Abstract

Correspondence, certificates, and a small scrapbook of newspaper clippings and handwritten quotations. Letters are primarily from associates at Stanford University and students from Cornell University.

Scope and content Papers relating largely to Laistner's position as chairman of the history department, including general correspondence (1935-39), and papers and correspondence on summer school (1936-46), former students (1936-54), music committee (1937-46), assistantships and scholarships (1939-40), deferment from the Selective Service (1939-40), Semitic Studies (1940), and the history of science appointment; Laistner's report (1938) on current research and research needs to the Trustee-Faculty Committee on...