History of Special Collections @ Colby

  • INTRO
    • Goals
    • Student Scholars Wanted
    • Acknowledgments
    • Contact Us
  • CHRONOLOGY & CONTEXT
    • What Happened (early on)
      • The First Library & Edward Hall
      • The “Rare Book” Section (early 1930s)
    • Our Chronology (1935-1975)
    • Some Context
  • THE PEOPLE
    • Curators
      • Carl Jefferson Weber (Curator 1940-1958)
      • Richard Cary (Curator 1958-1975)
    • Librarians
      • N Orwin Rush (Librarian 1936-1945)
      • Gilmore Warner (Librarian 1945-1947)
      • James Humphry III (Librarian 1947-1957)
      • John R McKenna (Librarian 1957-1964)
      • Kenneth P Blake, Jr (Librarian 1964-1973)
      • Eileen M Curran (Acting Librarian, 1973-1976)
    • Other Colby People
      • Ernest C Marriner ’13
      • Frederick A Pottle ’17
      • Carroll A Wilson ’40 LLD
      • Franklin Winslow Johnson (President 1929-1942)
      • Julius Seelye Bixler (President 1942-1960)
      • Robert Edward Lee Strider II (President 1960-1979)
    • The Colby Library Associates
    • Highlighted Donors
  • HIGHLIGHTED COLLECTIONS
    • Rare Book Collections
      • Early Books
      • Thomas Hardy
      • Book Arts
      • The Rubáiyát
    • Personal Libraries
      • Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson
      • Library of Thomas Sergeant Perry
      • Library of Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer
      • Library of James Augustine Healy
      • Library of Ben Ames Williams
    • Manuscript Collections
    • “A Recent Accession”: The Colby Library Quarterly

Manuscript Collections

DonErnesto - WP
First page of Waldo Peirce’s 1927 illustrated poem “Don Ernesto en Pamplona.” Our Waldo Peirce Collection contains letters and manuscripts created by Peirce as well as letters written by Ernest Hemingway.

Listed alphabetically:

Willa Cather

Mary Ellen Chase

James Brendan Connolly

Thomas Hardy

James Augustine Healy

James Family

Sarah Orne Jewett

Vernon Lee

Waldo Peirce

Lilla Cabot Perry

Thomas Sergeant Perry

Bern Porter

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer

Laura E Richards

Kenneth Roberts

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Booth Tarkington

Celia Thaxter

Ben Ames Williams

Explore Common Threads – and Student Scholarship – in our Manuscript Collections

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