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Papers of Classics professor, Alan Cameron who taught at Columbia University between 1977 and his retirement in 2008. At the time of his death (July 31, 2017) he was the Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of Latin and Literature at Columbia University. Materials in this collection include extensive correspondence files (including many with distinguished classicists), scholarly lectures, lectures given on cruise ships, course lectures, research files, unfinished and unpublished work, manuscripts for a book about Constantinople, CVs, memoirs and memorial materials.

Most of the collection consists of scraps of songs and poems by Kotomkin. Printed materials include copies of Kotomkin's books"I︠A︡n Gus" and "Aus dem alten heligen Russland.".

Almost all the materials concern World War II in the Soviet Union. Materials include reports, two diaries, documents, and printed materials. There are photocopies of reports concerning the German occuation of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, written by German military staff, and a mimeographed research report by Alexander Dallin entitled "Kaminsky: The History of an Experiment (1941-1945)." One diary is by Otto Bräutigam, a German Foreign Ministry official who worked in the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories; the other diary is by one Linge, apparently a secretary to Hitler, for his diary is a record of Hitler's daily appointments from 1934-1943. Both diaries are photocopies. The printed materials include issues of a number of titles published mostly in the German-occupied parts of the Soviet Union; they are mostly single issues. Two pamphlets published by the Russian Liberation Army (ROA). There are photocopies of documents, cartoons, and leaflets concerning the partisan movement in the Soviet Union.

Notes and notebooks from lectures given by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), at Marburg, Germany (1926-1927). The notes are attributed to Alfred Seidemann (1895-1976) (University of Freiburg, PhD (1935)), who studied under Heidegger. The four subject groupings of materials are "Geschichte der Philosophie von Thomas von Aquino bis Kant" ["History of Philosophy from Thomas Aquinas to Kant"], "Grundbegriffe der antiken Philosophie" ["Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy"], "Die Philosophie des Aristoteles" ["The Philosophy of Aristotle "], and "Die Sprache" ["The Language"]. An addition to the collection consists of several mimeograph copies of Heidegger's "Bauen, Wohnen, Denken" ["Building, Dwelling, Thinking"] in English, "Descartes", 1926-1927; t.ms.; "Vom Ursprung des Kunstwerks" ["From the origin of the work of art"], 1935, t.ms.; "Vom Wesen der Wahrheit" ["On the essence of truth"], 1943, t.ms.