Autographs

A collection of handwritten letters,
formal notes, autographs, poetry, short writings, and lithograph portraits of
prominent nineteenth-century women authors, including Maria Edgeworth, Caroline L.
Herschel, Hannah More, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Lady Emmeline Stuart
Wortley.

Letters, 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.

Variety of rare manuscripts relating
to American and European history, art and literature.

Letters, notes, receipts, dispatches, and some facsimile reproductions of documents pertaining to political and cultural events of the 18th and 19th centuries, including the French Revolution. Signers include Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, Johann Gottfried Von Herder, Helmuth Graf von Moltke, Mozart, Jean Paul Richter, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Johann Strauss, and Robert Walpole.