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Charles Rockwell Lanman letters, 1916-1937

0.5 linear feet
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The collection consists of 25 letters between C.R. Lanman and his colleagues and former students concerning the study of Sanskrit. There are letters from Franklin Edgerton, J.D.M. Ford, F.P. Graves, C.N. Greenough, G.C.O. Haas, Samuel Hill, A.B. Keith, C.T. Keller, Truman Michelson, Walter Miller, O.H. Mott, W.L. Phelps, G.A. Reisner, Karl Ruprecht, J.M. Stahl, and Fiske Warren.

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Alfred Jeanroy Papers, 1727-1950

21.5 linear feet
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Professional and personal papers, as well as materials collected by, Sorbonne professor Alfred Jeanroy. Material in Professor Jeanroy's handwriting includes lengthy as well as brief manuscripts, lectures, preparatory notes for works planned, and material for new editions of published writings. Forty-one notebooks also comprise texts of lectures in his handwriting. Many of these deal with French poetry of the Middle Ages, some with linguistic subjects. There are manuscript notes showing continuous revision of these lectures. Boxes of personal papers include documents dating from 1727, marriage contracts, wills, military and legal parchments, and old family letters. Also, many manuscripts, some of them never published, by Madame B.A. Jeanroy; and several hundred pamphlets and seven books by Professor Jeanroy and his colleagues and contemporaries.

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Christopher Coover collection of literary & historical letters manuscripts and documents, 1589-1923

6 linear feet
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A unique collection of literary and historical items collected by Christopher Coover.
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George Y. Shevelov Papers, 1922-2001

15 linear feet
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The papers comprise correspondence, writings, memoirs, personal documents, research notes, printed materials, photographs of Iurii Shevel'ov, prominent scholar, Slavic linguist, philologist, literary historian, and literary critic, longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University.
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Charles Haywood papers, 1629-1895

1 box
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Letters, manuscripts and documents, primarily from Germany, Austria and Hungary of the 17th-19th centuries; most are 19th century German. Included are materials about music, theatre and contemporary events; documents from the German aristocracy; and 18th and 19th century business and military records; passports and manuscripts of poems.

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Yehudah Joffe papers, 1893-1966, bulk 1920-1945

1 box
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The collection consists of Joffe's correspondence, manuscripts/notes, and newspaper clippings. Joffe's correspondence in Yiddish in English is both personal and professional, covering communication with institutions he was working at or hoping to work at. Joffe's manuscripts contain drafts for lectures and notes on university seminars and lectures he attended under Prof. Roman Jakobson and others. Joffe's newspaper clippings contain a selection of clippings relating to Prof. Peck, his undergraduate advisor, and miscellaneous clippings.
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Alan Cameron papers, 1959-2020

6 Linear Feet
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Papers of Classics professor, Alan Cameron who taught at Columbia University between 1977 and his retirement in 2008. At the time of his death (July 31, 2017) he was the Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of Latin and Literature at Columbia University. Materials in this collection include extensive correspondence files (including many with distinguished classicists), scholarly lectures, lectures given on cruise ships, course lectures, research files, unfinished and unpublished work, manuscripts for a book about Constantinople, CVs, memoirs and memorial materials.

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David Nachmansohn papers, 1918-1981

5 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, and printed materials primarily concerning biochemistry. Correspondents include 24 Nobel Prize winners, including Otto Loewi, Otto Meyerhof, Archibald Vivian Hill, Feodor Lynes, Severo Ochoa, and Otto Warburg. Other correspondents include Sir Hans Krebs, John Farquhar Fulton, Jean Pierre Changeux, and others in Europe, Israel, Japan, and the USSR as well as the USA. Nachmansohn's concern with the place of Jews in science appears throughout the collection, especially in material concerning the Weismann Institute and other academic institutions to which he belonged. There are photographs of colleagues, many signed and inscribed during his many trips. The printed materials consist chiefly of Nachmanson's published works beginning with his 1927 doctoral dissertation (University of Berlin) and continuing throughout his professional life at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (1926-1930), the Sorbonne (1933-1939), Yale University (1939-1942), and Columbia University (1942-1982).

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