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India -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

John Sylvester Fischer papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 850
Abstract: 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

James Forbes archive: A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 66
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

R. Eric Gustafson papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 997
Abstract:

The collection consists of correspondence, writings, professional and personal papers, photographs, printed material, computer and audiovisual media, and other papers documenting the career and life of American author, curator, and gallerist Eric Gustafson. Also included are correspondence, ephemera, and photographs of Navajo artist R. C. Gorman.

Dates: 1934-2017

G. Evelyn Hutchinson papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 649
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, addresses, notes and research materials, subject files, memorabilia, and photographs relating to G. Evelyn Hutchinson's work as a zoologist and limnologist. The papers highlight his years on the faculty at Yale University but also document his student days at Cambridge University and his early career in South Africa. Of note are materials from his travels as part of the Yale North India Expedition. The collection includes personal papers...
Dates: 1875-1992, bulk 1922-1991

Edward Joseph Logue papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 959
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, designs, photographs, audiovisual materials, clippings, printed material, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of Edward J. Logue, lawyer, politician, and urban planner and administrator. Urban planning materials detail his activity in New Haven, Boston, and New York state. Student papers document Logue's life as a Yale University undergraduate and law student (1939-1942; 1945-1947). Copies of...
Dates: 1908-2005

Blanche Matthias papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 45
Abstract:

The Blanche Matthias Papers consist of correspondence, reviews, poetry, short stories, clippings, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks and personal papers relating to Matthias's work and travels.

Dates: 1901-1983

Katherine Mayo papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 345
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, writings, photographs, scrapbooks, research materials, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and literary career of Katherine Mayo, an author of several historical and investigative articles, essays, and books from 1896 to 1940. Correspondence files document the detailed literary research Mayo conducted and the strong public reaction generated by her writings. This is particularly true for such works as Justice to All (1917),...
Dates: 1835-1968, bulk 1918-1940

Ruth Stephan papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 423
Abstract: The Ruth Stephan Papers consist of correspondence, writings, research files, audiovisual material, photographs, and diaries and other personal papers documenting the career and life of the twentieth-century American writer, editor, and translator Ruth Stephan. Correspondence and subject files provide evidence of Stephan's professional and personal relationships as well as her wide-ranging interests, from art to Zen Buddhism. Stephan's creative work consists of drafts, notes, and research...
Dates: 1915-1974

Jean Toomer papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 1
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence, drafts of unpublished books, essays, and other writings, together with personal papers documenting Toomer's life, primarily after his Harlem Renaissance period, and papers on Marjory Latimer Toomer. Correspondents include Charles Dupee, Waldo Front, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Margaret Naumberg, and Russell S. Walcott.

Dates: 1898-1963 (inclusive), bulk 1920-1956

James Wales archive

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 26
Abstract:

The collection comprises diaries, notebooks, and other manuscript documents concerning the travels of James Wales in India, with a particular focus on antiquities of Poona and the nearby cave temples of Ellora.

Dates: 1786-1797