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Helen Worden Erskine papers, 1860-1984
72 Linear FeetCorrespondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, documents, drawings, photographs, audio tapes, clippings, and other printed materials covering every aspect of Helen Worden Erskine Cranmer's life and career. There are extensive biographical files on: Jenny S. Bradley, Prince Charles of England, Joseph Dixon, Dwight and Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Rosina Lhévinne, Paul Niehans, the Morgan twins (Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and Thelma Morgan Converse Furness), Jovanka Tito, Harry and Bess Truman, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and large files on crime, recluses, New York City history, and travel. There are extensive drafts and source materials for her unpublished autobiography. There are pencil sketches, pen-and-ink drawings, watercolors, charcoal sketches, photographs, and printed copies by Helen Worden Erskine Cranmer and by others.
Herbert Lionel Matthews papers, 1909-2002, bulk 1937-1976
18 linear feetHodder and Stoughton records, 1875-1914
3 linear feetCorrespondence and publishing agreements for many of their authors in the pre-World War I period.
Hudson Guild records, 1896-1990s
34 linear feetIndependent Literary Agents Association records, 1975-1989
3 linear feetCorrespondence, by-laws, memoranda, contracts, permission forms, reports, bank statements and other legal papers, advertising, and printed materials.
Institute of Pacific Relations records, 1927-1962
232 linear feetThe office files of the American Institute of Pacific Relations and the international Institute of Pacific Relations, containing correspondence and reports concerned with international conferences, research programs, and publications programs of both Institutes, and relating to the political, economic, and social problems in eastern and southern Asia and the South Pacific, as well as with problems of American foreign policy. There are many travel letters and on-the-spot reports relating to conditions in China, Japan, Russia, Australia, the Philippines, India, and Pakistan during the period 1933 to 1954.
Institute of Philosophy and Politics of Education records, 1965-1994
2 Linear FeetInternational Institute of Rural Reconstruction records, 1914-2018
163 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, lectures, notes, diaries, notebooks, reports, financial records, blueprints, photographs, and printed materials of Y.C. James Yen and the IIRR concerned with the development, sharing, and financing innovative methods of teaching, improving agriculture, health and family planning, and education in impoverished villages. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Pearl Buck, William O. Douglas, Nelson Rockefeller, and DeWitt Clinton.
Iurii Nikolaevich Pliushchevskii-Pliushchik Papers, 1904-1920
8 itemsThe collection includes Pli︠u︡shchevskiĭ-Pli︠u︡shchik's diaries for 1905-1909 (covering the Russo-Japanese War, and the 1905 Revolution) and 1914-1920 (covering World War I, the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Civil War). Among other manuscripts are a memorandum prepared by General Denikin's staff for the allied missions upon their arrival in Ekaterinodar (Nov. 1918) and Pli︠u︡shchevskiĭ-Pli︠u︡shchik's obituary of General Ivan Romanovskiĭ. There is also a photograph of Pli︠u︡shchevskiĭ-Pli︠u︡schik and Romanovskiĭ at Imperial Staff Headquarters in Mogilev in 1917.
Ivan I. Morris papers, 1931-1976
18 linear feetCorrerspondence, manuscripts, notes, memoranda, documents, photographs and printed materials. In addition to personal correspondence and documents, there are files of Amnesty International, the human rights organization of which Morris was American Section chairman. Also included are notes and manuscripts of Morris' studies in Japanese literature and culture, particularly relating to his many books and translations. His interest in puzzles, and compilations of several volumes of them, are reflected in notes and correspondence. Among the major correspondence are Donald Keene, Anthony Powell, Sacheverell Sitwell and Arthur Waley