Collection contains letters from Christopher Isherwood to his brother, Richard Isherwood, and his mother, Kathleen Machell Smith Isherwood. The letters describe his life in America, his efforts to become a United States citizen, and his involvement wi...
Subject (Name):
Isherwood, Richard.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and English literature--20th century
Eight copies of typed transcriptions, some carbon, of letters written from France, 1915-1916 and n.d.; copy of a TL from Eliot Norton to the editor of an unidentified publication, n.d.; and copy of a typed list of equipment necessary for ambulance vol...
anno Domini Mcccclxxxxvi die xii Iulii [12 July 1496]
Call Number:
2017 +317
Image Count:
808
Alternative Title:
Correspondence
Description:
BEIN 2017 +317: Capital spaces, some with printed or manuscript guide-letters. Capitals supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red, blue, green or yellow. Rubricated throughout in red or blue. Contemporary manuscript notes.
Twenty-four pieces of correspondence written by Pound during his hospitalization at St. Elizabeths in Washington, D.C. Letters to Mac Low contain opinions on literature, literary scholarship, and politics. Some typed letters, dating from 1951, include...
Description:
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet.
Subject (Name):
Mac Low, Jackson , Pound, Dorothy, Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Political and social views, Pound, Omar S, and Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Antisemitism, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
"Il a été tiré à part 30 exemplaires numérotés de 1 à 30 qui constituent l'édition originale"--T.p. verso.
Publisher:
Paragraphes littéraires de Paris,
Subject (Name):
Foucault, Michel,--1926-1984--Ms. notes., Foucault, Michel,--1926-1984--Presentation inscription from F.-J. Ossang., Gadet, Daniel., and Ossang, F. J.,--1956---Presentation inscription to M. Foucault.
ALS illustrated with a small diagram concerning Faccio's work on the problem of determining longitude, and "on the theory of the Moon," which he had previously discussed with Isaac Newton.
Description:
Purchased from Emily Driscoll on the Library Associates Fund, 1968.
Subject (Geographic):
Moon--Orbit
Subject (Name):
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 and Whiston, William, 1667-1752
Manuscripts include Dr. Johnson's opinion on Lord Chesterfield's letters, apparently unpublished in this form, and a dream John Hoole had about Dr. Johnson three months after his passing.
The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from ...
Description:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations
Subject (Name):
Garin-Painter, Mary
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from ...
Description:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations
Subject (Name):
Garin-Painter, Mary
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from ...
Description:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations
Subject (Name):
Garin-Painter, Mary
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
Collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers. Correspondence consists of letters to Dunan from writers, editors, friends, and others including Louis Artus, Jean Bouchary, Rodolphe Bringer, André Coeuroy, Paul Louis Couchoud, Henry D...
Description:
Purchased from Les Amazones on the Edith and Richard French Fund, 2009.
A letter dated Oct. 1, 1866 from Custer in Monroe, Michigan to C. F. Hatch, Superintendant of the S.M. & N.C.R.R. concerns arrangements for Custer's horses on the train he is taking to Kansas.
Description:
George A. Custer, commander of the 7th Cavalry in the Battle of Little Big Horn. Frederick W. Benteen was senior captain of the 7th Cavalry, who commanded three companies at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Elizabeth Bacon Custer was General Custer's wi...
Subject (Geographic):
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)--Discovery and exploration
Subject (Name):
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876, Hatch, C. F., and United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th
Letter by Nakahara no Kiyonari, the deputy of Harima's provincial governor, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated [Kenkyū sannen] hachigatsu nijūsannichi [Aug. 23, 1192]. Fourth manuscript on right-hand screen of original "Komonjo ...
Description:
Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ac3.
Recueil des histoires de Troie. English and Recueil des histoires de Troye
Description:
[A]3r text begins: and zeland and thus whan alle thyse thynges cam ..
Subject (Geographic):
Troy (Extinct city)--Romances--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bedford, Francis,--1799-1883--Binding., Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, printer, Mansion, Colard, active 15th century, printer, Newton, A. Edward--(Alfred Edward),--1864-1940--Bookplate., Pruyn, John VanSchaick Lansing,--1811-1877--Bookplate., Ricci, Seymour de,--1881-1942--Autograph., and Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Incunabula in Yale Library--Single leaves
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House, correspondence and documents relating to Indian affairs in Oregon and Washington Territories, &c
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Name):
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868, United States. Army. Dept. of the Pacific (1853-1858), and United States. War Dept.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America --North America --Pacific Coast --Government relations, Indians of North America --Oregon, and Indians of North America --Washington (State)
Collection of letters to Rodman from other English-language authors discussing literary and personal matters, including published work, work in progress, publication, and health and travel plans. Correspondents include: W. H. Auden, Robert Bly, Richar...
Description:
Purchased from Stuart Lutz on the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2003.
