Series I: Columbia Law School, 1937-1965, 1937-1965
Series I: Columbia Law Schoolcontains some of the notes and collected items from Nancy Wechsler's time studying at Columbia's Law School.
Box 1 Folder 1
Law School Association: Certificate of Life Membership, Undated
Box 1 Folder 2
Law School Notebook, 1937-1940
Box 1 Folder 3
25th Anniversary Yearbook, Class of 1940, 1965
Series II: Government Work, 1942-1959
Series II: Government Work contains the notes and research Wechsler used at different government posts, in particular the Office of Price Administration and the President's Committee on Civil Rights. Also within this series are some of the documents pertaining to Wechsler's questioned loyalty while working for the federal government.
Box 1 Folder 4
General: Loyalty Questions, 1943-1953; 1959
Box 1 Folder 5
Office of Price Administration: Appointment, 1942-1948
Box 1 Folder 6
Office of Price Administration: Loyalty Questions: FBI interview, 1947
Box 1 Folder 7
Office of Price Administration: Wage Stabilization, Undated
Box 1 Folder 8
Office of Price Administration: Wage Stabilization: Notes, handwritten, Undated
Box 1 Folder 9
Office of Price Administration: Wage Stabilization: "Some Comments on a Proposal to Freeze Wage Rates," Memorandum & notes, 1942
Box 1 Folder 10
Office of Price Administration: Work Stoppages in the U.S., 1916-1946, Undated
Box 1 Folder 11
President's Committee on Civil Rights
Box 1 Folder 12
President's Committee on Civil Rights: Loyalty Questions re: Young Communist League Involvement, 1951
Series III: Professional Organizations, 1972-1997
Series III: Professional Organizations contains accumulated documents from Wechsler's involvement with professional groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Law Institute.
Box 1 Folder 13
ACLU: National Board Election, 1984-1986
Box 1 Folder 14
Special Committee on Board Diversity, 1983-1984
Box 1 Folder 15
American Law Institute: Membership, 1972
Box 1 Folder 16
American Law Institute: Membership Certificate, 1997
Box 1 Folder 17
Century Association, 1988-1990
Box 1 Folder 18
Professional Corporation, 1981-1984
Series IV: Correspondence, 1969-1997
Series IV: Correspondence contains primarily personal correspondence of Wechsler's.
Box 2 Folder 1
Johnson, David B., 1994-1997
Box 2 Folder 2
Osmond Frankel death condolences, 1983
Box 2 Folder 3
Personal, 1969-1981
Box 2 Folder 4
Personal, 1984-1999
Box 2 Folder 5
Personal: re: death of son Michael, 1969
Box 2 Folder 6
Personal: re: New Yorker article (Sept. 13, 1993), 1993-1994
Series V: Writings, 1940-2007
Series V: Writings contains Wechsler's memoir accounting her family, life, and work. The series contains Wechsler's articles on the law, teenage sexuality, abortions, and censorship and obscenity. This series also contains drafts ofIn A Darkness, an account of the life and suicide of Nancy's son Michael, co-written by Nancy and her husband James.
Box 2 Folder 7
Articles, Undated; 1971-1980
Box 2 Folder 8
American Jewish Yearbook article on "Civil Liberties": Correspondence & Draft, 1951
Box 2 Folder 9
Censorship/Obscenity, 1973-74
Box 2 Folder 10
In a Darkness: A Story of Young Suicide: correspondence, Undated
Box 2 Folder 11
In a Darkness: A Story of Young Suicide (draft manuscript), Undated
Box 2 Folder 12
Letters to the Editor: "Di and Li," (New Yorker, Sept. 1993) re: Diana Trilling & the Scottsboro case, 1993
Box 2 Folder 13
Letter to the Editor: "The Rosenbergs: New Evidence, Old Passions (NY Times, Sept. 23, 1983): re: Osmond Fraenkel, 1983
Box 2 Folder 14
Memoir, draft, 2007
Box 3 Folder 1
"New York Magazine" Profile, 1976
Box 3 Folder 2
Poems, 1965
Box 3 Folder 3
Reviews: General, 1973
Box 3 Folder 4
Reviews: "Abortion II: Making the Revolution", 1973
Box 3 Folder 5
Unidentified manuscript, handwritten, Undated, 1940
Series VI: Subject Files, 1935-2001
Series IV: Subject Files contains the FOIA files on Wechsler obtained from the FBI. This series also contains Oral Histories Wechsler has given to Columbia University's Oral History department and some items of Ephemera.
Box 3 Folder 6
Ephemera: White House invitation & Inauguration tickets, 1947, 1949
Box 3 Folder 7
Ephemera: Columbia University Student Anti-War Movement: Pamphlet, "University Against War," Vol. II, No. 2, 1935
Box 3 Folder 8
FOIA File No. 77-28216, 1943
Box 3 Folder 9
FOIA File: No. 121-4005, 1948
Box 3 Folder 10
FOIA File: Request Correspondence, 1981-1995
Box 3 Folder 11
Oral History: Columbia University History Research Office: Law School Alumnae Oral History Project, 2001
Box 3 Folder 12
Oral History: Columbia University Oral History Research Office, 2000
Series VII: Legal Work
Series VII: Legal Work contains documents related to Wechsler's work in law including briefs, correspondence, and memorandum. Some of this series is closed due to privacy and confidentiality.
Sub-Series A: Open Files, 1940-1967
Box 4 Folder 1
Briefs, 1957
Box 4 Folder 2
Greenbaum, Wolff and Ernst: History for 40th and 45th Anniversaries, 1960
Box 4 Folder 3
New York State Court of Appeals: Certificate of Admission, 1964-1967
Box 4 Folder 4
Supreme Court of the State of New York: Admission to the Bar, 1940
Box 4 Folder 5
United States Court of Appeals: Certificate of Admission, 1963
Sub-Series B: Closed Files
Box 5 Folder 1
Correspondence, 1974-1981
Box 5 Folder 2
General, 1975-1997
Box 5 Folder 3
Government Loyalty Cases: Lillian Kovars, 1949-1953
Box 5 Folder 4
Harper and Row: Kennedy Book, 1964-1967
Box 5 Folder 5
Kern vs. Greenbaum, 1982-1987
Box 5 Folder 6
Matu, Koda: Cuddles, 1995
Box 5 Folder 7
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.: Claim against Putnam, 1963
Box 5 Folder 8
Schelsinger, Arthur, Jr.: Dispute with National Review and Buckley, 1963
Box 5 Folder 9
Schom, Alan Morris: Napolean Bonaparte, 1997
Series VIII: Oversized Documents
Series VIII: Oversized Documents is one oversized box holding the degrees and awards accumulated by Wechsler, particularly from Columbia's Law School.
Box 6
James Kent Scholarship for Distinction as a Student. Columbia University, 1938
Box 6
Ordroneaux Prize in Law for General Proficiency in Legal Study. Columbia University, 1940
Box 6
Bachelor of Law Degree. Columbia University, 1940