"Autographs"
Manuscript Summaries
Manuscript Summaries
Autograph file: A-I, 1783-1983.
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Physical Details: 4 cubic ft.
Notes: Alphabetical.
Summary: Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or of historical and cultural significance. Letters of note include W.I. Cutter on her missionary work in India, 1852-1854; John Quincy Adams on Paris peace treaty and national politics, 1783; Elizabeth Blackwell on excessive practice of ovariotomy and dangers to women from syphilitic husbands, 1896; Thomas Boyd on work as screen writer in Hollywood (1931), being a father, World War I experiences, and other issues, 1918-1934; Pearl S. Buck's correspondence with Alma Lutz on equal rights amendment and Buck's writing and speaking work, 1938-1967; Ruth Crippen on Red Cross work in France, 1918; Bette Davis on using women's rights pioneers as film material, 1944; Anna E. Dickenson on her speaking engagements and personal news, 1863-1888; Frederick Douglass on John H. Raymond's activities on behalf of fugitive slaves in Rochester, 1880; William Lloyd Garrison on women's rights, 1877; and Emily Griggs on life and people at Vassar College, 1866-1867. Other signers include Jane Addams, Hans Christian Anderson, Matthew Arnold, Catharine E. Beecher, Hector Berlioz, George Bizet, Marie Curie, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, John Dos Passos, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Cutter, W. I.
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
Boyd, Thomas, 1898-1935.
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Lutz, Alma.
Crippen, Ruth.
Davis, Bette, 1908-
Dickenson, Anna Elizabeth, 1842-1932.
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895.
Raymond, John H. (John Howard), 1814-1878.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
Griggs, Emily.
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Anderson, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878.
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.
Bizet, George, 1838-1875.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
Vassar College--Students.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Vassar College--Employees.
Vassar College--History.
Missions--India.
Women missionaries--India.
Syphilis.
Women--Education.
Women's rights.
Women's health services.
Women--Social conditions.
Peace treaties.
Ovariotomy.
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Red Cross.
World War, 1914-1918--France.
Equal rights amendments.
Slavery--Anti-slavery movements.
Feminism.
Fugitive slaves--New York (State)--Rochester.
Screenwriters--California--Hollywood.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
United States--Foreign relations--France.
France--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
Poems.
Autograph file: J-R, 1816-1983.
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Physical Details: 4 cubic ft.
Notes: Alphabetical.
Summary: Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or of historical and cultural significance. Letters of note include Henry James to Katherine Loring on having a case of the shingles, living arrangements in England, family affairs, American presidential politics, fire in Salem, Mass., European politics, literary events, Sarah Jewett, and Boston news, 1901-1914; Mrs. Maturin Livingston to her daughter Gitty Lowndes on family and social news, 1838-1842; Lucretia Mott on writing requests, Rochester abolitionist activities, Frederick Douglass, work of Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown, women workers and pay inequities, work among blacks, 1853-1871, and a letter received from Geo. Combe about reform activities in Scotland and European revolutions, 1848; and Pauli Murray on her commencement address at Spelman College, her writing, experiences in Ghana (1961-1962), the antics of her dog, work at Yale, and fund raising to assist African law students, 1955-1971.
Also, Georgia O'Keeffe to Eleanor Roosevelt urging her to support the equal rights amendment, 1944; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody on prayer and preaching, spiritual and religious ideas, Church affairs in Boston, and Theodore Parker, 1840-1851; and Charles A. Raymond on Vassar College and women's education, 1864. Other signers include Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Helen Keller, Denise Levertov, Sinclair Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Alice M. Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ernestine L. Rose, and Muriel Rukeyser.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Loring, Katherine.
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
Livingston, Margaret Lewis, 1780-1860.
Lowndes, Gertrude Laura Livingston, b. 1805.
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880.
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895.
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893.
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921.
Combe, George, 1788-1858.
Murray, Pauli, 1910-
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894.
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860.
Raymond, Charles A.
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968.
Levertov, Denise, 1923-
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Longfellow, Alice M. (Alice Mary), 1850-1928.
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Rose, Ernestine L. (Ernestine Louise), 1810-1892.
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-
Vassar College--Faculty.
Vassar College--Students.
Vassar College--Employees.
Yale University.
Spelman College.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women--Education.
Women--Employment.
Women's rights.
Women authors, American.
Equal rights amendments.
Wages and women.
Women in politics.
Women social reformers.
Abolitionists--New York (State)--Rochester.
Slavery--Anti-slavery movements.
Afro-Americans--Social work with.
Fires--Massachusetts--Salem.
Educational fund raising.
Dogs.
Authors, American.
Authors, English.
Law students.
Women artists.
Feminists.
Feminism.
Presidents--United States--Election.
Revolutions--Europe.
Europe--History--1848-1849.
United States--Social life and customs.
United States--Politics and government.
Scotland--Social conditions.
Europe--Politics and government.
Boston (Mass.)--Religious life and customs.
Boston (Mass.)--Social life and customs.
Ghana--Description and travel.
Livingston, Maturin, Mrs., 1780-1860.
Lowndes, Gitty, b. 1805.
Brown, Antoinette, 1825-1921.
James family.
Livingston family.
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
Autograph file: S-Z, [ca. 1800]-1983.
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Physical Details: 1 cubic ft.
Notes: Alphabetical.