Subject (Name):
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973, Bly, Robert, Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, Hersey, John, 1914-1993, Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986, Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006, and Mailer, Norman
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
Seven ALS from James Darrach, a Philadelphia businessman, to his wife Eliza while on a business trip to New Orleans. Darrach travelled on horseback to Pittsburg and Louisville, and by boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Natchez and New Orlea...
Description:
Gift of Charles and Lindley Eberstadt, 1971.
Subject (Geographic):
Mississippi River--Description and travel, New Orleans (La.)--Commerce, New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs, and Ohio River--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Darrach, Eliza and Darrach, James, fl. 1813-1814
Subject (Topic):
Cotton--Commerce, Indians of North America--Southern States, and Sugar--Commerce
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
Call Number:
GEN MSS 12
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
Two bound volumes containing: 164 letters to Halliwell-Phillips' nephew, Ernest Edward Baker; 18 letters to his niece, Mildred Baker; 12 letters to his sister, "Lorry" [Mrs. S. E. Baker?], one letter to Sir Edward Augustus Bond, secretary of the Brit...
Description:
James Halliwell-Phillipps, English author and biographer of Shakespeare.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. 1820-1889. (James Orchard),, Baker, Ernest Edward., Baker, Mildred., Bond, Edward Augustus, 1815-1898., Morgan, Thomas., and Baker, Ernest Edward
Autographed letter signed by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, and addressed to the booksellers Messrs. Dodsley on the subject of Horace Walpole. He commences the letter by asking to see any work by "Mr Walpole": "I am told of one that it is very difficul...
Description:
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork (1707-1762), writer, friend of Swift, Pope and Johnson.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and R. and J. Dodsley.
Brown family Brown, Frederick, b. 1830 Brown, Jason, 1823-1912 Brown, Wealthy
Published / Created:
1855-1856
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1671 B8131
Image Count:
12
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Four ALS. In a letter of June 12, 1855 Wealthy writes from Brownsville to her sister-in-law Ruth Thompson. She tells of the trip from Ohio to Kansas and of the cholera outbreak onboard the steamer "New Lucy". She comments on the other passengers, who ...
Description:
Five of abolitionist John Brown's sons moved to Kansas in 1855. The unmarried sons, Owen, Salmon, and Frederick went first and were followed by John Jr. and Jason and their families later that spring. The Browns staked claims near Pottawatomie and wer...
Subject (Geographic):
Kansas--History--1854-1861, Kansas--Politics and government--1854-1861, and Pottawatomie County (Kan.)
Subject (Name):
Brown family, Brown, Frederick, b. 1830, Brown, Jason, 1823-1912, Brown, John, 1800-1859, Brown, John, 1821-1895, Brown, Wealthy, and Pottawatomie Rifles
Subject (Topic):
Abolitionists--United States, Antislavery movements--United States, Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas, Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories, and Women pioneers--Kansas
Collection primarily of letters, and copies of letters, by John Sterling to members of the Fox family in the last four years before his death, mostly on social, philosophical, and religious subjects. The four letters in Sterling's hand are to Anna Ma...
Description:
John Sterling (1806-1844) was a writer, curate, and poet. Diagnosed with consumption, or tuberculosis, in his twenties, he resigned his position as curate of Hurstmonceaux and devoted himself to writing. His works include the historical novel Arthur...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Falmouth (England), and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Barclay, 1817-1855., Fox, Caroline, 1819-1871., Fox, Anna Maria., Fox family., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., and Sterling family.
Subject (Topic):
Bereavement, Death, Social aspects, English literature, Tuberculosis, Intellectual life, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
A letterpress copybook containing approximately 1000 letters from Hatton to authors, requesting contributions for periodicals which Hatton was editing, principally "Gentleman's Magazine", and concerning other business affairs
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Braddon, M. E. 1835-1915. (Mary Elizabeth),, Cheltnam, Charles Smith., Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879., Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873., Hatton, Joseph, 1841-1907., Hogg, James, 1830-1910., Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887., and Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870.
Four ALS (August 21 and November 22, 1903, May 24, 1904, and June 16, 1905), to "My dear Mr. [Joseph Henry] Gest," director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, and one ALS with envelope postmarked March 8, 1905, addressed to his friend and former painting t...
Description:
American artist, who, after being commissioned by the California philanthropist Mrs. Phoebe Hearst to paint Plains Indians and scenes of Indian life, lived with his wife Addie Byram Sharp from 1902 to 1910 at Crow Agency, Montana, and travelled and pa...
Subject (Geographic):
Crow Agency (Mont.) and Montana--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Crow Agency Hotel, Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919, Gest, Joseph Henry, Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1841-1919, Sharp, Addie Byram, Sharp, Joseph Henry, 1859-1953, Sherburne, J. D, and United States Bureau of Indian Affairs--Crow Agency
Subject (Topic):
Artists--United States, Crow Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Montana--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Montana--Social life and customs, and Painting, American--Montana
The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from ...
