2007-2009 Major Acquisitions

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2009

American Colony (Jerusalem) (1,100 items), 1899-1984.
Correspondence, diaries, writings, financial records, printed matter, scrapbooks, maps, slides, photographs, and other papers. Includes picture postcard of Palestine containing images of the postcards and related material. Photographs chiefly by Shlomo Narinsky and Sonia Narinsky, published by Jamal Brothers, Jerusalem, 1921. Addition to collection. Gift.

American Lands Alliance (80,005 items), 1991-2006.
Correspondence, reports, briefing books, testimony for congressional hearings, legislative files, administrative and financial records, press releases, newsletters, action alerts, brochures, printed matter, video recordings, CD-ROMs, photographs, and other records relating to the organization's mission to protect and restore America's forest ecosystems by providing national leadership, coordination, and capacity building for the forest conservation movement. New collection. Gift.

John Jacob Astor (1 item), 1828.
ALS (1828 September 5; New York) to Astor from the artist John Vanderlyn requesting Astor's patronage. Addition to collection. Purchase.

John A. Baldridge (15 items), 1864-1893.
Civil War diary and correspondence of Baldridge while serving in the Union Army. Also includes school records of Harry W. Baldridge and an undated history of Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia. New collection. Deposit.

Thomas Barclay (4 items), 1787-1788.
Four letters of commendation addressed to Barclay concerning his foreign service. Includes an ALS (1787 August 3) from Thomas Jefferson, ALS (1787 October 5) from John Jay, ALS (1787 November 10) from Benjamin Franklin, and ALS (1788 November 5) from John Adams. Addition to collection. Gift.

Donald Benham, collector (300 items), 1847-1883.
Correspondence, speeches, orders, appointments, certificates, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the Civil War. New collection. Purchase.

William Ralph Bennett (52,000 items), 1857-2008.
Correspondence, writings, lectures and lecture notes, notebooks, research files, teaching files, subject files, consulting files, legal documents, clippings, printed matter, audio and video recordings, slides, transparencies, photographs, drawings, and other papers documenting Bennett's work as physicist, educator, and inventor. Also includes writings and other papers of his father, William Ralph Bennett (1904-1983). New collection. Gift.

Augustus S. Boernstein (1 item), 1864.
ALS (1864 September 29; In the field near Chapin's Bluff, Va.) written by Boernstein, acting commander of the 4th U.S. Army Colored Infantry Regiment, describing the Battle of New Market, Virginia. New collection. Purchase.

Arthur A. Borthwick (3 items), 1857-1865.
Two Civil War diaries kept by Arthur A. Borthwick while serving with the 157th New York Infantry Regiment. Also includes his 1857 diary. New collection. Gift.

Hugh Brady (1 item), undated.
Handwritten biography concerning Brady and his family. New collection. Purchase.

E. J. Brewster (1 item), 1861.
ALS (1861 February 20; Oxford Furnace) written by E. J. Brewster discussing Abraham Lincoln, Grace Bedell, and Bedell's letter to Lincoln in which she recommends that he should grow whiskers. New collection. Purchase.

Center for a Woman's Own Name (5,500 items), 1935-2008.
Correspondence, legal records, press releases, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other records concerning the work of the nonprofit organization in serving as a clearinghouse of information and providing advice about state laws, law suits, and various legal and social issues relating to women's efforts to retain their maiden names after marriage. New collection. Gift.

Salmon P. Chase (2 items), 1858.
Chase's holograph inaugural address (1858 January 11) as governor of Ohio. Includes a typewritten transcript of the address. Addition to collection. Purchase.

John C. Doty (1 item), 1865.
Civil War diary kept by John C. Doty while serving with the 122nd New York Infantry Regiment, Company G, in which he describes the Appomattox Campaign, Lee's surrender, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. New collection. Purchase.

Ralph Ellison (20,001 items), 1920-1979.
Correspondence, drafts, typescripts, lecture notes, appointment books, books, slides, photographs, and other papers. Addition to collection. Purchase.

E. E. Ellsworth (1 item), undated.
Autobiographical account (undated) describing Ellsworth's military career especially his part in the formation of the 11th New York Infantry Regiment, also known as Ellsworth's Zouaves. New collection. Purchase.

Amitai Etzioni (18,000 items), 1975-2002.
Correspondence, writing and research files, subject files, conference and meeting files, scrapbooks, printed matter, video recordings, and other papers. Addition to collection. Gift.

Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown (900 items), 1897-1917.
Correspondence, records of the Massachusetts Single Tax League, copy of The A B C of Taxation (1909), and other papers relating chiefly to Fillebrown's promotion of the single tax and to his writings on economics and tax policy. New collection. Gift.

