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Emma Lazarus letters, 1868-1929, bulk 1868-1887

1 box

Correspondence of Emma Lazarus. While the letters are primarily of a personal nature, they also reflect both her literary career and, after the traumatic effect on her of the perssecution of Russian Jews, 1879-1883, her role as American champion of Jews. There are original autograph letters from John Burroughs, Ralph W. Emerson, Henry James, William Morris, Tommaso Salvini, and Ivan Turgenev, and twenty other prominent figures. Also, one letter from Lazarus to William Wetmore Story and the letter of her sister, Annie Johnstone, presenting this collection to Columbia University.

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George Vernadsky Papers, circa 1500-1973, bulk circa 1918-1973

100 linear feet
Papers of George Vernadsky (Georgii Vladimirovich Vernadskii, 1887-1973), Yale University professor of Russian history. The collection also includes materials from the Vernadsky/Vernadskii family, especially George Vernadsky's wife, Nina Vernadsky, his parents, Vladimir Vernadskii and Nataliia Vernadskaia, and his sister, Nina Toll'.
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