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Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Beinecke Rare Book Library
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Frederick Knott papers, 1923-2003, bulk 1948-2003 18.7 Linear Feet

Knott, Frederick
The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Frederick Knott in the course of his activities as a playwright and screenwriter. Material includes drafts of scripts, production photographs, printed ephemera and audiovisual recordings. Writings include drafts of stage and film versions of Dial M for Murder, and photographs, contracts and other documentation of the film version directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other material documents the writing and production of Wait Until Dark and Write Me a Murder. A small amount of student papers in Series III (Personal Papers) and writings dating from Knott's childhood document his early life.
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Frederick Locker-Lampson Correspondence, 1770-1897, bulk 1853-1885 11.89 Linear Feet

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895
The Frederick Locker-Lampson Correspondence is a collection of over 2,000 letters, accompanied by a few manuscripts and family papers, consisting primarily of letters received by Frederick Locker-Lampson. In addition to substantial quantities of letters from members of his immediate and extended families, the collection contains letters from scores of English literary figures, including F.T. Palgrave, Simeon Solomon, James Gibbs, and Richard Garnett. Some of Locker-Lampson's better-known literary friends and colleagues, Including Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Austin Dobson, are represented by single letters, although there are no substantive correspondences with them. The collection also contains correspondence pertaining to Frederick's father, Edward Hawke Locker, including letters to his wife written during his naval career, and letters from the Irish author John Wilson Croker.
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Frederick Mortimer Clapp Papers, 1852-1969, bulk 1906-1969 52.55 Linear Feet

Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, 1879-1969
The Frederick Mortimer Clapp Papers consists of personal and professional correspondence, writings, research material, lecture notes, subject files, diaries, and other papers documenting Clapp's activities as an art historian, educator, and poet as well as his personal and professional relationships. Writings include drafts and proofs for Clapp's various collections of verse and other works such as A History of the 17th Aero Squadron (1920) and The Frick Collection : Paintings : Summary Catalogue (1935). Amongst the extensive lecture notes and research material on various topics are some notes relating to Clapp's research on Pontormo and his work with The Frick Collection. Also found in the collection are the personal and family papers of Clapp's wife, Maud Ede Clapp, which consist of correspondence, diaries, writings and artwork.
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Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983 65.12 Linear Feet

Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson)
The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.
Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists. Also present are historical manuscripts, photographs, albums, and other papers. While the contents of the collection span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, most date from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, with particular strengths in French, Italian, German, and British music, French literature, and British art.
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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh collection of photographs and drawings of the Colorado River region., 1870-1934 3.48 Linear Feet

Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
The collection contains approximately 900 photographic prints, relief halftones, postcards, negatives, tintypes, and pen-and-ink drawings depicting the Colorado River region and other areas of the West. The early photographs are by E. O. Beaman, James Fennemore, John K. Hillers, photographers on the 1871 Powell expedition. The collection includes relief halftone prints of their photographs, evidently created for inclusion in Dellenbaugh's books on the Colorado River and the West. In addition, there are photographs by Dellenbaugh and other amateur photographers who traveled to the West, as well as by professionals William Henry Jackson and the Kolb Brothers. Subjects include the Grand, Glen, and Havasu Canyons, the Colorado and Green Rivers, Zion National Park, miscellaneous photographs of Arizona, California Colorado, and Utah, and portraits of expedition members and Native Americans. There are 24 drawings by Dellenbaugh which were used as illustrations in Romance of the Colorado and Breaking the West.
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Frederick Stoever Dickson collection regarding Henry Fielding, 1733-1937, bulk 1900-1922 12.2 Linear Feet

Dickson, Frederick Stoever, 1850-1925
The Frederick Stoever Dickson Collection regarding Henry Fielding consists of correspondence, writings and subject files documenting research and scholarship on Henry Fielding. There are two series: Frederick Stoever Dickson Papers and Material from Other Sources.
The Frederick Stoever Dickson Papers consist of three subseries: Correspondence, Writings and Subject Files. Correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Dickson from publishers, bookdealers, journal editors, libraries and Fielding scholars. Writings includes draft and printed versions of work by Dickson and a considerable amount of periodical literature on Fielding. Subject Files contain research material, chiefly bibliographic clippings, on Fielding.
Material from Other Sources consists of two subseries: Correspondence and Writings. Correspondence contains letters from Dickson to Wilbur Lucius Cross and third-party correspondence between Cross and others. Writings consists of a small amount of periodical literature on Fielding.
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Frederick Stoever Dickson collection regarding William Makepeace Thackeray, 1853-1912, bulk 1891-1912 12.42 Linear Feet

Dickson, Frederick Stoever, 1850-1925
The collection consists of manuscript and typescript material created by Frederick Stoever Dickson and others pertaining to Dickson's research on the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray; included are letters to Dickson from authors, librarians, publishers, and other colleagues.
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Frederick W. Beinecke collector's files, 1950-1971 9.25 Linear Feet

Beinecke, Frederick W.
The files consist of inventories and a card index for Frederick W. Beinecke's Western Americana collection. The collection documented in this material was donated to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, chiefly between 1960 and 1971. The inventories (Series I.) document Frederick W. Beinecke's larger donations, including a collection on the Mexican War in 1960, a collection of printed material in 1962, and material donated at the time of his death in 1971. The card index (Series II.) documents Frederick W. Beinecke's acquisition of material in the 1950s and 1960s and includes documentation of provenance and acquisition, and descriptions provided by booksellers. The cards also include notes on handling of the material at Yale. The index cards informed the descriptions of material in catalog records in Yale University Library's catalog.
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Frederick W. Hilles Manuscript Collection and Papers, 1645-1979 70.47 Linear Feet

Hilles, Frederick W. (Frederick Whiley), 1900-1975
Manuscript collection and papers of Frederick W. Hilles. The manuscript collection includes correspondence and writings by James Boswell, Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and members of their families. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; research files and writings; personal and family papers, including material related to Susan Morse Hilles and Charles Dewey Hilles; teaching materials from Hilles' tenure at Yale University and Temple University; and material documenting Hilles' service on the boards of the Yale Library Associates and the Yale University Press.
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Frederic M. Halford papers, 1886-1970, bulk 1886-1914 3.5 Linear Feet

Halford, Frederic M. (Frederic Michael), 1844-1914

Drafts of books by Halford on dry-fly fishing and creation of artificial flies, and a draft of an autobiography, 1886-1912; scrapbooks containing clippings of reviews of books by Halford, 1897-1911, and clippings of obituaries and other articles about Halford, 1914-1915; and papers of Ellen Horne Kemp, 1896-1907, consisting of proofs of illustrations for books by Halford and related notes. Most drafts by Halford are autograph manuscript or typescript, with revisions and printer's annotations, some incorporating writings or annotations by J. J. Hardy, W. A. Hunter, George Selwyn Marryat, William Senior, or G. E. M. Skues. Some drafts are accompanied by galley or page proofs with revisions, photographs and printed proofs for plates; or contracts and accounts with publishers George Routledge and Sons or Vinton & Company. Kemp's papers contain hand-colored and uncolored proofs of her drawings of artificial flies, with related autograph manuscript notes; notes and proofs for illustrations by Duncan Moul; and a few drawings by Kemp and letters to her from Halford and Vinton & Company. Kemp's papers are accompanied by autograph manuscript notes, circa 1970, by Phoebe Leicester, a former owner and possibly a descendant of Kemp's daughter Jane Horne Kemp Leicester.

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