Historian. Essays (1847–1850) written by Sarah Worcester, a daughter of missionaries to the Cherokees, while a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; unpublished manuscripts (circa 1950–1960) by Althea Bass, entitled “The Inheritance of Alice Robertson,” “I Raise This Glass to Jennie,” “Harriet Bunce Wright, a Charleston Lady Among the Choctaws,” “A Summer Thanksgiving-the Seneca Green Corn Festival,” and “Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation,” along with correspondence and research notes (circa 1957) regarding William L. Bear and his role in the founding of Osborne, Kansas.