Most folders relate to the merger of the two campuses in the 1950's, or contain faculty meeting minutes. There is also a Faculty Advisor Manual from 1964. Some unrelated material includes a book of academic regulations apparently from the 1930's, and a set of Board of Control minutes, 1934-1946.

Most material is from the 1940s and 1950s.

Correspondence to and from persons inquiring about, and under consideration for, faculty appointment in the Department of English, 1960-1967/68. Not all years appear to be represented.

Personnel folders of Department of English faculty members; containing correspondence by, to, and about them.

The collection consists of the records of university seminars in various fields for each academic year since their establishment. A typical file will include minutes of the meetings, but there may also be supporting documentation such as correspondence, reports, or copies of papers presented at a meeting.

Correspondence, notes, and writings of Sayre, including materials pertaining to his work for various organizations, public and private, concerned with problems in public administration. There is also a subject file containing notes and other materials gathered by Sayre for use in publications and lectures. The correspondence is extensive, and consists of routine business correspondence, occasional letters (uncataloged) from such persons as William Ronan and other city and university officials, and files of correspondence with members of the family of Senator Robert M. La Follette. Catalogued correspondents include Chester Bowles, Dumas Malone, Bennett Cerf, and Fiorello La Guardia.

Photostatic copies of correspondence between Pitkin and Harry P. Breitenbach, chiefly of a personal nature. There are a few letters from Breitenbach to Pitkin, Jr., concerning the disposition of the original letters.

Correspondence, writings, reports, memoranda, case files, and related printed materials. The papers cover the entire field of law with particular emphasis on civil rights, labor law, and family law. They include several series of office files dealing with Columbia University Law faculty, students, his course materials, and the administration of the Law School. In addition, there are numerous files for Amherst College (from which Gellhorn received his A.B. degree), arbitration cases, federal administrative procedure, legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Association of American Law Schools, and Fordham University (for which he prepared a study). There are manuscripts, drafts, proofs, correspondence, and other related materials for some of his books: Administrative Law Cases and Comments (1940); Security, Loyalty and Science (1950); The States and Subversion (1952); Individual Freedom and Government Restraint (1956); When Americans Complain (1966); and Ombudsmen and others (1966).

This collection contains correspondence, articles, lectures, notes, notebooks, field notebooks, maps, and photographs of geological consultant and professor of Geology at Columbia University, Walter H. Bucher, [ca. 1915]-1963.

This collection contains papers of Walter Louis Dorn (1894-1961), professor of history, Columbia University, including correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, notebooks, photographs and related printed materials.