. . . . . . . . . . "This correspondence, dating from the earliest years of the organization's existence, includes letters from many notables, such as: John Quincy Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Dean Howells, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Josiah Phillips Quincy, Francis James Child, Wendell Phillips, William M. Evarts, W. S. Groesbeck, John L. Leconte, Charles Godfrey Leland, and William Reed Huntington." . . . . . . . . . . . . "Miscellaneous correspondence, 1782-1911" . . . . . . "Records of Phi Beta Kappa : general correspondence" . .