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Yale University. Autographs, 1856.

Title: Autographs, 1856.

An album of autographs, photographs and engravings of Yale University students, class of 1856, and the president, chaplain and professors of Yale. Sentiments are dedicated to W.T. Kittredge of the 1856 class. 105 autographs. Some engravings of Yale buildings.

ArchivalResource: album 1 volume (ca. 250 pages) : bound in leather 29.5 x 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18334350 View

Manchester, I. Letter, 1881 May 30, Manchester, England, to Noah Porter, New Haven, Conn.

Title: Letter, 1881 May 30, Manchester, England, to Noah Porter, New Haven, Conn.

Introduces the Rev. Stewart Reid; asks Porter's views on international trade and Christianity.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. ; 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17349307 View

Woolsey family papers, 1750-1969 (bulk 1811-1921)

Title: Woolsey family papers, 1750-1976 (inclusive), 1811-1921 (bulk).

The papers document three generations of the Woolsey family. The most prominent figures in the collection are William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), professor of international law at Yale Law School, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business correspondence, ledgers, legal papers, documents relating to land sales in New York and Ohio, as well as family and personal letters. Since he was engaged in the importation of sugar, cotton and hardware, some of his business correspondence is political with discussions of the Jay Treaty of 1794, the problems of piracy, American neutrality in the 1790s and the general politics of the period. Important correspondents are Chauncey Goodrich, Archibald Gracie, Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, Elihu and Nathaniel Chauncey, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Jedidiah Morse, James Roosevelt, John A. Schuyler, Comfort Sands, John Broome, and Nicholas Bayard. The papers of Theodore Dwight Woolsey contain his writings on Greek language and literature, the Bible, international law and the texts of his sermons.

ArchivalResource: 52 Linear Feet (107 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4277859 View

Day, Horace, 1816-1902. Horace Day papers, 1728-1890.

Title: Horace Day papers, 1728-1890.

ArchivalResource: 1.20 linear ft. (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702148169 View

Munger, Theodore Thornton, 1830-1910. Theodore Thornton Munger papers, 1806-1947 (inclusive), 1846-1910 (bulk).

Title: Theodore Thornton Munger papers, 1806-1947 (inclusive), 1846-1910 (bulk).

Correspondence, writings, speeches, sermons, and other papers of Theodore Thornton Munger, author, preacher, and spokesman for liberal theology. Also included are papers relating to the Munger and Selden families. Of special interest are the papers throughout the collection which reflect on the many religious controversies in New England between 1870 and 1900 in which Munger became embroiled, particularly Congregational polity. Important correspondents include Elisha Mulford, Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Washington Gladden, Andrew Dickson White, and Horace Scudder.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft. (24 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702168342 View

Walker, Charles Swan, 1846-1933. Charles Swan Walker papers, 1866-1924 (inclusive).

Title: Charles Swan Walker papers, 1866-1924 (inclusive).

Notebooks, lectures and autobiography of Swan relating to his student years at Yale Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary. Includes notes on lectures of Noah Porter, Timothy Dwight, Elias Loomis, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166842 View

Farnam family papers, 1721-2002 (inclusive), 1850-1937 (bulk).

Title: Farnam family papers, 1721-2002 (inclusive), 1850-1937 (bulk).

Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, financial papers, writings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia of the Farnam family of New Haven, Connecticut, 1721-1929. The papers of Henry Farnam (1803-1883), and two of his sons, Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933) and William Whitman Farnam (1844-1929) form this collection. The papers of Henry Farnam include personal and professional correspondence concerning his family, life in New Haven, and the building of several canals and railroads in Connecticut and the Midwest. Materials documenting the New Haven and Northampton Company, Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, Mississippi and Missouri Valley Railroad, Northern Indiana Railroad, and Peoria and Bureau Valley Railroad is arranged here. The papers of Henry Walcott Farnam include personal and professional correspondence, financial papers, writings, subject files and scrapbooks relating to his family, life in New Haven, student and teaching experiences at Yale, membership in local, state, and national academic and reform organizations, and philanthropic activities on behalf of educational and charitable institutions. The papers of William Whitman Farnam include correspondence and topical files relating to family matters, Yale University, and New Haven Park Commission activities.

ArchivalResource: 161.5 linear ft.

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0203 View

Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline), 1842-1930. Collection, f 1880-1882.

Title: Collection, f 1880-1882.

