Columbia University Institute of Arts and Sciences Correspondence, 1930-1945

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Anderson, Maxwell


Box 1 Angell, Norman


Box 1 Babin, Victor


Box 1 Bairnsfather, Bruce


Box 1 Bakeless, John


Box 1 Baker, Newton D.


Box 1 Benoit-Lévy, Jean


Box 1 Binyon, Laurence


Box 1 Bottome, Phyllis


Box 1 Byrnes, James F.


Box 1 Cram, Ralph Adams


Box 1 Craske, Leonard


Box 1 Davis, Elmer


Box 1 Davis, William H.


Box 1 Dean, Vera Micheles


Box 1 Dewey, Thomas E.


Box 1 Drum, H. A.


Box 1 Duranty, Walter


Box 1 Eden, Anthony F. (Earl of Avon)


Box 1 Farley, James A.


Box 1 Ferber, Edna


Box 1 Fielding, Anne


Box 1 Fosdick, Harry Emerson


Box 1 Frost, Robert


Box 1 Gerard, James W.


Box 1 Haldane, John Burdon S.


Box 1 Halifax, Edward Frederick L. W., Earl of


Box 1 Kirkpatrick, Helen P.


Box 1 Langmuir, Irving


Box 1 Lanux, Pierre de


Box 1 Laski, Harold J.


Box 1 Lewis, Sinclair


Box 1 Litvinoff, Maxim


Box 1 Lovette, Leland P.


Box 1 McCormick, Anne O'Hare


Box 1 McNutt, Paul V.


Box 1 Morgenstierne, Wilhelm T. M.


Box 1 Morley, Christopher


Box 1 Mumford, Lewis


Box 1 Paderwski, Ignacy Jan


Box 1 Perkins, Frances


Box 1 Riegger, Wallingford


Box 1 Roosevelt, Eleanor


Box 1 Roth, Feri


Box 1 Ruml, Beardsley


Box 1 Sayre, Francis B.


Box 1 Seabury, Samuel


Box 1 Syfet, Joseph


Box 1 Shapley, Harlow


Box 1 Skinner, Cornelia


Box 1 Smith, Alfred E.


Box 1 Smith, Harold D.


Box 1 Spalding, Albert


Box 1 Stassen, Harrold E.


Box 1 Stein, Gertrude


Box 1 Stout, Rex


Box 1 Sultberger, Arthur Hays


Box 1 Tao-Ming, Wei


Box 1 Tolkas, Alice B.


Box 1 Wallace, Henry A.


Box 1 Weidman, Charles


Box 1 Wickersham, C. W.


Box 1 Wilkie, Wendell L.


Box 1 Wolfe, Thomas


Box 1 Woollcott, Alexander


Box 1 Young, Oven D.

Series II: Sketches of Lecturers by Lucie Ruth Kraft



Box 2 Agar, Herbert Sebastian

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Anderson, Sherwood

Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 Angell, Sir Norman

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Anspacher, Louis Kaufman, 3 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Auslander, Joseph, 3 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Barnett, David

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Barnouw, Adriaan Jacob, 2 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Barrett, Samuel Alfred


Box 2 Benét, Stephen Vincent


Box 2 Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor


Box 2 Bohn, Frank, 2 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Bouton, Stephen Miles

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Brailsford, Henry Noel, 2 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Brittain, Vera


Box 2 Brown, John Mason, 4 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker

Original copy is missing; it appears that the item was not properly refiled after microfilming in 1991.

Item is available on microfilm. See MN# 91-2094-2. Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 Chase, Harry Woodburn


Box 2 Cooper, Courtney Ryley

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Craven, Thomas

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Dafoe, John Wesley


Box 2 Dane, Clemence [Winifred Ashton] ?


Box 2 Datta, Surendra Kumar

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 DeMille, William Churchill

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Dobrée, Bonamy

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Dugmore, A. Radclyffe ?


Box 2 Dunlap, Knight

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Eastman, Max Forrester


Box 2 Enders, Gordon B.

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Erskine, John

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Essary, Jesse Frederick

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Fadiman, Clifton

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Faÿ, Bernard


Box 2 Fisher, Anne B.

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Flynn, John Thomas

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Franz, Dalies


Box 2 Freuchen, Peter, 2 items


Box 2 Frost, Robert, 2 items


Box 2 Gruber, Ruth

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Haggard, Howard Wilcox

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson, 2 items


Box 2 Harlow, Alvin Fay


Box 2 Heiser, Victor George

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 High, Stanley Hoflund, 2 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Hindus, Maurice Gerschon

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Huddleston, Sisley, 2 items


Box 2 Kelsey, Vera

See Anne B. Fisher, both sketches are on one page. Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Kent, Rockwell

Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 La Follette, Suzanne


Box 2 Laher, Richard

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Langrauir, Irving, 2 items


Box 2 Leighton, Clare

Identified as "Mrs. Brailsford"


Box 2 Lie, Jonas

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 L…, William H.P.

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Mason, Daniel Gregory and Herbert Dittler


Box 2 MacCarthy, Sir Desmond

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Markham, Edwin Charles


Box 2 Meyers, Cecil Kenneth

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Miller, Caroline

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Milton, George Fort

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Montague, William Pepperell, 2 items


Box 2 Moore, Douglas Stuart

Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 Morley, Christopher Darlington


Box 2 Morley, Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Mulholland, John

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Murry, John Middleton


Box 2 Nijinsky, Romola

Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 2 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Overstreet, Harry Allen, 5 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Parish, J. ?

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Peterson, Houston, 2 items

See also Alvin Fay Harrow, both sketches are on one page. Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Phelps, William Lyon

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Pope, James Pinckney


Box 2 Potter, Russell

Includes a self-caricature by Potter. Both sketches are autographed by Potter. See also Sisley Huddleston, both sketches are on one page.


Box 2 Raiguel, George Earle


Box 2 Rice, Elmer L.

Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 Root, E. Merrill, 2 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Rosso, Augusto


Box 2 Sandburg, Carl

Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 Seldes, Gilbert Vivian, 2 items


Box 2 Shotwell, James Thomson


Box 2 Siegfried, André, 2 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Simmons, Harwood and Helen Marshall


Box 2 Skinner, Otis

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Sokolsky, George


Box 2 Soule, George Henry, Jr.


Box 2 Spicer, Earle, 2 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Stein, Gertrude, 2 items


Box 2 Stern, William, 2 items


Box 2 Strachey, John [Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey]


Box 2 Taft, Robert Alphonso

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Teurfs, Frank

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Tindall, William York

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Tomlinson, Edward, 3 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Van Doren, Mark Albert, 3 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Villiers, Alan John


Box 2 Weeks, Edvard Augustus, 7 items

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Wilder, Thornton Niven

Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 Willert, Sir Arthur

Sketch is autographed by the subject.


Box 2 Wood, Grant

Sketch is autographed by the subject. Item has been separately cataloged and is listed in the Ms/Doc catalog.


Box 2 Unidentified, 4 items

Series III: 1986 Addition


Box 2 "The Handbook"


Box 2 "The Institute Program", 1934-1940


Box 2 Playbill for a production of works by Cornelia Otis Skinner

Series IV: 1990 Addition


Box 2 McKay, Walter H. "The Institute of Arts & Sciences...22nd Session", [1934/1935], 73 [i.e., 72p.] t.ms.