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A magnetic sound tape with Ekaterina Grigor'evna Andresen's reminiscences about her childhood and adult life in Russia and the USSR, including about conditions under Stalin's rule in the mid-1930s.

Manuscripts from his "Stoletniĭ putʹ russkoĭ derevni", on the development of one Russian village from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s, and manuscripts on education and literacy in the USSR.

Bound manuscript of Radishchev's "Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu"; the title"Kniga prichinivshai︠a︡ neschastii" is used in this manuscript instead of the usual title. The manuscript is in an unknown contemporary hand. Appended is a note indicating its provenance: "Pod vysochaĭshim ego imperatorskogo velichestva pokrovitelśtvom rossiĭsko-amerikanskoĭ kompanii glavnogo pravlenii︠a︡, ot akt︠s︡ionera kollezhskoĭ sovet" [sic]. The manuscript is numbered as the 16th copy. The title page gives the date 1790, but it seems likely that this manuscript was actually prepared later, under Tsar Paul.

Records of the Harvard University Russian Research Center's Project on the Soviet Social System. This project interviewed Soviet emigres on a broad range of topics. The records consist of mimeographed typescripts of these interviews. They are divided into two major categories: "personal life history documents" (A schedules); and interviews on economics, family, government, nationalities, wartime occupations, partisan movements, professions, and stratification. There are also clinical interviews, copies of questionnaires, and an interviewer's guide.

Shlippe's manuscripts include his memoirs (200 p.) and three brief manuscripts. The memoirs describe his work in the Moscow Zemstvo organization and in the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture. There are acounts of the political trends among zemstvo personnel, the reactions to the Stolypin reforms, the 1913 Congress of Zemstvo workers and the formation of the Vserossiĭskiĭ zemskiĭ soi︠u︡z. There are brief remarks on the Russo-Japanese War and the 1905 and February 1917 Revolutions. Other manuscripts include Shlippe's essay"Begstvo iz Moskvy v Rigu" (1947), an undated memo discussing the Russian Red Cross in Germany, 1921-1938, and a six-page memoir by Elizaveta P. Shlippe entitled "Neskolḱo stranit︠s︡ iz moeĭ zhizni.".

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.

Clippings, periodicals, and mimeographed materials covering the entire field of economics, with primary emphasis on the labor movement. There is also a great deal of material concerning the Soviet Union.

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.

Collection includes material by and related to Albert Rhys Williams. The bulk of the materials in the collection appear to be Albert Rhys Williams' writings and published materials (in English and Russian). A small amount of correspondence, photographs, and other materials is also present in the collection.

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.