Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

A2027
Berkeley, Merrill Duane.
Genealogy, no date. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Merrill Duane Berkeley,
9145 Saddlebrook Drive, St. Louis County, Mo.
Cite as: Merrill Duane Berkeley Genealogy, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0117
Bernays, Thekla (1855-1913).
Papers, 1870-1931. 2 boxes
Author and lecturer Thekla Bernays, daughter of Dr. George J. and Minni Bertrand Bernays,
was born at Highland, Illinois, in 1855. Her brother was the noted St. Louis surgeon, Dr.
Augustus Charles Bernays (1854-1907). Both were educated at McKendree College (Lebanon,
Illinois) and Heidelberg University in Germany. Dr. Bernays was professor of anatomy in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of St. Louis and later was professor of anatomy and surgical
pathology in the Marion-Sims College of Medicine. Thekla Bernays was at one time foreign
correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and contributed frequently to Reedy's Mirror, the
Westliche Post, the Criterion, and other publications. She was a member of a literary group
active in St. Louis in the 1890s and early 1900s, which included such noted people as Zoe Akins,
Sara Teasdale, and William Marion Reedy. After her brother's death in 1907, she began the task
of preparing his memoirs, which were published under the title Augustus Charles Bernays: A
Memoir in 1912. Miss Bernays died January 30, 1931, in New York, and was buried in
Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
The papers include family letters and documents, clippings, scrapbooks, and correspondence
of Thekla Bernays with literary figures in St. Louis, including Zoe Akins, George S. Johns,
Orrick Johns, William Marion Reedy, and Sara Teasdale. Also includes correspondence with
other notable American literary figures including Gertrude Atherton, Albert Bloch, Daniel
Frohman, Frank Harris, Mitchell Kennerly, and George O'Neil. Scrapbooks contain clippings of
Bernays' articles that appeared in newspapers and periodicals, as well as those referring to her
brother’s memoirs. Additional manuscripts in the collection include “The Judgement of
Solomon—A Drama in Four Acts and an Interlude” by E. Torge (translation from the German by
Thekla Bernays, 1914), and typescript titled “On the Light Reeds,” poems by George O'Neil,
with an introduction by Zoe Akins.
Some German.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Thekla Bernays Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2028
Bernet, Milton.
Biographical Data Sheet, no date. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Cite as: Milton Bernet Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2029
Bernhard, Anton.
Papers, 1876-1914. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Consists of promissory notes, titles, deeds, and a water license issued to Anton Bernhard,
1914.
Cite as: Anton Bernhard Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.