Manuscripts

2025 Short Term Scholar Award: Senator Jacob. K. Javits Collection

About Stony Brook University Libraries, located 65 miles east of New York City, is offering two short term scholar awards of $2,500 during the fall 2025 semester to support research using the Senator Jacob. K. Javits Collection. The award program has been established with support generously provided through an endowment

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Senator Jacob K. Javits Collection

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION     TitleSenator Jacob K. Javits Collection                Collection NumberSC 285 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS Series 1 – Press Files. 1940-1983, n.d. 49 ft. Arranged alphabetically or chronologically. The Press Files series consists of articles by and about Jacob K. Javits, biographies of Jacob K. and Marion B. Javits, brochures, constituent form

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Series Outline

Senator Jacob K. Javits CollectionCollection 285 Series Outline Series 1 – Press Files Subseries 1 – Press Releases Subseries 2 – Press Secretary Series 2 – Bills Series 3 – Subjects Series 4 – Committees Subseries 1 – Foreign Policy-Economic Subseries 2 – Foreign Policy-Political Subseries 3 – Human Resources

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Senator Jacob K. Javits Collection

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION     TitleSenator Jacob K. Javits Collection                Collection NumberSC 285 USER GUIDEThe Senator Jacob K. Javits Collection includes: 2,460 document boxes; 3,006 photographs, slides and cartoons; 601 reels of audio and video tape recordings; 969 items of memorabilia, and 233 reels of microfilm. The total estimated number of items

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Subgroup VI: Audio-Visual Materials

Robert Payne CollectionCollection 293 Subgroup VI: Audio-Visual MaterialsSeries 1. Photographs Subseries A. Illustrations for Books Box 1: Illustrations Box 2: Illustrations Box 3: Illustrations Box 4: Illustrations Box 5:The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi. Illustrations. Box 6:*Illustrations The Gold of Troy. Subseries B. Personal and family Box 1: Photographs

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Bibliography

Robert Payne CollectionCollection 293 Bibliography This bibliography is arranged alphabetically by title. It represents first printings, in English, of works written by Payne, and those that he edited and translated. It also includes titles of books containing his introductions and forewords. If the title is housed in Special Collections or the

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Subgroup IV: Biography

Robert Payne CollectionCollection 293 Subgroup IV: BiographyBox 1: Notebooks Box 2: Notebooks Box 3: Calendars Box 4: Calendars Box 5: Financial endeavors Box 6:Apartment 2 West 67th Street, Apt. 9B The Baltimore Teachers Agency applicationsBusiness cards Certificate of Appreciation, University of Texas Certificate of Naturalization Financial, including taxes (3f)Insurance billsDivorce

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Biography

Robert Payne CollectionCollection 293 Biography Pierre Stephen Robert Payne was born December 4, 1911, in Saltash, County of Cornwall, England, the son of Stephen Payne, a naval architect, and Mireille Louise Antonia (Dorey) Payne, a native of France. Payne was the eldest of three brothers. His middle brother was Alan

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Chronology

Robert Payne CollectionCollection 293 Chronology 1911 Pierre Stephen Robert Payne was born December 4, 1911, in Saltash, County of Cornwall, England; attended St. Paul’s School, London. 1928-1930 Attended the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, South Africa and the University of Capetown, 1928-1930. 1931-1933 Worked as a shipwright’s apprentice at Cammell, Laird’s Shipbuilding

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Subgroup II: Correspondence

Robert Payne CollectionCollection 293 Subgroup II: Correspondence Series 1: Literary Correspondence by TitleSeries 2: Literary Correspondence by Publisher Series 3: Other Correspondence Subseries A. Literary and Personal Correspondence by Name Subseries B. Correspondence Subseries C. Apartment Correspondence Subseries D. Letters to Others Series 4: Family Correspondence Subseries A. Robert Payne’s

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