Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

Correspondence and other documents relating to the Paris Peace Conference, League of Nations, and Locarno Pact with which Prof. Shotwell was associated. There is material relating to Shotwell's THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR, as well as to his other writings.

Correspondence, manuscripts, art works, and printed materials by and about the English Poet Laureate John Masefield. Included are about 72 letters written by Masefield to his wife, Constance, from February through May 1917 when he was with the British Army in northern France. There are also letters from Masefield to Suzanne and Nicholas Fay, Jean Downs, Michael and Mollie Hardwick, Thomas F. E. Kelly, Mrs. Robert Masefield, Lord Noel-Buxton, Ruth Robinson, Dorothy S. Rodwell, and others. In addition, there are autograph manuscripts of poems, manuscript notebooks with drafts of poems, related art work, and printed materials including several items relating to the poets's death. Also included are 90 letters and cards from Masefield to the ballerina Brangwen reflecting their close friendship

Papers concerning both the administration of the Henry Street Settlement and Wald's involvement in numerous philanthropic and liberal causes. Her office files trace the foundation and growth of the Henry Street Settlement from 1895 until 1933. Her other activities include child welfare, civil liberties, immigration, public health, unemployment, and the peace movement during World War I. The correspondence files contain letters from public figures and writers including Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, Van Wyck Brooks, Lavinia L. Dock, John Galsworthy, Samuel Gompers, William D. Howells, Charles Evans Hughes, Mabel Hyde Kittredge, Frances Perkins, Dorothy Thompson, Norman Thomas, Ida Tarbell, Margaret Sanger, and Jacob A. Riis.

Manuscripts and correspondence of Sir Norman Angell, covering his work during the two World Wars and British and American politics. Included are more than eighty manuscripts of his articles and essays, and the manuscripts for his autobiography, AFTER ALL. The correspondence file includes letters from Gilbert Murray and William Allen White.

Manuscripts, photographs, printed materials, and subject file of Ukrainian nationalist activist Oleksandr F. Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi. There is a manuscript by Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi"Meine Fahrt in die Karpaten-Ukraine." Four albums of photographs appear to concern chiefly the Vetsliar (sic!) Austro-Hungarian prisoner of war camp in 1917-18; Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi carried on Ukrainian nationalist efforts there. Other photographs are of unidentified theatrical productions. Printed materials include offprints and books, and the subject file is on the death of Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi's son, Vasyl, while in the German army in 1941.

The bulk of the collection consists of memoirs and manuscripts on historical military themes by Pavel Nikolaevich Chizhov. The memoirs deal with such topics as Chizhov's military education, his military service (garrison duty in Warsaw, the Far East, World War I, and the Civil War in the south), and his life in the emigration.