Description:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations
Subject (Name):
Leeming, David Adams, 1937-
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from ...
Description:
Purchased from Walter O. and Linda Evans on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations
Subject (Name):
Lerner, Eugene, 1901-
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
Letter to "the Rt. Honble. Lady Hester Stanhope, near Zidon, on Mt. Lebanon" introducing "my friends, & fellow countrymen, Dr. Mott, Dr. Jackson, & Mr. Waring of New York, & Dudley M. Haydon Esq. of Kentuckey, who are about to leave this [city] for Al...
Subject (Name):
King, Jonas, 1792-1869--Correspondence and Stanhope, Hester Lucy,--Lady,--1776-1839
Thanks him for sending a copy of his book, Fifteen years among the Mormons, prior to publication and requests more information about the truthfulness and subsequent history of Mrs. Smith, the main character of the book.
Subject (Name):
Calkins, Norman A.--(Norman Allison),--1822-1895 --Correspondence, Green, Nelson Winch --Correspondence, and Smith, Mary Ettie V.,--b. 1829
Subject (Topic):
Fifteen years among the Mormons and Mormons--United States
Autograph letter, signed, March 4, 1847, by Zachary Taylor to Edward George Washington Butler that describes events leading to and including the Battle of Buena Vista against Mexican forces commanded by Antonio López de Santa Anna. The letter also di...
Description:
Edward George Washington Butler (1800-1888), was the son of Edward Butler (1762-1803), and a ward of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). In 1826, Butler married Frances Parke Lewis (1797-1875). After graduating from the United States Military Academy, Butler ...
Subject (Name):
Butler, Edward George Washington, 1800-1888, Butler, William Orlando, 1791-1880, Ford, Allyn Kellogg, 1878-1964--Ownership, Minnesota Historical Society Ownership, Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876, and Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866
Subject (Topic):
Buena Vista, Battle of, Mexico, 1847--Personal narratives, American, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Campaigns, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Personal narratives, American
ALS from W.J. Chute to his friend Grimston, relating the news he had heard about his friend's travels through Europe with their friend C. Collyer and expressing the hopes that they might meet up in the near future and his eagerness to leave Angers; he...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Angers (France)
Subject (Name):
Chute, William, 1757-1824., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., and Palliser, Hugh, Sir, 1723-1796.
Santa Clara Mining Association of Baltimore Wright, Robert Clinton
Published / Created:
1855 Oct
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1800 SA591
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
ALS in which Robert Clinton Wright, as President of the Santa Clara Mining Association of Baltimore, gives Faxon instructions on his duties and responsibilities as the newly appointed general superintendent of the Association's mercury mining and othe...
Description:
Purchased from Argonaut Book Shop on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1969.
Subject (Name):
Faxon, Eben, Santa Clara Mining Association of Baltimore, and Wright, Robert Clinton
Subject (Topic):
Mercury industry and trade--California--Santa Clara County and Mercury mines and mining--California--Santa Clara County
Autograph letter, signed, from Private Timothy Z. Smith to "Sam", likely a friend from Smith's hometown. The letter relays general news of Smith's welfare and thoughts on his life as a soldier since volunteering for service five months earlier. Smith ...
Description:
Gift of Christa Sammons, 2007.
Subject (Geographic):
New Orleans (La.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 and New Orleans (La.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Butler, Benjamin F (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893, Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1878, Smith, Timothy Z, United States Army Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 31st (1862-1865) Company K, and United States Army--Military life
ALS containing a firsthand account of the battle of Brazito and the taking of El Paso by United States troops under the command of Colonel Alexander Doniphan, Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell, Major William Gilpin, and Captains Hudson and Reid in December ...
Description:
Purchased from Frontier America on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1991.
Subject (Geographic):
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Doniphan, Alexander William, Gilpin, William, 1815-1894, Hepburn, Samuel Chew, Martin, William, fl. 1847, and United States Army--Military life--History--19th century
Subject (Topic):
Doniphan's Expedition, 1846-1847, Mexican War, 1846-1848--Campaigns--Mexico, and Mexican War, 1846-1848--Personal narratives
ALS written by Major George Henry Thomas while stationed at Fort Mason, Texas, with the 2nd Cavalry, to Adjutant General Colonel Samuel Cooper. Thomas briefly requests copies of several orders issued in 1856. Most of the letter concerns information ...
Description:
George Henry Thomas served as a United States Army general in the Civil War. In 1857 Major Thomas was stationed at Fort Mason, Texas, having previously served for a year at Fort Yuma, Arizona Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Navigation and Fort Yuma (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876, Thomas, George H. (George Henry), 1816-1870, and United States Army Cavalry, 2nd
