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PEN. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1923-1940.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1923-1940.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the international association, PEN.

ArchivalResource: 11 items (13 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155893155 View

Fischer, John Sylvester, 1910-1978. John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Title: John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of Harper's Magazine (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gardner, Brendan Gill, Walter Kerr, Irving Kristol, Henry Luce, Willie Morris, Reinhold Niebuhr, Milo Perkins, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Tom Wolfe and C. Vann Woodward. The correspondence also reflects his political activities, including his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson (as speechwriter) and John F. Kennedy. Political figures with whom Fischer corresponded include Maury Maverick, William Blair, Newton Minnow, Willard Wirtz, Dean Acheson, Carl Albert, Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Frank Church, J. William Fulbright, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Lyndon Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edmund Muskie, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Harry Truman. Family correspondence also reflects his political interests, and many of these letters discuss such events as Roosevelt's policies, and impressions of Germany and the Saar plebiscite where he was a reporter for the United Press in 1935. In the 1940s he wrote on the Ukraine and India, which he visited as chief representative of the Board of Economic Warfare. Much of the material in his subject files reflects his career in government with the Farm Security Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration as well as his research on political problems while a visting fellow at Yale University. Writings include a portion of his articles, books and speeches. Journals are extant for his school years (1925-1934) and there are also later travel journals (1943-1975) which are largely political. Also in the papers are photographs, clippings, and biographical sketches.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft. (60 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370012 View

Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Title: Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Primarily professional correspondence of biographer and editor M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes (9 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00489/catalog View

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954. Correspondence with Belle Greene, 1948 Oct. 21, Nov. 5, 9.

Title: Correspondence with Belle Greene, 1948 Oct. 21, Nov. 5, 9.

About The Great Pierpont Morgan.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270730127 View

Wendell family papers

Title: Wendell family papers

Correspondence, business papers, and compositions by members of the Wendell family, a prominent merchant family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (93 boxes and 1 folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01421/catalog View

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Letter, photograph clipping, and article about Elbert Hubbard, 1915-1938.

Title: Letter, photograph clipping, and article about Elbert Hubbard, 1915-1938.

The collection consists of three items: photograph of Hubbard on horseback, clipped from one of his journals, The Fra or The Philistine, in 1915; letter from Edward J. Shay on Elbert Hubbard's stationery to Lorraine Mfg. Co., 20 July 1915, relating that Hubbard went down on the Lusitania, but the Roycrofters will continue with Hubbard's work, and asking for information about their business; article on Hubbard by Frederick Lewis Allen, circa 1938, from Scribner's, describing Hubbard's career and legacy, incomplete.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62297459 View

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954. The great Pierpont Morgan : typescript, [1949?] / by Frederick L. Allen.

Title: The great Pierpont Morgan : typescript, [1949?] / by Frederick L. Allen.

Prepublication typescript of the work by the same name first published in 1949.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (335 p.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83476744 View

Lamont, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1870-1948. Thomas W. Lamont papers, 1894-1948

Title: Thomas W. Lamont papers

Correspondence; articles; speeches; files relating to the New York Evening Post, 1917-1923, and The Saturday Review of Literature, 1924-1948; records, 1906-1916, of Lamont, Corliss and Company; clippings, and photos. Relates to Lamont's partnership in J.P. Morgan & Company, his Exeter and Harvard connections, various directorships, congressional hearings which concerned him, properties, charitable interests, and especially to his role in the World War I Peace Conference and subsequent monetary and reparations commissions. Correspondents include well-known literary and political figures of this country and abroad during the 1920's and 1930's.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear ft. (286 boxes, 21 v.)

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:47980387$1i View

Frederick Lewis Allen's consumer's report on the library, 1951

Title: Frederick Lewis Allen's consumer's report on the library 1951

A speech delivered at the annual meeting of the staff of the New York Public Library at Hunter College, October 1951. Published in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, November 1951

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3734 View

Gale, Zona, 1874-1938. Papers of Zona Gale, 1914-1937.

