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1921
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1990
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1921
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1921
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1990
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{"value"=>"Interlingua Institute records"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"The Interlingua Institute was established in New York City in 1970 for the purpose of promoting the use of Interlingua, an international language developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association, founded in New York City in 1924 by Alice Vanderbilt Morris and her husband Dave Hennen Morris. The records of the Interlingua Institute include correspondence of Frank Esterhill, its executive director, and of Alexander Gode, with British and European affiliates, concerning the promotion of Interlingua as an international language; minutes of the board of directors; annual reports; ephemera; newsletters of European affiliates; and books and pamphlets in Interlingua by various authors. The records of the International Auxiliary Language Association include correspondence of Mrs. Alice Vanderbilt Morris and other officers relating to the research and development of Interlingua as an international language; records of international conferences and congresses of linguists held at Brussels, Paris, Geneva, and Rome organized by Mrs. Vanderbilt and her staff; research reports; a chronological file of miscellaneous organization records; and printed matter relating to Interlingua, Esperanto and other international languages. Included are a few personal miscellaneous papers of Mrs. Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris."}
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{"value"=>"Parts of the collection are in French, German, Italian and Interlingua"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Interlingua Institute records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Interlingua Institute", "type"=>"corpname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Interlingua Institute was founded in March of 1970 by Alexander Gode, Henry Fischbach, and Alice Morris Sturges for the purpose of continuing the work of promoting the use of Interlingua, an artificial international language developed earlier by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). Alexander Gode, the Interlingua Institute's first executive director, had been director of research at IALA where he supervised the publication of the first Interlingua - English dictionary (<em render=\"italic\">Interlingua-English Dictionary</em>,1951). Following Gode's death (August 1970) there was an interregnum until 1973 when the Institute's board of directors named Frank Esterhill executive director. At that time the Institute's board of directors included Alison Gode (wife of Alexander Gode), Henry Fishbach, president and treasurer, and Alice Morris Sturges, vice president. Other directors during the Institute's corporate existence included Kurt Gingold, Deanna Lindberg Hammond, and Leland B. Yeager.</p> <p>Under Frank Esterhill's directorship the task of promoting the use of Interlingua as an international language took place largely through the medium of professional conferences and seminars held at the Modern Language Association, the American Translators' Association, and the International Linguistic Association. Beginning in 1974 the Institute began exhibiting publications in Interlingua at meetings of variouis professional associations, and it acted as a clearing house and dessiminator of publications by European - especially Scandinavian - organizations dedicated to the employment of Interlingua as an international language of communication.</p> <p>The International Auxiliary Language Association which was the progenitor of the Interlingua Institute, was founded in 1924 by Alice Vanderbilt Morris (1874-1950) and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris (1872-1944), a New York City lawyer and diplomat who was appointed U. S. Ambassador to Belgium by President Roosevelt in 1933. Mrs. Morris was a great granddaughter of the capitalist, Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Morrises proposed to research and develop an international auxiliary language which would be superior to other languages such as Esperanto and Ido. In forming the IALA the Morrises acted upon the suggestion of Dr. Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877-1948) a prominent scientist who was chairman of the Committee on International Auxiliary Language of the International Research Council. Joining the Morrises in support of their endeavor were several other persons prominent in New York academic and community circles including Earle B. Babcock, John Dewey, Stephen P. Duggan, John H. Finley, Alfred N. Goldsmith, and Herbert N. Shenton. Through the years the IALA collaborated with many outstanding linguists including Willem de Cock Buning, W. E. Collinson, Helen E. Eaton, Alexander Gode, Albert Guéard, Otto Jespersen, Roman Jakobson, C. K. Ogden, Giuseppe Peano, René de Saussure, Edward Sapir, E. Clark Stillman, and E. L. Thorndike.