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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
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Lyman Family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 337
Abstract:
The principal figure in these papers is Joseph Bardwell Lyman, a lawyer and journalist. The papers include his correspondence, diaries, business papers, account books, court books, and articles written between 1858-1865. His student career is documented with papers written while at Yale College (1845-1850) and at the University of Louisiana Law School. As a distant relative of the Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts, he corresponded with Emily Dickinson, her brother, Austin, and her...
Dates:
1803-1886
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Charles Gould Morris family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 622
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, family papers, financial records, scrapbooks, daguerrotypes, and other material documenting the professional career of Charles Gould Morris and the personal lives of several family members. Morris's political career, his dairy business activities, and his municipal and civic concerns in Connecticut are documented. The letters and papers of family members involved in the settlement of the American frontier and in the Civil War are included, as...
Dates:
1742-1961
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Roswell Parish papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1020
Abstract:
The papers contain correspondence related to Roswell Parish's attendance at Yale College (Class of 1864), Civil War letters consisting of letters of introduction obtained by Parish in conveying his brother home from the Battle of Antietam and miscellaneous correspondence, autographs, and printed matter. Included in the letters is one from Maxfield Parrish on family genealogy. Among the signatures are those of E. E. Hale, Alvan G. Clark, John T. Morse, N. R. Huntington, Francis A. Walker,...
Dates:
1858-1921
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 397
Abstract:
The papers consist of the research files of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, an author and history professor. The papers include Phillips's notes and transcripts of historical source materials and the collected papers of several southern families from 1712-1933. The collected papers include correspondence, account books, business records, farm and plantation records, diaries, photographs, and other papers which focus primarily on the years 1790-1865, and the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and...
Dates:
1712-1933, bulk 1800-1861
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Ellsworth Eliot photographs used in the publication Yale in the Civil War
Collection
Call Number: RU 659
Abstract:
The collection consists of portraits used as illustrations for Ellsworth Eliot's book Yale in the Civil War (1932).
Dates:
circa 1932
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Roe family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 774
Abstract:
The papers contain family correspondence, missionary correspondence, family papers, diaries, sermons, printed works, photoprints, and other materials documenting the lives and careers of Alfred Cox Roe, Emma Wickham Roe, Mary Abigail Roe, Walter Clark Roe, Mary Wickham Roe, Joseph Wickham Roe, Henry Roe Cloud, and several other Roe relatives. The Roe family papers have extensive material on family life, specifically concerning such subjects as relations between brothers and sisters and...
Dates:
1802-1977
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Seymour family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 440
Abstract:
This collection is made up of the papers of ten individual members and six branches of the Seymour family: the Day family, Parsons-Dean families, Watkins-Law families, Leggett-Seymour-Doolittle families, St. John family, and Howard family. The largest sections are those of Thomas Day Seymour, Charles Seymour (1885-1963), and Charles Seymour, Jr. The collection represents six generations of an intellectually and socially prominent family and through correspondence and diaries offers detailed...
Dates:
1711-1969, bulk 1870-1945
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Silliman family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 450
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, lectures, notebooks, diaries, journals, and other material documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Silliman family, including Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) and Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816-1885). Personal material details family life, relationships, social activities, and cultural pursuits. Professional material details the academic and literary interests of the Sillimans, particularly in chemistry, physics, and geology. The...
Dates:
1717-1977, bulk 1717-1911
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Tarleton family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 481
Abstract:
Correspondence, autograph album, genealogical notes, photographs and miscellaneous papers of the Tarleton and Lightfoot families of Alabama. The major figures represented in the collection are Robert Tarleton, his wife Sarah Bernard Lightfoot Tarleton, and Sarah Bee Ross Lightfoot. Most letters were written by Robert Tarleton and date from the Civil War period. The papers also contain an 1834 letter from Marquis de Lafayette to the President of the French Chamber of Peers.
Dates:
1830-1888, bulk 1861-1869
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Terry family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 482
Abstract:
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
Lewis Weld family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 559
Abstract:
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
Winthrop-Weston family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 549
Abstract:
The papers primarily contain the family correspondence of William Woolsey Winthrop (1831-1899), his sister Sarah Chauncey Winthrop Weston, and their mother, Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey Winthrop. Several letters were written by William Winthrop from St. Anthony, Minnesota and others concern his Civil War military experiences.
Dates:
1845-1911
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives