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Unprocessed Boxes 257 and 258 are missing at this time (2024), as are cataloged photographs that were originally shelved as oversized at the end of the collection. It is not possible to access these materials in the reading room. Otherwise, this collection has no restrictions.
Correspondence; manuscripts of books, chapters, addresses, lectures, articles, and other writings; clippings and other printed materials relating to Butler's life and career, and memorabilia, ca. 1900-1947. Also, correspondence, 1891-1946, between Butler and presidents of the United States including William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman.
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This collection is located on-site.
Unprocessed Boxes 257 and 258 are missing at this time (2024), as are cataloged photographs that were originally shelved as oversized at the end of the collection. It is not possible to access these materials in the reading room. Otherwise, this collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nicholas Murray Butler papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Gift of Nicholas Murray Butler, 1946; his bequest, 1947.
Transferred from Journalism, 1996.
Source of acquisition--Butler, Nicholas Murray. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1946. Accession number--M-46.
NMB letter to Henry James II: Source of acquisition--2293B (Rare Book). Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--05/19/1995. Accession number--M-95-05-19.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Surveyed Julie Miller 02/--/1987.
NMB letter to Henry James II Processed HR 12/04/1996.
2009-06-26 File created.
2018-07-17 Person names in series II transcribed from PDF and added to finding aid by Catherine Carson Ricciardi, Patrick Lawlor, and Rebecca Barabas. Box numbers for series II verified by Rebecca Barabas
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
2024-03-21 Detailed container list added for Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Photographs. Statement on missing items added to the finding aid. CCR.
Nicholas Murray Butler was an educator and Columbia University President from 1902 to 1945; recipient of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize; an adviser to seven presidents and friend of statesmen in foreign nations; recipient of decorations from fifteen foreign governments and of honorary degrees from thirty-seven colleges and universities; a member of more than fifty learned societies and twenty clubs; the author of a small library of books, pamphlets, reports, and speeches; an international traveler who crossed the Atlantic at least a hundred times; a national leader of the Republican Party; an advocate of peace and the embodiment of the international mind» that he frequently spoke about. He was called Nicholas Miraculous Butler by his good friend Theodore Roosevelt.
This includes some correspondence of Nicholas Murray (1802-1861) and others. Correspondence is with Nicholas Murray Butler unless otherwise noted.
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Copy of sketch, signed and inscribed to Butler on 1939 July 4
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U.S. lawyer and Lincoln historian. Hertz (1870-1940) assembled the largest private collection of material relating to Lincoln, and was said to have gathered 4,000 items previously unknown.. Re complimentary resolution passed at the County Committee and Senator Wadsworth, celebrating Lincoln's legacy, testimonial of the Washington Heights Congregation, his text delivered at the Lincoln dinner in 1920, Commencement duties and sailing for Europe, Hertz's address at Galesburg, Hertz's collection of Lincoln speeches, Lincoln's Doctor's degree at Columbia, statement by Butler on Lincoln, Hertz's Lincoln Talks: A Biography in Anecdote, and declining an invitation
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re Robert P. Field and principles of a democratic government
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re life and public service of Chancellor Kent
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re exercises of the Alumni Club of Union County
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re Cole's talk, "Outbreak of the European War"
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Many of them are ministers, university presidents, prominent lawyers, etc. The first letter in this sheaf is an additional TLS from Butler, 23 March 1937.
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