Subjects: Manuscripts (documents) - Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections Search Results

Creator: Davis, Lydia, 1947-
Abstract Or Scope: Lydia Davis (1947-) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages. She is the author of several collections of short stories, one novel, two collections of essays, and several translations. The papers include address books, calendars, contracts, correspondence, drafts, interviews, journals, manuscripts, notes, proofs, publications, school records, and teaching files.

Creator: Marable, Manning, 1950-2011
Abstract Or Scope: Marable was a leading figure in African-American studies as well as a historian, social theorist, and political activist. The collection includes appointment books, biographical information, budgets, clippings, correspondence, drafts, lecture notes, manuscripts, photographs, proposals, reports, speeches, syllabi, and teaching materials.

Creator: Ramos Otero, Manuel
Abstract Or Scope: Manuel Ramos Otero (1948-1990) is considered the first openly gay writer from Puerto Rico. He resided in New York City for much of his adult life. In 1990, he returned to his hometown of Manatí, Puerto Rico, where he died of complications from HIV/AIDS. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks and notes, reviews, photographs, and newspaper clippings. These materials range in date from Otero's infancy to his death, 1948-1990. There is also a small section of the collection that contains material related to Otero posthumously, which dates from 1990 to 2007.

Creator: Domashkevich, Margarita Oskarovna, 1894-
Abstract Or Scope: Collection includes 5 bound typescript collections of her plays and verse for children and of her poetry, a copy of the journal "Pravoslavnai︠a︡ Rus"́ with a poem she wrote, two autobiographical letters, and a bound typescript collection of poems by her brother, Oskar O. Gild́e (1896-1969).

Creator: Meloney, Marie Mattingly, 1883-1943
Abstract Or Scope: Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, art works, memorabilia, and printed material created by and belonging to journalist, magazine editor, socialite, and social reformer Marie Mattingly Meloney (1878-1943). Meloney edited The Delineator, 1920-1926; the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, 1926-1934; and This Week magazine, 1934-1943.

Creator: Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich, 1886-1957
Abstract Or Scope: The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, a photograph, and printed material, primarily from the period 1941-1957. Included are letters from Ivan Bunin, Marc Chagall, Mikhail Karpovich, Vasiliĭ Maklakov, W. Somerset Maugham, Vladimir Nabokov, Ili︠́a︡ Repin, Edmund Wilson, Boris Zaĭt︠s︡ev and many others. Manuscripts of his works include "Istoki""Nachalo kont︠s︡a""Zhivi, kak khochesh"́, and "The Escape" (English translation of "Begstvo"), such shorter tales as "Noch ́v terminale""Povest ́o smerti", and "Ulḿskai︠a︡ noch"́, as well as numerous articles, book reviews and essays. There are financial records for "Novyĭ Zhurnal", which Aldanov helped found, and the clippings are mainly articles about Aldanov. There is one late photograph of Aldanov.

Creator: Shulman, Marshall D., 1916-2007
Abstract Or Scope: Book manuscripts, teaching materials, subject files, etc.

Creator: Marsh, John, 1742-1821
Abstract Or Scope: John Marsh the Elder was an ecclesiastical leader and alumnus of Harvard College (1761); his sons Ebenezer Grant Marsh (Yale, 1795) and John Marsh the Younger (Yale, 1804) were educated and served in Protestant communities in New England, Ebenezer as a Hebrew scholar and John Marsh the Younger as a preacher and active member of the Temperance movement. The collection contains biographical, historical, and religious manuscripts written by these three Marsh family members.

Creator: Adams, Mary Bridges-, 1855-1939
Abstract Or Scope: The collection of letters and documents addressed to, or relating to, Mrs. Mary Jane Bridges-Adams (1854–1939), British socialist and educationist, in connection with the British Labour movement and with the Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committee in London. The collection also includes letters and documents of Georgii Chicherin (1872-1936), Russian diplomat, revolutionary, and second Commissar of Foreign Affairs, concerning his activities in London and Europe.

Creator: Cane, Melville, 1879-1980
Abstract Or Scope: Correspondence, manuscripts, and books of Melville H. Cane. Among the correspondents are Van Wyck Brooks, Carl Jung, Lewis Mumford, William Saroyan, Upton Sinclair, Felix Frankfurter, Jessamyn West, and W.H.Auden. Included is a scrapbook of newspaper articles by Cane, written chiefly for the "New York Evening Post". He served as the Columbia University correspondent during 1901 and 1902, when he was studying for his degree at the School of Law

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