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Samuel Francis Cleveland papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4542
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, and other papers kept by Samuel Francis Cleveland, 1847-1893. Material relates to his life and work in Bennington, Waconda, Delphos, and Galena, Kansas. Documented are Cleveland's relationships with wife Lucy Knight Cleveland, sons Mortimer Lindsay Cleveland and Arthur Artemas Cleveland, and father-in-law John Knight; his efforts farming and running a nursery; his travels throughout Kansas; and his political opinions and religious beliefs. Present throughout are...
Dates: 1847-1923, bulk 1847-1893

Clippings file of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 89
Abstract: The Clippings File of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection includes pamphlets and clippings documenting the African American experience in the twentieth century. The collection especially highlights the achievements of individual African Americans, the work of community and education organizations, and areas such as film, theater, music, sports, politics, and civil rights. The clippings were collected primarily by Langston Hughes, James Weldon and Grace Nail Johnson, Ollie Jewel...
Dates: circa 1920-1993

Mason Fitch Cogswell papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 920
Abstract: The papers primarily consist of correspondence received by Mason Fitch Cogswell from family, friends, and professional colleagues. Prominent among the correspondents are Cogswell's brother Samuel Cogswell, his nephew James Lloyd Cogswell of Long Island, New York, his friend Theodore Dwight, the Caribbean planter Charles Joseph Sibert, Vicomte de Cornillon, and deaf education pioneers Laurent Clerc and T. H. Gallaudet. Other colleagues in the papers are the Reverend Ebenezer Fitch,...
Dates: 1772-1853, bulk 1790-1830

Arthur A. Cohen papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 496
Abstract: The Arthur A. Cohen Papers provide evidence of the writing, editing, and publishing career of Arthur Allen Cohen between 1940 and 1986. The Papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs, audiovisual material, legal and financial documents, and clippings relating to Cohen's writing, publishing companies Noonday Press and Meridian Books, and work editing the Documents of Twentieth Century Art series for Viking Press. Cohen's interest in theology (particularly...
Dates: 1941-1988

Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 880
Abstract:

The collection consists of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his friends and colleagues, including Joseph Cottle, James Gillman, and William Sotheby, along with a small selection of autograph manuscript poems and other writings.

Dates: 1797-1834

Collection of English drawings

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FC82
Abstract:

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fc82.

Dates: [18th century]

Collection of Ephemera on the Book in California

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2901
Scope and Contents: Collection of pamphlets, broadsides, and other ephemera concerning the history of the book in California collected by John Swingle (Yale 1943), proprietor of Alta California Bookstore, Berkeley, California. Materials relate to publishing, fine presses, booksellers, collectors, and institutions in California. Items include pamphlets on California book organizations, such as the Book Club of California; catalogues of booksellers, presses, and institutions; and files on individuals involved...
Dates: 1807-1951

Collection of licenses and tax receipts for businesses in Montana Territory

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Call Number: WA MSS S-4310
Abstract: Circa 1,025 printed licenses and circa 700 printed tax receipts, completed in manuscript, issued to businesses and individuals in Montana Territory, 1865-1880. Among the types of business represented are assayers, attorneys, billiard tables, brewers, butchers, dance houses, doctors, gambling houses and saloons, hotels, inns and taverns, merchants, ranchmen, saloons, and theaters. Other businesses include auctioneers, bankers, branding houses, jewelers, and liveries and stables. Towns...
Dates: 1865-1880, bulk 1865-1867

Collection of photographs relating to European colonization in Africa

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1606
Scope and Contents: This collection consists of photograph albums, loose photographs, memorabilia and published material that document a European colonialist perspective of Africa and Egypt, and document both African peoples and European colonizers. Locations depicted in the photographs include Cameroon, Dar es Salaam, Egypt, Kenya, Namibia, Sudan, Tanga, Zambia, other regions throughout Africa, as well as some in Europe.Identified photographers in this collection include Alfredo Augusto Freire de...
Dates: circa 1890s-1930s

Seward Collins papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 12
Abstract:

The Seward Collins Papers contain correspondence, subject files, business papers, and other papers documenting Collins's editorship of The Bookman and The American Review.

