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This collection comprises 53 items, including 42 letters from John Ruskin to John Henry Le Keux, 1 letter from John James Ruskin to John Henry Le Keux, 7 stand-alone sketches related to Le Keux's engraving work for Ruskin, annotated printed proofs made by Le Keux for Ruskin and 1 letter from Henry W. Acland to John Ruskin which pertains to Le Keux's work on the frontispiece for Acland and Ruskin's The Oxford Museum. While the majority of the items are undated, the letters appear to have been authored between 1854 and 1860, with dated items ranging from 1855 to 1860. The items primarily pertain to Le Keux's engraving work for illustrations for Volumes 3-4 of Modern Painters and for The Oxford Museum

The John Torrance diaries consists of 13 bound diaries of South Windsor, CT, resident John Torrance for the years 1875-1885 and 1888-1893. Typical entries note the weather and talk about Torrance's farming activities. There are also accounting pages with prices paid for different goods and services.

The collection consists of approximately 6000 slides of images of trains and railroad scenes taken by John Wallace from 1947 to 2004. Most of the railroads are those from the Northeast United States but also include images of railroads in California, Florida, Nebraska, and Virginia, and countries including Canada and Germany.

The papers of John Wadhams Buell (1821-1864), his sister, Mary Theresa Buell (1814-1900), and other family members. There is documentation of his involvement in several mining ventures, including the Connecticut Mining Company, and deeds to property owned by his ancestors.

Collection contains the 1974 joint report of the Yale China Group's visit to China.

Six manuscript volumes on law: "Jurisprudence of the United States," "Law of nations," and "Municipal law," possibly intended as compendia for teaching. Also in the papers is Jonathan Barnes' translation from the French of Baron de Wimpffen's "The experienced soldier."

The Jonathan Pasco restaurant collection consists of documents and photographs that were previously framed and hung on the walls of Jonathan Pasco's restaurant, which stood at 31 South Main Street in East Windsor, CT. Most of the documents name members of the Lord family, and they may relate to the property on which Jonathan Pasco's restaurant stood

The collection contains records documenting career of Jonathan Pelto in Connecticut State politics from 1972 through 1994.

The collection comprises correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks, travel journals, notebooks, and printed material concerning Charles Jones (1780-1850) and his descendants. The correspondence spans the better part of the nineteenth century (1805-1878), with the bulk of the letters dating from the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s; it offers a window into the life of a large middle-class dissenting family in mid nineteenth-century London.