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Daniel B. and John S. Harris Family Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/CW 10186
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection consists of letters created by brothers, Daniel B. and John S. Harris as they each relocated west from their hometown in York, Maine to seek greater economic opportunities during the Civil War era. The Harris brothers held opposing religious and political views, particularly regarding the Abolition Movement, and a portion of their correspondence reflects their views on these issues. John witnessed the outbreak of the Civil War in Missouri in 1861 while...
Dates: 1785 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1854 - 1861

Daniel O’Connell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1007
Scope and Contents

Letters written by Daniel O’Connell to various recipients during the 1830s-1840s, a brief newspaper article, and one black-and-white portrait. Two letters date from 1843, O’Connell’s hoped-for “year of repeal,” and relay information about that movement.

Dates: 1835 - 1894

Debbie Green Civil Rights papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 3013
Scope and Contents Collection consists of a typescript memoir written by folk singer Debbie Green (1940-2017) about a 1965 trip from New York City to Amite County, Mississippi to assist with Civil Rights voter registration efforts. Green describes her travel to Amite with then boyfriend Eric Andersen (1943-), also a folk singer, and Village Voice columnist Jack Newfield (1938-2004). Once they arrive, Green details work with Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) representative...
Dates: 1965 - 1971

Doe Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5035
Abstract

A group of 13 manuscript letters, mostly written by Charles C. Doe to his parents. The letters, for the most part, describe a trip from New Hampshire to Janesville, Wisconsin.

Dates: 1842-1850; Majority of material found within ( 1849-1850)

Dr. George Marshall Oakden Collection

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Identifier: MSE/MD 3820
Abstract

The manuscript diaries of Surgeon Lieutenant George Marshall Oakden, who served in the British Navy from 1914 to 1919, and the letters of his brother, Arthur, who died in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.

Dates: 1915-1917

Durand Family Papers

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Identifier: MSH/LAT 0002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of members of the Durand family, including Augusto Durand and José Durand. Also included are papers of Augusto’s friend and colleague, Dr. Ricardo Flores. The collection spans from the mid-nineteenth century to José Durand’s death in 1990. Materials include correspondence, postcards, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, literary drafts, notebooks, and certificates.

Dates: 1858 - 1990

Ed Dorn Papers

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Identifier: MSN/MN 3009
Abstract

The papers consist of the correspondence and manuscripts of the poet Edward Dorn, particularly from the 1990s. The collection also includes a variety of items related to the publiction Rolling Stock, as well as manuscripts of other writers and audiocassette tapes.

Dates: 1952-2000; Majority of material found in 1987-1999

Edward Gorey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 5004
Abstract

Collection of magazines, clippings, dust jackets, and other ephemera containing illustrations of Edward Gorey. Also includes book catalogs, profiles of Gorey, and reviews of Gorey works.

Dates: undated

Edward Nangle and the Achill Mission Collection

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Identifier: MSE/IR 1052
Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials related to the history of Achill Island and the genealogy of its inhabitants. Included is the correspondence of a prominent local historian, John O’Shea, and his research files and notes on genealogy of the island’s inhabitants and the island’s founder, Edward Nangle. Also included are publications about the island or created on the island, including Nangle’s publications, Achill Missionary Herald and Western...
Dates: 1836-1894, 1996-2015

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1035
Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers relating to the career of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. The bulk of the collection is comprised of handwritten, typescript, and computer printout manuscripts in various stages of development for novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and poems by the author, as well as related miscellany (including drawings and a video recording). Titles well-represented within the collection include the novels The Dancers Dancing, ...
Dates: 1966 - 2016; Majority of material found within 1979 - 2011

Ella Young Letters

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Identifier: MSE/IR 1086
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of several letters and ephemera sent from Ella Young to Mrs. Roland G. Hopkins while Young was traveling in the United States, 1925-1926. Included are seven letters and one leaflet.

Dates: 1925 - 1926

Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane Papers

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Identifier: MSH/LAT 0045
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, including her correspondence, biographical materials, and diplomas. The collection also documents her political activity as one of the leading feminists of twentieth-century Argentina through her professional papers, such as records for the Asociación Pro-Derechos de la Mujeres, speeches, and essays. Also included are photographs of Dra. Sara Justo and ephemera and records relating to various feminist...
Dates: 1888-1954

Enoch P. Hill Letters

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Identifier: MSN/MN 5011
Abstract

A group of 40 personal letters written in 1899-1901 by Illinois native Enoch P. Hill, mostly during his army service in Cuba, the U. S., and the Philippines. The letters are directed to Hill's future wife, Mary E. Chilton.

Dates: 1899-1901

Ethel Mannin Letters

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Identifier: MSE/IR 1523
Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of correspondence sent from Ethel Mannin to a number of her fans. Includes seventeen letters from Ethel Mannin to various correspondents including George Arthur Fleet (1899-1988), Victor Croxford, a “Mr. Threadgold,” and a “Cecil.” Additionally includes thirteen carbon copies of letters sent from George Arthur Fleet to Ethel Mannin, a postcard from Fleet to Mannin, a collage including the letter to Victor Croxford, a card from Mannin to “Cecil” and a...
Dates: 1961 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1983

Evgeniia Ginzburg and Antonina Axenova Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0021
Abstract The collection consists of documents, letters, photographs, and some manuscripts relating to Evgeniia Ginzburg, the author of Krutoi Marshrut, an autobiographical account of the author's experience in the Soviet labor camps. Krutoi Marshrut has been translated into English in two volumes: Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind. The collection also includes materials relating to the life...
Dates: 1914-2014; Majority of material found in 1930s-1970s

Fred L. Steers Papers

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Identifier: MSSP 5000
Abstract

The athletic papers and attendant printed matter of Chicagoan Fred L. Steers, deriving from his years of administrative service to the Central Association of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, the national AAU, and the American Olympic Committee. The collection includes substantial materials on the Olympic Games of 1928 (Amsterdam), 1932 (Los Angeles), and 1936 (Berlin), all of which Steers attended as manager of the U.S. women's track and field team.

