Collections Guides Exhibits Manuscripts Archives Resource Links ... Contacts Manuscripts Detailed Holdings A B C ... W Full inventories and/or extended descriptions of many of the collections are accessible through the "Detailed Holdings" page.
SUMMARY:
Trinity College's Watkinson Library houses many collections of manuscripts, dating roughly from the beginning of the 17th century to the present. Most are American, with the greatest concentration in the 19th century, the period of the Watkinson Library's founding. Major collections, for example, are the papers of writer Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), educator Henry Barnard (1811-1900), Hartford musician Nathan H. Allen (1848-1925), and the Watkinson family (1757-1873). The emphasis is on cultural history, with manuscripts complementing the Library's rich printed holdings in Americana. The unit of measurement is the flat legal size manuscript box. If a collection has been put in accessible order, it is described as "arranged." Finding aids are either catalog cards, in which case a collection is described as "cataloged," inventories (and thus described as "inventoried"), or both. "Not processed" means that nothing has been done to arrange and/or provide finding aids for a collection. The manuscript collections are not included in the Trinity College online catalog. | |
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