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Anthony Gardner Collection
Trinity College
1 box.
English bookbinder and calligrapher.
Correspondence with Elizabeth Van der Hoek. 74 letters covering the years 1956-1961, 1963-1973. Written in a calligraphic hand with colored inks and some drawings. Arranged and cataloged. -
Automobile Travel Collection
Trinity College
5 records of automobile trips throughout the United States during the 1920s and 1930s including scrapbooks, illustrations, and photographs.
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Ben Barber Papers
Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Barber, Ben. 35 boxes.
American Journalist
Writings, notebooks, correspondence and photographs document Barber’s work as an international journalist from the late 1970’s to 2014; materials are included from Trinity, as are the notebooks of poetry he wrote after graduation (1962-1979); also included are materials from the United States Agency for International Development, where Barber was a senior writer and editorial director of Frontlines (2002-2010). -
Charles P. Wells collection
Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Wells, Charles P. 3 boxes
American Merchant and Biblical Scholar Charles P. Wells (1811-1876) was a lifelong resident of Hartford, Connecticut. This collection contains correspondence, business records, and personal effects from his life. -
Clark Family Collection
Trinity College
5 boxes.
Papers, 1820-1876.
Correspondence (1820-1860) among the brothers Ezra Clark, Jr., Hartford manufacturer, Spencer Morton Clark, New York manufacturer, and George Hunt Clark, Hartford poet, businessman, and Trustee of the Watkinson Library, concerning business and family; journal (1855) by S. Morton Clark concerning a voyage to Europe; papers and correspondence (1853-1876) relating to the Granby Copper Mine, including letters (1876) from Benjamin Silliman; and poetry by George Hunt Clark. Arranged. -
Cummings Family Collection
Trinity College
2 boxes.
Papers, 1797-1861.
Joseph Cummings (1784-1860), of Ware, Massachusetts, was an active community leader who held a wide variety of local and state positions: deacon, postmaster, justice of the peace, bank director, school teacher, and town representative to the state Senate and House.
The Cummings family papers include miscellaneous legal and financial documents and correspondence to and from patriarch Joseph Cummings and other members of his family. Principal correspondents are: a) Joseph Cummings; b) his son, William B., a manufacturer in Brooklyn, New York; c) his son, Elbridge, in Beloit, Wisconsin; d) his son-in-law, James Yale, M.D., in Ware; e) his son-in-law, Nicholas Harris, a school teacher in Hartford in the 1840s and 1850s and a published author of textbooks. Arranged and inventoried. -
Dana W. Barton Diary
Trinity College
1880-1881. Chronicles a year's work in the life of a young Yankee farmer in Croydon, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
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Dard Hunter Collection
Trinity College
2 boxes.
Papermaker and printer.
Contains correspondence (1924-1944: 9 letters by Hunter, most written to Charles R. Green), prospectuses for Hunter's books, and journal and news articles on Hunter along with miscellaneous items relating to Hunter's work. Arranged and inventoried.
Gift of Charles R. Green. -
Edwin Arlington Robinson Collection
Trinity College
17 boxes, 1 portfolio.
American poet.
Over 90 manuscript letters from Robinson, along with manuscript poems (frequently with alterations and corrections or differing from the published versions) and prose. Includes periodicals with poetry and prose appearances by Robinson and articles about Robinson. Also includes photographs, ephemera and memorabilia. Arranged, inventoried, and cataloged. See [John William Pye], Edwin Arlington Robinson, a Bibliography (Hartford, Connecticut: Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 1969).
Gifts of H. Bacon Collamore and John William Pye. -
Ély Halpérine-Kaminsky Collection
Trinity College
ca. 44 boxes.
Russian-born French author and translator.
Literary papers and correspondence of Russian emigré writer and translator, Ély Halpérine-Kaminsky. There are two collections, one predominantly French, the other Russian.
I. Most of the collection is in French with some materials in Russian. Includes manuscripts of Halpérine-Kaminsky's writings, page proofs, and final printed versions, ranging from book-length works to periodical articles; in addition to literary subjects, topics include political and scientific themes and biographical sketches. Contains translations into French of works by almost 30 Russian authors, the largest percentage by Leon Tolstoy. Includes original (?) manuscripts of Turgenev. Arranged and inventoried. ca. 40 boxes.II. Most of this portion of the collection is in Russian. Includes manuscript essays by Halpérine-Kaminsky and other authors, manuscript letters written by Halpérine Kaminsky, manuscript letters to Halpérine-Kaminsky, and letters not to Halpérine Kaminsky, including copies (?) of letters from and to Tolstoy. In addition, there are printed materials: pages from books and published articles and galley proofs of articles by Halpérine Kaminsky (n.d.-1931). Arranged and inventoried. 4 boxes.
