United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 722
Overview:
The J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Papers consist of manuscripts and printed material documenting aspects of the later life and work of the French author, best known for his 1782 Letters from an American Farmer.
Dates:
1784-circa 1880, bulk 1784-1810
Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 982
Overview:
The Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts collection contains papers of both Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, intermixed. The papers include correspondence, personal papers, and autograph manuscripts by Tocqueville (including the autograph manuscript of De La Democratie en Amerique), Beaumont, and their families and associates, as well as autograph copies of Tocqueville and Beaumont documents by contemporary and later copyists, and photoduplicated copies of originals held elsewhere in...
Dates:
circa 1802-1960, bulk 1831-1840