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Ashendene Press Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ashendene Press Collection
Scope and Contents
The Ashendene Press Collection consists of correspondence between Charles Harry St. John Hornby and Allerton Cushman Hickmott pertaining to the latter's collecting of Ashendene Press books, as well as ephemera, announcements, book lists, individual poems, prospectuses, and a type specimen.
Dates:
circa 1915-1977
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Automobile Travel Collection
Collection
Identifier: Automobile Travel Collection
Scope and Contents
This composite collection contains four scrapbooks and one photographic album. The scrapbooks contain various ephemera such as travel books, and pamphlets, as well as photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, and typed manuscripts. They include material depicting landscapes in the United States such as cities, gas stations, factories, outdoor festivals and special events, as well as general travel brochures and information on travel in the Northeast and California, as well as portions of...
Dates:
1922 - 1940
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Ben Barber papers
Collection
Identifier: Ben Barber papers
Abstract
Writings, notebooks, correspondence, and photographs document Barber’s work as an international journalist from the late 1970s to 2014. Contains materials from Trinity College as well as the notebooks of poetry he wrote after graduation (1965-1979). Materials from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where Barber was a senior writer and editorial director of FrontLines (2002-2010), are included as well.
Dates:
1962 - 2016
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Henry Barnard Collection
Collection
Identifier: Henry Barnard Collection
Abstract
Henry Barnard (1811-1900) was an educational reformer who created the Connecticut state school board in 1839. He became the first commissioner on education in Rhode Island, and the state superintendent of education in Connecticut. Barnard was heavily involved in educational reform, improving wages and working conditions for teachers, and conditions for students. This collection reflects his mission of reform with a large amount of correspondence dedicated to education in the mid-19th...
Dates:
1777 - 1901
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Alice Brady Beckmann Collection
Collection
Identifier: Alice Brady Beckmann-collection of Civil War material
Scope and Contents
Alice Brady Beckmann’s Collection consists primarily of poems and songs of the period surrounding the American Civil War, mostly between the 1840 and 1890. The material was transcribed by Ms. Beckmann from period magazines, newspapers and other public sources as well as from scrapbooks, account books and other personal sources. Although the authors are often noted, much of the material is unattributed. Ms. Beckmann’s collection also reflects her keen interest in the origin of the...
Dates:
Prior to 1984
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
William Bird collection
Collection
Identifier: William Bird collection
Overview
The William Bird Collection consists of an audiotape of a talk given by William Bird at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) in June 1962; various newspaper articles written by Bird as New York Times correspondent on the S. S. Chantier polar expedition and as the New York Sun's Paris correspondent during World War II. Additionally, the collection contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings and ephemera relating to Bird and his Three Mountains Press (Paris, 1923-1928).
Dates:
1889-1963
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
William Blake Collection
Collection
Identifier: William Blake Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two letters of correspondence from William Blake, three documents relating to his trial in 1804, correspondence of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), the famous lyric poet, to Seymour Stocker Kirkup (1788-1880) commenting on Blake, spiritualism, and his engravings, mostly from the 1860s. Later correspondence, newspaper clippings, and invoices mostly from the 1940s regarding Blake’s engravings, especially those in printed books such as those of Poetical Works of...
Dates:
1800 - 1976
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Augustus Perry Brigham family diaries and other material
Collection
Identifier: Augustus Perry Brigham family diaries -and other material
Scope and Contents
41 volumes collection of diaries, trapping records and travel logs handwritten by Augustus Perry Brigham (b. 3/1861- d. 8/1944) between 1879 and 1944. Originally from Massachusetts, Brigham emigrated to Colorado Springs where he spent his adult life, married, raised a family and is buried. Each volume is a meticulously detailed regarding his daily activities, but is curiously devoid of any information about the major events of the day and what was going on in the world around him. He was...
Dates:
2019-06-20
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Katherine Gordon Brinley Papers
Collection
Identifier: Katherine Gordon Brinley papers
Abstract
This collection contains materials related to (Katherine) Gordon Brinley (1878-1966) who went by the stage name Gordon Brinley. Brinley performed Chaucerian poetry in period dress beginning in 1921 and running until 1957. She also published guidebooks for travel, acting as the National League of American Pen Women’s Connecticut Branch President in 1934. Brinley married artist Daniel (Putnam) Brinley (1879-1963) in 1904, living in New Canaan, Connecticut for most of her life. This collection...
Dates:
1919 - 1985
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
British Notables Collection
Collection
Identifier: British Notables Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, holographs, and reviews of publications by a wide variety of prominent British writers, and authors. Some notable correspondence belong to William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863); a prominent 19th century writer, as well as several prominent women including Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901); a novelist who participated in the Oxford Movement in England. Subjects of letters range from discussion of book prices, to family issues and ongoings to lectures...
Dates:
1628 - 1903
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections