscellaneous cataloged Fisher correspondence
  • Photocopies of newspaper articles (from D. Tatlock)
  • • 1893 The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) article about Harvard and Yale baseball game
  • • 1893 The Sunday Herald article about Harvard football; ca. 1893 article about Bostonian performance of “Robin Hood”
  • • 1899
  • • 1900 “The Commercial Advertiser” article about Guy H. Scull [referenced in Fisher letter to family, HFCor-080]
  • • 1900 “Transcript” article about Fernow’s report on Forestry
  • • 1900 unidentified California newspaper article about Division of Forestry study of the Redwood forests
  • • 1900 article in The San Francisco Call about Fisher and O. W. Price, ”Study of Redwoods Their Mission”
  • • 1903 editorial in The Republican, by Henry James 2d, regarding the school of forestry at Cornell
  • • 1903 article in Springfield Daily Republican about President Eliot’s study of R. W. Emerson
  • • 1903 article in Springfield Daily Republican about Professor William James of Harvard address on R. W. Emerson
  • • 1926 Athol Transcript letter to the editor from R.T. Fisher about Harvard Forest and Petersham taxation
  • R.T. Fisher, Harvard College Student, 1894-1898
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  • Assorted Harvard College materials (receipts, Class Day booklet, Glee Club membership, other memorabilia)
  • Creative writing drafts by R.T. Fisher – 1897 story, poem about the Hasty Pudding Club, French song transcription
  • The Harvard Crimson – Nov. 24, 1894; May 28, 1896; May 29, 1896; 1898 Class Day/Commencement page
  • The Harvard Advocate – letter from Peter Kang, publisher of The Harvard Advocate, to David Tatlock, September 17, 1991, with photocopies of 2 poems and 4 short stories written by R.T. Fisher
  • Course descriptions for various Harvard classes, handwritten essays, “A Night in Boyhood”, “Coloration Protection”, “Creations of Air Expounded: from Mr. A. H. Thayer’s Theory of Protective Coloration”, “The Sporting Sheriff”, “The Trouble with Juvenile Fiction”, “Food for the Many” and typewritten copy (edited) of “A Night in Boyhood” (all photocopies)
  • English 5 & English 12 Essays by R.T. Fisher and Criticisms by classmates (all photocopies)
  • Draft of review of paper written by another student (“Mr. Waldo”, most likely F. L. Waldo)
  • English Teaching Assistantship: 1898, student list and photocopy of page from Life in Letters with letter describing the prospect of a teaching assistantship; small notebook with illustration of horse and notes about Eng 7 [English 7, 1899] and student names
  • R.T. Fisher, Post-Harvard College Graduation - Pacific Northwest and Washington
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  • Bureau of Forestry notebook with receipts and expenditures, May 1901 -1902; N. W. Spaulding’s Table for the Measurement of Logs, with handwritten inscription, Compliments of “Pacific coast Wood and Iron” June 1901
  • R.T. Fisher, Harvard Forestry years
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  • “Collection of R.T. Fisher 1906-07”- list compiled by S. H. Spurr, 1944 [location of photographs listed is unknown]
  • Miscellaneous – note about D. K. Millington and Civil Service Commission; note regarding references for George R. Taft, applicant for Superintendent at Petersham; list of forestry publications written on back of invitation to lecture by Arthur Shurtleff [1907]; 1905 Forestry 42 final exam questions; 1906 Forestry 1b final exam questions; Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration course booklets with handwritten notes by R.T. Fisher; 1933 list of Fisher’s Fellowships and memberships [received from D. Tatlock 2011-02-22], typewritten draft of “Administration of the Degree of M. F.”; minutes of the Meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Division of Biology; 1914 typewritten forest notes
  • Blank letterhead for Harvard University School of Forestry, Cambridge, Massachusetts (ca. 1903-1907) and Fisher & Bryant, Inc. Consulting Foresters (ca. 1909-1911); blank postcard for the Petersham Exchange (ca. early 1900s)
  • 1905 diary with keys to camp on Kimball’s Island on Squam Lake
  • 1905-1907 Harvard Co-operative Society receipts
  • 1905-1907 Miscellaneous Statements & receipts – Athorp House (suite rental); Bigelow, Kennard & Co (watch chain); Billings & Stover (apothecary); Briggs & Briggs (music dealers); Cherry Street Nursing Home (3 week stay for Fisher’s mother); Leavitt & Peirce (Dunster Hall suite rental, telephone service); H. M Levine, Tailor; Felix J. McMorrow Gentlemen’s Fine Shoes; The Oakley Country Club; E. Olsons Skotoiforretning (shoes)
  • Photocopy of Raphael Zon’s manuscript for “A New Explanation of the Tolerance and Intolerance of Trees” sent to Austin Cary, April 20, 1907. Original manuscript is filed in HF 1934-07.