Sigmund Freud (7 items), 1873-1880.
Letters from Freud to Eduard Silberstein. Addition to collection. Purchase.

Lawrence E. Glendenin (300 items), 1945-2008.
Correspondence, writings, speeches, biographical material, newspapers clippings, printed matter, books, photographs, and other papers relating to Glendenin's career as a nuclear chemist and co-discoverer of the element promethium. New collection. Gift.

Charles Perry Goodrich (60 items), 1862-1865.
Chiefly ALsS from Charles Perry "Perry" Goodrich to his wife, Frances "Frankie" Goodrich, during his service with the 1st U.S. Army Wisconsin Cavalry. Includes several letters addressed to Goodrich and to his wife. Also includes transcripts of all of the letters along with transcripts of other letters written by Perry to his wife. New collection. Purchase.

Katharine Graham (34,600 items), 1892-2002.
Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, notes, files concerning the Watergate affair, academic papers, biographical material, financial records, correspondence and office files of Philip Graham, newspaper clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, audio and video recordings, CD-ROM, and other papers. Includes drafts, proofs, and print copies of Katharine Graham’s Washington (2002). Addition to collection. Gift.

Ulysses S. Grant (1 item), 1845.
ALS (1845 October 24; Corpus Christi, Texas) from Grant to Gen. R. Jones requesting a transfer from the U.S. Army 7th Infantry Regiment to the 4th Infantry Regiment. Addition to collection. Purchase.

Morton H. Halperin (10,400 items), 1997-2007.
Correspondence, reports, political files, subject files, chronological files, printed matter, and conference materials relating to Halperin's association with the Center for National Security Studies, Community of Democracies, Council on Foreign Relations, Open Society Institute, Soros Fund Management, and assorted projects including the Constitution Project, DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa), and Democratic Coalition Project. Subjects include aid to Africa; civil liberties after September 11, 2001; globalization; and international relations. Addition to collection. Gift.

Elizabeth J. Harper (75 items), 1943-1984.
Correspondence, transcript of oral history interview, writings, commission, newspaper clippings, awards, map, photograph, and other papers relating chiefly to Harper's career in the U.S. Foreign Service. Includes a narrative written by Blanche W. Wisenthal pertaining to her visit to China. New collection. Transfer.

William Henry Harrison (1 item), 1836.
ALS (1836 February 20; Cincinnati, Ohio) from Harrison to John W. Taylor and others concerning Harrison's acceptance of nomination for the U.S. presidency by New York state's Whig Party. Addition to collection. Purchase.

Eleanor Johnson (1 item), 1862.
ALS (1862 September 2) from Johnson to her son, James Johnson, relating to the possibility of his joining the Union Army and to family matters. New collection. Gift.

Robert Kleiman (2,500 items), 1943-1946.
Correspondence, memoranda, journal, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other papers relating chiefly to Kleiman's service with the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II. Relates chiefly to psychological warfare and the use of propaganda in the Far East. New collection. Gift.

Louis-Maurice Le Rat de Magnitot (1 item), circa 1804.
Journal kept by Le Rat de Magnitot, formerly a French official in Tobago and Ste. Domingue, while travelling from Savannah, Georgia, to New York. Subjects include his voyage to America, arrival in Savannah, land journey to New York, New York City, and slavery in the South. In French. New collection. Purchase.

Irving R. Levine (11,000 items), 1945-2009.
Correspondence, speech file, writings, notebooks, reports, transcripts of commentaries for National Business Report, reference file, travel files, press releases, newspaper clippings, printed matter, computer disk, photographs, and other papers. Addition to collection. Deposit.

John A. Ligget (1 item), 1861-1862.
Account book kept by Ligget for the estate of Alexander Ligget. New collection.

Lincoln Group of Chicago (75 items), 1903-1952.
Writings and addresses given to the society concerning Abraham Lincoln, correspondence, and related material. Society composed of authors, collectors, and students of Lincoln; organized in 1930. New collection. Purchase.

Robert Todd Lincoln (41 items), 1927-1932.
Chiefly photocopies of correspondence relating to Lincoln family matters. Addition to collection. Gift and purchase.

James Madison (2 items), 1825.
ALS (1825 August 21; Montpelier) from Madison to H. G. Spafford. Includes a typewritten transcript of the letter. Addition to collection. Gift.

Monson Martin (50 items), 1862-2009.
Correspondence (originals and typewritten transcripts), covers, and biographical sketch relating chiefly to Martin's Civil War service with the 72nd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, Company C. New collection. Gift.

Cornell H. Mayer (500 items), 1943-2005.
Correspondence, memoranda, writings, notes, biographical material, newspaper clippings, certificates, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Mayer's career as a pioneer in radio astronomy. New collection. Gift.

