Scope and Contents Collection contains ten handwritten diaries documenting the life of L. Warren King, a Taunton, Massachusetts mill worker during the mid-19th century and the Civil War. The name of L. Warren King and Marion King Eastey are written on the front blank endpage of each diary, with the addition of Austin King in two of the diaries. The diaries were likely kept by L. Warren King, and document part of 1854, all of 1855-1864, part of 1865, and all of 1870. There is an entry for each day, giving an...

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Lawrance Thompson’s collection consists of three Hollinger boxes containing drafts of The Years of Triumph (1970). Included are drafts with corrections by Thompson and his designer P. J. Conkwright, as well as end notes with corrections by Thompson and his editor.

Scope and Contents The Hemingway Family Archive joins Hemingway archives in more than 75 private and institutional collections, the most distinguished of which include those at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, in Boston, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Compiled by writer Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982), the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), in the process of researching and writing his biography, ...

Abstract Leslie Epstein's collection is made up of material from each of his eight novels, including some complete drafts, galleys, and setting copes, as well as many incomplete drafts and alternate versions. He also has saved many notes covering his ideas as well as his research. Also included are his papers from college and graduate school – plays, essays, stories, his undergraduate thesis, and his dissertation. The collection also has a number of correspondences, multiple reviews of his work,...

Scope and Contents This collection of letters written to family and friends details the travels and observations of Levi Parsons as a missionary in the Middle East as well as general correspondence from his student days at Middlebury College. Folder #4 without address or salutation, is a sort of prayer or anthem detailing Parsons’ religious epiphany while a student. A letter to his brother details the massing of 300 men in Shoreham on the eve of the Battle of Plattsburgh and its aftermath, (Folder #12). Levi...

Scope and Contents Collection contains books editied by Llewellyn Perkins, primarily the Centenniel Editions of works by his father-in-law, Rowland E. Robinson, as well as works by Mary Robinson Perkins. Collection also contains Elementary Mathematical Analysis: A Course in Mathematics for College Freshman, by Llewellyn Perkins and John G. Bowker (Middlebury College professor of mathematics). Also included in the collection are printing and binding tools owned and used by Llewellyn Perkins, including etched...

Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of typescript and holograph letters written to Louis Untermeyer between 1916 and 1977. Untermeyer frequently wrote to unknown or little-known poets when he appreciated their work. Correspondents include Stanley Burnshaw, Robert Grant Burns, Allen Ginsberg, John Tagliabue, Guy Daniels, Peter Viereck, Myron Wilder, and others. The letters typically pertain to the poetry of Untermeyer and his correspondents, and also include works that were mailed to...

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This collection contains original typescript and photocopies of some of Gluck's poetry, as well as correspondence between Gluck and the fiction editors of "Mademoiselle Magazine," Madeline Tracy Brigden and Ellen Stoianoff, as Gluck negotiates her first book and emerges as a poet. The collection is arranged into two series: Manuscripts and Correspondence. Collection contains 1 box and 23 folders.

Scope and Contents Collection contains academic papers, including class and teaching notes, professional and personal correspondence, literary papers, including correspondence related to publishing and writing by contemporaries of Glazier, written works by Glazier, documents related to Glazier's community involvement, and commentaries written by Glazier, in the form of letters to the editor of various newspaper, most often the Bennington Banner. Collection also contains cassette tapes, a vinyl record, and a...

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Collection primarily contains Sparks' research for his educational CD-ROM on Vienna, Austria. Materials include travel guides, course materials, photographs, research and drafts. Note that collection contains CD-ROMs and cassette tapes.

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Five boxes, one containing an LP album, four containing reel-to-reel tapes, primarily recorded by MacArthur between 1948-1965. Tapes contain performances by various folk singers as well as lectures by Helen Hartness Flanders.
Note that not all tapes are labeled.

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The collection comprises correspondence, official documents, song transcriptions and notes and recordings created during Olney’s tenure as primary field collector and curator of the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection during its greatest period of growth at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 1941-1960.

Abstract This collection comprises letters written to Marguerite Wilkinson from contemporary American poets. The bulk of the correspondence was written in 1919, and primarily concerns Wilkinson’s poetry anthologies: Golden Songs of the Golden State (1917), New Voices (1919), Contemporary Poetry (1923) and The Way of the Makers (1925), with responses from authors to her requests for permission to use their poems. These responses frequently include suggestions of different poems or discussions of...

Scope and Contents This collection includes writings, photographs, personal artifacts and handiwork of a young Methodist missionary family in Foo Chow (Fuzhou), China, 1859-1865. There are three holograph journals - two written by Rev. Carlos Roscoe Martin (CRM) from 1859-1864, and one written by his wife Mary Elizabeth [Allen] Martin (MEM), 1864-1865, with full typewritten transcriptions available for all three journals. Carlos Roscoe Martin’s journal begins when he and Mary leave New York harbor,...

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Collection contains records produced by Bread Loaf School of English instructor Michael Armstrong between 1986 and 2015. Materials include class notes, student work (usually with extensive commentary by Armstrong), class journals, correspondence, lecture transcriptions, student course assessments, materials concerning teaching visits to Lawrence, Massachusetts, outreach materials, and published works.

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Collection contains digital audio files of podcast episodes produced by MiddCast.

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Created in 2019 and in collaboration with Middlebury Veterans Give Back (MVGB), the Middlebury Alumni Veterans Collection (C-174) will reflect the military experience of veterans through papers, memoirs, photographs, ephemera, realia and media, including films, slides and interviews.

To date, the contents of the collection have been donated by members of Middlebury Veterans Give Back (MVGB) and Middlebury veterans encouraged by MVGB.

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Film cameras, magic lanterns, and stereoscopes collected by Middlebury Special Collections for classroom use. Cameras include Kodak Folding Cartridge Premo, Kodak No. 2 Brownie, Kodak Target Brownie 620, Brownie movie camera, Kodak Startech camera, Argus 75, Bell & Howell Zoomatic, Polaroid automatic 250 land camera, Olympus 35 RC, and Hanimex Praktica Super TL. The collection also includes a magic lantern, stereoscopes, and a View-Master.

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Collection includes oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of Special Collections. Interviewees include Middlebury College students, alumni, faculty, staff and administrators. As of 2020, the vast majority of the interviews are one-on-one, and more group recording sessions are being conducted and added.

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From the lighter side of student life to deep critical engagement with campus culture, this transinstitutional collection is intended to document life at Middlebury outside the official channels of communication, to archive diverse points of view and student activities, and to create a historical record of dynamic and engaging discussions that define our collective experience at Middlebury College.

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Includes two copies of the 1999 first printing of Middlebury Women, 1959- by Millicent Fairhurst, 1999 galley proof of Middlebury Women, 1959-, and correspondence and questionnaire responses sent by Fairhurst to her female classmates.

Note that a number of survey responses in the collection were received after the first printing and were subsequently included in a second printing.

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The Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection at Middlebury College Library contains single, unbound manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts acquired for the Library's Special Collections. The material include chiefly individual and small groups of letters, as well as diaries and journals, records and account books, and sermons and speeches. Many items in this collection were primarily collected and/or purchased because they were thought to be relevant to curriculum.