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George Leon Walker and Williston Walker Papers, 1722-1922

Title: George Leon Walker and Williston Walker Papers, 1722-1922

Correspondence, diaries, notes and writings ofGeorge Leon and Williston Walker form the core of the collection and provideextensive biographical information. They detail the activities of a typical NewEngland clergyman during the second half of the 19th century and provideinformation on national news, political events, the Civil War, the slaveryissue, financial news on currency and taxes, and daily weather conditions. Alsoincluded are records of sermons preached and pastoral records. George LeonWalker (1830-1900) was a Congregational clergyman in Portland, Maine(1858-1867), New Haven, Connecticut (1868-1873), and Hartford, Connecticut(1879-1892). He was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissionersfor Foreign Missions and served on the commission to prepare the Congregationalcreed. His son, Williston Walker (1860-1922) was professor of history/churchhistory at Bryn Mawr College (1888-1889), Hartford Theological Seminary(1889-1901) and Yale University (1901-1922). He also served as a trustee ofAmherst College (1896-1922), acting dean of Yale Graduate School (1916-1917)and provost of Yale University (1919-1922).

ArchivalResource: Totalarchival boxes 9; total linear footage 4'

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Yale University. Office of the Provost. Provost's office, Yale University, records, 1914-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Provost's office, Yale University, records, 1914-1964 (inclusive).

The records consist of correspondence, subject files, and committee meeting minutes documenting the administrations of the following provosts of Yale: William A. Brown, acting (1919-1920); Williston Walker (1920-1922); Wilbur L. Cross, acting (1922-1923); Henry Solon Graves (1923-1927); Charles Seymour (1928-1937); Edgar S. Furniss (1937-1958); Norman Sydney Buck (1958-1961); Kingman Brewster, Jr., designate (1961-1963); and Charles Henry Taylor, Jr., acting (1963-1964). The records also include copies of minutes of the Yale Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 38.5 linear feet.

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Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899. Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to Mr. [Williston] Walker, 1891 Sept. 24.

Title: Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to Mr. [Williston] Walker, 1891 Sept. 24.

Thanks Walker for his sermon on "duties towards animals," and discusses cruelty to animals & vivisection.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p., folio) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41986342 View

Yale-China Association records, 1878-2008

Title: Yale-China Association records 1878-2008

The records document the activities of the Yale-China Association in mainland China (1901-1951), Hong Kong (1951-present), and the United States (1901-present). They consist of administrative and policy files produced by the home office in New Haven, correspondence and memoranda written by staff members while serving in China, and administrative files and correspondence produced by the New Asia office in Hong Kong.

ArchivalResource: 263.8 linear feet

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Claude Halstead Van Tyne papers

Title: Claude Halstead Van Tyne papers

Professor of history at University of Michigan; scholar of America's revolutionary era. Correspondence concerning the historical profession, publishing, current events, and personal matters; lecture notes, newspaper clippings concerning personal matters and travels in Europe and India; papers concerning his activities during World War I, particularly with the National Security League.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet

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Yale-China Association. Yale-China Association records, 1878-2008 (inclusive).

Title: Yale-China Association records, 1878-2008 (inclusive).

The records document the activities of the Yale-China Association in mainland China (1901-1951), Hong Kong (1951-present), and the United States (1901-present). They consist of administrative and policy files produced by the home office in New Haven, correspondence and memoranda written by staff members while serving in China, and administrative files and correspondence produced by the New Asia office in Hong Kong.

ArchivalResource: 263.8 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702160950 View

Walker, George Leon, 1830-1900. George Leon Walker and Williston Walker papers, 1722-1922.

Title: George Leon Walker and Williston Walker papers, 1722-1922.

Material documents the activities of a typical New England clergyman during the second half of the 19th century and provide information on national news, political events, the Civil War, the slavery issue, financial news on currency and taxes, and daily weather conditions. Correspondence, diaries, notes and writings of George Leon and Williston Walker form the core of the collection and provide extensive biographical information. Also included are records of sermons preached and pastoral records.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702179293 View

Yale-China Association. Yale-China Association records, YRG 37-A, 1877- (inclusive), 1901-1982 (bulk).

Title: Yale-China Association records, YRG 37-A, 1877- (inclusive), 1901-1982 (bulk).

The educational, missionary, cultural, social and economic operations of the Yale-China Association are documented through a variety of materials. The records include minutes, annual reports, and reports to the board of trustees. Files of the New Haven, Connecticut office and the New Asia College Office are also included. Staff correspondence files detail daily activities of association members, as do cables, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and films.

ArchivalResource: 113.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123373398 View

Wendte, Charles William, 1844-1931. Papers, 1867-1931 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1867-1931 (inclusive).

Letters and manuscripts, lectures and articles. Includes material on the Protestant Reformation Commission, on which Wendte served in 1917; a lecture by Frederick Lucian Hosmer; and a carbon copy of a typescript by Wendte, "Oriental Conferences of Religious Unity, 1915-1916: A Forecast".

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. (5 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269368054 View

Cooper, James Wesley, 1842-1916. James Wesley Cooper papers, 1787-1925 (inclusive), 1787-1916 (bulk).

Title: James Wesley Cooper papers, 1787-1925 (inclusive), 1787-1916 (bulk).

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).

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (5 boxes)

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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)

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Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, records, 1899-1921

Title: Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, records 1899-1921

The records contain the official correspondence of Arthur Twining Hadley during his tenure as president of Yale University. The papers document the rapid change and expansion which occurred at Yale during Hadley's presidency. The incoming correspondence contains letters with members of the Yale faculty and administration; requests for personal appearances and speeches and articles; inquiries from educational administrators; and correspondence with alumni relating to fund-raising and class reunions. The outgoing correspondence, in letterbook form, consists of carbon copies of Hadley's official outgoing correspondence from 1899 to 1921. Also included are subject files relating to ROTC and other military training programs; acceptances and regrets to invitations to Hadley's inauguration; newspaper clippings relating to Hadley's activities; copies of three addresses by Hadley; a notebook kept by one of Hadley's students in Economics 20 (1894-1895); Hadley's office appointment books (1900-1920); and two photograph albums.

ArchivalResource: 51.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ru.0025 View