Battell, Joseph, 1839-1915

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The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Stephen A. Freeman, Middlebury College Professor of French, Vice President, Acting President, and Director of the Language Schools, by David Stameshkin. The interview was conducted in the basement of the library. Freeman discusses Harvard; the French department; President Moody; Chateau; Brown University; salary; his publications; being President of the American Association of Teachers of French; qualifications of the faculty; sabbatical; life in the Chateau; French parties;...

Scope and Contents On February 23, 2015, the centennial of Joseph Battell’s death, David Bain gave an illustrated talk on Joseph Battell’s life and works. According to Bain, Battell was not only a Bread Loaf land baron (in his day the largest private landowner in Vermont), but an environmentalist, crusading newspaperman, Middlebury College alum (Class of 1860), trustee, philanthropist, and novelist. David Haward Bain has taught creative writing and literature at Middlebury College for 28 years, and...

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6 pages. Content originally appeared in the Middlebury (Vt.) Register 27 December 1901.

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Includes one holograph sonnet apparantly written by Joseph Battell, accompanied by a note signed Thos. E. Boyce and addressed to "Professor Owen." The note is dated December 13, 1938 and identifies the sonnet as Battell's.

Also includes two sketch books, presumably Battell's, containing holograph notes primarily concerning the sale of horses.