Manuscript Descriptions
"B" Manuscript Summaries
"B" Manuscript Summaries
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Balabanoff, Angelica, 1878-1965.
- Title: Papers, [ca. 1938]-1965.
Physical Details: .3 cubic ft.
Notes: Activist in European socialist and labor movements. Balabanoff served as Secretary to the Zimmerwald Movement and to the Third Communist International of 1919. She resided in the U.S. during World War II.
Summary: Collection consists of manuscripts by Balabanoff including the first draft of a portion of her autobiography MY LIFE AS A REBEL, published in 1938, and several poems. There is also an obituary, 1965.
Notes: Poems are in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Communist International.
Zimmerwald movement.
Labor and laboring classes--Europe--Political activity.
Women in politics--Europe.
Communism--Europe.
Socialism--Europe.
Europe--Social conditions.
Socialists.
Women social reformers.
Communists.
Genre Or Form:
Poems.
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Ballintine, Harriet Isabel, 1865-1951.
- Title: Papers, 1881-1916.
Physical Details: .5 cubic ft.
Notes: Physical education teacher at Vassar, 1891 to 1930.
Summary: Papers pertaining to her interest in folk dances and singing games including her arrangements of music scores for dances, a notebook containing descriptions of folk dances and a glossary to dance positions, and sheet music and dance instructions she used in classes, 1881-1916, including works by Elizabeth Burchenal and Louis H. Chalif.- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors:
Burchenal, Elizabeth, 1877-
Chalif, Louis Harvey, 1877-
Subjects:
Vassar College--Faculty.
Physical education for women.
Folkdancing.
Singing games.
Women college teachers.
Genre Or Form:
Sheet music.
Musical scores.
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Banning, Margaret Culkin, 1891-
- Title: Papers, 1940-1968.
Physical Details: 3 linear ft.
Notes: Banning (Vassar College Class of 1912) was the author of novels addressing social problems and the role of women in American life, and was active in civil affairs.
Summary: Addresses and talks, including three radio scripts, 1940-1967; diary from a trip around the world in 1968 and the manuscript of her book based on her diary LIFE-BOAT NUMBER TWO; copies of her fiction and articles published in periodicals; and biographical information, including an inventory of her papers in the Mugar Library at Boston University.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available
Other Authors: Mugar Memorial Library (Boston University)- Finding Aids: Box and folder lists.
Subjects:
Women--Social conditions.
Women--Diaries.
Literature--Women authors.
Radio programs.
United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
Women authors, American.
Genre Or Form:
Scripts.
Diaries.
- Finding Aids: Box and folder lists.
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Bechtel, Louise Seaman, b. 1894.
- Title: Papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk)
Physical Details: 8 cubic ft.
Notes: Bechtel (1894-1985) was head of the juvenile book department at Macmillan from 1919-1934, assistant editor and director for THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE, and lecturer and author on children's literature. She graduated from Vassar College in 1915.
Summary: Papers primarily concern her work in literature, publishing, and editing, especially for children, and include correspondence, manuscripts, illustrations, biographical information, and published articles and reviews from or pertaining to authors, illustrators, and publishers, 1922-1978, including Rachel Lyman Field, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, Marianne Moore, Helen Sewell, Wallace Stevens, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Carroll Moore, Frances Clarke Sayers, Harry Behn, Padraic Colum, Anne Parrish, and Sara Teasdale. Extensive correspondence from Elizabeth Coatsworth, Vassar classmate and children's author, concerning travel, writing, mutual friends, the onset of World War II, volunteer war work, and family news, 1913-1980; biographical articles on Coatsworth, 1936-1978; and a Coatsworth family photograph album, 1898-1979. Letters from editors and board members at the Horn Book Company, publishers of THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE and other children's literature, concerning Bechtel's work, editorial policy, conflicts between editors and the board, and publishing plans, with some personal and family news, 1934-1974. Correspondents include Bertha E. Mahony (Miller), Jennie D. Linquist, and Ruth Hill Viguers. Also, scrapbooks of Bechtel's published reviews and articles.
Other items include typed excerpts from the diary of her father Charles F. Seaman, 1877-1950; family photographs, clippings, announcements, and postcards; and Bechtel's collection of prints and photographs including works by Boris Artzybasheff, Pamela Bianco, Fritz Eichenberg, Dorothy Lathrop, Howard Pyle, Lynd Ward, and Stanley Wengenroth.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors:
Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-
Bianco, Pamela, 1906-
Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901-
Lathrop, Dorothy Pulis, 1891-
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911.