Consists of numerous tributes to Abraham Lincoln that Oldroyd gather from celebrated 19th century personalities. Among the tributes are those from diplomats, statesmen, military officers, educators, lawyers, justices, clergy, editors, and authors. The original handwritten tributes include those from Thomas Chase, John G. Fee, Augustus Hill Garland, Henry Grosvenor, Josiah Holland, Leonidas Houk, Noah Porter, and Alexander Ramsey. Additional material includes a few photographs, autographs, and printed excerpts from Oldroyd's 1890 publication "The Lincoln Memorial Album of Immortelles: Tributes and Gems of Thought by Eminent Men."

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.32 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40121882 View

Salisbury family. Salisbury family papers, 1753-1904 (inclusive).

Title: Salisbury family papers, 1753-1904 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, genealogical notes, and other papers, principally of Edward Elbridge Salisbury, philologist, orientalist, and genealogist. Included are materials on various branches of Salisbury's family gathered in his genealogical research. Also included are papers and correspondence of Josiah Salisbury (1781-1826), Abigail Breese Salisbury (1780-1866), and business papers of Samuel Salisbury (1739-1818) and Stephen Salisbury (1746-1829). In addition there are also letters and papers of other family members.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft. (14 boxes, 7 folios, 4 scrapbooks)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543073 View

James Wesley Cooper papers, 1787-1925, 1787-1916

Title: James Wesley Cooper papers 1787-1925 1787-1916

Chiefly correspondence and diaries of James Wesley Cooper documenting his career as a Congregational minister, and his service as a Fellow of Yale University (1886-1916). The only personal correspondence are forty-four letters from Cooper to his fiancée in 1865 and fourteen additional letters (1877-1905). The diaries (1869-1914) provide a daily record of his work as a minister and of his visits to churches and schools in the South supported by the American Missionary Association. He was an officer of the Association between 1903 and 1914. Also in the papers are a letter from Richard Ely to Elizur May, 1787 Jun 3, a resolution of the Hartford South Association, 1819 Jun 1 and minutes taken by Noah Porter of an ecclesiastical council meeting, 1837 Nov 13.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0791 View

Bailey, Edward Goldsmith, 1857-. Student notebooks, 1878-1879.

Title: Student notebooks, 1878-1879.

Notebooks containing abstracts of Porter's The human intellect: with an introduction upon psychology and the soul (1878) and McCosh's Method of divine government (1879), both for Prof. Daniel J. Noyes, done while a student at Dartmouth College in the Class of 1879.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84866330 View

Bostwick Company. Bostwick Company records, 1819-1856 (inclusive).

Title: Bostwick Company records, 1819-1856 (inclusive).

The records consist of correspondence from the business records of William Bostwick (1796-1863), merchant of Augusta, Georgia and New Haven, Connecticut, who dealt primarily in cotton. While most of the letters are on business, there are personal letters (1854, 1856) from Benjamin Silliman, Noah Porter, James Browning Miles and Willis Strong Colton. The records also include sixty-two account books.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (l box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166740 View

Weir, John Ferguson, 1841-1926. John Ferguson Weir papers, 1838-1957 (inclusive), 1861-1928 (bulk).

Title: John Ferguson Weir papers, 1838-1957 (inclusive), 1861-1928 (bulk).

Correspondence, addresses and writings, papers relating to the Yale School of the Fine Arts, and other papers of John F. Weir, artist, painter and first director of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, serving from 1869-1913. Correspondents include many persons prominent in the art world between 1870 and 1920. There is also much material on the origins and development of art education in this country and at Yale.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153579 View

Kingsley memorial collection, 1696-1934

Title: Kingsley memorial collection 1696-1934

The collection is composed of family correspondence, diaries, and legal, financial, and professional papers which document the lives of several members of the Kingsley family or of the related Coit, Gilman, Upham, and Farnam families. One third of the collection concerns James Luce Kingsley, his tenure on the Yale faculty, and his classical and historical scholarship. Another third of the collection relates to the life and work of William Lathrop Kingsley, especially his editorship of the New Englander and his service to Yale College and the Class of 1843. The remaining third of the collection recounts the lives of family members in Norwich, Connecticut; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Canandaigua, New York; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during the first half of the nineteenth century. The European and world travels of family members and the life of the Upham family during the War of 1812 are highlighted in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0604 View

