Organized according to interview and visit, Stevens discusses projects and proposals with various professionals in the humanities. The Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities mission is to support general research, advance the training of personnel and promote projects of international significance. He travels Europe assessing grant and project proposals.
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The grants, visits and interviews with professionals in the 1942 diary focus on language study and culture for the war effort, American studies, drama, radio, film, and libraries.
Alan H. Kempner papers, 1809-1981 0.5 linear feet
A collection of letters and manuscripts of English and American authors, including one item from each of the following: Pearl S. Buck, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Frognall Dibden, Charles Dickens, William Ewart Gladstone, Edmund Gosse, Hester Thackeray Ritchie Fuller, Rockwell Kent, Charles Kingsley, Edward George Bulwer Lytton, John Masefield, Clinton Scollard, William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. In addition, there are 8 letters from Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) to Mr. and Mrs. Horace Twiss (Annie Sterky Greenwood Twiss), photographs of Alan and Margaret Kempner and miscellaneous Kempner items.
Bea Feitler papers, 1920-1981, bulk 1960-1980 7.2 Cubic Feet
Charles Saxon papers, 1940-1989 19 linear feet
Sketches, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, tearsheets, photographs and printed material. The collection includes more than 900 drawings and watercolors. The material covers much of Charles Saxon's professional career
College of Performing Arts course catalogs, 1916-2011 3.9 Cubic Feet
Columbia University Press records, 1893-2000s, bulk 1923-2000s 752 linear feet
This collection contains the correspondence, editorial files and office files of the Columbia University Press, primarily from its reorganization in 1923 by Frederick Coykendall to the present.
Records include correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, documents and printed materials. The correspondence is mainly about the operation and projects of COCOSEERS. The manuscripts include a number of research reports on projects conducted by COCOSEERS. There are memoranda concerning the operation of COCOSEERS. The documents consist chiefly of financial records: bank statements, vouchers and receipts. The printed material includes bulletins and published reports on Slavic Library resources, as well as catalogs of publishers.