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Harper's Magazine Records, 1847-1983, (bulk 1940-1983)

Title: Harper's Magazine Records 1847-1983 (bulk 1940-1983)

Editorial, production, and business records including correspondence, reports, drafts of articles, and galleys for monthly issues of , a compendium of social commentary, news, history, criticism, poetry and fiction. Harper's Magazine

ArchivalResource: 255,000 items; 701 containers; 290 linear feet

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Harper & Brothers. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1940-1962.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1940-1962.

ArchivalResource: 25 items (25 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180851673 View

De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955. Bernard De Voto papers, 1918-1955 (bulk 1944-1951).

Title: Bernard De Voto papers, 1918-1955 (bulk 1944-1951).

Correspondence, typescripts and galley proofs of 19 major works, 166 articles, 25 short fiction and non-fiction papers, broadcasts, speeches, lectures, and other papers. The correspondence (1948-55) with Harper's magazine relates to DeVoto's column The Easy Chair, and includes letters from Harper's magazine to senders of letters of condolence, and letters concerning DeVoto. Includes research material used in DeVoto's literary writings and in his work relating to politics, conservation and reclamation, free speech, national parks, and Western Americana. Correspondents include many of the leading persons in contemporary literature, politics, education, and the arts.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear feet.

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Lorentz, Pare. Telegram : [New York], to John Steinbeck, 1938 June 20.

Title: Telegram : [New York], to John Steinbeck, 1938 June 20.

Concerning Ernest Albee, whom Steinbeck recommended for the publicity position in the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration (in MA 6426.27). Noting that "Jack Fischer says he sees no reason why [he] should not employ [Steinbeck's] man" as long as he is "satisfactory to Soule."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 x 21.6 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/457049213 View

John Fischer Letter (MS 196), 1957

Title: John Fischer Letter (MS 196) 1957

One letter from John Fischer to "Mary Rose" regarding publication of poetry.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Soule, Frederick R. Typed letter signed : San Francisco, to John Fischer, 1938 Feb. 28.

Title: Typed letter signed : San Francisco, to John Fischer, 1938 Feb. 28.

Enclosing three copies of a draft of a Steinbeck article later published as "Starvation Under the Orange Trees," (one draft remains as MA 6426.2g) and discussing publication strategies. The two additional drafts were intended for Pare Lorentz and Mr. [Jerry] Voorhis, "either for reading in the House or for such other purposes as he might find for it." Noting that the previous day Steinbeck mentioned in conversation that "the article was written while he was indignant, and is based on personal conversations with at least fifty families." Enclosing quotations of letters from Steinbeck to Soule (MA 6426.2c-d), in which Steinbeck discusses his anger and the probable lousiness of the article.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 27cm.

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Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Autograph letter signed : Los Gatos, California, to Pare Lorentz, before 1938 June 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Los Gatos, California, to Pare Lorentz, before 1938 June 20.

Recommending Ernest Albee for a the publicity position in the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration, mentioning [Frederick] Soule, Tom Collins, [John] Fischer, and that [Jonathan] Garst is forgetful. Noting that he is "working very hard [on "The Grapes of Wrath"] and will be until October," and that he will "fight anything that takes [him] from this book," stating "I think it is a good book." Apologizing for missing the radio broadcast [of "Ecce Homo!"], and hoping to see Lorentz soon.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 27.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/441500736 View

Bernard Augustine De Voto Papers, 1918-1955 (inclusive), 1944-1951 (bulk)

Title: Bernard Augustine De Voto Papers, 1918-1955 (inclusive), 1944-1951 (bulk)

Correspondence, typescripts and galley proofs of 19 major works, 166 articles, 25 short fiction and non-fiction papers, broadcasts, speeches, lectures, and other papers. The correspondence (1948-55) with Harper's magazine relates to DeVoto's column The Easy Chair, and includes letters from Harper's magazine to senders of letters of condolence, and letters concerning DeVoto. Includes research material used in DeVoto's literary writings and in his work relating to politics, conservation and reclamation, free speech, national parks, and Western Americana. Correspondents include many of the leading persons in contemporary literature, politics, education, and the arts.

ArchivalResource: 63.0 Linear feet

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Paul Blanshard Papers, 1912-1979

Title: Paul Blanshard Papers

Author and social and religious commentator. Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks and drafts of articles and books, and other papers, including material concerning his student years at the University of Michigan, as Congregational minister, educational director of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America, assistant editor of , chief of the New York City Department of Investigations and Accounts under Fiorello La Guardia in the 1930's, economic analyst for the Caribbean Committee of the U.S. State Department during World War II, and free lance writer noted for his observations on the Catholic Church in America and abroad. The Nation

ArchivalResource: 30.3 linear ft.

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