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Marguerite Mespoulet papers, 1925-1964
138 boxesCorrespondence, notes, lectures, and clippings of Marguerite Mespoulet, relating to her work and writings on French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, with special emphasis on Charles Baudelaire, Paul Claudel, and Max Jacob. There are eleven letters and one manuscript"Partage de midi" of Paul Claudel, six letters and seven manuscripts of Max Jacob, and seven letters of Pierre Reverdy.
Pierre Louÿs papers, 1891-1894
0.5 linear feetThis collection includes manuscripts of poetry and of miscellaneous writings.
Jean Albert Bédé papers, 1923-1976
8 linear feetNotes and drafts for Bédé's writings, notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and research notes for David C. Cabeen's "A Critical Bibliography of French Literature" for which Bédé edited volumes 5 and 6 on nineteenth century literature.
Jules Champfleury papers, 1853-1888
1 linear feetMany of the journal pages were cut out or clipped before the work was acquired by Columbia University. The material is all in French and is in an extremely small though legible script.
Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s
2 linear feetCorrespondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.