Dates: 1918-1952, bulk 1927-1937

[Album]

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN D64
Abstract:

Autograph MSS. Collection of signatures, mostly cut, of "Distinguished Individuals"; the collection is arranged in the following categories: Royal Family, Military, Naval, Statesmen and Diplomatists, Divines, Peers and M.P.'s, Lawyers, Scientists, Artists, Literary, etc.

Dates: ca. 1840

Barnaby Conrad papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 687
Abstract:

The papers consist of writings, printed material, photographs, and artwork by and relating to the American author and artist Barnaby Conrad. Material relates primarily to Conrad's published works Fun While It Lasted (1969); La Fiesta Brava: The Art of the Bull Ring (1953); Matador (1952); and Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961). Among the papers are unsorted typescript and handwritten drafts of writings.

Dates: 1951-1975

Grace Linton Cook Papers about W. J. Linton

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1406
Scope and Contents: The collection primarily consists of material by or about W. J. Linton, including some of his writings and examples of his engravings which were inherited or collected by his granddaughter Grace Linton Cook. Also present is a small group of personal papers of Cook, her father Edmund Wade Linton, and her aunt Ellen (“Nellie”) Linton.Series I, Family Papers, contains three family letters and a group of family papers that include a Linton biography and a scrapbook of Linton’s...
Dates: 1840-1936

A. E. Coppard collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 815
Abstract: The A. E. Coppard Collection consists of correspondence and writings by A. E. Coppard which were acquired from various sources. Correspondence primarily contains Coppard's letters to Earl E. Fisk and Thomas Moult; a letter dated Jan. 25, 1923, refers to the death of Katherine Mansfield. Also present are a few letters from Coppard's second wife Winifred, and a letter from Jacob Schwartz to Earl E. Fisk, enclosing a letter from Coppard to Schwartz. Writings contains drafts of several short...
Dates: 1919-1951

Marie Corelli collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 332
Abstract: Collection includes letters between Corelli and her publishers, George and Richard Bentley, 1885-1894, including a copy of a letter by Basil Wilberforce concerning Corelli's "Barabbas"; letters to Alexander Wedderburn, 1908-17, that discuss John Ruskin, Arthur and Joan Severn, and personal matters; letters between George Bentley, Eric Mackay, and Arthur Waugh; autograph manuscript of "The Great Secret" (published in 1920 as "The Secret Power"); and a corrected typescript by Bertha Vyver...
Dates: 1885-1947

Alfred Corn papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 605
Abstract:

The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, audiovisual material, and printed material, documenting aspects of Alfred Corn's work as a poet and writer as well as his relationships with other poets and writers.

Dates: 1948-2017

Julien Cornell papers relating to Ezra Pound

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 176
Abstract: The collection contains correspondence and professional files relating to Cornell's representation of Ezra Pound in the initial stages of the U.S. government's case against him for treason. In addition to Ezra and Dorothy Pound, correspondents include T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Laughlin, Arthur Moore, Omar Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz, and Olga Rudge. Topics include Pound's physical and mental condition in 1945-46; the treason charge against him; the efforts to have him declared...
Dates: 1945-1965

Norman Cousins Collection of Henry Seidel Canby

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1205
Scope and Contents: Correspondence, drafts and printed versions of writings (box 7), manuscript notes, printed ephemera, clippings, photographs (box 2), and contractual agreements by or relating to the professional activities of Henry Seidel Canby. The collection features approximately 983 pieces of correspondence dating from 1940 through 1949 (boxes 1-6). Incoming letters and typescript carbon copies of Canby's outgoing letters concern professional matters chiefly, addressing publications by Canby during this...
Dates: 1935-1949

Christopher Cox papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 264
Abstract:

The Christopher Cox Papers consists of the writings, correspondence files, and personal papers of the editor, author, actor, director, and producer Christopher Cox, and of his partner, the art historian William Olander.

Dates: 1927-1990, bulk 1966-1990

Edward Gordon Craig collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 433
Scope and Contents: This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Edward Gordon Craig, acquired by the library from a variety of sources. Series I, Hamill and Barker Purchase (1912-1958), contains letters from a variety of correspondents to Craig's friend Ewald Junge, who also collected Craig...
Dates: 1905-1963