Research Library

Resources (4)

• Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906)

  Papers, 1878–1952, 10 ft. Linguist with an interest in mythology. Secretary to the U.S. legation in St. Petersburg, 1864–69, timber merchant in Russia, 1872–77, employee of the Smithsonian Institution to collect materials on the Russian people, 1897 and 1900, and assistant to the Russian delegation in the negotiation of the Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905. Ca. 2 ft. of his papers pertain to his Russian activities 1864–1905. Materials include correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, photographs, maps, and miscellaneous historical documents. Individuals mentioned in the papers include Prince Gortchakov, Mikhail N. Katkoff, Leo Tolstoi, Count Serge Witte, Grand Duke Alexis, Prince Alexander Eristof, Konstantin P. Pobedonostsev, Count Nicholas P. Ignatiev, A. R. Fadeyev, Andrew White, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles A. Dana and John Fiske. There is a handwritten account copied by Curtin from Count Witte's personal papers regarding the construction of the Manchurian Railway and the Boxer Rebellion, 1898–1900. The account was copied at Witte's chancellery in France, 1902, 150 pp. Donor's permission needed for some items. Lists of files and letters in several series of Curtin documents.

• Social Democratic Party

  Records, 1897–1940, 12 cu. ft. Includes correspondence of Victor Berger, a Wisconsin congressman.

• Socialist Party

  Records, 1879–1970, 7 microfilm reels and 8 vols. Minutes of state and local party organizations in Wisconsin, plus scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, containing references to communist and socialist activities in Russia.

• Stella S. Matthews (1868-1948)

  Papers, 1918–49, 2 boxes. Nurse. Organized relief work in Eastern Europe after World War I and involved in the evacuation of Red Cross personnel from Warsaw at the time of the Bolshevik invasion of Poland in 1921. Correspondence, diaries, personal records, and clippings contain references to these subjects.