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  • Dreyfus Affair Periodicals
    The weekend supplements of these popular English, French, and Italian newspapers feature large, usually colored illustrations accompanied by short commentaries of the events surrounding the trials and imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus and Émile Zola's involvement in his cause. ...more information

  • Hinrichs (Albert Ford)
    This collection consists primarily of letters describing the USSR in 1930 and 1932 as it appeared to an American economist. Also included is miscellaneous biographical information relating to the author. ...more information

  • Hirsch (David H.)
    The David H. Hirsch papers (1826-2000; bulk, 1961-1999) include correspondence, essays, manuscripts, translated materials, research and lecture notes, course syllabi, annotated critical material, financial documents, conference proceedings, committee agendas, notebooks, and photographs. These materials relate primarily to his tenure as Professor of English at Brown University. The collection reflects his extensive research and writing in literature and literary theory, particularly on Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe. He also immersed himself in Holocaust literature and interpretation with emphasis on the memoirs, poetry, and songs created by individuals who experienced it. A portion of the collection contains the fiction of his son, Joe Hirsch. ...more information

  • Hitler

    The bulk of Adolf Hitler's library (approximately 1,200 titles) is in the Third Reich Collection at the Library of Congress.

    Brown University Library has 99 titles that are connected to locations where Adolf Hitler lived or worked.

    Leonard Hitler Collection (1945) Quentin B. Leonard, Class of 1944, mailed 2 magazines to Prof. Raymond Archibald. The letter Mr. Leonard included with the package is dated 13 August 1945 and reads, "On Saturday afternoon I mailed to you a folder containing a couple of magazines printed in German. These magazines came from one of the buildings at Hitler's Berchtesgaden residence. I picked them from the rubble when I visited there last May. They are totally worthless, except for their souvenir value."

    Aronson Hitler Collection (1986) The 80 books in this collection were retrieved by Colonel Albert Aronson from Hitler's bunker in May of 1945. They were donated to Brown in 1986.

    Smyth Hitler Collection (January 2020) From a collection of books retrieved from Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment in 1945 by Lieut. Craig Hugh Smyth. The books were donated to the John Hay Library by sculptor Ned Smyth in 2020.

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  • Muller (Otto)
    Otto Muller was a German political author and journalist, who produced over 25 books in his lifetime. He is best known for his novel Charlotte Ackermann, which was later made into a play. This collection includes manuscripts, reviews, correspondence, artwork, professional and personal documents, and articles from journals and newspapers both by and about Muller. ...more information

  • Parsons (Usher)
    Usher Parsons (1788-1868) was a professor of anatomy and surgery in Brown University's early medical school. Parson's medical experience is legendary in the annals of military surgery as he was the only surgeon at the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. The collections cintains diaries (1831-1866), surgical notes, travel journals, and account books. ...more information

  • Roelker (Nancy Lyman)
    The Nancy Lyman Roelker papers include research notes, photocopies, manuscripts, publications, letters, and teaching materials from her classes at Tufts University, Boston University and Brown University. Also included are juvenilia and memorabilia from her secondary school teaching career. Roelker's field was sixteenth century France and her subjects included Henry of Navarre and Jeanne d'Albret, as well as sixteenth century French noblewomen and French Huguenots. The material dates from 1929 to 1993, with the bulk of it from 1963 to 1985. ...more information

  • Russell (Jonathan)
    The papers of merchant, diplomat, and Massachusetts Congressman Jonathan Russell, Class of 1791, provide information on an early critical period of American politics and diplomacy. Included are records, notes, and correspondence for the period 1795-1830, during which Russell was a member of the United States Commission to draw up the Treaty of Ghent following the War of 1812, and later, Minister to Sweden and Norway. There are also several hundred letters from Russell to President James Monroe, and 22 from Monroe concerning commercial and diplomatic relations between the United States and Europe. Some 120 letters which Russell exchanged with John Quincy Adams span the years 1798 to 1823. ...more information

  • Toulouse Family correspondence
    This collection is one bound volume of letters written by brothers Eugene and Jean Toulouse to their brother Emile Toulouse regarding their experiences in the French military during World War I. There are also a few letters written to Emile by friends and cousins. Emile served as a Firefighter in Paris. Eugene served with the Infantry and Jean served with the Artillery and then trained as an Electrician. The volume contains about 1,000 items. The correspondence dates from January 3, 1916 to November 17, 1917. It also contains a sheet of dried flowers collected by Eugene in the trenches during March - July 1915. The volume is a homemade scrapbook style volume. Thin strips of paper are gathered into signatures. Each piece of correspondence was then pasted to the strip of paper along one edge. The covers are made of paperboard and cloth and covered with blue paper reminiscent of the color of the French uniforms called "bleu horizon." ...more information

  • Wandering Jew

    The gift of W. Easton Louttit, Jr., Class of 1925, this collection includes plays, poems, novels, and stories, and prints, as well as critical, philosophical, and scholarly studies of the archetypical story of men shut out from the human community and doomed to wander eternally. Possibly the finest accumulation of books on this theme to be found outside the Bibliotheque Nationale. It contains over 1,500 volumes featuring works by Goethe, Schiller, Shelley, Feuchtwanger, Edwin Arlington Robinson and especially Eugene Sue. ...more information

  • Zola (Emile) and Henry Ceard
    Chiefly correspondence. Zola writes about contemporary writers and journalists, literary criticism, the stage, censorship, politics, and personal affairs -- including his own novels and reviews. Seventy-eight letters (1879-1889) are to Henry Ceard.

    Other correspondents include: Paul Adam, Jean Aicard, Georges Charpentier, Francois Coppee, Alphonse Daudet, Theodore Duret, Edmond de Goncourt, Francois Hebrard, Leon Hennique, Joris Karl Huysmans, Wilhelm Lilienthal, Georges Ricouard, Paul Robiquet, Jules Simon, Edouard Toulouse, Louis Ullbach, Ernest Vizetelly, Raoul Vost, and Ernst Ziegler. ...more information

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