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

This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Zora Neale Hurston, which the library has chosen to group and list as an artificial collection.

The collection consists of material created by or relating to José María Chacón y Calvo, which was accumulated by Zenaida Gutiérrez-Vega in the course of her research on the life and work of the Cuban-born literary critic and academic. Material includes original and copies of correspondence received by Chacón y Calvo from various Cuban, Spanish, and Latin American poets and writers; original manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies, and clippings of writings by Chacón y Calvo; an annotated typescript of Chacón y Calvo's diaries dating from 1917 to 1918; research files containing manuscripts, notes, letters, and printed material relating to other writers (possibly compiled by either Chacón y Calvo or Gutiérrez-Vega); original and photocopies of photographs of Chacón y Calvo; and other material.

The Zdenek Nemecek Papers contain Nemecek's correspondence, his numerous writings and a few by others, and personal papers. They document the life of a Czech literary, political, and social writer, who was able to express himself in a variety of genres. The papers span the dates 1925-84, but his "emigration" years in the United States from 1950 until his death in 1957, form the most valuable part of the collection.

The Zbigniew Herbert Papers consist of letters, manuscripts, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Zbigniew Herbert. The collection spans the years 1968-1989, with the bulk of the material dating from 1985-1989.

The collection contains miscellaneous writings and correspondence ofAmerican writer Zane Grey.

The Zachariah Brigden Papers document the life of an eighteenth-century Boston silversmith and the lives of other members of the Brigden and Edwards families. They will be of interest both to those studying early American silversmiths and to those attempting to reconstruct silver ownership in the Boston area. The papers span the dates 1691-1798, but the bulk of the material covers the period 1748-87.

The collection consists of writings, correspondence, writings of others, other papers, printed materials, audiovisual materials, and electronic media that document the life and work of African American poet Yusef Komunyakaa. The writings and correspondence are intermixed with writings of others and other papers that collectively document Komunyakaa's poetry, writings, teaching, and personal life. Printed materials include clippings, writings by Komunyakaa, and promotional materials. Audiovisual materials include audio and video recordings of Komunyakaa.

This collection includes papers, photographs, and moving films that document the internment of Japanese American Yonekazu Satoda at the Jerome Relocation Center in Denison, Arkansas, 1942-1945, as well as his military service with the United States Army in Japan, 1946-1948. Additional material documents other aspects of his life, especially his education as an accountant, as well as correspondence with friends and businesses.

The Yehuda Amichai Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, journals, photographs, audio-visual material, printed material, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. The collection spans the years 1929 to 1999, with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1960s to late 1990s.

The Yale University Press records contain setting copies and proofs for works published by the press from 1919 through 1964 for many well-known twentieth century authors. Materials relating to multiple titles dating from the 1950s can be found, for example, for Gertrude Stein and Eugene O'Neill. Works can also be found for a number of authors affiliated with the University either as students or faculty. Many of the early titles in the collection were published as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. These authors include: Alfred Bellinger, the publisher John Chipman Farrar, John Hollander, Victor Starbuck, Viola Chittenden White, Amos Niven Wilder, and Wayland Wells Williams.

The collection consists of eight videotaped recordings of Native American alumni of Yale University, recorded in November 2005 and November 2008, as well as paperwork documenting the project and its purpose. Interview subjects are asked to reflect on their student experiences at Yale University. Questions explore the interview subject's tribal background, experiences at Yale, college activities, perceptions of the University, and present employment. Each interview is conducted by an identified Native American undergraduate. Two recordings of events held during the 2005 Henry Roe Cloud Conference: A Celebration of Native Americans at Yale are also present.

Astronomical reference materials, including star charts, atlases, catalogs, and maps. The collection also includes fourteen manuscript volumes documenting parallaxes, photographs of the moon taken by Lunar Orbiter I, II, and III in the 1960s, and a small amount of material related to Yale's observatory, including records of the Trustees of the Winchester Observatory from 1871.

The Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts contains papers of both Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, intermixed. The papers include holograph manuscripts by Tocqueville (including the manuscript of De La Démocratie en Amérique), Beaumont, their families and associates, as well as holograph copies by contemporary and later copyists, and photo-duplicated copies of originals held elsewhere.

The Yale Review Records: 1911-1949 consist primarily of business correspondence between the first two editors of The Yale Review, Wilbur L. Cross and Helen MacAfee, and writers whose works appeared in the periodical during their tenures. The collection has been organized into one series, Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by author; "letter general" files, which as a rule contain correspondents represented by relatively few items, precede the individual files under each letter. The records span the years 1911-1959, with the bulk of the material dating from between 1925 and 1940.

