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Correspondence, manuscripts and printed materials of Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev. There are letters from Nikolai Berdiaev, Carl Jung, Anton Kartashev, Konstantin Korovin, Jacques Maritain, Aleksei Remizov, Grigol Robakidze, Theodore Strawinsky, and Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams. The manuscripts include essays and lectures on various topics including the Orthodox church, Russian literature and culture, philosophy, and the hereafter. There are numerous diaries, primarily from the 1930's and 1940's. The printed materials include clippings, off-prints, and various journals and books.

The collection consists of 45 notebooks of speculative essays on such sweeping philosophical and theological subjects as the origin of God, the transformation of moral values, the course of history, etc. Savin, a Russian emigre living in Switzerland, composed these tracts in the 1960s.

Manuscript notes of Huntington's lectures on polemic theology by James Richards, 3 v.; manuscript notes on biblical introduction, criticism and interpretation, biblical types and exegetical notes on the Bible, 23 v.; THE HEBREW BIBLE, resons for a thorough knowledge it, by E.A. Huntingtopn, 1871, reprinted from THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW; EZRA ABEL HUNTINGTON, memorial addresses by Rev. Charles E. Robinson and others, 1902; notebook; manuscript notes on Huntington's lectures on the Epistle to the Romans and Ephesians by William Henry Bates, 1868; and manuscript notes on Huntington's lectures on the Epistle to the Romans by C.H. Smith, 1879., 2 v.