Rafael Steinberg Papers, 1903-2014, bulk 1944-1980
Rafael Steinberg Papers, 1903-2014, bulk 1944-1980
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1802
- Bib ID:
- 12364441 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Steinberg, Rafael, 1927-
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 19.25 linear feet (15 record cartons, 7.5 document boxes, 1 flat box)
- Language(s):
- English , Japanese .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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Description
Summary
The collection contains personal and professional papers of the foreign correspondent, mostly ranging from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. The materials are from different times and places in Steinberg's career: the Korean War, reporting across Southeast Asia, years as correspondent in London and Japan, and writing and reporting in the United States.
This is a diverse collection that includes telexes, letters, news copy, fiction, poetry, clips, notes, photographs, pocket planners, phone books, manuals and directories for journalists from around the world, and other memorabilia. Items from the Steinberg family collection include illustrations and book jackets by Rafael's father, Isador N. Steinberg, a celebrated designer and artist in his day. Isador N. Steinberg and Rafael's mother, Polly N. Steinberg, were both politically engaged designers and visual artists, and the collection provides insight on their involvement with the Commercial Artists' Union in the 1930s. Also included are items from Steinberg's early years (childhood to college) and documentations of the family's real estate ventures in New York and New Jersey, dating back to 1903.
Those studying the dynamics of news work will find interest in various testimonials on the internal culture of some of the most lucrative news outlets of the midcentury, among them a plethora of raw material by Steinberg and other reporters (telexes, telegrams, letters and annotated copy), manuals, directories, memos and internal publications, and letters and telegrams exchanged with editors, colleagues and agents.
Among the most valuable sections of this collection is a body of correspondence between Steinberg and his parents while stationed abroad. Steinberg exchanged hundreds of long letters with his parents during his time in Korea, London and Japan, detailing with sincerity and emotion his life as a correspondent, professional dilemmas and frustrations, and occasionally some gossip on colleagues.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into seven series and several subseries.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Rafael Steinberg Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Selected Related Material-- Other Repositories
Rafael Steinberg Collection, Stonybrook University, State University of New York.
Accrual
Additions are expected
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2013-2014-M164: Source of acquisition--Purchase. Date of acquisition--03/24/2014.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Papers processed by Efrat Nechushtai (Graduate School of Journalism) January 2017.
Finding aid written by Efrat Nechushtai (Graduate School of Journalism) January 2017.
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2017-02-01 File created.
2017-02-01 xml document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical Note
Rafael ("Ray") Mark Steinberg (1927-) was born and raised in New Jersey. His parents, Polly N. Steinberg (née Rifkind) and Isador N. Steinberg, were visual artists who worked in advertising and publishing in Manhattan. Rafael attended the progressive Little Red School House, graduated in 1945 from Elizabeth Irwin High School, and joined the Navy. After he was discharged from the military he enrolled in Harvard College, where he graduated in the class of 1950.
Steinberg started his career in journalism during his time at Harvard. He wrote for the Harvard Crimson (and later the Harvard Alumni Bulletin), most notably covering the United States government's refusal to grant a visa to French author Pierre Emmanuel (Noël Mathieu), who was suspected to be a communist. In the summers of 1949-1950, he edited and published The Fire Island Reporter, a weekly newspaper covering the resort where his family spent the summer.
Steinberg hoped that one day, after years of reporting, he might be sent abroad as a foreign correspondent. The ongoing war in Korea shortened this path. After several correspondents had died while covering this war, young reporters willing to relocate to Korea for $10 a day were in demand, and Steinberg was sent there as a war correspondent in March 1951. He covered the Korean War for the International News Service and later Time magazine until 1953; his work in Korea was twice nominated for the Overseas Press Club Award. "This was what we wanted to do, to write about war and horror so that they would go away. To reveal to the comfortable at home what the rest of the world was like," Steinberg said in a Korean War Correspondents reunion in 2002. "Some of us experienced first-hand the horror and cruelty that we all discovered would not go away no matter how finely we tuned our phrases, no matter how honest and balanced our reporting. 'The forgotten war,' they called it. But we remembered the opportunity that we had grasped, and that had shaped all of our lives."
Like other correspondents, during his time in Korea, Steinberg had regularly taken short vacations in Japan. In one of these excursions he met Tamiko Okamoto, daughter of a cosmopolitan Japanese physician, who worked for a Japanese television station. In 1953, months after the Korean war ended, the two married in San Francisco and returned together to New York, where Steinberg continued to write for Time.
