Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

MS 194
Hortense Butler Heywood (1884-1977)
Papers, 1894-1970, undated


Descriptive summary

creator:

Heywood, Hortense Butler (1884-1977)

title:

Papers

dates:

1894-1977, undated

extent:

2.52 linear feet (6 document boxes)

collection number:

MS 194

repository:

Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, 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 (1894-1970, undated) 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 science articles by peers and glass specimen slides of various insects.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Biographies

undated

1

2

Brochure on Lincoln Cathedral

undated

1

3

Greeting cards

undated

1

4

Illustrations of Biblical stories

undated

1

5

National Education Week Program

1930 circa

1

6

Photographs

1905-1906

1

7

Graduation Invitation (Calling Card)

1907, undated

5 22 Teacher's contract 1911

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

undated

1

11

Hugh's Boyhood

1899

1

12

Are State Insane Asylums Harmful?

undated

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

5 23 Paper: Black and White 1904
5 24 Paper: His Mother 1904

 

 

Berlin University (1906-1907)

 

1

33

Berlin University Course Schedule

1906

5 25 Du bist verruckt mein Kind, du muss nach Berlin (written in English) 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

undated

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, undated

2

10

Report on state PEO meeting

ca. 1927

2

11

The Travel Club programs

1920-1922

2

12

The Travel Club poems

undated

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

5 26 Herrick, H. J. (incomplete) 1894

2

17

Heywood, Rolland (incomplete)

undated

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)

undated

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

5 27 Von Logace, Carl L. 1921

 

 

Writings

 

2

32

Address to the 8th Grade Graduating Class (Incomplete)

undated

2

33

After Dinner Speakers

undated

5 28 [Antiques] undated

2

34

The Aristocratic Occupation (about farming)

undated

2

35

John James Audubon (Incomplete)

undated

2

36

The Battle Royal (Farmers vs. Weeds)

undated

2

37

Bits of Verse about Bugs

undated

2

38

Chickens

undated

5 29 [Christmas customs] undated

2

39

Co'Boss (about cows)

undated

2

40

Corn

undated

2

41

Country Roads and Motor Cars

undated

2

42

Diplomatic Service

undated

3

1

Dragonflies

undated

3

2

Education

undated

3

3

Effects of Social Change

1930s

3

4

The Farmer's Picnic

undated

3

5

The First of March

undated

3

6

The Garden

undated

3

7

The Goat God

undated

3

8

History of Sculpture

undated

3

9

The Hog

undated

3

10

The Hudson River

undated

3

11

Insects in the Garden

undated

3

12

Instinct of Possession

undated

5 30 [Iowa landlord] undated

3

13

Italy as Inspiration for Art and Literature

undated

3

14

The Ladies Aid

undated

3

15

Midsummer Sounds and Silences

undated

3

16

Milk

undated

3

17

Miss Butler on Immigration

undated

3

18

Mothers and Daughters

undated

3

19

Neighbors

undated

3

20

The Open Air Theater

undated

3

21

Organized Labor

undated

5 31 Poems undated

3

22

Romance of the Rivers

undated

3

23

Scandinavian Literature

undated

3

24

Signs and Portents

undated

3

25

Threshing Time

undated

3

26

Training of Children

undated

5 32 [Tuesday club] undated

3

27

Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac

undated

3

28

Women and Politics

undated

3

29

Women Journalists

undated

3

30

The World's Unfinished Tasks

undated

3

31

Yesterday

undated

3

32

Attitudes Towards War

undated

3

33

Building Institutions for Peace

undated

3

34

Causes of the Fanco-Prussian War

undated

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)

undated

3

38

Current Events in Japan (incomplete)

1940 circa

3

39

Current Events in Russia

1920 circa

3

40

International Relations/ Defending Democracy

undated

3

41

Dictatorship v. Democracy (Incomplete)

undated

3

42

An Effective Peace Program (Incomplete)

1937

3

43

Effects of War (incomplete)

