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A. Nees & Co. decorative paper sample books
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1465
Abstract:
Nineteen volumes containing circa 44,000 undated samples of decorative papers manufactured by A. Nees & Co., circa 1865-circa 1930, most circa 1880-1914. Voumes contain small samples of marbled, embossed, coated, and other colored and printed papers affixed to pages within printed borders. Samples are identified by numbers in manuscript annotations or printed labels, some also citing paper names or manufacturing techniques. Volumes contain varying samples, with some overlapping...
Dates:
circa 1865-circa 1930, bulk circa 1880-circa 1914
A. P. Watt and Son records relating to Rudyard Kipling
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 893
Abstract:
The records include writings, correspondence and printed materials by or relating to Rudyard Kipling. Writings consist of holograph manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and corrected proofs. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters from Rudyard Kipling to A. P. Watt and Alec Watt written between 1889 and 1936 concerning both the publication of Kipling's writings and personal matters. Pamphlets by Kipling comprise the bulk of the printed material, which also includes clippings,...
Dates:
1889-1945
Annie Heloise Abel notebooks
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3943
Abstract:
Twenty-seven autograph notebooks, some signed, belonging to Annie Heloise Abel, circa 1910-1925. Notebooks record research notes, reading lists, and queries concerning Native Americans and United States government policies during the 19th and early 20th centuries.Accompanied by a Bible presented to Abel by her husband, George Cockburn Henderson, in 1922; two metal boxes; two wooden boxes (one containing dried flowers); a piece of fabric; and an empty envelope from unknown...
Dates:
circa 1910-1925
Alexander B. Adams writings on the American West
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2197
Abstract:
Typescripts with holograph annotations and corrections of Adams' books The Disputed Lands (Putnam, 1981); Geronimo: A Biography (Putnam, 1971); Sitting Bull: An Epic of the Plains (Putnam, 1973); and Sunlight and Storm: The Great American Plains (Putnam, 1977). A photocopy of Adams' TLS dated 1972 Jun 29, transmitting the typescript of Geronimo to Yale and commenting on the work, is filed in the first of the folders of that title. Bound galley proofs for Sitting Bull follow the...
Dates:
circa 1971-1981
Hamilton Aïdé papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 207
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence to, from, and about Aïdé; his diary for a trip to Switzerland in the second half of 1870, a scrapbook of reviews of his work, and miscellaneous poetry and prose pieces. The correspondence is both personal and business oriented, including letters from publishers, editors and friends regarding the publicaton of novels and songs. Principal correspondents include Matthew Arnold, Frances Hodgson Burnett,James Anthony Froude, William Money Hardinge,...
Dates:
1824-1906
American Historical Financial Documents Collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1081
Abstract:
Correspondence, accounts, receipts, checks, printed currency, circular letters, printed forms filled out in manuscript, and other printed material related to American finance, currency and lotteries during and after the Revolutionary War. Series I, Currency and Public Debt Documents, includes letters by Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville; Albert Gallatin; John Gibson; Alexander Hamilton; Gouverneur Morris; Robert Morris, and Thomas Willing. There is a small group of letters between...
Dates:
1734-1874, bulk 1777-1790
Andover Newton Theological Seminary collection of Jonathan Edwards
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1542
Content Description:
The papers consist of writings and correspondence of and about theologian Jonathan Edwards and his family that were held by the Andover Newton Theological Seminary from the mid-nineteenth century until 2017. The collection includes sermons and other writings by Edwards, his correspondence with contemporaries, family correspondence including letters among Edwards, his wife and their children, his sisters, and his parents, and other family papers, including sermons by his father-in-law James...
Dates:
circa 1650-2017
Anthony Taussig collection of English legal manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 184
Abstract:
A collection of approximately 400 manuscript items, including letters; letterbooks; copies of statutes, pleadings, opinions and precedents; King's Bench reports; abridgments and commonplace books of cases; and other papers, documenting the development and practice of English law and the evolution of the English legal system from the thirteenth into the twentieth century. Included are an early copy of Henry de Bracton's De legibus Anglie; a fourteenth-century pocket compilation of "Statuta...
Dates:
[circa 1280-1956]
Abraham Aronow photographs
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 488
Abstract:
Groups of photographs that document contemporary photographers, as well as individuals related to the study of photography, 1982-2007; street photography in the San Francisco Bay Area, circa 1981-2009; sites throughout the American West, 1982-2008; and portraits and views, 1982-2017.