Ward, Lynd, 1905-
Wengenroth, Stanley.
Subjects:
Field, Rachel, 1894-1942.
Lathrop, Dorothy Pulis, 1891-
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Sewell, Helen, 1896-
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
White, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
Moore, Carroll.
Sayers, Frances Clarke, 1897-
Behn, Harry.
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972.
Parrish, Anne, 1888-1957.
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933.
Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane, 1893-
Miller, Bertha E. Mahony.
Linquist, Jennie D.
Viguers, Ruth Hill.
Seaman, Charles F.
Macmillan Company.
Horn Book, Inc.
Horn book magazine.
Family--New York (State)
Authors.
Publishers and publishing.
Children's literature--Women authors.
World War, 1939-1945--War work.
Literature publishing.
Editors.
Coatsworth family.
Genre Or Form:
Scrapbooks.
Photoprints.
Postcards.
Prints.
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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
- Title: Papers, 1905-1948.
Physical Details: 60 linear ft.
Notes: Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909.
Summary: Personal and professional papers consisting of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts, articles, speeches, financial papers, reports, teaching materials, and photographs. Correspondents include Franz Boas with whom she studied and worked. Subjects include American Anthropological Association, Progressive Education Association, West Side Defense Council (New York City), Council Against Intolerance in America, American Association of University Women, American Folklore Journal, Mary Wollstonecraft, Indians of the American Southwest including Pima, Zuni, Dakotas, Sioux, and Shoshone, civil rights, and Japan and Japanese culture. Other items include her published and unpublished poetry; grant proposals; correspondence, clippings, and reports from field work, including her Mescalero trip, 1931-1932; and a draft of Margaret Mead's AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK.
Notes: Restricted in part.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available
Other Authors: Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Subjects:
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
American Anthropological Association.
American Education Fellowship.
American Association of University Women.
West Side Defense Council (New York, N.Y.)
Council Against Intolerance in America.
Journal of American folklore.
Women--Diaries.
Civil rights.
Pima Indians.
Zuñi Indians.
Dakota Indians.
Shoshonean Indians.
Anthropology--Study and teaching.
Anthropology--New Mexico--Field work.
United States--Social conditions.
Japan--Social life and customs.
Mescalero (N.M.)--Description.
Women scientists.
Anthropologists.
Sioux Indians.
Progressive Education Association.
Genre Or Form:
Diaries.
Photoprints.
Poems.
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Bergeret, Ida Treat, 1889-1978.
- Title: Papers, 1921-1977.
Physical Details: 8 cubic ft.
Notes: Bergeret, who wrote under the name Ida Treat, earned a doctorate in letters at the University of Paris. She taught at Vassar from 1948 to 1954. She lived in France for many years, working as a writer and journalist.
Summary: Papers reflect her personal and professional life and include travel diaries and notes, manuscripts and published versions of her articles and stories on China, Russia, Tahiti, Abyssinia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea slave trade, 1928-1967; correspondence with her two of her three husbands, Paul Vaillant-Couturier and Andre Bergeret; letters from Wolfgang Wolff written from Tahiti, 1934-1939; correspondence with her literary agent Marie Rodell, 1965-1967, and with the NEW YORKER and other publishers and editors; 86 letters from her friend Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1926-1952, and correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements, 1968, pertaining to Chardin's book LETTERS TO TWO FRIENDS, 1926-1952; notes, clippings, and scrapbooks concerning her experiences in London during World War II, 1943-1945; manuscripts and publications by other authors; letters and articles of Simone and Max Begonen; and family and personal photographs.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Begonen, Simone.
Begonen, Max.
Wolff, Wolfgang.
Vaillant-Couturier, Paul, 1892-1937.
Bergeret, Andre.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre.
Rodell, Marie.
Vassar College--Faculty.
New Yorker.
Slavery--Middle East.
Women--Diaries.
Publishers and publishing.
World War, 1939-1945--England--London.
Literature--Women authors.
Literary agents.
China--Description and travel.
Soviet Union--Description and travel.
Tahiti--Description and travel.
Ethiopia--Description and travel.
Djibouti--Description and travel.
Middle East--Description and travel.
London (England)--Description.
Women college teachers.
Women travelers.
Women authors.
Treat, Ida, 1889-1978.
Bergeret family.
Abyssinia--Description and travel.
Genre Or Form:
Scrapbooks.
Diaries.
