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Clare Leighton Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscript and typescript notes, correspondence, rough draft and manuscript versions of published works, and sketches. Signatures of note: Pearl S. Buck, H. L. Mencken.
Dates:
1920-1970
Found in:
Pequot Library
Cyrus Sherwood Bradley Collection
Collection
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
The collection has personal papers, correspondence, artifacts, deeds, and materials related to family and community history.
Dates:
1750s-1850s
Found in:
Pequot Library
Dean Stockett Edmonds Collection
Collection
Identifier: 15
Scope and Contents
In 1972, Dean S. Edmonds, Esq. passed away. In his will, Mr. Edmonds made a significant gift to Pequot Library representing his love of the Library and his passion for Shakespeare. In 1974, Pequot Library took possession of a splendid collection compiled over a lifetime by Dean Stockett Edmonds, Esq. Dean S. Edmonds was a U.S. patent and intellectual property attorney, who supported a number of inventors in the early 20th century. Attorney Edmonds filed, among other petitions, patents...
Dates:
1623-1974
Found in:
Pequot Library
Eric Gill Collection
Collection
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
Sketches, workbooks, as well as some correspondence about Gill's beliefs and artistic work.
Dates:
1920s-1940s
Found in:
Pequot Library
George Brett Collection
Collection
Identifier: 6
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and reports covering the tenure of George Brett at Pequot Library.
Dates:
1950s
Found in:
Pequot Library
Margaret Mitchell Collection
Collection
Identifier: 7
Scope and Contents
The typescript of the last four chapters of Gone with the Wind, photograph, publicity materials, and editions of Gone with the Wind in multiple languages.
Dates:
1936-1950s
Found in:
Pequot Library
Monroe-Marquand Collection
Collection
Identifier: 9
Scope and Contents
Photography and artifacts tracing the family history and their travels.
Dates:
1870-
Found in:
Pequot Library
Monroe, Wakeman, and Holman Collection
Collection
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents
Printed items in the Monroe, Wakeman, and Holman Collection of the Pequot Library Association are cataloged separately. See: Catalogue of the Monroe, Wakeman, and Holman Collection of the Pequot Library, Southport, Connecticut, deposited in the Yale University Library. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1960. Autograph manuscript material documenting chiefly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history. A small number of seventeenth-century items are present. The collection consists...
Dates:
1493-1890s
Found in:
Pequot Library
Pequot Library Association
Collection
Identifier: 11
Scope and Contents
Archival materials acquired and collected during the history of the library by the Pequot Library Association.
Dates:
1880-
Found in:
Pequot Library
Perry Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents
Personal papers, deeds, and correspondence from the Perry family.
Dates:
1880-
Found in:
Pequot Library
PLA Board of Trustees Archives
Collection
Identifier: 12
Scope and Contents
Charter, By-laws, and executive committee minutes from the inception of the Pequot Library Association.
Dates:
1880-
Found in:
Pequot Library
Sasquanaug Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: 13
Scope and Contents
Photographs, charter, and minutes from the Sasquanaug Association from its founding in 1887 as a community-based society for the improvement of Southport, CT.
Dates:
1887-
Found in:
Pequot Library