This finding aid encompasses single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times, which the Library has chosen to describe here rather than as separate entries in Yale University Library's on-line Public Access Catalog (Orbis). These materials include literary manuscripts, individual or small groups of letters, and single documents. Materials are grouped under headings for author or other personal or corporate name to which they most closely relate. Items of unidentified authorship are grouped separately under "Unidentified" at the end of the finding aid. Group numbers were assigned to headings in an initial alphabetical sequence and thereafter in order of processing; within each group, folders (F-[#]) and volumes (V-[#]) are numbered in order of processing.

The Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series consists of recordings of poetry readings sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature as well as fliers, announcements, pamphlets and broadsides produced to publicize and accompany the series. The collection includes recordings of annual Yale student poetry readings, as well as readings by established and published contemporary American poets. Recordings and printed material related to the Bollingen Prize Readings in September 2002 are also present. The finding aid will be updated as new readings are recorded as part of the Yale Collection of American Literature's ongoing speaker series.

This finding aid encompasses single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times, which the Library has chosen to describe here rather than as separate entries in Yale University Library's on-line Public Access Catalog (Orbis). These materials include literary manuscripts, individual or small groups of letters, and single documents. Materials are grouped under headings for author or other personal or corporate name to which they most closely relate. Items of unidentified authorship are grouped separately under "Unidentified" at the end of the finding aid. Group numbers were assigned as items were added to the collection; entries appear in alphabetical order by main entry, not in group number order. Within each group, folders (F-[#]) and volumes (V-[#]) are numbered in order of processing.

The Yale Collection of American Literature Letter Collection contains single letters and small groups of letters acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times, previously represented in the Beinecke Manuscripts Card Catalog. Letters sometimes include enclosures such as manuscript drafts and clippings. Folders frequently contain additional provenance, descriptive, or other information not reflected in this list.

The W. W. H. Davis Papers contain correspondence, writings, journals, drawings, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia which document aspects of the life and career of William Watts Hart Davis, attorney, editor, military officer, and historian. The papers span the dates 1846 to 1896, with the bulk of the material falling between 1846 and 1864.

This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to W. Somerset Maugham, which the library has chosen to group and list as an artificial collection.

This finding aid encompasses accessions of materials pertaining to W. S. Gilbert.

The World Performance Project at Yale Records include performance programs, posters, and other publicity materials; participant contracts and agreements; administrative files; and audiovisual material and digital files that document the Project's performances, workshops, discussions, symposia and other events and activities from 2006 through 2012.

In 1979 an effort was made to microfilm women-related collections and items in the Western Americana collection. Six microfilm sets were created: Frontier Women, Frontier Women II, Frontier Women III, Women in California, Women in California II, and Mormon Women. A finding aid was created for the film and was included on each reel.

The W. J. Linton Collection chiefly contains William James Linton's papers, including correspondence, autograph manuscripts and other writings by and about Linton, graphic work, and personal papers, which were inherited by his daughters Ellen Wade Linton and Margaret Linton Mather, when their father died in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1897. It includes literary and graphic material that Linton brought with him when he emigrated from England to the United States in the mid-1860s, as well as work he accomplished while living in Connecticut. Once the papers entered the Yale University Library beginning in 1911, they were added through 1929 by family members and by gifts from three local admirers of Linton who were also friends of the family: the engraver William Fowler Hopson and two Yale graduates, Howard Mansfield and Alfred E. Hamill. These substantial gifts combine to comprise the largest group of Linton's autograph literary manuscripts, examples of engravings and other printed work he created both in England and the United States, and material related to Linton's classic works The History of Wood Engraving in America (1882) and Masters of Wood Engraving (1886).

The Witold Gombrowicz Archive documents Gombrowicz's life and literary output chiefly during the last two decades of his life (1949-69), as well as the reception of his works after his death. Due to his unexpected exile from Poland following the onset of World War II, and the difficulties he faced during his first few years in Argentina, the collection contains relatively little material from the time of his birth in 1904 through 1949.

The Winthrop Family Papers are organized in two series: I. Correspondence and II. Other Papers. The papers span the dates 1635-1720, with the bulk of the material dating from between 1670 and 1710.

The Winkler Collection consists chiefly of letters to Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler, Elisa von der Recke, and others, 1748-1854. Also included are manuscripts of some original poems; a few printed works by and about Winkler; copies of documents pertaining to Winkler's family, including Festschriften in his honor, and photographs.

The collection consists primarly of correspondence and diaries, as well as a small amount of writings, photographs, and clippings, documenting the life and work of Inez Haynes Irwin and Will Irwin.

