Collections

Primarily estate settlement records and deeds and correspondendence of members of a Harwinton, Connecticut family, namely Abijah Catlin (1747-1813), Abijah Catlin (1779-1836), Orinda Catlin, Samuel A. Catlin, Abijah Catlin (1805-1891), and David W. Catlin. Also includes Harwinton town records, records of the Harwinton Church Society, and business records of two firms, Hungerford and Catlin and Hurd and Hungerford, both engaged in commerce in Georgia and Alabama, respectively. The principals were Anson and Dana Hungerford. Includes accessions 37419 and 37428.

Document prepapred in 1850 by George C. Woodruff related to the pension application of Lewis Catlin; letter addressed to D. W. Catlin from L. and G. Taylor of New Milford, CT relating to purchase of grain.

The collection contains documentation of the organization and its activities from the 1970s through the early 1990s.

The Cave Canem Records contain correspondence (including electronic mail), organizational records, photographs, financial records, computer files, and audiovisual recordings that document the activities of Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. and its founders Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady. The organization's governance, fundraising, publicity, and operations are documented as well as its publishing activity, fellowship program, and Legacy Conversations series, which features poets and scholars who have played historic roles in African American poetry. The collection serves as a resource for scholarship on African American poetry, literature, and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

C. B. Vaill writes about brother in the Civil War in a letter to Rev. H. L. Vaill.

The materials consist of photographs by C. B. Wells of the Yale residential colleges, various academic buildings, commencement 1936, and scenes of Yale and New Haven in winter during the 1930s. Included are photographs taken after the 1938 hurricane.

The C. D. Wright papers consists of correspondence, writings, notebooks, and printed and other material relating chiefly to Wright's literary and professional activities. There is correspondence from writers, artists, literary scholars, family, and friends. Named correspondents include Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Forrest Gander, Peter Gizzi, W. S. Merwin, Michael Ondaatje, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Welish, and Elizabeth Willis, among others. The writings include drafts, proofs, and other material for several works dating from the 1990s onward. Works include: Tremble (1996), DeepStep Come Shining (1998), Steal Away (2002), One Big Step (2003), Cooling Time (2005), and Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008). Other materials found in the collection include: notebooks and research material; printed material, including clippings, publicity, reviews, and issues of journals; computer files, including drafts of writings and copies of email; audiovisual materials, including sound recordings and photographs; records of the journal Lost Roads; legal records, including contracts and permissions; and documentation relating to other literary and academic matters, such as awards, conferences and other events, and blurbs and recommendations.

The Cecile Starr Papers Relating to Mary Ellen Bute consist of Starr's research files on the filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute and audiovisual recordings of and about Bute. The papers document Starr's research and fundraising to produce a documentary film about Bute (never completed) as well as Starr's work to publicize and distribute Bute's films, especially after Bute's death.

Correspondence, research materials, clippings, photographs, and reviews of Driver's biography, Tory Radical: The Life of Richard Oastler, published in 1946. Most significant in the papers is a series of eight letters written in 1832 by Oastler to Thomas Daniels, the secretary of the Manchester Short-Time Committee, a letter from Oastler's wife, Mary, and another from Michael Thomas Sadler, the author of the Ten-Hour Bill, to Oastler. Driver's correspondents include Roland H. Bainton, Lewis P. Curtis, Edgar Johnson, Broadus Mitchell, Clinton L. Rossiter, and Hume Wrong.