4078973William A. Keener correspondence4078973Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-01-09 20:20:44 -0500.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard2024-02-09Container list published (JR) Rare Book and Manuscript Library William A. Keener correspondence Keener, William A. (William Albert), 1856-1913 4078973 MS#0695 English /repositories/2/resources/2762 0.42 linear feet 1 document box 1891-1901 Restrictions on Access

This collection is located on-site.

 Restrictions on Access

This collection has no restrictions.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Dean's Office, Law School. Accession number--M-59.

 Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged remainder arranged.

 Biographical Note

Professor of Law at Columbia University and Dean of the Law School, 1891-1901.

 Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William A. Keener correspondence; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

 Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/89.

 Summary

Correspondence and miscellaneous items of Keener. The correspondence dates primarily from the years 1894 and 1895, and concerns mostly admissions and other procedures of the Law School. There is one letter book of outgoing correspondence, 1891-1895. The collection includes cataloged letters from Nicholas Murray Butler, Melvil Dewey, Seth Low, and Edwin R.A. Seligman.

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 Law -- Study and teaching College teachers Lawyers Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931 Low, Seth, 1850-1916 Seligman, Edwin R. A (Edwin Robert Anderson), 1861-1939 Columbia University. School of Law -- : Faculty Columbia University. School of Law -- : Admission Catalogued correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1591828Butler, Nicholas Murray to Seth Low/repositories/2/archival_objects/15918301895 May 41Scope and Contents

Re: the schedule of law school classes

Dewey, Melvil to Seth Low/repositories/2/archival_objects/15918291895 April 21Low, Seth to William A. Keener/repositories/2/archival_objects/15918311897-19011Scope and Contents

with two related items

Seligman, Edwin R.A. to [William A. Keener]/repositories/2/archival_objects/15918321894 May 281Seligman, Edwin R.A. to William A. Keener/repositories/2/archival_objects/15918331894 December 41Scope and Contents

with copy of related letter

Letterbook of outgoing correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/15918341891-18951General correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1591835Scope and Contents

The correspondence dates primarily from the years 1894 and 1895, and concerns mostly admissions and other procedures of the Law School

General correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/159183618941General correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/159183718951General correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/15918381897-19011Undated correspondence and miscellaneous items/repositories/2/archival_objects/15918391