This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
The collection consists of Columbia College Treasurer Gouverneur M. Ogden's correspondence and deals chiefly with routine matters of college business and finance. The letters are tipped and mounted onto the blank pages of 7 volumes. There are three volumes of letters from F.A.P. Barnard, President of the College, 1 volume of letters from trustees and members of the faculty, and 3 volumes of College business letters. A letterbook of outgoing correspondence was added in 1984.
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This collection is located on-site.
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); Gouverneur M. Ogden letters; Box and Volume; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
For additional materials related to Columbia College during period, please consult the Frederick A.P. Barnard Papers (MS#0073), Hamilton Fish letters (MS#0474), Minutes of the Board of Trustees (UA#0019) and the Columbia College papers (UA#0224).
No additions are expected.
Transferred from Columbiana, 1955.
Source of acquisition--Columbiana Library. Method of acquisition--Transfer; Date of acquisition--1955. Accession number--M-1955. A letterbook of outgoing correspondence was added in 1984.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed JCA 04/--/85.
2022-01-05 PDF replaced with full finding aid (JR)
Columbia College graduate of the Class of 1833, Treasurer of Columbia College from 1866 to 1874.
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