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Correspondence of members of the King family including Rufus, John, and Nehemiah F. King, containing chiefly discussions of family matters and questions of the day. Many of the letters were written from Europe.

A collection of diaries and journals relating to Robinson's years at the University of Freiburg, where he took his doctorate, and to his subsequent European travels before his return to America. Also, several volumes bearing Robinson's marginal notes.

Letters written by Cole to Robert Underwood Johnson. These letters cover the period Cole was in Europe making engravings of great European paintings for a series which appeared in Johnson's CENTURY magazine. There are also letters from Cole to Melvin Loos, relating to the printing of Cole's engravings of paintings and portraits. Also, 250 engravings by Cole; and letters from Cole to William Kimberley Palmer, written during Cole's sojourn abroad.

A collection of letters to and from John Treat Irving Jr. While there are 63 letters from Irving, the majority of the correspondence is that of his father and mother, John Treat Irving, Sr. and Abby Furman Irving, other members of the Irving family, and friends. There are no letters of Washington Irving in the collection, though there are many interesting reference to him. There are nineteen letters to John Treat Irving from his uncle, the writer Peter Irving (1771-1838), dated 1835-1837. The collection also contains 51 pages of extracts from letters dating from the period of his European travels of 1836-1837. Included are two notebooks. The earlier of the two, dating from 1828 when John Irving was a senior at Columbia College, records class notes, problems, and exercises. The second contains poems, sketches, and essays, most of which are dated 1831-1833, the period preceding his travels to the West and the writing of INDIAN SKETCHES.

Letters from Agustin Ruiz de Santayana have typescript carbon English translations. The translations are not on microfilm.

Box 1 (original acquisition) includes letters, manuscripts, and memorabilia, including four letters from Columbia professors relating to Bancroft's participation in General Studies Day, May 1977. The manuscripts consist of two diaries, one from 1926-1929, which includes her account of a European trip and a second for 1969; a typescript she prepared for the use of her students in General Studies History 5 in 1941, entitled "The Old Stone Age" (357 p.) with several pen-and-ink sketches of early man; and four notebooks on ancient art taken at a course taught by Professor Richard Brilliant in 1974.