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Formal title:: Lysander Dickerman papers and lantern slides collection
Extent:: 11.5 Linear feet
Date range:: between 1811 and 1902
Abstract:: The collection consists of numerous manuscripts: diary of a trip to Egypt and Palestine; diary written during a visit to Rome; diary written during the Civil War as a member of the U.S. Christian Commission (written in a book issued for the purpose by the U.S. Christian Commission); Hebrew grammar notebook; list of books on Egypt; list of church members, Weymouth, Massachusetts; literature and learning of ancient Egypt; ministers catalog; notebook on religious matters (includes notes on Prof. Parks lectures on church ordinances, September 1854); sermon on Acts 2.36. In addition, the collection contains correspondence, postcards, and 15 boxes of lantern slides
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.IU.D2

Formal title:: William Herbert Perry Faunce papers
Extent:: 9.25 Linear feet
Date range:: 1845-1968 (bulk 1890-1929)
Abstract:: The William Herbert Perry Faunce papers contain outgoing and incoming correspondence, writings, diaries, and reprints of publications. The writings include poems, sermons, speeches, and essays. The material is dated from 1845 to 1968.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS-1C-9

Palmer (Alison) papers

Formal title:: Alison Palmer Papers
Extent:: 6.5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1853-1991 (bulk 1971-1991)
Abstract:: Alison Palmer (Brown University Class of 1953) served in the United States Foreign Service (1959-1981) in Belgian Congo, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Palmer successfully pursued two sex discrimination lawsuits against the State Department, winning in 1974 and 1987. After her retirement from the State Department in 1981, Palmer became the thirteenth woman Episcopal priest ordained in the United States. The Alison Palmer papers are chiefly related to her two lawsuits but also contain materials that document her foreign service career, and family papers.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.90.6

Upton (Winslow) papers

Formal title:: Winslow Upton papers
Date range:: circa 1876-1969
Abstract:: The collection comprises diaries, astonomical observation notebooks, scrapbooks, lecture notes, peronal and professional correspondence, as well as photographs, various tributes to Professor Upton, and a memoir written by his daughters.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS-1UF-U1

Formal title:: Herbert Eugene Walter papers
Extent:: 12.5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1844-1948 (bulk 1885-1945)
Abstract:: The Herbert E. Walter papers span from 1844-1948 and consist primarily of correspondence, and teaching materials by and relating to Herbert Eugene Walter (1867-1945), Professor of biology at Brown University. The collection includes extensive material on the study of eugenics, then a branch of biology, including correspondence, teaching materials, notes, pamphlets, published materials, and ephemera from eugenics-related professional organizations. Other significant materials include family papers from Walter’s parents, grandparents and extended family who lived primarily in Vermont. There are penmanship instruction books from the 1840s-1850s created by Walter’s father, Augustus Porter Walter (d.1872), who was a penmanship instructor in Vermont. Betsie Ann Brockway Walter described in detail her experience working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts during 1860-1861 in letters she wrote to her future husband Augustus P. Walter.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.1UF.W1

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