Connecticut -- Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Connecticut Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 149
Overview:
An artificial collection of material relating to the cities and towns of Connecticut, containing printed material, legal records, military papers, and miscellanea. Specific items include: deeds, indentures, leases, military commissions, enrollment lists, record books, and muster rolls.
Dates:
1655-1950
Ethel Grace Davis papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1687
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence from Ethel Grace "Billie" Shutter Davis to her mother, G. W. Shutter, documenting Ethel Davis's trip to and life in New Haven and Woodmont, Connecticut, while her husband was an Alfred Sloan Fellow in traffic engineering at Yale University. Topics include daily life in New Haven and Woodmont, social life at Yale for the fellows and their wives, and trips the family took around Connecticut and New York, including observations of the 1939 World's Fair in New...
Dates:
1939-1994, bulk 1939-1940
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ethel Grace Davis papers
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 196
Overview:
The papers consist of several letters and two journals of Henry Ellsworth's travels to New Connecticut (1811) and to the West (1832) after his appointment as Commissioner to the Indians. In this capacity, he was to superintend the removal of Indian tribes to the south and west of Arkansas, and his journal of 1832 describes the life of the Indians in eastern Oklahoma. There is also one letter from Henry Leavitt Ellsworth to his son, Henry William Ellsworth, 27 July 1834.
Dates:
1811-1838
George Dudley Seymour papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 442
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, research files, printed material, and miscellanea of George Dudley Seymour, a lawyer, antiquarian, historian, author and city planner in New Haven, Connecticut. Seymour's personal papers and collected manuscripts document the history of the Seymour family, the patriot Nathan Hale, the city planning movement in New Haven, Connecticut, and local history, 1684-1944. General correspondence files contain the bulk of personal...
Dates:
1684-1944
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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George Dudley Seymour papers
Charles Jeffery Smith papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1372
Overview:
Charles Jeffery Smith's papers consist of his writings and diaries, including "Some Minits: or a Brief Narrative of the Motions & Strivings of Gods Spirit with my Soul;" "Jejunationes," a devotional journal; and a four-part diary, 1763-1765, containing his religious thoughts and detailing his daily activities and travels. There are also daily transcriptions, made in 1908, which excise parts dealing with Smith's personal problems. The transcriptions also include marginal notes about place...
Dates:
1758-1908, bulk 1758-1765
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Charles Jeffery Smith papers
George Waldo papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 9
Overview:
The papers contain family correspondence, commonplace books, diaries, poetry and sermons of eighteenth-century Waldo ancestors, including the Reverends Ebenezer Devotion (1714-1771) and James Cogswell (1720-1807).
Dates:
1732-1910 (inclusive), bulk 1872-1884