Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • Lyrics in Grey

    July 2, 2010

    Etching by Walworth Stilson from “Sonnets,” a bound volume of 224 manuscript poems drafted by Stilson, circa1930-1945 , with annotations and tipped in...
  • Manuscript drafts of  “Montage of a Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes

    Langston's Dream

    June 28, 2010

    Manuscript drafts of “Montage of a Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes ( JWJ MSS 26 Langston Hughes Papers Finding Aid ; additional images from the Langston...
  • Lee Wulff releasing an Atlantic salmon in the Grimsa River, Iceland, Lee Wulff Papers, UNCAT MSS 802.

    Gone Fishin'

    June 24, 2010

    “Lee Wulff: ‘Each fly is a dream we cast out to fool fish’ ” a new exhibition on view 25 June through 16 September 2010 at Beinecke Library The name Lee...
  • Envelope addressed to Christian William Miller by artist Paul Cadmus

    Student Research in Beinecke Collections

    June 22, 2010

    Rachel Wilf, Yale Class of 2012 “Social Change through Science: Homosexual Activism Influencing the Kinsey Report” Following the startling success of his first...
  • “Plan for the improvement of the art of paper war” from: The American museum; or, Universal magazine, 1787 May.

    Rascal, Villain, Coward,

    June 17, 2010

    “Plan for the improvement of the art of paper war” from: The American museum; or, Universal magazine , 1787 May.
  • Two elegies

    June 10, 2010

    Two moving poems written to mark the passing of two young sisters in New Hampshire in 1814. “[An Elegy], Composed on the sudden deaths of Lydia Page Sanborn...
  • Lost in the Woods

    June 7, 2010

    Singular Sufferings of Two Friends, who had lost themselves in an American Forest , York, England, C.Croshaw, Coppergate, [c.1801] A chapbook telling the tale...
  • Cabinet photograph: Sita, A[nna] C[atherine] B[ahlmann]

    Age of Innocence

    June 3, 2010

    The Anna Catherine Bahlmann Papers Relating to Edith Wharton are now available for research; a descriptive guide to the papers is online: Anna Catherine...
  • Canvassing for Suffrage

    June 1, 2010

    A booklet with printed slips (one of which is filled in) used by canvassers for the Society of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in the...