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Handwritten text and typescript copy of a memoir by L. M. Andreev "Eto bylo tak... (rasskaz starogo kavalerista)" discussing incidents during the Russo-Japanese War and the revolution (7 handwritten and 3 typed pages).

Linden's manuscript memoirs discuss women's education in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg; Russian youth in the 1890s; the Crimea and Odessa in 1917-1919; Aleksandr Kerenskiĭ; her husband and family; and the situation of Jews in the Russian Empire. With typed transcript.

Shaĭkevich's (neʹe Ostrovskai︠a︡) handwritten memoirs (fifteen small notebooks) discuss her family and guests at her home, including Prince Sergeĭ Volkonskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev, and Maksimili︠a︡n Voloshin. She also discusses prominent Russian and Jewish families at the turn of the century. The memoirs conclude with her emigration to Latvia, Germany, and France. The essay "Poslednii︠a︡ stranichki" and her minor manuscripts are also autobiographical in nature.

The manuscript is a memoiristic novel dealing with the Revolution and the Civil War.

The collection contains Ivan's memoirs, written in Russian, from that period. Valentyna Shali is represented in the collection by a published anthology of Ukrainian folk tales in French translation and by an unpublished Ukrainian manuscript on the political and economic history of modern-day Eastern Europe.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and clippings of Kunitz, including correspondence from many periodical editors and from Kunitz's American and Russian friends, as well as his manuscripts and notes for SOVIET JEWERY : IS IT DOOMED? and his introduction to Albert Rhys Williams' THROUGH THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Also, printed articles and reviews by and about Kunitz. Among the correspondents are Mary E. Dreier, James T. Farrell, Joseph Freeman, and Serghey Tretiakov.

The collection consists of 124 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy and members of his family to Aylmer Maude, the English translator of his works. There are 69 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy, eighteen letters from Countess Tolstaia, eleven letters from Sergei Tolstoi (his son), 25 letters from his four daughters, Alexandra, Olga, Marya, and Tatiana, and one letter from Anna Konstantinovna Chertkova. The letters deal with such subjects as "What is art?", the "Resurrection" fund, Tolstoy's health, censorship, Ruskin, the banishment of the Dukhobors to Siberia, Tolstoy's doctrine of non-resistance, Jewish pogroms, famine in Russia, murder of Alexander II, etc. There are letters from the countess which reflect her feelings about the Chertkov's connection with Tolstoy and a letter from Sergei informing Maude that Tolstoy had left home to die, 1910. Subsequent letters deal with posthumous publications of Tolstoy's works.

Correspondence of Emma Lazarus. While the letters are primarily of a personal nature, they also reflect both her literary career and, after the traumatic effect on her of the perssecution of Russian Jews, 1879-1883, her role as American champion of Jews. There are original autograph letters from John Burroughs, Ralph W. Emerson, Henry James, William Morris, Tommaso Salvini, and Ivan Turgenev, and twenty other prominent figures. Also, one letter from Lazarus to William Wetmore Story and the letter of her sister, Annie Johnstone, presenting this collection to Columbia University.

The collection consists of 124 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy and members of his family to Aylmer Maude, the English translator of his works. There are 69 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy, eighteen letters from Countess Tolstai︠a︡, eleven letters from Sergei Tolstoĭ (his son), 25 letters from his four daughters, Alexandra, Olga, Marya, and Tati︠a︡na, and one letter from Anna Konstantinovna Chertkova. The letters deal with such subjects as "What is art?", the "Resurrection" fund, Tolstoy's health, censorship, Ruskin, the banishment of the Dukhobors to Siberia, Tolstoy's doctrine of non-resistance, Jewish pogroms, famine in Russia, murder of Alexander II, etc. There are letters from the countess which reflect her feelings about the Tchertkoffs' connection with Tolstoy and a letter from Sergei informing Maude that Tolstoy had left home to die, 1910. Subsequent letters deal with posthumous publications of Tolstoy's works.