22. Rice University faculty and administrative records

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The records consist of drafts, galley proofs, revisions, page proofs, and typescripts. Also included are grant records, accounting receipts, correspondence, and other administrative files of the Jefferson Davis Association. Raw digital materials for the documentary "Jefferson Davis - an American President" (2008) are found in the Audio-Visual series.

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This collection contains correspondence, proposals, reports, budgets, and other materials related primarily to grants administered by the Dean of Natural Sciences (William E. Gordon) during the 1960s and 1970s.

Abstract The Bursar's Records contain mostly budget requests from each department and supporting correspondence. Also included are budget and account working papers. The Bursar's Records are divided into two categories, Budget and Budget Summary. Included in the Budget folder for each year is one copy of a working budget accompanied by departmental budget requests and subsequent correspondence. The Budget Summary folder contains revised budgets, budget year summaries and the supporting working...

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agendas, minutes, advertising, letters to and from candidates, itineraries, and other types of correspondence, files related to committee work, and candidates' files.

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Records reflecting the official business of the Presidential Search Committee, 1984-1985, including documentation of student, faculty, and alumni input; nominations; candidate files; and white paper preparation. This search resulted in the hire of George Rupp as President of Rice University.

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"Studies in English Literature 1500-1900" is a quarterly journal of historical and critical studies that is based at Rice University. The record group contains correspondence between authors/reviewers and the editors; some original typescripts and galley proofs; correspondence on rejected articles.

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This collection includes duplicates of Rice University publications, individual copies of which have been cataloged separately and are available in the Woodson Research Center and/or in Fondren Library main stacks.

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This collection contains correspondence, memos, budgeting and accounting records, and other materials associated with the operation of the Fine Arts Department of Rice University from 1960-1969. The bulk of the material is from 1965 to 1968.

Abstract: These records include the original William Marsh Rice murder trial records, and the estate records of Rice, founder of Rice Institute, now Rice University. These records relate to the formation of the idea of the Rice Institute and the activities of its first Board of Trustees in the years before Mr. Rice’s death and to the Institute’s formative years just after his death. The outcomes of the legal proceedings documented in these records, which related to significant financial resources and...

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Correspondence, calendars of events, event programs, invitations, agendas, mailing lists, minutes, brochures, testimonials and more related to the celebration of the 2004 inauguration of Rice University's seventh president.