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Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and publications of Rogers. His correspondence contains letters from many prominent public administrators, historians, jurists, and politicians including Charles Beard, Edward Mead Earle, Felix Frankfurter, Herbert H. Lehman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman.

Cataloged Correspondence (3 boxes) is for 1900-1918, but there are a few letters that go up to 1950 which are with the manuscript materials.

Papers covering Mayer's literary activities from approximately 1954-1983 and his versatile interests in music and recordings, the financial world, the advertising business, the legal profession, and public education. The collection includes his notes, interviews, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, reviews, correspondence, and clippings for THE SCHOOLS; THE LAWYERS; MADISON AVENUE, U.S.A.; EMORY BUCKNER; DIPLOMA; WHERE, WHEN, AND WHY: SOCIAL STUDIES IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS; as well as several hundred essays published in ESQUIRE, HORIZON, the SATURDAY EVENING POST, and other magazines. Also, material dealing with Mayer's books on banking, television, music, and housing, and with his continuing interest in education and the New York City school system; and diplomacy and his Sloan Foundation study on cities and universities.

Case law, statutes, correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and books of Melville H. Cane. Among the correspondents are Van Wyck Brooks, Carl Jung, Lewis Mumford, William Saroyan, Upton Sinclair, Felix Frankfurter, Jessamyn West, and W.H.Auden. Included is a scrapbook of newspaper articles by Cane, written chiefly for the "New York Evening Post". He served as the Columbia University correspondent during 1901 and 1902, when he was studying for his degree at the School of Law

Manuscripts of Mikhail I. Nilśkiĭ (probably a pseudonym), include a typescript memoir"Pobeg" (266 p.), which describes the author's experiences in Soviet labor camps. Also included are 40 short sketches, paginated consecutively, covering political prisons and camps and episodes from the lives of Soviet citizens, such as encounters with the NKVD, escape from the Nazis during World War II, and court trials.

Incoming correspondence of Smith, containing letters from professional colleagues, university administrators, diplomats, and European acquaintances concerning international affairs, with emphasis on Germany and her role in World War I. References to Germany and the war are in the form of comments about Smith's publications during the period 1913-1919. Of particular importance are two letters from the Paris Peace Conference by James t. Shotwell and Robert Lansing. Other letters of interest are those from Frank Johnson Goodnow while he was in Peking, 1914; from Frederic William Maitland, relating to Cuba, 1889, 1902; from Alfred Nerincx relating to Belgium; from J.V. Sedmik describing political conditions om Czechoslovakia, 1924; from Theodore Roosevelt, 1915-1916, commenting on Smith's pamphlet MILITARY STRATEGY AND DIPLOMACY; and from John William Burgess, most of which were written while he was in Germany, 1905, 1906, 1907.

Letterbooks of Kelley for the years 1953-1963.

The Ob"edinenie Russkikh Advokatov Vo Frantsii Records (Union of Russian Lawyers in France Records) contain correspondence, manuscripts, minutes and reports of meetings, subject files, and printed materials. Founded in 1926, the Union's first president was Nikolaĭ Teslenko, who was succeeded by Boris Gershun. From the early 1950s on the Union's activities became increasingly sporadic; its last general meeting was apparently held in 1973. The papers mostly concern 1930-1960. Cataloged correspondents are Oskar Gruzenberg, Maksim Vinaver, and Vasiliĭ Maklakov. There are annual reports of the Union's activities, and files on meetings of its executive council and on general meetings. Also included are membership lists and notes on members. Subject files concern chiefly Union activities. Substantial biographical materials on emigre lawyers can be found in the files related to the "Memorial of the Russian Legal Profession in the Emigration.".