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The collections consists of 51 boxes of manuscript and typescript notes and drafts, correspondence, and a limited sampling or prizes and realia, include a dice cup/boot.

Letters of Lucas to Arnold Bennett, discussing details of publishing, and containing many personal references; and twenty carbon copies and one draft original of Bennett's replies. Also, 34 letters from Lucas to miscellaneous authors and friends, mostly concerned with publishing; 25 miscellaneous manuscript by Lucas, including poems, speeches, and books; and 95 letters to Grant Richards, his publisher, 1898-1902, with four miscellaneous letters.

This collection includes nine letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as letters of Louis Agassiz, Amos Bronson Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Sumner, and John Greenleaf Whittier. In addition, there are two incomplete manuscripts by Emerson and one document from the Liverpool Custom-house signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne as Consul for the United States. The collection also includes the corrected typescript, index, and page and galley proofs for Thomas Franklin Currier, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1953) which was edited by Professor Tilton. Also, some early correspondence and photographs of the Tilton family and friends. There are letters from the actors Annie Louise Ames, Richard J. Dillon, and Hans L. Meery to Tilton's grandfather, Bernard Paul Verne, as well as photographs, tintypes, and daguerreotypes of the Verne family and friends.

Manuscripts, notes, correspondence, printed materials, and books. Ther collection contains typescript manuscripts with handwritten corrections of Cantor's novels"Enemy in the Mirror" (N.Y.: Crown Books, 1977) and "Love Letters" (N.Y.: Crown Books, 1980); printed works composed by Gallery 33 of the Composing Room, which Cantor headed from 196l to 1971; and articles by Cantor from various magazines, including "Esquire" and "Coronet". Also included are typescript manuscripts of "The Rite" (N.Y.: Zebra Books, 1979) and "The Nest" (N.Y.: Zebra Books, 1980), novels written by Cantor under the pseudonym Gregory A. Douglas. Series II of the collection contains 59 bound volumes of publications, edited by Cantor, from the "Research Institute of America", a New York based organization devoted to economic affairs

Twenty-four letters written to Professor Emery E. Neff, and one directed to Susan Farley Nichols (wife of Harold Pulsifer), in response to Neff's book EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (New York, 1948). The letters are from various people, some of whom knew both Robinson and Neff. Also, correspondence with Mark Van Doren. The 29 letters covering the years 1943-1969 contain discussions of their writings, books they have been reading, their teaching responsibilities, and their friends and families.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, clippings, and printed material related to his historical research, to his publications, and to his teaching. There are complete files documenting the research, writing, search for publishers, and publication of his works which deal with modern European history, chiefly 19th and 20th century French and German history, Byzantine history, and Islamic history. In addition there are files for manuscripts on Konrad Adenauer, Aristide Briand, Joseph Caillaux, Francisco Franco, and Gustave Stresemann. Some of these have been published by the Hoover Institution in their MANUSCRIPTS IN MICROFILM SERIES. The majority of the lecture notes in this collection are for the Columbia College course Contemporary Civilization. There is also a small file of personal correspondence.

Correspondence, scripts, manuscripts, and reports regarding his activities in the American radio and film industries. Included are papers regarding projects for the United State Government, the Indian film industry, various television and radio networks, and private ventures. Also included is material regarding the Center for Mass Communications of Columbia University, in which Barnouw figured prominently and files for the books he has written.

Correspondence and some printed material pertaining to Eugene Sheehy's work on the INDEX TO LITTLE MAGAZINES and YVOR WINTERS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Also, 39 letters from Alan Swallow, publisher and author.