Subseries I.1: Journalism from the Korean War, 1951-1993, bulk 1951-1953
Among the most interesting parts of the collection, Subseries I.1 includes materials on Steinberg's coverage of the Korean War — a formative experience professionally and personally. The collection includes reports by Steinberg from Korea and about the Korean War for the International News Service and Time magazine; drafts, cables, notebooks, clips, photos, memos; material on Korean War Correspondents reunions, including a speech delivered by Steinberg in 2002; and comments on and reviews of Steinberg's work.
See Also: Series III and Series IV
Box 1 Folder 1
Reports to INS
Box 1 Folder 2
Korean War -- military
Box 1 Folder 3
Korean politics -- wartime (INS and Time)
Box 1 Folder 4
Reports on Koje to INS, 1951-1953
Box 1 Folder 5
Reports on Koje to Time + expense reports, 1953 undated
Box 1 Folder 6
Reports on armistice talks, Panmanjpn, etc.
Box 1 Folder 7
INS clips
Box 1 Folder 8
Time clips
Box 1 Folder 9
Korean War notebooks (11 items)
Box 1 Folder 10
Korean War miscellaneous notes
Box 1 Folder 11
Korean War photos
Box 1 Folder 12
Korean War correspondents reunions, 1953 1977-1978 1980 1993 2002, 1953, 1977-1978, 1980, 1993, 2002
Box 1 Folder 13
Comments on Rafael Steinberg, 1951-1953 undated, 1951-1953, undated
Subseries I.2: Journalism from Korea, 1962-2002, bulk 1962-1980
Subseries I.2 includes materials on Steinberg's professional sojourns to Korea during these years: drafts, cables, copy and clips from the country; formal letters regarding Steinberg's work in Korea; photos for aSaturday Evening Poststory in 1963; and various resources on Korea, collected by Steinberg.
Box 8 Folder 1
Korea clips, 1966-2002 [Bulk Dates: 1973-1980], 1966-2002
Box 8 Folder 2
Korea drafts, copy and cables, 1961
Box 8 Folder 3
Korea drafts, copy and cables, 1962
Box 8 Folder 4
Korea drafts, copy and cables, 1963
Box 8 Folder 5
Korea drafts, copy and cables, 1964 1965 undated, 1964, 1965 undated
Box 8 Folder 6
Korea letters, 1961-1965
(includes correspondence with Philip Foisie, W. B. Sigworth, Karl L. Bruce, George Peabody, Edward D. Doherty, Hu-Rak Lee, Winthrop G. Brown, Philip C. Habib, Kim Jong Pil, Ick-Hyunng Liu [also in 1961 folder], Jai Hyon Lee, Chae Kyung Oh, Won Chung-Yun, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Hakan Hedberg, Douglas G. Alexander, Chang-Ho Shin)
Box 8 Folder 7
Photos for Saturday Evening Post story, Korea, 1963
Box 8 Folder 8
Resources on Korea, 1963-1981 undated, 1963-1981, undated
Subseries I.3: Journalism from Japan, 1951-1975, bulk 1951-1952, 1959-1967
Original reports from Japan, mostly from 1951-1952 and 1961-1963, toNewsweek, Saturday Evening Post, Washington Post,andWashington Post Japan,as well as materials on Steinberg's reports on Japan for CBS, Radio Liberty and MBS radio. There are extensive materials on some of Steinberg's landmark stories, among them Okinawa, Soka Gakkai, Japan's pearl industry, the Burakumin, Takamori Saigo, and the Japanese Emperor's visit to the United States (1975). This subseries includes notes, clips, research materials, drafts, photos, pitches to other outlets, correspondence, hand-drawn maps, expenses reports and receipts.
Also available are letters and memos fromNewsweekregarding Steinberg's employment terms and his work, including correspondence with colleagues and executives and information on the activities of Newsweek Tokyo bureau in these years; correspondence with editors and colleagues at theSaturday Evening Post, Washington Post, Harper's,andThe Reporter; materials on the Tokyo visits ofWashington Posteditor Alfred Friendly (1962) andWashington Postcorrespondent Chalmers M. Roberts (1963), including correspondence with Roberts; documents on Steinberg's fight for accreditation by the Department of Defense (1961); materials onNewsweekcorrespondent Francois Sully, who died while covering the Vietnam War;The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japanbook from 1965 (containing an article by Steinberg); and other miscellaneous items.
