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Wills naming Harvard as a beneficiary

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.1404
Overview: In the 17th and 18th centuries, Harvard College relied on government grants and tax allocations, town subscriptions, and private donations to fund the school. Donations were often made as bequests and recorded in a donor's will. This collection contains copies of wills that include bequests to Harvard, and related papers such as court records and certificates of death. Most of the documents are copies kept by the Harvard Corporation to manage bequests, or were created and donated to the College...

Willy Mostyn-Owen papers concerning I Tatti

FOUND IN: Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Collection Identifier: BER -12
Overview: The collection includes the correspondence of Bernard Berenson and others in the circle of Berenson's friends and close associates to William Mostyn-Owen during his stay at I Tatti and after. It also includes some papers regarding I Tatti and Berenson.

Papers of Christopher Wilmarth, 1943-2011

FOUND IN: Harvard Art Museums Archives
Collection Identifier: SC 26
Overview: Collection documenting the personal and professional life of artist Christopher Wilmarth. The collection contains correspondence with art dealers, clients, colleagues, and museums; exhibition catalogues; personal writings such as song lyrics and essays; estate records; and photographs, slides, and transparencies of Wilmarth’s art.

Wilton E. Cross schooner collection

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Mss:732 1881-1915 C951
Overview: Captains' letters, bills, accounts, charter parties, insurance papers of schooners in the coastwise trade, 1881-1915.

Winchester, Elhanan, 1751-1797. Letters, 1786.

FOUND IN: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School
Collection Identifier: bMS 743
Overview: These two letters are written by Elhanan Winchester, and they are addressed to Captain Zephaniah Andrews of Providence, Rhode Island. In the letters, Winchester thanks Andrews and friends for their kindness.

Windham Manufacturing Company records

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Mss:442 1822-1905
Overview: The Windham Manufacturing Company records document an 19th century cotton manufacturing company based in Willimantic, Connecticut. Many of the records relate to a general store run in connection with the factory.

Windsor Arnold Hosmer papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Arch GA 38.10
Overview: Papers include Windsor Arnold Hosmer's professional correspondence (1948-1960), manuscripts (1955-1958 and undated), and business records (1954-1962).

Winifred Coombe Tennant papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Eng 1825
Scope and Contents: Primarily correspondence of Winifred Coombe Tennant, Gerald Balfour, and their son, Henry Coombe Tennant; with photographs, records of psychic research (including automatic writing), correspondence of others, and copies of her diaries.

Papers of the Winthrop Family, 1892-1963

FOUND IN: Harvard Art Museums Archives
Collection Identifier: SC 28
Overview: This collection consists of family papers generated by Mary Tallmadge Trevor Winthrop and her daughters Emily Winthrop Miles and Kate Winthrop Morse. A large scrapbook dates from 1892-1895, while additional papers span 1928 - 1963. Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, event programs, copyright forms, and a small collection of "fairy letter" booklets.

Papers of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1885-2000

FOUND IN: Harvard Art Museums Archives
Collection Identifier: SC 21
Overview: Personal papers of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard alumnus and art collector. Papers relate to the development of his art collection from the late nineteenth century into the mid twentieth century, with the bulk between the 1920s and 1943. Documents include correspondence, legal documents, scrapbooks, datebooks, accounts, photographs, book chapters, articles, and index files of the artwork in the collection.
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