Domestic relations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Carpenter family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 911
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence among members of a single family: William Carpenter, his wife, Charity, and their nine children. The letters reveal the departure of William Carpenter from his family and his estrangement from his wife ca. 1810. The major subjects of the letters are the children's education and their careers. One son, Walter, attended Yale (1824-1828) and describes student life. Other letters describe the terms of an apprenticeship and a daughter, Philinia, writes of her...
Dates:
1810-1828
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Carpenter family papers
Selden Huntington family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1064
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, and financial and legal papers of three generations of the Selden Huntington family of Old Lyme and Middlesex County, Connecticut. The papers document Selden Huntington's business fortunes in East Coast shipping and land speculation in Maine, his relationship with his son Joseph Selden, breaking up of his marriage to his second wife Jeanette Stewart, and social and religious activities in the community. Joseph Selden Huntington's letters record his years at school in...
Dates:
1762-1914
Robert Porter Keep Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1316
Abstract:
Correspondence and memorabilia documenting the personal and professional life of Robert Porter Keep, a teacher of Greek and a school administrator. The papers also document the life and work of other members of the Keep, Porter, and Haines families including: Samuel Porter, Sarah Porter, and Margaret Haines Keep. The papers document, especially through correspondence with his parents, Keep’s student days at Yale College, his religious training, his early teaching duties, his travels and...
Dates:
1849-1902
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Robert Porter Keep Papers
Wendell W. Mischler papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1445
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs which document the personal life of Wendell W. Mischler and his professional activities as William Howard Taft's private secretary. The bulk of the correspondence is between Mischler and his wife and chronicles Taft's engagements, domestic management, office practices, and social affairs, from 1913 to 1921, when Taft lived in New Haven, Connecticut, and taught at the Yale University Law School.
Dates:
1894-1930
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wendell W. Mischler papers