Collection Highlights

The Beinecke Library contains multitudes. These selections of a few highlights represent some of the breadth and depth of materials from across time, place, genre, and format, and hopefully may inspire you to search for yourself throughout the collections. You can search the selected highlights in the box below, but also make sure to search all of the collections through Orbis, Archives at Yale, and the library’s digital collections.

  • Rebecca West Papers

    The Rebecca West Papers, approximately twenty feet in length, are composed of letters, manuscripts, and personal papers belonging to author Rebecca West and...
  • Richard Erdoes Papers

    The Richard Erdoes Papers consist of correspondence, writings, audio and moving image recordings, photographs, subject files, and other materials related to...
  • Richard Henry Pratt Papers

    Writings, photographs, and artwork from the papers of the American soldier and founder and superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

  • Richard Wright Papers

    The Richard Wright Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence with other writers such as Nelson Algren, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, Langston...
  • Robert Henri Papers

    The Robert Henri Papers consist of correspondence, writings, artwork, photographs, and printed material which document the life of American artist and teacher...
  • Ron Padgett Papers, 1929-2008

    The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Ron Padgett in the course of his work as a poet, translator, and editor. Material includes...
  • Rothschild Canticles

    An intensely illustrated florilegium of meditations and prayers drawing from Song of Songs and Augustine’s De Trinitate, among other texts, the Rothschild...