Dates:
circa 1981-2009
[Letters and documents concerning various members of the Arundell family].
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FB42
Abstract:
Manuscripts, in multiple hands, of ten business letters and legal documents concerning members of the Arundel family. The collection incldues two bonds of payment; several money orders; and two letters from R. Arundel to Sir Robert Clayton, drawing Clayton's attention to a "young lady of a considerable fortune," asking for Clayton's assistance in marriage-making for Arundel's son, and explaining what he would be willing to settle upon the couple.
Dates:
1665-1680
John Ashbery collages
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1229
Abstract:
Collages created by John Ashbery, 1948-2011. Collages in the collection include Seaport, September 1948; Fjord, approximately 1972; Notre Dame des Neiges, 1977; Fountain, 2010; and The Leisure Class, 2011.
Dates:
1948-2011
Astle correspondence
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 30
Abstract:
The papers include correspondence mainly regarding Astle's work in the Record Office. There is also correspondence with James Adams about his work on grammar, with Charles Blagden about the Pompeiian excavations, and with Harriot Collinson about her husband's work (John Collinson's "The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset"). Much of the correspondence is annotated in an unidentified hand.
Dates:
1757-1803
Atterbury papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 26
Abstract:
The papers include correspondence and legal documents relating to the careers of Lewis Atterbury (d. 1693), Lewis Atterbury (1656-1731), and Francis Atterbury, as well as various receipts, epitaphs, poems, prayers, and seals.
Dates:
1654-1757
[Album containing 165 letters from various correspondents, addressed to John Audley, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of York, and to his father, Edward Audley of Huntington]
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN C195
Abstract:
Chief topics in the letters are ecclesiastical affairs in the York diocese and affairs of Cambridge University.
Dates:
1670-1744
Morris Tyler family collection of John James Audubon
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 85
Abstract:
The Morris Tyler Family Collection of John James Audubon consists of correspondence of John James Audubon and members of his family, third party correspondence that relates to Audubon and his work, manuscripts by Audubon and others, and a small amount of family papers. Also included are research files about Audubon compiled by the Morris Tyler family, descendants of Audubon, and a nineteenth century autograph collection presumably amassed by a family member.The John James Audubon...
Dates:
1697-1982, bulk 1820-1855
Victor Gifford Audubon collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 343
Abstract:
Collection includes correspondence between Victor Gifford Audubon and Daniel Rice, a book subscription agent, regarding the production and sale of the works of John James Audubon. Also included are 22 uncolored, 8 partially tinted and 2 hand-colored lithographed plates for the octavo edition of "The Birds of North America," all by John T. Bowen after Audubon; 3 additional hand-colored plates, also by Bowen after Audubon, which may have served as colorist's proofs or models; and a group of 19...
Dates:
1845-1859
Auto Immune Response
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 220
Abstract:
Inkjet prints of photographic images created by Will Wilson for his series, Auto Immune Response (AIR), 2004-2021.In an artist's statement for the series, Wilson writes that it "takes as its subject the quixotic relationship between a post-apocalyptic Diné (Navajo) man and the devastatingly beautiful, but toxic environment he inhabits," and that "the series is an allegorical investigation of the extraordinarily rapid transformation of...
Dates:
2004-2021
Enid Bagnold papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 78
Abstract:
The papers contain personal and professional correspondence and other papers, including a scrapbook, which document Bagnold's personal life and writing career.
Dates:
1912-1971
James Baldwin early manuscripts and papers
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 21
Abstract:
An early group of materials by Baldwin, including manuscripts, correspondence, artworks and personal papers. Among the manuscripts are drafts of a novel, "Crying Holy", which evolved much later into Baldwin's first published novel, "Go Tell It On the Mountain." The correspondence includes letters from Baldwin's friends in the military, including Tom Martin. Some of the artwork, mostly pencil sketches, is by Baldwin while a number of other items are by a high school friend of his, Martin...
Dates:
1941-1945
M. D. Ball papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2359
Abstract:
The papers consist primarily of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, manuscript notes, and Congressional bills regarding Alaska, but also include correspondence, customs documents, writings, maps, and a few photographs and printed illustrations. They document Ball's work as Customs Collector in Sitka at a time when that office was the chief representative of the U. S. government in Alaska; his term as Alaska's first delegate to Congress, 1882-85, and his campaign for representation and...
Dates:
1868-1927