MS 194
Hortense Butler Heywood
Papers, 1899-1970, n.d.
 

Archives of Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

Descriptive summary

creator:

Heywood, Hortense Butler (1884-1977)

title:

Papers

dates:

1899-1970, n.d.

extent:

2.52 linear ft. (6 document boxes)

collection number:

MS 194

repository:

Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Hortense Butler Heywood Papers, MS 194, Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

Entomologist and author.  Hortense Butler Heywood, a native of Cherokee, Iowa, graduated from Lake Forest College with a B.A. (1903) in entomology and paleontology.  Subsequent post-graduate work was completed at Chicago University (1904-1905); Berlin University, Germany (1906-1907); and Cornell University (1912-1914).  She also worked as a schoolteacher (1910-1912) in Peterson, Iowa.

Hortense married Rolland E. Heywood of Peterson, Iowa, in 1915, and they adopted a daughter, Julia Charlotte, in 1931.  Hortense was the author of numerous historical articles about Iowa and American events as well as authoring scientific articles and collaborating with Dr. James Needham (Cornell University) on the book, Handbook of the Dragonflies of North America.

Heywood was active in several scientific and community organizations, including the cause of women’s suffrage, Sigma Xi, the Farm Bureau, the Red Cross, Civil Defense, the Iowa Federation of Women’s Club, and the Webster City Women’s Club.

 

Collection description

This collection (1899-1970, n.d.) contains biographical information, college papers, and course notes, photographs, correspondence, certificates, reports, articles, book reports, scientific correspondence and articles, reprint articles, and glass specimen slides.

These papers document the varied life of Heywood and include articles, papers, and stories, many on international events and World War II, authored by her; and course notes and correspondence from fellow Cornell graduate students, Emmeline Moore and Alice Ayr Noyes.  There is also scientific correspondence with her co-author, Needham, as well as illustrations, notes, and additional writings on dragonflies.  The remainder of the collection contains scientific articles by peers and glass specimen slides of various insects. 

