Collections

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, business and estate records, writings, lectures, and gardening papers. Correspondents include family members such as Lionel Edward Sackville-West, Victoria Sackville, Harold Nicolson, and Nigel Nicolson, and friends and lovers including Rosamund Grosvenor, Hilda Matheson, Gwen St. Aubyn, and Christopher St. John. Writings include typescripts and manuscripts for works including the novels The Edwardians and All Passion Spent. Gardening papers include horticultural catalogs, files on the National Trust's garden committee, and research materials. The collection documents Vita Sackville-West's family life, love affairs with women including Christopher St. John and Gwen St. Aubyn, her literary life and circle, including both Sackville-West's work and that of friends including Virginia Woolf, and the management of the Sissinghurst Castle estate and gardens.

Collection contains correspondence, writings and additional materials. Correspondence includes letters written by Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West during the 1910's and 1920's concerning their relationship, Trefusis's feelings towards Sackville-West, and the affair's effects on Trefusis's relationship with her husband, Denys Trefusis, her relationship with her mother, Alice Keppel, and Sackville-West's relationship with her husband, Harold Nicolson. Also included are letters by Trefusis to her friend Pat Dansey, and letters from Pat Dansey to Vita Sackville-West. Writings consist of poems and other writings by Trefusis and Sackville-West, and a diary by Trefusis dated May 1905. Additional materials contain two photographs of Vita Sackville-West and a metal bullet of unknown origin.

The papers consist of letters of Vivian J. A. Prewett, a trooper with the 13th Company, Imperial Yeomanry. Prewett corresponded with family and friends during his tour of duty during the Boer War. The letters chronicle Prewett's sailing to South Africa, his arrival in Cape Town, the daily routine of camp life, his participation in combat, as well as his personal observations of the Boers and of England's involvement in the war.

This collection contains materials pertaining to the 1970 college-wide strike protesting the Vietnam War, held from May 5-10 at Connecticut College. It includes proposals and resolutions, the newsletter Strike Connecticut College, fact sheets for community canvassers, schedule and related documents from Parents Weekend (which took place during the strike), information on the Black Panthers, and two armbands. The items were collected by Vivian Segall, class of 1973, at the end of her freshman year.

Vivien Kellems, Connecticut businesswoman and activist, served as president of the Kellems Cable Grip Company into the early 1960s. She also devoted herself to challenging the United States Government on issues such as personal rights during war time, business tax withholding from employees, inflated singles income tax and fair voting procedures.

The collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, scrapbooks and an audio recording that document the literary careers of Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii and IUrii Ofrosimov, the professional life of Italian sculptor Italo Griselli and the activities of the Russian expatriate Berlin Poets' Club.

Incoming (86 TLS, 85 ALS) and carbons of outgoing (127 TL) correspondence, mostly regarding Russian émigré publications, literary and church affairs. Includes the typescript of Samarin's "Front v tylu (Bolʹshevistskoe podpolʹe v zani︠a︡tykh nemt︠s︡ami oblasti︠a︡kh SSSR, 98 p., 1951) and the page-proofs of works by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin with annotations by Bunin.

The records consist of letters (some written in Russian), newspaper clippings, and articles documenting Vladimir Samarin's participation in pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic efforts in the Soviet Union, and Samarin's resignation from his post as a Yale Russian literature lecturer.

The materials consist of motion picture footage (on videotape) created during the filming of Voices of the Children, an Emmy-award winning documentary film about three individuals who as children survived imprisonment in the Terezi?n (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in the Czech Republic. The videotapes include interviews and supplementary footage, transcripts, and indexes. Interviewees include Michael Kraus, Ela Weissberger, Rafael Sommer, Helga Kinsky, and their families.

In 1927, The Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, Inc. was organized by a group of young New York lawyers who felt that the national prohibition law was both unjust and unenforceable. Its leaders were Joseph H. Choate, Jr., who served as chairman of the Executive Committee, and Harrison Tweed, Treasurer. The organization existed to organize like-minded associates, take opinion polls of lawyers across the country, issue bulletins and annual reports reciting arguments against the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and work closely with the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. They stressed that a Repeal Amendment should provide for ratification by state convention and then proceeded to prepare and place before all state governors in February 1933 draft bills providing for election at large of all delegates. The alertness and prestige of the members of the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers contributed to the fact that most states enacted the model convention bill verbatim. When the Twenty-First Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933, the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers disbanded.