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Wiley Rutledge Papers, 1912-1984, (bulk 1935-1951)

Title: Wiley Rutledge Papers 1912-1984 (bulk 1935-1951)

Educator, jurist, and lawyer. Correspondence, family papers, court files, academic files, speeches and writings, and others papers documenting Rutledge's career as professor and dean of the State University of Iowa College of Law (1935-1939), associate justice for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1939-1943), and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1943-1949).

ArchivalResource: 76,100 items; 233 containers; 93.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003006 View

Victor Murdock Papers, 1824-1971, (bulk 1909-1940)

Title: Victor Murdock Papers 1824-1971 (bulk 1909-1940)

U.S. representative from Kansas and newspaper editor. Diary, family papers, general correspondence, Federal Trade Commission files, writings, and miscellany documenting Murdock's political career as a congressman from Kansas and leadership of the Republican insurgents who contested the power of House Speaker Joseph Cannon in 1910. Includes material concerning Murdock's activities on behalf of the Progressive Party and as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Also contains family papers relating especially to his father, Marshall M. Murdock, and brother, Marcellus M. Murdock, and their association with the Wichita Daily Eagle.

ArchivalResource: 38,300 items; 129 containers plus 1 oversize; 51.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012144 View

Billikopf, Jacob, 1883-1950. Papers, 1900-1951.

Title: Papers, 1900-1951.

Collection includes correspondence, newsclippings, photographs, and miscellaneous items relating to Billikopf's efforts as a fund raiser and social activist and deal almost exclusively with the voluntary community aspects of his career with the bulk of the correspondence spanning the years, 1930-1950. Notable correspondents include Dean Acheson, Bernard Baruch, Adolf Berle, David A. Brown, David Dubinsky, Irénée Du Pont, Solomon Freehof, Henry J. Haskell, Alvin Johnson, Horace M. Kallen, Judah L. Magnes, Abba Hillel Silver, Charles P. Taft, Robert F. Wagner, Morris D. Waldman, Felix Warburg, Chaim Weizmann, and Stephen S. Wise. Topics of interest include antisemitism, fund raising, immigration, labor relations, Palestine, refugees, and Zionism.

ArchivalResource: 15.8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70958905 View

William Allen White Papers, 1859-1944, (bulk 1899-1944)

Title: William Allen White Papers 1859-1944 (bulk 1899-1944)

Newspaper editor. Letterpress books and personal and special correspondence relating mainly to White's personal life and career as editor of the . Emporia Gazette

ArchivalResource: 136,800 items; 537 containers; 198 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011067 View

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. records, 1914-1961, 1930s-1950s

Title: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. records 1914-1961 1930s-1950s

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., founded in 1915 by Alfred A. Knopf (1892-1984), started by publishing translations of Russian and European works. By the 1920s, Knopf was publishing major American authors yet continued to publish important European authors as well. Knopf was renowned not only for its impressive list of authors but for the quality of its book production. The firm was acquired by Random House in 1960. Collection contains correspondence, manuscript records, readers' reports, press clippings of reviews, press releases, and typescripts of books published by Knopf. Knopf's correspondence, 1914-1951, consists primarily of letters to and from Knopf authors regarding publication of their work or that of other writers in the same field of expertise. Manuscript records and readers' reports, 1930-1947, include brief plot summaries and readers' opinions. Manuscript rejection correspondence, 1939-1943, contains letters from authors submitting manuscripts, and standard rejection letters from Knopf's editorial staff. Children's Department records, 1952-1961, of rejected manuscripts include short summaries and evaluations. Files of press clippings, 1930s to 1950s, of reviews of Knopf books also contain some sample book jackets and press releases. In addition to typescripts, 1937-1944, of books published by Knopf, series includes galleys and page proofs.

ArchivalResource: 68 linear feet (73 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/47 View

Hudson, Manley Ottmer, 1886-1960. Papers, 1894-1960

Title: Manley Ottmer Hudson papers

This collection includes material relating to Hudson's career, his activities in the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919, and with projects and problems of the League of Nations, including his efforts in urging the U.S. to join the League, his involvement with the American Committee in Geneva of the League of Nations Association, his positions as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice, his participation in other international matters and disputes, and his research activities as director of the Harvard Law School Research in International Law project (1930's).

ArchivalResource: 168 boxes, 15 Paige boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00085/catalog View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View