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John Cotton Smith papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 460
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence and other documents of John Cotton Smith and his family. Material relating to Simeon Smith, Cotton Mather Smith, and William Mather Smith is also included.
Dates:
1768-1924, bulk 1781-1865
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
John William Sterling papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1097
Overview:
The papers largely consist of journals (1853-1864) begun in Sterling's home in Stratford, Connecticut and include three of his years at Yale College, with loose sheets for the period from April to July 1860, his freshman year. Also included are a commonplace book and miscellaneous items, including a translation of a Greek reader made in 1858, Yale memorabilia, correspondence, certificates, legal and financial documents, speeches, writings, photographs, and a memorial scrapbook.
Dates:
1803-1918
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Henry Lewis Stimson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 465
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, letter books, speeches, articles, letters to the editor, statements prepared for presentation to Congress and substantial subject files with clippings, printed matter, reports, memoranda and photographs related to Henry Stimson's various public offices. While the official records of Stimson's service (as Secretary of War under President Taft, Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover and as Secretary of War in the cabinets of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman)...
Dates:
1846-1966
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Harold Phelps Stokes papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 645
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, memoranda, notes, writings, clippings, and subject files documenting the personal life and professional career of Harold Phelps Stokes. His interests in United States foreign policy and domestic politics, the Alger Hiss case, the Paris Peace Conference, New York City politics and government, prison reform, and journalism are documented. Stokes corresponded with many prominent American political and social figures.
Dates:
1908-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Increase Niles Tarbox papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1153
Overview:
Notes, poems, and a journal representing Increase Tarbox's student years including those at Yale and a manuscript for a book of hymns and poetry.
Dates:
1832-1884, bulk 1844-1884
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Terry family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 482
Overview:
Papers of five family members, the children and daughter-in-law of Alfred and Clarissa Terry, make up the major part of the collection. The most prominent figure is Alfred Howe Terry, a Civil War general in the Union army, whose correspondence and military papers relate to the Fitz-John Porter case, the Indian campaigns (1870s) and reminiscences of military service and the Civil War. Included are orders for the court martial of General Custer and drawings supposedly given to Terry by Sitting...
Dates:
1795-1939
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Morris Franklin Tyler papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1135
Overview:
The papers consist of diaries, lectures, and writings on various aspects of European culture, and a notebook on "Medieval Asia" kept by Morris Franklin Tyler's son, Leonard S. Tyler. The diaries (1875-1907) are largely devoted to family life in New Haven and Woodbridge, Connecticut, but also comment on current political issues, particularly the presidential elections of 1876 and 1884. Also in the papers are letters from John James Audubon to Andrew Bigelow, and from William A. Buckingham to...
Dates:
1842-1907
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Lewis Weld family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 559
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, Civil War memorabilia, diaries, and photographs of Mason Cogswell Weld, Lewis Ledyard Weld, and Charles T. Weld, sons of Lewis Weld (1796-1853). The collection has letters written from Leipzig, Germany by Mason Weld, 1853-1855; and several letters from Lewis L. Weld describing his life and activities in Colorado, 1860-1863. The bulk of the correspondence, however, dates from the Civil War, in which all three brothers served.
Dates:
1781-1877, bulk 1853-1864
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Samuel Wells Williams family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 547
Summary:
The papers include correspondence (comprising over half of the collection), manuscripts of Samuel Wells Williams's Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, themes and lecture notes by Frederick Wells Williams, diaries, newspaper clippings, articles on China, maps, and pictures. The bulk of the correspondence relates to S. W. Williams, missionary, diplomat, and sinologue. The period between 1845 and 1855 has extensive correspondence with missionaries and...
Dates:
1809-1983, bulk 1809-1941
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Stephen Williams family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1430
Overview:
The papers consist of a diary kept by Stephen Williams, 1742-1747, of daily life and religious reflection; diaries of his son Andrew Williams, 1783-1785, while teaching school in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and diaries and notes of another son Timothy Williams, 1783 and 1788-1790, which document his education at Yale College and his life in Woodstock and Norwich, Connecticut.
Dates:
1742-1815
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Woodruff family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1143
Overview:
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, diaries, writings, and genealogical material pertaining to the Woodruff and allied families.
Dates:
1770-1927, bulk 1832-1927
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Edwin Dean Worcester papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 563
Overview:
Diaries recording principal events in Worcester's professional and personal life and trips to Europe and to England.
Dates:
1881-1929
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
James Lockwood Wright papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1078
Overview:
The papers consist of eleven volumes of a journal kept by Wright from his first years at Yale College in 1828. While there he reports on a lecture by Elias Boudinot on behalf of the Cherokee nation and various temperance and abolition activities. The journals are chiefly devoted to religious meditations and describe the various revival movements of his era and his evangelical work with black residents of New Haven. He also records various aspects of his personal life including five mental...
Dates:
1828-1858
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Yale-China Association records
Collection
Call Number: RU 232
Overview:
The records document the activities of the Yale-China Association in mainland China (1901-1951), Hong Kong (1951-present), and the United States (1901-present). They consist of administrative and policy files produced by the home office in New Haven, correspondence and memoranda written by staff members while serving in China, and administrative files and correspondence produced by the New Asia office in Hong Kong.
Dates:
1878-2008
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Yale Peruvian Expedition papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 664
Overview:
Correspondence, administrative records, scientific reports, writings, and illustrative material on the three expeditions to Peru sponsored by Yale University between 1911-1915. The most celebrated discoveries, the finding of Machu Picchu and of Vitcos, the last capital of the Incas, were studied during the expeditions by scientific specialists who were drawn principally from the Yale faculty. The papers include their diaries, manuscripts, and published reports of their work, as well as the...
Dates:
1908-1948
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Yale student diary collection
Collection
Call Number: RU 861
Overview:
The materials consist of diaries of Yale students.
Dates:
1838-2002
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Robert Mearns Yerkes papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 569
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, research notes, writings, photographs, diaries, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of Robert Mearns Yerkes. The papers document the broad range of psychological activities undertaken by Yerkes in the first half of the twentieth century. The papers contain correspondence and other materials on chimpanzee and gorilla behavior, intelligence testing in World War I, eugenics and immigration...
Dates:
1822-1985
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives