Watervliet

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Description

Title
Watervliet
Creator
From the Collection: Macdonald, A. J., -1854
Contributor
From the Collection: Ballou, Adin, 1803-1890
From the Collection: Finch, John, 1783-1857
From the Collection: Greig, John, 1779-1858
From the Collection: McDiarmid, William, 1792-1888
From the Collection: Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
From the Collection: Weitling, Wilhelm, 1808-1871
Published / Created
undated
Description
Leaf 730 Graphite drawing of a dwelling house, not signed or dated but presumably made during his visit in 1847 (see leaves 671–676); inscribed along left edge: "Mrs W. Kellog - [Gray?]"
Provenance
Gift of John Humphrey Noyes, 1870., The material was organized into its present arrangement by John Humphrey Noyes and his son Victor Cragin Noyes in the 1860s. John Humphrey Noyes, a founder of the Oneida Community, acquired the manuscripts in the mid-1860s from one of Macdonald’s relatives, and wrote about the collection in a column titled “Our Muck-Heap,” published in the Oneida Community’s weekly paper The Circular (vol. 5, no. 30, October 12, 1868, page 236): “When it came into our hands it was in the loosest state of disorder; but we have strung the leaves together, paged them, and made an index of their contents.” The leaves were numbered in pencil straight through the collection, whether the contents were manuscript, printed, or graphic material. The binding strips affixed by Victor Noyes are still attached to Macdonald’s papers from leaf 229 to the end, and the album’s front and back covers are in Box 3, folders 90-91. The index prepared by Victor Cragin Noyes and copied over by George Washington Noyes is in Box 3, folder 89. A "Catalogue of the McDonald Materials," a precis of Macdonald's writings prepared by Victor Noyes, is in the Oneida Community Collection at the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse, New York. John Humphrey Noyes provided an overall description of Macdonald's papers in a second column, “Our Muck-Heap, No. II” (vol. 5, no. 31, October 19, 1868, page 244), and wrote articles on each community in forty subsequent columns appearing in The Circular through July 19, 1869 (vol. 6, no. 18); the second half of his columns were titled “American Socialisms.” In a column published on February 7, 1870 (vol. 6, no. 47, page 372), Noyes addressed the critics of his book and mentioned that anyone may “consult the original manuscripts in the library of Yale College.”
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
GEN MSS 1394
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Container / Volume
Box 3, folder 87

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Citation
A. J. Macdonald Writings on American Utopian Communities. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Orbis Record
3660074
Object ID (OID)
17301235

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