Title: Papers of Zona Gale, 1914-1937.

Primarily literary and social correspondence from Gale. Twelve of the letters are to Edward A. Filene, covering both literary and social matters; other correspondents include Mabel Beeman Curran, Emily Hale, Robert Bridges, and Frederick L. Allen on literary matters and C.T. Brainard, Mrs. Alfred L. Castle, and several unidentified people on social matters. Traveling or geographic places are discussed in several letters. Specific works mentioned in the literary correspondence include "The Growth of the Soil" and "The Mind in the Making," both of which she received from Filene and commented on to him; her play, "Uncle Jimmy" which was published in "The Ladies Home Journal" and her novel "Faint Perfume" to be serialized in "Century Magazine." She sent Frederick L. Allen quotations from "Are You a Bromide?" and "Adrienne Toner" and samples of her own collection of glib catch phrases. Two letters discuss royalties. Collection also contains a one-page manuscript fragment of "Miss Lulu Bennett," a photograph of Zona Gale, and a presentation slip to Mary Johnston.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34689933 View

Rovere, Richard Halworth, 1915-1979. Richard Halworth Rovere papers, 1926-1981.

Title: Richard Halworth Rovere papers, 1926-1981.

Papers of Richard Halworth Rovere, a writer and editor known for his work on politics and current affairs for "The New Yorker" (1944-1978) and his book "Senator Joe McCarthy." Best for the period from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s, the papers offer excellent material on Rovere's involvement with the Communist Party and on his writings, particularly those on McCarthyism and the Vietnam War. Especially well documented are seven books Rovere wrote and contributions to such periodicals as "The New Masses," "The New Yorker," "Harper's," "Encounter," and "The (London) Spectator." Elsewhere in the collection are files on the Peace Corps in Kenya, the Ku Klux Klan, the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, and Thomas Dewey's 1944 Presidential campaign. Among many prominent correspondents are Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Granville Hicks, Irving Kristol, and Frederick Lewis Allen. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1931-1968, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1926-1981 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes); plusadditions of 4.0 c.f.,4 photographs, and2 tape recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692774 View

Records of the News Office, 1919-1974 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the News Office, 1919-1974 (inclusive).

Includes correspondence files, 1921-1972, of F.L. Allen, James W.D. Seymour, R.K. Lamb, W.I. Nichols, A. Wild, L. Dame, W.M. Pinkerton, and correspondence with James B. Conant. Subjects concern commencements, student and university publications, societies and clubs, campus activities, news and press relations and policy at Harvard, among others. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

ArchivalResource: 62 containers.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006040640203941/catalog View

Underwood, Oscar W. (Oscar Wilder), 1862-1929. Oscar Wilder Underwood letters [manuscript] 1909-25.

Title: Oscar Wilder Underwood letters [manuscript] 1909-25.

Routine letters written to various persons while Underwood was congressman and senator from Alabama, including a letter promising to support a bill allowing a telepost company to erect a plant in the District of Columbia. Of itnerest is a letter, 1920 January 12 to Frederick L. Allen, Harvard University discussing plans for his resolution for the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles: "We should make a compromise and join in the peace of the world at an early date."

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946279 View

Frederick Lewis Allen Papers, 1890-1954, (bulk 1933-1954)

Title: Frederick Lewis Allen Papers 1890-1954 (bulk 1933-1954)

Editor and author. Correspondence, articles, biographies, date books, diaries, radio scripts, histories, and speeches documenting Allen's career as editor of , director of the Foreign Policy Association, author of many popular works on American social history, and an overseer of Harvard University. Harper's Magazine

ArchivalResource: 10,500 items; 30 containers; 12 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008024 View

Garet Garrett papers, 1805-1938 (bulk 1900-1938)

Title: Garet Garrett papers

Papers of American financial writer, editor, and novelist Garet Garrett.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01242/catalog View

Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960. William Adams Delano papers, 1902-1960 (inclusive), 1939-1960 (bulk).

