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Rejoices at good news of Bella (Barbara's sister, Mrs Ludlow) and her baby, and at success of Barbara's pictures…Grieves at tone of American papers towards England…Amerians are struggling for national existence, not for anti-slavery…Growing strength of North due to inaction, cowardice and brag of South…Difficulties of her work owing to jealousy of doctors and lack of any support…Mania of women to "act Florence Nightingale" without system or discrimination or practical knowledge…Eye troubles of Kitty, her adopted daughter, and desire to adopt two or three more English children of good stock…Appreciation of Silas Marner by Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot) as less interesting than others

(Contents include: Exhibit of Child-Labor and Sweatshop conditions; Seasonal Work and its Evils by Florence Kelley; Sweated Work in Philadelphia, by Florence Sanville; Child-Labor Situation in Pennsylvania, by Scott Nearling; Child-Labor in Eastern Pennsylvania, by Peter Roberts; Children in the Glass Industry in Pennsylvania, by Owen R. Lovejoy; Child-Labor in New York Tenements, by John Spargo; General Child-Labor Situation in the United States, by Samuel McCune Lindsay; and many photographs of child labor conditions.)

Correspondence between Kenneth D. Johnson, dean of the New York School of Social Work, and the president and secretary of Columbia University. Johnson was also president of the Greater New York Council for Foreign Students and chairman of the University's Committee on the Harriman Campus. Records relate to Columbia's membership in the council for foreign students (ca. 1954) and the development of the University's Harriman Estate and Arden House conference center (ca. 1950). Includes speeches which were given by Johnson at the New York School of Social Work in 1949 and 1953. Also includes a letter and newspaper clipping regarding Johnson's appointment as a guardian of the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Correspondence between Calvin B. T. Lee and the president and vice president of Columbia University. Lee was an assistant dean and director of the Citizenship Program, Office of King's Crown Activities, and Ferris Booth Hall student center at Columbia. Kings Crown activities were the officially recognized student organizations whose budgets were overseen by the Kings Crown alumni organization. Correspondence relates to the mission and activities of the Citizenship Program, Kings Crown office, and Ferris Booth Hall.

Pages with writing and drawings by Ntozake depicting eras of Ntozake's childhood from the perspective of a child, with locations identified by Paul T. Williams, Jr. (brother of Ntozake Shange) and noted on sticky notes. The intended use of or genesis of these pages as well as their date is unknown, although they likely date to before Ntozake's first stroke in 2004. Pages were removed from binder pages and any order was not retained. This folder contains pages depicting the Williams home in Lawrenceville, Lawrence Township, NJ. The Williams siblings were the first children to integrate an all-white school in Lawrence Township, and Paul Williams recounted a memory of walking to the bus stop and rocks being thrown at them.

Reed, William Lord; Reynolds, B.F.; Roland, Miriam D.; Runsth, Fred (South Jersey Good Roads Association); San Toy Mining Co.; San Toy Mining Report; Schaff, Mary C.; Schleck, P.K.; Schmidlapp, J.G.; Schroder, Aug.; Schwab, Charles; Seibert, Mary B. (re: pension); Seligman, M.C.; Sheridan, [P.]; Shields, J.M.; Shourbaugh, H. J. (re: pension for Coulter, Rebecca); Slavens, H.G.; Slinart, James; Sloat, Elizabeth; Smiley, Daniel; Smith, AnnaS.M.; Smith, W.H. (St. Clair Improvement Co. - re: benefit of "Carnegie Children); Smith, Charles E.; Snow, Anna Brooks R. W. Johnson Studios of Pittsburgh; Robinson, Biddle & Benedict; St. Paul Normal and Industrial School, Laurenceville, VA; Santa Barbara County National Bank (re: pension for Eaton, Harlow); Schmidlapp Bureau for Women and Girls; Scott & Co.; Seaboard Air Line Railway; Security Bank of New York (Appleton, R. Ross, president); Shearson, Hammill & Co.;