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Childs, Marquis William, 1903-. Papers, 1919-1967.

Title: Papers, 1919-1967.

Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and St. Louis "Post-Dispatch" reporter and columnist who covered primarily national and world developments. Also represented are Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Harold L. Ickes, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hans V. Kaltenborn, C. Estes Kefauver, John F. Kennedy, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Trygve Lie, David E. Lilienthal, Walter Lippmann, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Clare Boothe Luce, H.L. Mencken, Mikhail Menshikov, Edward P. Morgan, Wayne L. Morse, Edward R. Murrow, Gaylord Nelson, Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard M. Nixon, William Proxmire, Abraham Ribicoff, Edward V. Rickenbacker, Morris H. Rubin, Dean Rusk, Adlai E. Stevenson, W. Stuart Symington, Norman M. Thomas, Harry S. Truman, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Earl Warren, Sumner Welles, and Wendell L. Willkie. Letters from readers include comments on the airline subsidy lobby, the John Birch Society and other right-wing organizations, and Childs' own political beliefs and concern for civil liberties. St. Louis "Post-Dispatch" Washington bureau files, 1932-1960, contain editorial correspondence, memos, dispatches, and some articles. The majority pertain to Raymond P. Brandt, head of the bureau, and Benjamin Reese, an editor in St. Louis; Childs himself is directly concerned with only a small percentage. In content, these files reflect the major national and international events to which they relate. Childs' writings are represented by free-lance articles; book reviews; speeches and addresses; drafts and notes of "Eisenhower, Captive Hero" (1958), "Ethics in Business Society" (1954, with S. Douglass Cater), "The Peacemaker" (1961), and "Taint of Innocence" (1967); reviews of these and other volumes; and manuscripts of several unpublished books. There are also scripts for several ABC radio news programs. Documentation of his research methodology includes notes and memoranda; interviews with Winston S. Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Alfred M. Landon, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; and news dispatches from Poland and Russia. Also included are miscellaneous business papers and biographical material. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 11.6 c.f. (29 archives boxes) and4 tape recordings; plus.additions of 8.1 c.f.4 tape recordings, and83 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692464 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

Bingham, Alfred M. (Alfred Mitchell), 1905-. Alfred Mitchell Bingham and the Common Sense collection, 1905-1979 (inclusive).

Title: Alfred Mitchell Bingham and the Common Sense collection, 1905-1979 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, and other papers of Alfred Bingham, social reformer, writer, founder and editor of Common Sense, lawyer, and politician. Included are his personal papers, consisting of diaries, writings and correspondence, much of the latter being with individuals and organizations prominent in the reform movements of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1960s. Also included are the business and correspondence files of Common Sense, and files relating to various organizations with which he was associated. Correspondents of note include Paul Douglas, Charles Beard, Chester Bowles, Lewis Corey, John Dewey, Theodore Dreiser, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Charles Merriam, John Haynes Holmes, Anne Lindbergh, Alexander Meiklejohn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, and Norman Thomas.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702195855 View

Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990. Letter to Earl E. Harper. [Washington, DC.] 1952 Oct. 13.

Title: Letter to Earl E. Harper. [Washington, DC.] 1952 Oct. 13.

Concerning his appreciation of arrangements made for his talk at the University of Iowa.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122399880 View

Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990. Letter to Walter Winchell. Washington, DC. 1942 Dec. 11.

Title: Letter to Walter Winchell. Washington, DC. 1942 Dec. 11.

Thanking Winchell for publicity for his book I Write from Washington.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86139946 View

Jeannette Hopkins papers, 1965-2005.

Title: Jeannette Hopkins papers, 1965-2005.

Papers concern Hopkins' work on behalf of authors as an editor and agent and include correspondence, memoranda, contract summaries, and production records; correspondence often includes extensive discussion of a book's ideas, of changes and alterations, and of public response. Authors include Ben H. Bagdikian, Robert Bendiner, James MacGregor Burns, Marquis W. Childs, Eugene Genovese, Leonard W. Levy, Frank Mankiewicz, Edwin Newman, and Stan Steiner.