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Ély Halpérine-Kaminsky Papers: French Collection Summary
Trinity College
ca. 44 boxes. Russian-born French author and translator. Literary papers and correspondence of Russian emigré writer and translator, Ély Halpérine-Kaminsky. There are two collections, one predominantly French, the other Russian. I. Most of the collection is in French with some materials in Russian. Includes manuscripts of Halpérine-Kaminsky's writings, page proofs, and final printed versions, ranging from book-length works to periodical articles; in addition to literary subjects, topics include political and scientific themes and biographical sketches. Contains translations into French of works by almost 30 Russian authors, the largest percentage by Leon Tolstoy. Includes original (?) manuscripts of Turgenev. Arranged and inventoried. ca. 40 boxes.
II. Most of this portion of the collection is in Russian. Includes manuscript essays by Halpérine-Kaminsky and other authors, manuscript letters written by Halpérine Kaminsky, manuscript letters to Halpérine-Kaminsky, and letters not to Halpérine Kaminsky, including copies (?) of letters from and to Tolstoy. In addition, there are printed materials: pages from books and published articles and galley proofs of articles by Halpérine Kaminsky (n.d.-1931). Arranged and inventoried. 4 boxes. Gift of Richard A. Harrison, '57.
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Frank Michler Chapman Collection
Trinity College
Papers, 1931-1944. Correspondence between renowned ornithologist, Frank Michler Chapman and Swarthmore College mammologist, Robert K. Enders (1899-1988). Most of content focuses on the Barro Colorado field station, where they worked together on Neotropic fauna. Collection consists of 36 letters (holograph and typed) from Chapman and 13 carbons from Enders. Ostrom Enders Fund.
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George Cruikshank Collection
Trinity College
2 boxes.
English illlustrator and caricaturist.
Collection of 82 letters. One ALS from Cruikshank, dated 1842, and 81 ALS dated 1830-1875, from various authors, artists, and publishers to Cruikshank relating to his illustrations for Richard Bentley's "Miscellany," "Popular Tales," "Tower of London," etc. Some of the letters bear Cruikshank's autograph draft replies and pen and pencil sketches. Sketch of George IV, signed and dated 1820; pen and ink drawing for cover of A Comic Alphabet, 1837. Arranged and inventoried, with a list of correspondents. -
George William Mason Diary
Trinity College
1869, 1873, 1874, 1876. Four diaries of a farm boy, born in 1859, from Broadbrook, Connecticut and later of Agawam, Massachusetts.
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Goodwin Family Papers
Trinity College
2 boxes.
Letters, 1814-69.
Correspondence (1814-1820) from Capt. John Ripley Madison to Major Thomas A. DeBlois, from the U.S. Frigates Congress , Guerriere , and Prometheus and the U.S. Schooner Lynx , including a letter mentioning the slave trade; together with correspondence (1857-1869) from Col. David P. Hancock to his brother, written from the Indian Territory; and 6 Civil War letters concerning the possibility of war with England. Arranged, inventoried, and cataloged.
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Harry Bacon Collamore Collection
Trinity College
4 boxes.
Book collector and Watkinson Library Trustee.
Collection has two major components. The first concerns the publication of the catalogue, Edwin Arlington Robinson , 1869-1935: A Collection of His Works from the Library of Bacon Collamore (Hartford, 1936) and preparation of an E.A. Robinson exhibition at Wesleyan University's Olin Library, February 1936. The second part of the collection comprises letters from Collamore to John William Pye, E.A. Robinson collector and donor of the collection. Processed and inventoried.
Gift of John William Pye, Trinity College, Class of 1970. -
Herbert Keightley Job Collection
Trinity College
Papers, 1879-1911. Notebooks (14), correspondence (ca. 400 items), and lantern slides (326) by minister, lecturer, author, ornithologist, and pioneer wildlife photographer, Herbert K. Job. Includes letters from A. C. Bent, John Burroughs, Frank Chapman, Elliott Coues, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Ostrom Enders Fund.
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Hugh Ogden Collection
Trinity College
6 boxes.
American poet and educator. Trinity College faculty member.