Container list

Box Folder Title Dates
1 1 Biographies n.d.
1 2 Brochure on Lincoln Cathedral n.d.
1 3 Greeting cards n.d.
1 4 Illustrations of Biblical stories n.d.
1 5 National Education Week Program 1930?
1 6 Photographs 1905-1906
1 7 Graduation Invitation (Calling Card) 1907, n.d.
1 8 Correspondence with Charlotte Krchner Butler (mother) 1906-1931
1 9 Correspondence with Rolland Heywood 1915
College Papers (Lake Forest College)
1 10 The Mission of Humor n.d.
1 11 Hugh’s Boyhood 1899
1 12 Are State Insane Asylums Harmful? n.d.
1 13 Does the Fear of Future Punishment Prevent Crimes? 1901
1 14 Early Impressions 1901
1 15 Attention 1902
1 16 Lessing (Original Draft) 1903?
1 17 Lessing (Original Draft) 1903?
1 18 Lessing (Final Version) 1903
University of Chicago
1 19 Matriculation Card 1904
1 20 Course Notes- Biology 1904-1905
1 21 Course Notes- Government 1904-1905
1 22 Lectures and Recitals: Ancient Tragedies and Comedies 1904-1905
1 23 Field Notebook- Insects (includes Chicago City Council Meetings) 1904
1 24 Paper: Respect for Law 1904
1 25 Paper: Leather and Prunella 1904
1 26 Paper: His Success 1904
1 27 Paper: A Gift 1904
1 28 Paper: Expectation 1904
1 29 Paper: Diary of Warren-Sealer 1904
1 30 Paper: Prometheus Bound 1904
1 31 Paper: A Financial Question 1904
1 32 Paper: The Important Characteristics of Fiction 1904
Berlin University (1906-1907)
1 33 Berlin University Course Schedule 1906
Cornell University
1 34 Correspondence 1912-1913
1 35 Registration Materials 1912
1 36 Course Notes- Limnology 1913
1 37 Poems 1913
1 38 Leave of Absence request/ lab fee refund 1913-1914
Club Work 1917-1970
1 39 Sixth Congress on the Cause and Cure of War Address 1931
1 40 Resources for World Unity Notes 1946
1 41 Midwest International Institute note cards 1946
2 1 Alpha Delphian Chapter program 1922-1923
2 2 Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs Certificate 1970
2 3 Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs Correspondence 1931-1932
2 4 Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs Positions of Heywood n.d.
2 5 Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs Reports 1917
2 6 Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs 23rd Biennial Convention 1939
2 7 Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs Reports 1930-1939
2 8 Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs Reports 1950-1951
2 9 Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs (Study Materials for the World Citizenship Class) 1932, n.d.
2 10 Report on state PEO meeting ca. 1927
2 11 The Travel Club programs 1920-1922
2 12 The Travel Club poems n.d.
2 13 The Travel Club speeches 1920-1921
Personal Correspondence
2 13a Bradford, Lewis J. 1914
2 14 Cowles, Mayme (1 photograph) 1914
2 15 Flora (cousin) 1916
2 16 Hazard Blanche 1914
2 17 Heywood, Rolland (incomplete) n.d.
2 18 Hocke Aly (concerning CARE packages) 1949
2 19 Houzi, Augustine (concerning World War I French orphans) 1919-1921
2 20 Houzi, Augustine (concerning World War I French orphans) 1919-1921
2 21 Iowa Children’s Home Society 1933
2 22 "Jack" or "Jock" 1913
2 23 Knight, Harry H. (Professor of Entomology at ISU) n.d.
2 24 Library Commission, State of Iowa 1929
2 25 Moore, Emmeline (Aquatic Biologist) 1913-1920
2 26 Biographical material: Emmeline Moore 1929-1963
2 27 Noyes, Alice Ayr (Cornell Graduate Student) 1913-1915
2 28 Owsiewski, Zbigniew family (Poland) (includes 5 photographs) 1947-1970
2 29 Rothmund, Theodora and Alfred (Austria) 1948-1951
2 30 Rounes, Sophia K. (Greece) 1947
2 31 Torge, Willy (Germany) (In German) 1948
Writings
2 32 Address to the 8th Grade Graduating Class (Incomplete) n.d.
2 33 After Dinner Speakers n.d.
2 34 The Aristocratic Occupation (about farming) n.d.
2 35 John James Audubon (Incomplete) n.d.
2 36 The Battle Royal (Farmers vs. Weeds) n.d.
2 37 Bits of Verse about Bugs n.d.
2 38 Chickens n.d.
2 39 Co’Boss (about cows) n.d.
2 40 Corn n.d.
2 41 Country Roads and Motor Cars n.d.
2 42 Diplomatic Service n.d.
3 1 Dragonflies n.d.
3 2 Education n.d.
3 3 Effects of Social Change 1930s
3 4 The Farmer’s Picnic n.d.
3 5 The First of March n.d.
3 6 The Garden n.d.
3 7 The Goat God n.d
3 8 History of Sculpture n.d.
3 9 The Hog n.d.
3 10 The Hudson River n.d.
3 11 Insects in the Garden n.d.
3 12 Instinct of Possession n.d.
3 13 Italy as Inspiration for Art and Literature n.d.
3 14 The Ladies Aid n.d.
3 15 Midsummer Sounds and Silences n.d.
3 16 Milk n.d.
3 17 Miss Butler on Immigration n.d
3 18 Mothers and Daughters n.d.
3 19 Neighbors n.d.
3 20 The Open Air Theater n.d.
3 21 Organized Labor n.d.
