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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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Elsa Dorfman papers, 1960-1969 1 box (58 items)

Dorfman, Elsa

Letters to Elsa Dorfman from "beat" poets including Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Frank O'Hara, Edward Field, and Robert Creeley. Included are 14 poems by Elsa Dorfman with critical comments by Allen Ginsberg.

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Emma Lazarus letters, 1868-1929, bulk 1868-1887 1 box (86 items)

Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887

Correspondence of Emma Lazarus. While the letters are primarily of a personal nature, they also reflect both her literary career and, after the traumatic effect on her of the perssecution of Russian Jews, 1879-1883, her role as American champion of Jews. There are original autograph letters from John Burroughs, Ralph W. Emerson, Henry James, William Morris, Tommaso Salvini, and Ivan Turgenev, and twenty other prominent figures. Also, one letter from Lazarus to William Wetmore Story and the letter of her sister, Annie Johnstone, presenting this collection to Columbia University.

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Ernestine Evans papers, 1890-1968, bulk 1930-1967 15 linear feet (24 document boxes 2 record storage cartons; 2 oversized boxes 2 index card boxes)

Evans, Ernestine, 1889-1967
Contained in this collection are documents related to the life and career of Ernestine Evans, a journalist, critic and literary agent active in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. Personal and professional correspondence and a wide variety of literary manuscripts, likely accumulated during her long career as a literary agent, constitute the bulk of this collection. In addition, the collection includes photographs, drawings and other visual material. Also represented in this collection are clippings of Evans' and other journalists' work; printed material, both periodicals and books; personal documents (including address books, contact lists and journals), financial documents and medical documents.
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George Economou papers, 1954-2017 12.5 linear feet (24 boxes, 1 map case drawer)

Economou, George
This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, video and tape recordings, and printed materials relating to Economou's poetry manuscripts, to publications and performances to which he contributed, and to his teaching career as a professor of medieval literature.
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Helene Hanff papers, 1931-1995 2 linear feet (4 boxes)

Hanff, Helene

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, photographs, reviews, clippings, and other printed materials about Hanff, as well as books by and about her.

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Helen R. Hull papers, 1900-1963 19 boxes (19 boxes 1 volumes)

Hull, Helen R (Helen Rose), 1888-1971

Manuscripts of Hull's novels, short stories, and essays. Also, notes and outlines for stories, correspondence, clippings, and printed material.

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Judith Crist papers, 1930s-2012 112 linear feet (108 record cartons, 7 document boxes, 1 flat box and 2 book boxes)

Crist, Judith
Judith Crist (1922-2012), was a film critic, journalist, and long-time adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism (1958-2012). Her papers include clippings, correspondence, interviews, mementos, notes, photographs, review files, telephone logs, and audiovisual materials.
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Laura Riding letters, 1931-1977 1 box (1 box (27 items))

Riding, Laura, 1901-1991

Autographed and typed letters from Riding to newspaper and magazine editors, primarily concerning published material by and about her. Throughout the collection there are references to Robert Graves. There is also a group of letters to Anthony Dickins, English poet and editor of the LONDON MAGAZINE.

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Lenore Marshall papers, 1887-1980 23.5 linear feet (40 boxes; 1 scrapbook in place of Box 22; 1 oversize folder)

Marshall, Lenore, 1897-1971

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia and printed materials. The correspondence deals with literary and political topics, from such people as Hayden Carruth, Irwin Edman, Lola Ridge and Norman Thomas; numerous manuscripts of Mrs. Marshall's writings, including the notes, drafts, manuscripts and proofs of her last novel THE HILL IS LEVEL and various manuscripts of the stories published in THE CONFRONTATION AND OTHER STORIES, and numerous manuscripts of poetry and short stories. Also included is material on the World War II draft of 19-year-olds, economic aid for Western Europe, the Vietnam War, the origin of SANE, the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, the Amchitka Islands nuclear tests, the Task Force against Nuclear Pollution, and personal correspondence from her own and her husband's families

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