Summary: Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or of historical and cultural significance. Letters of note include Lucy Maynard Salmon on Vassar College History Dept., labor issues, and personal news, 1888-1925; Helen Seldes on anti-fascism, political and social life in New York City, country life in Vermont, and a strike by Vermont marble workers, 1934-1937; Fanny Small on teaching music and social events at Vassar College, 1864-1866; Bishop B.B. Smith of Kentucky on incident involving a runaway slave's confrontation with his white mistress (owner), 1864; M. Carey Thomas on Bryn Mawr positions for Vassar graduates, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and committee positions, 1889-1915; Leo Tolstoy on religion, writing, non-violence as part of Christianity, Shakers and chastity, evils of patriotism, and his health, 1896-1908; Sophie Tolstoy on Leo's work among the Russian peasants, 1892-1894 (in French); Paul Allen Towne on defense of slavery, and political, military, social, and business situations during the Civil War with one response from his brother-in-law Dr. David Ransom on issue of state's rights and secession, 1860-1865; and Adelaide Underhill on Vassar College Library affairs, salaries, and some personal issues, 1899-1927.
Carl Van Doren on T.S. Eliot's poetry, Tom Boyd's death, Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murray, publishing issues, and personal news, 1923-1936, largely to Ruth Fitch (Mason); Angelina Grimke Weld on her daughter attending Vassar, 1862; Mary W. Whitney on Vassar College Observatory, woman's equality and men's dislike of independent women, and family and personal news, 1886-1914; Thornton Wilder on lecturing at Vassar, Spanish Theater, women's education, his work and research, 1949-1950; and John H. Wood on shoemaker apprenticeship and wages and living costs in Woburn, Mass., 1842-1844. Other signers include Camille Saint-Saens, Carl Sandburg, and Sir Walter Scott.
Notes: French in part.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927.
Small, Fanny.
Seldes, Helen.
Smith, B. B.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Tolstaia, S. A. ((Sofía Andreevna), 1844-1919.
Ransom, David.
Underhill, Adelaide, 1860-
Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Boyd, Tom.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
Murray, Middleton.
Mason, Ruth Fitch, 1890-1974.
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879.
Whitney, Mary Watson, b. 1847.
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Wood, John H.
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Vassar College--Students.
Vassar College--Employees.
Vassar College. History Dept.
Vassar College. Library.
Vassar College. Observatory.
Vassar College--History.
Bryn Mawr College.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.)
Theater--Spain.
Women's rights.
Women's colleges--New York
(State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women's colleges--Pennsylvania--Bryn Mawr.
Women--Education.
Strikes and lockouts--Marble industry and
trade--Vermont.
Shoemakers--Massachusetts--Woburn.
Apprentices--Massachusetts--Woburn.
Fugitive slaves--Kentucky.
Shakers.
Christianity.
Chastity.
Nonviolence--Religious aspects.
Peasantry--Russia.
Patriotism.
Poetry.
Publishers and publishing.
Music--Study and teaching.
New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Woburn (Mass.)--Economic conditions.
Tolstoy, Sophie.
Weld, Angelina Grimké, 1805-1879.
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
Poems.
Straus, Jesse Isidor, collector.
- Title: Autograph collection, [ca. 1727-1873]
Physical Details: .3 cubic ft.
Summary: Letters, notes, receipts, dispatches, and some facsimile reproductions of documents pertaining to political and cultural events of the 18th and 19th centuries, including the French Revolution. Signers include Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, Johann Gottfried Von Herder, Helmuth Graf von Moltke, Mozart, Jean Paul Richter, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Johann Strauss, and Robert Walpole.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740.
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803.
Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von, 1800-1891.
Jean Paul, 1763-1825.
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 1767-1845.
Strauss, Johann.
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Europe--Social life and customs.
Europe--Politics and government.
France--History--Revolution, 1789.
Richter, Jean Paul, 1763-1825.
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
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Sturm, Ernest
- Title: Ernest Sturm Collection [17--] - [19--]
Physical Details: Ca. 2 linear ft. (4 boxes and 6 portfolios)
Summary:Composed of and original typescript of Woodrow Wilson on the States and the federal government, a letter and maps of the battle of Gettysburg; documents and letters signed by members of George Washington's first cabinet; documents relating to the Revolutionary Battle of Harlem Heights; documents signed by Catherine the Great relating to the Russian Navy; letters and documents signed by signers of the Declaration of Independence; items signed by American naval figures; a signed card and portraits of William Tecumseh Sherman; items signed by Napoleon Bonaparte, his family and generals; photos, letters, and documents relating to the Civil War; similar items of English lieterary and artistic figures; a letter of Edmund Burke; a letter and photos of Robert Browning; a letter of Robert E. Lee; printed copy of the United States Constitution dated 1787; letters and documents signed by American Presidents; transcript of a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, and eighteenth century manuscripts copy of the Koran.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Catherine II, Empress of Russian, 1729-1796
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-891
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward). 1807-1870
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Russia. Voennyi flot
United States. Navy
United States, Declaration of Independence - signers
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
State governments
Manuscripts, Arabic
Harlem Heights, Battle of, N.Y., 1776
Authors, English
Artists -- England
Presidents -- United States
Generals -- France
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797
United States -- History-Revolution, 1775-1783
France - History, Military
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1789
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
Photoprints
Maps
Poems
Other authors:
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
United States. Constitution