Manuscripts and Archives (Repository) Guide to Collections on Sexuality: 19th Century Collections
The Manuscripts and Archives Sexuality Subject Guide is annotated list of personal papers and organization records in Manuscripts and Archives related to gender, sexuality, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives and culture. This page, though not comprehensive, lists the most substantive sources from the 19th century.
Charles McLean Andrews papers by Andrews, Charles McLean
Call Number: MS 38
Evangeline Holcombe Walker Andrews' (1869-1962) voluminous letters to Charles McLean Andrews are interesting as examples of middle-class language of courtship and romance in the late nineteenth-century. Dates covered 1723-1967 (inclusive), 1885-1956 (bulk).
Beecher family papers by Beecher Family
Annie Beecher Scoville (1866-1953) material includes correspondence from Katharine Lee Bates. Bates and Scoville maintained an intimate friendship for most of their adult lives. The two women met in the late 1880s at Wellesley College, where Scoville was a student and Bates a professor. Their correspondence in its early years (ca. 1883-1890) is filled with emotionally effusive expressions of desire, longing, betrayal, and secrecy. By the turn of the century, though, this ardor seems to have dissipated. Bates and Scoville's relationship evolved into a friendship centered around intellectual pursuits and the shared experience of being single, educated, independent women who did not define themselves according to conventional ideologies of family and gender.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) material includes correspondence, church records, and other materials relating to the Beecher-Tilton adultery scandal.
Albert Dodd papers by Dodd, Albert, 1818-1844.
The diary kept by Albert Dodd while at Yale College (1836-1837) describing his relations with men and women.
Sheffield, Edward Chase papers (No. 101 in Yale Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection) by Sheffield, Edward Chase.
Includes a journal kept by Sheffield while a student at Yale in which he describes an intimate friendship with another male student.
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