Box 2 Folder 1
Reports from Japan, 1951-1952
Box 2 Folder 2
Reports from Japan to Newsweek, 1960
Box 2 Folder 3
Reports from Japan to Newsweek, 1961
Box 2 Folder 4
Reports from Japan to Newsweek, 1962
Box 2 Folder 5-6
Reports from Japan to Newsweek, 1963, (2 folders)
Box 2 Folder 7
Reports on Japan politics, 1961-1975 (intermittent), undated, 1961-1975, undated
(includes correspondence with Leonard R. Sussman)
Box 2 Folder 8
Reports from Japan to Saturday Evening Post, 1964 undated
Box 2 Folder 9
"Back of the book" (not main news) stories from Japan, 1963 undated
Box 2 Folder 10
Alfred Friendly visit, 1961-1962
Box 2 Folder 11
Chalmers M. Roberts visit, 1963
Box 2 Folder 12
Notes and research for "Speaking Out", 1960-1966
(includes correspondence with Robert Vermillion)
Box 2 Folder 13-15
Newsweek letters, memos and telephone book,, 1959-1963, (3 folders)
(includes correspondence with Arnaud de Borchgrave, Eldon W. Griffiths, Kermit Lansner, Osborn Elliott, Robert S. Elegant, Ernest K. Lindley, Douglas MacArthur II, John T. McAllister, Robert Karr McCabe, Alpheus W. Jessup, Shigeru Ono, Edwin Diamond, Lester Bernstein, Beverly Deepe, Harry C. Thompson, Calvin Tomkins, Edward Weintal, Otto Friedrich, Fay Willey, Gordon Manning, Henry W. Hubbard, Barry Gottehrer, Freeman Fulbright, Al Leech, Lili Loebl, Olga Giddy, Phil Clarke, Thor Johnsen, Jack Mooney, Otto Friedrich, David Slavitt, Joe Marr, Hal Lavine, James C. Jones, George B. Darling, Sheward Hagerty, John A. Conway, Ed Wergeles, Wilbur F. Weeks)
Box 2 Folder 16
Correspondence with Saturday Evening Post, 1963-1965
(includes correspondence with Otto Friedrich, Trevor Armbrister, Hank Walker, Harry Redl, Don A. Schanche, David Lyle, Roger Vaughan, Sandford Brown, Marshall Lumsden, Takaaki Kagawa, Geo C. Clements, M. Frankel, John Launois, Richard Lemon, Dan Simpson, James Atwater)
Box 2 Folder 17
Correspondence with the Washington Post, 1961-1970
(includes correspondence with Alfred Friendly, James Russell Wiggins, Sukeyuki Kandabashi, Philip Foisie, Chalmers M. Roberts, Richard Halloran, Warren W. Unna, Sig Harrison, Philip L. Graham, James McC. Truitt, Kenichi Yoshida, Russell J. Melvin, Norman W. Williams, Tadashi Kobayashi, Shigenobu Shima, Henry Shimanouchi, Koichiro Asakai)
Box 2 Folder 18
Correspondence withHarper's, 1964-1978 [Bulk Dates: 1964-1967], 1964-1978
(includes correspondence with Lewis H. Lapham, Willie Morris, John Fischer, Genevieve Young, Roberta Pryor)
Box 2 Folder 19
Correspondence with The Reporter, 1963-1965
(includes correspondence with Dwight Martin, Karin Smith, Robert Bingham, Philip Horton, Elsie Bormond)
Box 2 Folder 20
Japan visit, 1975
(includes correspondence with David Hollander)
Box 2 Folder 21
Burakumin, 1968-1975
Box 2 Folder 22
Fight for DoD accreditation, 1961
Box 2 Folder 23
Japan Emperor visit to U.S., 1975
(includes clips on royal family, 1964-1975)
Box 2 Folder 24
Japan clips, 1974-1983
Box 2 Folder 25
Radio and television: CBS, 1967
(includes invoice from CBS for radio and television appearances, correspondence with Gordon Manning and Joseph T. Dembo, and script)
Box 2 Folder 26
Radio Liberty, 1964-1965
(includes correspondence with Henry Jarvis + expense reports)
Box 2 Folder 27
MBS radio, 1960-1962
(includes scripts, guides, correspondence with A. A. Schechter, Eldon W. Griffiths, Phillip C. Clarke, Jack Allen Potts)
Box 2 Folder 28
Takamori Saigo story, 1965-1966 undated, 1965-1966, undated
(includes drafts, notes, hand-drawn maps, clips, research materials, correspondence with Don Schanche)
Box 3 Folder 1-2
Reports toWashington Post, 1962-1965 undated, 1962-1965, undated, (2 folders)
Box 3 Folder 3
Reports to Washington Post Japan, 1962-64, 1966
Box 3 Folder 4-8
Reports on Okinawa, 1963-1965, (5 folders)
(includes nots, clips, research materials, correspondence with James Russell Wiggins, W. A. Kelley, Robert F. Wilson, Shannon McCune, Douglas H. Mendel, Ponciano A. Maalihan, Margaret S. Krebs, Kunio Matsugawa)
Box 3 Folder 9-10
Soka Gakkai, 1962-1970, (2 folders)
(includes notes, clips, research materials, correspondence with Don Allan)
Box 3 Folder 11
Reports on pearl industry, 1964 undated
(includes notes, research materials, drafts, correspondence with Andrew J. Collier)
Box 3 Folder 12
Pitch to Reader's Digest: "Japan in 1985",, undated
Box 3 Folder 13
Drafts from Japan, undated
Box 3 Folder 14
TLAS Photos, undated
Box 3 Folder 15
Materials on Francois Sully, 1961-1962 1971-1972 undated, 1961-1962, 1971-1972, undated
Box 3 Folder 16
The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan book, 1965
(includes article by Steinberg)
Box 3 Folder 17
Japan House Newsletter, 1975-1976
Box 3 Folder 18
Miscellaneous items, undated
Subseries I.4: Journalism from the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, 1962-2003, bulk 1965-1979
Subseries I.4 includes materials on Steinberg's reporting in these countries: drafts, copy, clips, notepads, notes and letters.
Box 4 Folder 1
Reports on Vietnam, 1965-1967
Box 4 Folder 2
Thailand notepads, 1967 (4 notepads), 1967
Box 4 Folder 3
Thailand notes and drafts, 1967 undated
Box 4 Folder 4
Thailand letters, 1967
(includes correspondence with David A. Lyle, Bob Beacham)
Box 4 Folder 5
Philippines clips, 1965-2003 [Bulk Dates: 1965-1979], 1965-2003
Box 4 Folder 6-7
Notes on the Philippines, 1965-1971 undated, 1965-1971, undated, (2 folders)
Box 4 Folder 8
Philippines letters, 1962-1974 [Bulk Dates: 1965], 1962-1974
(includes correspondence with W. G. Townsend, Jack Small, George Peabody, Alex Melchor, Antonio O. Floirendo, Antonio Delgado, Conrado Alcantara, Sixto K. Roxas, Max Soliven, Francisco Ortigas, Evangelina Macapagal, Andres Castillo, Leonard Fox, Remigio Abello, John B. Doriss)
Box 4 Folder 9
Southeast Asia map
Subseries I.5: Journalism from the United States and England, 1956-2014, bulk 1965-1979
Materials on Steinberg's work in London and the United States, regarding stories forNewsweek, Saturday Review, The New York Times, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire,andCosmopolitan.Available items include drafts, copy, clips, correspondence, notes, research, expenses reports, invoices, fragments, book reviews and op-ed attempts. The records document Steinberg's work on landmark stories including Hiroo Onoda, Saigo Takamori, Roy Matz Goodman, Isaac Asimov (including interview and correspondence), Asians in the United States, East Harlem schools and Japan travel (with reflection on years there).
