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Fisher, W. W., fl. 1846.
Letter from Reverend W. W. Fisher of Palmyra, New York, to E. B. Walsworth, giving details of a brutal attack on a local mixed-race couple by one Schuyler Parshall and several accomplices.
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Wyles family

A collection of manuscripts pertaining to the social and business history of the John Wyles family. The more important earlier letters in the collection, 1795-1805, indicate the commercial and speculative interest, largely in real estate, John Wyles had in the newly settled territory of the Western Reserve. The subsequent letters and manuscripts including deeds, receipts, and miscellaneous papers, are concerned with the financial and business history of the Wyles family throughout the several generations from 1800 through 1903.

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The Poetry Collection
Comprising mostly the collection previously owned by Lord Carlow, the Wyndham Lewis Collection is the second largest in existence and contains a large number of manuscripts, typescripts, and corrected page proofs for many of Lewis's books, several of which are bound in leather. These document the author's process of continually revising his writings all the way up to their final publication and beyond. The Lewis archive also contains approximately 80 letters, mostly to A. J. A. Symons and Iris Barry; manuscripts of unpublished articles; fragments of verse; and complete runs of the little magazines Blast, The Enemy and The Egoist. Additionally, The Poetry Collection owns several of Lewis's drawings and his 1939 portrait painting of Samuel P. Capen, former Chancellor of The State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Wynkoop family.
Papers of a Kingston, New York family include correspondence (1740-1930); account books (1768-1770); a daybook (1758-1779); ledgers (1776, 1791-1808); journals, diaries, family Bibles, legal papers (1753-1804), and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection consists of business records of Cornelius Wynkoop and his sons, Cornelius C. Wynkoop and John C. Wynkoop.
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"X" - MANUSCRIPTS 2350 Volumes

The first manuscripts collected at Columbia, these 2,350 volumes of manuscript books and bound volumes of letters were classified in the regular classification scheme (Dewey) with the call number preceded by the letter "X". They were cataloged by printed book rules into the main catalog. Cards are found in RBML in the correspondence and manuscript card files, as well as the "X" shelflist. No firther additions to this collection are made since the 1960s.

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Yeats Family

A collection of letters from members of the Yeats family, including twelve letters from William Butler Yeats to Ellen Douglas Duncan, director of the Dublin Gallery of Modern Art, relating to public lectures and containing comments on the unrest in Ireland in 1918. There are also thirty letters from Elizabeth C. Yeats to Mary L. Sutliff dealing with publications of the Cuala Press. Family photographs with the annotations of Elizabeth Yeats, newspaper clippings, book reviews, and other printed ephemera are also contained in the collection. In addition, TALKING ABOUT YEATS, a 1967 television script by Micheál Mac Liammóir, and a related letter from Mac Liammóir; and a typescript catalog of Col. Russell K. Alspach's Yeats collection (not on microfilm).

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Yofe, Yehudah, 1873-1966
The collection consists of Joffe's correspondence, manuscripts/notes, and newspaper clippings. Joffe's correspondence in Yiddish in English is both personal and professional, covering communication with institutions he was working at or hoping to work at. Joffe's manuscripts contain drafts for lectures and notes on university seminars and lectures he attended under Prof. Roman Jakobson and others. Joffe's newspaper clippings contain a selection of clippings relating to Prof. Peck, his undergraduate advisor, and miscellaneous clippings.