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A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America

 Collection
Call Number: Folio A 2023 69
Scope and Contents: The collection comprises thirteen manuscript volumes, each of which contains numerous illustrations as well as transcriptions of letters originally composed while Forbes was in India, with a particular concentration on the natural history of India. The manuscript was finished in 1800, although most of the drawings are those done at the time of the voyage, circa 1765-1776. Volume 1 includes a presentation page, dated 11 April 1800, in which Forbes gives the set to his daughter, Elizabeth...
Dates: circa 1765-1800

Luther Anderson papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 36
Abstract: Teacher and journalist. Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and photographs relating to his career as a journalist in Peking (1911-1914) and his post as teacher of English and aesthetics at the American International College in Springfield, Mass. (1928-1940). He also lectured on Scandinavian culture and on Chinese politics. Manuscripts and advertising brochures document this aspect of his life. Although his correspondence is mostly routine, there are a number of letters of interest from...
Dates: 1899-1940

Carlyle S. Baer correspondence with Samuel X. Radbill

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Call Number: BKP 137
Abstract:

The collection contains just over 50 letters, typed and handwritten, between Carlyle S. Baer, secretary of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, and Dr. Samuel X. Radbill, a bookplate collector.

Dates: 1936-1967

[Letterbook]

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Call Number: OSBORN FC109 1/2
Abstract:

Anonymous MS.
Collection of copies of 210 letters to and from Baker dating from 1722 to 1770; letters discuss scientific subjects, especially microscopy, electricity, and the education of deaf children; also discuss contemporary affairs, most notably the Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746) and the London earthquake (1750).

Dates: 1722-1770

Beta Theta Pi, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 306
Abstract:

The records consists of published materials of Beta Theta Pi, Phi Chi Chapter at Yale.

Dates: 1947-1948

R. E. Blair collection of Western oil and mining investment prospectuses

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2611
Abstract:

The collection consists of promotional material, including form letters, maps, reprints of newspaper articles, and publications, that describe oil and mining investment opportunities in various Western states, including Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico, during the time period of the Great Depression. The materials were sent to R. E. Blair as a prospective investor in oil and mining ventures.

Dates: 1928-1941

Polly S. Buck photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RU 655
Abstract:

The collection is comprised of photographs used in We Minded the Store Yale Life and Letters During World War II (1975) by Polly S. Buck. The photographs depict student life in Branford College, Yale University, during the years 1944-1946, a large majority of which are of the Navy ROTC. The collection also includes photographs of individual students and clippings.

Dates: 1944-1946

Philip Hermogenes Calderon correspondence from John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton

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Call Number: MSS 3
Abstract:

This collection includes letters sent by John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton to Philip Hermogenes Calderon from 1886 to 1896.

Dates: 1886-1896

Chauncey family-Fowler family papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 814
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, account books, Yale College diplomas, and miscellaneous documents related to Nathaniel Chauncey, and his son Elnathan Chauncey and great-grandson William Chauncey Fowler. The collection contains more than 5,000 letters exchanged by members of the Chauncey, Ellsworth, Fowler, Goodrich, Hand, March, Wadsworth, and Webster families, in particular Rebecca and Noah Webster, as well as various prominent friends in New England. Also present are more than 100...
Dates: 1669-1880

Chi Delta Theta, Yale College, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 566
Abstract:

The materials consist of the 1821 constitution of the Chi Delta Theta fraternity of Yale College.

Dates: 1821

Chi Phi, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 340
Abstract:

The records consist of correspondence, membership lists, a guest book, photograph, memorabilia, and a book of initiates.

Dates: 1898-1960

George Chorpenning papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2767
Abstract: The papers consist of account books, financial records, legal records, correspondence, and maps that document George Chorpenning's operation of an overland mail route in western states during the 1850s, his subsequent petition to the United States government for reimbursement, and other business, including his interest in a quartz mine in Sparta, Oregon, owned by E. E. Clough. The papers include correspondence of Chorpenning's sons George and Frank relating to continued claims against the...
Dates: 1856-1903

Clinton papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 168
Abstract: The Clinton Papers contain correspondence, letterbooks, financial papers and other material documenting aspects of the lives and military careers of Sir William Henry Clinton (1769-1846) and his brother Sir Henry Clinton (1771-1829). They include hundreds of letters from Henry to William Henry, many written from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars, as well as letters by other members of the Clinton family; journals kept by Sir Henry Clinton, the letterbooks of Sir William Henry Clinton, and...
Dates: 1754-1879

Clubs, societies, and organizations at Yale records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 56
Abstract:

The records consist of minutes of meetings, membership lists, correspondence, constitutions and bylaws, scrapbooks, library records, financial and business records, programs and invitations, articles and news clippings, reports, songbooks, notices, newsletters, and related materials documenting the organization, activities, and operations of various student, faculty, and staff organizations, and other Yale community groups.

Dates: circa 1768-2022

Collection of letters, receipts, proofs, portraits, etc., concerning The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, published by Cadell & Davies

 Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FD45
Abstract:

This finding aid is a partial inventory of the contents of Osborn fd45.

Dates: ca. 1809-1820

Franklin Lindley Couch, Class of 1917, Yale College, memorabilia

 Collection
Call Number: RU 864
Abstract:

The materials consist of memorabilia, photographs, artifacts, and an engraving documenting Franklin Lindley Couch's (Yale 1917) extracurricular activities while a student at Yale. Included are materials documenting the Yale Courant staff, Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Calcium Light Night, and the Yale Field Artillery in World War I.

Dates: circa 1911-1917

John J. Cushing Correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 35
Abstract:

John J. Cushing was an early homeopathic physician in San Francisco. The collection consists of letters to his family.

Dates: 1853-1873, bulk 1853-1857

Simon Cutts constructed archive

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 206
Scope and Contents:

This collection contains correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs, objects, artwork, and other papers by or relating to poet, publisher, editor, and artist Simon Cutts. Cutts and his partner Erica Van Horn run the publishing press Coracle Press. Material in the collection document Cutts' art making process, representing his mediums of concrete and visual poetry, sculpture, glass, neon, and publications.

Dates: 1945-2017

Dickins family papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 302
Abstract: The Dickins Family Papers contains correspondence, writings, legal documents, and other papers relating to Rachel Dickins, Thomas Eden Dickins, and other members of the Dickins family, as well as diaries, poetry, and a collection of fifteenth through seventeenth century charters with seals. Other materials in the collection relate to James Bean, an assistant paymaster with the East India Company in the Philippines in 1764, Captain William Wilkinson, a financial agent to Sir George Hay, and...
Dates: 1449-2000 and undated, bulk 1449-1899

Division of Entomology Archives

 Collection
Call Number: ENTAR.001419
Abstract:

These are the miscellaneous archives associated with the Division of Entomology at the Yale Peabody Museum .

Dates: 1948-2014