</p> <p>Funded annually by the Research Corporation, and by grants from the Carnegie Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and by generous gifts from the Morrises, the work of the IALA was carried on under the guidance of Alice Vanderbilt Morris and her linguistice advisors, and by the organization's research staff. During the decade of the 1930s the IALA sponsored numerous international meetings, conferences, and congresses of linguists in what became an unsuccessful attempt to achieve a consensus among linguists for a base language or languages on which to construct a new artificial language. During the war years (1940s), the IALA, under the guidance of its directors of research, E. Clark Stillman, Alexander Gode, and André Martinet, proceeded to perfect a grammar and an international vocabulary derived from the living European languages. With the publication in 1951 of its definitive <em render=\"italic\">Interlingua-English Dictionary</em> followed by the publication of the <em render=\"italic\">Interlingua Grammar</em> by Alexander Gode and Hugh E. Blair, the work of the IALA had come to an end. The organization was officially dissolved in 1953 although its newsletter <em render=\"italic\">Novas de IALA</em> (later, <em render=\"italic\">Novas de Interlingua</em>) continued to be published for a few more years. During the following years several scientific works were published in Interlingua including a scientific journal <em render=\"italic\">Spectroscopia Molecular</em> which was begun by the physicist, Forrest F. Cleveland, and a monthy abstract of scientific articles by Alexander Gode entitled <em render=\"italic\">Scientia International</em>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The records include correspondence of Frank Esterhill, executive director of the Interlingua Institute, with British and European affiliates relating to the promotion of Interlingua, an international auxiliary language; and records of its predecessor, the International Auxiliary Language Association founded in 1924 which undertook the research and development of Interlingua. The records of the latter organization include correspondence with European linguists; correspondence, memoranda, reports and other papers relating to international conferences and congresses of linguists sponsored in part by IALA; annual reports, financial records; and printed matter including leaflets, pamphlets and flyers published or collected by IALA relating to international auxiliary languages. Included also are a few personal miscellaneous papers of Dave Hennen Morris and Alice Vanderbilt Morris.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Interlingua Institute records are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1514#c1040461'>I. Frank Esterhill Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of correspondence and papers of the executive director, Frank Esterhill arranged into a chronological file (1973-1986) followed by a file arranged alphabetically. The correspondence is mainly with officers and members of Interlingua Institute and with affiliated organizations in Great Britain and in Western Europe relative to the promotion of Interlingua as a language of international communication. Correspondents include Bent Andersen, Thomas Breinstrup, Forrest F. Cleveland, Henry Fischbach, Fritz Goudkuil, Brian Sexton, Alice M. Sturges, and Karel Wilgenhof. Interspersed in the correspondence are internal memoranda, and writings including \"Dictionario Suppletive de Interlingua\", and \"Vocabulario Suppletive de Interlingua\", by K. Wilgenengof. Much of the correspondence is in Interlingua.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1514#c1040500'>II. Alexander Gode Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The papers of Alexsander Gode consist of a file of correspondence arranged alphabetically. Included is correspondence with B. C. Sexton of British Interlingua, Thomas Breinstrup, Forrest F. Cleveland, L. M. Guesnet, John Lansbury, Jacques Roux, and K. Wilgenhof. Included is an Interlingua bibliography and other writings by Forrest F. Cleveland, and a report by Gode on Interlingua activities in the United States.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1514#c1040512'>III. Organizational Records</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Included are annual reports (1973-1990); minutes and financial records of the board of directors; papers relating to the 5th, 6th, and 7th International Conferences of Interlingua; lists of directors and members; and printed ephemera. Included also is a draft of an English-Interlingua Dictionary, F-L; a photocopy of a German-Interlingua Dictionary; and a \"Linguistic Bibliography of Linguistics\", by Gerd Fraenkel.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1514#c1040550'>IV. Audiotapes</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of eight audiotapes in Interlingua recorded at the 7th International Conference of Interlingua, Denmark; and two audiocassettes entitled \"Un Introduction in Interlingua\"; and \"Alexander Gode: Dece Contos\".</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1514#c1040551'>V. Additional Records</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Five series: I. Frank Esterhill Papers; II. Alexander Gode Papers; III. Organizational Papers; IV. Audio tapes; V. Additional records in two sections: Section A. International Auxiliary Language Association; Sectio B. Interlingua Institute</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Henry Fischbach, 1988; Gift of Frank Esterhill, January 1992; Gift of Frank Esterhill, December 1999.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Karol Pick, December 1991, Revised, December 2001; John D. Stinson</p>"}
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21.6 linear feet (48 boxes)
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1930
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1980