1939

3

44

Historical Background on the European Situation

undated

3

45

How Can We Promote and Effective Peace Program? (incomplete)

undated

3

46

League of Nations Activities (incomplete)

1937

3

47

League of Nations and the European Conflict

1937

3

48

Living as World Neighbors

undated

3

49

Marshall Plan (incomplete)

1949

3

50

Nazi Measures Against Jews

undated

3

51

Review of Conditions Abroad

1938 circa

3

52

Russian History (incomplete)

undated

3

53

Tribunal for World Peace (incomplete)

1932 circa

3

54

War, a Natural Impulse of Mankind (incomplete)

undated

3

55

War and Patriotism (incomplete)

undated

3

56

What are the Remoter Causes of the Present European War?

1940 circa

3

57

Women's Part in the War and Work for Peace

1939 circa

3

58

Working for Peace (incomplete)

undated

3

59

The World Court

1924 circa

3

60

World War II (WWII)- Causes of Conflict

1941 circa

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

4

1

Book Reports: Advise and Consent

undated

4

2

Book Reports: The Doctor

undated

4

3

Book Reports: The Economic Consequence of the Peace (incomplete)

undated

4

4

Book Reports: The Enemy

undated

4

5

Book Reports: The Glass Blowers

undated

4

6

Book Reports: A Guidebook to the Hawkeye State

undated

4

7

Book Reports: It's Never Too Late to Men

undated

4

8

Book Reports: Let the People Know (1942)

undated

4

9

Book Reports: Middlemarch and Main Street

undated

4

10

Book Reports: Nicholas Nickleby, Tom Brown's School Days, Hoosier Schoolmaster, Stalky and Company, Joan and Peter and Miss Bishop

undated

4

11

Book Reports: Not Peace but a Sword (1939)

undated

4

12

Book Reports: Peasant Pioneers (1925)

undated

4

13

Book Reports: A Place in the Sun (1936)

undated

4

14

Book Reports: Promises Men Live By

undated

4

15

Book Reports: The Arabian Knights through Modern Books (1927)

undated

4

16

Book Reports: Seven Steeples

undated

4

17

Book Reports: This Believing World

undated

4

18

Book Reports: Uarda (1901)

undated

4

19

Book Reports: US Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (1954)

undated

4

22

Plays: As I Came Walking Home from Town

undated

4

23

Plays: The Earth is Like a Crystal Ball

undated

4

24

Plays: The Ships are Well Prepared

undated

4

25

Plays: What Holland Has Taught Us

undated

4

26-34

Plays: Notes

 

4

26

Plays: Amy Lowell

undated

4

27

Plays: Bible Verses on Wisdom

undated

4

28

Plays: German Poem by George Kirst

undated

4

29

Plays: Italy

undated

4

30

Plays: Male and Female Ideals of Honor

undated

4

31

Plays: Insects

undated

4

32

Plays: Poetry and Bible Verses Regarding Insects

undated

4

33

Plays: Trip to Prague

undated

4

34

Plays: Water Filter Plant Operation

undated

4

35

Speech Notes: Christmas Customs

undated

4

36

Speech Notes: UNESCO

undated

 

 

Scientific Work

 

4

37

Citations Regarding Dragonflies

undated

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

undated

5

2

Dragonfly Illustrations

undated

5

3

Notes and Outlines

undated

5

4-11

Writings

 

5

4

Dragonfly Labia

undated

5

5

Economic Importance- Biological Relations

undated

5

6

The Labia of the Odonata (Draft and Typescript)

undated

5

7

Life and History of the Anax Junius

undated

5

8

The Mouth Parts of Dragonflies

undated

5

9

Part I

undated

5

10

Three New Species of Odonata The Canadian Entomologist Vol 46, #10

1914

5

11

Variation in Dragonfly Legs

undated

 

 

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"

undated

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.

1901-1913

 

 

"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

 

 

 

Glass Slides

 

6

1

Agrionidae (Labia, maxillae, and mandible)

1903

6

2

Butler

undated

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