Nathaniel McLean (12 items), 1860-1866.
ALsS from McLean to his wife relating to the bid made by his father, John McLean, for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860. Other subjects include Nathaniel McLean's practice of law and family matters. New collection. Purchase.

Robert S. McNamara (52,001 items), 1961-2009.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, briefing books, meeting papers, subject files, transcripts of telephone conversations, club and association records, health records, financial records, copyright releases, publicity material, news clippings, printed matter, audio recordings, and other papers pertaining primarily to McNamara's activities in the 1980s and 1990s as a member of organizations concerned with population, non- proliferation, and finances; research for his book In Restrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (1995); and retirement from the U.S. Defense Dept. and World Bank. Addition to collection. Gift.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (123,700 items), 1950-2008.
Correspondence; reports; subject files; chronological files; administrative files; national, regional, and state conference files; local branch files; clippings; printed matter; and other records chiefly related to Region II (Northeast Region) of the NAACP. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal records, articles, newspaper clippings, printed material, audio and video recordings, and other records of Curtis Rodgers while he served as director of economic development. Also includes posters, flags, reproductions of portraits, photographs, decorative stamps, and other records. Addition to collection. Gift and transfer.

National Book Committee (94,000 items), 1954-1979.
Correspondence, speeches, staff writings, reports, meeting files, project files, administrative files, travel files, clippings, printed matter, audio and video recordings, and other records documenting the work of the organization pertaining to the pioneering history of the book in the U.S., library promotion, and reading. New collection. Gift.

National Coalition on Older Women's Issues (15,000 items), 1971-1993.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, writings, notes, reports, proposals, subject files, legal records, directories, index cards, newspaper clippings, printed matter, audio recordings, and other papers concerning the work of the coalition founded in 1981 to coordinate the efforts of those involved in solving the problems of aging and of women. New collection. Gift.

Phi Beta Kappa (12,000 items), 1942-2006.
Biographical files of Phi Beta Kappa Fellows, administrative records, and member cards. Also includes affliated group records including correspondence, Board of Directors meeting files, Phi Beta Kappa Fellows personal and award files, and administrative files. Addition to collection. Gift.

William E. Robinson (30 items), 1841-1951.
Correspondence, speeches, legal documents, biographical information, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Robinson's career as U.S. representative from New York and to family affairs. Includes tickets to the U.S. Senate gallery for the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. New collection. Gift.

Peter W. Rodman (39,000 items), 1961-2009.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, research files, academic papers, subject files, chronological files, travel files, calendars, printed matter, broadsides, posters, awards, photographs, and other papers documenting Rodman's career in foreign relations policy. New collection. Gift.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1 item), 1942.
TLS (1942 April 29; The White House, Washington) from Roosevelt to John F. Moors concerning racial equality. Addition to collection. Purchase.

Abbott Lawrence Rotch (800 items), 1903-1912.
Chiefly scientific correspondence of Rotch with aviators and aircraft designers including the Wright Brothers Company, Samuel Langley, Octave Chanute, Glenn Curtiss, Hermann Moedebeck, Cleveland Abbe, Alfred Hildebrandt, Charles Rolls, James Mearns, Gen. James Allen, and Percival Lowell. Also includes exchanges with the U.S. War Department regarding the Wright Brothers air flight trials. Also includes several awards, invoices, and other papers. New collection. Purchase.

David H. Shepard (50 items), 1950-2008.
Correspondence, memoranda, patents, notebooks, charts, testing material, biographical material, photographs, and other papers concerning Shepard's career as an engineer and inventor. Relates chiefly to optical character recognition and high- altitude wind power. New collection. Gift.

Hedrick Smith (18,000 items), 1994-2009.
Correspondence, interviews, reports, transcripts, briefing books, legal briefs, notebooks, research files, production files, financial papers, printed matter, audio and video recordings, photographs, and other papers. Addition to collection. Deposit.

Harry Snyder (2 items), 1860-1865.
Diary kept by Snyder while serving with the 17th U.S. Army Ohio Volunteer Regiment and a soldier's Bible. New collection. Purchase.

Joshua F. Speed (1 item), 1840.
ALS (1840 December 24; Springfield, Ill.) from Speed to his mother concerning personal matters. Speed was a Kentucky state legislator, farmer, real estate investor, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln from Speed's years in Springfield Illinois. New collection. Purchase.

State Natural Heritage Programs (3,525 items), 1969-1995.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, agenda, reports, proposals, notes, calendars, printed matter, photographs, and other records of the State Natural Heritage Programs (SNHP), a network of state programs working for the preservation of the natural diversity of living organisms and ecosystems. New collection. Gift.

United States. Army. Dragoons Regiment, 2nd (1 item), 1845-1884.
Order-book relating chiefly to the service of the U.S. Army 2nd Dragoons Regiment in the Mexican War. Contains several newspaper clippings. New collection. Foundling.

