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Correspondence, manuscripts, subject files and research notes of Sigmund Diamond. Included among the correspondence are Diamond's letters to and from various distinguished members of Columbia University and other academic insitutions, as well as correspondence with many noted sociologists and historians. Included in the manuscripts is Diamond's "In Quest." The subject files comprise material from Diamond's tenure at Columbia and include some material pertaining to his forced departure from Harvard in the 1950's due to his previous communist affiliation, and his active role in maintaining the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act. The research files include microfilms and notes.

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials and photographs. The correspondence includes letters from Mikhail T. Florinskiĭ, Henry S. Haskell, James T. Shotwell, and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, mostly concerning the preparation and publication of Geshkoff's doctoral dissertation, entitled "The Balkan Union." There is also correspondence with Bulgarian-American journalists. Manuscripts, which comprise the bulk of the collection, include Geshkoff's Master's thesis, entitled "The Constitiution of Bulgaria," and several works, in varying states of completion, on the Balkans and Balkan affairs.

This small collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials is a part of her professional papers and includes draft chapters and notes for her doctoral thesis (History of the Columbia University Library, 1876-1926. New York, c1959) as well as a few items about teaching.

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs and printed material.