In 1955, Steinberg was stationed in Time magazine's London Bureau. Although Steinberg was sent to the Middle East to report on the Suez invasion, the position was essentially administrative. This was not a perfect fit. "My enthusiasm waned. Perhaps I had been spoiled for humdrum reporting by the experience of Korea… Perhaps journalism was not my dish after all," Steinberg wrote in 1958 to Norman A. Hall, then editor of the Harvard Bulletin. "Certainly, I had always wanted to write, about my own subjects, and in my own way."
Steinberg left London and Time in 1958, and in 1959 the family relocated to Tokyo — where he served as the Tokyo Bureau Chief and Far Eastern Correspondent for Newsweek, covering Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries. Steinberg resigned in 1963 and remained in Japan as a freelance writer, producing stories on the region for the Washington Post, Saturday Evening Post, Fortune and other publications. He also broadcasted on CBS and appeared often on Japanese television.
In 1967 Rafael, wife Tamiko and daughters Summer and Joy moved back to New Jersey. Steinberg continued to work for Newsweek as general editor, senior editor, and managing editor of the international edition (1970-1973). For a brief period he was editor-in-chief of Cue magazine (1975-1976). From 1967 until the early 1980s, Steinberg produced a large body of freelance reporting for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Saturday Review, Cosmopolitan, Columbia Journalism Review, and others. He continued to follow stories related to Japan and Asia, covering the Japanese Emperor's visit to the United States (1975) and occasionally traveling to report from Japan.
Steinberg authored several nonfiction books: Postscript from Hiroshima (1966), Japan (1969) and Javits: The Autobiography of a Public Man (1981) (with Jacob K. Javits). He coauthored numerous books with the editors of Time-Life Books, primarily on World War II, among them Return to the Philippines (1980), Island Fighting (1981), Prisoners of War (1981) and The Aftermath: Asia (1983). Steinberg co-authored general interest Time-Life books, such as Language (1975) and Man and the Organization (1978), and two books on food, The Cooking of Japan (1974) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Cooking (1979). He also worked as ghost writer for biographies. Steinberg made several attempts at publishing fiction, and his short story, "Day of Good Fortune" was printed in Playboy in 1967. Steinberg also taught writing at New York University in 1981-1982.
Seeking financial stability, Steinberg started a small business, RMS, providing computer and design services for businesses. In 1999 he sold his shop and officially retired. Steinberg continues to write and research, as well as pursue his long-time hobby of sailing. "He tries to crawl, my grandson… 'He'll be crawling in a month,' says his mother. / 'In a week,' say I, remembering how quickly it happens, / how quickly the child absorbs the infant, / how quickly trapped in the adult, / —still stretching for some bright, fragrant prize" (Observing Logan, 1996).
Subject Headings
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Series I: Journalism, 1951-2014, bulk 1951-1980
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
Box 1 Folder 2
Box 1 Folder 3
Box 1 Folder 4
Box 1 Folder 5
Box 1 Folder 6
Box 1 Folder 7
Box 1 Folder 8
Box 1 Folder 9
Box 1 Folder 10
Box 1 Folder 11
Box 1 Folder 12
Box 1 Folder 13
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
Box 8 Folder 2
Box 8 Folder 3
Box 8 Folder 4
Box 8 Folder 5
Box 8 Folder 6
(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
Box 8 Folder 8
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
Box 2 Folder 2
Box 2 Folder 3
Box 2 Folder 4
Box 2 Folder 5-6
Box 2 Folder 7
(includes correspondence with Leonard R. Sussman)
Box 2 Folder 8
Box 2 Folder 9
Box 2 Folder 10
Box 2 Folder 11
Box 2 Folder 12
(includes correspondence with Robert Vermillion)
Box 2 Folder 13-15
(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
(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
(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
(includes correspondence with Lewis H. Lapham, Willie Morris, John Fischer, Genevieve Young, Roberta Pryor)
Box 2 Folder 19
(includes correspondence with Dwight Martin, Karin Smith, Robert Bingham, Philip Horton, Elsie Bormond)
Box 2 Folder 20
(includes correspondence with David Hollander)
Box 2 Folder 21
Box 2 Folder 22
Box 2 Folder 23
(includes clips on royal family, 1964-1975)
Box 2 Folder 24
Box 2 Folder 25
(includes invoice from CBS for radio and television appearances, correspondence with Gordon Manning and Joseph T. Dembo, and script)
Box 2 Folder 26
(includes correspondence with Henry Jarvis + expense reports)
Box 2 Folder 27
(includes scripts, guides, correspondence with A. A. Schechter, Eldon W. Griffiths, Phillip C. Clarke, Jack Allen Potts)
Box 2 Folder 28
(includes drafts, notes, hand-drawn maps, clips, research materials, correspondence with Don Schanche)
Box 3 Folder 1-2
(includes reciepts)
Box 3 Folder 3
Box 3 Folder 4-8
(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
(includes notes, clips, research materials, correspondence with Don Allan)
Box 3 Folder 11
(includes notes, research materials, drafts, correspondence with Andrew J. Collier)
Box 3 Folder 12
Box 3 Folder 13
Box 3 Folder 14
Box 3 Folder 15
Box 3 Folder 16
(includes article by Steinberg)
Box 3 Folder 17
Box 3 Folder 18
Subseries I.4 includes materials on Steinberg's reporting in these countries: drafts, copy, clips, notepads, notes and letters.