Alexander Vassiliev (50 items), 1930-2008.
Notebooks, notes, file guide, concordance, legal documents concerning Vassiliev vs. Frank Cass & Co., CD, and Zip disc relating chiefly to KGB activities in the U.S. from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Vassiliev, a former KGB operative and author, had access to and took handwritten notes of many operational files from the KGB's stations, some personal files on both officers and sources, and the first volume of the file on "Enormous," the KGB's atomic intelligence project. Materials were used in writing Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (2009), coauthored by Vassiliev, John Earl Haynes, and Harvey Klehr. Includes typewritten transcriptions and translations of Vassiliev's notebooks and notes. In English and Russian. New collection. Gift.

Jean Waldman (67 items), 1817-1865.
Correspondence, orders, manuscript map, and other papers pertaining primarily to the Confederate war effort. Includes a contemporary fair copy of Robert E. Lee's General Order No. 9 announcing the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. Also includes letters and documents signed by Robert E. Lee, Nathaniel Folsom, A.P. Hill, Dabney Maury, Winfield Scott, James Seddon, William F. Smith, John H. Winder, and others. New collection. Gift.

Gideon Welles (3 items), 1870-1874.
Manuscript draft of Welles' book titled, Lincoln and Seward, published in 1874. Includes notes for an article, containing a portion of the book, published in the October, November, and December 1873 issues of the Galaxy. Also includes ALS (1870 December 24; Hartford) from Welles to Orville H. Browning relating to William Henry Seward and to a history being written by Thurlow Weed. Addition to collection. Purchase.

John D. Whiting (125 items), 1933-2008.
Chiefly paintings of Holy Land flowers, plants, and places by Grace Spafford Whiting. Includes two discs with electronic scan files (2008). Addition to collection. Gift.

Benjamin F. Whitten (750 items), 1848-1883.
Correspondence; orders, invoices, requisitions, and other military records; family papers; and other papers relating primarily to Whitten's Civil War service. New collection. Purchase.

Theodore Stark Wilkinson (5,000 items), 1907-1971.
Correspondence, operation plans, reports, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Addition to collection. Gift.

Williams family (20 items), 1778-2000.
Diaries of Clarence H. Williams and William Frederick Williams, summaries of the diaries, notes, genealogical material, legal and financial records, newspaper, printed matter, ephemera, and other papers. New collection. Gift.

Herman Wouk (75,000 items), 1943-2006.
Correspondence, journals, speech files, memoirs, book production files, short stories, typescript drafts, playscripts, librettos, notes, research material, subject files, articles, television production files, screen treatments, travel files, calendars, financial and legal records, family papers, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, awards and certificates, audio and video recordings, photographs, and other papers documenting Wouk's writing career and life. Addition to collection. Gift.

Richard Yates (11 items), 1855-1862.
ALsS addressed to Yates from William Herndon, Schuyler Colfax, Nathaniel McLean and others relating chiefly to Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Republican National Convention and presidential election, and other political affairs. New collection. Purchase.

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2008

American Bar Association. Commission on Women in the Profession. Women Trailblazers in the Law Oral History Project (24 items), 2005-2007.
Transcripts of oral history interviews with Barbara Babcock, Barbara A. Black, Ruth Burg, Mary Cranston, Sara-Ann Determan, Carol Dinkins, Betty Weinberg Ellerin, Zona Hostetler, Barbara Mendel Mayden, Dorothy Nelson, Betty Roberts, Maryann Saccomando Freedman, Betty Binns Fletcher, Antonia Hernandez, Barbara Paul Robinson, Grace Berg Schaible, Shirley Adelson Siegel, Dolores Korman Sloviter, Rosalie E. Wahl, Patricia M. Wald, Judith Winston, and Miriam Wolff. New collection. Gift.

American Rocket Company (10,000 items), 1976-1986.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of congressional hearings, legislative bills, printed matter, and other records of the American Rocket Company, the first company in the commercial space industry in the United States. New collection. Purchase.

American Scholar (52,000 items), 1983-2006.
Correspondence, memoranda, writings, operation and publication files of the American Scholar, and other records. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Julius Becton (65,000 items), 1951-2007.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, notes, oral histories, military histories, briefing books, subject files, legal files, telephone logs, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, awards and certificates, photographs, slides, drawings, audio and video recordings, and other papers relating to Becton's career in the U.S. Army, as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), superintendent of the District of Columbia public schools, and president of Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas. New collection. Gift.

Zbigniew Brzezinski (30,000 items), 1965-2008.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, subject files, travel files, appointment books, printed material, photographs, audio and video recordings, and other papers pertaining to Brzezinski's career in public service and diplomacy primarily in the years following his work in the Jimmy Carter administration. Addition to existing collection. Deposit.

