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Louis H. Schroeder papers, 1934 - 1950 0.3 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Louis Ismay Papers, 1959-1977 29.14 cubic ft.
Louis Nizer Papers, 1940-1994 13.09 linear feet
Louis Planck Hammett papers, 1921-1986 3 linear feet
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, clippings, printed materials, and cassette tapes. Hammett's correspondence covers his retirement years, 1961-1986 and deals with translations and revised editions of his major works: Solutions of Electrolytes (1929), Physical Oraganic Chemistry (1940), and Introduction to the Study of Physical Chemistry (1952); congratulatory letters to Hammett upon his receiving various awards, including a letter from John F. Kennedy; congratulatory letters from Hammett to colleagues on their work; and correspondence with younger chemists about their research. Two letters from James B. Conant from 1947 constitute the only early correspondence. Manuscripts are comprised of Hammett's lectures and speeches given before meetings of scientists, 1961-1970; an oral history of Hammett by the American Institute of Physics (1978); papers given by various chemists at the Symposium on the History of Physical Organic Chemistry in 1983. There are also 10 cassette recordings of the above symposium.
Louis Wiley papers, 1858-1954 17 boxes
This collection includes the correspondence and other papers of Louis Wiley. The bulk of the correspondence has been indexed and includes letters written to Wiley by persons prominent in government and newspapers, and in the business, social and entertainment worlds from the early 1900s until Wiley's death in 1935. Correspondents include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walter Duranty, David Belasco, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, William Allen White, Sir Thomas Lipton, Nicholas Murray Butler, Alfred E. Smith, Edna Ferber, Andrew Mellon, William S. Hart, Carrie Chapman Catt, William E. Werner, Cardinal Hayes, Admiral Byrd, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Bourke-White, James Farley, Adolph S. Ochs, and Lord Beaverbrook. A great portion of the letters are concerned with Society of the Genesee meetings or are birthday and congratulatory letters to Wiley. The collection also includes biographical material about Wiley and his family, articles and speeches written by Wiley, and by others about Wiley, newspaper clippings and articles about various dinners honoring Wiley, and about the New York Times and its publisher Adolph S. Ochs. There is a large collection of photographs of Wiley and his friends and family at home and abroad. Also, a group of his decorations from foreign countries, honorary college degrees and various testimonials given him on birthdays and business anniversaries.
The collection consists of genealogical data and letters, accompanied by transcripts, which relate to the Lowe and Smith families of western New York and to family life in the early 1800s. The material has been gathered by Jesse Lowe Smith (1869-1934), Superintendent of Schools in Highland Park, IL, and in the 1960s by Blanche Beal Lowe, whose husband, Harvey J. Lowe, was Jesse Smith's cousin.
Lucie Brock-Broido Papers, 1965-2017, bulk 1981-2013 34.5 Linear Feet
Ludwig and Friedrich Tieck letters, 1820-1847 0.5 linear feet
Letters written by the Tieck brothers Ludwig Tieck and Christian Friedrich Tieck. Ludwig's seven letters were directed from Dresden and Berlin, 1820-1847, to various people on mainly personal subjects. Friedrich's four letters were sent from Berlin, 1837-1842. One of these was written to a court official regarding an inscription to be put on the bust of General Gneisenau which Tieck had just completed. The others are personal.