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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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William Yukon Chang papers, 1920-2010

46 Linear Feet 27 record cartons, 5 flat boxes, and 2 small gray boxes
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William Yukon Chang was the founder and editor of "Chinese-American Times", a Chinese American paper that published completely in English from 1955 to 1972. While running the newspaper, Chang also served in local social and civic groups to address issues facing the New York Chinatown community, including poverty, juvenile delinquency, mental illness and lack of access to adult language programs. The William Yukon Chang papers document Chang's life and career, Chinese American life, and social service and activism scene in the Lower East Side from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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William York Tindall papers, 1927-1970

8.5 linear feet 17 boxes (Box 1a cataloged correspondence, boxes 1-16)
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The collection is centered around the writings of Tindall, including notes, correspondence, manuscripts, and typescripts of his studies of Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence.

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William York Tindall papers, 1927-1970 8.5 linear feet 17 boxes (Box 1a cataloged correspondence, boxes 1-16)

William Wymark Jacobs letters, 1900-1943

1 box 1 box
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Letters from Jacobs to Cyril Clemens. The letters contain comments on the Mark Twain Society, his work and writings, and other writers, notably A.E. Housman, G.K. Chesterton, Clarence Day, and George Ade. Also, a holograph manuscript of Jacobs"The Castaway;" and three letters from Jacobs to Clarence Winchester, 1929-1933, and two manuscripts.

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William Wymark Jacobs letters, 1900-1943 1 box 1 box

William Worthen Appleton papers, 1773-1853

0.5 linear feet 1 box (44 letters)
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The 44 letters related to British theater in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, dating from 1773 to 1853. The collection is divided into five series: I. Letters to William Kenneth (8); II. Letters to or about Richard Brinsley Sheridan (3); III. Letters to James Winston (5); IV. Theatrical letters arranged alphabetically by sender (26); and V. Non-theatrica l letters (2). The two letters in the 5th series are a letter from a solicitor to Lady Emma Hamilton dated 1806 and a letter from Irish poet Thomas Moore dated 1832. Most of the theatrical letters deal with the engagement of players and theater personnel.

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William Worthen Appleton papers, 1773-1853 0.5 linear feet 1 box (44 letters)

William Wilberforce Lord papers, 1844-1899

1 box 1 box (60 items)
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Letters and manuscripts including correspondence with Mrs. Elizabeth Stedman Kinney, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman, and William B. Kinney. Also, some manuscript poems of Lord, a number of which are unpublished.

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William Wilberforce Lord papers, 1844-1899 1 box 1 box (60 items)

William Wetmore Story letters, 1848-1858

1 Volumes 1 volumes
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Four letters to Story from Leigh Hunt, and one from Ralph Waldo Emerson; and one letter to Emelyn Story from Margaret Fuller. The Hunt letters are friendly notes touching on a variety of subjects including his health and Mrs. Hunt's, publication of selections of his work, etc. The Emmerson letter, 1851, is in connection with Browning's reminiscences of Margaret Fuller which had been sent to Story. He speaks also of Carlyle and Tennyson. Margaret Fuller's letter to Mrs. Story is a friendly one in which she writes chiefly of her love for Rome and her life there.

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William Wetmore Story letters, 1848-1858 1 Volumes 1 volumes

William Underhill Moore papers, 1908-1920

14 boxes 14 boxes
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Personal and professional correspondence of Moore. Cataloged Correspondence (1 Box). Uncataloged correspondence, 1908-1920, alphabetically arranged (8 boxes). "Receipts" 1908-1920, chronologically arranged (5 boxes).

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William Underhill Moore papers, 1908-1920 14 boxes 14 boxes

William T. R. and Annette Fox papers, 1932-2008

33.75 linear feet 27 record cartons
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The collection documents the teaching, research, and writing of the international relations scholars William T. R. and Annette Fox. It contains research notes, manuscripts, correspondence, course syllabi and lecture notes, and published works by the Foxes and others scholars whose work informed their own.

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William T. Golden papers, 1946-2008

33 linear feet 30 record cartons; 6 document boxes; 2 cassette boxes; 1 folder in a mapcase 15-H-11
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Correspondence, articles, clippings, reports and memos related to William T. Golden's professional career.
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William S. Vickrey papers, 1939-1996

23.5 linear feet 47 boxes
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The collection is comprised of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching materials, conference materials, subject files, and printed items from William S. Vickrey's career as an economist. It contains published and unpublished papers illustrating his thoughts on various aspects of economic theory and their practical application. Topics discussed in these manuscripts involve macroeconomics, marginal cost pricing, microeconomics, political economy and welfare, public finance, social choice, taxation, transportation, urban economics, and related matters. The collection also has records from his tenure at Columbia University, including correspondence with his academic colleagues and participation in professional activities.

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