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Curt Flood Legal Documents Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10008
Scope and Contents This small collection consists of legal documents and correspondence related to Curt Flood’s lawsuit, Flood v. Kuhn against Major League baseball’s reserve clause in the early 1970s. The legal documents include official court papers from the Appellate Court case in the Second Circuit of Appeals (1971) and the Supreme Court decision (1972) against Flood. The correspondence largely consists of letters to and from the law firms Arnold & Porter and Wilkie, Farr, &...
Dates: 1970 - 1971

Daniel B. and John S. Harris Family Correspondence

 Collection
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

Daniel P. Connor, Jr., New Hampshire Cliff Diving Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_7004
Content Description The primary item in this collection is a scrapbook compiled by the physical culture enthusiast and swimming and diving instructor Daniel P. Connor, Jr. The main focus of the scrapbook is the young cliff divers that Connor taught. The scrapbook particularly covers the performance of the divers during the summer of 1922 and at the Manchester, New Hampshire, Winter Carnival of 1923. During the Carnival, the young daredevil cliff divers dove through ice and received considerable publicity. There...
Dates: 1919-1931; Majority of material found within 1922-1923

Dennis H. Arnold and Mary E. Arnold Correspondence

 Collection — Box: MSN/CW LDOC CC-1
Identifier: MSN/CW10193
Scope and Contents The Dennis H. Arnold and Mary E. Arnold Correspondence, 1862-1863, comprise Civil War era letters between Corporal Dennis H. Arnold in Hilton Head, South Carolina and Mary E. Arnold, his wife, in Rockland, Rhode Island. Corporal Arnold’s letters primarily discuss his arrival in Hilton Head, soldiers' generally unfavorable reactions to General Hunter’s emancipation proclamation, efforts to create an African American regiment, a siege train going to Savannah, illness at camp, and food. Mary...
Dates: 1862-1863

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

 Collection
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

Dr. Richard L. Sutton, Jr., Billiards Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSSP_10016
Content Description

A collection of material related to billiards gathered by Dr. Richard L. Sutton. The materials include correspondence related to contemporary billiards and the history of billiards, printed ephemera, and one album of historical billiards photos.

Dates: c. 1921-1979

Enoch P. Hill Letters

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Franklin Knowles Young Chess Papers and Boston Chess Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10020
Content Description Six bound volumes of papers and records related to the game of chess gathered or compiled by Franklin Knowles Young, a noted chess player, chess strategist, and author. Three ledgers document the operation of the Boston Chess Club during the late ninteenth and early twenteth century, including meeting minutes, member lists, tournament results, match results, contents of the library, notes on strategy, and other information about the Club. Three of the ledgers records Young's personal chess...
Dates: 1875-1908

G. Julian Pratt Letters

 Collection
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 Family Letters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_2001
Scope and Contents This small collection of letters were mostly written by Gene Tunney to his friend Robert R. Gros. The collection also includes three letters written by Tunney to other correspondents, notably Hamilton Fish III, one telegram from Gros to Tunney, and five letters/postcards from Tunney’s wife, Mary Lauder "Polly" Tunney, to Gros written mostly after Tunney had died. The letters primarily involved family matters, coordinating visits, and sharing family news, with some mentions of politics,...
Dates: 1938-1980; Majority of material found within 1955-1961

Gene Tunney Papers

 Collection
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

George F. Kennan-John Lukacs Correspondence

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Green Family Papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Harrison E. Randall Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5013
Abstract

77 Civil War letters of Harrison E. Randall of Fulton County, Ohio, written from the field as a member of Co. H, 100th Ohio Infantry. Most were written from Kentucky (September 1862 to August 1863), Georgia, during the Atlanta campaign (June to August 1864), Alabama and Tennessee, including letters from the Nashville campaign (October 1864 to January 1865) and North Carolina (March and April 1865).

Dates: 1862-1865

Hattie Aiken Robinson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 5017
Abstract

A group of 33 letters recording the personal affairs of a Depression-era African-American family. The letters are directed to Mrs. Hattie Aiken Robinson of Texarkana, Arkansas, by family members in Arkansas, St. Louis, and Chicago.

Dates: 1934-1936

Henry H. Maley Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5023
Abstract

A group of 50 personal letters written during the Civil War by Union private Henry H. Maley, Co. K, 84th Illinois Infantry. Most of the letters date from 1864-65, when the regiment was attached to IV Corps, in the Army of the Cumberland.

Dates: 1862-1865; Majority of material found in 1864-1865

Henry Hall Fishing Line Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_7005
Content Description

A collection of mostly correspondence and business records of the Henry Hall fishing line company. Included are about 100 orders and invoices from customers and suppliers in the 1880s. The collection also includes about 75 pieces of correspondence written in 1900 by D. D. Anderson of the New York sales office to company president Alexander G. Hall at Highland Mills.