Citizens Party (U.S.) (700 items), 1980-1992.
Correspondence, minutes, constitution, reports, newsletters, membership directories, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other records of the Citizens Party, a political party composed of environmentalist and liberal groups. The party was formed in 1979 and dissolved in 1987. New collection. Gift.

Danforth-Bush family (200 items), 1713-1855.
Correspondence, journals, writings, sermons, newspaper articles, photographs, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

David Davis (35 items), 1844-1882.
Correspondence concerning Davis's service in the Illinois state legislature, presiding judge of the 8th Illinois Circuit Court, U.S. Supreme Court justice, and U.S. senator from Illinois. Subjects include Davis's friend, Abraham Lincoln, and national politics. Addition to existing collection. Gift and purchase.

Nancy Dickerson (20,000 items), 1938-1997.
Correspondence, journals, writings, reporter's notebooks, oral history transcripts, interviews, subject files, financial records, photographs, and other papers relating to Dickerson's career as a journalist. New collection. Gift.

Charles Henri, comte d’Estaing (3 items), 1779-2006.
Notebook (1779) of d'Estaing and photographs (2006) taken of unidentified portraits of d'Estaing. Addition to existing collection. Purchase.

Otto Fleischmann (2,000 items), 1939-1950.
Correspondence, memorandum, writings, lectures, Anna Freud correspondence, Moritz Schlick writings, files relating to Raoul Wallenberg, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers concerning Fleischmann's career as a psychoanalyst. New collection. Gift.

Katharine Graham (44,500 items), 1910-2002.
Correspondence, memoranda, drafts and material concerning Graham's memoir, interviews, subject files, family papers, genealogical material, financial and legal records, audio and video recordings, photographs, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Andrew Jackson (3 items), 1830-1845.
File copy of a letter (Hermitage, Tennessee; 1845 March 27) in the hand of Andrew Jackson Donelson with corrections by Jackson concerning Jackson's rejection of the idea that he be buried in a Roman sarcophagus, with a statement of his republican principles and religious beliefs. Includes an engraving of Jackson at the Hermitage, 1830, and a typewritten transcript of a letter (1845 March 27). Addition to existing collection. Purchase.

James Kraft (3 items), 1967-1968.
Letters addressed to Kraft, photographer and printmaker, from Laura Gilpin and Paul Strand. New collection. Transfer.

Anthony Lewis (64,500 items), 1957-2007.
Correspondence, speeches, book files, articles, subject files, byline clips, printed matter, photographs, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Edward N. Lorenz (52,300 items), 1957-2008.
Correspondence, writings, research files, appointment calendars, clippings, printed matter, awards and certificates, graphs, photograph album, photographs, slides, sound recordings, computer CPU, and other papers documenting Lorenz's career in meteorology and mathematics. New collection. Gift.

Frederic Albert Manger (1 item), 1900.
Poem concerning the 1900 William Jennings Bryon vs. William McKinley presidential election. New collection. Transfer.

Humphrey Marshall (500 items), 1808-2002.
Photocopies of correspondence, diary, legal records, genealogical material, printed material, and other papers concerning Humphrey Marshall and the Marshall family. New collection. Gift.

Albert Mildenberg (1 item), 1900.
Novellette titled "Raffaello." New collection. Transfer.

Richard W. Murphy (15,400 items), 1976-2005.
Correspondence, diaries, writings, speeches, reports, appointment books, printed material, DVDs, audio and video recordings, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Paul H. Nitze (64,000 items), 1937-1996.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, interviews, background files, subject files, chronological files, statements, school notes, clippings, printed matter, audio and video recordings, computer files, and other papers relating to the Reagan administration, international relations, and national security. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Sandra Day O'Connor (71,000 items), 1930-2008.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, drafts and related material for Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest (2002) and The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice (2003), interviews, briefing material, travel itineraries, yearbooks, newspaper clippings, printed matter, posters, plaques, certificates, photographs, drawings, watercolors, CDs, audio and video recordings, and other papers relating chiefly to O'Connor's activities while an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Includes legislative and judicial files documenting her service as a senator in the Arizona state legislature, judge for the Arizona Supreme Court, and judge for the Arizona Court of Appeals. Also includes diaries of her husband, John O'Connor. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

William E. Odom (38,010 items), 1926-2008.
Correspondence, memoranda, emails, speeches, writings, interviews, testimonies, academic papers, reports, notes, articles, reviews, subject files, research material, chronological files, financial records, appointment books, telephone logs, scheduling files, printed material, microfilm, video recordings, CDs, computer discs, photographs and photograph albums, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

John Garrett Penn (30,000 items), 1970-1999.
Correspondence, memoranda, opinions, orders, exhibits, trial transcripts, case filings, bench books, appointment books, and other papers relating to Penn's career as a judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court and of the United States District Court (District of Columbia). Includes material pertaining to cases including Griffin v. United States. New collection. Gift.