This subseries also includes Time-Life News Service letters, manuals and directories; Time-Life Alumni Society newsletter and directory of members;Newsweekletters, memos and a telephone directory;CueMagazine letters, memos and telephone lists, contracts, clips, and correspondence;Esquirememos, letters and invoices; and correspondence with literary agent Roberta Pryor (includes contracts for Steinberg's projects); The Association of American Correspondents in London directory; materials on The Overseas Press Club of America; and references to Steinberg's work.
Box 9 Folder 1
Copy from London, 1958-1959
Box 9 Folder 2
Saigo Takamori story, 1965-1967 correspondence and expense reports, 1965-1967
(includes correspondence with Don A. Schanche, John R. Roberson, Roberta Pryor)
Box 9 Folder 3
Work forCosmopolitan, 1966-1984 undated: clips, copy, correspondence, 1966-1984
(includes correspondence with George Walsh, Roberta Pryor)
Box 9 Folder 4
Newsweek International copy, 1970-1972
Box 9 Folder 5
Japanese management style, 1971-1979 clips, notes, correspondence, 1971-1979
(includes correspondence with Philip van Slyck, Bruno Iams)
Box 9 Folder 6
Gout story forEsquire, 1971-1979 [Bulk Dates: 1978-1979] (research, notes, clips, copy, correspondence), 1971-1979
(includes correspondence with Bayard Hooper, Pauline Goger, Jack L. Katz, Gerald Weissman, Robert J. Wisher, Pamela Forcey)
Box 9 Folder 7
Review of The Philippines forSaturday Review, 1974 clips, copy, correspondence, 1974
(includes correspondence with Beth Day, Susan Heath)
Box 9 Folder 8
Story on Hiroo Onoda forNew Times, 1975 (clips, notes, copy), 1975
Box 9 Folder 9
Story on runaways, 1975
Box 9 Folder 10
Roy Matz Goodman story for The New York Times: clips, drafts, notes, expense reports and invoices,, 1977
Box 9 Folder 11
Story on Japan travel (reflection on years there) forSaturday Review, 1978 clips, copy, notes, 1978
(includes correspondence with Susan Ochshorn, Horace Sutton)
Box 9 Folder 12
Interview with Renata Scotto for Esquire, 1978-1979 copy, correspondence, research, 1978-1979
(includes correspondence with Martha Munro)
Box 9 Folder 13
Interview with Isaac Asimov for Esquire (not published), 1979 clips, copy, correspondence, 1979
(includes correspondence with Lee Eisenberg, Phillip Moffitt)
Box 9 Folder 14
Story on Asians in the United States for The New York Times: notes and research, 1980-1981
(includes correspondence with Chuck N. Lee)
Box 9 Folder 15
Asians in the United States clips, 1980-1981
Box 9 Folder 16
Story on East Harlem school for Saturday Evening Post, undated
Box 9 Folder 17
Weissman (copy and notes), undated
Box 9 Folder 18
Fragments and miscellaneous writing, 1960-1980 undated, 1960-1980, undated
Box 9 Folder 19
Op-Ed attempts and book reviews, 1979-2008
(includes correspondence with John Hall, Edward Behr)
Box 9 Folder 20
"Business and Politics -- Washington 1979" report, 1979
Box 9 Folder 21
The Association of American Correspondents in London directory, 1956-1957 1971, 1956-1957, 1971
Box 9 Folder 22
Time-Life News Service letters, 1959
(includes correspondence with John Boyle)
Box 9 Folder 23
Time-Life News Service manuals and directories, 1969 1979-1980, 1969, 1979-1980
Box 9 Folder 24
Time-Life Alumni Society newsletter and directory of members, 1987-2004 (intermittent), 1987-2004
Box 9 Folder 25
Newsweek letters, memos and telephone directory, 1970-2014 [Bulk Dates: 1970-1973], 1970-2014
(includes copies of NW newsletter, note by Steinberg on his resignation, and correspondence with George Wood, Kermit Lansner, Ida L. Cerone, Robert Christopher, Walter Rundle, Bernard Krisher, Roy Koch, Peter Derow, Milan J. Kubic, Peter Webb, Lucille G. Napear, May nard Parker, Tim Fowler)
Box 9 Folder 26-27
Cue Magazine letters, memos and telephone lists, 1975-1978 undated, 1975-1978, undated, (2 folders)
(includes contract, clips, and correspondence with Irvin J. Borowsky, Mike Schwartz, Mary O'connor, Bill Doran, Wilma Valentine, Isaac Asimov, Frank L. Nemeyer, Judy Gurovitz, Bronnie Kupris, Carolyn Silberstein, Ellen Salomon, Bonnie Stylides, Marilyn Egol, Shirley Herz, Jerry Arrow, Rima Corben, Michael A. d'Amelio, Frances Flynn, Jim Dimino, Joseph Porter, Melissa M. Lande, Bob Mottley, Jill S. Newman, Flo Conway, Mike Jahm, Klara Barlow)
Box 9 Folder 28
Esquire letters and memos, 1979
(includes invoices and correspondence with Dominique Browning, Lee Eisenberg, Marjorie Samuel, Clay Felker)
Box 9 Folder 29
The Overseas Press Club of America, 1953-1954 1962-1963 2002-2010, 1953-1954, 1962-1963, 2002-2010
Box 9 Folder 30
Roberta Pryor letters, 1965-1975 undated, 1965-1975, undated
(includes contracts and correspondence with Robert Manning, C. Michael Curtis, Robie Macauley, George Plimpton, Phyllis Sari Levy, Barbara Blakemore, Carroll Newman, Otto Friedrich, Leonhard Dowty, Betty Frank, Jonathan Z. Larsen, Elaine Greene, Jack Kessie)
Box 9 Folder 31
References to Steinberg, 1949-1999
Subseries II.1: Postscript from Hiroshima (1966), 1965-1980, bulk 1965-1967
This subseries includes drafts and a manuscript ofPostscript from Hiroshima,as well as research, notes and ephemera from Steinberg's work on the book. Also included are letters to and from Steinberg regarding the book, Steinberg's contract with Random House and pay slips, and reviews of the book.