Box 4 Folder 1
Box 4 Folder 2
Box 4 Folder 3
Box 4 Folder 4
(includes correspondence with David A. Lyle, Bob Beacham)
Box 4 Folder 5
Box 4 Folder 6-7
Box 4 Folder 8
(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
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
Box 9 Folder 2
(includes correspondence with Don A. Schanche, John R. Roberson, Roberta Pryor)
Box 9 Folder 3
(includes correspondence with George Walsh, Roberta Pryor)
Box 9 Folder 4
Box 9 Folder 5
(includes correspondence with Philip van Slyck, Bruno Iams)
Box 9 Folder 6
(includes correspondence with Bayard Hooper, Pauline Goger, Jack L. Katz, Gerald Weissman, Robert J. Wisher, Pamela Forcey)
Box 9 Folder 7
(includes correspondence with Beth Day, Susan Heath)
Box 9 Folder 8
Box 9 Folder 9
Box 9 Folder 10
Box 9 Folder 11
(includes correspondence with Susan Ochshorn, Horace Sutton)
Box 9 Folder 12
(includes correspondence with Martha Munro)
Box 9 Folder 13
(includes correspondence with Lee Eisenberg, Phillip Moffitt)
Box 9 Folder 14
(includes correspondence with Chuck N. Lee)
Box 9 Folder 15
Box 9 Folder 16
Box 9 Folder 17
Box 9 Folder 18
Box 9 Folder 19
(includes correspondence with John Hall, Edward Behr)
Box 9 Folder 20
Box 9 Folder 21
Box 9 Folder 22
(includes correspondence with John Boyle)
Box 9 Folder 23
Box 9 Folder 24
Box 9 Folder 25
(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
(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
(includes invoices and correspondence with Dominique Browning, Lee Eisenberg, Marjorie Samuel, Clay Felker)
Box 9 Folder 29
Box 9 Folder 30
(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
Series II: Nonfiction, 1965-1985, bulk 1965-1967, 1978-1980
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
Box 5 Folder 2-3
Box 5 Folder 4
Box 6 Folder 1
(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
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
Box 7 Folder 2
Box 7 Folder 3
(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
Box 7 Folder 5
Box 7 Folder 6-7
Box 7 Folder 8
Box 7 Folder 9
Box 7 Folder 10
(includes reviews)
Box 7 Folder 11
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
(includes correspondence with Arthur Ross, Richard M. Clurman, Don A. Schanche, Edward T. Thompson, Robert Barnes)
Box 12 Folder 2
(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
(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
Box 12 Folder 5
(includes contract, expense reports and correspondence with Marcia Heath)
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
(signed by Javits)
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Box 13
Series III: Fiction, 1958-2010, undated, bulk 1958-1971
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
Box 10 Folder 2
Box 10 Folder 3
Box 10 Folder 4
Box 10 Folder 5
Box 10 Folder 6
Box 10 Folder 7
Box 10 Folder 8
Box 10 Folder 9
Box 10 Folder 10
Box 10 Folder 11
Box 10 Folder 12
Box 10 Folder 13-14
Box 10 Folder 15
Box 10 Folder 16
(includes contract with Random House, invoice, correspondence with Albert Erskine)
Box 10 Folder 17-18
Box 10 Folder 19
Box 10 Folder 20
Box 10 Folder 21
Box 10 Folder 22
Box 10 Folder 23
Box 10 Folder 24
Series IV: Letters (professional and personal), 1938-2006, bulk 1946-1989
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.
