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/

Guide to the Ann Imbrie Papers, 1950-2006

Collection Title
Ann Imbrie Papers
Abstract
Materials relating to Imbrie's work as a writer and professor of English. There is some additional material relating to her personal life. Of particular note are Imbrie's letters home from Smith College and the University of North Carolina, letters from her friend John M. Randall while he was serving in Vietnam, and Imbrie's research material and drafts for .
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Guide to the Gloria Guardia Papers, approximately 1961, 1976

Collection Title
Gloria Guardia Papers
Abstract
Manuscripts in Spanish of her novels (1961), which was written during her time at Vassar College, and (1976).
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Guide to the Ida Treat Bergeret Papers, 1889-1978

Collection Title
Ida Treat Bergeret Papers
Abstract
Papers reflect her personal and professional life and include travel diaries and notes, manuscripts and published versions of her articles and stories on China, Russia, Tahiti, Abyssinia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea slave trade, 1928-1967; correspondence with her two of her three husbands, Paul Vaillant-Couturier and Andre Bergeret; letters from Wolfgang Wolff written from Tahiti, 1934-1939; correspondence with her literary agent Marie Rodell, 1965-1967, and with the and other publishers and editors; 86 letters from her friend Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1926-1952, and correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements, 1968, pertaining to Chardin's book , 1926-1952; notes, clippings, and scrapbooks concerning her experiences in London during World War II, 1943-1945; manuscripts and publications by other authors; letters and articles of Simone and Max Begonen; and family and personal photographs.
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Guide to the Priscilla Robertson Papers, 1889-2000

Collection Title
Priscilla Robertson Papers
Abstract
Personal and professional correspondence, photographs, publications, diaries, teaching materials, and research materials author, professor, historian and former chairwoman of the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union.
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