Bostwick Company records, 1819-1856

Title: Bostwick Company records 1819-1856

The records consist of correspondence from the business records of William Bostwick (1796-1863), merchant of Augusta, Georgia, and New Haven, Connecticut, who dealt primarily in cotton. While most of the letters are on business, there are personal letters (1854, 1856) from Benjamin Silliman, Noah Porter, James Browning Miles, and Willis Strong Colton. The records also include sixty-two account books.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear foot (1 box)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0625 View

Daniel Coit Gilman papers, 1845-1910

Title: Daniel Coit Gilman papers 1845-1910

Correspondence, writings, lectures, and other papers of Daniel Coit Gilman, educator, university president, and author. Included are papers regarding Gilman's career at Yale, the University of California, and Johns Hopkins University. Important correspondents include Charles M. Andrews, James Dwight Dana, William Henry Brewer, Timothy Dwight, Benjamin Silliman, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, and Andrew Dickson White.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet (7 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0582 View

Holland Collection of Literary Letters (MS 168), 1850-1880, 1872-1878

Title: Holland Collection of Literary Letters (MS 168) 1850-1880 1872-1878

Letters written to Josiah Gilbert Holland (and a few to his staff) - written during the term of his editorship of Scribner's Monthly, of which he was co-founder, from 1870-1881, unless noted otherwise on the comment sheets.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (1 linear foot)

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=couspcms168.xml View

Kent, Lindley Coates. Papers, 1880, 1974.

Title: Papers, 1880, 1974.

Letters (photocopies) re: co-education by presidents of six universities, written in response to inquiry by Kent, 1880; also copy of letter with biographical information on Kent.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007316 View

Love family. Love family papers, 1872-1958 (inclusive).

Title: Love family papers, 1872-1958 (inclusive).

Correspondence, printed materials, theater programs, photographs and other papers of Lucy Cleveland Prindle Love and Helen Douglas Love Scranton, wife and daughter, respectively, of Edward Gurley Love and active in New York social and cultural life in the early 20th century.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165627 View

Yung, Wing, 1828-1912. Yung Wing papers, 1848-2004 (inclusive), 1848-1910 (bulk).

Title: Yung Wing papers, 1848-2004 (inclusive), 1848-1910 (bulk).

Letters and manuscripts to and from Yung Wing, the first Chinese student to graduate from Yale (1854). Also included are electrostatic copies of all the Yung Wing material from other collections in Manuscripts and Archives and Beinecke Rare Book Library, as well as three unfilmed additions of correspondence from Mary Kellogg Yung, wife of Yung Wing, with Jane Bartlett Kellogg, her sister, and Mary Bartlett Kellogg, her mother. Exhibit panels, printed material, and audiovisual items pertaining to Yung Wing complete the papers.

ArchivalResource: 7.09 linear feet (6 boxes, 7 compact discs/optical disks)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166703 View

Silliman family papers, 1717-1977 (bulk 1717-1911)

Title: Silliman family papers 1717-1977 (bulk 1717-1911)

The papers consist of correspondence, lectures, notebooks, diaries, journals, and other material documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Silliman family, including Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) and Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816-1885). Personal material details family life, relationships, social activities, and cultural pursuits. Professional material details the academic and literary interests of the Sillimans, particularly in chemistry, physics, and geology. The evolution and development of science, the beginnings of scientific instruction at Yale, and many related topics are documented. Material relating to John Trumbull and the Trumbull Art Gallery at Yale is also included. Family letters and journals offer observations on local and national events, as exemplified by Maggie Lindsley's journal and letters with Benjamin Silliman relating to the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 36.25 Linear Feet (90 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0450 View

Colton Family Papers, 1749-1879, 1826-1879

Title: Colton Family Papers 1749-1879 1826-1879

Correspondence, writings, sermons, diaries, account books, poems, and notes of George Colton of West Hartford, Connecticut and four of his sons. The principal figure in the papers is Henry Martyn Colton, who graduated from Yale College in 1848 and established schools in Middletown, Connecticut and New York City. Included in his papers are college lecture notes, sermons together with outlines and notes, poems, diaries, and travel writings.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (4 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0855 View

Donald Grant Mitchell papers, 1787-1936

Title: Donald Grant Mitchell papers 1787-1936

The Donald Grant Mitchell papers contain original correspondence and manuscripts by the prominent nineteenth-century New Haven-area author. Correspondents include Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Augustin Beers, George Washington Cable, William Maxwell Evarts, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Noah Porter, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Scribner, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others. Writings include drafts for published and unpublished work and journals, including substantive drafts for Fresh Gleanings (1847), American Lands and Letters (1897-1899), English Lands, Letters and Kings (1889-1890), and Wet Days at Edgewood (1865), as well as an unpublished "History of Venice." Other materials include biographical and bibliographical material, financial and legal records, photographs, and printed ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 4.38 linear feet (11 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mitchell View

Yung, Wing, 1828-1912. Yung Wing papers, 1848-2001 (inclusive), 1848-1910 (bulk).

