Collection comprises a poster that promotes the organization's "aims to make knowledge about women's bodies and health available to women," and to "develop policy about women's health with women." Important issues illustrated include affordable health care, stopping the spread of AIDS, and a woman's right to choose contraception. There is also contact information.
Collection comprises a collection of Alonzo Williams' annotated German texts. There are six titles annotated and interleaved in seven volumes, including Williams' edition of Faust; works by Schiller, including Maria Stuart, the Maid of Orleans, and William Tell; Karl Lachmann's Die Gedichte Walthers von der Vogelweide; and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan der Weise.
Edith Matilda Thomas was an American poet. Collection contains a letter written by Edith M. Thomas to "Mr. Botta" (December 30). She provides her opinion of an unidentified book, quoting Shakespeare in the process, and states that she has not yet heard from the magazine, The Critic.
La Roy Sunderland was a minister and abolitionist. Collection comprises one page with a clipped autograph for Sunderland, along with a ticket for his lecture "On Pathetism."
Robert P. Stewart was a lawyer and Duke alumnus who served as a legal aide at the Nuremburg Trials. The Robert P. Stewart Papers consist of 26 letters written by Stewart while serving as a legal aide at the Nuremberg Trials from 1945 September-1946 October. The collection also includes clippings about Stewart's service.
Collection comprises a handwritten letter Lydia Howard Sigourney drafted as Secretary for the Hartford Ladies' Association for supplicating justice and mercy towards [sic?] the Indians, to request assistance with the circulation of a petition among the women of Hartford. The letter also discusses the political process behind the petition and its circulation. Includes a faint handwritten addendum, written in another person's hand, noting a decision not to send the letter. The item is undated, but possibly dates to the 1830s.