A year ago, I experienced the collector’s thrill of a lifetime. I started collecting documents related to Yale history in … More
Category: historical documents
Frank Norris’ The Octopus – A newly discovered manuscript leaf at Yale’s Beinecke Library
I recently donated a collection of documents related to American editor, literary critic and author Frederic Taber Cooper (1864-1937) to Yale’s … More
Ravi D Goel collection on Henry Roe Cloud (Yale BA 1910, MA 1914): Yale’s First Native American graduate
Henry Roe Cloud was the first known Native American to graduate from Yale College (BA 1910, MA 1914), a campus … More
Richard Warren Pershing (Yale 1966, Skull & Bones, Vietnam War Hero & Grandson of General John Pershing)
I purchased a copy of the Yale secret society Skull & Bones Class of 1966 photo album in December 2011. … More
Cherry Hill collector buys original Shakespeare First Folio (1623) at local yard sale – Sotheby’s top estimate £3.5 million
Cherry Hill, NJ ophthalmologist Ravi D Goel MD has collected rare books and historical documents for more than fifteen years. … More
George Hibbert Driver collection (Amherst College Library)
George Hibbert Driver (Amherst College 1900, Amherst MA 1904, Yale Bachelors Divinity 1905, Harvard Masters Sacred Theology 1940) was a … More