Nancy Wechsler Papers, 1935-2007

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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