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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.

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.