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Formal title:: Non-Monetary Gift Files
Extent:: 2.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1947-1972
Abstract:: The Non-Monetary Gift files is a collection of forms recording gifts to Brown University such as furniture, art objects, books, manuscripts, scientific equipment and trees. The forms date from 1947 through 1972.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF.1D.4.

Formal title:: University Librarians' files
Extent:: 87.25 Linear feet
Date range:: circa 1920-1987
Abstract:: The Librarians' files contain materials related to the administration of the Office of the University Librarian at Brown University and the relationship between the libraries and other university offices and departments. The materials include files dating from circa 1920, when Henry B. Van Hoesen was the librarian, to 1986, during the tenure of Merrily Taylor.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF-1X-1

Formal title:: Francis Wayland family papers
Extent:: 7.5 linear feet
Date range:: 1715-1941 (bulk 1820-1865)
Abstract:: Francis Wayland was the fourth president of Brown University from 1827-1855 and a Baptist clergyman. Papers consist primarily of letterbooks and correspondence, as well as sermons and a diary, of Francis Wayland (1796-1865), his sons Francis Wayland (1826-1904) and H.L. (Heman Lincoln) Wayland (1830-1898), and other members of the Wayland family, dating from 1754 to 1941.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1C.4

Formal title:: Rhode Island College miscellaneous papers
Extent:: 250 items
Date range:: 1763-1804
Abstract:: A collection of historical documents from the petition for a charter in 1763 to the change of name from Rhode Island College to Brown University in 1804. Titles of the papers and folder numbers are taken from the two volumes in which the papers had previously been mounted.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.1E.1

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