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Autographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Harry H. Ensign autograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1228
Abstract:

Miscellaneous autographs and letters of American political and cultural figures, among them John and John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, Horace Greeley, and Lydia Sigourney. Also included are eleven letters to James F. Babcock, editor of the New Haven Weekly Palladium, on politics (1840-1866) and seven letters (1866-1872) to R. P. Cowles in New Haven from prospective lecturers.

Dates: 1818-1880

Asa Fitch papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 215
Abstract:

Twenty-one diaries, 1821-1879, of Asa Fitch, scientist and entomologist. The diaries reflect in considerable detail Fitch's life and thoughts from early adolescence through his education at the Rensselaer School in Troy, New York and the Vermont Academy of Medicine in Castleton, his career as a scientist and state entomologist in New York, and his retirement. Also included are papers and genealogical materials relating to other members of the Fitch family.

Dates: 1807-1969, bulk 1807-1922