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American literature -- 20th century 138
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James F. White research files relating to Thomas Mann

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 35
Abstract: The collection consists of manuscript notes and card files, printed material, writings drafts and offprints, and a small amount of correspondence and grant applications relating to White's research on Thomas Mann. Notes and card files mostly concern White's research on Dante's Divina commedia and Karl Vossler's work on Dante as source material for Mann's Der Zauberberg. Some notes concern Mann's Doktor Faustus or works of other German authors. Correspondence with Joseph Angell, founding...
Dates: circa 1940s-circa 1976

George Whitmore papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 274
Abstract:

The George Whitmore Papers consists of the literary papers of the poet, playwright, critic, novelist, and freelance writer George Davis Whitmore. The collection primarily contains his writings and supporting research files, though a small amount of professional correspondence and a few personal papers are present.

Dates: 1959-1995, bulk 1967-1989

William Dwight Whitney papers relating to the Atharvaveda

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1125
Abstract:

Autograph manuscripts relating to Whitney's research and translations of the Atharvaveda, including a copy in Sanskrit, with notes about source manuscripts; a transliteration, collated with manuscripts in Berlin, Paris, Oxford, London, and Tübingen; a draft for his Index Verborum; and unidentified drafts and notes, most apparently relating to his English translation. Drafts and notes include material by Rudolf von Roth and annotations by Charles Rockwell Lanman.

Dates: circa 1850-circa 1894

Mary Hoyt Wiborg papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 1408
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, personal papers, printed material, and electronic files by or relating to Mary Hoyt Wiborg. Materials document her life as an expatriate in France, service as a volunteer nurse in both World Wars, and work as a playwright. Included are letters from Wiborg to her father Frank Bestow Wiborg in 1918, describing her experiences at a French military hospital during World War I, and correspondence with her sisters Sara Murphy and...
Dates: circa 1910s-2017, bulk 1914-1964

Wijnpersse family papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 618
Abstract: The collection consists of ninety-five manuscript and printed volumes, in their original bindings, created and accumulated by four members of the Wijnpersse family, relating to their scholarly careers at the Universities of Utrecht, Leiden and Groningen. Included are the major works of Dionysius van de Wijnpersse on logic and metaphysics in various annotated editions, and writings related to them in manuscript form; the annotated books and manuscripts of Samuel Johannes van de Wijnpersse;...
Dates: 1746-1822

Albert H. Wilbur Family Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: WA MSS S-3656
Abstract:

Correspondence and papers documenting the life of Albert H. Wilbur, a railroad employee, and members of the Wilbur family, including George W. Wilbur and Sarah Ann Cook Wilbur, 1849-1908.

Dates: 1849-1908

John Daniel Wild papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 842
Abstract:

The collection contains writings, lecture notes, syllabi, research notes and notebooks and other materials documenting the scholarly career of American philosopher John Daniel Wild. In particular, the papers concern Wild's work on aspects of Phenomenology and Existentialism during the last decades of his career.

Dates: 1934-1974, bulk 1957-1972

Oscar Wilde collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 275
Abstract:

Letters by Oscar Wilde to various parties, including Leonard Smithers and Frank Harris; letters between persons acquainted with Wilde, several manuscripts of writings by Wilde, including a notebook on Roman history, notes on travels in France and Spain, and "Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the young"; and several ephemeral items relating to Wilde.

Dates: 1884-1915

Wilder family correspondence

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 1006
Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of photocopies of letters to and from Thornton Wilder and other members of the Wilder family. The correspondence roughly spans 1910-1975 and the photocopies were likely made between 1990 and 2009. The photocopies were made for members of the Wilder family from materials previously acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and other research libraries.

Dates: circa 1990s-2000s

Thornton Wilder collection

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 162
Abstract:

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts and other publication material, and other papers related to Thornton Wilder. Included are extensive letters to his close friends Amy Wertheimer and William Layton; letters of literary advice to Joe Etta Lee Clarke and Hester Pickman; and materials concerning his publicist, Lee Keedick, and his publisher, Harper and Row.

Dates: 1918-1983

C. K. Williams papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 661
Content Description:

Writings, correspondence, notebooks, journals, teaching materials and other papers by, to, or relating to poet C. K. Williams.

Dates: 1950s-2011

Chauncey Pratt Williams Writings on the American West

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2989
Abstract: Writings by Chauncey Pratt Williams and others on the history of the American West. Includes research material, correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, and published works by Williams, as well as published works by other writers. Williams' writings include works on the trappers Antoine Robidoux and Bill Williams; the United States General and United States Senator from New York Philip Schuyler; and the Western frontiersmen John Hoback and John Coulter. Also included are Western history...
Dates: 1916-1953

Williams family papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1180
Abstract: The Williams Family Papers consists of correspondence, writings, documents, and financial records kept by descendants of William Williams who lived in and near Wethersfield, Connecticut, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The papers are those of Elisha Williams, his second wife Elizabeth Scott Williams Smith, and his nephew Ezekiel Williams, merchant and sheriff of Hartford County. The correspondence is with family members and associates; the writings consist of sermons and...
Dates: 1711-1930, bulk 1724-1800

Wayland Wells Williams papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 551
Abstract: The collection contains drafts of writings and correspondence documenting the professional life of New Haven area writer Wayland Wells Williams. Writings contain drafts of published and unpublished novels, including Goshen Street (1920) and "The King of Iceland's Eldest Son," and shorter works. Correspondence includes letters from Yale professor William Lyon Phelps and from prominent contemporaries Thomas Beers and Monty Woolley. There are also production files relating to the collection of...
Dates: 1910-1942

John Willis photographs

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Call Number: WA MSS S-4516
Abstract: The collection documents Willis’ career as a photographer from the 1970s through 2019. It contains approximately 20,000 film negatives and corresponding contact prints. Photographs by Willis include black and white 35mm negatives, medium format 6x6cm, 6x7cm, 6x17cm negatives, and large format 4x5”, 5x7” and 8x10” negatives and contact prints for all images published in Recycled Realities and Views From the Reservation, as well as...
Dates: 1880-2019, bulk 1980-2019

Photographs of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota

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Call Number: WA Photos Folio 185
Abstract:

Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites and persons in Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota, 2013-2015. Most 101 inkjet prints depict landscapes and homes at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and formed part of a traveling one-day exhibition by John Willis and Brent Sturlaugson, House/Home: A Work in Progress, 2015-2016.

Dates: 2014-2015

Frank Percy Wilson Papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 157
Abstract:

The Frank Percy Wilson Papers contain correspondence, research files, and notes for articles and projected longer works, including an edition of Tabacco; the British Academy biography of E. K. Chambers; and works on Elizabethan vocabulary and proverbs.

Dates: 1912-1961

T. C. Wilson Papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 36
Abstract:

The T. C. Wilson Papers consist of correspondence, writings, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American poet-critic Theodore Carl Wilson.

Dates: (1928-1947)

William K. Wimsatt Research Files on Alexander Pope and Art

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Call Number: OSB MSS 170
Abstract:

The collection contains subject files, printed material, photographs, scrapbooks and slides on the subject of Alexander Pope and art, assembled by eighteenth-century scholar William K. Wimsatt. Much of this material may have been gathered in the course of Wimsatt's research for The Portraits of Alexander Pope (1965).

Dates: [circa 1950-1970]

Donald Wing papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 166
Abstract:

The Donald Wing Papers consist of professional and editorial correspondence files, typescripts, and galleys mostly related to his research for and publication of A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700.

Dates: 1936-1972