Correspondence
The correspondence includes some letters from Williams's days as a Columbia student, but the majority of the letters relate to a draft of an article Williams was working on in 1960 about the President's House. An updated version of the article appeared in Columbia College Today in the Fall 1970 issue.
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Coffee, Joseph D., 1961
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Columbia University, 1924-1971
Includes materials related to the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum
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Fackenthal, Frank D., 1925-1960
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Hocker, H.D., circa 1960
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"Jim", 1960
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K, 1959-1961
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Michelfelder, Phyllis, 1961
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Proffitt, Ruth, circa 1960
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Seabury, Charles Ward, 1904-1940
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Thomas, Milton Halsey, 1960
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Williams, Richmond, 1932-1970
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Manuscripts, 1960s-1970s
Includes manuscripts of articles on the President's House and Brander Matthews's legacy
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Drawings, 1920s
Subject Files
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Academic Transcripts, 1924-1942
Columbia College and School of Journalism
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Biographical, 1986-1987
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Dramatic Museum, circa 1970
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John Jay Hall, 1928
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Oral History, 1970
Photographs
Includes original prints, copy negatives and prints from the copy negatives
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The Great God Pan and the Victorian Society, 1920s, 2 folders
The statue used to located near the southwest corner of 120th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
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The Reading from Homer, 1920s, 2 folders
Victorian Society members in front of the Great God Pan statue reading from a book
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The Victorians express horror at the Age of the Machine, 1920s, 2 folders
Victorian Society members pose with machinery on campus
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Negatives, undated
Copy negatives for the three prints
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Certificate and Award, 1925-1975
Certificate of degree of Bachelor of Literature and Distinguished Classmate award
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Printed Materials, 1922-1969
Newspaper clippings from the 1920s and a George C. Marshall Research Library newsletter, 1969
Additions
These materials were donated by Richmond Williams to the Columbiana Collection. His Class of 1925 materials can be found in the Alumni class records (UA#0259).
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Articles re: Columbia, 1954-1956
Includes articles on Arden House, the American Assembly, Poughkeepsie Regatta
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Columbia Alumni News, 1939-1948
Issues of CAN: King's Visit in 1939, Nicholas Murray Butler's retirement, and Dwight D. Eisenhower's appoint to University President
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International Debates, 1923-1924, 1966
Debate team materials, invitations to the President's House and a note from Jacques Barzun on remembering the 1923 Debate Team. The first Oxford-Columbia debate was held at Columbia in 1922. Money was raised to send the Columbia team to Great Britain in June 1923 on a ten-university tour. When the Oxford team returned in 1924, Williams served as the Debate Manager.
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King's College seal reproductions, 1958-1962
As a member of the Columbiana Committee, Williams looks into making reproductions of the King's College seal
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Newspaper clippings, 1920s-1950s
Includes Class Day 1925 clippings
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Spectator Banquet menus, 1922-1925
Spring dinner menus, held at hotels before the opening of Faculty House
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Spectator re: Students Hall (now John Jay Hall), 1924-1925
Correspondence Williams received as Spectator Editor-in-Chief in response to this editorials on the need for a Students Hall. Includes a letter from Nicholas Murray Butler.
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When Columbia Rowed at Henley, 1920s
Article by Williams published in the Columbia Varsity