Correspondence

Correspondence, manuscripts,
research material, photographs, and glass plate negatives relating to Mitchell's work as an astronomer and
member of the faculty of Vassar College.

Includes manuscripts of works by McCarthy, correspondence with agents and publishers, correspondence with publications like the and ; and subject files on a variety of issues such as dissidents, Spanish Refugee Aid and the Vietnam War. There is also extensive correspondence with friends, family members and other literary figures like Carmen Angleton, Hannah Arendt, Nicola Chiaromonte, Elizabeth Hardwick, Lotte Kohler, Dwight Macdonald, Cees Nooteboom, Philip Rahv, Arthur Schlesinger, Stephen Spender and Niccoló Tucci. Among the legal papers are items on Lillian Hellman. There are also photos, videotapes, scrapbooks and realia.

Biographies, autographs, correspondence, diaries, maps, photographs created by and relating to Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College.

Correspondence, contracts, printed ephemera, and other materials from publisher Mitchell Kennerley that document his work on behalf of
writers, including Randolph G. Adams, Zoe Atkins, Arnold Bennett, Dorothy Beall
Cunningham, Bliss Carman, Max Eastman, Frank Harris, Alfred A. Knopf, D.H. Lawrence,
Christopher Morley, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Composed mainly of correspondence between Einstein and the executor of his estate, Otto Nathan. Also includes letters from Elsa Einstein to Nathan, as well as some manuscripts, ephemera and photographs of Einstein.

Materials related to the work of the Vassar College's Office of the President during the tenure of Alan Simpson. The collection includes typical day-to-day administrative records, as well as documents related to noteworthy issues and events from the Simpson Era (1964-1977).

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, contracts, publications, and other materials pertaining to Henry Noble MacCracken's tenure as president of Vassar College.

Records of the Vassar College Office of the President during the administration of Sarah Gibson Blanding, 1946-1964. Includes correspondence, memoranda, clippings, articles, speeches, and press releases from Blanding's time at Vassar, including those concerning women's education, academic freedom, 1950's politics, her stand against Congressional investigation of Communist influence in education, her introduction to Adlai Stevenson on a radio program, and her 1962 statement on pre-marital sex and Vassar students.

Materials related to the work of the Vassar College's Office of the President during the tenure of Virginia B. Smith. The collection includes typical day-to-day administrative records, as well as documents related to noteworthy issues and events from the Smith Era (1977-1986).

The bulk of the collection consists
of Lowrie's manuscripts of published and unpublished book reviews, 1934-1952. Other
items include correspondence relating to Vassar College, her work as a book
reviewer, responses to her reviews, her health, comments on people and politics,
popular culture, her dogs, and other personal issues. There is also family and
biographical material, her Christmas card collection, and other items.

The collection consists primarily of photographs taken by American photographer Rosalie Thorne "Rollie" McKenna (1918-2003) that document life and events at
Vassar College during the 1950s and 1960s, including contact sheets, negatives, and prints. It also includes photographs taken by
McKenna of Springside National Historic Site, Matthew Vassar's former estate in
Poughkeepsie, as well as correspondence with the National Park Service.

Research materials, sketches, drawings, published materials, and exhibition materials relating to Rosalind Howe’s work as an artist and architectural cartographer as well as professional correspondence, published materials about Howe, and published materials which included Howe’s work.

Personal and professional papers
consisting of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts,
articles, speeches, financial papers, reports, teaching materials, and photographs.
Correspondents include Franz Boas with whom she studied and worked. Subjects include
American Anthropological Association, Progressive Education Association, West Side
Defense Council (New York City), Council Against Intolerance in America, American
Association of University Women, American Folklore Journal, Mary Wollstonecraft,
Indians of the American Southwest including Pima, Zuni, Dakotas, Sioux, and
Shoshone, civil rights, and Japan and Japanese culture. Other items include her
published and unpublished poetry; grant proposals; correspondence, clippings, and
reports from field work, including her Mescalero trip, 1931-1932; and a draft of
Margaret Mead's .

Correspondence, clippings, reports, speeches, articles, pamphlets, and government documents relating to Atkinson's work in advertising and with the Food and Drug Administration. Also includes collected Americana and Indian art and manuscripts.

Includes manuscripts, notes, diaries, clippings, certificates, deeds and photographs; but of particular note are the letters Clemens wrote to his family describing his early adulthood as well as the development and progression of his writing career.

Materials relating to Scottie Fitzgerald Smith's career as a journalist, her work for the Democratic Party, her personal life, and the maintenance of her parents' estates and legacies.

Correspondence from Mary and
Marguerite Snider (VC 1918) to their parents and brother Frank that tell of the day-to-day life of
Vassar students, their classes, extra-curricular activities, and social life.
Also includes letters to and from Frank that tell a similar story of his days at Mercersburg Academy in
Pennsylvania and Amherst College in Massachusetts.

This collection consists of
administrative and financial records, correspondence, and photographs created by
Springside Landscape Restoration, a non-profit organization dedicated to the
preservation and maintenance of Springside--a United States National Historic
Site and the summer home of Matthew Vassar (1792-1868). Publications and
writings about Springside and its designer, landscape architect Andrew Jackson
Downing (1815-1852), as well as records related to Springside from its 20th-century
owners, the Nelson family, are also included.

Papers created by and relating to
Sutematsu Yamakawa Oyama, "Princess Oyama," the first Japanese woman to receive a
college degree.

Bookplates and letters to Henry Kimball Prince, ca. 1931-1938; portraits and book illustrations; and 32 prints of a drawing of Vassar College Library.