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19th Century American writers : letters, manuscripts, & correspondence
This collection includes scanned letters, correspondence, and other manuscript items tied to 19th Century American writers and housed at Middlebury College Special Collections. Many famous names and literary careers are represented inside, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry...
19th Century Scientific Catalogs - Geology & Palentology
Handwritten catalogs from the 19th Century, describing scientific specimens collected by the Department of Geology, Middlebury College, including the locations whence specimens were collected and the names of their donors. Transcribing these catalogs helps support research in geology, local...
19th-20th Century women writers : letters, manuscripts, & correspondence
This collection includes scanned letters, correspondence, and other manuscript items by 19th & 20th Century women writers. Many famous names are to be found inside: Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Stoddard, Julia C. R. Dorr, Willa Cather, and Emma Willard are all...
Civil War letters at Middlebury College
These letters reflect the majority of letters written during the mid 19th century, allowing disparate family members to catch up with one another during the years of the American Civil War. A number of letters in this collection are written from the front lines of the Civil War, explaining the...
Diary of Ichabod Barstow Peterson
1859 travel diary relating Peterson's experiences as mate on board the ship Garnet, traveling with a racially integrated crew in the years just before the Civil War. Includes details on his voyages to Savannah, Ga.; Liverpool, England; back to Savannah; to New Orleans, La., where the African...
Everett Skillings journals
Journals kept by Everett Skillings, Middlebury College Professor of German. Skillings served as Professor of German from 1909 to 1921 and from 1923 to 1943. He served as Professor of English Literature at Middlebury in 1922.
Letters from the Hemingway Family Archive
Compiled by writer Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982), the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), in the process of researching and writing his biography, My Brother Ernest Hemingway (1962), the collection contains more than 1,600 items. Among the manuscript holdings, the bulk of...
Letters from World War II : J.H. Massey
This collection contains digital scans from 163 handwritten letters written by J.H. Massey during his time in the English Army (Cheshire Regiment) during World War II. Most of the letters were written and sent from Palestine, and discuss naval life, the Cheshire Regiment, England, World War II,...
Philomathesian Society of Middlebury College
The Philomathesian Society was a debate society founded at Middlebury College that became a staple of college life in the early part of the 19th century. While the exact date of the organization’s founding is unknown, it began meeting sometime during the 1802-1803 school year and thrived...
Robinson Family Papers
The Robinson Family letters from Rokeby Museum represent several generations of Quaker families in Vermont, especially the Robinsons - a family of farmers, abolitionists, artists, and authors whose home in Ferrisburgh is now a National Historic Landmark and one of the best-documented...