3 22 Romance of the Rivers n.d.
3 23 Scandinavian Literature n.d.
3 24 Signs and Portents n.d.
3 25 Threshing Time n.d.
3 26 Training of Children n.d.
3 27 Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac n.d.
3 28 Women and Politics n.d.
3 29 Women Journalists n.d.
3 30 The World’s Unfinished Tasks n.d.
3 31 Yesterday n.d.
3 32 Attitudes Towards War n.d.
3 33 Building Institutions for Peace n.d.
3 34 Causes of the Fanco-Prussian War n.d
3 35 Current Events 1939
3 36 Current Events 1946-1947
3 37 Current Events in Europe (incomplete) 1936
3 37a Current Events in Japan (incomplete) n.d.
3 38 Current Events in Japan (incomplete) ca. 1940
3 39 Current Events in Russia ca. 1920
3 40 International Relations/ Defending Democracy n.d.
3 41 Dictatorship v. Democracy (Incomplete) n.d.
3 42 An Effective Peace Program (Incomplete) 1937
3 43 Effects of War (incomplete) 1939
3 44 Historical Background on the European Situation n.d.
3 45 How Can We Promote and Effective Peace Program? (incomplete) n.d.
3 46 League of Nations Activities (incomplete) 1937
3 47 League of Nations and the European Conflict 1937
3 48 Living as World Neighbors n.d.
3 49 Marshall Plan (incomplete) 1949
3 50 Nazi Measures Against Jews n.d.
3 51 Review of Conditions Abroad ca. 1938
3 52 Russian History (incomplete) n.d.
3 53 Tribunal for World Peace (incomplete) ca. 1932
3 54 War, a Natural Impulse of Mankind (incomplete) n.d.
3 55 War and Patriotism (incomplete) n.d.
3 56 What are the Remoter Causes of the Present European War? ca. 1940
3 57 Women’s Part in the War and Work for Peace ca. 1939
3 58 Working for Peace (incomplete) n.d.
3 59 The World Court ca. 1924
3 60 World War II (WWII)- Causes of Conflict ca. 1941
3 61 WWII- Current Events 1941
3 62 WWII- Current Events 1941
3 63 WWII- Current Events 1939
3 64 WWII- Current Events 1939
3 65 WWII- Current Evetns 1942
3 66 WWII- Foreign Policy to Avoid US Involvement 1939
3 67 WWII- Maintenance of US Neutrality 1939
3 68 WWII- Maintenance of US Neutrality 1939
3 69 WWII- Maintenance of US Neutrality 1939-1940
3 70 The Yellow Menace 1935
Book Reports
4 1 Advise and Consent n.d.
4 2 The Doctor n.d.
4 3 The Economic Consequence of the Peace (incomplete) n.d.
4 4 The Enemy n.d.
4 5 The Glass Blowers n.d.
4 6 A Guidebook to the Hawkeye State n.d.
4 7 It’s Never too Late to Men n.d.
4 8 Let the People Know (1942) n.d.
4 9 Middlemarch and Main Street n.d.
4 10 Nicholas Nickleby, Tom Brown’s School Days, Hoosier Schoolmaster, Stalky and Company, Joan and Peter and Miss Bishop n.d.
4 11 Not Peace but a Sword (1939) n.d.
4 12 Peasant Pioneers (1925) n.d.
4 13 A Place in the Sun (1936) n.d.
4 14 Promises Men Live By n.d.
4 15 The Arabian Knights through Modern Books (1927) n.d.
4 16 Seven Steeples n.d.
4 17 This Believing World n.d.
4 18 Uarda (1901) n.d.
4 19 US Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (1954) n.d.
Plays
4 22 As I Came Walking Home from Town n.d.
4 23 The Earth is Like a Crystal Ball n.d.
4 24 The Ships are Well Prepared n.d.
4 25 What Holland Has Taught Us n.d.
    Notes
4 26 Amy Lowell n.d.
4 27 Bible Verses on Wisdom n.d.
4 28 German Poem by George Kirst n.d.
4 29 Italy n.d.
4 30 Male and Female Ideals of Honor n.d.
4 31 Insects n.d.
4 32 Poetry and Bible Verses Regarding Insects n.d.
4 33 Trip to Prague n.d.
4 34 Water Filter Plant Operation n.d.
Speech Notes
4 35 Christmas Customs n.d.
4 36 UNESCO n.d.
Scientific Work
4 37 Citations Regarding Dragonflies n.d.
4 38 Correspondence 1912-1920
4 39 Correspondence with James G. Needham 1905-1919
4 40 Correspondence and advertising reviews (concerning the publication of A Handbook of the Dragonflies of North America) (Copy available in Special Collections: QL513.02. N289h) 1929-1930
5 1 Dragonfly Illustrations n.d.
5 2 Dragonfly Illustrations n.d.
5 3 Notes and Outlines n.d.
    Writings
5 4 Dragonfly Labia n.d.
5 5 Economic Importance- Biological Relations n.d.
5 6 The Labia of the Odonata (Draft and Typescript) n.d.
5 7 Life and History of the Anax Junius n.d.
5 8 The Mouth Parts of Dragonflies n.d.
5 9 Part I n.d.
5 10 Three New Species of Odonata The Canadian Entomologist Vol 46., #10 1914
5 11 Variation in Dragonfly Legs n.d.
Writings of Others (Mostly reprints, inscribed to Mrs. Heywood)
5 12 Adams, Charles C. "Postglacial Origin and Migration of the Life of the Northeastern United States" 1902
5 13 Betten, Cornelius "Order Trichoptera: Caddis Flies" "The Larva of the Caddis Fly, Molanna Cinerea Hagen" n.d.
5 14 Calvert, Philip P. "Composition and Ecological Relations of the Odonate Fauna of Mexico and Central America

