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John Sylvester Fischer papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 850
Overview:
Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of Harper's Magazine (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John...
Dates:
1907-1980
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Franco-American Review papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1080
Overview:
Correspondence concerning editorial policy and financial matters of the Franco-American Review, a quarterly devoted to history, literature, and criticism, edited by American and French scholars and critics.
Dates:
1936-1938
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Victor Oscar Freeburg papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 223
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, short writings, notes, memorabilia and printed matter. The correspondence is largely made up of letters commenting on Freeburg's writings on Elizabethan drama and Hesselius. Other writings relate to ciphers and codes. Also in the papers is a scrapbook containing memorabilia of Freeburg's years at Yale together with a play entitled Sunset, produced at Yale in 1908 and acted in by Sinclair Lewis. A second scrapbook (1905-1913) reflects Freeburg's early career...
Dates:
1905-1949
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Goodrich Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 242
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, business and legal documents, sermons, lectures, and other writings of the Goodrich family, descendants of Elizur Goodrich (1734-1797), and members of related Webster, Coe, Ellsworth, and Fowler families. The bulk of the correspondence concerns Chauncey Allen Goodrich's publication and copyright of an abridgement and revision of Webster's dictionary and the resulting disagreements among the heirs of Noah Webster. The papers also highlight Elizur Goodrich's...
Dates:
1732-1905
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Gustav Gruener papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 257
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, professional papers, writings, notes taken as a student in Germany, and teaching materials of Gustav Gruener. Several hundred letters in the correspondence were written from Austria and Germany between 1919 and 1928 in thanks for packages and money sent by Gruener to friends and relatives abroad. The letters provide a description of the economic crisis in these countries and the effect on the academic community. Comments on politics discuss the end of the...
Dates:
1879-1932
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Henry Barrett Hinckley papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1230
Overview:
Correspondence, reviews of books, financial records, photographs and memorabilia. The correspondence largely concerns his search for jobs and discussion of early English poetry and Chaucer. Among his correspondents are William Lyon Phelps and William Howard Taft. Included also are transcripts of nine letters from Henry Rose Hinckley, father of Henry B. Hinckley, to his parents written from Yale College. The earliest letter (February 1858) contains an account of a town and gown riot.
Dates:
1858-1934, bulk 1894-1934
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Holmes family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1000
Overview:
The principal figure in these papers is Charles Edward Latimer Holmes, of Waterbury and Bridgeport, Connecticut, manufacturer of brass and silver, and the son of Israel Holmes. Included are correspondence, business papers, a diary, and family scrapbooks. Holmes' letters to his second wife, Annie E. Slade Holmes, and his daughter, Lydia Holmes Bliss, were chiefly written while he was traveling on business to France and England in 1879 and to England in 1883. His business papers consist of letter...
Dates:
1823-1896, bulk 1856-1896
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Humanities and Fine Arts Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 590
Overview:
An artificial collection of papers of Yale faculty members and students active in the academic fields of fine arts, literature, history, linguistics, classics, music, and architecture. Correspondence, writings, clippings, notes, photographs, and miscellanea are included.
Dates:
1813-1965
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Charles Ives papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 932
Overview:
Correspondence, poems, orations and other writings, and miscellaneous legal papers that relate to Charles Ives and his immediate family. Some of his poems appear in Chips from the Workshop (1843). The orations and addresses concern political activities and also include notes and fragments of Isles of Summer, (1880).
Dates:
1838-1897
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Henry Roseman Lang papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 937
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries and appointment books, and writings and notes, which reflect Henry Roseman Lang's career as professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Yale. The papers also contain correspondence, diaries, addresses books, and notes of his wife, Alice Derby Lang.
Dates:
1723-1934, bulk 1880-1934
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
William Augustus Larned papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 948
Overview:
The papers largely reflect William A. Larned's post as Professor of Rhetoric and English literature (1839-1862) at Yale College. Included are lecture notes, notebooks with freshman prize compositions, grade books, and a student resolution requesting that his portrait be painted (1847). In the small amount of correspondence are five letters from Larned to his aunt, Mrs. John Mason. One is from Salisbury, North Carolina where he taught, and the remainder are from Yale College on his teaching and...
Dates:
1827-1861
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Anne Morrow Lindbergh papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 829
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, childhood, school and college materials, housekeeping and social records, reports, memoranda and correspondence from the many organizations in which Anne Morrow Lindbergh took an active interest. Also included are voluminous mail from members of her reading public and memorabilia, both objects sent by admirers and items collected by her on her travels. The death of Charles Lindbergh in 1974 is documented by mail from friends, members of...
Dates:
1906-1997
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Loomis-Wilder Family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 496A
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drawings, legal and financial papers, published writings, unpublished manuscripts, and memorabilia of the Loomis and Wilder families of Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia. The papers relate principally to Eben Jenks Loomis, astronomer, poet, and nature writer, and to his immediate family, and to his wife, Mary Alden Wilder Loomis and her immediate family, including papers of John Augustus Wilder, Civil War officer and lawyer for the U.S. Army. The Eben...
Dates:
1790-1912
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1231
Overview:
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
Overview:
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
Dwight Macdonald papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 730
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, printed material, photographs, audiotapes, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Dwight Macdonald. Macdonald's literary career, political activities, teaching and speaking engagements, and personal life are detailed. Major subjects represented in the papers include: communism and the Trotskyite movement, journalism and publishing, American social and political life (1920s-1970s), pacifism, and the...
Dates:
1865-1984, bulk 1920-1978
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
George Henry Nettleton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 473
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, subject files, diaries, speeches and writings, and memorabilia chiefly relating to George Henry Nettleton's career as professor of English at Yale, his activities with the Yale Bureau in Paris and the American University Union, and his scholarly research and writings.
Dates:
1819-1959
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Walter Edwin Peck papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 390
Overview:
The papers consist almost entirely of research materials and a Ph.D. thesis on Percy Bysshe Shelley together with typescript and galley-proofs of books about Shelley written by Walter Edwin Peck and published in 1926 and 1927. Among the small amount of personal papers are a diary for 1907, photographs, correspondence and memorabilia. Two account books from Ashtabula, Ohio (1830-1847) are also included.
Dates:
1830-1930
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Henri Peyre collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1395
Overview:
The Henri M. Peyre Collection consists of a single volume presented to Professor Peyre on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. The volume contains photostatic copies of almost 350 letters from former Yale students, written in 1980 and 1981, with a foreword by Georges May.
Dates:
1914-1988
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
William Lyon Phelps papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 578
Overview:
The papers include correspondence, writings, lecture notes, student notebooks, research notes, memorabilia, and scrapbooks of clippings documenting William Lyon Phelps's career as a professor of English and popularizer of literature. Phelps's lecture notes and annotated volumes on English literature comprise half of the papers. The papers also include a small quantity of family papers relating to Phelps's father and wife.
Dates:
1826-1944, bulk 1887-1943
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives