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Académie française autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1339
Overview:
Correspondence and other documents signed by circa 200 members of the Académie française, 1637-1926 and undated, assembled by an unidentified collector, possibly American autograph collector Howes Norris, Jr. (1867-1938), of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. Most are autograph letters, signed; other contents include literary writings, legal documents, and a few documents concerning administration of the Académie française. Many are accompanied by descriptions from vendor catalogs, engraved...
Dates:
1637-1926, bulk 1750-1900
Antiquarian bookseller catalog collection
Collection
Call Number: X346
Overview:
Antiquarian bookseller catalogs collected by Yale University Library.
Dates:
circa 1747 - circa 1993
Alain Arias-Misson papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1514
Overview:
The collection documents the literary work and career of Alain Arias-Misson and consists of correspondence; writings and works by Arias-Misson including poetry, visual poetry, notes, and other writings; writings and visual poetry by others; printed material including cards, pamphlets, ephemera, exhibition catalogs, serials, and books; and born-digital audiovisual materials. Correspondence includes letters to and from both general and literary correspondents. Works of others include work by...
Dates:
1956-2017
Matthew Arnold collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 867
Overview:
The Matthew Arnold Collection is a mixed-provenance collection of material by and related to Matthew Arnold, including family, personal and professional correspondence; diaries by Mary Penrose Arnold; letters from Frances Lucy Arnold to Arthur Galton; and a small quanitity of personal papers and manuscript items. Correspondents include Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomas Knowles and George Smith.
Dates:
1825-1939, bulk 1850-1888
George H. Bauer Jean Paul Sartre manuscript collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 505
Overview:
A collection of materials by Sartre acquired by George H. Bauer. The majority of the material consists of drafts for individual works in Sartre's series of novels collectively titled "Chemins de la liberté": a holograph and typescript draft of "La mort dans l'âme" and holograph draft pages of "La dernière chance", which contains a section titled "Drôle d'amitié" (which appeared in the journal, "Les Temps Modernes".) Also included are draft pages of essays on Jean Genet, Gjon Mili, a 1947...
Dates:
1945-1962
Stanley Yale Beach papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 802
Overview:
The papers primarily contain correspondence between Stanley Yale Beach and his family, friends, and colleagues in the aeronautical and engineering fields. The bulk of the collection is his correspondence with engineers and manufacturers, in particular those in Germany, as well as with his friend, poet Harry Arthur Powell. A small group of files reveal Beach's investigation into the missing French aviators Charles Nungesser and François Coli, and his relationship with the New York clairvoyant...
Dates:
1911-1948, bulk 1917-1933
Jean Louis Berlandier papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-300
Overview:
The papers consist of diaries and accounts written or collected by Jean Louis Berlandier, including works by Rafael Chovell, Manuel de Mier y Teran, José Francisco Ruiz, Stephen F. Austin, Juan Pedro Walker and others. The papers include maps, letters, diaries, histories, and government documents containing geographical, ethnographic, and historical information about the Mexican Republic, particularly the region between the Sabine River and Sierra Madre, with extensive coverage of the areas...
Dates:
1745-1860, bulk 1815-1850
Michel Bégon papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1756
Overview:
The collection contains correspondence, reports, journals, lists, pamphlets and broadsides, and other papers relating to Michel Bégon and French colonial administration in the Caribbean, French maritime commerce, foreign relations, domestic economic matters, and botany in the 17th century.
Dates:
circa 1651-1718
Collection of book illustrations
Collection
Call Number: AOB 75
Overview:
This collection comprises illustrations salvaged from damaged bound volumes.
Dates:
1793-20th century
Collection of Canadian Bookplates
Collection
Call Number: BKP 78
Overview:
This collection comprises mostly 19th- and early 20th-century Canadian bookplates.
Dates:
circa 1800-1924
Charles William Bradley Papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 325
Overview:
Notes and correspondence kept by Charles William Bradley, circa 1841-1860. Notes chiefly pertain to Bradley's study of the forenames and surnames in various nations. The remaining notes and correspondence pertain to his time in China (primarily Singapore) while an American consul--these notes relate to Chinese history, language, and climate.
Dates:
circa 1841-1860
Cabié collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 122
Overview:
Manuscript copies of documents in the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Archives Nationales and other archival sources in France, almost all relating to religious questions in the Languedoc region. The copies, which were made at the turn of the century,
are contained in 373 volumes. Two collections from the Bibliothèque Nationale make up the major portion of the collection:
The Collection de Languedoc (48 v.).
Dates:
400-1799
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection of Jean Genet Drafts and Proofs
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1739
Overview:
The collection consists of manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts as well as galley and page proofs for works by Jean Genet, 1952-1982, including Le Bagne, Le Balcon, Les Nègres, and Le Langage de la muraille: cent ans jour après jour. It also contains manuscripts with sketches by the author and artworks on paper by others, including two hand-colored lithographs by Alberto...
Dates:
1952-1982
Colton Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 855
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, sermons, diaries, account books, poems, and notes of George Colton of West Hartford, Connecticut and four of his sons. The principal figure in the papers is Henry Martyn Colton, who graduated from Yale College in 1848 and established schools in Middletown, Connecticut and New York City. Included in his papers are college lecture notes, sermons together with outlines and notes, poems, diaries, and travel writings.
Dates:
1749-1879, bulk 1826-1879
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Comoros collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1554
Overview:
The collection consists of printed material relating to political conditions and historic sites in Comoros.
Dates:
1971-1996
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Noël J. Cortés Collection of French Manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1173
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of manuscript letters, writings, and documents, mostly in French, by writers, artists, historians, and philosophers, including Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Paul Morand, and George Sand.
Dates:
1760-1927
Davies/Scroggie collection of Canadian fur trade documents
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2357
Overview:
The collection consists of printed contracts completed in manuscript between Canadian voyageurs and their outfitters (1801-1821) and other documents relating to the Canadian fur trade, including correspondence, financial papers, and legal documents (1724-1856). Outfitters include M'Tavish, Frobisher & Co., M'Tavish, M'Gillivrays & Co., and the American Fur Company. Destinations include Michilimackinac, Grand Portage, Rainy Lake, Fort William, and "Posts of the Northwest in Upper Canada."
Dates:
1724-1856
De Lévis family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 323
Overview:
The papers contain legal documents, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers primarily concerned with Gaston-François-Christophe de Lévis, duc de Ventadour (1794-1863). The papers, in French, primarily relate to inheritance of land in Martinique.
Dates:
1707-1850
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Jean André DeLuc papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 179
Overview:
Correspondence, lecture notes, and scientific writings of DeLuc and of his nephew, Jean Andreé DeLuc (1763-1847), relating to his experiments in electricity, to lectures given in Geneva by the younger DeLuc, and to outstanding scientists of the period. Also notebooks of several geological expeditions in England, Wales, Belgium, Holland, Westphalia, and the Jura mountains
(1778-1806). Correspondents of the elder DeLuc include Sir Joseph Banks, Varenne de Boest, Queen Charlotte and other members...
Dates:
1746-1847
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Suzanne de Diétrich papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 314
Overview:
Correspondence, written works, and family information by and about French ecumenical leader Suzanne de Diétrich.
Dates:
1906-1992
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library