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Monday Evening Club
Trinity College
18 boxes.
Hartford men's literary club.
Papers of the Club, 1869 to the present. Minute books, Club correspondence, membership lists, histories of the Club, and an extensive collection of papers delivered by Club members from 1880 to the present. The Watkinson Library is the official archival repository for the Club's records and will continue to receive materials as they become available. Arranged, inventoried, and cataloged.
Gift of the Monday Evening Club. -
Nikki Giovanni Series: American Notables Collection
Trinity College
Mainly consists of individual letters but also contains miscellaneous papers and documents. Arranged and cataloged.
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Odell Shepard Collection
Trinity College
120 boxes, 2 scrapbooks.
Connecticut writer, politician, and Trinity College faculty member.
Papers in the primary collection (113 boxes) span Shepard's career as professor, writer, and politician. Voluminous correspondence, with letters from such notables as Walter de la Mare and Sinclair Lewis. Extensive correspondence with Sister Miriam, nun and poet, and Carl Beecher, composer, including Beecher's musical settings of poems by Shepard. Includes manuscript versions of many of Shepard's writings from published book-length works like Holdfast Gaines and Pedlar's Progress (Shepard's Pulitzer Prize biography of Bronson Alcott) and unpublished works to poetry, essays, and reviews. The remainder of the collection comprises a wide range of miscellaneous items relating to areas such as his career in politics as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and to his career in teaching as Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College and as a visiting professor elsewhere. Arranged and inventoried.
To this primary collection have been added 7 boxes of supplementary material. Materials in the supplementary collection concern, chiefly, the research, writing, and publication of Pedlar's Progress . In addition, there are some materials (photographs) related to other publications. Arranged and inventoried.
Gift of Odell Shepard. -
Ornithology Collection: William J. Schaldach Papers
Trinity College
Papers, ca. 1937-1976. Correspondence between Schaldach and his publishers (Macmillan, Freshet Press, Crossroads of Sport, Natural History Magazine, etc.), typescripts of some essays, copies of pieces published in various magazines (some under pen names), a few informal and unsigned pencil sketches, reviews and announcements of his books, and some personal correspondence, esp. with automobile artist Peter Helck. Ostrom Enders Fund.
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Ornithology Lantern Slides Collection (by Date)
Trinity College
59 black and white lantern slides of birds, including puffins, titmice, cormorants, and razorbills, c. 1900. Photographer unknown. Ostrom Enders Fund.
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Ornithology Lantern Slides Collection (by Location)
Trinity College
59 black and white lantern slides of birds, including puffins, titmice, cormorants, and razorbills, c. 1900. Photographer unknown. Ostrom Enders Fund.
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Ornithology Lantern Slides Collection (by Number)
Trinity College
59 black and white lantern slides of birds, including puffins, titmice, cormorants, and razorbills, c. 1900. Photographer unknown. Ostrom Enders Fund.
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Paul S. Parsons Collection
Trinity College
1 box.
Trinity alumnus (B.A., 1920; M.A., English, 1924) and educator.
Miscellaneous papers, 1918-1934. Parsons interrupted his college career to serve in World War I. After graduation, he held appointments as instructor in English, Trinity College (1921-1925) and then (1925-1931) as Director, Girls' Department, Loomis Institute (later known as the Chaffee School and subsequently merged with Loomis Institute, the merged schools known as the Loomis-Chaffee School) in Windsor, CT. The papers include correspondence, both personal (some letters in French) and business, and poems attributed to Parsons. Correspondents include F. S. Luther and R. B. Ogilby, presidents of Trinity College, and Odell Shepard, professor of English at Trinity College and author. One hundred and thirty five items. Arranged and inventoried. -
Resist Collection
Trinity College
26 archival boxes; 65 flat newspaper boxes
Archives of Resist, the draft resistance support organization begun in 1967, later to become a foundation, from 1967 to 1987. Materials relating to activities of Resist include applications for funding from small organizations of diverse interests throughout the country, with supporting papers; records of Resist, including board meeting minutes, business files, correspondence, newsletter and other publications, Steering Committee minutes (26 boxes). Also, newspapers and other publications of organizations seeking support and others (65 newspaper boxes.) Inventoried. -
Rev. William Weber Collection
Trinity College
16 boxes.
Episcopalian minister.
Papers relating to Weber's career as an Episcopalian minister and his interest in contemporary social causes spanning the late 1940s to the late 1960s. Collection includes newspaper clippings and ephemera documenting such issues as the McCarthy era fear of Communism and the Civil Rights unrest of the sixties. Arranged and inventoried. -
Robert Frost Collection
Trinity College
46 boxes, 1 portfolio.
American poet.
Manuscript letters from Frost (1913-1937); manuscript poems, many with texts varying from printed versions; proofs; sets of Frost Christmas cards with printed poems (1934-1962); extensive group of periodicals, many with first appearances of Frost's poems; ephemera; audio recordings including talk by Frost at Trinity College in October 1962; extensive series of newspaper clippings. Arranged, inventoried, and cataloged. See also Marian G. M. Clarke, The Robert Frost Collection in the Watkinson Library(Hartford, Conn.: Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 1974).
Gift of H. Bacon Collamore and Charles R. Green. -
Roberts Brothers Collection
Trinity College
3 boxes.
Literary publisher.
Manuscript correspondence, miscellaneous manuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to the Boston literary publishing firm of Roberts Brothers and photographic albums produced and sold by Roberts Brothers.
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Saul David Alinsky Collection
Trinity College
1 box.
American sociologist.
