Collections : [Wesleyan University -Special Collections and Archives]

This collection documents state and federal abortion laws and court cases in the United States, spanning 1967 to 1973. It contains state and federal abortion litigation case files, documents, and correspondence; materials of the James Madison Institute; research files on aspects of abortion law, including studies of the Constitution and state laws on rights of the fetus; and publications regarding abortion and abortion laws including newspaper clippings about court cases.

This collection contains the surviving records of the club. The two scorebooks provide detailed inning-by-inning statistics for Agallian players for each of the recorded games; most games have dates and duration of time ascribed to them and scorer and umpire identification. Some matches which are recorded in these volumes took place against other Wesleyan teams as well as Connecticut baseball clubs and teams from other universities.

The Albert Camus Papers consist of correspondence, manuscript and typescript drafts of Camus writings, photographs, and a questionnaire completed by Camus, which was sent to him by Wesleyan Professor Carl Viggiani. All materials are in French.

This collection contains a first hand account of a Civil War soldier and prisoner. The manuscript narrative gives details of Alfred S. Roe's experience in the Army and in prison, his travels, fellow soldiers, officers, and their conversations. Included in box 2 are Alfred Roe's letters to his parents, brothers, sister, aunt and uncle, and dear friend. There is also correspondence to Alfred Roe's parents from fellow soldier H. Hill Wheeler when Alfred went missing and again when he (Wheeler) learns Alfred is a prisoner.

This collection contains anecdotes written by Wesleyan alumni from the classes of 1859 to 1936. Major topics include their experiences with former Wesleyan professors, pranks performed with their classmates, the burning of North College in 1906, and the arrival of women on campus in 1872. Some sample reminscences:

This collection includes operating documents, memoranda, correspondence and notes of the Wesleyan chapter of the AAUP from 1973 to 1987. It also includes published information from the national AAUP and from AAUP branches at other institutions, most notably Yale and Trinity College. It also contains books and pamphlets put out by the AAUP, mainly from the 1970s, as well as membership kits from several years. The chronological files contain notes, memoranda, and correspondence from members of the AAUP to the group, and between the AAUP and the administration.

The collection contains folders for each of the groups represented on campus that were active in anti-nuclear arms protests. These folders contain an array of information on the groups. Memos to and from the student groups and faculty as well as documents with their budgets, meeting minutes and membership lists are all included. Many groups also have a group statement with their goals as a group along with information on the greater anti-nuclear movement.

The bulk of the Apostles Club Records are meeting minutes, which were recorded beginning in 1894 until the last meeting in 1967, although they become increasingly more detailed in later years. Up until early 1952 the minutes were recorded in journals, but after that the secretaries began to type them. The minutes specified host and presenter for each meeting, as well as the topic of discussion. In addition to minutes, there are a few pieces of correspondence from 1939, two clippings about the Apostles Club from 1895 and 1897, and lists of members between 1920 and 1965.

This collection contains meeting notes from the April 29 Coalition and their arrangements for the May 12, 1982 North College Sit-in to reinstate Wesleyan University's aid-blind admissions policy. Since this occured before the invention of cell phones, there are many letters written by the 19 students who spent 150 hours locked in North College. The coalition had a team of runners that would deliver supplies and messages to those locked in. The sit-in was also during the same time as reading week and the annual Spring Fling concert.

Excepting two copies of court records from 1851 and 1853, the collection contains correspondence addressed to Arthur Benjamin Calef dating from 1856 to 1861. John Woodruff is the author of the bulk of the correspondence; his letters - usually marked "private" - chiefly relate to the political situation in Washington, D.C. and Connecticut, especially with regards to pre-Civil War tensions, campaigning, and Calef's appointment to the position of Middletown Postmaster. Other letters are also primarily politically motivated, but include requests for references from Calef or requests that he exert his influence to procure letter-writers certain positions, etc. These letter-writers include Connecticut Governor William A. Buckingham.