ArchivalResource: 9 cubic ft. (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51576730 View

Lasch, Robert, 1907-1998. Papers, 1940-1991.

Title: Papers, 1940-1991.

Papers of a journalist who was editorial writer for the "Chicago Sun-Times" (1942-1950) and the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" (1950-1957) and editor of the editorial page of the latter paper (1957-1971).

ArchivalResource: 5.6 c.f. (13 archives boxes, 2 volumes) and9 photographs; plusadditions of 0.2 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692657 View

Benton, William, 1900-1973. Papers, 1951-1961.

Title: Papers, 1951-1961.

Correspondence of Senator William Benton of Connecticut relating to his efforts to have Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin expelled from the United States Senate for a number of reasons, but primarily in relation to tactics used by McCarthy in his fight against communism. The collection is divided into two general sections. The first, correspondence with the general public in 1951-1952, relates to Benton's introduction of a resolution to investigate McCarthy and to McCarthy's lawsuit against him for libel and slander. The second section contains photocopies of Benton's correspondence with colleagues and associates relating to his later protests against McCarthy and to Benton's support for the Committee for an Effective Congress and the "Joe Must Go" movement in Wisconsin. Benton's correspondents included Dean G. Acheson, Louis Bean, Marquis W. Childs, August Derleth, James E. Doyle, Ralph E. Flanders, LeRoy Gore, Carl Hayden, Thomas C. Hennings, Paul Hoffman, Max Lerner, Joseph R. McCarthy, A.S. Mike Monroney, Wayne Morse, Edward R. Murrow, Drew Pearson, James Reston, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Harry S. Truman, Arthur V. Watkins, and James Wechsler.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145782169 View

Samuel C. Brightman Papers, 1932-1992

Title: Samuel C. Brightman Papers 1932-1992

Papers of the American journalist including some war correspondence, political and political humor writings, and adult education material

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/brightman_sc.htm View

Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975. Papers 1917-1930.

Title: Papers 1917-1930.

Correspondence includes autograph letters signed and carbon copies of letters to John T. Frederick. Much of the correspondence concerns advertising costs and subscriptions to the Midland. Also included are letters from Frederick to various contributors apprising them of the merits or deficiencies of their work, Correspondants include, Marquis W. Childs, Nelson Antrim Crawford, Loren C. Eiseley, James T. Farell, Louis Ginsberg, H. Weare Holbrooke, Leyland Huckfield, and Alice C. Weitz. Collection also includes clippings, book reviews, and postcards concerning the Iowa Press and Authors Club.

ArchivalResource: 5.4 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25516029 View

Childs, Marquis William, 1903-. Papers of Marquis Childs, 1939-1978.

Title: Papers of Marquis Childs, 1939-1978.

The papers of Marquis Childs primarily document the writing of some of his books. His creative and research processes are shown through early notes, typescript drafts, galleys, proofs, and layouts. Some of the books included are America's Economic Supremacy, I Write from Washington, and Walter Lippmann and His Times. There are also general correspondence files spanning over thirty years, speeches, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft., (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233110775 View

Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, 1935-1965

Title: Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books 1935-1965

Includes more than 2,550 Penguin books published from 1935 through 1965, as well as about 175 reference items–books, serials, catalogs, and articles.

ArchivalResource: circa 2,500 vols.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt096n97b6 View

Hugo LaFayette Black Papers, 1883-1976, (bulk 1926-1971)

Title: Hugo LaFayette Black Papers 1883-1976 (bulk 1926-1971)

Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, United States senator from Alabama, and lawyer. Family and general correspondence, memoranda, reports, notebooks, research materials, case files, legal and subject files, speeches and writings, printed and near-print materials, clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating primarily to Black's service in the Senate (1927-1937) and on the Supreme Court (1937-1971).