Phi Beta Kappa. (33,500 items), 1787-2004.
Correspondence, minutes, bylaws, reports, committee records, district files, chapter files, affiliated organizations files, financial records, and other records. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Charles Putnam (3 items), 1863-2004.
Civil War journal, a biographical data form, and an article concerning Company M of the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery Regiment. New collection. Transfer.

Grace A. Rafaj (4,000 items), 1949-1997.
Correspondence, writings, newspaper articles, printed matter, passports, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Rafaj's career as a foreign service officer. New collection. Gift.

Reid family (25,000 items), 1896-1960.
Correspondence, writings, reports, financial and legal records, telephone logs, books, newspaper clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Philip Roth (2,000 items), 1975-2004.
Correspondence; production files including drafts, proofs, notes, drawings, and background material for Roth's books The Human Stain (2000), The Dying Animal (2001), Shop Talk (2001), and The Plot Against America (2004), and other works; items pertaining to awards; and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Purchase.

Donald Rumsfeld (121,531 items), 1906-2007.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, published volumes of the public statements of Rumsfeld, meeting notes, notebooks containing handwritten notes by Lawrence Di Rita, subject files, briefing books, oral histories, event files, campaign files, appointment books, daily calendars, scheduling files, trip files, press clippings, financial papers, genealogical material, school papers, family papers, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, audio and video recordings, microfilm, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift and deposit.

Homer Sarasohn (2,501 items), 1940-2001.
Correspondence, memorandum (1949 July 27) titled “A Proposal for a Management Training Course for the Communications Manufacturing Industry,” writings, books, articles, biographical material, newspapers, clippings, printed material, audio and video recordings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Sarasohn's career as an engineer and to his service as a pioneer in industrial quality management in Japan following World War II. In English and Japanese. New collection. Gift.

Walter T. Schonfeld (250 items), 1934-2002.
Correspondence, transcripts of interrogations, Schonfeld's book titled Nazi Madness: Highlighted at Nuremburg (2000), photographs, negatives, and other papers concerning Schonfeld's work as a research analyst at the Nuremburg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany (1946-1949). In English and German. New collection. Gift.

Daniel Schorr (67,500 items), 1930-2004.
Correspondence, diaries, writings, speeches, interviews, broadcast scripts, wire service reports, notes, subject files, travel files, clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, sound and moving image recordings, and other papers documenting Schorr's career in print and broadcast journalism. New collection. Gift.

Elizabeth Severn (2,750 items), 1911-1986.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, books, clippings, printed matter, painting, photographs, and other papers chiefly concerning Severn's career as a psychologist. New collection. Gift.

Martin J. Sherwin (82,000 items), 1931-2006.
Correspondence, transcriptions and audio recordings of interviews, copies of the complete FBI file of J. Robert Oppenheimer, notes, research files, photographs, and other papers used by Sherwin in writing American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2006). New collection. Gift.

Frank Stanton (51,800 items), 1910-1995.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, speeches, reports, subject files, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, audio and video recordings, awards, and other papers relating to Stanton's career as a broadcast executive. New collection. Gift.

Mattie J. T. Stepanek (1 item), 1993-2000.
Presentation volume (circa 1993-circa 2000) containing copies of handwritten poems, transcriptions of the poems, drawings, photographs, and a newspaper clipping written by and concerning Stepanek. New collection. Transfer.

K. Aage Strand (15,000 items), 1895-1999.
Correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, subject files, notes, printed matter, slides, and other papers chiefly concerning Strand's career as an astronomer and as scientific director of the U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. Documents Strand's work in double star photography, astrometry, and astrometric instrumentation design. New collection. Transfer.

William L. Taylor (113,000 items), 1949-2001.
Chiefly legal files containing correspondence, reports, transcripts, petitions, expert witness files, background material, discovery documents, exhibit files, general office files, clippings, printed matter, and other papers documenting Taylor's activities with the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights. Includes material relating to Liddell v. Board of Education, federal legislation for the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

R. L. Telfair (1 item), 1862.
ALS (Prairie Grove, Wis.; 1862 December 10) to R. L. Telfair from D. H. Hine, Union Army soldier, following the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. New collection. Gift.

Martin Van Buren (2 items), 1844.
Andrew Jackson autograph sentiment signed. Enclosure to 1844 March 8 letter from Andrew Jackson to Van Buren. Addition to existing collection. Purchase.

