Manfred Kridl Papers, 1925-1974

Manfred Kridl Papers, 1925-1974

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
BAR Ms Coll/Kridl
Bib ID:
4077720 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Kridl, Manfred, 1882-1957; Kalecki, Oskar, 1891-1973; Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982; Kohn, Hans, 1891-1971; Miłosz, Czesław, 1911-; Lechoń, Jan, 1899-1956; Wittlin, Józef, 1896-1976; Znaniecki, Florian, 1882-1958; Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972; Slonimski, Antoni, 1895-1976; Wierzyński, Kazimierz, 1894-1969
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
5000 items (30 boxes; 1 folder of negatives on glass plates)
Language(s):
Polish .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Content

These papers, which concern mostly Kridl's years in the United States, consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials. Among the correspondents are Oskar Kalecki, Roman Jakobson, Hans Kohn, Czesław Miłosz, Leszak Serafinowicz (Jan Lechoʹn), Kazimierz Wierzyʹnski, Jʹosef Wittlin, and Florian Zaniecki; there are one or two items each from Vladimir Nabokov, Harlow Shapley, and Antoni Slonimski. The manuscripts include lectures and articles by Kridl; there are also personal and family documents. There are about 100 photographs from Warsaw during the 1944 uprising and immediately after World War II. Printed materials include copies of books by Kridl.

Arrangement

Material is arranged into eight series.

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.

Permission of donor's family required to use. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

This collection is located on-site.

Accruals

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Elizabeth K. Valkenier. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1979.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

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Processing Information

Papers Accessioned 1979.

Papers Processed 06/--/79.

Papers Revised 01/--/80.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical sketch

Polish literary historian. Kridl taught at the universities of Brussels and Wilno (Vilnius) in the 1920s and 1930s. He came to the United States in 1940, and taught at Smith College in 1940-1948. In 1948-1955 he was Adam Mickiewicz Professor of Polish Studies at Columbia University. He was the author or editor of numerous works on Polish literary history.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Articles
Lectures
Letters (correspondence)
Photographic prints
Subject
Books
Emigration and immigration -- Poland -- 20th century
Emigration and immigration -- Soviet Union -- 20th century
Emigration and immigration -- United States -- 20th century
Polish literature -- Foreign countries

Series I: Cataloged Material


Cataloged Correspondence


Box 1

Arnold, Stanislaw


Box 1

Belie, Aleksandr


Box 1

Benesic, Julije


Box 1

Borwicz, Michal M.


Box 1

Budzyk, Kazimierz


Box 1

Bunche, Ralph J.


Box 1

Bundy, McGeorge


Box 1

Chizhevskii, Dmitrii


Box 1

Cieslak, Tadeusz


Box 1

Coleman, Arthur Prudden


Box 1

Cross, Samuel Hazzard


Box 1

Czezowski, Tadeusz


Box 1

Einstein, Albert


Box 1

Fajans, Kazimierz


Box 1

Gillon, Adam


Box 1

Gorski, Konrad


Box 1

Gregoire, Henri


Box 1

Halecki, Oskar


Box 1

Halle, Morris


Box 1

Hazard, John Newbold


Box 1

Ingarden, Roman


Box 1

Karpovich, Mikhail Mikhailovich


Box 1

Kelly, Eric P.


Box 1

Kesten, Hermann


Box 1

Kleiner, Juliusz


Box 1

Kohn, Hans


Box 1

Kot, Stanislaw


Box 1

Krzyzanowski, Julian


Box 1

Kucharzewski, Jan


Box 1

Lange, Oscar


Box 1

Laughlin, James


Box 1

Lednicki, Waclaw


Box 1

Levin, Harry


Box 1

Levi-Strauss, Claude


Box 1

Lunt, Horace G.


Box 1

Manning, Clarence A.


Box 1

Milosz, Czeslaw


Box 1

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich


Box 1

Noyes, George Rapall


Box 1

Poggioli, Renato


Box 1

Pop, Sever


Box 1

Pusey, Nathan M.


Box 1

Rose, William John


Box 2

Schilt, Jan


Box 2

Senn, Alfred


Box 2

Serafinowicz, Leszek (pseudonym-Jan Lechon)


Box 2

Shapley, Harlow


Box 2

Simmons, Ernest J.