Miscellaneous writings, essays, notes and memoranda of Alinsky (14 items), 2 letters to Alinsky regarding one of his manuscripts and his work for the Archdiocesan Conservation Council in Chicago, 17 letters from Alinsky to his second wife (Jean Graham), 16 condolence notes and cards to his second wife following his death. (n.d. - 1965). Arranged and inventoried. -
Sibour Family Collection
Trinity College
22 boxes.
Papers, 1589-1917.
Correspondence, journals, accounts, wills, contracts, and other documents, laissez-passer and passports of the Revolutionary period, military commissions, petitions for restoration of property, an autobiographical manuscript by Mary de Sibour, with notes on Charleston, South Carolina in the Civil War and two volumes (1696-1876) with details of property, kept by various members of the family; together with papers of two related families, de La Selle (1745-70, 1802) and Bèlmes (1746-1794). Persons represented include François de Sibour, Jean Antonin Gabriel de Sibour (French consul in the U.S.), Jean Baptiste Joseph de Sibour (mayor of Monteux), Jean Claude de Sibour, Jean François de Sibour, Jean Joseph François de Sibour (Apostolic Pronotary, prior, and vicar-general of Carpentras), Louis André de Sibour (chancellor of the Cathedral at Carpentras), and Louis Blaise, comte de Sibour. Partially arranged and inventoried.
Gift of Jerome P. Webster, 1956; purchased by him from Myers and Co., London. -
Sir Walter Scott Collection
Trinity College
9 boxes, 2 framed items (print, photographs).
Scottish author.
Ca. 100 letters by Scott (1795-1831); literary and other manuscripts including business and legal documents; personal correspondence of Anne Scott with William Cowper and letters to C.K. Sharpe from various individuals; collection of Ainslie Mentalembert family papers (18th and 19th centuries) including correspondence, business and legal documents, miscellaneous papers and genealogical table of 1894. Arranged and cataloged.
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Stephen Spender Collection
Trinity College
2 boxes.
British poet.
Papers. The bulk of the collection consists of letters from Spender to Mary Elliott between July 1939 and February 1952. Also included are letters to Elliott from Inez Spender (Spender's first wife), Charles Madge, and Kathleen Madge. The correspondence relates mainly to Spender's estrangement and eventual divorce from Inez Spender, although there is mention of conditions in wartime Britain as well. Includes 6 typescript poems of Spender, and 31 typescript poems of Charles Madge. Arranged and inventoried.
A supplement to this collection consists of letters (Jan. 1996 through April 1996) to and from David Elliott, son of Mary Elliott and donor of the collection, regarding his recollections of life as a young child in Patterdale, England. The David Elliott correspondence illumines relationships among the persons represented in the Spender collection, providing a helpful context. Arranged.
Gift of David Elliott, TC '57. -
Sydney Stanley Papers
Trinity College
5 boxes.
Clerk of Connecticut Legislature, Hartford, Connecticut.
Papers 1671-1866. In part, transcripts (typewritten). Diaries (1858-1866); five letters (1847-1861); account books (1851-1858, 1876-78); and documents, records, and deeds (1671-1850). Arranged and inventoried. -
Watkinson Family Papers
Trinity College
22 boxes.
Papers, 1757-1873.
Mainly comprising the business papers of John Revell Watkinson. Separate boxes for David, John Hubbard, John Revell, Richard, Samuel Sr. and Samuel Jr., containing their correspondence and their personal and financial papers. Also a box of papers for other family members (with much relating to Robert and William Watkinson), and 3 file drawers of genealogical material and photographs. Arranged and inventoried on cards. -
Watkinson Library Archives Classification Scheme
Trinity College
4 filing cabinets plus 4 ft. of accession books.
Archives
Materials relating to the history and activities of the Watkinson Library from its incorporation in 1858 to the present. Includes files on Library Trustees and donors to the library. Arranged and inventoried. -
W. C. (William Christopher) Handy Collection
Trinity College
1 box.
Composer.
Collection of miscellaneous materials, in particular with reference to the "St. Louis Blues" and the origin of the the Blues in Memphis, Tennesssee.
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William Gillette Series: American Notables Collection
Trinity College
Mainly consists of individual letters but also contains miscellaneous papers and documents. Arranged and Cataloged.
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Williams Family Collection
Trinity College
11 boxes.
Papers, 1721-1908.
Mainly papers of Ezekiel Williams Jr. (1765-1843), postmaster and insurance underwriter of Hartford, Connecticut, including underwriting records for nautical insurance (1790-1804) and correspondence with Noah Webster, Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Williams; correspondence of Oliver Ellsworth Williams with Theodore Dwight, Daniel Webster, and others; and correspondence (1760-1908) of various members of the Williams family including letters from Oliver Ellsworth, Chauncey Goodrich, Horace Greeley, Samuel Hopkins, Joshua Pitkin, Charles and Lydia H. Sigourney, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Arranged, inventoried, and cataloged.
Trinity College's Watkinson Library houses many collections of manuscripts, dating roughly from the beginning of the 17th century to the present. Most are American, with the greatest concentration in the 19th century, the period of the Watkinson Library's founding. Major collections, for example, are the papers of writer Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), educator Henry Barnard (1811-1900), Hartford musician Nathan H. Allen (1848-1925), and the Watkinson family (1757-1873). The emphasis is on cultural history, with manuscripts complementing the Library's rich printed holdings in Americana.
The unit of measurement is the flat legal size manuscript box. If a collection has been put in accessible order, it is described as "arranged." Finding aids are either catalog cards, in which case a collection is described as "cataloged," inventories (and thus described as "inventoried"), or both. "Not processed" means that nothing has been done to arrange and/or provide finding aids for a collection. The manuscript collections are not included in the Trinity College online catalog.
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