Literary papers relating to two published books of poems, Looking for History (1991) and Two Roads and This Spring (1993). Manuscript poems and drafts of poems published in the two books are the feature of this collection, which also includes galley proofs and letters from editors and fellow writers. Over 1500 items. Arranged and inventoried. -
J. Hammond Trumbull Collection
Trinity College
26 boxes, 1 portfolio.
Philologist, historian, bibliographer, and first Watkinson Librarian.
Papers, 1863-1895. Includes correspondence; historical writings and notes on colonial New England, Connecticut and Stonington, CT; Indian language studies (not all Trumbull's) including comparative philology, place names, transcriptions of texts, and word lists; miscellaneous manuscripts, including natural history, and printed materials including 8 scrapbooks. Manuscript pen and ink map of Stonington in 1776 (made in 1857). Arranged, cataloged, and inventoried.
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Jon A. Reynolds Papers
Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Reynolds, Jon A., 1937-
23 boxes
American Combat Pilot and Military Attaché
Correspondence, photographs, slides, transparencies, journals, brochures, maps, guides, posters, files, newspaper clippings, and military service awards documenting Jon A. Reynolds activities as a pilot, air traffic controller, and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War from 1963-1973; as well as a student at Trinity College, Duke University, and a teacher at the Naval War College (U.S.). The collection further documents Reynolds' roles as an Air Defense Attaché to China (1984-1988), senior military assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force (1988-1989), and finally, as Director of Defense Attaché system until his retirement from the military in 1990 when he became President of Raytheon Company in China until 2003. -
Kathrine Gordon Brinley Collection
Trinity College
16 boxes.
American performer.
Papers relating to Mrs. Brinley's Chaucer recitations,1919-1954. Notes, correspondence, programs, publicity materials and newspaper clippings in loosely chronological order, 1919-1957. Also audio recordings, photographs, ephemera, and manuscript writings and notes on Chaucer and Chaucer programs, grouped separately. Arranged and inventoried.
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Limited Editions Club Collection
Trinity College
1 box.
Book club.
Ephemera, 1929-1982, accompanying a large collection of Limited Edition Club books donated by Watkinson Library Trustee John M. K. Davis. Includes catalogs, monthly newsletters, prospectuses, membership information. Also letter from John M.K. Davis regarding Limited Editions Club while it was in Avon, Connecticut; typescript accounts of Limited Editions Club by Gordon Carroll, David M. Glixon, and Pamela Petro. Arranged and inventoried.
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List of Letters of Thomas Cole to Daniel Wadsworth
Trinity College
1 box.
American painter.
Nineteen letters to Daniel Wadsworth July 6, 1826-July 13, 1832 (most written during 1826 -1828). Published in The Correspondence of Thomas Cole and Daniel Wadsworth , edited by J. Bard McNulty (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1983). Arranged. -
Martha Linsley Spencer Collection
Trinity College
17 boxes.
Hartford poet and editor.
Papers relating to her poetry and other writings. Many manuscript poems as well as manuscript prose writings; some printed works. Correspondence (including 1 letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay, 3 from Wallace Stevens, and 1 from W.B. Yeats) consists mainly of letters to Spencer regarding poetry submissions to the Hartford Times . Miscellaneous papers, manuscript notes, and ephemera relating to The Poetry Club of Hartford, "The Poet's Corner" column, and Spencer's position as poetry editor of the Hartford Times . Arranged and inventoried.
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Michael R. Campo papers
Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Dr. Michael R Campo was a member of faculty of Trinity College from 1952 to 1989 as professor of Modern Languages. He established the Cesare Barbieri Center (1956 – 1958) – which is now known as the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture. In 1958, Dr. Campo also founded the Cesare Barbieri Courier – a journal dealing with Italian Culture. Dr. Campo served as the courier’s editor until its publication ceased in the late 1960s. In 1970, Dr. Campo was involved in founding the Trinity College’s Rome Campus, a model for overseas educational programs for undergraduates. In 1981, Dr. Campo co-founded Trinity’s Elderhostel/Italy program which served as educational travel for senior citizens to program sites throughout Italy. The Italian Government later named Dr. Campo Commendatore della republica. Acknowledging his service and accomplishments as an academic entrepreneur, Trinity conferred on Dr. Campo an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1966. Dr. Campo is also credited with establishing Trinity’s Academy of Life-Long Learning, a non-credit educational program for adult learners.
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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