Manuscripts

Benjamin Sears papers

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1802-1870.
Call number: mssHM 43176-43193
Creator: Sears, Benjamin(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Howard W. Wright, April 1962.
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Searing family papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 2,245 items from 1810 to 1941, it consists of correspondence, bills, receipts, banking documents, court papers, tax and school records. The vast majority of the papers pertain to William E. Valentine (1820-1896?) and his financial and real estate affairs; this material consists chiefly of bills, accounts, deeds, tax records, and banking papers. A few items concern other members of the Valentine and Searing families, including material on the U.S. Sanitary Commission. The collection also includes one map of building sites located in Long Island in 1872, and 26 family photographs.

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Frederick Hanley Seares Papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the correspondence files and manuscripts, notes, and notebooks of American astronomer Frederick Hanley Seares. While roughly one half of the papers deal with administrative matters of the Mount Wilson Observatory, the remainder cover his scientific work. There are also some manuscripts, notes and notebooks (Boxes 19-21) related to Seares's research activities. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Walter S. Adams, Robert Grant Aitken, Edward Emerson Barnard, William Wallace Campbell, Gustav Fock, Edwin Brant Frost, Henry Gordon Gale, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Walter M. Gilbert, George Ellery Hale, Ejnar Hertzprung, Edwin Powell Hubble, J.C. Kapteyn, Armin Otto Leuschner, C.E. Kenneth Mees, John C. Merriam, Charlotte Emma Moore, John Adelbert Parkhurst, Francis Gladheim Pease, Edward C. Pickering, P.J. van Rhijn, Frank E. Ross, Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins, Otto Struve, and Edwin Bidwell Wilson. Corporate and organizational organizations represented in the collection include: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Carnegie Institution of Washington, William H. Guild & Company, International Astronomical Union, International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Mount Wilson Observatory and the University of Chicago Press.

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Donald A. Sears correspondence

Manuscripts

A group of thirty-five letters, mainly letters from various authors to Donald A. Sears, and several letters from Sears to various authors, regarding the Book of the Month Club, the Book of the Month Club Writing Fellowship Program, and other literary matters. Correspondents include Ray Bradbury, Ralph Ellison, May Sarton, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.

mssHM 59436-59470

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Benjamin West papers

Manuscripts

Includes letters, diaires, sermon.

mssHM 43147-43175

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Monograph typescripts of Sears Jayne

Manuscripts

The first volume (HM 78270) is a monograph entitled "The poetry of Robert Parry;" the second volume (HM 78271) is a monograph entitled "Shakespeare's Phoenix and Jonson." Both of these volumes were written by Sears Jayne and never published (but bound in 1991 by a binder in Massachusetts). These are photocopies of typescripts of the text.

mssHM 78270-78271

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Benjamin Hodge papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including six volumes of journals), documents, and ephemera related to the family, social, and business life of the Hodges and related families in New York, Minnesota, Ohio, and Michigan. A few early items relate to Benjamin Hodge's father, also named Benjamin, and to the experiences of Hodge as a prisoner of war in the War of 1812.

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