Scope and Contents The Browning Literary Society Collection contains handwritten records kept by Browning Literary Society officers spanning 1868-1934. The collection contains thirty-eight bound books, printed speeches, songs, anniversary programs, and invitations. The books contain information regarding meeting activities, financial transactions, member attendance, rules/regulations, criticism of debates, and book borrowing. They are stored in six boxes chronologically. However, five unbound/critically damaged...

Scope and Contents This collection contains the records and ephemera of the Irving Literary Society at Western Maryland College. The collection spans the years the society was active on campus, approximately 1868-1935. It is arranged into four series: records books, manuscripts, gazettes, and artifacts. The majority of the collection consists of minutes and critics books detailing the meetings and member activities of the society. Copies of the Irving Literary Gazette, the society’s campus publication, also make...