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Edward Bliss Reed papers

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Call Number: MS 412
Overview: Correspondence, research notes, texts of songs, sheet music, catalogues, programs, and pamphlets relating to Christmas carols, which were Reed's main scholarly interest. Included also are his texts for a series of annual lectures on carols (1913-1939) and records of the New Haven Carol Society (1921-1944). Other items in the papers are the manuscript for Lyra Levis (published in 1922), records relating to the Yale ROTC program, and a run of the New Palestine (1921-1931).
Dates: 1905-1962

Rice family papers

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Call Number: MS 415
Overview: The papers include correspondence, photographs, and writings which document the daily lives of the immediate family of John Rice and the activities of various members of the Blake and Seely families. Extensive correspondence concerns the construction and furnishing of the family home in Tarrytown, New York; of residences, travel, and schooling in California and Europe; and student life and teaching at the Sedgwick School, Yale University, Williams College, Acadia University, and Smith College.
Dates: 1810-1916

School and College Conference on English records

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Call Number: MS 433
Overview: The records consist of correspondence, reports, and printed matter kept by Marion C. Sheridan as recording secretary and later as chairman of the conference, some concerning the organization, and transactions of the conference's annual meeting.
Dates: 1925-1970

Constance M. Syford papers

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Call Number: MS 1134
Overview: The papers consist of Constance M. Syford's unfinished doctoral dissertation for Yale University on Sir Philip Sidney's: The Defense of Poesie.
Dates: 1960

Mabel Loomis Todd papers

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Call Number: MS 496C
Overview: The papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, diaries, lectures, financial records, scrapbooks, subject files, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Mabel Loomis Todd. Correspondence and diaries detail Todd's personal attitudes and feelings toward her family, her relationship with William Austin Dickinson, her travels with her husband, David Peck Todd, and other matters. Legal and financial papers document court battles over her status as editor of Emily...
Dates: 1863-1948

Ernst Toller papers

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Call Number: MS 498
Overview: The major part of the papers is made up of a nearly complete collection of Ernst Toller's plays printed in German and in English translation, together with copies of his articles (1917-1939) which were gathered from newspapers and periodicals from many countries by John M. Spalek, editor of Toller's works. Also assembled by Spalek and added to the papers are articles, books, and dissertations (1922-1972) about Toller in both German and English. The personal papers stem from the last five years...
Dates: 1917-1978, bulk 1933-1939

Alan Trachtenberg Papers

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Call Number: MS 2129
Overview: Professional papers of Alan Trachtenberg, 1957-2017, that include texts and related material from conferences, lectures, and symposia, as well as writings, teaching material and course related files, correspondence, other papers and photographs, and audiovisual materials created and compiled by Trachtenberg.Collection materials document a broad range of Trachtenberg's professional activities, including his research on the Brooklyn Bridge, daguerreotypes and photography, and Walt...
Dates: 1957-2017

Paolo Valesio papers

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Call Number: MS 1594
Overview: The papers consist of correspondence, topical files, writings, and teaching files of Paolo Valesio.
Dates: 1957-2009

Webster family papers

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Call Number: MS 527
Overview: Principal figures in these papers are Noah Webster, the lexicographer, and his son William Greenleaf Webster. Also included are papers pertaining to the G. C. Merriam Company and the publication of Noah Webster's dictionaries and grammars. Family correspondence includes twenty-two letters written by Noah Webster to his son between 1835 and 1843 while the latter was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and La Fayette, Indiana, selling his father's books. The papers of William Greenleaf Webster make up...
Dates: Circa 1764-1909, bulk 1831-1873

William Dwight Whitney family papers

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Call Number: MS 555
Overview: The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of...
Dates: 1778-1951, bulk 1814-1912

Stanley Thomas Williams papers

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Call Number: MS 557
Overview: Correspondence, notes, lectures, writings, and miscellanea relating to the academic career and literary works of Stanley T. Williams, a Yale University professor of American literature, including notes on several prominent American authors.
Dates: 1917-1969

William Kurtz Wimsatt papers

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Call Number: MS 769
Overview: The papers are entirely professional including a small amount of correspondence, teaching materials, unpublished speeches and writings, copies of his published works, subject files and notes. Wimsatt's teaching materials, which contain bibliographies, notes on his readings, and outlines for class presentations, make up more than half of the papers. Copies of almost all of Wimsatt's published work together with the related correspondence are also in the papers. His advocacy of the New Criticism...
Dates: 1935-1975

Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon papers

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Call Number: MS 528
Overview: Lectures, notes, subject files, exams, and correspondence from Witherspoon's teaching career at Yale University. Also included are correspondence and manuscripts of Albert Hampton Barclay.
Dates: 1916-1964

Yale Journal of Criticism records

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Call Number: RU 1006
Overview: The records consist of meeting agendas and minutes, correspondence, proposals, subject files, and computer files documenting the Yale Journal of Criticism.
Dates: circa 1986-2006