Autographs
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
James E. Babb Memorial collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 44
Overview:
A double collection of the papers of James Elisha Babb, a lawyer prominent in Idaho politics, and of his father-in-law, Charles Johnson Tinkham. Babb's correspondence, which was devoted largely to politics, included both local and nationally prominent figures. Among the most important were William E. Borah, with whom he corresponded from 1898 to 1933 on issues such as women's suffrage, the League of Nations and the Roosevelt Administration; and William Jennings Bryan, who wrote between 1880 and...
Dates:
1847-1942
Enid Bagnold papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 78
Overview:
The papers contain personal and professional correspondence and other papers, including a scrapbook, which document Bagnold's personal life and writing career.
Dates:
1912-1971
Eleanor Robson Belmont collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 668
Overview:
Chiefly autographs and letters collected by Eleanor R. Belmont in connection with a copy of the Treaty of Versailles for which she wanted original signatures. There is also some personal correspondence connected with gathering the letters and a small amount of memorabilia.
Dates:
1913-1949
Samuel Rossiter Betts autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 603
Overview:
Signatures of over five hundred famous Yale College graduates from the class of 1704 to the class of 1904. Also included is a small amount of Betts's personal papers including lists of his book donations to Yale University, an inventory of personal effects and other miscellaneous items. Arranged in three series.
Dates:
1704-1928
Bowers family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1194
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, notes, and reports on politics in Connecticut and New Hampshire during the Reconstruction Era, forestry and timber lands, and Yale alumni activities in Washington, D.C., plus a small collection of autograph letters and clipped signatures.
Dates:
1859-1910
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bowers family papers
F. C. C. Boyd autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 942
Overview:
Chiefly an autograph collection of approximately three hundred letters, two United States Navy Department letterbooks (1873-1876), photographs, drawings, and a small amount of F. C. C. Boyd's financial papers. Most of the items are American, although several are European, including one signed by Pope Urban VIII. Major topics covered by the colletion include numismatics, the theater, and the United States Navy.
Dates:
1635-1934
Kenneth Walter Cameron papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 124
Overview:
The papers consist of autographs and collected letters, sermons, teaching materials, research notes and documents, and the typescript of Kenneth Cameron's master's thesis on Othello (1931). A large part of the papers relates to the Church of the Holy Trinity in Hartford, Connecticut and contains a substantial collection of the sermons, writings and speeches of the Reverend Ernest Fremery Miel, manuscripts of Sir Arthur Gorges, sermons of Joseph G. H. Barry and papers relating to the...
Dates:
1727-1987
E. Clowes Chorley papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 132
Overview:
Research materials for a history of the Protestant Episcopal Church, drafts of articles written for the Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church and other publications, and for several books on church history. Also included is an extensive autograph collection of over 300 letters of Protestant Episcopal bishops.Of particular interest in the research materials are correspondence and documents of Bishop Alfred Lee and others relating to missionary...
Dates:
1765-1949
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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E. Clowes Chorley papers
Curtis family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 864
Overview:
Correspondence, deeds, account books, diaries and miscellaneous papers of the Curtis family of Connecticut and allied families Adams, Hallam, Poole and Pygan. In the correspondence is a Benedict Arnold letter (1768), drafts of letters by Jonathan Trumbull (1774), and a number of letters relating to military activities during the American Revolution. The papers of Benjamin Trumbull included here contain letters from Samuel A. Peters and William Winthrop, as well as notes probably collected for...
Dates:
1695-1912
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Curtis family papers
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
Hollon Augustine Farr papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 910
Overview:
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous materials largely related to Farr's administrative work and his teaching in the Department of Germanic Languages at Yale University. Also included is his autograph collection and a report from Georg Kartzke, former member of the Yale Department, on conditions at the University of Berlin between 1939 and 1946.
Dates:
1604-1956
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Hollon Augustine Farr papers
Albert Gabriel Feuillerat papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 208
Overview:
Personal papers, research materials, and autographs collected by Feuillerat in connection with his literary studies. A major portion of the papers consists of material on Paul Bourget, novelist and critic, as well as the brother-in-law of Feuillerat. Included are manuscripts by Bourget and correspondence by and about him. Among the writers of the holograph letters collected by Feuillerat are Jean François Victor Aicard, Paul Claudel, Alfred Stanislaus Langlois Des Essarts, Octave Feuillet,...
Dates:
1823-1949
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
Fowler family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 221
Overview:
Correspondence (1806-1870), deeds (1707-1857) to property in Connecticut, and miscellaneous papers. The bulk of the correspondence is that of William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881), an educator. Principal correspondents include George Sewall Boutwell, Lewis Cass, Salmon Portland Chase, Rufus Choate, Schuyler Colfax, Horace Mann, Gideon Algernon Mantell, and Truman Smith. Also in the papers is an account book (1854-1866) of Crampton and Fowler, manufacturers and farmers of Northford, Connecticut...
Dates:
1707-1870
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Fowler family papers
Southard Hay autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 268
Overview:
Correspondence, legal documents, financial papers and other items chiefly relating to the history of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Virginia. A large proportion of the papers concern the business affairs of Joseph Higbee of Trenton, Nathaniel Pendleton of New York, Thomas Woodruff and John Beatty, presidents of the Trenton Banking Company and Robert Morris of Philadelphia. Also in the papers are letters by several United States presidents, cabinet officers, Supreme Court justices and...
Dates:
1750-1885
Hooker family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 289
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, financial and legal records, genealogical material, account books, maps, autograph albums, scrapbooks, ships' logs, and memorabilia from several generations of the Hooker family of Farmington, Connecticut. Early family records contain correspondence and documents relating to the American Revolution. Eighteenth-century legal and financial records in the papers include deeds and leases on land in Farmington, Connecticut; indentures (1760-1763); wills; and...
Dates:
1623-1929
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Hooker family papers
Annie Burr Jennings collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 687
Overview:
An autograph collection of approximately forty letters and documents, chiefly dating from the Revolutionary War era. Prominent in the collection are Ashbel Green, James Wadsworth, and George Washington. Among the later writers are Albert Bierstadt, Richard Wagner and correspondents of Annie Burr Jennings.
Dates:
1775-1930
Marian King papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 211
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, research material, photographs, and other papers relating to King's books. Much of the correspondence consists of letters from celebrities acknowledging receipt of copies of her books. Among the research material is a substantial amount relating to the White House Conference on Children (1970). The major portion of the papers consists of drafts, galley proofs, photographs, and other materials connected with the publication of her books.
Dates:
1935-1973
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Marian King papers
Harold Lamport autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 731
Overview:
A collection of approximately eighty autograph letters and documents, primarily by European and American political, diplomatic and military figures of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Notable among them are Napoléon I, Andrew Jackson, Giuseppe Garibaldi, William Gladstone, and Lajos Kossuth.
Dates:
1585-1940
Charlton Thomas Lewis papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 981
Overview:
The major part of the papers consist of a collection of autographs of literary, intellectual, and political figures, largely English and American, compiled by Charlton T. Lewis.Included are such notables as Robert Browning, Washington Irving, William James, John Stuart Mill, Louis Orléans, comte de Paris, Richelieu, Talleyrand, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Voltaire, John Wesley, and Walt Whitman. There is also personal correspondence addressed to Lewis and his wife, Margaret P. Sherrand Lewis, as well...
Dates:
1612-1904
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Charlton Thomas Lewis papers