Photoprints.
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Bird, Caroline, 1915-
- Title: Papers, 1915-1995
Physical Details: ca. 99 linear ft.
Notes: Bird (b. 1915), whose college education included several years at Vassar, is a researcher and writer on women's issues and served as consultant to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year and chief writer of its report.
Summary: Papers include manuscripts, galley proofs, correspondence, speeches, chronological files, and subject files relating to her publications:THE INVISIBLE SCAR (1966), BORN FEMALE: THE HIGH COST OF KEEPING WOMEN DOWN (1968), EVERYTHING A WOMEN NEEDS TO KNOW TO GET PAID WHAT SHE'S WORTH (1973), CASE AGAINST COLLEGE (1975), THE CROWDING SYNDROME: LEARNING TO LIVE WITH TOO MUCH AND TOO MANY (1976), ENTERPRISING WOMEN (1976), WHAT WOMEN WANT (1979), and THE TWO-PAYCHECK MARRIAGE (1979), SECOND CAREERS (1992), LIVES OF OUR OWN (1995). There are also subject files on women's issues such as affirmative action, the Equal Rights Amendment, business opportunities, marriage, minority women, women in education, employment, women in the Army, and health.- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
United States. Army.
United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year.
International Women's Year, 1975.
Feminism.
Affirmative action programs.
Equal rights amendments.
Women--Education.
Women--Employment.
Women--Social conditions--1960-1980.
Women--Health and hygiene.
Women in business.
Women's rights.
Marriage.
Women and the military.
United States--Armed Forces--Women.
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
Women authors, American.
Feminists.
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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
- Title: Papers, 1911-1979.
Physical Details: 41 linear ft.
Notes:Bishop was a poet and educator who served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, 1949-1950, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955 and the National Book Award in 1967. As a Vassar student, she founded a literary magazine with fellow students Mary McCarthy, Eleanor Clark, and Muriel Rukeyser.- Summary: Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and drafts, memorabilia, artwork, publications, and photographs relating to her personal and professional life. Correspondence includes 200 letters from Marianne Moore on their work and mutual friends, 1935-1969; 200 letters from Robert Lowell on their work, her influence on his work, and the work of other writers, 1947-1976. Other correspondents, 1934-1979, include Leonie Adams, John Ashbery, John Berryman, Harold Bloom, Robert Bly, Louise Bogan, John Malcolm Brinnin, Alexander Calder, e.e. cummings, Robert Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Hardwick, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Randall Jarrell, Archibald MacLeish, James Merrill, Henry Moore, Octavio Paz, Katherine Anne Porter, Muriel Rukeyser, Anne Sexton, May Swenson, Allen Tate, Dylan Thomas, and Alice B. Toklas. There are also letters from Bishop to James Merrill, Pearl Kazin Bell, and Anny Baumann.
Also, letters, minutes, contracts, and financial records from her teaching and publishing activities, 1943-1979; manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, revisions, and fragments of her poetry and prose writings, 1929-1979; Vassar student notebooks, travel diaries, notes from her 17-year residence in Brazil, and family information, 1931-1977; manuscripts, typescripts, articles, essays, and poetry by or about other writers, especially Robert Lowell, 1925-1979; and printed poetry, prose, reviews, and articles by or about Bishop.
Notes: Restricted in part. Photocopies available.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available
Subjects:
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
McCarthy, Mary, 1912-
Clark, Eleanor, 1913-
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-
Adams, L*onie, 1899-
Ashbery, John.
Berryman, John, 1914-1972.
Bloom, Harold.
Bly, Robert.
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910-
Hardwick, Elizabeth.
Heaney, Seamus.
Hecht, Anthony, 1923-
Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-
Merrill, James Ingram.
Moore, Henry, 1898-
Paz, Octavio, 1914-
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1894-
Sexton, Anne.
Swenson, May.
Tate, Allen, 1899-
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.
Toklas, Alice B.
Bell, Pearl K.
Baumann, Anny.
Vassar College--Students.
Library of Congress.
Women--Diaries.
Literature--Authors.
Literature--Study and teaching.
Poets.
Brazil--Description and travel.
Women poets.
Women teachers.
Bishop family.
Genre Or Form:
Diaries.
Autographs.
Photoprints.