Box 2

Stominski, Antoni


Box 2

Srebrny, Stefan


Box 2

Stender-Petersen, Adolf


Box 2

Tarski, Alfred


Box 2

Thomson, S. Harrison


Box 2

Tuwim, Julian


Box 2

Vasmer, Max


Box 2

Weintraub, Wiktor


Box 2

Wellek, Rene


Box 2

Wierczynski, Stefan


Box 2

Wierzynski, Kazimierz


Box 2

Wittlin, Jozef


Box 2

Yarmolinsky, Avrahm


Box 2

Znaniecki, Florian


Cataloged Photographs


Box 2

Borowy, Waclaw


Box 2

Eisenhower, Dwight David in Warsaw,1945


Box 2

Warsaw Uprising of, 1944


Cataloged Documents


Box 2

Halecki, Oskar


Box 2

Lednicki, Waclaw


Box 2

Moscicki, Ignacy

Series II: Arranged Correspondence


Box 3

Manfred Kridl to unidentified persons


Box 3

Unidentified persons to Manfred Kridl


Box 3

Abramowicz, Dina


Box 3

American... (organizations)


Box 3

American Slavic and East European Review


Box 3

Beal, Chandler


Box 3

Berlin, Free University of


Box 3

Borova, Julia


Box 3

Brussels University


Box 3

Bujnowski, Jozef


Box 3

Bulas, Kazimierz


Box 3

Catholic Committee for Refugees


Box 3

Columbia University


Box 3

Ehrenpreis, Wiktor


Box 3

Erlicfi, Wiktor


Box 3

Fole j ewski, Zbigniew


Box 3

Ford Foundation (recommendations)


Box 3

Gross, Feliks


Box 3

Hertz, Aleksander


Box 3

Koschmieder, E.


Box 3

Kraus, David


Box 3

Langer, Rulka


Box 3

Lodz University


Box 3

Malinowski, Vtfadys^av


Box 3

May enowa, Renata


Box 3

Mizva, Stephen P.


Box 3

Nagurski, Irene


Box 3

New Europe (journal)


Box 3

Pankiewicz, Michal


Box 3

Polish... (organizations, journals)


Box 3

Polish Embassy


Box 4

Polski Instytut Naukovy w Ameryce


Box 4

Rapacka, Halina


Box 4

Roy Publishers


Box 4

Rzeuska, Maria


Box 4

Salman, Artur


Box 4

Scherer-Virski, Olga


Box 4

Schmitt, Bernadette


Box 4

S^avinska, Irena


Box 4

Smith College


Box 4

Staniewska, A. and H.


Box 4

Torun University


Box 4

Tygodnik Polski (New York)


Box 4

U.S. Department of Justice


Box 4

U.S. Department of State


Box 4

U.S. Offices of Price Administration & War Information


Box 4

Whitfield, Francis


Box 4

"Wiedza" Spoldzielnia wydawnicza


Box 4

Witenberg, Joseph C.


Box 4

Woloszynowa, Lidia


Box 4

Zajkowska, A.


Box 4

Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich


Box 4

Zawacki, Edmund


Box 4

Zawadzki, B. and N.


Box 4

Zgorzelski, Czeslaw


Box 4

Zlotovski, Ignacy


Box 4

Zubrzycki, Boleslaw


Box 4

Zygmund, Antoni and Irena


Box 4

Other Correspondents, A-B


Box 5

Other Correspondents, C-Z

Series III: Manuscripts


College and University Lectures


Box 6

Lectures on Czech Literature, Brussels University


Box 6

Lectures on the History of Polish Culture, Columbia University


Box 6

Lectures on the History of the Polish Language, Columbia University


Box 6

Lectures on Modern Slavic Poetics, Columbia University


Box 6

Lectures on the 19th and 20th century Polish Novel, Columbia University


Box 6

Lectures on Old Polish Literature, Columbia University


Box 7

Lectures on Polish Folklore, Columbia University


Box 7

Lectures on Polish Intellectual History, Columbia University


Box 7

Lectures on Polish Poetry, Columbia University


Box 7

Lectures on Slavic Literary Theory, Columbia University


Box 7

Lectures on 19th century Slavic Literature, Columbia University


Box 7

Miscellaneous Lectures at Smith College


Box 8

Lectures on Literary Theory, Wilno University


Box 8

Miscellaneous Lecture Notes


Box 9

Curriculum Vitae and Lists of Publications


Box 9

"Adam Mickiewicz" (1955 United Nations talk)


Box 9

"Adam Mickiewicz" in Great Men and Women of Poland


Box 9

"Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)"


Box 9

"Adam Mickiewicz jako poeta i jako dzialacz"


Box 9

Adam Mickiewicz, Poet of Poland: A Symposium


Box 10

"Alexandre Fredro"


Box 10

Anthology of Polish Literature


Box 11

"Bibliography of Prose Fiction Studies" (with related correspondence)


Box 11

"Bibliography on Czechoslovak Literature"


Box 11

"Cyprien Norwid"


Box 11

"Early Russian Epic Poetry (Byliny)"


Box 11

"The First Polish Translation of the Slovo o polku Igoreve"


Box 11

"La genese de la 'Jeune Pologne'"


Box 11

"Henryk Sienkiewicz"


Box 11

"Introduction a la theorie du roman"


Box 11

"Introduction to the Study of Literary Works"


Box 11

"JTai a vous parler de la Pologne contemporaine..."


