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This series includes manuscripts spanning the 1830s-1880s, examining grammar classes in schools, books and libraries in the United States, the emergence of the U.S. Education Office, and an autobiography. Other manuscripts include speeches and addresses given in Hartford, Connecticut related to education, the meaning of citizenship, and how public education and democracy are intertwined (1834).

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes manuscripts spanning the 1830s-1880s, examining grammar classes in schools, books and libraries in the United States, the emergence of the U.S. Education Office, and an autobiography. Other manuscripts include speeches and addresses given in Hartford, Connecticut related to education, the meaning of citizenship, and how public education and democracy are intertwined (1834).

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series documents Barber’s time as a senior writer for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and editorial director for FrontLines. Includes letters, articles, notes and pictures on humanitarian projects, including a trip to Nepal, notes on the Assassination of Larry Foley, photos taken on a humanitarian mission to Iraq in 2003, photos of the destruction caused by the Tsunami in Indonesia in 2004, and an article on aid to Egypt in 2007. Also includes publicatons...

Scope and Contents Series I, Administrative Records, contains documents related to the organization, administration, and history of the Monday Evening Club, dating from its founding to the current time. The most complete record of the club’s activities appears in the club meeting minutes which begin in 1869. Also present is Correspondence spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, primarily that sent between the club secretary and members; the former is sparse in the earliest years, and the latter...

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This series holds manuscripts stemming from Allen’s musical inspiration in the form of scores, books, and short biographical essays. It also includes accompanying documents such as notes from his time in Germany as an organ student in Berlin (1867), unpublished composition lists by Allen, as well as bills, and accompanying legal and business records of Allen’s family. This series is alphabetized by manuscript title. Also includes one box of unsorted sheet music.

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This series contains ephemera and print materials from Edward Albee’s productions such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and smaller productions including The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. It further consists of catalogs of plays and playbills and programs spanning Albee’s career, including some from performances by the Hartford Stage Company.

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This materials in this series are not directly created by Spencer, but collected by her, perhaps in her position as poetry editor of The Hartford Times.

Scope and Contents Two fragile handwritten documents, 8" x 12 1/4" and 8" x 9 1/4", originally attached. Written by multiple hands, the documents lay out the complaint, warrant for arrest and judgment against two minor youths for disturbing the peace by firing a long gun on the Sabbath. They were found guilty and fined $1.00 plus court costs of $8.94 and sheriff fees of $3.85. An itemized list of the costs is included. The larger sheet of paper is watermarked A H Hubbard [Norwich, Connecticut]. See...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Barber’s earliest writing is semi-autobiographical and based on his own travels abroad and at home in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Included are stories in which Barber uses pseudonyms in lieu of his own name to describe: his time in Cyprus and his time with a group called The Motherfuckers who rode around California in a yellow school bus in the late ‘60s. After working in and around Boston as a substitute teacher and cable installer Barber volunteered as a broadcast news...