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The Marvin Herzog collection contains correspondence relating to Herzog's academic and personal life, including printouts from an email list devoted to Yiddish Studies. Also included is teaching and research materials, as well as materials relating to Herzog's work on the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), and various materials relating to Zionist summer camps.

Handwritten memoirs which discuss in part his legal work before World War I.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials by and about John Howard Griffin. The correspondence is extensive and includes letter from Jacques Maritain; Thomas Merton; Maxwell Geismar; Eldridge Cleaver; Robert Casadeus; Abraham Rattner; P.D. East; Joseph Noonan; Sarah Patton Boyle; Lillian Smith; Father August Thompson; Nell Dorr; and Brother Patrick Hart. All of his major works are represented in manuscript form (usually typescript, carbon). In addition there are many original photographs by Griffin, which he pasted throughout his extensive journal, 1950-1980. This journal is a remarkable account of his life and thoughts, extending to over 3,000 pages.

The collection consists of manuscripts, photographic postcards and a copy of "Russkie otri︠a︡dy na frant︠s︡uzskom i makedonskom frontakh, 1916-1918 gg." by I︠U︡. N. Danilov (Paris, 1933). The manuscripts--both by Smirnov--are Smirnov's memoirs dealing with the Russian expeditionary force on the Salonika front in World War I (parts of which were published in "Vozrozhdenie" 1959) and "Vernye dolgu" about the Russian legion in France in 1918. The five photographic postcards concern the Russian expeditionary force and the Russian military cemetery at Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand.

Collection includes Kugusheva's memoirs, discussing her family and youth; excerpts from her diaries, touching on in particular Vladivostok in 1920; transcription of the memories of Vera Al'tovskaia about Alesha Prokof'ev, a revolutionary; manuscripts about the banker Vladimir Isakovich; and a copy of a letter from Kugusheva to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, offering to help in his research.

Short autobiography and printed copies of his scientific articles.

A small collection of 75-100 letters from well-known cartoonists, covering a roughly 35-year period, some typed, some handwritten.

Typescript memoirs (118 p.) concerning Beliaev's work with the Empress Aleksandra during World War I in the Vserossiiskoe obshchestvo zdravnits v pamiat' voiny 1914-1915 godov, of which she was the president and he the secretary. This organization worked to help war victims and their families. Also included is a pamphlet by Beliaev "Po voprosu ob organizatsii pomoshchi postradavshim na voine i ikh semiam" (Petrograd, 1915).

Manuscripts and related materials on the siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War, collected by Boris Ivanovich Bok. Included are diaries and memoirs by Russian participants in the siege: Dmitrii Grigor'evich Androsov (Diary), Oskar Fabianovich Berg (Memoirs), Vladimir Ferdinandovich Berg (Memoirs), Aleksandr Viktorovich Fok ("Zametki"), Nikolai Viktorovich Ienish (Memoirs), Aleksei Mikhailovich Iuzefovich (Memoirs), Vladimir Nikoalevich Nikitin (Diary), Aleksandr Apollonovich Vorob'ev (Memoirs). Some of the memoirs and diaries were published in: "Port-Arthur, Vospominaniia uchastnikov" (New York, 1955).