ArchivalResource: 130,000 items; 513 containers plus 19 oversize; 216 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001046 View

Joseph Pulitzer Papers, 1897-1958, (bulk 1925-1955)

Title: Joseph Pulitzer Papers 1897-1958 (bulk 1925-1955)

Newspaper editor and publisher. Family and general correspondence, subject material, business files, and personal financial papers relating primarily to Pulitzer's editorship of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

ArchivalResource: 67,500 items; 193 containers; 77.2 linear feet; 163 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011159 View

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Letters of tribute to Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1951-1952.

Title: Letters of tribute to Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1951-1952.

Collection consists chiefly of letters from eminent Americans in response to Margaret Ligon's request for tributes to Carl Sandburg on his seventy-fifth birthday.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647807768 View

Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990. Reminiscences of Marquis W. Childs : oral history, 1969.

Title: Reminiscences of Marquis W. Childs : oral history, 1969.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 35 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122565158 View

John Phillips Marquand correspondence

Title: John Phillips Marquand correspondence

Correspondence of American author John Marquand with literary associates, friends, and publishers.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet (17 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00833/catalog View

Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990. Reminiscences of Marquis W. Childs : oral history, 1958.

Title: Reminiscences of Marquis W. Childs : oral history, 1958.

Education and early work on the St. Louis POST-DISPATCH; impressions of Chicago and St. Louis journalists; coverage of the 1936 presidential campaign; impressions of members of the Supreme Court; Robert H. Jackson, Harlan Stone, and Felix Frankfurter.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 132 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309729711 View

Hochstein, Irma E., 1887-1974. Irma E. Hochstein papers, 1916-1965.

Title: Irma E. Hochstein papers

Papers of Irma Hochstein consisting of subject files and incoming correspondence from friends and prominent Wisconsinites she met while a librarian at the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library (1914-1925) and through involvement in women's political groups.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00750 View

Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990. Letter to Milton Monroe Reigelman. [Washington, DC.] 1971 July 7.

Title: Letter to Milton Monroe Reigelman. [Washington, DC.] 1971 July 7.

Commenting on the influence The Midland and John Frederick had on him as a young writer.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503948 View

Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990. Letter to Earl Harper. [Washington, DC.] [1950 Jan.].

Title: Letter to Earl Harper. [Washington, DC.] [1950 Jan.].

Concerning plans in connection with a lecture in Iowa City.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464264 View

Alfred Mitchell Bingham and the Common Sense collection, 1905-1979

Title: Alfred Mitchell Bingham and the Common Sense collection 1905-1979

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, and other papers of Alfred Bingham, social reformer, writer, founder and editor of Common Sense, lawyer, and politician. Included are his personal papers, consisting of diaries, writings and correspondence, much of the latter being with individuals and organizations prominent in the reform movements of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1960s. Also included are the business and correspondence files of Common Sense, and files relating to various organizations with which he was associated. Correspondents of note include Paul Douglas, Charles Beard, Chester Bowles, Lewis Corey, John Dewey, Theodore Dreiser, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Charles Merriam, John Haynes Holmes, Anne Lindbergh, Alexander Meiklejohn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, and Norman Thomas.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0148 View

Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992. Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1975 Sept. 9.

Title: Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1975 Sept. 9.

Critiquing a book by M. Childs [probably Witness to Power by Marquis Childs].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/575710187 View

Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975. Papers of John Towner Frederick, 1908-1975.

Title: Papers of John Towner Frederick, 1908-1975.

The papers of John T. Frederick are made up of subject files which document his many faceted career. There are copies of lectures, research, and other course related material concerning his teaching. As founder and editor of The Midland, he kept records including an account book, correspondence, subscribers lists, and a nearly complete run of the journal. Frederick's writing is represented with manuscript material including early drafts and galley proofs of his novels. There are over seven boxes of general correspondence, plus numerous other correspondence folders devoted to specific subjects or people. Some of the correspondents include: Sherwood Anderson, Clarence A. Andrews, C.F. Ansley, Arna Bontemps, OM Brack, Sargent Bush, Bennett Cerf, Marquis Childs, Carroll Coleman, Paul Corey, Hardin Craig, Clarence Darrow, Donald Davidson, Owen Dodson, Iduna Bertel Field, John Gerber, Evelyn Harter, James Hearst, Percival Hunt. Leedice Kissane, Alfred A. Knopf, Haniel Long, Savoie Lottinville, Thomas Mann, Julie Jensen McDonald, H.L. Mencken, Harriet Monroe, Dow Mossman. Frank Luther Mott, Walter J. Muilenburg, Donald R. Murphy, Robert Nathan, Ferner Nuhn, Edward J. O'Brien, William J. Petersen, Ernest Sandeen, Ross Santee, John Selby, Jay Sigmund, Hartzell Spence, Wallace Stegner, Ruth Suckow, Leo R. Ward, and Mildred Wedel.

