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Columbia University: Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Columbia University: Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027, United States
Located in Butler Library, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is Columbia's principal repository for rare and unique materials, with holdings that span four thousand years of recorded knowledge, from cuneiform tablets to early printed books and born-digital archives. Each year RBML welcomes thousands of researchers and visitors to their reading room, exhibitions, programs, and classrooms.

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Cunard, Anthony (Form subheading: Correspondence.)

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, subject files and printed materials. The correspondence includes letters from Michael Florinsky, Mikhail Karpovich, Bernard Pares, Geroid Robinson and George Vernadsky as well as one each from Lidii︠a︡ Lopukhova, Lewis Mumford and George Orwell. There is abundant correspondence relating to the Cunard Whitestar Line, notably from Anthony Cunard. The manuscripts include drafts of several of Fedotoff-White's books as well as copious notes and book reviews. There are subject files relating to his curriculum vitae, financial affairs, and his university studies. Among the printed materials are books (including several of his own), clippings, pamphlets, and brochures.

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Stakhevich, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1893-1948

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents. photograph, subject files and printed materials of Mikhail S. Stakhevich. There are catalogued letters from Daniel D. Fedotoff-White, arranged letters to Stakhevich and later, his widow (mostly from the 1930's and 1940's), and letter drafts and carbons by Stakhevich. There are manuscripts by Stakhevich and others (including the wife of General A.A. Brusilov), some of which were written for the emigre journal "Morskoĭ zhurnal" published by Stakhevich in Prague from 1927 to 1942. The documents relate to Stakhevich's family, career and life in emigration. There is a group photograph of naval officers on the "Rossii︠a︡ with Nicholas II and Admiral Essen. The subject files concern the Imperial Navy, the Association of Former Imperial Russian Naval Officers and Stakhevich himself. The printed materials include naval communiquʹes from 1917 to 1919, clippings and a copy of "Spisok lichnago sostava sudov flota" (Petrograd, 1916).

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Dreier, Vladimir Nikolaevich von, 187?-

Typescript memoirs entitled "Dela davno minuvshikh dneĭ" (357 p.). The memoirs begin with von Dreier's childhood in Turkestan; follow his military service up to World War I (he was assigned at various times to Tripoli and the Balkans); his service during World War I; and his experiences in Moscow and with the White armies during the Civil War.