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Formal title:: Leon E. Truesdell papers
Extent:: 6 linear feet
Date range:: 1882-1973 (bulk 1902-1970)
Abstract:: Leon E. Truesdell graduated from Brown University in 1907 with both an A.B. and A. M degree. His papers consist chiefly of his personal and professional writings and correspondence. Most of the correspondence is related to his career as a statistician and demographer at the United States Bureau of the Census from 1919 to 1967. The papers also include biographical material about the Truesdell family.
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 2011.004

Formal title:: William Mason Turner Papers
Extent:: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1857-1877
Abstract:: Contains personal correspondence, legal documents, poetry, photographs, and sketches of William Mason Turner, a graduate of Brown University (1855), physician, Confederate surgeon, traveler and author.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.77.1

Formal title:: Parker Tyler Correspondence from Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
Extent:: 0.25 Linear feet (42 letters)
Date range:: 1930-1959
Abstract:: The Parker Tyler Correspondence consists of forty-two letters from Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), addressed to Parker Tyler, a young American poet and literary critic. This small but rich body of correspondence serves a dual function: it sheds light on Tyler's development and reputation as a writer; and, most importantly, it offers valuable insights into the personal lives and the poetic theories and techniques of two major figures in American literature.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.79.13

Formal title:: Richard Uhlig collection for a study of hereditary, psychosocial and environmental variables associated with alcohol abuse among 20th-century American writers
Extent:: 1.25 linear feet
Date range:: 1984-1987
Abstract:: The collection consists principally of background materials—clippings, photocopies, etc.—compiled between 1984 and 1987, concerning individual novelists, poets, and playwrights born between 1885 and 1914 and deceased as of 1984, identified as having been to some degree abusers of alcohol, to be compared with other writers identified as non-abusers. Also includes materials relating to the design of survey instruments and databases; the compiler’s grant application submitted to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in March 1984, with the review panel’s response in September 1985; grant application, with title ‘Etiology of alcohol abuse in 20th century American writers’, submitted to Alcoholism Research Authority, c/o Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in April 1984; and a small file of correspondence.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2014.014

Formal title:: United Fascist Union records
Extent:: 1 linear foot
Date range:: 1989-2011 (bulk, 1989-2005)
Abstract:: The United Fascist Union records contain material regarding the organization and its director, Jackson Kirk Grimes. This collection includes correspondence, drawings, copies of photographs and articles writings by Grimes, and some legal documents. A copy of the information on the organization's website as of 2011 is also included in the collection. The material is dated between 1989 and 2011.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2011.043

Formal title:: United States Catholic Conference research collection
Extent:: 1.5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1958-2000
Abstract:: The collection consists primarily of memos, press releases, correspondence, conference materials, and reports produced from 1969-1974 by the United States Catholic Conference Division on Latin America (USCC), an official assembly made up of lay Catholics and clergy, established to promote the Catholic Church and its ideology through culturally specific programs.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2014.005

Formal title:: University Librarians' files
Extent:: 87.25 Linear feet
Date range:: circa 1920-1987
Abstract:: The Librarians' files contain materials related to the administration of the Office of the University Librarian at Brown University and the relationship between the libraries and other university offices and departments. The materials include files dating from circa 1920, when Henry B. Van Hoesen was the librarian, to 1986, during the tenure of Merrily Taylor.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF-1X-1

Upton (Winslow) papers

Formal title:: Winslow Upton papers
Date range:: circa 1876-1969
Abstract:: The collection comprises diaries, astonomical observation notebooks, scrapbooks, lecture notes, peronal and professional correspondence, as well as photographs, various tributes to Professor Upton, and a memoir written by his daughters.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS-1UF-U1

Formal title:: Terry Uyeyama (Class of 1957) oral history and papers relating to the Vietnam War
Extent:: 0.25 linear feet
Date range:: 1973
Abstract:: Terry Uyeyama was interviewed in 1973 by John F. Barry (Class of 1950), Associate Editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly. This collection contains the transcription of that interview and the article published in the Brown Alumni Monthly based on the interview. His interview tells the story of his Air Force career, service as an F-4 fighter pilot in Vietnam starting in October 1967, his capture by North Vietnamese in March 1968 and experiences as a prisoner of war in the Hanoi Hilton prison camp in Hanoi, Vietnam for almost 5 years until January 1973.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1U.U2

Vagabond Press Records

Formal title:: Vagabond Press Records
Extent:: 3688 item(s)
Date range:: 1965-1980
Abstract:: Letters, drawings, manuscript poems, stories, articles, and printed materials which record the workings of a small press of the American literary underground of the Sixties, under the editorship of Bennett. Also includes video tapes and audio tapes
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 83.1

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