Box 5 Folder 1
Postscript from Hiroshima manuscript, 1965 (1 folder and 1 binder), 1965
Box 5 Folder 2-3
Postscript from Hiroshima drafts,, undated, (2 folders)
Box 5 Folder 4
Postscript from Hiroshima notes, research, ephemera,, undated
Box 6 Folder 1
Postscript from Hiroshima letters, 1965-1980 [Bulk Dates: 1965-1966], 1965-1980
(includes contract with Random House, pay slips, clips -- some by Steinberg, and correspondence with Albert Erskine, Suzanne Baskin, Roberta Pryor, Kaoru Ogura, William V. Shannon, Charles W. Bailey, Anthony Bastionelli, John A. Ritter, Herb Jaffe, Marjorie E. Tobey, Jean Ennis, Selma Shapiro, John Ciardi, Archibald MacLeish, Christina Stead, Norman Cousins, Isaac Stern, Bella Spewack, Kermit Lansner, Jesse Birnbaum, Larry Collins, Shinzo Hamai, E. J. Kahn, Robert Manning, Nathan Polowetzky, Edward Seidensticker, Andrew Stern, A. M. Rosenthal, Hubert H. Humphrey, J. William Fulbright, Larry Collins, Robert Evett, Bella Spewack, E. J. Kahn, Sandra Schmidt, Hessell Tiltman, J. R. Wiggins, Lea Heine, Jason Epstein, Shin Hojashi, Roy Newquist, Douglas Domeier, James H. Laird, Edna Harren, Jo Woestendiek, Stephen Barber, Carter Brooke Jones, Oscar Handlin, Douglass Cater, James A. Michener, George B. Darling, Otto Friedrich, Edwin O. Reischauer)
Box 6 Folder 2
Postscript from Hiroshima reviews, 1966-1967 (1 binder), 1966-1967
Subseries II.2: Javits: The Autobiography of a Public Man (1981), 1977-1984, bulk 1978-1980
This subseries includes a wealth of materials on Steinberg's co-authored biography of the New York Senator. They include transcripts of conversations with Javits, research, notes, drafts for several chapters, and letters regarding the book—many with Javits and his staffers. Also included are notes for a fiction project on Javits' marriage which was not completed.
Box 7 Folder 1
Javits logs, 1977-1980 (3 binders), 1977-1980
Box 7 Folder 2
Javits notepads, 1977-1980 (9 notepads), 1977-1980
Box 7 Folder 3
Javits letters, 1978-1981
(includes contract with Houghton Mifflin Company and correspondence with Jacob K. Javits, Daphne Abeel, Ilana Stern, John Trubin, Nancy F. Wechsler, Austin Olney, Randall Warner, Esther Newberg, Herbert Salzman, Frances Klenett, Tex McCrary, Eileen Herbert Jordan, Lewis H. Lapham, Lisel Eisenheimer, Mary E. Guimaraes, Connie Leisure, Silvia Koner, Kathy McVey)
Box 7 Folder 4
Chapter 5, 1980 undated
Box 7 Folder 5
Chapter 8, 1980
Box 7 Folder 6-7
Chapter 8 notes for a fiction project (DD), 1979-1980 undated, 1979-1980, undated, (2 folders)
Box 7 Folder 8
Annotated transcripts of Javits, undated
Box 7 Folder 9
Javits miscellaneous drafts and notes, prob., 1978-1981
Box 7 Folder 10
Javits miscellaneous, 1977-1984 [Bulk Dates: 1979-1981], 1977-1984
Box 7 Folder 11
Study on Javits campaigns, 1979
Subseries II.3: Other Nonfiction, 1969-1983, bulk 1969-1979
This subseries includes materials on other nonfiction projects, among themReturn to the PhilippinesandPacific and Southeast Asian Cooking:copy, notes, letters and memos, contracts, invoices, expense reports and business cards.
Box 12 Folder 1
Arthur Ross article for The New Leader and book, 1977-1979 clips, copy, notes, correspondence, 1977-1979
(includes correspondence with Arthur Ross, Richard M. Clurman, Don A. Schanche, Edward T. Thompson, Robert Barnes)
Box 12 Folder 2
Time-Life Books letters, memos and telegrams, 1969-1983 [Bulk Dates: 1969-1978], 1969-1983
(includes outlines forReturn to the Philippines, contracts, invoices, expense reports, and correspondence with Dave Thomson, Fred K. Iwama, Y. Ernest Satow, Ida Bagus Mantra, Siegfried Beil, Tjokorda Agung, George E. Lang, R. M. Arajad Alihasan, Roberta Pryor, Richard Williams, Martin Mann, Maitland Edey, Harvey Loomis, Colonel Sutikno, H. V. Worang, George Bang, Amir Daud, Tommy Graciano, Dolores Morrissy, William K. Goolrick, Connie Strawbridge, Gilbert Cant, Gerald Simons, Sheldon Cotler)
Box 12 Folder 3
Pacific and Southeast Asian Cooking (1970): copy, notes, contract, correspondence and business cards,, 1969-1970
(includes correspondence with Helen B. Sheard, Jim Boyack, Michael Field, Doreen G. Fernandez, Peter Lim, Joe Reyes, Barbara Ensrud, Chona Trinidad)
Box 12 Folder 4
Pacific and Southeast Asian Cooking Expense reports and invoices, 1969
Box 12 Folder 5
HBJ Press letters and memos, 1977-1980
(includes contract, expense reports and correspondence with Marcia Heath)
Subseries II.4: Published Books by Steinberg, 1966-1985
Copies of 13 books authored or co-authored by Steinberg:Postscript from Hiroshima(1966),Japan(1969),The Cooking of Japan(1974),Language(1975),Man and the Organization(1978), Pacific and Southeast Asian Cooking(1979),Return to the Philippines(1980),Religion at the Crossroads: Byzantium, The Turks(1980),Javits: The Autobiography of a Public Man(1981),Island Fighting(1981),Prisoners of War(1981),The Aftermath: Asia(1983),Japan(1985).
