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Gilbert Highet papers, 1929-1978
21.27 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs, and printed materials relating to his research, writing, and teaching. The correspondence relates chiefly to research for his books, articles, essays, and lectures as well as reactions, scholarly and popular, to his works. There are single letters for authors including Maxwell Anderson, Lawrence Durrell, Randall Jarrell, and Upton Sinclair; several letters each from John Masefield, James Thurber, and E.B. White; 21 letters from Clifton Fadiman; correspondence with Columbia University faculty and students; with classical scholars in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe; with publishers including Alfred A. Knopf and Oxford University Press; with his literary agent Curtis Brown, Ltd.; with HORIZON MAGAZINE, as chairman of its Advisory Editorial Board; with the Book-of-the-Month Club, as a Judge; with Encyclopedia Britannica Sound Seminars; correspondence concerning his very popular syndicated radio talks; and letters from his readers, ranging from members of women's literary clubs to headmasters of British secondary schools.
Philipse-Gouverneur family papers, 1653-1874
3 boxesThe collection contains documents about land holdings in and around Yonkers and Westchester and Dutchess Counties, New York owned by the wealthy Philipse, Gouverneur, Verplanck, Livingston, and other allied families. Included are grants, patents, deeds, indentures, transfers, wills, leases, accounts, maps, and records of civil and chancery court actions. These records not only chronicle legal actions, riots and uprisings of the European colonial settlers related to land disputes against these wealthy colonial settler families, but also record their interactions with the true landowners the Wappinger Confederacy.
(37) Copy will of Reverend John Ogilvie, English letters testamentary attached, dated November 22nd, 1774 Box 2, Folder 37
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- (37) Copy will of Reverend John Ogilvie, English letters testamentary attached, dated November 22nd
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Leaves legacies to church for Charity school, to corporation for relief of widows and children of clergymen, and to College of Province of New York. To wife Margaret Leasehold house and land at Corlears Hook and 1/4 of estate, rest to children George and Mary. Mentions--Samuel Bayard Jr., Cadwallader Colden, James De Lancy, George Gosking, (?) Heseltene, Samuel Jones, David Judson, J. Lamarkee, Cary Ludlow, (?) Lushington, John Marston, Nathaniel Marston, Rachel Marston, George Ogilvie, Mary Ogilvie, Henry Stevens, James Townley, Thomas Tredwell, Augustus Van Cortlandt, John Wigglesworth. Includes Signatures of--George Gosking, Henry Stevens, James Townley, John Wigglesworth.
Kent Family papers, 1785-1901
2.10 linear feetFinal Will of James Kent and related Probate of Will, 1846 August 22 Box 3, Folder 35
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- Final Will of James Kent and related Probate of Will, 1846 August 22
Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs records, 1844-2008
534 linear feetCorrespondence, minutes of meetings, financial records, publications, notes, subject files, awards, speeches, reports and audiovisual materials document work by the Church Peace Union, its successors Council on Religion in International Affairs and Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and related organizations such as the World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches. The first installment of the CCEIA archival materials came to the RBML in 1974, with numerous additions over the years. A major addition in 1982 contained primarily the records of the Board of Directors and their semi-annual meetings, as well as the various programs and institutes of the Council, for the years 1972-1982, along with selected 1930s materials. 1986 addition contains presidential correspondence files, minutes of the Board of Trustees and committees, special projects, programs and conferences files, and the business and editorial files of "Worldview". Correspondents include John Foster Dulles, Jane Addams, Fiorello La Guardia, and Paul Tillich. 1990 and 2000 additions includes files of CCEIA presidents and vice presidents, paper and audiovisual materials on Merrill House Conversation Programs; Educational programs; International Monetary Fund/Lecture series; The Annals Of The Academy Of Political & Social Science; Washington Consultations; Colloquia for the Clergy; Church State Project; Asian Development & The Carribean Initiative; Korea: Year 2000 Project; fundraising files, printed materials and files of the Department of Publications.
Denoon, David "How will economic trends affect US security choices", June 22, 1987 Box 1024
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- Denoon, David "How will economic trends affect US security choices", June 22, 1987
Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, Kymlicka, Will, Merrill House, New York, October 22, 1998 August 1, 1998-October 1, 1998 photos, August 1, 1998-October 1, 1998 Box 863
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- Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, Kymlicka, Will, Merrill House, New
York, October 22, 1998 August 1, 1998-October 1, 1998 photos, August 1, 1998-October 1, 1998