  • 1910 datebook
  • Conference on Education in Forestry printed program and typewritten minutes; Association of American Forest Schools Articles of Association typewritten draft with handwritten edits (December 1909); typewritten copy of letter from Filibert Roth, Professor of Forestry at University of Michigan to H. S. Graves regarding meeting of forestry teachers (1910); “Methods of Instruction in the Forest School” by R.T. Fisher (2 copies, no date)
  • Receipts –1911-1912 Board and 1915 J. H. Gafney (Petersham meat market)
  • 1908-1919 Receipts– W. W. White & Co. (maps) and Franklin Motor Car Company. Cancelled checks [Received from D. Tatlock, 02/22/2011]
  • 1916-1917 Harvard Forest receipts and expenditures
  • Silviculture lecture notes – Fisher’s notes for the silviculture course he taught (unknown date)
  • Reports: “Tentative outline for a study of the book industry submitted for the special advisory committee on business research of the Social Science Research Council” by R. S. Lynd, of the staff of the Social Research Council and “A proposal for a study of excess capacity in the bituminoud coal industry” by unknown [These are not Harvard Forest-related proposals]
  • Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 1917, with Professor Fisher’s Report on the Trees in the Yard (3 copies)
  • The Grand Monadnock : an address by Albert Annett of Jaffrey at the annual forestry conference at Lost River, in the White Mountains, September 2, 1926; with corrections and additions (Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 1927) (Note reference to Fisher’s uncle, Abbott Thayer)
  • The Harvard Forest [mouse-chewed upper corners]
  • Various booklets: Price list of nursery sundries; “Emergencies” by Marshall H. Bailey, M.D.; The leopard moth and other insects injurious to shade trees in the vicinity of Boston” by James W. Chapman; List of forestry publications sold by United States Government Printing Office; “White Pine Blister Rust Control in 1919” by Samuel Detwiler; Silva Fennica No. 20, 1931, “Die Organisation der forest Wissenschaftlichen Forschungsarbeit in Finnland”; “Edward Channing: A Memoir” inscribed to Fisher by author, S. E. Morison; International Union of Forest Research Organizations Annual Report and List of Members (1935)
  • Booklets: The Harvard Forest as a Demonstration Tract, reprint stamped “C. W. Stillman”; Reports of the President of Harvard University, 1933-34 (5 copies, one stamped “C. W. Stillman”); “Notes on the early uses of land now in the Arnold Arboretum” (Arnold Arboretum Bulletin, 1935); “An Act for the Preservation of White and Other Pine-Trees Growing in Her Majesties Colonies of New-Hampshire, the Massachusets-Bay … for the Masting of Her Majesties Navy (1710)” issues by the editors of Chronica Botanica, 1949
  • The Harvard Forest 1907-1934: A memorial to its first director Richard Thornton Fisher. Fisher Memorial Committee, 1935
  • R.T. Fisher Family Materials
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  • Packing list for Switzerland trip, handwritten game instructions and notes, note from R Kinnicutt about pig, 2 wedding invitations (1914)
  • Pencil & watercolor sketch of Fisher pool, unsigned (possibly by Ann Fisher)
  • Georgina P. Fisher miscellaneous receipts and lists [from D. Tatlock, 2-22-2011]
  • Georgina P. Fisher items [from D. Tatlock]: Board of Overseers of Harvard College Committee Assignments 1942-43 booklet; correspondence from Frank Robinson (1941, 1942); Connor's Pond dam progress report from John M. Woolsey (1956)
  • John B. Fisher correspondence (letter from E. Cobb to J. B. Fisher, 1982)
  • Notes written on the back of a Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum 1992 postcard by unknown person. The notes are about the book, Under a colonial roof-tree; fireside chronicles of early New England by Arria S. Huntington, 1891. Arria Huntington was a cousin of R. T. Fisher’s father, Edward Thornton Fisher.
  • David Tatlock notes and creative writing

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  • The Harvard Forest

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 3
• Access: Active
• Provenance: includes materials donated by D. Tatlock (no date and 02/22/2011)