Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Arminda Bates papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss002
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks from her time as a student at the College of the Pines, notes from her education in New York, a diary she kept as the first professional librarian of the College, and photographs of the early College campus and her home. A small number of materials related to the Bandon, OR
Dates:
1878-1963
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Arminda Bates papers
Asa Wellspring Wayward diaries, 1847-1862
Series — Box 1: Series Series One; Series Series Two; Series Series Four, Folder: 1-20
Identifier: Series One
Scope and Contents note
20 diaries written between 1847 and 1962 and providing insights into Wayward's activities. There is detailed informatin about abolitionist speakers and rallies in the Hudson Valley and New England, and about Underground Railroad activities.
Dates:
1847-1862
Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush papers
Collection
Identifier: RL.11044
Overview
The Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush papers include letters, writings, financial records, a few legal documents and one educational record. Benjamin Rush's personal and professional outgoing letters, with some incoming letters, cover a wide variety of topics, but focus primarily on medical concerns, particularly the 1793 and other yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, as well as mental illness and its treatment, and the medical department of the Continental Army. There are a few letters from...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1766-1845 and undated
Benjamin Rush travel diary, 178[4] April 2-7
Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
The diary records Rush's travel, accompanied by a servant and via horses, between the outskirts of Philadelphia and Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for an initial meeting with the trustees of Dickinson College. During the meeting the Trustees selected Dr. Charles Nisbet to serve as the College's first president. Rush described the taverns and other travel lodges at which he stopped, along with Tavern staff and other patrons, the quality of the food and drink, along with conversations he witnessed or...
Dates:
178[4] April 2-7
Diaries of Allen Reynolds Clark, 1963-1971
Collection
Identifier: MC 1032
Overview
Typed diaries documenting Allen Reynolds Clark's life in Annapolis, Maryland, between 1963 and 1971.
Dates:
1963-1971
Sara Wayward Lewis journal and letters, 1849
Series
Identifier: Series Two
Scope and Contents note
A journal and fifteen letters documenting the overland journey of Sarah Wayward Lewis with her husband and family to California in 1849. The Lewis family departed from St. Joseph, Missouri in April, 1849, and the collection contents detail their trip along the Mormon Route, encounters with hostile Native Americans on the Great Plains, privations, hardships, and internal strife among their traveling companions; and their sojourn along the Humboldt and Truckee Rivers prior to their traverse of...
Dates:
1849
Wayward Family papers
Collection
Identifier: YNHSC.MSS.1776
Scope and Contents note
The Wayward family papers includes material from several Wayward descedents living in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was collected by variou family members. Document types in the collection include correspondence, diaries, clippings, posters and audio tapes about the Wayward family and their various activities.
See the scope and content note for each series for more details about the collection contents.
See the scope and content note for each series for more details about the collection contents.
Dates:
1847-1963
Writings, 1939-1983
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts, manuscripts, and reprints as well as correspondence and other materials relating to Aldo Starker Leopold's writings
Dates:
1939-1983