Harold Lamport autograph collection

Collection

Call Number: MS 731

Scope and Contents: This autograph collection consists of approximately eighty letters and documents signed primarily by European and American political, diplomatic, and military figures of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, including Giuseppe Garibaldi, William Gladstone, Andrew Jackson, Lajos Kossuth, and Napoléon I. The items are arranged in alphabetical order by author. The collection was given to Yale University in 1961 by Harold Lamport and Mrs. H. L. Friedman.
Conditions Governing Access: The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use: Copyright status for collection materials is unknown, though much of the material in this collection is likely in the public domain. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Harold Lamport and Mrs. H. L. Friedman, 1961.