Individual manuscripts collection
Scope and Contents
The Individual Manuscripts Collection ranges in date from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century and documents the actions of historical figures and events, principally from American History. Personages include Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Browning, Edmund Burke, Aaron Burr, Henry Clay, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, DeWitt Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, David Crockett, Charles Darwin, Jefferson Davis, Henry Dearborn, Ferdinand Victor Eugeneène Delacroix, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Millard Fillmore, Gerald Ford, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, George IV, Ulysses S. Grant, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Hardy, Benjamin Harrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rutherford B. Hayes, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Hooker, Herbert Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, Samuel Houston, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Evans Hughes, Washington Irving, Andrew Jackson, Henry James, Mary Jemison, Andrew Johnson, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Kirkland, Henry Knox, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Martin Luther, James Madison, John Marshall, Cotton Mather, Guy de Maupassant, William McKinley, James Monroe, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Horatio Nelson, Richard Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, John Rutledge, Margaret Sanger, the Seneca Nation, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley, William Tecumseh Sherman, Upton Sinclair, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Howard Taft, Isaiah Townsend, Bess (Wallace) Truman, Sojourner Truth, Martin Van Buren, George Washington, Daniel Webster, Walt Whitman, William Wilberforce, Thornton Wilder, William Wordsworth, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Emile Zola.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1750- 2012
Language of Materials
English
Extent
6.0 linear feet (5 file drawers)
Access
The Individual Manuscripts Collection is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
Use
In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Preferred Citation
[Item title, item date]. [Folder title/individual filing name]. Individual Manuscripts Collection, D.472, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Arrangement
The Individual Manuscripts Collection is a collection in name only. It consists of single items or small numbers of items generally received from a single source. For this reason, the items may seem to be out of sequence in this finding aid. For example, materials in the MacLehose folder (under "M") include letters written by Ainger, Morrison, and Smith. These MacLehose materials are kept together to preserve their provenance and intellectual integrity, rather than dispersed to present a simple A-Z list of materials.
- Title
- Individual manuscripts collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- This collection was processed by John Chandler in 2013. Finding aid written by John Chandler in 2013.
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Library Details
Part of the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation Library
