Autographs
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harry H. Ensign autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1228
Overview:
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
Overview:
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
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Asa Fitch papers