Additional letters can be found in Series I, II, III, V, VI, and VII
Box 14 Folder 5
Box 14 Folder 6
Box 14 Folder 7
Box 14 Folder 8
(includes letters from Tamiko Steinberg, Summer Steinberg, Nathan Weisman, Isador N. Steinberg and Polly N. Steinberg)
Box 14 Folder 9
Box 14 Folder 10-12
Box 14 Folder 13-14
Box 14 Folder 15
(includes correspondence with Anne Tolstoi)
Box 14 Folder 16
(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
(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
(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
(includes correspondence with Bill Shinn, David Steinberg, Yun Kil Yang, Marshall Ackerman, Mignonette Mintzer, Bernie Krisher, Laurence Jolidon)
Box 19 Folder 2
(includes correspondence with Andy Singer, Karen Wilder, Kaye D. Proctor, Kathi Foisie, Sharon Delmendo, Max Kortepeter)
Box 19 Folder 3
(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
(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
Box 19 Folder 6
Series V: Personal and professional items, 1944-2002, bulk 1944-1975
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
Box 23
Box 18
Box 17 Folder 1
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Box 17 Folder 4
Box 17 Folder 5
Box 17 Folder 6
Box 17 Folder 7
Box 17 Folder 8
Box 17 Folder 9
Box 17 Folder 10
Box 17 Folder 11
Box 17 Folder 12
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Box 17 Folder 14
Box 17 Folder 15
Box 17 Folder 16
(includes correspondence with Stanley Gabor, Kathleen Murray)
Box 17 Folder 17
(includes correspondence with Judith L. Morris, Lloyd P. Wells)
Box 17 Folder 18
(includes correspondence with May a Pines)
Box 17 Folder 19
(includes correspondence with Gerald J. Rourke, Marvin Weinberg, Gary Weinberg)
Box 17 Folder 20
Box 17 Folder 21-22
Series VI: Early years, 1936-2010, bulk 1936-1950
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
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Box 15 Folder 5
Box 15 Folder 6
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Box 15 Folder 8
Box 15 Folder 9
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Box 15 Folder 13
Box 15 Folder 14
Box 15 Folder 15
Box 15 Folder 16
Box 15 Folder 17
Box 15 Folder 18
(includes letters to brother, David Steinberg)
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
Box 16 Folder 2
Box 16 Folder 3
Box 16 Folder 4
Box 16 Folder 5
Box 16 Folder 6
Box 16 Folder 7
Box 16 Folder 8
Box 16 Folder 9
Box 16 Folder 10
(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
(includes correspondence with Norman A. Hall, Marcia K. Mitchell, John T. Bethell)
Box 16 Folder 12
(includes correspondence with Fred L. Glimp, Morris Gray)
Box 16 Folder 13
(includes correspondence with Mark E. Gordon, Donald Connery, Leslie Connery)
Box 16 Folder 14
(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
(includes correspondence with Larry Nathanson, Gordon Abbott, Jr.)
Box 16 Folder 16
Box 16 Folder 17
Box 6 Folder 3
Series VII: Steinberg Family, 1903-1994
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
Box 20 and 24
Box 20 and 24
Box 20 and 24
Box 20 and 24
Box 21 Folder 1
(includes invitations to Rafael Steinberg and Tamiko Okamoto wedding, 1953 family photo fromForward, circa 1930, parents' Ketubah, 1923)
Box 21 Folder 2
Box 21 Folder 3
Box 21 Folder 4
(includes "East Orange High School News")
Box 21 Folder 5
(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
(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
Box 21 Folder 8
Box 21 Folder 9
(includes correspondence with John T. Madden, David Steinberg)
Box 21 Folder 10
Box 21 Folder 11
(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
Box 21 Folder 13-14
Box 21 Folder 15
Box 21 Folder 16
Box 21 Folder 17
Box 21 Folder 18
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
Box 22 Folder 5
Box 22 Folder 6
Box 22 Folder 7
Box 22 Folder 8