Frederick Coykendall papers, 1923-1956

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Angell, Norman


Box 1 Bancroft, Frederic


Box 1 Butler, Nicholas Murray


Box 1 Cane, Melville H.


Box 1 Carman, Harry J.


Box 1 Coudert, Frederic R.


Box 1 Cousins, Norman


Box 1 Darrow, Whitney


Box 1 Dodge, Cleveland E.


Box 1 Dodge, Marcellus Hartley


Box 1 Dunn, Gano


Box 1 Eisenhower, Dwight David


Box 1 Farrand, Max


Box 1 Fosdick, Harry Emerson


Box 1 Fox, Dixon Ryan


Box 1 Fulbright, J. William


Box 1 Gannett, Frank E.


Box 1 Giddings, Franklin H.


Box 1 Gildersleeve, Virginia C.


Box 1 Hayes, Carlton J. H.


Box 1 Hogan, Frank S.


Box 1 Johnson, Alvin


Box 1 Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut


Box 1 Medina, Harold R.


Box 1 Parsons, Geoffrey


Box 1 Plimpton, Francis T.P.


Box 1 Proskauer, Joseph M.


Box 1 Rabi, Isidor Isaac


Box 1 Ransom, Will


Box 1 Sadleir, Michael


Box 1 Schuster, Max Lincoln


Box 1 Shotwell, James T.


Box 1 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays


Box 1 Symons, Alphonse J.A.


Box 1 Tyson, Levering


Box 1 Van Doren, Mark


Box 1 Watson, Thomas J.

Series II: Subject Files


General Files



Box 2 1924-1939



Box 3 1940-1949



Box 4 1950-1956


Box 4 Alumni Fund Committee


Box 4 Alumni Matters


Box 4 Bard College


Box 4 Belgium Celebration, 1935


Box 4 Biography


Box 4 Birk Proposal, 1935-1936


Box 4 Bookbinding Exhibition, 1935-1936


Box 4 Books for Personal Purchase


Butler, Nicholas Murray


Box 4 Dinner


Box 4 Successor


Columbia University


Box 4 General



Box 5 American Assembly


Box 5 Bicentenary


Box 5 Communism Committee


Box 5 Press - General


Box 5 Trustees, 3 folders


Box 5 Trustee Honorary Degrees


Box 5 Committee on the General Catalogue, 1931-1933


Box 5 Committee on Legal Affairs, 1935-1936


Box 5 Cooper, Charles P.


Box 5 Dental School


Dinner


Box 5 General



Box 6 Minutes, etc.


Box 6 Material for a book of speeches


Eisenhower, Dwight David


Box 6 General


Box 6 Successor


Box 6 Eisenhower, Mamie D., Letters to Mary Warrin Coykendall


Box 6 Firdausi Celebration, 1934


Box 6 Hamilton, Alexander, Medal


Box 6 Home Study, 1935-1936


Box 6 Kefauver, Grayson N. - Liaison Committee for International Education


Box 6 Library


New York State Historical Association


Box 6 General


Box 6 Trustee, 1934-1936


Box 6 School of Mines, 1939


Box 6 University Patents, 1936-1939


Box 6 Photographs

(Including Dwight David Eisenhower)

Series III: Memorabilia



Box 7 Resolution of the Trustees on the death of Frederick Coykendall, 1955 January 3

(Manuscript, engrossed on vellum, signed by Grayson Kirk, sent to Mrs. Coykendall. 6 leaves. Bound in full blue morocco.)


Box 7 Minutes in Honor of Frederick Coykendall...After Twenty-five Years as a Trustee of Columbia University, Twenty Years as a Trustee of Columbia University Press and Fifteen Years as its Secretary and Director Offered to Him in Affection and Gratitude...at a Dinner at the University Club... George Grady, 1941 October 21

(The only copy of the book printed; designed by the staff of the Columbia University Press. Signed by Nicholas Murray Butler, the trustees, and other University officials. Bound in full blue morocco.)


Box 7 Program of the Dinner held at the University Club, 1941 October 21

(Menu printed entirely in Latin, the work of Professor Nelson McCrea)


Box 7 Minute on the Election of Frederick Coykendall as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University Press., 1953 December 4

(Typewritten manuscript, 4pp., signed by the Trustees of the Press.)


Box 7 Minute of the Trustees of Columbia University Press in Appreciation of Frederick Coykendall, 1954 December 13

(Typewritten manuscript, 2pp., signed by the Trustees of the Press. 2 copies.)


Box 7 Photograph of oil portrait of Frederick Coykendall by Lester Chace after Irving R. Wiles

(Framed and glazed)


Box 7 Photographs of the visit to Columbia University of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England, 1939 June 10

(3 photographs)


Box 7 Program of the dinner in honor of Frederick Coykendall,held at the University Club, 1941 October 21


Box 7 Last will and testament of Mary Warrin Coykendall, 1955 March 20


Box 7 Genealogical records, including a family tree, of the Coykendall family

(15 items. Gift of Mrs. Frank Walker, 1982)