Collections : [University of Connecticut -Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center]

Margaret Waring Buck was born in New York in 1905. She was an illustrator, naturalist, and physiognomist who lived much of her life in Mystic, Connecticut, up until her death in 1997. Miss Buck studied the 'science' of Face Reading with Dr. Holmes W. Merton in the 1930s in New York City. Miss Buck also illustrated many books on natural subjects, including Animals Through the Year, published in 1941, and How They Grow, published in 1972. Margaret Waring Buck died on 13 March 1997.

Margaret Witter Fuller was born 23 January 1872, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1874, the family moved to Norwich, Connecticut. Miss Fuller resided in Norwich for many years. A prolific writer, she authored many poems, plays and novels. Miss Fuller died 1 February 1954 in Boston, MA.

Papers of a Russian ballerina in the Moscow Bolshoi Theater who emigrated to Connecticut in 1957.

The collection contains the professional papers of Marie Ferguson Peters, the first African American Professor at the University (Home Economics, 1963), and her husband, psychologist James S. Peters II. Drafts and proofs of Dr. James Peters' work is also included in the collection.

Marie Lawson, resident of Westport, Connecticut, was an author and illustrator of books for young people. The collection contains research notes, drafts, dummies, and illustrations for her Strange Sea Stories and a number of apparently unpublished works.

The collection contains the papers of Marilyn Nelson, award-winng author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. A three-time finalist for the National Book Award, Marilyn Nelson has been honored with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Connecticut Arts Award; the Department of the Army's Commander's Award for Public Service; and the Frost Medal, the Poetry Society of America's award for "distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry." She currently serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and is Poet-in-Residence of The Poets Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, Marilyn was Poet Laureate of Connecticut, 2001– 2006, and founding director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers' colony, 2004-2010.

The collection contains ephemera, correspondence, published materials associated with Connecticut Democratic politics collected by Marion Hoffman.

Marion Toms was a life long resident of East Hartford, Connecticut. The collection contains personal and family materials dated 1911-1985.

The collection consists of one manuscript, a Junior honors project, completed by Ms. Fallows for the Sociology/Anthropolgy Department at Wellesley College in 1947. The manuscript documents the early ethnic history of Granby, Connecticut and the reactions of the long-time residents to the arrival and assimilation of several ethnic groups.

The collection consists of 11 oral histories with leading activists in Connecticut who have been a part of the marriage equality movement as well as been engaged in other forms of LGBT activism in the state and beyond. The interviews were conducted by Valerie Love, Curator for Human Rights and Alternative Press Collections, between July 2010 and April 2011. Six of the eleven interviews have been transcribed and are available.