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

Collection consists of thirty-one manuscript letter, documents, and filing items, dating from 1858 to 1860. Primarily Jacob Forney's and John Cradlebaugh's correspondence with the Office of Indian Affairs, as well as supporting documents compiled by the Office during the investigation of Cradlebaugh's charges against Forney.

Letters, legal documents, and other material created or signed by United States presidents.

The Vachel Lindsay collection contains original correspondence and manuscripts by early twentieth-century American poet Vachel Lindsay. The collection features letters from Lindsay to poet Sara Teasdale, dating from 1913 to 1931, documenting their early courtship and ongoing friendship. Writings appear to have been sent to Teasdale as enclosures to the letters. There are also letters to Teasdale from Lindsay's widow, Elizabeth Connor Lindsay, following his death in late 1931.

The Vardis Fisher papers document the personal and professional life of prolific Western novelist and author Vardis Fisher.

The collection includes autograph and typescript descriptions of comedy, musical, dancing, acrobatic and other stage acts from individual, duo, and group performers and creators, submitted to Variety magazine's Protected Material Department between 1916 and 1925.

The papers document the life and work of Ved Mehta and include writings, correspondence, family archival material, personal papers, academic records, financial records, research and subject files, printed material, photographs, and electronic files. Writings includes drafts of (and for some, extensive research files for) all of Mehta's major works from 1957 to 2004. Drafts of writings and Mehta's outgoing correspondence are typewritten. Subject files and correspondence relate not only to Mehta's life and work, but also to his family, to acquaintances such as Ethel Clyde, and to organizations such as the Arkansas School for the Blind, Pomona College, and Oxford University.

The VERSEtility BOOKS Records consist of correspondence, financial papers, computer disks, and other administrative files relating to the bookselling business of VERSEtility BOOKS. Correspondence contains letters between Jacob and poets regarding their signed books and subsequent sales. A small portion of the correspondence relates to the appraisal and sale of poets' personal libraries to various universities. Financial papers and administrative files include sales records, bills, invoices, and correspondence regarding the financial operation of the business. Nine computer disks store VERSEtility BOOKS catalogs and advertisements for Poetry Magazine.

The Vicki Hearne Papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs, audiocassettes, and clippings that document the development of her writing, from her works of poetry in the 1970s, through the books and articles she wrote in defense of dogs at the turn of the twenty-first century. Her writings reveal the connection between her work as an animal trainer and as an author and poet, both vocations informed by her readings and interpretation of philosophers including Plato, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. Drafts of many of her works of poetry, non-fiction, and her book of fiction reveal the evolution of the works, and notes and comments by editors regarding works submitted for publication illustrate the nature of her relationship with her publishers. Letters from colleagues and friends, particularly her mentor, John Hollander, provide insight into the support she received from those individuals.