Title: William Adams Delano papers, 1902-1960 (inclusive), 1939-1960 (bulk).

The papers consist almost entirely of social and professional correspondence. They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft. (16 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153425 View

John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980

Title: John Sylvester Fischer papers 1907-1980

Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gardner, Brendan Gill, Walter Kerr, Irving Kristol, Henry Luce, Willie Morris, Reinhold Niebuhr, Milo Perkins, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Tom Wolfe and C. Vann Woodward. The correspondence also reflects his political activities, including his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson (as speechwriter) and John F. Kennedy. Political figures with whom Fischer corresponded include Maury Maverick, William Blair, Newton Minnow, Willard Wirtz, Dean Acheson, Carl Albert, Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Frank Church, J. William Fulbright, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Lyndon Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edmund Muskie, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Harry Truman. Family correspondence also reflects his political interests, and many of these letters discuss such events as Roosevelt's policies, and impressions of Germany and the Saar plebiscite where he was a reporter for the United Press in 1935. Harper's Magazine

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (60 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0850 View

Horace Mason Reynolds papers, 1895-1965.

Title: Horace Mason Reynolds papers, 1895-1965.

Papers of Irish literature scholar Horace Mason Reynolds.

ArchivalResource: 16 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00899/catalog View

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954,. Dunn papers [manuscript], 1897-1938.

Title: Dunn papers [manuscript], 1897-1938.

Letters, photographs, and other papers relating to the sketch and painting of a portrait then believed to be of Shelley by William Edward West. Also, Adelaide C. Rowell's The West portrait; a play in three acts, 1929. (typescript). Major correspondents are Mrs. A. P. Bryant, Robert U. Johnson, Richard W. Gilder, Henry S. Salt, and Richard Garnett. Other correspondents include Frederick L. Allen, Edwin H. Anderson, Ellsworth Barnard, Edmund Blunden, Sir Sidney Colvin, Ella D'Arcy, H. Buxton Forman, Louise Imogen Guiney, H.M. Hake, Thomas W. Huntington, John H. Ingram, Walter E. Peck, William M. Rossetti, Sir John C.E. Shelley-Rolls, Edward V. Valentine, Frank Weitenkampf,

ArchivalResource: 175 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647885897 View

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954. Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1919-1953.

Title: Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1919-1953.

ArchivalResource: 11 items (19 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173273490 View

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954. Letters, 1926-1953, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1926-1953, to Lewis Mumford.

This correspondence, while mainly personal, does have some pertinenceto the business of Harper & Bros. and Harper's Magazine.

ArchivalResource: 9 items (11 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155877934 View

John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.

Title: John Mason Brown papers

Papers of American author and drama critic John Mason Brown.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes (36 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00655/catalog View

Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.

Title: Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.

The Robert Sterling Clark reading library is comprised of ca. 800 titles that document a broad range of interests. Fiction and history predominate, though there is significant subject development in cookery and horses. The collection includes multiple volumes by a number of authors, including substantive first edition holdings of Pearl S. Buck, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and P.G. Wodehouse. Many of the volumes include minor penciled annotations by RSC which record reading dates and brief thoughts on the volume in hand.

ArchivalResource: 113.5 linear ft. : (ca. 1012 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263962247 View

Smith, Shirley Wheeler, 1875-1959. Shirley Wheeler Smith papers, 1881-1959.

Title: Shirley Wheeler Smith papers, 1881-1959.

Extensive correspondence, manuscript articles, addresses, and notes; typescript of diary written while on a bicycle trip through Europe in 1896; diary, 1926-1930, detailing University of Michigan administrative meetings and business activities; student notebooks, 1893-1897, for courses given by Charles H. Cooley, Richard Hudson, Andrew McLaughlin, Henry C. Adams, Frederick M. Taylor, Isaac Demmon, L.A. McLouth and Burke A. Hinsdale; account book, 1881-1890, listing poultry sales; scrapbook, 1916-1922. On the University; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear ft. and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34421368 View

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954. Letter to Kenneth McM. Dickey : New York : LS, 1935 Aug. 13.

