Vassar College Digital Library

Finding Aids Collection

This collection of finding aids describe items in both the Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection and the College Archives. The Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection is named after the eighth president of Vassar College, whose vision for the library included the addition of personal papers of a number of key literary figures. The holdings range from medieval illuminated manuscripts to modern manuscripts, and include over 500 collections of Vassar College graduates, faculty, and others affiliated with the college. The Vassar College Archives documents the history of the College from its founding in 1861 to the present. It includes publications, administrative records, meeting minutes, architectural drawings, photograph and audiovisual collections, subject files, artifacts, and other materials. For more information please visit the Archives & Special Collections Library website here: https://library.vassar.edu/specialcollections/

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Guide to the Amelia MacDonald Cutler Papers, 1906-1921

Collection Title
Amelia MacDonald Cutler Papers
Creator
Cutler, Amelia MacDonald, 1882-1947
Abstract
Papers concerning her interest in woman suffrage and including letters from Anna De Baun, John M. Glenn, Norval D. Kemp, Henrietta W. Livermore, Caroline Ruutz-Rees, Anna Howard Shaw, and Vira Boarman Whitehouse, 1908-1917; one letter from Cutler to Livermore, 1916; two letters about Cutler from Carrie Chapman Catt and Norval D. Kemp, 1908-1916; clippings, programs, and other miscellaneous printed matter on suffrage work, 1916-1921; and manuscripts and typescripts by Cutler on rural life and people, 1906-1917.
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Guide to the Elizabeth Bishop Papers, circa 1880-2023 (bulk 1929-1979)

Collection Title
Elizabeth Bishop Papers
Creator
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and drafts, memorabilia, artwork, publications, and photographs relating to Bishop's personal and professional life. Also, letters, minutes, contracts, and financial records from her teaching and publishing activities, 1943-1979; manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, revisions, and fragments of her poetry and prose writings, 1929-1979; Vassar student notebooks, travel diaries, notes from her 17-year residence in Brazil, and family information, 1931-1977; manuscripts, typescripts, articles, essays, and poetry by or about other writers, especially Robert Lowell, 1925-1979; and printed poetry, prose, reviews, and articles by or about Bishop.
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Guide to the Henry Noble MacCracken Papers, 1907 - circa 1968

Collection Title
Henry Noble MacCracken Papers
Creator
MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), 1880-1970
Abstract
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, contracts, publications, and other materials pertaining to Henry Noble MacCracken's tenure as president of Vassar College.
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Guide to the Iannucci Modern American Literature Manuscript Collection, approximately 1934-1999

Collection Title
Iannucci Modern American Literature Manuscript Collection
Creator
Iannucci, Brenda J.
Abstract
Manuscript material accompanying the Iannucci Modern American Literature Book Collection.
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Guide to the Louise Seaman Bechtel Papers, 1877-1980 (bulk 1913-1980)

Collection Title
Louise Seaman Bechtel Papers
Creator
Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894-1985
Abstract
Papers primarily concerning her work in literature, publishing, and editing, especially for children, and including correspondence, manuscripts, illustrations, biographical information, and published articles and reviews from or pertaining to authors, illustrators, and publishers.
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Guide to the Marianne Moore Papers, 1924-1969

Collection Title
Marianne Moore Papers
Creator
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Abstract
American poet Marianne Moore's letters
to Fanny Borden (Vassar College Librarian, 1924-1954), as well as one letter from
Moore's mother, Mary W. Moore, and a article about Moore's book signed by Moore.
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Guide to the Office of the President Records, Sarah Gibson Blanding Files, 1911-1977 (bulk 1946-1964)

Collection Title
Office of the President Records, Sarah Gibson Blanding Files
Creator
Blanding, Sarah Gibson, 1898-1985
Abstract
Records of the Vassar College Office of the President, correspondence, memoranda, clippings, articles, speeches, and press releases during her tenure at Vassar, 1946-1964, concerning women's education, academic freedom, 1950's politics, her stand against Congressional investigation of Communist influence in education, her introduction to Adlai Stevenson on a radio program, and her 1962 statement on pre-marital sex and Vassar students.
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Guide to the W. K. Rose Papers, 1914-1970 (bulk 1940-1968)

Collection Title
W. K. Rose Papers
Creator
Rose, W. K.
Abstract
The William K. Rose Papers document Vassar College English Professor Rose’s study of modernist literature, Vorticism, and in particular, the writings of Wyndham Lewis. The majority of the correspondence in the collection documents Rose’s efforts to locate and study Lewis’s letters to friends and associates. Files include correspondence, research and subject files, press clippings, manuscripts, notebooks, playbills, periodicals, photographs, and audio tape.
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