Box 13
Jacob K. Javits with Rafael Steinberg Javits: The Autobiography of a Public Man, 1981
Box 13
Rafael Steinberg Japan, 1969
Box 13
Rafael Steinberg Postscript from Hiroshima, 1966
Box 13
Editors of Time-Life Books Japan, 1985
Box 13
David S. Thomson and Editors of Time-Life Books Language (Human Behavior Series), 1975
Box 13
Rafael Steinberg and the Editors of Time-Life Books Return to the Philippines (World War II Series),, 1980
Box 13
Rafael Steinberg and the Editors of Time-Life Books Island Fighting (World War II Series), 1981
Box 13
The Editors of Time-Life Books The Aftermath: Asia (World War II Series), 1983
Box 13
Ronald H. Bailey and the Editors of Time-Life Books Prisoners of War (World War II Series), 1981
Box 13
Joyce Milton, Rafael Steinberg and Sarah Lewis Religion at the Crossroads: Byzantium, The Turks (Imperial Visions Series: The Rise and Fall of Empires),, 1980
Box 13
Rafael Steinberg and the Editors of Time-Life Books The Cooking of Japan (Foods of the World Series),, 1974
Box 13
Rafael Steinberg and the Editors of Time-Life Books Pacific and Southeast Asian Cooking (Foods of the World Series),, 1979
Box 13
Rafael Steinberg and the Editors of Time-Life Books Man and the Organization (Human Behavior Series),, 1978
A collection of Steinberg's works in prose and poetry, most of which were never published. Among others, the subseries includes fragments from Steinberg's years in Korea; drafts for a play about the Korean War, The Ring of Truth; versions of "Day of Good Fortune," a short story published by Playboy in 1967; stories on the Okamoto family; and poems written by Steinberg between 1969-1996.
Box 10 Folder 1
Fiction fragments, teenage years
Box 10 Folder 2
Fiction fragments, college years + Korea
Box 10 Folder 3
Just Another Teacher
, undated
Box 10 Folder 4
Vacation in April
, 1948
Box 10 Folder 5
The Girl at Chiam-Ni
, undated
Box 10 Folder 6
Versions of baby story, 1955 undated
Box 10 Folder 7
Burns the Chronic
, undated
Box 10 Folder 8
The Ring of Truth, play about the Korean War (not produced),, undated
Box 10 Folder 9
The Ring of Truth
, undated
Box 10 Folder 10
The Ring of Truth, draft, 1958
Box 10 Folder 11
The Ring of Truth, draft, 1962
Box 10 Folder 12
The Ring of Truth, notes, undated
Box 10 Folder 13-14
The Ring of Truth, manuscript, undated, (2 folders)
Box 10 Folder 15
Day of Good Fortune (early drafts of a story published by Playboy in 1967), 1967 undated
Box 10 Folder 16
The Skin of the Tiger
, 1967-1971
(includes contract with Random House, invoice, correspondence with Albert Erskine)
Box 10 Folder 17-18
The Easy Way Out / Dune Grass / The Why of It / A Cup of Sand, 1975-1983 undated, 1975-1983, undated, (2 folders)
Box 10 Folder 19
Beauty and the Bum
, undated
Box 10 Folder 20
Stories on wife's family (Okamoto), 1966 undated
Box 10 Folder 21
Firebreak
, undated
Box 10 Folder 22
Fables, undated
Box 10 Folder 23
Poems, 1969-1996 undated, 1969-1996, undated
Box 10 Folder 24
Boardwalk
, 2010
This subseries includes personal and professional letters, sent to and from Steinberg over the course of seven decades. Professional letters include correspondence with colleagues, editors, publishers, agents and sources. Personal letters were primarily exchanged between Steinberg and his parents during his stays in Korea, London and Japan, compiling a valuable and revealing account of Steinberg's work life as a foreign correspondent. Also included are several letters in Japanese and a collection of Christmas cards and lists.
