Joseph Aaron Margolies papers, 1914-1963.

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Joseph Aaron Margolies papers, 1914-1963.

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Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed materials concerning literary and political topics. Among the letters from literary figures are ten letters from the American novelist and playwright Aʹmelie Rives and her husband, the Russian Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy and letters from other famous authors during the 1920's. There are also letters Margolies collected, including eight letters from Stuyvesant Fish to George Wharton Pepper, on the League of the Preservation of American Independence, on President Wilson and the League of Nations, and letters from Presidents T. Roosevelt and Taft to Harry B. Apt concerning speaking engagements. Most of the many photographs cover the opening of a bookstore in Teheran in 1963, for which there is also additional material.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Margolies, Joseph Aaron, 1889-1982.

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Manager of Brentano's Bookstore in New York City from 1921-1951, director of the Council of Books in Wartime, 1944-1947, and later, director of the Book Department of the Foreign Policy Association and of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From the description of Joseph Aaron Margolies papers, 1914-1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 606937340 ...

Council of Books in Wartime.

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Fish, Stuyvesant, 1851-1923

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Banker and railroad executive. From the description of Papers, 1889-1910. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122443188 ...

Brentano's Bookstore.

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Trubet︠s︡koĭ, Nikolaĭ Petrovich, kni︠a︡zʹ, 1828-1900

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Foreign Policy Association Book Dept.

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Book Dept.

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Rives, Amélie 1863-1945

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Amélie Rives was born into an aristocratic Virginia family, and exhibited precocious writing talent. As a young writer, she published The Quick or the Dead?, which became a controversial bestseller; modernists derided the naive plot and theme, while traditional romanticists were scandalized by the sensual content. After a short marriage to Virginia lawyer John Armstrong Chanler ended, she met and married exiled Russian painter Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy and led a privileged life in America and E...