The William Winlock Miller Collection consists primarily of the papers of William Winlock Miller (d. 1876), but also includes papers from other Pacific Northwest pioneers, including Governor Isaac I. Stevens, and Elwood Evans. The collection supplements material in the William Winlock Miller Papers, Western Americana Manuscript S-119. Additional manuscripts about the history of the Pacific Northwest, collected by the Miller family and given to Yale, are described in A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Collection of Western Americana, compiled by Mary C. Withington.
The Papers consist of photographs writings, clippings, and other material related to Wildschut's study of North American Indians. Series I, Photographs, includes 64 photographs, most of them portraits of Native Americans, primarily Crow Indians, including Plenty Coups and Two Leggings. Other photographs are of encampments, ceremonies, medicine bundles and other objects, the grave of Two Leggings, cavalrymen at the monument at Little Bighorn, and Wildschut handing Marshal Ferdinand Foch a portrait of Plenty Coups. Series II, Writings, includes eleven short typescript essays and a set of manuscript notes on Native American customs. Series III, Other Papers, contains four letters vouching for Two Belly (Crow Indian chief) while hunting, signed by four different Indian agents (one of them Nelson Appleton Miles), and clippings. Oversize, box 2, contains material from Series I, and is organized in box order.
This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to William Watson, acquired by the library from a variety of sources. Materials incorporated into the collection prior to March 2000 have been organized into four series. Additions since March 2000 have been placed in Series V.
Disbound photograph album with images that document people and the built landscape of the West Indies, circa 1859-1865, and views of people and sites in Wales, 1858. The album includes several portraits of Johnston, and a portrait that probably depicts his father, Thomas Francis Johnston.
The papers contain correspondence between Tully and his colleagues, primarily medical colleagues, and with the medical schools in which he taught. Also present is Tully's autograph diary covering the three months he spent studying medicine with Nathan Smith in Hanover, New Hampshire, drafts of his writings, two catalogues of his library, and a group of certificates and and diplomas he received from schools and professional societies.
The William Stanley Braithwaite Papers document his personal and professional life and span the dates 1797 to 1942. The Papers contain correspondence, writings, and other papers, which provide evidence of Braithwaite's career as a writer, publisher, and anthologist.
Papers relating to English author Robert Graves and his literary and social circle, collected by William S. Reese. The papers contain correspondence, 1916-1987 and undated, most autograph letters, signed, from Graves to correspondents including Desmond Flower, Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson, Violet and Walter McCormack, W. S. Merwin, Albert R. Mills, Frank Sanders, Siegfried Sassoon, Martin Secker, and other literary colleagues, friends, and family, with third-party correspondence about Graves, including letters from Beryl Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Laura (Riding) Jackson; autograph manuscript poems, 1920s-1960s; drafts, proofs, and correspondence relating to his novel An Ancient Castle, 1980-1981; a galley proof for Old Soldier Sahib, a memoir by Frank Richards, 1936; photographs of Graves, 1917-1934 and undated; a watercolor caricature of Graves by Sassoon, 1926; other correspondence and ephemera removed from books owned or inscribed by Graves, 1920s-1930s and undated; a storage box owned by a literary agent of Graves, undated; and exhibit labels for "Robert Graves: A Centennial Exhibition," curated by Reese at the Grolier Club, 1995.
The William Smith Papers document aspects of the adult life and theatrical career of the actor "Gentleman" William Smith. The papers span the dates 1760-1823, and are organized into Correspondence, Poems, and Personal Papers series.
The William Sherwood Papers document the life of William Sherwood, judge and farmer of Southport, Connecticut, who mined for gold in California and Australia during the 1850s. The papers span the years 1808-1906, but the bulk of the material covers the years 1840-80.
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