Collections : [Connecticut College -Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives]

Documenting the development and activities of the Program in Community Action (PICA), this series includes program handbooks, recruitment pamphlets and fact sheets, certificate information, and student presentations and other work. Of interest are the senior handouts describing students' program of study, as well as the Gateway Course final reports detailing student experiences with community partner collaborations.

This series contains primarily letters written by Alice Reading to Mary Crozier, while her husband Rufus was Viceroy of India. Other correspondents include Rufus Reading, daughter-in-law Eva Erleigh, her personal secretary Yvonne FitzRoy, and Viceroy Reading's secretary Geoffrey de Montmorency. In addition to the correspondence, the series includes invitations, itineraries, and logistical documents pertaining to official visits in which the Croziers acoompanied the Readings to various parts of India. There are also accounts, possibly written by Yvonne FitzRoy, describing the Readings' trips to Alwar in March 1922, to Bangalore and Mysore in November 1923, and parties given by Lady Reading in August 1924. Other documents in this series include newsclippings and photographs of the Readings.

This series contains the sermons of consists of manuscripts of Amasa Learned and Payson Williston. The bulk of the collection consists of sermons written by Learned, Elsie DeWitt's great great grandfather. Amasa Learned was a Congregationalist minister who entered Connecticut politics in 1779, serving until 1791 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The collection includes fifty-two sermons or sermon fragments, written in the same hand at different times. Also included are the collected sermons by Payson Williston, grandfather of Robert C. Learned's first wife Sarah B. Whitney. Williston was the first Congregationalist minister of Easthampton, Massachusetts.