Special Collections and Manuscripts
The Lear Center houses numerous manuscript collections including the Lear-Carson Collection, a research archive of the life and work of Rachel Carson, the Sheaffer-O'Neill Collection of manuscripts, photographs, documents, and important editions of Eugene O'Neill, the Prudence Crandall Collection, containing letters and personal papers of the nineteenth-century Connecticut education and civil rights pioneer, the Lear-Potter Collection, a research archive of the life and work of Beatrix Potter, and the World Center for Women's Archives collection, highlighting the accomplishments of early twentieth century women of science.
Below is a complete list of our holdings which are linked to their finding aids in ArchivesSpace:
COLLECTION NAME/IDENTIFIER
- Akeley, Mary Jobe Collection (MS007)
- American Women's History Collection (MS055)
- Barun Basu Associates records (MS064)
- Baskin, Leonard Collection (MS008)
- Belcher, Nathan Correspondence (MS011)
- Bishop, John Jr. Papers (MS009)
- Bitgood, Roberta Papers (MS010)
- Brainerd, Cephas Papers (MS013)
- Branch, Anna Hempstead Papers (MS014)
- Broadside Collection (MS015)
- Campbell Family of Belfast, Ireland Correspondence (MS076)
- Carson, Rachel (Linda Lear collection of Books and Papers) (MS001)
- Cawood, John R. Cartoons (The Linda Lear collection of) (MS005)
- Civil Rights Movement, American collection (MS074)
- Civil War Collection (MS016)
- Clement, Roland Papers (MS017)
- Columbiad Club Keepsakes Collection (MS019)
- Connecticut Botanical Society Records (MS003)
- Conservation and Research Foundation Papers (MS018)
- Cornell, Thomas Collection (MS020)
- Crandall, Prudence Collection (MS021)
- Crozier, Mary Williams Papers (MS058)
- Curtis, Homer Papers (MS022)
- Daboll family Papers (MS023)
- Depol, John (Charles Price Collection of) (MS024)
- Dewitt, Elsie Family Papers (MS056)
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries collection (MS054)
- Erbsloh, Carl Hugo Papers (MS066)
- Feminist Activism Collection (MS071)
- Fitch, Clyde Play Collection (MS025)
- Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry (Thomas La Lancette Collection on) (MS026)
- Fregosi, Robert C. Collection (MS027)
- Frost, Robert Collection (MS028)
- Fuller, Margaret Collection (MS029)
- Gold, Cornelius B. Papers (MS030)
- Goodale, Grace papers (MS060)
- Hamilton, Alice Papers (MS031)
- Holland, Cecilia Collection (MS032)
- Indigenous/Native American Collection (MS070)
- Ingram, William Papers (MS033)
- Irwin, Frederic W. Papers (MS034)
- Kelsey, Frances Oldham (The Linda Lear Collection of materials) (MS004)
- Lear, Linda Papers (MS046)
- Mansfield, Richard and Beatrice Papers (MS036)
- Masefield, John (Charles Herbert Collection on) (MS037)
- Matty papers (MS061)
- McCracken, James Papers (MS038)
- Medieval Manuscript Leaves (MS039)
- Meredith, William Collection (MS040)
- Morrison, W.D.F. Collection (MS041)
- Moskowitz, Belle Collection (MS042)
- Nature Conservancy (Richard Goodwin papers on) (MS043)
- New London Development Corporation papers (MS045)
- New London Garden Club Records (MS065)
- New London Postcard Collection (MS044)
- New London Redevelopment Collection (MS057)
- Nineteenth Century Collection (MS059)
- O'Neill, Eugene Theater Records (MS063)
- O'Neill, Eugene (Louis Sheaffer collection on) (MS047)
- Peace River Collection (Richard Goodwin papers on) (MS048)
- Perkins, Frances (George Martin Collection on) (MS068)
- Perkins, Frances Collection (MS049)
- Potter, Beatrix (Linda Lear Papers on)
- Primer, Thomas K. Papers (MS050)
- Reed Family Association collection (MS073)
- Rice, Luanne Collection (MS051)
- Tudor, Tasha Collection (MS072)
- Union Railroad Station Trust Records (MS052)
- Wald, Lillian Collection (MS053)
- Whitman, Walt Collection of Ephemera (MS062)
- World Center for Women’s Archives (MS069)
- Wyles Family/Western Reserve Collection (MS079)