Women in Community Service (U.S) (15,000 items), 1964-2007.
Correspondence, minutes, executive director's files, annual reports, newsletters and other publications, printed matter, videocassettes, DVDs, photographs, and other records of Women in Community Service (WICS), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the number of women and children in poverty by promoting economic independence. New collection. Gift.

Ronald L. Ziegler (60,000 items), 1961-1998.
Correspondence, memoranda, testimony, notes, presidential transition and pardon files, press files including transcripts of press conferences and briefings, personal files, chronologies relating to the Watergate affair, travel files, telephone logs, newspaper clippings, printed matter, audio and video recordings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Ziegler's role as press secretary in the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. New collection. Gift.

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2007

American Studies Association (4,900 items), 1951-2005.
Correspondence, minutes of the biannual meetings of the executive committee and national council of the association, committee files, annual meeting files, Associated University press files, files concerning The American Quarterly, ASA constitutions, legal files, and records of Allen F. Davis, executive secretary and president of the ASA. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Jacob A. Arlow (3,000 items), 1949-1997.
Notes, writings, subject files, conference presentations, printed matter, audio recordings, slides, and other papers of Arlow relating to his work as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. New collection. Gift.

Clara Barrus-John Burroughs (4,000 items), 1878-1966.
Correspondence, writings, lectures, notes, wills, auctions records, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to naturalist Burroughs and to physician and writer Barrus's association with Burroughs and to her family life. New collection. Gift.

Daniel J. Boorstin (21,258 items), 1929-2001.
Correspondence (including several letters to Daniel and Ruth Boorstin from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Helen Hayes), journals, writings, printed material, clippings, awards, photographs, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

James Buchanan (2 items), 1844.
ALS (circa 1844) and transcript of the letter from Buchanan to Arnold Plumer relating to Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, the National Bank, the Whig Party, Pennsylvania politics, the Tariff of 1842, the Missouri Compromise, nullification, and the presidential campaign of 1844. Addition to existing collection. Purchase.

Rita R. Colwell (185,000 items), 1962-2004.
Correspondence, minutes, writings, laboratory notes, student files, travel files, membership files, subject files, financial material, printed material, awards, photographs, microfiche, sound recordings, science instruments, and other papers relating to Colwell's activities as a scientist and educator and her work in marine biotechnology. New collection. Gift.

Joseph Edward Davies (15,000 items), 1910-1960.
Correspondence, diaries, writings, speeches, subject files, biographical material, financial papers, calendars, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Donald S. Dawson (50 items), 1908-2005.
Correspondence, diary, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed material relating to Dawson's service as executive assistant to Harry S. Truman. New collection. Gift.

Amitai Etzioni (92,000 items), 1960-2002.
Correspondence, writings, reports, journal submissions, conference papers, White House Conference files, article and book files, research materials, materials relating to The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics, administrative and subject files, travel files, organizational records of the American Sociological Association, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

James Forman (70,000 items), 1924-2002.
Correspondence, diaries, writings, speeches, subject files, reports, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee files, notes, clippings, printed matter, video recordings, photographs, and other papers documenting Forman's civil rights activities. New collection. Gift.

Chandler B. Gillam (300 items), 1861-2000.
Letters and transcripts of the letters that were written by Chandler B. Gillam during his Civil War service with the 28th New York Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Includes a diary (1861-1862) titled, History of the 28th New York Volunteers kept by W. L. Hicks, the regiment's clerk. New collection. Gift.

Katharine Graham (26,500 items), 1930-2005.
Diaries, correspondence, writings, speeches, interviews, book files for Graham's memoir titled Personal History, biographical material, date books, family papers, scrapbooks, subject files, audiocassettes, books, memorabilia, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Harold H. Greene (4,500 items), 1964-1999.
Correspondence, speeches, briefing books, case files, subject files, appointment books, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Greene's service as judge in the D.C. Court of General Sessions (later D.C. Superior Court) and U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. New collection. Gift.

Gridiron Club (Washington, D. C.) (6,000 items), 1979-2000.
Minutes, writings, speeches, membership surveys, and biographical forms. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Frank Kameny (70,000 items), 1961-1997.
Correspondence, subject files, legal files, printed material, and other papers concerning Kameny's work as a gay rights activist. New collection. Gift.

Jack S. Kilby (35,000 items), 1967-1999.
Correspondence, subject files, articles, clippings, books, memorabilia, photographs, video recordings, and other papers documenting Kilby’s work as an award-winning physicist and electrical engineer. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Henry Kissinger (718,000 items), 1956-2000.
Correspondence; memoranda; speeches; writings by Kissinger and others; notes; seminar materials; agendas; campaign materials; briefings; school, army, and college records; personal papers; published articles and books; and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

George Lardner (6,000 items), 1973-2003.
Writings, notebooks, subject files, printed material, audio recordings, and other papers relating to Lardner’s journalism career. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Robert Todd Lincoln (4,500 items), 1875-1936.
Correspondence, legal and financial papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

John Martin (300 items), 1861-1981.
Correspondence, typewritten transcripts of a portion of the correspondence, diary, biography, genealogical material, and other papers chiefly relating to Martin's service with the U.S. Army 116th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. New collection. Gift.

