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Lecture notes and bibliographical lists of Thorndike, covering the courses he taught at Western Reserve, Northwestern, and Columbia Universities. These include material on Shakespeare, Victorian Literature, Romantic Literature, Elizabethan Theater, and the Classical Period of English Literature. Also, an extended series of lectures entitled "Lecture Notes on English Literature.".

Miscellaneous papers of James Nevins Hyde, Charles Cheney Hyde, and James Nevins Hyde. The collection includes monographs, account books, pamphlets, obituaries, and photographs.

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, manuscripts, addresses, and printed materials of Macmahon, including his course outlines and lecture notes, travel logs, and extensive files of notes and manuscripts on aspects of federalism and governmental administration. Charles A. Beard and Randolph S. Bourne were both personal friends of Macmahon, and the files contain letters from them as well as notes and correspondence relating to them. Also, a three-volume bound photocopy of the typescript of Macmahon's "Conflict and Consensus in Democracies" 1969.

Eleven diaries which reveal a sensitive and perceptive young woman. With her family, she traveled extensively in England, the United States, and most countries of the Continent. Her diaries describe her reactions to foreign scenes and places, and contain numerous references to her father and to her visit to Columbia University early in 1889. Also, a typewritten description of the diaries of Eleanor Joy's son, Sir Douglas Busk; and a copy of THE ANCESTORS OF PATRICK AND PERONELLE KINNEL, compiled by Sir Douglas Busk in 1970.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed material of Mansfield. Mansfield was an officer of the U.S. Office of Price Administration (O.P.A.), which governed rationing programs during World War II,1942-1945, and the Office's historian, 1946-1947; these papers deal primarily with Mansfield's activities in these capacities. The collection includes studies done under the supervision of John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard University in 1950, as well as copies of correspondence from Galbraith and other officers of the O.P.A.

Correspondence files of Seager, containing incomming letters with outgoing carbon replies and occasional related memoranda for the period 1928-1930. There are letters from Columbia University colleagues, Columbia University administrative officials, from economics professors at other universities and from students requesting references for professional positions, and discussing plans, ideas, and revisions for their dissertations. Much of the correspondence concerns itself with labor relations and the American trade union movement, including a group of letters from Jacob B.S. Hardman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, relating to a seminar that he gave at Columbia University.

Materials from the office of Professor Charles Edward Lucke (1876-1951), Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, relating to the National Museum of Engineering and Industry. The collection is composed of correspondence, much of it addressed to H.F.J. Porter, the secretary, and various types of reports.

A collection of diaries and journals relating to Robinson's years at the University of Freiburg, where he took his doctorate, and to his subsequent European travels before his return to America. Also, several volumes bearing Robinson's marginal notes.

Photostatic copies of correspondence between Pitkin and Harry P. Breitenbach, chiefly of a personal nature. There are a few letters from Breitenbach to Pitkin, Jr., concerning the disposition of the original letters.

Papers of Shepherd, including correspondence with professional colleagues at home and abroad, U.S. government officials, and Latin American government officials dealing with his own publications, his trip to Austria in 1932, and his interest in Latin American affairs, the Institute of Latin American Affairs, the INTER-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SERIES, Latin American area studies, oriental area studies, and the NEW ORIENT SOCIETY. The manuscripts include three boxes of lecture notes on American history in English and German; abstracts and related material of his lecture tour in England, 1922; typescript instructions for his HISTORICAL ATLAS, including maps, related correspondence, and documents; notes, bibliographies, essays, photographs, and related materials on Latin America; a scrapbook of clippings on the Williamstown Institute, 1927; his English literature notebook while an undergraduate at Columbia College, 1893; two boxes and a scrapbook of travel photographs and lantern slides of views from around the world; Shepherd family items include a hand-drawn, hand-colored coat of arms and a letter book of his father, William Shepherd, dated 1867-1871; and Iona Shepherd's 1905 autograph book.