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Incoming correspondence of Henry Smith Munroe (born Henry Munroe Smith) composed of personal letters from various family members, chief correspondents being his father, Horatio Southgate Smith, his mother, Susan Dwight (Munroe) Smith, his brother "Ned", apparently Columbia professor of international law (Edmund) Munroe Smith, and William Allen Smith. These letters date from 1855 through 1875, covering his childhood, school days, and first positions as an assistant chemist in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1870-1872, and as a member of the geological survey in Yesso, Japan, 1872-1875. After a lapse of fifteen years, correspondence resumes for the period 1890-1896. Other correspondence includes letters from friends, 1865-1875; letters of a business and professional nature, 1870-1875; 1890-1899; and letters relating to a School of Mines alumni project, the Trowbridge Memorial Fund, 1894-1898. Also, incoming letters from Munroe's paternal grandparents to his father while he attended Dartmouth College and Bowdoin Medical School from 1837 to 1844.

Untitled mimeographed typescript by one A. Efremov, discussing Russian agrarian problems at the end of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.

The collection consists of a carbon copy and a photocopy of essays entitled"O politicheskoĭ napravlennosti i soderzhanii antibolśhevistskoĭ propagandy v svi︠a︡zi s sovremennym polozheniem kresti︠́a︡n v SSSR", and "Rost khlebnogo proizvodstva v kolkhozakh stepnykh i lesostepnykh raĭonov evropeĭskoĭ chasti SSSR." There is also a brief summary, in English, of the latter essay by one Joseph A. Baclawski.

Shlippe's manuscripts include his memoirs (200 p.) and three brief manuscripts. The memoirs describe his work in the Moscow Zemstvo organization and in the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture. There are acounts of the political trends among zemstvo personnel, the reactions to the Stolypin reforms, the 1913 Congress of Zemstvo workers and the formation of the Vserossiĭskiĭ zemskiĭ soi︠u︡z. There are brief remarks on the Russo-Japanese War and the 1905 and February 1917 Revolutions. Other manuscripts include Shlippe's essay"Begstvo iz Moskvy v Rigu" (1947), an undated memo discussing the Russian Red Cross in Germany, 1921-1938, and a six-page memoir by Elizaveta P. Shlippe entitled "Neskolḱo stranit︠s︡ iz moeĭ zhizni.".

Correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and photographs of Tannenbaum, including typewritten lists of property records in the various states of Mexico, ca. 1926; and clippings relating to Mexico. Some of these materials were used in the preparation of his book THE MEXICAN AGRARIAN REVOLUTION. Also, personal letters and files relating to the Farm Security Program, and specifically the Bankhead Bill and the Farm Tenant Bill, 1937, 1934-1937.

The bound memoirs "Russian Experience 1910-1917" discuss Michael's adventures in Russia in 1910-1917. In 1910 he was hired by the Bessarabian provincial zemstvo to help landlords and peasants in that province improve their corn yields; he stayed there until 1916, when he returned to the United States. The first half of the memoirs covers these years, including extensive commentary on Bessarabian peasants, gentry, zemstvo politics, and some information on World War I. In 1917 he returned on a mission to study the Russian grain trade. He sailed across the Pacific with the American Red Cross Mission, spent August in Petrograd, and then travelled around Russia's Black Sea ports in September-November. In early November, he returned to Petrograd, and finally left Russia by the Trans-Siberian railroad in December. While the first half of these memoirs includes much first-hand information, the second half, on 1917, is more derivative in nature.

The surviving editorial, production, and publicity files of Greenberg: Publisher. The Greenberg: Publisher library includes 462 titles published by the firm. Also, personal papers of Jacob Walter Greenberg consisting of letters, manuscripts, photographs, clippings, printed ephemera, and memorabilia. These are biographical in nature relating to Greenberg, his family, friends, business associates, authors, politicians, and other public figures. Among the letters are one each from public figures including Robert Benchley, Bennett Cerf, Fiorello La Guardia, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

The collection consists of addresses, press releases, memoranda proclamations, and other papers by and in regard to Charles Seymour Whitman (1868-1347) who was the District Attorney of New York County from 1910 to 1914 and Governor of New York State from 1915 to 1918. The material ranges in date from 1910 to 1937. The material is confined for the most part to drafts of the Governor's speeches to various groups on such subjects as the NEW YORK STATE PENAL CODE, unification of state laws, public health, education, and agriculture. Also, a typed memorandum on Whitman's ancestry and a few miscellaneous items. There are not papers or correspondence of a personal nature in the collection. The material is mostly in typescript. There is also a microfilm of Lt. Charles F. Becker's testimony in the Rosenthal murder case.

Typescript carbons of the reminiscences and memoirs of men and women prominent in American life including agriculture, art, book publishing, business, diplomacy, education, journalism, jurists, literature, labor movement, medicine, military history, New York City politics, and special projects such as the Eisenhower Administration, the Marine Corps, popular arts, the radio industry, and social security recorded on tape by the person concerned.