Included in the Papers are approximately 150 letters. Most of them were written by members of the family and thus are of a personal or business nature. Some letters, after 1834, deal with life, investments, and land promotion in Michigan. All the correspondence has been indexed in the main manuscript index.
Files of political correspondence and papers of Tanner. The majority of the correspondence deals with city and state elections. The correspondents include Charles Evans Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Fiorello La Guardia. Also, a collection of eighteen scrapbooks.
A photostatic copy of the diary of Strong. The diary, running without interruption from Oct. 1835 through June 1875, contains a wealth of information about life in New York City. Its scope broadens to include the national scene with the outbreak of the Civil War. There is also a miscellaneous assortment of approximately 150 photostatic copies of personal correspondence with family and friends, correspondence during his term as treasurer of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, original drawings, caricatures and doodlings, invitations, guest lists, theater and concert programs, newspaper clippings, a family tree, and photographs. Includes typed index of Columbia references in Strong's diary.
Office files of Stone. Most of the correspondence is with students, faculty members, and lawyers throughout the country and deals with recommendations for positions, lectureships and appointments, alumni affairs, student affairs, the COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Association of American Law Schools. Also, reports of school activities and notes and typescripts of Stone's lectures, as well as photographs.
This collection is comprised of seven archival boxes depicting the legal career of John M. Steele, Esquire, former Rochester Commissioner of Jurors and 12th Ward Alderman. The documents and business papers span the years 1836-1918. They include wills, deeds, mortgages, business correspondence, daily ledger and a book.
Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, contracts, legal briefs, patents, and other documents, music scores, cartoons, technical drawings, account books, blueprints, photographs, clippings, printed legal briefs & transcripts, proofs, scrapbooks, and other printed materials of William M. Speer.
Incoming correspondence of Smith, containing letters from professional colleagues, university administrators, diplomats, and European acquaintances concerning international affairs, with emphasis on Germany and her role in World War I. References to Germany and the war are in the form of comments about Smith's publications during the period 1913-1919. Of particular importance are two letters from the Paris Peace Conference by James t. Shotwell and Robert Lansing. Other letters of interest are those from Frank Johnson Goodnow while he was in Peking, 1914; from Frederic William Maitland, relating to Cuba, 1889, 1902; from Alfred Nerincx relating to Belgium; from J.V. Sedmik describing political conditions om Czechoslovakia, 1924; from Theodore Roosevelt, 1915-1916, commenting on Smith's pamphlet MILITARY STRATEGY AND DIPLOMACY; and from John William Burgess, most of which were written while he was in Germany, 1905, 1906, 1907.
Files, research matter; caselaw, etc.
The Erasmus Darwin Smith Papers includes family correspondence, poems and school essays, certificates and other documents, clippings, and drafts of speeches.
Papers of Smedley, including correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, and printed materials about the United Nations, national politics and elections, and civic organizations in New York City and in Connecticut. Correspondents include Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy, and Bertrand Russell.