Dates: 1916-1967

French Funerary Materials Collection

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Identifier: MSE/MD 2816
Abstract

Collection of documents relating to interment and mortuary law in early modern and modern France with a concentration on bureaucratic records from the Entreprise Générale des Inhumations of the Napoleonic era.

Dates: 1668-1888

G. Julian Pratt Letters

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5041
Scope and Contents Of the seven manuscripts in the group, five are letters by Pratt to his mother or father—one written from western Virginia in August of 1861, and four from various locations in the Shenandoah Valley, December 1862 to November 1863. The two remaining documents (March-June 1862) are letters to Pratt from the headquarters of Brig. Gen. Wise, responding to Pratt's own, perhaps repeated entreaties that Wise use his influence to expedite Pratt's exchange. Pratt's initial assignment to Wise's...
Dates: 1861-1863

Gene Tunney Papers

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Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates: 1858 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945

Gennady Barabtarlo: Correspondence with the Nabokov Family and with Alexander Asarkan

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Identifier: MSE/REE 0036
Scope and Contents

The Barabtarlo Collection consists of letters, postcards, emails, manuscripts, photographs, audiocassettes, and videocassettes. These items were collected by Gennady Barabtarlo over the course of his association with the Nabokov Family and with Alexander Asarkan.

Dates: 1979-2012

George Colin McKee Papers

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Identifier: MSN/MN 0501
Abstract

Personal, professional, and political correspondence and other papers of the Mississippi lawyer, planter, and politician George Colin McKee (1837-1890). McKee was a "carpetbagger" and moderate Republican who represented the Vicksburg district in Congress during Reconstruction. Most of the material dates from the 20 years following the Civil War, though there are McKee family papers extending into the 20th century.

Dates: 1860-1934; Majority of material found in ( 1864-1883)

George F. Kennan-John Lukacs Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/MN 5018
Abstract

The manuscript correspondence of U.S. diplomat, State Department official, and historian George F. Kennan and Hungarian-born American historian John Lukacs, ranging from 1952 to 2004. The collection includes some 360 letters.

Dates: 1952-2004

George Petrie Collection

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Identifier: MSE/IR 1038
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a small group of correspondence sent to the Irish antiquarian George Petrie from a wide variety of fellow antiquarians and historians over the course of forty-two years. The collection comprises twenty-two handwritten letters primarily dealing with various antiquarian interests and one printed portrait of George Petrie.Notable items in the collection include Irish nationalist Charles Gavan Duffy’s letter to Petrie, written while Duffy was imprisoned at...
Dates: 1822 - 1864

George W. Crawford Papers

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Identifier: MSN/EA 0500
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of manuscript letters directed to the Georgia Whig politician George W. Crawford during the 1840s and early 1850s.

Dates: 1784-1853; Majority of material found in 1843-1853

G.K. Chesterton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3817
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts, letters, articles by Chesterton, as well as articles about him, photographs, and drawings. In addition to the material described in this finding aid, the collection also includes over 2,000 books and periodicals that have been cataloged separately.

Dates: 1893 - 1977

Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia and Rabinowich Papers

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Identifier: MSE/REE 0013
Abstract Eleonora Petrovna Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia was a well known art critic and historian of art, and the collection consists of documents, diaries, correspondence, written drafts, photographs, books, and slides. Gomberg's daughter, Nina Rabinowich, is a practicing artist, and her husband, Boris Rabinowich, was an important non-conformist artist. The family emigrated to Vienna, Austria, in 1977, and the collection includes catalogs, brochures, and posters for art exhibits of both Boris and Nina as...
Dates: 1900-2014; (bulk 1930s-1990s)

Grace Atkinson Oliver Papers

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Identifier: MSN/MN 0514
Scope and Contents

This collection of papers consists of materials created by Grace Atkinson Oliver, a 19th century American author and advocate of women's rights. Notable topics discussed in the papers include the portrayal of women in literature, morality and the press, taxation and the conditions at Danvers Asylum in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1861-1897

Graves Family Shipping Papers

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Identifier: MSN/EA 0506
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of business letters and records retained by William Graves, Jr., in the course of managing his shipping interests after his retirement from the sea (1847). There are some 330 letters, 1850 to 1875, mostly directed to Graves (accompanied by a few retained copies of letters written by him). Much of this correspondence relates to the affairs of the ships George West, Castilian, and Josiah L. Hale. Many were written by the masters of these ships, who functioned...
Dates: 1812-1877; Majority of material found in 1850-1875

Green Family Papers

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Identifier: MSN/EA 0508
Abstract

Family correspondence and other manuscript materials of the influential Green family of Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York. Of the 200-odd letters in the collection, the greater number were written by and to the ten children of Dr. John Green and Mary Ruggles in the 1790s, 1800s, and 1810s.

Dates: 1773-1937

Harlem Globetrotters Collection

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Identifier: BKP 670
Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of printed and graphic materials related to the Harlem Globetrotters professional basketball team, including programs, yearbooks, promotional material, and publicity photos. The programs document games between the Globetrotters and various professional basketball teams. The earliest program is from 1941 and the latest program is from 1969. The collection also includes programs from the World Series of Basketball, an annual series of games during the 1950s and...
Dates: 1941-1976

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