Poems. - Summary: Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and drafts, memorabilia, artwork, publications, and photographs relating to her personal and professional life. Correspondence includes 200 letters from Marianne Moore on their work and mutual friends, 1935-1969; 200 letters from Robert Lowell on their work, her influence on his work, and the work of other writers, 1947-1976. Other correspondents, 1934-1979, include Leonie Adams, John Ashbery, John Berryman, Harold Bloom, Robert Bly, Louise Bogan, John Malcolm Brinnin, Alexander Calder, e.e. cummings, Robert Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Hardwick, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Randall Jarrell, Archibald MacLeish, James Merrill, Henry Moore, Octavio Paz, Katherine Anne Porter, Muriel Rukeyser, Anne Sexton, May Swenson, Allen Tate, Dylan Thomas, and Alice B. Toklas. There are also letters from Bishop to James Merrill, Pearl Kazin Bell, and Anny Baumann.
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Blanchard, Abbie S.
- Title: Diary, 1879.
Physical Details: 1 v.
Notes: Daughter of Christopher C. and Sally Blanchard of South Weymouth, Mass.
Summary: Diary kept while attending Dean Academy in Franklin, Mass., along with her sister Clara discussing her dissatisfaction with school rules, etiquette lectures, social life with other students, visits home, dancing lesson, and young men, January-February 1879.- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Blanchard, Clara.
Blanchard, Christopher C.
Blanchard, Sally.
Dean Academy (Franklin, Mass.)
Family--Massachusetts--South Weymouth.
Women--Diaries.
Women--Education.
High school students--Massachusetts--Franklin.
Franklin (Mass.)--Social life and customs--1865-1918.
South Weymouth (Mass.)--Social life and
customs--1865-1918.
Blanchard family.
Genre Or Form:
Diaries. - Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
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Bondfield, Margaret Grace, 1873-1953.
- Title: Papers, 1854-1951, 1898-1951 (bulk)
Physical Details: 18 linear ft.
Notes: English woman's rights advocate, trade-union leader, first woman Cabinet Minister. Bondfield was involved with the Trades Union Congress, Women's Trade Union League, National Federation of Women Workers, and International Labour Organisation.
Summary: Correspondence, clippings, speeches, publications, government documents, and other printed material concerning her involvement in the Labour Party and its election campaigns, 1919-1947; unemployment insurance, strikes, and juvenile employment, 1912-1931; political trip to Russia in 1920; political and labor concerns in Australia, 1929-1941; British immigration to Canada, 1924-1938; postwar affairs in Germany, 1946-1947; trips to America, 1910-1949; and various women's groups including the International Congress of Working Women, Women's Group on Public Welfare, National Institute of Houseworkers, the Shaw Training School, and the Women's Peace Crusade, 1921-1940. Correspondents include Helen Lockwood, Edith and Grace Abbott, Clement Atlee, Angelica Balabanoff, Martha Anderson, Mary Anderson, William H. Beveridge, Ernst Bevan, Edward Carpenter, Madame Joliet-Curie, Mary Dingman, David Lilienthal, J. Ramsey MacDonald, Violet Markham, Frieda S. Miller, Mrs. Vijaylaxmi Pandit, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rose Schneiderman, and Lillian Wald. Personal and travel diaries, 1898, 1908, 1910-1951. Correspondence with John Hilton and Percy Wallis concerning wage and price controls, 1932. Bondfield's articles, broadcasts, speeches, and related correspondence, 1902-1948, and clippings about her, 1898-1949.
Manuscripts of her books, MY LEISURE, 1947, and A LIFE'S WORK, 1948. Family correspondence, 1896-1948, three letters to her father William Bondfield from Samuel Blasdale in America, 1854-1861, and manuscript on local history by J.S. Bondfield, 1880. Miscellaneous memorabilia, photographs, bibliographies, and notes on the collections.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors: Bondfield, J. S.
Subjects:
Lockwood, Helen Drusilla, 1891-1971.
Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957.
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939.
Atlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967.
Balabanoff, Angelica, 1878-1965.
Anderson, Martha.
Anderson, Mary, 1872-1964.
Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, Baron, 1879-1963.
Bevan, Ernst.
Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929.
Joliet-Curie, Ir*ne, 1897-1956.
Dingman, Mary Agnes, 1875-1961.
Lilienthal, David, 1899-1981.
MacDonald, James Ramsey, 1866-1937.
Markham, Violet R. (Violet Rosa)
Miller, Frieda Segelke, 1889-1973.
Perkins, Frances, 1882-1965.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Schneiderman, Rose, 1882-
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940.
Hilton, John, 1880-1943.
Wallis, Percy.
Bondfield, William.
Blasdale, Samuel.
