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The papers consist of a typed transcript of a diary kept by Hannah Maria Catlin Phelps between 1849 and 1859. She was the daughter of Julius Catlin, lieutenant governor of Connecticut, 1858-1861. It depicts the social life of a young woman in Hartford, Connecticut, and her visits to New York, Washington, D.C., and Niagara Falls. The last two years of the diary include accounts of her wedding and the birth of her daughter in October, 1858.

This collection comprises eleven letters from 1856 to 1858 sent by Yale College student William Henry Anderson to his parents, Francis D. and Jane Anderson. Much of the correspondence is concerned with the events of February 9, 1858, when Anderson and fellow members of the Yale student organization, the Crocodile Club, got into an argument with a group of New Haven firemen outside their firehouse. The argument escalated and an unknown person among the Yale students fired two bullets. One of them struck fireman William Miles and he died from the injury the next day. Anderson and the other members of the Crocodile Club were brought to trial, where all of them invoked their Fifth Amendment right. Because the prosecution was unable to learn who actually committed the murder, none of the students were charged. However, Yale faculty asked the Crocodile Club to disband and the students agreed.

Rev. John Moses Morris (1837-1889) was a minister, chaplain, editor, legislative clerk in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and Charleston, S.C. Diaries, notes, correspondence, clippings, on church history and religious subjects, the Civil War and the Connecticut General Assembly. Click here to see the scanned paper finding aid and container list (pdf).

Record books, None; Probate files, 1858-1900.

20 separate volumes including diaries, account books and letter books. One pass admitting F.A. Curtiss, brother of Homer Curtiss, to the Fairfax General Hospital where Homer Curtiss was recovering from a battlefield wound.

Appointments by governors of Charles Nettleton to serve as commissioner of deeds in various states, 1858-1873.

A journal, short essays and notes, and fourteen letters written by Harvey Harris Bloom to members of his family and friends. The letters describe his life while he was teaching at an academy in Millington, New Jersey and his student years at Yale College (1859-1861) before he enlisted in the Union army. Bloom's journal as well as his writings are largely devoted to religious meditations, but also included are stories, poems, and disputes written while at Yale College.

The most important part of the Thomas Hartley Crawford Papers relate to Crawford's work on a presidential commission investigating land fraud in connection with the 1832 treaty with the Creek Indians. There are also legal opinions, reports, financial records and correspondence with members of Congress which reflect his work as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1836-1845, and as a judge in Washington, D.C., 1845-1861. Among his correspondents are Dixon H. Lewis, C. C. Clay, William Mitchell and J. C. Ten Eyck.

Notebooks, papers and diploma relating to George Washington Lyon's student years at Columbia University.

The collection documents several episodes in the history of Indian removal in the southeastern United States and Missouri, focusing on the activities of Generals Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Thomas Sidney Jesup in the 1830s and early 1840s. Material includes autograph letters, signed, and manuscript reports, diaries, and maps.