Box 12

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...

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Regarding the management of the American Historical Reviews finances. Historian Frederic Bancroft got into an epistolary argument with GLB (treasurer). Burr later referred to this as the "Bancroft Episode."

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Looking for new Columbia faculty member

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Appointment with Evans

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AHA meeting location