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James L. Clifford papers, 1774-1978
43 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, notes, photographs, and printed materials of James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, professor of English, Columbia University. Historical and literary letters and manuscripts collected by Clifford include letters from Samuel Johnson, diaries of Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Piozzi and those of her second husband, Gabriel Piozzi; a review of Clifford's book on Mrs. Piozzi and approximately nine drafts of one of Virginia Woolfs last typescripts.
Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry, 1949-1997
129 linear feetU. Weinreich: Lexicographic Defintion in Descriptive Semantics, 1962 Box 233, Folder 21
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- U. Weinreich: Lexicographic Defintion in Descriptive Semantics, 1962
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Print copy
Erich Hertzmann papers, 1938-1958
9 linear feetThis collection contains manuscripts, notes, musical scores, photocopies, student papers, microfilms, glass plate images, and other related materials about diverse musical subjects.
Walther, Johann Gottfried (1684-1748) (German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer) Box 14
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- Walther, Johann Gottfried (1684-1748) (German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer)
Yehudah Joffe papers, 1893-1966, bulk 1920-1945
1 boxWilliam Cabell Greet papers, 1928-1971
0.5 linear feetProf. Greet has presented Columbia with a collection of letters which he has received from numerous authors, including John Mason Brown, John Cheever, John Dos Passos, Marianne Moore, and 27 from H.L. Mencken. Of special interest is a notebook of letters concerning Greet's dictionary, WORLD WORDS, puiblished in 1944 by CBS as an aid in the understanding and pronunciation of new and foreign words. The notebook contains letters from Henry A. Wallace, George Marshall, Cordell Hull, J. Edgar Hoover, and more than 50 other public officials
Marvin I. Herzog papers, 1942-2008
5.67 linear feetThe Marvin Herzog collection contains correspondence relating to Herzog's academic and personal life, including printouts from an email list devoted to Yiddish Studies. Also included is teaching and research materials, as well as materials relating to Herzog's work on the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), and various materials relating to Zionist summer camps.
American Heritage Ditionary, 1988-1991 Box 1, Folder 2
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- correspondence with David Jost (Senior Lexicographer) of the American Heritage Dictionary and
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correspondence with David Jost (Senior Lexicographer) of the American Heritage Dictionary and dictionary examples with Herzog's handwritten notes; payment for etymology work on dictionary