Yale University

Letters with some manuscripts,
speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection
with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or by persons of historical
and cultural significance.

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, journals, business and legal documents and photographic prints relating the Benét Family’s personal, professional, and creative activity. A significant volume of the collection contains correspondence between family members, including letters to and from Stephen Vincent Benét and William Rose Benét. The collection includes manuscript drafts by Laura Benét, as well as some ephemera and printed material collected by the family.

Correspondence, subject files, news clippings and manuscripts documenting Frances P. Taft’s tenure with the Alumnae and Aulmni Association of Vassar College (AAVC),as well as documentation of her coursework (Class of 1942) at Vassar College.

Records from the investigation into a proposed affiliation between Vassar College and Yale University, including relocation of Vassar to New Haven, Connecticut.