Book collecting
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Henrietta C. Bartlett papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 336
Overview:
Collection includes letters to Bartlett from various correspondents, concerned mainly with bibliographical matters, relating especially to Shakespeare and his period. Correspondents include Joseph Quincy Adams, Tucker Brooke, Beverly Chew, George Watson Cole, Harvey Cushing, John Drinkwater, John Farquhar Fulton, W. W. Greg, Geoffrey Keynes, Amy Lowell, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Julia Marlowe, William Allan Neilson, Alfred Edward Newton, Alfred William Pollard, Seymour de Ricci, Otis Skinner,...
Dates:
1471-1961
Committee of the Adrian Van Sinderen Prizes for Book Collecting, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 842
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, completed applications, committee notes and memoranda, collection review schedules, and copies of press releases concerning the winners of the Adrian Van Sinderen Prize.
Dates:
1958-2013
Harvey Williams Cushing Papers in the Yale University Library
Collection
Call Number: MS 160
Overview:
The Harvey Williams Cushing Papers in the Yale University Library are composed of correspondence, subject files, writings, family papers, artifacts, and writings about Harvey Cushing. The papers document the personal life and professional career of a medical giant and pioneer neurosurgeon. They reveal Cushing as a doctor, teacher, soldier, administrator, bibliophile, and scientist, whose diverse achievements are important to the histories of the Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham...
Dates:
1745-1965, bulk 1887-1939
Curt von Faber du Faur papers
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 23
Overview:
The collection consists of material generated by Curt von Faber du Faur as author, collector, literary historian, curator of the Yale Collection of German Literature, and Yale faculty member. Material comprises writings, including drafts of literary and critical works, articles, lectures, and essays; correspondence; and personal papers.
Dates:
circa 1936-1966
John Farquhar Fulton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1236
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, writings, photographs, and memorabilia, which document the career of John Farquhar Fulton as a neurophysiologist, medical historian, and bibliophile. The files also include personal and professional letters which reflect his involvement in organizations and projects including his work with the National Research Council, particularly in aviation medicine and in editing a medical history of World War II. Fulton's writings concern physiological and...
Dates:
1892-1988, bulk 1920-1960
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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John Farquhar Fulton papers
Bradford H. Gray collector's files
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1734
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains correspondence, invoices, financial documentation, book lists, and other papers related to Bradford H. Gray's book collecting activities, as well as Gray's autograph collection.
Dates:
1796-2012, bulk 1978-2012
Hillhouse family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 282
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, account books, estate records, architectural drawings, legal papers, notebooks, commonplace books, letterbooks, scrapbooks, daybooks, and miscellaneous papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of three generations of the Hillhouse family of New Haven, Connecticut and New York. Major figures represented in the papers include: James Hillhouse (1754-1832), Mary Lucas Hillhouse (1785-1871), James Abraham Hillhouse (1789-1841),...
Dates:
1707-1943
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Hillhouse family papers
Jared Eliot Association, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 76
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, clippings, minutes of meetings, a scrapbook, questionnaires, exhibition materials, published materials, and notes documenting the Jared Eliot Association, with an emphasis on its "Great Books" exhibition.
Dates:
1934-1949
Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 616
Overview:
The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Laura K. Lada-Mocarski and Valerian Lada-Mocarski, stemming from their collecting activities and relating particularly to their book collection, which they donated to the Beinecke Library. Material includes bibliographies, notes and lists of books, valuation information, personal and professional correspondence, photographs, and printed material.
Dates:
1796-1985, bulk 1933-1985
Warren Hiram Lowenhaupt papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 884
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, photographs, writings, printed matter, financial records, and memorabilia documenting Warren Lowenhaupt's years as a student at Yale University (1910-1917), at Columbia Law School (1926), as an officer in World War I, and as curator and research associate at the Yale University Library (1952-1967). His principal correspondents are Emile Victor Bonnet, Charles Burpee, John Lindsay Moore, Frederick B. Kaye, William Lyon Phelps and Arthur E. Case. Much of the...
Dates:
1891-1967, bulk 1910-1967
Madeline Earle Stanton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1482
Overview:
The papers include correspondence, diaries, writings, memorabilia, and photographs documenting Madeline Stanton's bibliographic and administrative support of the work of Harvey Cushing and John Fulton, as well as her personal affairs.
Dates:
1916-1983
Edward Clark Streeter Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1667
Overview:
The papers are composed of letters addressed to Edward Clark Streeter from Fielding H. Garrison and others.
Dates:
1914-1932
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Edward Clark Streeter Papers
Chauncey Brewster Tinker papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 354
Overview:
Collection contains correspondence, writings, personal papers,financial records, photographs, subject files, clippings, printed material, and other papers by or relating to Chauncey Brewster Tinker.Correspondence consists primarily of letters to Tinker, including letters from Leonard Bacon, Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr., Sinclair Lewis, A. Edward Newton, Thornton Wilder, and the Yale University Library, along with several third-party letters, and a few copies and drafts of letters by...
Dates:
1898-1963
Henry Raup Wagner papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1299
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence with scholars and members of the rare book world, notes and drafts related to Henry Wagner's published works, and other papers related to Wagner's research.
Dates:
1917-1962, bulk 1930-1952
David Wagstaff papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 415
Overview:
Collection consists of personal papers and materials collected by David Wagstaff. Included are diaries of Wagstaff's travels from 1907-1921; correspondence, organizational papers, photographs and other materials related to the Ristigouche Salmon Club and the Restigouche Riparian Association; personal papers including catalog cards of Wagstaff's book collection; and materials generally concerning hunting and fishing collected by Wagstaff,including shooting targets, shooting awards, photographs...
Dates:
1824-1950