The collection consists of lettersand writings by William Wordsworth. The autograph letters, signed, are fromWordsworth to his colleagues, friends, and family, along with Wordsworthautographs clipped from letters and documents. One letter contains an autographaddition, signed, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Writings in the collection are byWordsworth, in his hand and that of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth and wife MaryWordsworth. Also included are corrected page proofs and a volume of poemsWordsworth edited for a second edition. Other Papers holds one letter fromEdward Quillinan to Miss Tudor, regarding Wordsworth's death.

The collection consists of correspondence, data forms, name indexes, and family pedigree sheets related to William Woodbridge Rodman's work on the genealogy of the Pomeroy family. Also present is the correspondence of Rebekah Wheeler Pomeroy Bulkley, who continued Rodman's work after his death.

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.

The William Shenstone Papers consist of correspondence, legal and financial documents, and printed material related to the poet William Shenstone and his estate, The Leasowes. The papers span the dates 1726-1979, but the bulk of the material dates from the 1750s and 1760s. The papers are housed in one box and have been organized into four series.

The Williams Family Papers consists of correspondence, documents, and financial records kept by descendants of William Williams who lived in and near Wethersfield, Connecticut, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The papers include those of Elisha Williams, his second wife Elizabeth Scott Williams Smith, and his nephew Ezekiel Williams, merchant and sheriff of Hartford County.

The William R. Scott, Inc. Records contains original artwork, including drawings, color separations, and reproduction proofs, for children's books published by William R. Scott, Inc.

The William Rose Benét papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and personal and family papers documenting the life and work of American author and editor William Rose Benét. The collection spans the years 1847 to 1957, with the bulk of the collection dating from roughly 1900 to 1950.

The William Pitt Collection contains correspondence, writings and other papers that document the lives and work of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) and his son, William Pitt (1759-1806). The collection has been arranged into two series, Correspondence and Other Papers.

Manuscript and printed works, scrapbooks, ephemera, and realia documenting the career of William Pickens. Writings of Pickens and others on African-American culture, emancipation and civil rights are present, as are scrapbooks, ephemera, and commemorative items documenting Pickens' academic accomplishments, including with Phi Beta Kappa, career as a civil servant in the United States Savings Bonds Program of the Treasury Department, and civil rights activist. Photographs of Pickens' Yale College class and of Pickens at a 1948 reception for W. E. B. Du Bois are also present.

Notes, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, typescripts, and printed material related to William Peterfield Trent's unpublished biography and bibliography of Daniel Defoe; and correspondence, notes, and printed material related to Henry Clinton Hutchins's editorial work on Trent's manuscripts.

The collection consists of seven letters written by William Morris to friends and acquaintances, and a group of autograph manuscripts by him. One manuscript, "The Wood Beyond the World," is accompanied by a drawing made for the book by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, and two impressions of the resulting engraving.

This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to William Michael Rossetti, which the library has chosen to group and list as an artificial collection. Materials incorporated into the collection prior to June 1997 have been organized into three series. Series I, Correspondence, contains items written by Rossetti, including letters to a Miss Taylor, in London, regarding Percy Shelley. The two items in series II, Writings, are a critique of British artists and an essay on Ruskin. The Other Materials in series III consist solely of a signature clipped from a letter.

The William McFee Collection contains correspondence between McFee and literary colleagues, publishers, friends, and family; third-party correspondence concerning McFee, his family, and his friendship with James T. Babb; autograph manuscript or typescript drafts for most of McFee's novels, and for short stories, essays, books reviews, and poems; autograph manuscript diaries, 1911-1963; writings of others, including Margery Allingham and Beatrice Allender McFee; photographs of McFee and others; drawings of McFee and illustrations for his writings by Arthur J. Elder and others; a bronze bust of McFee by Jason Sturm (Yale 1922); scrapbooks containing clippings about McFee, reviews of his writings, photographs, and ephemera; other clippings about McFee; personal papers, mostly concerning McFee's family or his work as a marine engineer; correspondence relating to Babb's collecting of books and manuscripts by McFee, and research materials and drafts for A Bibliography of the Writings of William McFee; audiotapes relating to McFee's 75th birthday in 1956; and films and videocassettes of McFee and his family. Major correspondents include Margery Allingham, other members of the Allingham family, James T. Babb, Van Wyck Brooks, Arthur J. Elder, George T. Keating, Beatrice Allender McFee, other members of the McFee family, Byrne Marconnier, Harry E. Maule, Christopher Morley, Dudley Nichols, and Frank Swinnerton.