Title: Yung Wing papers, 1848-2001 (inclusive), 1848-1910 (bulk).

Letters and manuscripts to and from Yung Wing, the first Chinese student to graduate from Yale (1854). Also included are electrostatic copies of all the Yung Wing material from other collections in Manuscripts and Archives and Beinecke Rare Book Library. Three unfilmed additions of correspondence from Mary Kellogg Yung, wife of Yung Wing, with Jane Bartlett Kellogg, her sister and Mary Bartlett Kellogg, her mother, as well as printed material, complete the papers.

ArchivalResource: .50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122562677 View

Salisbury family. Salisbury family papers, 1753-1904 (inclusive).

Title: Salisbury family papers, 1753-1904 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, genealogical notes, and other papers, principally of Edward Elbridge Salisbury, philologist, orientalist, and genealogist. Included are materials on various branches of Salisbury's family gathered in his genealogical research. Also included are papers and correspondence of Josiah Salisbury (1781-1826), Abigail Breese Salisbury (1780-1866), and business papers of Samuel Salisbury (1739-1818) and Stephen Salisbury (1746-1829). In addition there are also letters and papers of other family members.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft. (14 boxes, 7 folios, 4 scrapbooks)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167457 View

Porter, Noah, 1811-1892. Noah Porter papers, 1781-1889 (inclusive).

Title: Noah Porter papers, 1781-1889 (inclusive).

Correspondence, notes, sermons, lectures, teaching materials, and memorabilia of Noah Porter. The major part of the correspondence as well as of the other papers deals with Porter's responsibilities as professor and president at Yale College. The few family letters are from his father, Rev. Noah Porter of Farmington and from his wife, Mary Taylor Porter. His writings include lectures and sermons delivered at Yale College, 1871-1886. Also documenting his academic career are grade books, reports of Yale College committees, including one on the location of college buildings (1866), and papers relating to the American Education Society (1874-1889).

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702169079 View

Silliman family. Silliman family papers, 1717-1977 (inclusive), 1717-1911 (bulk).

Title: Silliman family papers, 1717-1977 (inclusive), 1717-1911 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, lectures, notebooks, diaries, journals, and other material documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Silliman family, including Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) and Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816-1885). Personal material details family life, relationships, social activities, and cultural pursuits. Professional material details the academic and literary interests of the Sillimans, particularly in chemistry, physics, and geology. The evolution and development of science, the beginnings of scientific instruction at Yale, and many related topics are documented. Material relating to John Trumbull and the Trumbull Art Gallery at Yale is also included. Family letters and journals offer observations on local and national events, as exemplified by Maggie Lindsley's journal and letters with Benjamin Silliman relating to the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 35 linear feet (69 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154274 View

Farnam family papers, 1721-2002 (inclusive), 1850-1937 (bulk).

Title: Farnam family papers, 1721-2002 (inclusive), 1850-1937 (bulk).

Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, financial papers, writings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia of the Farnam family of New Haven, Connecticut, 1721-1929. The papers of Henry Farnam (1803-1883), and two of his sons, Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933) and William Whitman Farnam (1844-1929) form this collection. The papers of Henry Farnam include personal and professional correspondence concerning his family, life in New Haven, and the building of several canals and railroads in Connecticut and the Midwest. Materials documenting the New Haven and Northampton Company, Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, Mississippi and Missouri Valley Railroad, Northern Indiana Railroad, and Peoria and Bureau Valley Railroad is arranged here. The papers of Henry Walcott Farnam include personal and professional correspondence, financial papers, writings, subject files and scrapbooks relating to his family, life in New Haven, student and teaching experiences at Yale, membership in local, state, and national academic and reform organizations, and philanthropic activities on behalf of educational and charitable institutions. The papers of William Whitman Farnam include correspondence and topical files relating to family matters, Yale University, and New Haven Park Commission activities.

ArchivalResource: 161.5 linear ft.

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0203 View