Box 11

"Jean Kochanowski (1530-1584)"


Box 11

Juliusz Slowacki. Liryki


Box 12

"Literatura polska na emigracji (1939-1945)"


Box 12

Literatura polska (na tie rozwoju kultury)


Box 12

"The Lyric Poems or Juliusz Slowacki"


Box 12

"Lyric Poetry and its 'Genres'"


Box 13

"Mickiewicz on America and the American Potato"


Box 13

"Mickiewicz w powojennej krytyce polskiej"


Box 13

"Narodiny nowego swiata"


Box 13

Obituaries of Berent, Boy-Zeleriski, Brzozowska, Kleiner, Piwinski


Box 13

"O pierwszej sowieckiej okupacji Wilna"


Box 13

"O polskosci Wilna"


Box 13

"O przyszlosl kultury polskiej"


Box 13

"O t.zw. polityce realistycznej"


Box 13

Office of War Information Broadcasts


Box 13

Pharaoh screenplay (with related correspondence)


Box 13

"Poland and Russia in the Past and Future"


Box 13

"Poland's Fight for Democracy"


Box 13

"Polish Democratic Traditions"


Box 13

"Polish Literature" in Collier's Encyclopedia (with related correspondence)


Box 13

"Polish Literature" in Encyclopedia Americana (with related correspondence)


Box 13

"Polish Literature between 1918 and 1939" in Poland, 1918


Box 13

"Polish Literature in Exile"


Box 13

"Polish Poetry" in Dictionary of Poetics and Poetry (with correspondence)


Box 13

"Polish Post-War Literature"


Box 13

"The Position of Poland"


Box 13

"Present Ideological Trends in Poland"


Box 13

"Psychologia sowietystow"


Box 13

Reviews


Box 13

"The Role of Joseph Pilsudski in Polish Life"


Box 13

"Romantik und Moderne des Zeitgenossen der Heimat, Adam Mickievicz:


Box 13

Juliusz Slowacki"


Box 14

"Russian Formalism"


Box 14

"Salt of Earth"


Box 14

"Shprt Stories, of Erski.ne Caldwell


Box 14

"Some Remarks about Realism in Fiction"


Box 14

"The Structure of Slowacki's Lyric Poems"


Box 14

"Die Struktur der lyrischen Gedichte von Juliusz S^owacki"


Box 14

Survey of Polish literature and Culture


Box 14

"Szkic dziejow kultury polskiej" (with related correspondence)


Box 14

A Treasury of Slavic Literature


Box 14

"Two Champions of a New Christianity: Lamennais and Mickiewicz"


Box 15

"Waclaw Borowy, 1880-1950


Box 15

"What is Theory of Literature?"


Box 15

"Wielki szyderca"


Box 15

"Wstep do liryk Slowackiego"


Box 15

"Zadania demokracji polskiej"


Box 15

Za wasza i nasza wolnosc. Polska mysl demokratyczna w ciagu wiekow


Box 15

"Zu einer richtigen Auffasung des Mickiewicz Nachlasses"


Box 15

Unidentified (on various authors)


Manuscripts by Other Persons


Box 15

Ryszard Matuszewski, "Poezja polska na nowych drogach"


Box 15

Skafander, "De profundis ad astra"


Box 15

Julian Tuwim, Poems


Box 15

Jozef Wittlin, "The Tragic Gogol"


Box 15

Students' Papers

Series IV: Subject Files


Box 16

Adam Mickiewicz, Poet of Poland: A Symposium


Box 16

Anthology of Polish Literature


Box 16

Applications for Guggenheim Fellowship


Box 16

Book on Erskine Caldwell


Box 16

Columbia Slavic Department


Box 16

Copernicus Celebration, 1953


Box 17

Dissertations at Columbia


Box 17

Joseph Conrad


Box 17

Mickiewicz Chair at Columbia Controversy


Box 17

Polish Circle at Columbia


Box 17

Polish Relief after World War II


Box 17

Polskie Stronnictwo Demokratyczne


Box 17

Survey of Polish Literature and Culture

Series V: Documents and Notes


Box 18

Documents


Box 18

Passports and Residence Permits


Box 18

Financial Records


Notes


Box 18

English Novel


Box 18

French Novel


Box 18

German Novel


Box 18

Spanish Novel


Box 19

Notebooks on the Russian Language


Box 19

Miscellaneous Notes


Box 21

Bibliographic Card File


Box 21

Diaries


Box 21

Notebooks

Series VI: Printed Materials


Box 20

Invitations


Box 20

Announcements of M. Kridl's Lectures


Box 20

News Releases on Poland


Box 20

Newspaper Clippings and Miscellaneous Printed Materials


Box 23

Printed Materials by Manfred Kridl


Box 24

Printed Materials by Manfred Kridl


Box 25

Printed Materials by Manfred Kridl


Box 26

Printed Materials by Manfred Kridl


Box 27

Printed Materials by Manfred Kridl


Box 28

Printed Material by Others

Series VII: Photographs


Box 22

Photographs of Manfred Kridl


Box 22

Poland after World War II


Box 22

Warsaw before and after World War II


Box 22

Miscellaneous Photographs

Series VIII: Family Correspondence


Box 29

Family Correspondence


Box 30

Family Correspondence