"The Poetry of Tennyson" dedicated to Miss Lemoine, with drawing of King David with his harp. Text in Latin, titles in English. With photograph of Mrs. Maud M. Ford laid in.
Previous to its acquisition by Yale, attributed to Alfred Tennyson.
Description:
Given to Mrs. Maud Ford by Miss Lushington, the poet's niece. and Gift, 1939.
Subject (Name):
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Archives
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--19th century and Poets, English--19th century
Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008. and The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Name):
United States.--Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors--20th century, African Americans--Social life and customs, Antislavery movements--United States, Authors, American--20th century, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
Art--Periodicals, Authors and publishers--United States, Editors--United States, Literature--Periodicals, Little magazines--Archives, and Periodicals--Publishing--United States
Travel diary of a voyage from New York to Alaska via San Francisco, 1868 October 24-1869 April 25. Meigs served as captain's clerk on an expedition to explore the newly-acquired territory on the U.S.S. Saginaw. The diary includes a daily account of the voyage and a list of addresses of shipmates, and recounts the destruction of a Kake (Tlingit) village on Kuiu Island, among other events. Accompanied by a transcript of the diary, a printed version of Hydrographic Notice No. 13, 1869, and two photographs: one of Peveril Meigs, 1869, and one of Richard Worsam Meade (captain of the U.S.S. Saginaw and Meigs's cousin), undated.
Description:
Peveril Meigs (1847-1921), of Richmond, New York, and Santa Barbara, California.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897 and Saginaw (Steamer)
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Two fragments of two holograph letters concerning Lenin's view of the Turkish-Italian War and the role of wives in society.
Description:
Each fragment is bound with more complete photostats of the page from which the fragment was taken, and an English translation of the photostat letter., Ex libris Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski, who acquired it from Grigoriĭ Aleksinskiĭ. Purchased from Valerian Lada-Mocarski with funds from the Beinecke Endowment, 1985., and Letters in Russian, with English translations.
Subject (Name):
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 and Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924--Relations with women
Subject (Topic):
Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912 and Wives--Conduct of life