Documents Gallery: Origins
Columbia University Quarterly, "The Maison Française" October 1919
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Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to A. Barton Hepburn thanking him for his donation of the townhouse for the Maison Française, December 19, 1912
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Letter from A. Barton Hepburn to Nicholas Murray Butler regarding his donation of a townhouse for the Maison Française, December 20, 1912
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Letter from A. Barton Hepburn to the Trustees of Columbia University, January 21, 1913
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Letter Nicholas Butler to Ambassador Jusserand, December 22, 1911
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Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Henri Bergson regarding the latter’s travel arrangements to New York, November 9, 1912; Bergson served as the second visiting French professor at Columbia in 1913
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Philosopher Henri Bergson’s notes for his lectures at Columbia, when he was the visiting French professor at the university in 1913
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Handwritten letter Gustave Lanson to Nicholas Butler, January 18, 1920
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“Columbia’s Second Summer Tour of France Starts from New York on June 26 [1913]—Separate Woman’s Tour,” including photos of touring students; article in The New York Times, May 18, 1913
“Columbia’s Second Summer Tour of France Starts from New York on June 26 [1913]—Separate Woman’s Tour,” including photos of touring students; article in The New York Times, May 18, 1913
First issue of the Bulletin de la Maison Française de Columbia University, January–February 1918
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