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RUSSIAN AND SLAVIC-RELATED COLLECTIONS
This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to Russian and Slavic topics.
ALLEN MSS.- DATE RANGE: 9th century-1972
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 150 items
- The Allen mss. consist of manuscript pieces collected by William Edward David Allen, foreign service officer, business man, and author, and his own writings about Georgian history. His own writings include Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings, and are accompanied by the many source materials he used. Included are Romanian and Russian charters of the 17th and 19th centuries, and the diary of a Red Cross Sister on the Eastern front in 1915.
- DATE RANGE: 1889-1948
- ITEM COUNT: 8,000 items
- The Amfiteatrov mss. consist of letters to and the writings of Aleksandr Valentinovich Amfiteatrov, journalist, playwright. Many of the correspondents are Russian emigre writers and literary critics.
- DATE RANGE: 1539-1710
- ITEM COUNT: 4 items
- The Baltic mss. are primarily legal documents acquired from various sources. Of interest are treaties from Poland dated 1561-1634.
- DATE RANGE: 1925-1971
- ITEM COUNT: 337 items
- The Berry mss. are the papers of Burton Yost Berry, diplomat. They consist of correspondence with diplomats, foreign service officers, statesmen, and others. Some reports and correspondence of a diplomatic nature are concerned with Albania, Bulgaria, and Rumania.
- DATE RANGE: 1878-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 4,786 items
- The Browne mss. are the papers of Lewis Browne, author, radio commentator, lecturer, and world traveler. Of particular interest is a diary of a trip to Russia in 1935. There is also a file of material concerning Lev Trotskii.
- DATE RANGE: 1856-1904
- ITEM COUNT: 1,255 items
- The Byrnes mss. are papers collected by Robert Francis Byrnes, for his book Pobedonostsev, consisting of correspondence of Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, statesman. This collection consists of photocopies, positive microfilm and typescripts of letters in Russian and French.
- DATE RANGE: 1937-1975
- ITEM COUNT: 92 items
- Papers of Russian editor and translator Ludwig Leopoldovich Domherr. Consists of notes and transcriptions of letters of Alexander Herzen prepared by Domherr for publication, as well as newspaper clippings about Domherr's work on the Herzen letters. Most of the material is in Slavic.
- DATE RANGE: 1892-1968
- ITEM COUNT: 4,096 items
- The Eastman mss. consist of the correspondence and writings of Max Forrester Eastman, author. Pursuing his interest in writing and lecturing on Russia, socialism and other subjects, Eastman became engaged as a roving editor for the Reader's Digest Association for a number of years. Some of this collection pertains to his Russian interests.
- DATE RANGE: 1923-1958
- ITEM COUNT: 626 items
- The Eastman, E., mss. consist primarily of the correspondence and writings of Eliena Vassilyenva (Krylenko) Eastman (wife of Max Eastman) and Max Eastman, author. Eliena Krylenko was employed as a private secretary to Maxim Litvinoff. The correspondence was conducted during intervals in Russia. The writings consist chiefly of sketches derived from her personal experiences in Russia.
- DATE RANGE: 1919-1963
- ITEM COUNT: 27 items
- The Hess mss. are papers of Fjeril Hess, author. They are primarily for the period of her service as Director of Sports for the American YWCA in Prague and Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1919-1921. Included are a journal, letters, and reports from her stay in Czechoslovakia.
- DATE RANGE: 1942-1969
- ITEM COUNT: 8,012 items
- The Hlavaty mss. II, 1942-1969, are the papers of Vaclav Hlavaty, mathematician. The collection consists of scientific writings, scientific and political speeches, and correspondence with prominent scientists and politicians. Letters relate to politics in Europe, problems of Czech exiles in the US, and various Czech-American organizations.
- DATE RANGE: 1919-1920
- ITEM COUNT: 27 items
- The Hurlbutt mss. consist of letters from Mary Emerson Hurlbutt, social service worker, to her family from the Czechoslovak Republic where she was serving with the Survey of Prague. She was dean of the Czech-American summer training school for social work under the auspices of the American YWCA.
- DATE RANGE: 1906-1969
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 3500 items
- The Lockhart, R. mss. consist of the correspondence, writings and memorabilia of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, diplomat and writer. In the British Foreign Office service, Lockhart was posted as vice-consul to Moscow in 1912. He was named head of a special mission to the Bolsheviks in 1918 where he was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Kremlin, and later condemned to death, for the attempted assassination of Lenin. He continued a diplomatic career in Czechoslovakia and Central Europe and later also had a weekly BBC radio broadcast to Czechoslovakia.
- DATE RANGE: 1898-1966
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 4,000 items
- The Masaryk mss. consist of correspondence and papers of Alice Garrigue Masaryk, sociologist and daughter of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, president of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1935. The bulk of the letters are from Alice's sister, Olga Revilliod and friends and are in Czech, dated 1949-1966, the letters discuss Alice's interest in Czech culture and nationalism.
- DATE RANGE: 1919-1966
- ITEM COUNT: 1,983 item
- The Mitchell mss. are the papers of Ruth Mitchell, social service worker. They consist chiefly of letters to her family and correspondence with Alice Garrigue Masaryk and Olga Masaryk Revilliod, between 1920 and 1966. Mitchell was the director of the Social Survey of Prague sponsored by the War Council of the YWCA, and attended the Czech-American Summer Training School for Social Workers a number of times through the 1920s-1960s. The papers include a 1919 diary describing the journey from the U.S. to Czechoslovakia and her stay in Prague, and notebooks, letters and articles on Czechoslovakia, 1919-1949.
- DATE RANGE: 1938-1944
- ITEM COUNT: 21 items
- The Nikolaevskii mss. are letters and papers extracted from books collected by Boris Ivanovich Nikolaevskii, author. As a world renowned Russian revolutionary of pre-Revolutionary days, as an exile since the early 1920s in Germany, France, and the U.S., where he arrived in 1940, and as a scholarly writer of strong anti-Bolshevik convictions, he was perhaps one of the most representative and knowledgeable spokesman for Menshevism.
- DATE RANGE: 1813-1967
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 178,954 items
- The Sinclair mss. consist of correspondence, writings, and papers of Upton Beall Sinclair, novelist. Of particular interest is the correspondence with Sergei Eisenstein, film director, there is also a 1931 telegram from Stalin.
- DATE RANGE: 1817-1947
- ITEM COUNT: 34 items
- The Slavic mss. consist of letters, house plans, certificates, drawings, and documents relating to Slavic countries which were acquired from various sources.
- DATE RANGE: 1900-1957
- ITEM COUNT: 201 items
- The Trotskii mss. consist principally of the correspondence of Lev Trotskii (Leon Trotsky), Russian communist leader and Max Eastman, author, during the period when Eastman was preparing his book about Trotskii in 1922 and 1923 and later when he served unofficially as Trotskii's U.S. literary agent from 1929 to 1933.
- DATE RANGE: 1921-1940
- ITEM COUNT: 1,560 items
- The Vishniak mss. consist of the correspondence files of former Russian Socialist leader and author, Mark Veniaminovich Vishniak, as editor of the Russian periodical Sovremennye Zapiski (Contemporary Review).
- DATE RANGE: 1918-1919
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- The Wilson, J.S. mss. consist of a scrapbook of Colonel James Sprigg Wilson, Chief Surgeon of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia for a year, relating to that expedition. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of Vladivostock and newspaper clippings related to the Allied intervention in Siberia.