Contains 45 Collections and/or Records:
Abbey Theatre programs, 1926?, 1940
“The Big House” by Lennox Robinson 20 September 1926?; “Spring” by T.C. Murray and “Bird’s Nest” by Lennox Robinson 22 January 1940
John Abercrombie letters, undated, 1833-1843
Holograph letter addressed to “Rev’d D. Sprague” with an invitation to the Royal Society. Later letters reference moral and philosophical ideas and mention Abercrombie’s Inquiries concerning the intellectual powers, and the investigation of truth (1832)
Louis Adamic papers, 1939-1951
Typed letter, signed, to Mrs. Leon B. Judah regarding her review of My America, 1928-1938 (1938) for her Literary Discussion Group, Louisville Section, National Council of Jewish Women; typed copy of her review; clippings on Adamic; broadside: “Plymouth Rock and Ellis Island”
Evelyn C. Adams manuscript, 1946
Typed manuscript with final corrections of American Indian Education: Government Schools and Economic Progress.
James Truslow Adams letter, 1933
Typescript letter, signed, to a Mr. Everett, concerning purchase of some books, a possible trip to America and recovery from an injury.
John Adams land grant, 1800
Holograph land grant, signed by President Adams and others, to Willoughby Tebbs of Philadelphia.
John Quincy Adams letter and a prospectus, 1833; 1845
Holograph letter, signed, mounted on silk tissue, to Michenor Cadwallader (Cadwallader, M.) in response to Cadwallader’s proposal to publish an anti-Masonry newspaper; Cadwallader’s prospectus for New Daily Paper, Buffalo, 1845.
Jane Addams letters, 1918, 1925
Typed letter, signed, on Hull House letter paper, introducing a Mr. Goldblatt who is working on Russian relief. Holograph letter on Hull House letter paper to J. J. Oppenheimer declining an invitation to speak at Stephens College, with a 1969 memo from Oppenheimer detailing the provenance of the letter.
George Ade letter, 1941
Holograph letter to Lester Roberts in San Francisco.
Josephine Scremin Aichner poems, undated
Typescript poems: "The Cell of Self;" "Death Speaketh;" "Ecce Homo," "Elegy for Maxwell Bodenheim;" "Four Spared Woodchucks;" “I have read Proust;” "The Village Wordsmith;" "Supplication;" "The Sand Castle;" "The Lowest Ultimate;" "Interlude: Remembrance;" “In the square a vagabond stands;” "Being Will Be Revealed by Sorrow;" “Because he never spoke”