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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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Acton Griscom collection of Jeanne d'Arc manuscripts, 1400-1943

32 Volumes (32 volumes)
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This is a heterogeneous collection of manuscript typescript material which relates to Joan of Arc. The material ranges in date and character from a 15th-century manuscript, CHRONIQUE DES ROIS CHARLES VI ET VII par Gilles Le Bouvier, on 241 paper leaves, which contains a long account of the life and exploits of Joan, to the 12 page typescript of Ambassador William C. Bullitt's address, LE FETE DE JEANNE D'ARC A PHILADELPHIA, broadcast on the Voice of America, May 9, 1943. The collection includes a number of manuscripts and typescripts of literary and scholarly works on Joan of Arc by Guy Endore, Andrew Lang, Charles Maurras, Pearl Mahaffey, Wilfred P. Barrett, Thomas Jones, and others. There are also letters from scholars and writers on the subject including Anatole France, Robert Southey, Samuel L. Clemens, Cardinal Manning, and Andrew Land. There are also a few original documents contemporary to and relating to Joan and her associates. Six such documents are bound into Gabrial Hanotaux's JEANNE D'ARC, Paris Hachette, 1911, as extra-illustrations.

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Acton Griscom collection of Jeanne d'Arc manuscripts, 1400-1943 32 Volumes (32 volumes)

Academy of Political Science letters, 1923-1970

0.5 linear feet (1 document box)
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Letters from Dean Rusk, Jean Monnet, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, David Ben-Gurion, Earl Warren, and others concerning their being made honorary members of the Academy of Political Science.

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Abram S. Hewitt papers, 1839-1852

0.83 linear feet (2 document boxes)
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The material is an elaborately calligraphic 19th century script and extends to one file box and 14 bound volumes. Professor Allan Nevins used this material for his work on Abram S. Hewitt.

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Student papers

Notebooks

Abrams ComicArts records, 2009-2017

77 linear feet (24 RSC and 45 flatboxes)
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Most of the materials are related to a particular book project: drafts, proofs, edits, fouls, markups, correspondence, etc. Note that most projects include both regular size and oversize materials.

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Abram Saulovich Kagan Papers, 1909-1952

190 items (6 boxes)
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Papers include Kagan's correspondence, photographs, printed materials and audio tapes. All letters in the collection date from 1938-39, when he had moved his Petropolis operations to Brussels; there are items by Vladislav Khodasevich, Vladimir Nabokov, and Mikhail Osorgin, and others. Among the photographs are pictures of Ivan Bunin, Konstantin Fedin, and Evgeniĭ Zami︠a︡tin. Printed materials consist chiefly of books published by his firms; some of the books are inscribed, for example by Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev and Lev Karsavin. Included is a lengthy taped interview of Kagan by Marc Raeff in which Kagan discuses his life and publishing activities.

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Abram J. Jaffe papers, 1950s-2015

31.25 linear feet (23 record cartons)
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Correspondence, manuscripts, research files, teaching materials, memoranda, etc.

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Abram J. Jaffe papers, 1950s-2015 31.25 linear feet (23 record cartons)

Abraham M. Sirkin papers, 9999

14 linear feet (7 boxes of various sizes)
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Correspondence, reports, memoranda, essays, articles, clippings, etc.

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Abraham M. Sirkin papers, 9999 14 linear feet (7 boxes of various sizes)

Abraham Lincoln collection, 1860s

2 Linear Feet (2 document boxes & 1 mapcase drawer)
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This is an artificial collection comprising letters, document, portraits, and object for various RBML manuscript collections. The source of each item is noted after its description.

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Abraham H. Sarasohn papers, 1902-1943

1 box (1 box)
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Correspondence, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous materials of Sarasohn. The correspondence pertains primarily to family and legal affairs. A few letters from his father, William Gillette, Rose Pastor Stokes, and Will Durant are included.

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Abraham H. Sarasohn papers, 1902-1943 1 box (1 box)

Abraham Epstein papers, 1918-1945

80 boxes (80 boxes 1 flat box)
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Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, minutes, lists, reports, financial records, and printed materials of Abraham Epstein. The personal and business papers relate to his fight on behalf of Social Security and old age pensions.

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