Box 14 Folder 5
Letters to parents from Korea, 1951-1952, undated
Box 14 Folder 6
Telegrams from Japan, 1952
Box 14 Folder 7
Letters to parents from London, 1955-1958
Box 14 Folder 8
Letters to parents from Japan, 1959-1967
(includes letters from Tamiko Steinberg, Summer Steinberg, Nathan Weisman, Isador N. Steinberg and Polly N. Steinberg)
Box 14 Folder 9
Letters to Rafael Steinberg from family, 1940-1944
Box 14 Folder 10-12
Letters to Rafael Steinberg from family, 1945-1950, (3 folders)
Box 14 Folder 13-14
Letters to Rafael Steinberg, 1942-1947, (2 folders)
Box 14 Folder 15
Letters to Rafael Steinberg, 1950-1959
(includes correspondence with Anne Tolstoi)
Box 14 Folder 16
Letters to Rafael Steinberg, 1960-1969
(includes correspondence with Norman Sklarewitz, Esther Sklarewitz, Irvin Sablosky, Francesca Siboeea, Monroe S. Singer, Andrew A. Stern, Lois Cunniff, Julie Smith Sewell, Isaac Stern, Paul Sack, William Steinberg, Jim Truitt, William C. Trueheart, Warren W. Unna, May nard Frank Wolfe, Charles R. Temple, L. J. (Tony) Wilkinson, Sally Anderson, Carroll Shershun, Tom Pepper, Anne Angus, James P. Pickerell, Richard W. Petree, Edwin O. Reischauer, Barbara Reynolds, Joseph L. Rauh, Earle Reynolds, Richard H. Riddell, David Berman, Gordon Manning, Archibald MacLeish, John M. Mecklin, David E. Lilienthal, Jr., Robert Gibson, Burt Glinn, Philip L. Graham, Marshall Green, Eldon Griffiths, Eugene S. Staples, Thomas B. Morgan, Fred Emery, Edward J. Clarkson, Michael Tuchner, Deanna P. Bautista, C. R. Beecham, Stimson Bullitt, Dennis Bloodworth, Kim Hyun Cook, Lorna Kreiss, Selig S. Harrison, Woburn Abbey Bletchley)
Box 14 Folder 17
Letters to Rafael Steinberg, 1970-1979
(includes correspondence with Arthur H. Schwartz, William S. Savestrom, Harry C. Thompson, Nathaniel B. Thayer, Jacqueline Villere, Rebecca Wilson, Roger H. Wilson, Jay Weiss, Gerald Weissmann, Emerson Chapin, K. V. Narain, Jane Posten, George R. Packard, Senkuro Saiki, Kichimasa Soda, Greg Rehard, Chalmers M. Roberts, Donald M. Murray, Anthony Lewis, Henry Anatole Grunwald, Linda Grover, Paul B. Finney, Lenore de Koven, Peter A. Derow, Martin R. Bauer, Donald S. Connery, Gilbert Cant, V. Weltzien, Peter Braestrup, Lester Bernstein, Edward Behr, Peter Kalishcer, Edward Klein, William Klein II, Barbara Kraus, Alexander C. Hoagland, Jr., Susan Heath, Selig S. Harrison, Terry Hill, Ernest Kay)
Box 14 Folder 18
Letters to Rafael Steinberg, 1980-1989
(includes correspondence with Polly N. Steinberg (mother), Monroe S. Singer, Lynn Seligman, Twyla Tharp, Earl W. Redding, Nancy F. Wechsler, Daphne Atseel, T. D. Allman, Philip Van Slyck, Igor Oganesoff, Zalman P. Puchkoff, Robert C. Pierpoint, Curtis Prendergast, Chalmers M. Roberts, Joan Thursh, Frank L. Florian, Albert R. Erskine, Mary K. Doris, Joel Davis, Frances Carlisle, Robert E. Boorstin, Ravelle Brickman, Lynn Seligman, Jerry Korn, Edward Klein, Alexander C. Hoagland, Jr., Caroline Keith Ehlers)
Box 19 Folder 1
Letters to Rafael Steinberg, 1990-1999
(includes correspondence with Bill Shinn, David Steinberg, Yun Kil Yang, Marshall Ackerman, Mignonette Mintzer, Bernie Krisher, Laurence Jolidon)
Box 19 Folder 2
Letters to Rafael Steinberg, 2000-2006
(includes correspondence with Andy Singer, Karen Wilder, Kaye D. Proctor, Kathi Foisie, Sharon Delmendo, Max Kortepeter)
Box 19 Folder 3
Letters to Rafael Steinberg, undated
(includes correspondence with Anjani N. Singh, Ruth Soika, Elaine Sciolino, Norman Sklarewitz, Monroe S. Singer, Joyce Carol Oates, B. Podesta, Pauline R. Goger, Otto Friedrich, Caroline Keith Ehlers, J. W. Cohn, Eve Berliner, Edward Kosner, D. F. Hopkins)
Box 19 Folder 4
Letters from Rafael Steinberg, 1958-2005
(includes correspondence with Isaac Asimov, Lynn Seligman, Norman Sklarewitz, Andrew A. Stern, Donald A. Schanche, Julie Smith Sewell, Ryuji Takeuchi, Bruce Van Voorst, Robert Vermillion, Earl W. Redding, May nard Frank Wolfe, T. Yamane, Ambassador Kenneth Young, Gerald Walker, James H. Pickerell, George R. Packard, David A. MacEachron, Robert M. Ruenitz, Chalmers M. Roberts, Michael Ruby, Edwin O. Reischauer, M. E. Rappaport, Robert Manning, Jay D. Moses, Larry Martz, Webb McKinley, Donald H. McLean, Olvin McBarnette, George Lang, Anthony Lewis, Herbert P. Gleason, Henry A. Grunwald, Sheila Gary, Eldon Griffiths, Frank B. Gilbert, Philip Foisie, Eugene S. Staples, Thomas Morgan, Osborn Elliott, Albert Erskine, Peter Derow, John Mack Carter, Robert O. Boorstin, Otis Cary, Leon Botstein, Mary Suggatt, Robert Kelly, Ravelle Brickman, Julian Bach, Lester Bernstein, Michael Tuchner, Steve Barber, Louis Banks, Edward Kosner, Bernard Krisher, Richard Kimball, Stan Karnow, Jun Kawashima, Kim Hyun Cook, Stan Karnow, Emmet John Hughes, Selig S. Harrison)
Box 19 Folder 5
Christmas notes, (intermittent), 1954-1985
Box 19 Folder 6
Letters in Japanese, undated
Items in this subseries include Steinberg's phone books, passports and press cards, pocket books, pocket planners, business cards and miscellaneous notes; currency Steinberg saved from his time in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong, as well as US Military currency; diplomatic phone books and directories used by Steinberg in his work; and materials on the classes Steinberg taught at New York University. Also included are research for unfinished projects on religion and cognition; materials on Steinberg's small business, RMS Word Processing; and materials on Steinberg's sailing hobby.
