Resources for Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker’s and Professor John Grim’s Introduction to Religion and Ecology class (F&ES 783)

From the Rachel Carson Papers (YCAL MSS 46)

Silent Spring manuscript, hand-corrected (call number: YCAL MSS 46, boxes 50 & 51)

Source materials for Silent Spring (call number: YCAL MSS 46, boxes 35 & 36)

Source materials and research reagrding federal pesticide laws (call number: YCAL MSS 46, box 36, folder 643)

Scrapbook documenting press reception of Silent Spring (call number: YCAL MSS 46, Box 116, oversize)

Cartoon related to Silent Spring, including “Peanuts” (call number: YCAL MSS 46, Box 71, folders 1267-1269) 

Drafts of “Help Your Child to Wonder,” later published as “A Sense of Wonder” (call number: YCAL MSS 46, box 93, folder 1635)

Photographs (call number: YCAL MSS 46, box 109, folders 2095-2096)

Draft illustrations and publication materials for Edge of the Sea (call number: YCAL MSS 46, box 26)

“Real World Around Us” manuscripts (call number: YCAL MSS 46, box 101)

Photographs of Rachel Carson (call number: YCAL MSS 46, box 109)

Books

Silent Spring, autographed first edition (call number: Za C239 962S)

The Edge of the Sea (call number: Za C239 955E)

Related Beinecke Resources

Rachel Carson Papers Collection Guide

Rachel Carson Papers Image Guide

Addition related resources may be found in Orbis and the Finding Aid Database.