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Van Name, Addison

 Person

Biography

Addison Van Name (1835-1922), American philologist and librarian, serving as University Librarian at Yale University from 1865 to 1904.

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Gibbs family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 236
Abstract:

Correspondence, financial papers and memorabilia of members of the Gibbs family. Of principal interest are thirteen letters (1783-1796) from Roger Sherman to his brother-in-law, Henry Gibbs, of which five (1789-1790) discuss the deliberations of the first Congress of the United States. Other figures represented in the papers are two Josiah Willard Gibbses (father and son) and Addison Van Name.

Dates: 1718-1893

Andrew Keogh papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 940
Abstract:

Chiefly memoranda, outlines, notes, bibliographies, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the courses in bibliography that Keogh taught at Yale University from 1924 to 1938. There is also a small amount of personal correspondence, 1898-1916.

Dates: 1898-1938

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1231
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, research, notes, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting Lounsbury's personal life and professional career as an author and educator of English literature at Yale University. Correspondence with Yale colleagues, students, authors, and officials details his academic and literary interests, and activity in the areas of international language and simplified spelling. Personal materials include letters relating to Lounsbury's Civil War...
Dates: 1829-1915

Note : Cocoanut Grove, Fla., to Henry R. Gruener, 1922 Feb 20

 Part of Collection — Box 54: [Barcode: 39002137225299], Folder: GROUP 1983, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ANS with envelope.

Dates: 1922 Feb 20

William Gilman Thompson autograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 484
Abstract:

Collection of autograph letters and photographs accumulated by Thompson, a physician.

Dates: 1771-1924

William Dwight Whitney family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 555
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of...
Dates: 1778-1951, bulk 1814-1912

Yung Wing papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 602
Abstract: Letters and manuscripts to and from Yung Wing, the first Chinese student to graduate from Yale (1854). Also included are electrostatic copies of all the Yung Wing material from other collections in Manuscripts and Archives and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, as well as three unfilmed additions of correspondence from Mary Kellogg Yung, wife of Yung Wing, with Jane Bartlett Kellogg, her sister, and Mary Bartlett Kellogg, her mother. Exhibit panels, printed material, and audiovisual...
Dates: 1848-2004, bulk 1848-1910

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