Box 11
Journalism pocket books and notes, 1950-1975 undated, 1950-1975, undated
Box 23
Journalism pocket books and notes, 1950-1975 undated, 1950-1975, undated
Box 18
Pocket planners, 1982-2001 (intermittent), 1982-2001
Box 17 Folder 1
Rafael Steinberg curriculum vitae, undated
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Business cards, undated, (2 folders)
Box 17 Folder 4
Personal phone books, undated
Box 17 Folder 5
Miscellaneous notes, undated
Box 17 Folder 6
Press cards, undated
Box 17 Folder 7
Passports, 1948-1975
Box 17 Folder 8
Currency (Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, US Military)
Box 17 Folder 9
Diplomatic phone book, Tokyo, 1964 1966, 1964, 1966
Box 17 Folder 10
US Embassy telephone directory, Thailand, 1962
Box 17 Folder 11
US Embassy telephone directory, Tokyo, 1964
Box 17 Folder 12
Tokyo phone book, 1964
Box 17 Folder 13
Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club members list, 1966
Box 17 Folder 14
Japan Society guest lists, 1972-1973
Box 17 Folder 15
Memorabilia, 1944-1972
Box 17 Folder 16
NYU Teaching, 1980-1982 resources for instructors, syllabus, teaching materials, assignments, attendance sheets, NYU ID, 1980-1982
(includes correspondence with Stanley Gabor, Kathleen Murray)
Box 17 Folder 17
Research for "In the Name of God", 1980-1996
(includes correspondence with Judith L. Morris, Lloyd P. Wells)
Box 17 Folder 18
Research on left brain-right brain, 1973-1983
(includes correspondence with May a Pines)
Box 17 Folder 19
RMS Word Processing, 1984-1999
(includes correspondence with Gerald J. Rourke, Marvin Weinberg, Gary Weinberg)
Box 17 Folder 20
Flight TWA 800, 1996-2002
Box 17 Folder 21-22
Sailing, 1957-1999, (2 folders)
Subseries VI.1: Childhood to Navy, 1936-1990, bulk 1936-1945
Items in this subseries include childhood letters to parents, childhood diary and pocket diary, school notebooks, a paper on Steinberg's family history, report cards and an autograph book. Also included are materials on Steinberg's 45th high school reunion. From Steinberg's year in the navy, the collection includes letters to parents and brother; documents and IDs from navy service, Citizens Defense Corps and selective service; notes on Steinberg's studies and fiction written during this period; and a greeting card illustrated by Isador N. Steinberg.
Box 15 Folder 1
Diary, 1936-1940, 1942-1943
Box 15 Folder 2
Pocket diary, 1944-1945
Box 15 Folder 3
Autograph book, 1941
Box 15 Folder 4
School notebooks, 1938
Box 15 Folder 5
School notebooks, 1941
Box 15 Folder 6
School notebooks, 1942
Box 15 Folder 7
School notebooks, undated
Box 15 Folder 8
June Mad production, 1942
Box 15 Folder 9
High school compositions, 1943-1944
Box 15 Folder 10
High school notebook, undated
Box 15 Folder 11
"Threshold of Freedom": Paper on family history, 1945
Box 15 Folder 12
Report card, 1944
Box 15 Folder 13
High school reunion, LREI Class of 1945, 1945-1990
Box 15 Folder 14
Navy year fiction and studies, 1945-1946
Box 15 Folder 15
Navy service, Citizens Defense Corps, selective service, 1943-1951 (includes photo and greeting card illustrated by Isador N. Steinberg), 1943-1951
Box 15 Folder 16
Childhood letters to parents, 1938-1942
Box 15 Folder 17
Letters to parents from camp, 1944
Box 15 Folder 18
Letters to parents from the Navy, 1945-1946
(includes letters to brother, David Steinberg)
Subseries VI.2: Harvard College, 1946-2010, bulk 1946-1950
Materials from Steinberg's college years include letters to parents from Harvard, notes, diary and pocket diary, notebooks, papers, exams, report cards, honors thesis, B.A. diploma, and various Harvard ephemera. Steinberg's work at the Harvard Crimson is documented, as well as letters later exchanged with editors at the Harvard Bulletin (some deeply personal). This subseries includes copies of the newspaper Steinberg edited and published upon his graduation (1949-1950),The Fire Island Reporter,and materials on Steinberg's 25th, 50th and 60th Harvard reunions.
Box 16 Folder 1
Diary, 1946-1947
Box 16 Folder 2
Diary and pocket diary, 1948
Box 16 Folder 3
Miscellaneous Harvard ephemera, 1946-1950
Box 16 Folder 4
Harvard notes, 1946-1950
Box 16 Folder 5
Harvard notebooks, 1946-1950 (4 binders), 1946-1950
Box 16 Folder 6
Harvard papers, 1946-1950
Box 16 Folder 7
Harvard exams, 1946-1950
Box 16 Folder 8
Honors thesis, 1950 (2 binders), 1950
Box 16 Folder 9
Harvard report cards, 1947-1950
Box 16 Folder 10
Harvard Crimson, 1948-1950
(includes correspondence with Pierre Emmanuel )Noël Mathieu(, Edith Melcher, Robert Grinnell, Michel Dumont, E. W. Ridings, Preston E. James, René de Messières, Albert Chambon, Marjorie Ilsley, LeRoy C. Breunig, Jr.)
