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

This finding aid encompasses single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts relating to music, acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times. Some individual music manuscripts representing complete works are also cataloged in Yale University Library's on-line Public Access Catalog (Orbis), in addition to being listed here.

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb117. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb158. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb164. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

The Herman W. Liebert Manuscript Collection includes many of the historical and literary manuscripts that Liebert acquired for his personal collection and gave singly or in groups to the library, as well as a small body of his personal correspondence with prominent individuals. (However, Mr. Liebert's many gifts of manuscripts and other material pertaining to the English poet and essayist, Austin Dobson, are housed and described separately as the Herman W. Liebert Collection of Austin Dobson.) The collection also incorporates a group of manuscripts purchased by the library in 1995 from the Liebert estate, and two works by Max Beerbohm (folders 8-9) believed to have been part of Mr. Liebert's collection, which were given to the library in 1995 by his children, Frederick P. Liebert and Lucy B. Liebert, in memory of their father. Other caches of Liebert gifts remain in previously cataloged collections.

The Edward Bliss Reed Carol Collection brings together the manuscript portion of items collected by Edward Bliss Reed. The Yale library system has various other printed items about carols given by Mr. Reed. These have been cataloged separately.

The Fishing Manuscripts Collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, and other documents relating to fishing, flies for fishing, and fishing trips taken. Most of the items were formerly in the collection of David Wagstaff (1882-1951).

The Sir Charles Blagden Papers contain scientific and travel notes, correspondence, and printed material documenting aspects of the life and scientific work of Sir Charles Blagden. These include observations on travel in England and on the continent in the 1780s; memoranda on scientific experiments and observations, including notes by Lavoisier; letters to his brother, John Blagden Hale; and proof sheets of Philosophical Transactions for 1789.

Autograph manuscript material documenting chiefly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history. A small number of seventeenth-century items are present. The collection consists mainly of correspondence and documents from the colonial, revolutionary, Federal, and antebellum periods, but extends well into the post-Civil War era. The collection includes a substantial group of the papers of writer and politician Joel Barlow (1754-1812), covering the period 1775-1812.

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb138. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.