The Department of Special Collections is home to an impressive collection of the works of the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950).

The collection includes several hundred books and a number of literary journals and photographs, and features Millay and several of her contemporaries.  Many of Millay's first editions are represented in the collection, as are several volumes signed by Millay and others. The collection was a gift to Skidmore by Frank T. Crohn in 1986. Later gifts, by Dalton Delan, Judith and George Lowry, and John Patton, have added to the collection.