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Formal title:: Robert Cloutman and Elisabeth Anthony Dexter papers
Extent:: 12.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1797-1971 (bulk 1935-1968)
Abstract:: The Dexter Papers are a wide-ranging collection of letters, diaries, reports, manuscripts, research notes and photographs dating from the early 19th to the late 20th century. The material represents Elisabeth and Robert Dexter’s humanitarian work in Europe with the Unitarian Service Committee, their respective historical and sociological research projects, and the life and work of Elisabeth’s father Alfred Williams Anthony, a Baptist minister and educator.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2005.029

Rodney (Thomas) papers

Formal title:: Thomas Rodney papers
Extent:: 0.5 linear feet (103 items)
Date range:: circa 1774-1810
Abstract:: Personal papers and records of Thomas Rodney, including letters, essays, notes on court cases in Mississippi and Delaware (1791 to 1810), a journal about personal matters and Delaware politics (1792-1800), and manuscript poetry.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.Rodney

Formal title:: Nancy Lyman Roelker papers
Extent:: 42.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1927-1993 (bulk 1963-1985)
Abstract:: The Nancy Lyman Roelker papers include research notes, photocopies, manuscripts, publications, letters, and teaching materials from her classes at Tufts University, Boston University and Brown University. Also included are juvenilia and memorabilia from her secondary school teaching career. Roelker's field was sixteenth century France and her subjects included Henry of Navarre and Jeanne d'Albret, as well as sixteenth century French noblewomen and French Huguenots. The material dates from 1929 to 1993, with the bulk of it from 1963 to 1985.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2012.006

Formal title:: Charles H. Smiley papers
Extent:: 20.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1934-1977
Abstract:: The Smiley papers comprise extensive correspondence; course and research materials; diaries, notebooks, and journals; typescript drafts and scrapbooks of his column, "Planets and Stars"; as well as audio and visual materials.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF.1UF.S2

Formal title:: Henry Knox Thatcher papers
Extent:: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1833-1866
Abstract:: The Henry Knox Thatcher papers consist of an oil painting of the U.S.S. Constellation, military memorabilia, and three journals and logs kept by Thatcher while on board several ships, including the U.S.S. Brandywine (1839-1841) and the U.S.S. Constellation (1862-1863). The journals reflect ship life, diversions on shore, the social and political climate of his time, and the duties of American ships in the Mediterranean during the early years of the Civil War.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.79.5

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

Formal title:: Lester Frank Ward papers
Extent:: 11 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1860-1913
Abstract:: The Lester Frank Ward papers in the John Hay Library consists of the correspondence, manuscripts, published writings, and personal library of a noted nineteenth-century American geologist, paleontologist, and sociologist. These materials reflect virtually all aspects of Ward's professional life, including his years of service as a member of the U. S. Geological Survey staff, his activities as a professor at both Columbian College (now George Washington University) and Brown University, and his long career as a writer of scholarly monographs and articles on many subjects. The papers also contain some information concerning his personal life.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.90.23

Formal title:: Diary of Samuel Ward, Jr., with transcriptions
Extent:: 0.15 linear feet (3 folders)
Date range:: 1792-1794, 1989-1990
Abstract:: Diary with financial accounts kept by Samuel Ward, Jr., (1756-1832), officer in the American Revolutionary War and later a merchant, while traveling to Paris on business. Two typed transcriptions of his diary are also included.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.034

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