ArchivalResource: 26.5 linear ft. (54 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233105040 View

John Foster Dulles oral history collection, 1964-1967

Title: John Foster Dulles oral history collection 1964-1967

An American lawyer, born in Washington, D.C., Dulles served as counsel to the American commission to negotiate peace (1918-1919), member of the reparations commission and supreme economic council (1919), American representative at the Berlin debt conference (1933), and as United States secretary of state (1953-1959). Consists of 282 transcripts of tape-recorded interviews concerning John Foster Dulles (Princeton Class of 1908) and his times by men and women who knew and worked with him

ArchivalResource: 12.40 cu. ft. (4 file cabinet drawers)

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6682x395q View

Paul A. Freund papers

Title: Paul A. Freund papers

The Papers of Paul Freund consist of materials related to his work as government lawyer, author, teacher, authority on Constitutional Law, and as a member of numerous organizations, such as the American Association of Arts and Sciences.

ArchivalResource: 242 boxes and 17 Paige boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00164/catalog View

Papers, 1965-1980.

Title: Papers, 1965-1980.

Papers concern Hopkins' work on behalf of authors as an editor and agent and include correspondence, memoranda, contract summaries, and production records; correspondence often includes extensive discussion of a book's ideas, of changes and alterations, and of public response. Authors include Ben H. Bagdikian, Robert Bendiner, James MacGregor Burns, Marquis W. Childs, Eugene Genovese, Leonard W. Levy, Frank Mankiewicz, Edwin Newman, and Stan Steiner.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155519173 View

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. Letter to Marquis W. Childs. : Washington, DC. 1957 Oct. 1.

Title: Letter to Marquis W. Childs. : Washington, DC. 1957 Oct. 1.

Regretting that he will be unable to attend a dinner 7 December, but if there are any changes he would be happy to attend.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122399688 View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

Blair Moody Papers, 1928-1954, 1934-1952

Title: Blair Moody Papers

Detroit newspaperman and United States Senator from Michigan. Correspondence chiefly concerning his 1952 senatorial campaign and his newspaper work in the United States and abroad during World War II; scrapbooks of newspaper articles written by Moody and published for the most part in the and ; tape recordings of public affairs radio program; photographs and motion pictures of public affairs interview programs. Detroit News Barron's

ArchivalResource: 27.5 linear feet (in 29 boxes), 29 film reels, 60 phonograph records, 37 GB (online)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8634?rgn=main;view=text View

Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960)

Title: Lewis Gannett papers, 1681-1966 (inclusive) 1900-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00670/catalog View

Childs, Marquis W. (Marquis William), 1903-1990. Letter to Earl Harper. [Washington, DC.] 1950 Jan. 23.

Title: Letter to Earl Harper. [Washington, DC.] 1950 Jan. 23.

Concerning his thanks for hospitality during a visit.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122415106 View

Wendell Berge Papers, 1907-1950, (bulk 1920-1947)

Title: Wendell Berge Papers 1907-1950 (bulk 1920-1947)

Lawyer and public official. Correspondence, speeches and writings, daily calendars, business diaries, agenda, printed matter, clippings, and photographs relating primarily to Berge’s official activities at the Department of Justice culminating in his position as assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division.

ArchivalResource: 12,000 items; 55 containers plus 6 oversize; 23.7 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010290 View