Dates: 1880-1939; Majority of material found within 1880-1900

Henry S. Figures Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5001
Scope and Contents Letter from Henry S. Figures, a young Alabama salesman, to his father. Much of the letter's content treats the military plans and aspirations of Figures' acquaintances, as the Confederacy hastened to mold existing state militias and fresh volunteers into a national army. Many of those mentioned would serve with Figures in the 4th Alabama: Clifton Walker, Samuel Moore, and Fielding Bradford all were privates in Company I, and William Fariss, like Figures, served in Company F. The regiment had...
Dates: 1861 May 9

Herbert Benezet Tyson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5010
Abstract

A group of 5 letters written by naval lieutenant Herbert Benezet Tyson of the U.S.S. Connecticut, during that ship's cruise to and around the Caribbean in winter/spring 1865.

Dates: 1865

Homer C. Selby Portsmouth Spartans Football Team Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1006
Content Description This collection consists of 30 letters and telegrams to and from Homer Clifford Selby (1880-1959) about the National Football League's Portsmouth Spartans franchise located in Portsmouth, Ohio. Selby was a local shoe company executive, who in late 1931 assumed leadership of a local committee charged with rescuing the Portsmouth franchise from debt and insolvency. Selby remained involved through the end of the 1933 season, but the committee's work was unsuccessul and could not pay down the...
Dates: 1931-1934

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Abbeville Athletics (Baseball team) 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ahern, M. E. (Mary Eileen), 1860-1938 1
Aksenov, Vasilii, 1932-2009 1
Albrecht VI, Duke of Bavaria, 1584-1666 1
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1
Alekseeva, Liudmila Mikhailovna, 1927-2018 1
Allingham, William, 1789-1866 1
Amadeus Victor, Duke of Savoy, I, 1587-1637 1
Amadeus Victor, King of Sardinia, I, 1666-1732 1
American Football League 1
Amorim, Esther Haldo de 1
Anderson, Leroy Hammond, 1814-1863 1
Anderson, William H., 1836-1902 1
Anselm, Kasimir, Archbishop of Mainz, 1583-1647 1
Archibald, Edward Mortimer, 1810-1884 1
Arnold, Dennis H., 1819-1892 1
Arnold, Mary E., 1826-1883 1
Ashe, Nora, 1882–1970 1
Ashe, Thomas, 1885-1917 1
Axenova, Antonina 1
Baldwin, Albert J. (Albert Jehiel), 1839-1912 1
Barker, Cicero R., 1848-1917 1
Barrès, Maurice, 1862-1923 1
Barrier, Rufus A. (Rufus Alexander), 1836-1876 1
Barrier, William L. (William Lafayette), 1834-1864 1
Beatty, William, 1739-circa 1804 1
Beatty, William, Jr., 1758-1781 1
Begun, Yosif, 1932- 1
Behan, Brendan 1
Bell, Bert, 1894-1959 1
Bellamy, Amanda M., circa 1810-1845 1
Beláustegui Rodríguez, Melchor, 1811-1885 1
Beláustegui-Bustamante Family 1
Benjamin, René, 1885-1948 1
Bettle, Mary, 1833-1912 1
Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team) 1
Blanchard, Abel, Jr., 1798-1867 1
Blanchard, Barnes, 1807-1878 1
Blanchard, Benjamin, 1786-1869 1
Blanchard, Lewis, 1788-1847 1
Blanchard, Mark, 1790-1839 1
Boardman, Elijah, 1760-1823 1
Boardman, Mabel Thorp, 1860-1946 1
Boardman, Mary Anna Whiting, 1767-1848 1
Booth Family 1
Booth, Franklin, 1874-1948 1
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Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 1
Boston Chess Club (1857-1981) 1
Boston University 1
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) 1
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Brown, Reggie (Reginald Woodman Plummer), 1876-1961 1
Brownlee Family 1
Brownlee, Elizabeth Savage, 1827-1883 1
Brownlee, John E., 1827-1900 1
Brownlee, Robert, 1805-1885 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Bucynski, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Anthony), 1921-1996 1
Bunting, Edward, 1773-1843 1
Bustamante Beláustegui, Juana, 1864-1948 1
Button, Dick (Richard Totten), 1929-2025 1
Buydden Family 1
Buydden, Clifford Wicker, 1881-1918 1
Buydden, Wade James, 1876-1949 1
Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness (Anne Isabella), 1792-1860 1
Byron, Lucy Elizabeth Jane, -1912 1
Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 1
Califf, Joseph Mark, 1843-1914 1
Canadian Football League 1
Carey, Max, 1890-1976 1
Carolina Playmakers 1
Casement, Roger, 1864-1916 1
Casey, Louise P., 1829- 1
Casey, Phebe Needham, 1838- 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Catholic Church. Diocese of Ferrara (Italy) 1
Celtic Literary Society (Dublin, Ireland) 1
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, 1798-1849 1
Charles, Duke of Savoy, III, 1486-1553 1
Chesterton, Cecil, 1879-1918 1
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 1
Chilkat Indians 1
Chilton, Mary E., 1882-1965 1
Chinese Committee 1