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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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Random House records, 1925-1999

702 linear feet

The collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Random House, Inc. from its founding in 1925 to the 1990s. The correspondence and editorial files include many of the prominent novelists and short story writers from 20th-century American and European literature: Saul Bellow; Erskine Caldwell; Truman Capote; William Faulkner; Sinclair Lewis; André Malraux; Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Among the poets there are files for W. H. Auden; Allen Ginsberg; Robinson Jeffers; Robert Lowell; and Stephen Spender. In the area of theater there are files for Maxwell Anderson; Moss Hart; Lillian Hellman; Eugene O'Neill; and Tennessee Williams. Random House transacted business with many fine presses and noted typographers and the archives contain files for Nonesuch Press, Grabhorn Press and Golden Cockerel Press, as wll as for Bruce Rogers, Valenti Angelo, and Edwin, Jane, and Robert Grabhorn.

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Marc Raeff papers, 1941-2008

38.2 linear feet
Correspondence, research materials, and personal papers of Marc Isaakovich Raeff (1926-2008), a Russian history scholar and Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian Studies at Columbia University.
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Yosef Yerushalmi papers, 1957-2006, 1957-2006

40 linear feet
Yosef Yerushalmi was a Jewish historian and a professor of Jewish history, primarily at Harvard University and Columbia University. This collection includes most of his academic records and many of his personal records as well. This includes research, correspondence, and notes.
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Benjamin Nelson papers, 1925-1977

106 linear feet

Professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts and notes for his many publications in the social sciences and Renaissance studies, drafts and notes for his THE IDEA OF USURY and writings about Max Weber, other papers collected during his teaching career, and materials for the many professional conferences which he attended and for the academic associations and societies in which he was active.

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Publishers Weekly records, 1909-2007

35.28 linear feet
This collection contains of Publishers Weekly's reference files on publishing houses. Most of the records consist of clippings from Publishers Weekly, but the files also include clippings from other sources, as well as advertisements, annual reports, brochures, catalogs, commemoratives, correspondence, histories, legal records, obituaries, programs, prospectuses, and survey responses.
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Georges Borchardt Inc. records, 1951-2019

664.5 linear feet
This collection contains the records of the Georges Borchardt Inc. Literary Agency as well as records from the 1950s and 1960s that pre-date the founding of the agency. The records include clippings, correspondence, contracts, logs, photographs, publicity, reports, reviews, and royalty statements.
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Hubert H. Harrison papers, 1893-1927

23.5 linear feet
The papers of Hubert Harrison, the brilliant and influential writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist in Harlem during the early decades of the 20th century.
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Bible. O. T. The holy scriptures: according to the Masoretic text: a new translation with the aid of previous versions and with constant consultation of Jewish authorities Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917, 1917, May 10, 1927 Box 20

Publication Society of America, 1917, 1917, May 10, 1927
of previous versions and with constant consultation of Jewish authorities Philadelphia: The Jewish

Autographed by Hubert H[enry] Harrison with note in his hand: "Referring to my lecture at the Jewish Men's Club of Temple Israel in Lawrence, Long Island, on 'Should we have censorship?'" With Hubert Henry Harrison's manuscript annotations Inscribed to [Hubert Henry Harrison] by Joseph Lande; autographed note to Hubert H[enry] Harrison from Joseph Lande, New York, May 10, 1927 tipped in

  1. Series VIII: Printed Material
  2. Sub-Series 8.4: Books
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Mirra Ginsburg papers, 1910-1999

20 linear feet

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, research notes, notebooks, printed material, books, photographs and one audiotape.

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Haugh, Richard; Halbert, Nancy L.; Halpert, Carol - see Caedmon Records; Heacock, Paul - see Perigee Books; Hills, Rust - see Esquire Magazine; Howe, Irving; Huff, Barbara - see Junior Literary Guild; Jacobson, Ruth; Jones, Phillip; Jurasas, Jonas; H. W. Wilson Company; Hamish Hamilton Ltd.; Highlights For Children; Indiana University Library; Inter-Language Literary Associates; Internal Revenue Service; International Rescue Committee; Iskander Ltd.; Jewish Publication Society; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Junior Literary Guild. Correspondence: H - J Box 11, Folder 6

; International Rescue Committee; Iskander Ltd.; Jewish Publication Society; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
  1. Series II: Arranged Correspondence
  2. Subseries II.4: Other

Cannon, Kristin; Casanova, Mercedes; Chalidze, Vera; Chute, Joy; Codray Natalie; Corzin, Steven - See Columbia University Libraries; Costlow, Jane; Cote, Maureen; Crafton, John - see Dover Publications; Graig, Jean; Curley, Laurie; Curtis, Frank; Cushman-Miller, Kathleen - see D.C. Heath & Co.; Cuyler, Margery; De Donato, Diego; Delap, Richard; Deshell, Maier - see Jewish Publication Society; Donovan, John - see Children Book Council; Dorfman, Jeannette; Caedmon Records; Candlewick Press; Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn; Children Book Council; Columbia University Libraries - Bakhmeteff Archive; Curtis Brown, Ltd.; D.C. Heath & Co.; Dell Publishing Co.; Dover Publications; Dramatists Guild; Dramatists Guild Quarterly Correspondence: C - D Box 11, Folder 4

.; Cuyler, Margery; De Donato, Diego; Delap, Richard; Deshell, Maier - see Jewish Publication Society
  1. Series II: Arranged Correspondence
  2. Subseries II.4: Other
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Grayson Kirk papers, 1938-1984

12.67 Linear Feet

The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, drafts, committee meeting reports, speeches, calendars, etc. of Grayson L. Kirk, former Columbia University President. Also included are books from his library. There are also materials deemed by the Office of the President staff as "personal," meaning not directly related to Columbia University. These included the records of the Jacob R. Schiff Charitable Trust and the New York World's Fair 1964-1965.

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Series VI: Jacob R. Schiff Charitable Trust, 1938-1975

President, Kirk served on the Fund Committee with the Presidents of City College and the Jewish Publication
Society of America.

The series contains the records of the Fund Committee of the Jacob R. Schiff Charitable Trust. Files are organized alphabetically but are incomplete (A-National only). As Columbia University President, Kirk served on the Fund Committee with the Presidents of City College and the Jewish Publication Society of America.