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John H. James Collection: Diaries and Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Coll. James: Correspondence
Dates:
1814-1881
John H. James Collection: Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Coll. James: Manuscripts
Dates:
1826-1881
John W. Browne Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Coll. Browne
Abstract
The collection includes correspondence, receipts, resolutions, financial documents, and miscellaneous items pertaining to John Browne's mission to secure donations of money and books for Miami University.
Dates:
1796-1849
Labiche-Leveaux Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. -Coll. -Labiche-Leveaux
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, manuscript books, newspaper clippings, and printed material pertaining to the French dramatist Eugène Marin Labiche (1815-1888) and Alphonse Leveaux (1810-1893).
A manuscript book titled Ville de Compiègne, Sociètè Saint-Francois-Xavier, Confèrences faites par Alphonse Leveaux, 1859-1878 includes Leveaux’s notes about meetings of the St. Francis Xavier Society, which met in Compiègne on the third Sunday of the month. Founded in 1853, the society...
Dates:
1830-1887
Lee and Rosemary Fisher Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Coll. Fisher
Dates:
1968-2014; Majority of material found within 1969-1970
Lytle Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Coll. Lytle
Abstract
This collection contains materials highlighting the life, collections, research and literary works of Virginius Cornick Hall Jr., descendant of Cap. William Lytle and Gen. William Haines Lytle and prominent Cincinnati and Virginia historian.
Dates:
1497-2022
Manuscript Diaries Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Coll. Diaries
Abstract
This collection is composed of original and copies of diaries. They include diaries by Miami students, and diaries written during the Civil War.
Dates:
1835-1892
Margaret Watson Gillespie Fagg Collection
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-Coll-Fagg
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a memorandum book of Chinese students’ names; diaries written by Margaret Watson Gillespie Fagg; a number of miscellaneous notes and addresses; correspondence from acquaintances; a Report of Committee on Foreign Students in the United States by Margaret Watson Gillespie Fagg, an announcement from the Chinese Students’ Christian Association in North America; a fragment of a betrothal announcement; a page from the Membership section of the International House Handbook;...
Dates:
1917-1950
Mary Hogue Diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss.Coll.Hogue
Abstract
This nineteenth century diary offers a unique look at the civil war from a female perspective. It is an unbound volume that is separated into two parts, each of which appears to be hand sewn together. Both parts are handwritten in pencil and ink by Mary Hogue. The first part of the diary dates from May 18, 1862 to August 31, 1862 and is 60 pages long, though the pages are not numbered. The second part dates from December 19, 1862 to March 14, 1863 and is 16 pages long, and also has...
Dates:
1862-1863