Found 6 collections related to Yale University

The Clarence Day Papers document the literary career, business activity, personal life and family background of the author and illustrator. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs and publication tearsheets; business and financial records; family papers; news clippings and literary reference files; school and college records; drawings, photographs and artifacts. Correspondents include Helen Dore Boylston, Henry Canby, Paul De Kruif, Francis Hackett, Learned Hand, Carl Hovey, Albert G. Keller, Troy Kinney, Sonya Levien, Rose Wilder Lane, Alice Duer Miller, Elsie Clews Parsons, William Lyon Phelps, Harold Ross, Miriam Finn Scott, Upton Sinclair, Signe Toksvig, E. B. White and Katharine White. The Clarence Day Papers are an important resource for the study of American magazine literature during the 1910s-1930s, and provide essential background information regarding Day's most popular and enduring work, Life With Father. less

William Greenleaf Webster (1805-1869), an American editor and publisher, was the son of lexicographer Noah Webster. He participated in the editing, publication and sale of his father's dictionaries and other books. Collection consists of correspondence, business papers, diaries, writings, legal documents, family papers, photograph, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1820-1865, concerns family and personal matters, Noah Webster's estate, and the copyright, production and sale of his books. Business papers, 1833-1863, include legal agreements with publishers, account books and other materials documenting William G. Webster's role in promoting his father's works. Also, travel diaries, writings, autograph book, and genealogical items, including some correspondence and papers of his son C. Stuart Webster. less

Amy Schwartz Oppenheim (1878-1955) was a founder of the School Art League of New York City. She also was active in numerous civic and philanthropic organizations as well as organizations devoted to preservation of the arts. Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, photographs, and printed matter documenting Oppenheim's family life and her interest in artistic, social, civic, and philanthropic affairs. General correspondence, ca. 1898-1955, concerns her interests including her work with various organizations. Family correspondence includes letters Oppenheim exchanged with her husband and son. Also, her diaries, 1923-1954; notebooks; photographs of the Oppenheim family and of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his family; and printed materials, 1897-1955, such as programs, invitations, calling cards, and a few art exhibition catalogs. less

Morehead Patterson (1897-1962) was an American industrialist whose father, Rufus L. Patterson, invented the first automated cigarette manufacturing machine. He later became an ambassador to the United Nations Committee on Disarmament and to the International Atomic Energy Agency Negotiations, as well as chairman of the board of the Brookings Institute. His scrapbook contains letters, clippings, and other memorabilia relating to his attendance at the Groton School and Yale University, 1908-1920, including letters from Endicott Peabody (1857-1944), headmaster at the Groton School less

Nathaniel S. Moore kept these diaries (4 vols.) between 1827 and 1832, covering the period of his student days at Clinton Academy in East Hampton, Long Island and at Yale University. The diaries include a detailed account of Moore's trip to Liverpool and Dublin in 1831 less