"The Fossil Odonate Phenacolestes, with a Discussion of the Venation of the Legion Podagrion Selys"

1909, 1913
5 15 Clemens, Wilbert A. "New Species and Life-Histories of Mayflies" The Canadian Entomologist Vol. 45 1913
5 16 Holden, Perry G. Successful Corn Culture 1907
5 17 Moore, Emmeline "The Potamogetons in Relation to Pond Culture" Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries 1913
5 18 Needham, James G. "Is the Course for College Entrance Requirements Best for Those Who Go No Further?" School Science
"The Dragonflies (Odonata) of Hainan" Science Journal
"How Biology Came to Knox College" Scientific Monthly 		1904, 1931, 1945
5 19 Noyes, Alice Ayr "The Biology of the Net-Spinning Trichoptera of Cascadilla Creek" Annals of the Entomological Society of America Vol. 7, #4 1914
5 20 Sjostedt, Yngve "Locustodeen aus Kamerun and Kongo" 1901
5 21 Tillyard, R.J.
"Studies in the Life-Histories of Australian Odonata, Part II" 1909
"On Some Experiments with Dragonfly Larvae" 1910
"On Some Remarkable Australian Libellulinae, Part III 1910
"Studies in the Life-Histories of Australian Odonata, Part IV" 1911
"Further Notes on Some Rare Australian Corduliinae, with Descriptions of New Species" 1911
"On the Genus Diphlebia, with Descriptions of New Species, and Life-Histories" 1911
"On Some New and Rare Australian Agrionidae (Odonata)" 1912
"Description and Life-History of a New Species of Nannophlebia" 1912
"Some Descriptions of New Forms of Australian Odonata" 1913 		1909-1913
Glass Slides
6 1 Agrionidae (Labia, maxillae, and mandible) 1903
6 2 Butler n.d.
6 3 Chauliodes (?) 1902
6 4 Early stages of dragonfly labia 1902
6 5 Frog embryology 1902
6 6 Unknown 1901
6 7 Salamander brains 1902
6 8 Series of Lestes Uncatus (Embryo to Adult Nymph) 1909

 

 
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