Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. New Jersey State Committee.
Records, 1939–40, 4+ boxes. Fund set up to aid victims of the Russian invasion of Finland in winter of 1939–40. Correspondence, 3 January-12 April 1940; correspondence, acknowledgements, memoranda, reports, programs, bulletins, mailing lists, lists of newspapers, financial records, etc., December 1939-August 1940. Several letters are from Herbert Hoover, national chairman for the Relief Fund.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
U.S. president. Holograph of an extemporaneous address delivered by him at the San Francisco "Yama" Conference of the National Industrial Conference Board, November 1945, typed transcript, 6 pp. A few references to "the great slave state of Russia" and the threat of collectivism in the form of communism.
John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966)
Papers, 1893–1965, 18 boxes and 9 vols. Officer and military authority. Includes his journal of a military tour, 22 October-2 December 1926, of India and present Pakistan, 48 pp., detailing his conversations with General Sir Andrew Skeen and other officers about military matters, Afghanistan, Russia, and Indian affairs. He was attached to the British War Office at the time.
Robert Jackson Alexander
Papers, 1890(1945)-1999. 1215 cubic feet (213 records center cartons, 2 newspaper boxes, 1 oversize folder) Call no.: MC 974. obert J. Alexander (1918-2010) was a distinguished professor of social democratic orientation who spent his whole career at Rutgers (from 1950 to 1989). He authored more than 30 books, innumerable articles and other contributions to collective works, scholarly journals and renowned newspapers; he also served on the editorial boards of various periodicals. He was chiefly involved in the study of Latin American economic, social and political affairs, making some dozen trips to Latin America. The bulk of his papers is made up by manuscripts and drafts of his numerous publications and by material which he collected with regard to his publication and research projects, inter alia transcripts of a considerable number of interviews which he conducted with many Latin and U.S. American Trotskyists and other (ex) activists (e.g. Breitman. Cochran, Shachtman, Geltman, Glotzer, Browder, Harrington, Howe, Lovell, Lovestone, Novack), correspondence with Trotskyist leaders and other activists from various parts of the world - material which he excessively made use of when he wrote his renowned books on Trotskyism in Latin America (1973) and on International Trotskyism 1929-1985, a documented analysis of the movement (1991). Finding aid available: http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/alexanderb.html
Spencer Brodney
Papers (1923-1970). 5.25 ft. Chiefly correspondence (1923-1943) relating to publication of the periodicals Events and Current History, for which Brodney was an editor; editorial records (ca. 1923-1939) of articles, stories, and poems (arranged alphabetically by author), published in Forum, a periodical published in Philadelphia, Pa., which merged into Current History (later Current History and Forum) in 1940; correspondence with American historians regarding the foreign policy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, correspondence with John O. Downey of General Motors Corporation, and pamphlet by Downey entitled American Foreign Policy (1941); material relating to a paper by Arthur E. Bestor, Jr., entitled Anti-intellectualism in the Schools: A Challenge to Scholars (1952); correspondence with Frank Friedel, periodical articles, and the like, concerning Freidel's books Francis Lieber: Nineteenth-Century Liberal (1948) and Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship (1951); correspondence with Charles E. Stuart relating to an article by Stuart on Russia (1942); scattered issues of the periodical Times Talk; papers (1929-1966) relating to Free Acres Association, with which Brodney was associated; miscellaneous recollection of Free Acres (1970); and personal correspondence. Correspondents include Leonard Drew (who preceded Brodney as editor of Current History), Fred A. Shannon, Preston Slosson, and Wilbur White. Catalogue record: https://catalog.libraries.rutgers.edu/vufind/catalog_search.php?record=3097635
William David Lewis (1792-1881)
Papers, 1802–66, 57 items and 17 vols. Merchant, banker, and politician from Philadelphia. His brother John D. Lewis was a merchant in St. Petersburg. Includes John's letter book and accounts, 1 vol., 22 11., for 1806–11 in St. Petersburg, and letters from Sir Robert K. Porter, 1822–31. (NUCMC 65–1670)