G. Eric Matson (8,000 items), 1908-1977.
Correspondence, diaries, ledger, logbook, financial materials, printed material, maps, photographs, and other papers relating to Matson's career as a photographer in Jerusalem with the American Colony Photo Department. G. Eric and Edith Matson took over ownership of the business in 1934 and renamed it Matson Photo Service which operated from Jerusalem, Palestine, and later, the U.S. New collection. Transfer.

Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer (3,500 items), 1908-1979.
Correspondence, diaries, writings, speeches, biographical material, estate papers, books, articles, printed matter, and other papers relating to this philanthropist and wife of Washington Post publisher Eugene Meyer . Addition to existing collection. Gift.

National Council of Jewish Women. Washington, D.C. (16,000 items), 1982-2001.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, committee files, convention files, files of the State Public Affairs Network, subject files, congressional issues files, staff files, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Frederick Law Olmsted (12 items), 1822-1903.
Four letters from Olmsted to Mrs. George L. Schuyler. Includes typewritten transcripts of the letters and carbon copies of the transcripts. Addition to existing collection. Purchase.

Gordon Parks (4,000 items), 1963-1990.
Writings, production materials, printed material, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Transfer.

I. M. Pei (10,067 items), 1920-2004.
Correspondence, interviews, subject files, project files, urban renewal files, printed matter, architectural drawings, photographs, CDs containing photographs, and albums of reports, renderings, and drawings. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Arno A. Penzias (8,050 items), 1951-2005.
Correspondence, writings (including drafts of Ideas and information: Managing in a High-tech World (1989), appointment books, proposals, printed material, audio tapes, photographs, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Printmaking Shop (9,000 items), 1959-1997.
Correspondence, biographical material, artist files, lists of artists and artworks, articles, printed material, and other records concerning the Printmaking Shop established by Bob Blackburn in New York, for printmaking by African American and other minority artists. New collection. Transfer.

Milton Rogovin (10,000 items), 1968-2002.
Correspondence, interviews, notebooks, subject files, printed matter, and other papers relating to Rogovin's work as a social documentary photographer. New collection. Gift.

Bernard A. Schriever (20,000 items), 1950-1990.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, subject files, financial and legal papers, printed matter, photographs, and other items relating to Schriever’s career as an Air Force officer and aerospace consultant. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

William S. Sessions (3,500 items), 1980-1992.
Speeches, court transcripts, subject files, video recordings, and other papers relating to Sessions's career as a jurist and director of the FBI. New collection. Gift.

Hedrick Smith (23,000 items), 1989-2007.
Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, research material for interviews, shoot schedules and guides, general production research, material related to Web page production, publicity releases relating to Smith's television productions, video logs, notebooks, computer discs, and video and audio recordings. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Eleanor Spear (20 items), 1928-1930.
Correspondence, typescript titled "Radio talk," press release, clippings, and other papers related to Spear's activities as a pioneer in women's aviation. Includes a ballot and constitution of the 99's, an organization composed of women air pilots. New collection. Purchase.

Robert G. Spivack (20,000 items), 1941-1970.
Correspondence, draft and research files for Spivack's book, Watch on the Potomac, copies of the Spivack Report about national politics (1950-1970), reporter's notebooks, articles, newspaper clippings, and other papers. New collection. Gift.

Charles P. Taft (8,025 items), 1854-1981.
Correspondence, diaries, subject files, research materials, newspaper clipping, autobiographical materials, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Taft and his wife, Eleanor Chase Taft. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

David S. Tatel (5,500 items), 1954-2004.
Legal case files. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget. Oral History Project. (9 items), 2006.
Transfer of nine interviews conducted in 2006 by staff of the committee, which contributed to the production of Senate Document 109-24, Committee on the Budget, 1974-2006. New collection. Transfer.

Edward O. Wilson (5,857 items), 1977-2007.
Correspondence, manuscripts and proofs of The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (2006), drafts of Superorganism and On Human Nature (1978), reviews, notes, articles, newspaper clippings, printed material, DVD, and other papers. Addition to existing collection. Gift.

Wright brothers (2 items), 1931.
TLS (Dayton, Ohio; 1931 January 27) addressed to Hiram Bingham and signed by Orville Wright. Includes a copy of a typewritten letter addressed to Orville Wright (1931 January 29). Addition to existing collection. Purchase.