Chapin Library. Manuscripts Collection

Description: The Chapin Library holds a small but choice collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscript books, beginning with a copy of the Gospels in Latin, arranged for reading throughout the year, prepared in Tours, France around the year 800. Each succeeding century is represented by at least one manuscript codex (book), and the 15th century by humanistic manuscripts (Dante, Ovid, Vergil) and books of hours. More modern manuscripts in the Chapin Library include letters by Presidents of the United States; papers of the reformers Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876) and Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), of missionary James Lyman Merrick (1803–1866), of David Dudley Field (1805–1894) and his family, and of statesman Hamilton Fish (1888–1991); congratulatory letters addressed to inventor Frank J. Sprague (1857–1934); and letters and literary manuscripts by authors such as Samuel “Erewhon” Butler, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, William Faulkner, George Barr McCutcheon, Edgar Lee Masters, W. Somerset Maugham, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and William Saroyan.

Holding Institution: Williams College

Archive: Williams College. Chapin Library of Rare Books

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Journal of First Day of the World's Anti-Slavery Convention

written by Amelia Alderson Opie, 1769-1853, in Chapin Library. Manuscripts Collection, of Williams College. Chapin Library of Rare Books (Williamstown, MA) (12 June 1840) , 36 page(s)

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Journal of First Day of the World's Anti-Slavery Convention

Journal of First Day of the World's Anti-Slavery Convention