Hours

Hours during the acadmic year are:

Monday-Friday 10am-12 pm and 1-5pm.

When classes are not in session:

Monday-Friday 10am-12pm and 1-4:30pm

For more information, please call 781-283-2129,
or write to :
Special Collections, Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street,
Wellesley, MA 02481-8203

Featured Works from Special Collections

• Alberti, Leon Battista. L'architettura. Florence, 1550.
• Browning, Robert. Autograph letter to E.B. Browning. Jan. 10, 1845.
• Colonna, Francesco. Hypnerotomachia poliphili. Venice, 1499.
• Davidson, Laura. Entomology. Boston, 1999.
• Douglass, Frederick. My bondage and my freedom. New York, 1857.
• Galileo. Sidereus nuncius. Venice, 1610.
• King, Ronald. Turn over darling. London, 1990.
• Kingsley, Charles. The Water-babies. New York, 1916.
• Lalande, Joseph Jerome Le Francais de. Astronomie. Paris, 1792.
• Leopold, of Austria. Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Augsburg, 1489.
• Nabokov, Vladimir. Bend sinister. New York. 1947.
• Petrarch, Francesco. Le cose volgari. Venice, 1501.
• Petrarch, Francesco. De vita solitaria. manuscript, 15th c.
• Ruskin, John. Autograph letter to J.P. Faunthorpe. July 1, 1881.
• Ruskin, John. Self-portrait, watercolor, 1874.
• Sackville-West, Victoria. Andrew Marvell. London, 1929.
• Sloane, Hans. A voyage to the islands. London, 1707.
• Tales told in Holland. Chicago, 1926.
• Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de. Institutiones rei herbariae. Paris, 1719.
• Wolf, Arne. Nine love poems. Berkeley, 1995.
• Young, Martha. Plantation songs. New York, 1901.

Photographs by O'Neill Photography & Digital Imaging

Faculty class visits  (Wellesley College campus only)

F.A.Q. about Special Collections

Wellesley College Special Collections :
Durant § Rare Books § Plimpton § Elbert § North American Languages § Juvenile §
English Poetry § Marks § Walker § Ruskin § Book Arts § Book Arts Laboratory