Collections : [Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library]

Correspondence, notes, and copies documenting Stephen Parks's research regarding Charles Cotton's autograph and handwriting in order to authenticate a manuscript copy of Cotton's poem, "Contentation." Research files include correspondence, notes, photocopies, and photographs of Cotton manuscripts from repositories including the Beinecke, Bodleian, British, Clark, Derby Borough, Houghton, Huntington, and New York Public Libraries, as well as dealers and scholars including Peter Croft and Alvin Dust. Research copies consist of manuscripts, including a complete copy the Derby Manuscript; photographs of manuscripts used in Parks's article on Cotton; dealer catalogs; and secondary sources.

Correspondence, research copies, and writings documenting Stephen Parks's research on John Dunton and the English book trade. Correspondents include Dunton scholars Robert Haig, S. Hodgson, Patricia Köster, and Gilbert McEwen, as well as the American Antiquarian Society, British Museum, Glasgow University Library, and the Union Theological Seminary Library. Research copies consist of photocopies and photostats of primary and secondary sources. Copies of primary sources include two volumes of Dunton manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, Ms Rawlinson D.71 and D.72; Dunton's will and that of his father, Rev. John Dunton; Dunton imprints; and legal papers. Copies of secondary sources include a Harvard University Ph.D. dissertation, "The True Secret History of Mr. John Dunton," by Theodore Merryman Hatfield, 1926. Also includes reprints of two papers by Parks, "John Dunton and The Works of the Learned," and "Bookseller's Trade Sales," both from the journal The Library, 1968 and 1969.

The Stephen Sandy Papers consist of correspondence, subject files, writings, personal papers, printed material, photographs, and audiovisual material created and accumulated by American poet Stephen Sandy. The papers document the creation, publication, and reception of Sandy's work from his earliest pamphlet, Mary Baldwin (1962), to more recent work, shedding light on Sandy's poetic sensibility and his personal and professional relationships with other poets. Significant quantities of material relate to his work at Bennington College.

Contains letters between Mulford and various people, including Samuel Whelpley and Philemon Dickerson; diaries by Mulford documenting his early education, his years at Yale College, and travels shortly after graduation; a list of speaking appointments for Yale University's commencement, 1806; Mulford's certificate of admission to the Georgia bar; and articles of a legal partnership between Thomas E. Lloyd and Mulford. A scrapbook contains personal papers and biographical material.

This collection consists of material created and accumlated by Stephen Yenser in the course of researching and editing the literary work of James Merrill. Material primarily includes correspondence between Yenser and Merrill spanning 1967 to 1995 and various drafts of Merrill's writings.

The collection consists of writings by John Sterling, including Coeur-de-Lion, The Swiss Peasant Girl, and Thoughts in Rhyme; letters from Sterling to his son Edward concerning his education; and commonplace books and diaries kept by other members of the family, including his brother, Sir Anthony Coningham Sterling, and his mother Hester. The collection also contains a sketchbook which belonged to Sterling's granddaughter, the painter Frances Sterling.

Photographs created by Steve Fitch that document sites chiefly in the American West, 1970-2016, and printed 1990-2017. The collection contains 83 prints from his photographic projects, which include views of the vernacular roadside of highways, such as neon motel signs and hand-painted business signs, drive-in movie theaters, abandoned buildings, and radio towers. Photographs include sites in Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

The Steven H. Scheuer Collection of Television Program Scripts contains approximately five thousand American television scripts dating from about 1953 to 1963. The scripts offer insight into programming during the period in which television became a fixture in the average home and the primary medium for news and entertainment. The collection contains a wide range of program genres, including variety shows, drama serials, historical drama, crime drama and reenactments, plays, situation comedies, westerns, documentaries, interviews, music, and religious programs. All three major broadcast networks in the United States during this time period--ABC, CBS, and NBC--are represented. The collection also contains a small number of press releases and some material documenting the activities of TV Key, including draft reports and synopses.