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(One of several columns on anonymous sources, this one focusing on anonymous quotes used to characterize suspects in crimes)

Correspondence between Stanley Salmen and high level administrators at Columbia University. Salmen held appointments as coordinator of University planning; executive secretary of Columbia Associates, a group of benefactors who contributed regularly to Columbia's general fund; and associate director of the Office of Contracts and Special Gifts. Salmen appears to have served as Columbia's principle development officer and to have been involved in the formation and interpretation of development policies, the evaluation of funding proposals, and the physical planning of the University. The records consist of correspondence, working papers, proposals, financial statements, and financial reports.

Correspondence regarding the murder of Columbia anthropology student Henrieta Schmerler and the investigation of the case. Schmerler was killed while doing field work on the White River Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. Correspondence relates to the circumstances of the murder, Schmerler's living and working arrangements, the collection of her personal effects and the return of her body to New York, and federal investigation of the crime and the arrest of suspects. Correspondents include: the secretary of Columbia University; William Donner, Superintendent of the Fort Apache Agency of the Indian Field Service in the United States Department of the Interior; Franz Boas, professor of anthropology at Columbia University; Charles VanBergen, curator of archaeology in the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art; Elias Schmerler; C. J. Rhoads, Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the United States Department of the Interior; George W. P. Hunt, Governor of Arizona; and Jesse L. Nusbaum, director of the Laboratory of anthropology

Correspondence between Lawrence A. Wien and high level administrators at Columbia University. Wien served as a trustee of the University. Correspondence relates to a variety of subjects.

Containing 24 pages, folio, written in an elegant scribal hand, stabbed and with original sewing. MURDER IN COLONIAL MARYLAND. Detailed record of a murder trial in early colonial Maryland. In April 1691, John Paine, the King's collector of Patuxent, was murdered. George Mason, John Woodcock, and William Burleigh were tried for the crime and found not guilty. This is a detailed account of the proceedings and acquittal. A manuscript from the celebrated manuscript collections of Sir Thomas Phillipps, numbered 10115.

Extensive coverage of "The Crime Without a Name," the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. (printed before news of Lincoln's death was received.)