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The Letters, Documents, and Other Manuscripts of the Duane Norman Diedrich Collection is a selection of individual items compiled by manuscript collector Duane Norman Diedrich (1935-2018) and the William L. Clements Library. The content of these materials reflect the life and interests of D. N. Diedrich, most prominently subjects pertinent to intellectual, artistic, and social history, education, speech and elocution, the securing of speakers for events, advice from elders to younger persons, and many others.

The Letters, Documents, and Other Manuscripts of the Duane Norman Diedrich Collection is a selection of individual items compiled by manuscript collector Duane Norman Diedrich (1935-2018) and the William L. Clements Library. The content of these materials reflect the life and interests of D. N. Diedrich, most prominently subjects pertinent to intellectual, artistic, and social history, education, speech and elocution, the securing of speakers for events, advice from elders to younger persons, and many others.

For an item-level description of the collection, with information about each manuscript, please see the box and folder listing below.

This docket book kept by Justice T. B. Curtis between 1861 and 1887 contains case summaries of various lawsuits related to debt, assault, intent to murder, guardianship, poisoning animals, and other cases in and around Dundee, New York.

This docket book kept by Justice T. B. Curtis between 1861-1887 contains case summaries of various lawsuits related to debt, assault, intent to murder, guardianship, poisoning animals, and other cases in and around Dundee, New York.

The docket book may have been that of Thomas Bennett Curtis (1817-1904), a Starkey, New York, farmer who served for some years as justice of the peace and county associate judge, Yates County, New York, with offices in Dundee.