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Professional papers of Roger Bagnall, papyrologist and Columbia University Professor Emeritus of History. The collection includes lectures and other records from Bagnall's teaching work, professional correspondence, records related to conferences and professional organizations in which Bagnall participated, and records of Bagnall's service to and participation in the Columbia University community. There are also research materials, published and unpublished works, and other records of Bagnall's participation in scholarly projects.

Records of the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy and Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, two New York City-based American organizations working to raise funds and provide medical and humanitarian aid for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and to refugees who fled Spain after the defeat of the Republican forces in April 1939. The organizations formally merged in January 1938 and became known as the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign. These files include the organization's official reports, correspondence, pamphlets, broadsides, photographs, and publicity material, as well as several scrapbooks of news clippings.

The reports and correspondence relating to UNRRA were arranged according to the nine administrative divisions of that organization that generated the documents: Bureau of Administration (26 reels); Office of the Diplomatic Adviser (4 reels); Office of the Director General (20 reels); Office of the Economic Adviser (4 reels); Office of Far Eastern Affairs (9 reels); Office of the General Counsel (19 reels); Office of the Historian (16 reels); Office of Public Information (1 reel); and Secretariat Executive Office (3 reels). Within each division, subsidiary bodies are typically separated into subject and country files.

Manuscripts, notes, lecture materials, and papers of Hayes. There are six boxes of correspondence, notes, and documents relating to the war years, 1942-1945, when Prof. Hayes served as Ambassador to Spain. The collection also includes the notes, drafts, and typescripts of Prof. Hayes' publications including his books Wartime Mission in Spain, 1942-1945 (New York, 1945), History of Europe (New York, 1956), A Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe (New York, 1932-1936), Generation of Materialism (New York, 1941), Christanity and Western Civilization (Stanford, 1954), and Contemporary Europe Since 1970 (New York, 1958). There are also notes and typescripts of an "Autobiography," which is apparently unpublished. Included in the collection are two boxes of catalogued correspondence.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and notes. This collection contains the manuscripts for most of his books and articles. There are also copies of his many book reviews and articles by other authors analyzing the impact of his interpretations of American history. The correspondents include: H.S. Commager, C. Vann Woodward, Stuart Bruchey, S.E. Morison, Clarence Ver Steeg, Alfred A. Knopf, Helen Frankenthaler, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and others. There are also 70 books from his library