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Formal title:: Account of the destruction of the British armed sloop Liberty at Newport, Rhode Island
Extent:: 0.2 linear feet
Date range:: 1769 and undated
Abstract:: Anonymous letter written to Edes and Gill, printers of the Boston Gazette, describing the destruction of the Sloop
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.591

Formal title:: Mrs. Mary Almy's account of the cannonading of the French Fleet in Newport
Extent:: 0.2 linear feet (2 folders)
Date range:: 1778, 1878
Abstract:: Account of the cannonading of the French Fleet in Newport, Rhode Island, while the city was occupied by the British Army written by Mary Almy (1735-1808), a Loyalist, to her husband, Benjamin Almy (1724-1818).
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.032

Formal title:: Bern Anderson papers
Extent:: 3 linear feet
Date range:: 1920-1960 (bulk 1944-2000)
Abstract:: The Anderson papers consist of career papers, correspondence, subject files, writings, and other miscellaneous items related to the military career of Bern Anderson. The majority of the materials in this collection are from the career series and the correspondence series. These materials reflect many angles of his active United States Naval duty including: his personal letters during active duty, his materials regarding Operation Hollandia, his published and unpublished writings, diaries, citations, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Repository:: Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection
Collection call no:: MSC-088

Formal title:: Daniel J. Anderson papers
Extent:: 7 linear feet (7 records center boxes)
Date range:: 1975-2002 (bulk 1980-1998)
Abstract:: This collection consists of the research files of Daniel J. Anderson, one of the developers of the Minnesota Model for the treatment of alcoholism. There are magazines, newspaper clippings, speech outlines on index cards, books, pamphlets, and conference materials.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 2008.025

Formal title:: Richard H. Anthony papers
Extent:: 6 items (0.25 linear feet)
Date range:: 1923-1958 (bulk 1923-1929)
Abstract:: Richard H. Anthony was a Providence, Rhode Island native and Brown University graduate, class of 1925. His distinguished career included working as a journalist in Paris for the European edition of the
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2008.024

Arnold family papers

Formal title:: Arnold Family Papers
Extent:: .25 linear feet
Date range:: 1861-1904
Abstract:: The collection consists of the papers of the Arnold family, chiefly letters, but also circulars, invitations and other ephemera, dating from 1861 to 1904.
Repository:: Providence Public Library, Special Collections
Collection call no:: MSS009

Formal title:: Mary Anne Atwood papers
Extent:: 2 linear feet
Date range:: 1882-1910
Abstract:: The Mary Anne Atwood Papers contains letters and manuscripts for the period 1882-1910. Most of the letters in the collection are written from M.A. Atwood to Mme. Isabelle de Steiger. The collection also includes other letters written and received by Atwood, manuscript drafts and notes. According to the admirers of Mary Anne Atwood, "Mrs. Atwood was truly an adept [of the metaphysical tradition]. The last one." "The Atwood material is very important for the study of a vanished Britain, when Neo-Platonism and High Ideas influenced the nation. But, as Mrs. Atwood says, they went in for power and threw their spiritual heritage out the window."
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.Atwood

Formal title:: M. Charles Bakst papers
Extent:: 10 linear feet (8 records center boxes and 1 oversize box)
Date range:: 1927-2009 (bulk 1962-2008)
Abstract:: These papers date from 1927-2009 and include the personal papers and materials of M. Charles Bakst, Brown '66, and journalist for the Providence Journal. Includes manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, ephemera, photographs, audiocassettes and videotapes related to his student days at Brown and his career as a reporter and columnist.
Repository:: Brown University Archives, John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS-1U-B6

Barker (Elsa) papers

Formal title:: Elsa Barker papers
Extent:: 2.5 linear feet (2 records center boxes and 1 document-size Hollinger documents case)
Date range:: 1900-1954 (bulk 1905-1948)
Abstract:: The collection consists of approximately 1000 items and includes typescripts, shorthand notes, letters, personal and financial papers, and other material relating to her poetry, detective stories and 'automatic writing' series by The Living Dead Man. The correspondence includes three letters from the dancer, Ted Shawn, and one directed to H.L. Koopman, then director of the Brown University Library.
Repository:: John Hay Library, Special Collections
Collection call no:: Ms. 2009.007

Formal title:: Morris Abner Barr papers
Extent:: 1.0 linear foot
Date range:: 1939-1968
Abstract:: Morris Abner Barr was an author, lyricist, and poet whose poems tended towards nature, love, God, friendship, and Barr's own life. A craftsman, Barr wrote about his experience creating stools, gavels, and letter openers from the wood of the Sentry Tree in "Immortalizing the Sentry Tree of George Washington." The collection contains his writings, a scrapbook related to the George Washington Sentry Tree, and correspondence with friends and mentors.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.97.1

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