P.P. Dominican friar. Manuscript book entitled La Monarchia Spagnola, containing chapters on relations with such countries as Poland, Russia, and Turkey (17th c.), in Italian. (Ital. 164)
Horace Brisbin Liveright (1886-1933)
Papers, 1927–33, 20 boxes. Publisher and theatrical producer. Letters received by Liveright from authors whose works were published by the firm of Boni & Liveright. Includes correspondence from Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the physiologist. Unpublished finding aid (NUCMC 68–453).
Jurgis Saulys (1879-1948)
Papers, in process, 34 boxes, ca. 16 ft. Lithuanian civic leader, statesman, and diplomat. Cosigner of the Lithuanian Declaration of Independence on 16 February 1918. Personal correspondence and historical documents, including much material on Lithuanian culture and political history, especially efforts to gain independence during World War I. Many items are from Lithuanian legations headed by Dr. Saulys—Berlin, Bern, Rome, and the Vatican. Representatives of Lithuanian culture noted include Jonas Biliunas, Lazdynu Peleda (pen-name of S. Psibiliauskiene), G. Petkevicaite-Bite, J. Tumas-Vaizgantas, Vydunas (pen-name of V. Storasta), and Zemaite (pen-name of J. Zymantiene). Among his correspondents were scholars, civic and political leaders: the linguists Jonas Jablonskis ("Father of the Lithuanian standard language") and Kazimieras Buga; archaeologist T. Daugirdas; literary historian Mykolas Birziska; jurist M. Roemeris; historian I. Jonynas; Jonas Basanavicius ("Patriarch of the Lithuanian national renaissance"); P. Grigaitis; P. Leonas; composer M. Petrauskas; V. Pozela; Antanas Smetona (first president of the Lithuanian Republic); J. Vileisis; and Vincas Kapsukas-Mickevicius, foremost Lithuanian communist theoretician. For Kapsukas, there are materials not available even in Soviet Lithuania. Note: The library also holds a large number of rare, even unique, Lithuanian (and other Baltic) printed works, many from the Saulys collection.
Ludwig, Graf von Cobenzl (1753-1809)
Papers of Ludwig von Cobenzl, Austrian ambassador to Russia, and Philipp von Cobenzl, vice chancellor of Austria, 1786–1806, 105 items. Correspondence and documents concern diplomacy and political affairs, including relations between Austria and Russia, Prussia, and France. Among the correspondents are Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Andreas Razumovski, and Prince N. V. Repnin. (NUCMC 68–847) (French 55)
Robert Williams (d. 1660/61)
Manuscript book, 1632–54, 90 pp., bound. Merchant? Includes notes concerning trade, fiscal matters, weights and measures, and commodities in London in 1632, and in cities such as Moscow, Constantinople, Smyrna, Venice, Rome, Genoa, Madrid, and Tunis. (Eng. 21)
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Papers, 1890–1945, 486 ft. Author. Includes letters, 1926–37, from Sergei Dinamov, ca. 50 items, and 8 letters from Sergei Eisenstein, 1931–41. Permission for copying, in any form, of the letters must be provided in writing by either the author of the document or his executor. Also, 2 folders of materials concerning Russian publishers of Dreiser's books, 1927–40. Dreiser's diary of his trip to Russia, November 1927January 1928. Much of this material was used in Dreiser Looks at Russia (New York, 1928) and in Ruth Epperson Kennell's Theodore Dreiser and the Soviet Union (New York, 1969). (NUCMC 60–1134)
