Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

The collection documents the career and personal life of Turkish-American electronic music composer, record producer, journalist and cultural critic, photographer, and filmmaker İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926-2012). It includes materials from each of Mimaroğlu's professional interests and activities, the bulk of which date from the early 1950s until his death in 2012.

Correspondence, manuscripts, papers, essays, etc. relating to Berlioz, and 19th century arts and literature. The correspondence includes original Berlioz letters and over 200 copies of letters relating to Berlioz and the romantic era, written by musicians, critics, historians, and literateurs of the past century. There are many photostats of letters and manuscripts obtained from the principal libraries of the world which hold original Berlioz material. The collection includes much printed material in the form of music scores, published letters, essays, clippings, biographies, music and book catalogues, program notes, and playbills.

The memoir includes reminiscences about Balakirev, Repin, Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ, Shali︠a︡pin, Meyerhold, Akhmatova, Gumilev, Georgiĭ Ivanov, and other habituʹes of the Brodi︠a︡chai︠a︡ Sobaka.

Notes from and relating to Mistral which he sent to Edmond Lefevre to aid him in his bibliographic work on Mistral and the language and literature of Provence. A descriptive notation at the beginning of the volume reads "524 fiches (environ 4,500 indications) autographes de Frédéric Mistral dont plusieurs continent de mombreus indications. Notes écrites de la maine même de Frédéric Mistral pour signaler à E. Lefever les documents composant la BIBLIOGRAPHIE MISTRALIENNE et ses autres publications bibliographiques. - Livres, brochures, articles de journaux, revues, etc. Français et étrangers." The notes are written on full sheets, half sheets, and scraps of paper. Also, some memorabilia relating to ceremonies honoring Mistral, particularly the Nobel Prize Ceremonies in 1904. The material is all mounted on the blank leaves of one volume.

Letters, manuscripts and documents, primarily from Germany, Austria and Hungary of the 17th-19th centuries; most are 19th century German. Included are materials about music, theatre and contemporary events; documents from the German aristocracy; and 18th and 19th century business and military records; passports and manuscripts of poems.

The collection is largely composed of Igor' Krivoshein's materials related to Freemasonry, including his manuscripts, personal documents, and printed materials. Also included are photographs and biographical materials, as well as materials relating more broadly to Russian Freemasonry.