Title: Letter to Kenneth McM. Dickey : New York : LS, 1935 Aug. 13.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26573859 View

Beer family papers, 1740-1981, 1827-1981

Title: Beer family papers 1740-1981 1827-1981

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas Beer, a prominent American author of novels, short stories, and articles; and Richard C. Beer, a foreign service employee stationed in Hungary during the 1920s.

ArchivalResource: 75.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0073 View

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954. Frederick Lewis Allen's consumer's report on the library, 1951.

Title: Frederick Lewis Allen's consumer's report on the library, 1951.

A speech delivered at the annual meeting of the staff of the New York Public Library at Hunter College, October 1951. Published in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, November 1951.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733309924 View

Fischer, John Sylvester, 1910-1978. John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Title: John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of Harper's Magazine (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gardner, Brendan Gill, Walter Kerr, Irving Kristol, Henry Luce, Willie Morris, Reinhold Niebuhr, Milo Perkins, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Tom Wolfe and C. Vann Woodward. The correspondence also reflects his political activities, including his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson (as speechwriter) and John F. Kennedy. Political figures with whom Fischer corresponded include Maury Maverick, William Blair, Newton Minnow, Willard Wirtz, Dean Acheson, Carl Albert, Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Frank Church, J. William Fulbright, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Lyndon Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edmund Muskie, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Harry Truman. Family correspondence also reflects his political interests, and many of these letters discuss such events as Roosevelt's policies, and impressions of Germany and the Saar plebiscite where he was a reporter for the United Press in 1935. In the 1940s he wrote on the Ukraine and India, which he visited as chief representative of the Board of Economic Warfare. Much of the material in his subject files reflects his career in government with the Farm Security Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration as well as his research on political problems while a visting fellow at Yale University. Writings include a portion of his articles, books and speeches. Journals are extant for his school years (1925-1934) and there are also later travel journals (1943-1975) which are largely political. Also in the papers are photographs, clippings, and biographical sketches.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft. (60 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153805 View

Jerome New Frank papers, 1918-1972 (bulk 1929-1957)

Title: Jerome New Frank papers

The papers consist of correspondence, legal material (including opinions, decisions, calendars, memoranda, and other papers), writings, speeches, Yale course materials, and family and personal papers of Jerome N. Frank, lawyer, government official during the New Deal, author, legal philosopher, teacher, and federal judge. The papers reflect Frank's wide range of activities, interests, and associations, and include important correspondence with many well known government officials, lawyers, philosophers, educators, authors, and judges. The papers and correspondence reflecting Frank's interest in and advocacy of "legal realism," the papers dealing with the politics and programs of the New Deal, and the papers relating to "Learned Hand's Court," the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals are arranged in this collection.

ArchivalResource: 105.25 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0222 View

Gale, Zona, 1874-1938. Papers of Zona Gale [manuscript], 1914-1937.

Title: Papers of Zona Gale [manuscript], 1914-1937.

Primarily literary and social correspondence from Gale. Twelve of the letters are to Edward A. Filene, covering both literary and social matters; other correspondents include Mabel Beeman Curran, Emily Hale, Robert Bridges, and Frederick L. Allen on literary matters and C.T. Brainard, Mrs. Alfred L. Castle, and several unidentified people on social matters. Traveling or geographic places are discussed in several letters. Specific works mentioned in the literary correspondence include "The Growth of the Soil" and "The Mind in the Making," both of which she received from Filene and commented on to him; her play, "Uncle Jimmy" which was published in "The Ladies Home Journal" and her novel "Faint Perfume" to be serialized in "Century Magazine." She sent Frederick L. Allen quotations from "Are You a Bromide?" and "Adrienne Toner" and samples of her own collection of glib catch phrases. Two letters discuss royalties. Collection also contains a one-page manuscript fragment of "Miss Lulu Bennett," a photograph of Zona Gale, and a presentation slip to Mary Johnston.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647874662 View