Trades Union Congress.
National Federation of Women Workers.
Women's Trade Union League.
International Labour Organisation.
Labour Party (Great Britain)
International Congress of Working Women.
Women's Group on Public Welfare (England)
National Institute of Houseworkers.
Shaw Training School.
Women's Peace Crusade.
Trade-unions--Great Britain--Societies, etc.
Women--Great Britain--Societies and clubs.
Women--Great Britain--Diaries.
Women--Great Britain--Social conditions.
Women in politics--Great Britain.
Women and peace.
Women--Great Britain--Employment.
Children--Employment.
Elections--Great Britain.
Labor and laboring classes--Great Britain.
Insurance, Unemployment--Great Britain.
Strikes and lockouts--Great Britain.
Labor and laboring classes--Australia.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
Wage-price policy--Great Britain.
Women's rights--Great Britain.
Civil rights--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
Great Britain--Economic conditions--20th century.
Canada--Emigration and immigration.
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
Soviet Union--Description and travel.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.
Australia--Politics and government--1901-1945.
Germany--Economic conditions--1945-
Germany--Social conditions--1945-
United States--Description and travel.
Women social reformers.
Feminists.
Pandir, Vijaya Lakshmir, 1900-
Bondfield family.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
Diaries.
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Brate, Charlotte, 1890-1967.
- Title: Papers, 1932-1963.
Physical Details: .3 cubic ft.
Notes: Charlotte Brate (Vassar College Class of 1912) was an artist and writer, including children's stories. After 1928 her art work became secondary to reforming the Christian Church along pacifist lines. She was a resident of Florida.
Summary: Undated manuscripts of her stories and other writings including text and sketches for THE JOY FAMILY; and clippings, correspondence, and pamphlets concerning her writing, her art, her anti-war poetry, peace demonstrations and letter writing campaigns, and other pacifist concerns, 1932-1963.- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Children's literature--Women authors.
Art.
Women and peace.
Pacifism.
Women artists.
Women authors, American.
Genre Or Form:
Poems.
Drawings.
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Bryner, Edna Clare, 1886-1967.
- Title: Papers, 1919-1955.
Physical Details: 5 cubic ft.
Notes: Edna Clare Bryner (Vassar College Class of 1907) was a novelist and short story writer, and an expert on Tibetan Buddhist literature. She translated and published THIRTEEN TIBETAN TANKAS.
Summary: Correspondence, primarily letters received, 1919-1955, concerning a European trip, publishing, translations of her work, comment on her writing, contracts, and personal affairs; manuscripts and typescripts of her novels and short stories primarily from the 1920s and 1930s; her notes concerning Tibetan Buddhist literature; and photographs and other miscellaneous items.- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Buddhist literature, Tibetan.
Europe--Description and travel.
Women authors, American.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
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Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.
- Title: Papers, 1854-1983, 1854-1921 (bulk)
Physical Details: 33 cubic ft.
Notes: Journals available on microfilm. Originals are at New York Public Library. Burroughs was a writer, noted for his literary criticism and nature essays. He was a friend and promoter of Walt Whitman, traveled extensively in the company of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, and was friends with many other prominent people.
Summary: These papers include 53 original journals, 1876-1921, containing observations of nature and his commentary on politics, literature, and philosophy, with an annotated typescript prepared by his granddaughter, Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley; typescript of earlier journals for 1854-1876 (prepared by his literary executor, Dr. Clara Barrus) which was used for her book THE HEART OF JOHN BURROUGHS'S JOURNALS (1928); letters to Burroughs from Edith Rickert, Walt Whitman, and others, 1856-1921; letters by Burroughs, chiefly of a social nature, 1886-1920, to Georgia Avery Kendrick, Clara S. Reed, James M. Taylor, Mary W. Whitney, and others; and photographs, 1894-ca. 1920. Materials about Burroughs include manuscripts and typescript articles by Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley and others, 1908-1983; and published articles, 1877-1983.
Notes: Access to journals and typescript journals through microfilm copy.- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors:
Barrus, Clara.
Kelley, Elizabeth Burroughs.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Muir, John, 1838-1914.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Rickert, Edith, 1871-1938.
Kendrick, Georgia Avery, 1848-1922.
Reed, Clara S.
Taylor, James Monroe, 1848-1916.
Whitney, Mary Watson, b. 1847.
Natural history.
Literature.
Philosophy.
Criticism.
United States--Politics and government.
Diaries.
Authors.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.