Box 16 Folder 11
Harvard Bulletin letters, 1958-1979
(includes correspondence with Norman A. Hall, Marcia K. Mitchell, John T. Bethell)
Box 16 Folder 12
Harvard 25th Reunion, 1975
(includes correspondence with Fred L. Glimp, Morris Gray)
Box 16 Folder 13
Harvard 50th Reunion, 1999-2000
(includes correspondence with Mark E. Gordon, Donald Connery, Leslie Connery)
Box 16 Folder 14
Harvard 50th Reunion education project, 2000
(includes correspondence with Charles Bailey, Robert Coles, Donald Connery, Nicolas Cunningham, Blair Fuller, Herbert Gleason, Alfred Hoagland, George Mumford, Samuel P. Peabody, Steve Schwebel, Jon Spivak, Peter Davies, Phyllis Davies, Barbara Weil Snelling, Nathan Glaser, Robert Graham, Joy Graham)
Box 16 Folder 15
Harvard 60th Reunion, 2010
(includes correspondence with Larry Nathanson, Gordon Abbott, Jr.)
Box 16 Folder 16
Harvard Diploma, 1950
Box 16 Folder 17
Letters to parents from Harvard, 1946-1950
Box 6 Folder 3
The Fire Island Reporter
, 1949-1950
Subseries VII.1: Steinberg Family, 1909-1990, undated
Materials from the Steinberg family collection include "A Special Couple," a story by Rafael Steinberg about his parents (1981); invitations to Rafael Steinberg and Tamiko Okamoto's wedding (1953); a family photo published inForward(circa 1930); Steinberg's parents' Ketubah (1923); and greeting cards and family illustrations by Isador N. Steinberg. Other materials shed light on Isador N. Steinberg's career, among them pocket books whose covers Steinberg illustrated throughout several decades and materials on his work for the U.S. Army during World War II and after (including correspondence with military officials), as well as on the parents' involvement with the Commercial Artists' Union in the 1930s. Also included are unpublished short stories by Polly N. Steinberg and correspondence with editors; the parents' copies of socialist magazine The Liberator (1918-1920); phonebooks and diaries from 1911 to 1990 (intermittent); letters, passports, diplomas, report cards, and other memorabilia from their school years.
Box 20 and 24
Polly N. Steinberg diaries, 1911, 1954-1975, 1977-1990
Box 20 and 24
Isador N. Steinberg diary, 1987
Box 20 and 24
Isador N. Steinberg notebook, undated
Box 20 and 24
Pauline Rifkind school diplomas and report cards, 1909-1918
Box 20 and 24
Polly N. Steinberg and Isador N. Steinberg phonebooks, undated
Box 21 Folder 1
Steinberg family, 1923-1966
(includes invitations to Rafael Steinberg and Tamiko Okamoto wedding, 1953 family photo fromForward, circa 1930, parents' Ketubah, 1923)
Box 21 Folder 2
"A Special Couple", story by Rafael Steinberg on parents, 1981)
Box 21 Folder 3
Family illustrations and greeting cards, 1945 undated
Box 21 Folder 4
Isador N. Steinberg memorabilia from school, 1915 1917 1921 undated, 1915, 1917, 1921 undated
(includes "East Orange High School News")
Box 21 Folder 5
Isador N. Steinberg career, 1935-1983
(includes correspondence with Leopold Arnaud, Edith Horton, David Steinberg, Wheeler Sammons, Jr., Mrs. George Pratt, William L. Longyear, Edward Mills, Jr., Narcisse Chamberlain, M. B. Glick, Lloyd Goodrich, Etta Ress, Piet E. Schreuders)
Box 21 Folder 6
Isador N. Steinberg work for U.S. Army, 1943-1945 1960, 1943-1945, 1960
(includes correspondence with O. A. Gottschalk, J. W. Labine, William Allison, O. L. Nelson, S. E. Gerard, L. George Horowitz, Ross Barrett, Jr., Maxwell Dauer)
Box 21 Folder 7
Commercial Artists' Union, 1934-1936 undated, 1934-1936, undated
Box 21 Folder 8
The Municipal Art Society of New York membership, undated
Box 21 Folder 9
Isador N. Steinberg letters, 1942 1955 1966, 1942, 1955, 1966
(includes correspondence with John T. Madden, David Steinberg)
Box 21 Folder 10
Drafts of Isador N. Steinberg letters, undated
Box 21 Folder 11
Polly N. Steinberg letters, 1923-1957 undated, 1923-1957, undated
(includes correspondence with David Rockefeller, David Steinberg, Jerome Davis Ross, Jacob Seeger, William M. Jayme, N. A. Benderly, Henry Gladstone, Albert Lorch, Daniel Chase)
Box 21 Folder 12
Polly N. Steinberg stories + letters from editors, 1951 1956 undated, 1951, 1956 undated
Box 21 Folder 13-14
Polly N. Steinberg notes, undated, (2 folders)
Box 21 Folder 15
Polly N. Steinberg and Isador N. Steinberg passports, 1956-1961
Box 21 Folder 16
Liberator (socialist magazine),, 1918-1920
Box 21 Folder 17
Pocket book covers illustrated by Isador N. Steinberg, 1939-1982
Box 21 Folder 18
Clips saved by Polly N. Steinberg, 1955 1974, 1955, 1974
Subseries VII.2: Family Estate, 1903-1994, bulk 1935-1994
Materials on the Steinberg family finances and real estate holdings, including a New Jersey farm (Stonehill Farm) and a Manhattan apartment.
Box 22 Folder 1-4
Stonehill Farm, 1935-1994, (4 folders)
Box 22 Folder 5
Apartment on 57 West 69th Street, New York NY, 1950-1973
Box 22 Folder 6
Family real estate (miscellaneous), 1903-1989 [Bulk Dates: 1935-1982], 1903-1989
Box 22 Folder 7
Family finances, 1935-1983
Box 22 Folder 8
Forest management plan and farms conservation plan, Estate of Isador N. Steinberg,, 1993