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Series II: General, 1929-1977

Overbrook Press Records, 1929-1978, bulk 1935-1961

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Series I: Correspondence, 1933-1978

This series contains correspondence of three types; alphabetical correspondence arranged by surname, author-title files containing correspondence relating to specific works, and general chronological correspondence.

Subseries I.1: Alphabetical Correspondence, 1934-1976

This subseries contains letters to Altschul from artists, actors, politicians, and other individuals outside the publishing field. Most are brief letters of thanks in response to the complementary books Altschul often sent to notable figures. Files have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent name.

Series I: Correspondence, 1933-1978

Subseries I.1: Alphabetical Correspondence, 1934-1976


Box 1 Folder 1 Acheson, Dean, 1951-1961

Box 1 Folder 2-3 Adler, Elmer, 1934-1935, (2 folders)

Box 1 Folder 4 Aldrich, Winthrop, 1968

Box 1 Folder 5 Amory, Cleveland, 1955

Box 1 Folder 6 Angelo, Valenti, 1935

Box 1 Folder 7 Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 1945-1964

Box 1 Folder 8 Auchincloss, Louis, 1967

Box 1 Folder 9 Austin, Warren, 1937-1943

Box 1 Folder 10 Bedard, Pierre, 1965-1969

Box 1 Folder 11 Beilenson, Peter, 1945

Box 1 Folder 12 Bliss, Robert Woods, 1955

Box 1 Folder 13 Bloom, Sol, 1943

Box 1 Folder 14 Boggs, Hale, 1955-1961

Box 1 Folder 15 Bolton, Frances, 1943

Box 1 Folder 16 Bowman, Isaiah, 1945

Box 1 Folder 17 Braden, Spruille, 1950

Box 1 Folder 18 Brandeis, Louis, 1937

Box 1 Folder 19 Brewster, Kingman, 1969-1970

Box 1 Folder 20 Bruce, David, 1969

Box 1 Folder 21 Bush, Prescott, 1953

Box 1 Folder 22 Capper, Arthur, 1937-1938

Box 1 Folder 23 Cardozo, Benjamin, 1937

Box 1 Folder 24 Cary, Melbert, 1935

Box 1 Folder 25 Cert, Bennett, 1936

Box 1 Folder 26 Church, Frank, 1970

Box 1 Folder 27 Claire, Ina, 1936

Box 1 Folder 28 Clark, Tom, 1949

Box 1 Folder 29 Clay, Lucius, 1968-1969

Box 1 Folder 30-31 Cleland, Thomas, 1934-1958, (2 folders)

Box 1 Folder 32 Cohn, Alfred, 1935-1952

Box 1 Folder 33 Coolidge, Achibald, 1953-1954

Box 1 Folder 34 Copeland, Royal, 1938

Box 1 Folder 35 Cousins, Norman, 1952-1922

Box 1 Folder 36 Coykendall, Frederick, 1955

Box 1 Folder 37 Cushing, Harvey, 1935

Box 1 Folder 38 Davis, John, 1950

Box 1 Folder 39 Douglas, Paul, 1953

Box 1 Folder 40 Dryfoos, Orvil, 1947

Box 1 Folder 41 Duggan, Stephen, 1949

Box 1 Folder 42 Dulles, John Foster, 1947-1954

Box 1 Folder 43 Duvoisin, Roger, 1939

Box 1 Folder 44 Dwiggins, William Addison, 1935

Box 1 Folder 45 Eisenhower, Dwight, 1950

Box 1 Folder 46 Emmett, Burton, 1935

Box 1 Folder 47 Farrand, Max, 1942

Box 1 Folder 48 Finletter, Thomas, 1976

Box 1 Folder 49 Flanner, Janet, 1951

Box 1 Folder 50 Florinsky, Michael, 1951-1961

Box 1 Folder 51 Forand, Aime, 1937-1945

Box 1 Folder 52 Frankfurter, Felix, 1941-1963

Box 1 Folder 53 Fulbright, James, 1959-1976

Box 1 Folder 54 Galantiere, Lewis, 1961-1968

Box 1 Folder 55 Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1951-1975

Box 1 Folder 56 Garcia, Carlos, 1960

Box 1 Folder 57 Gill, Brendan, 1962-1966

Box 1 Folder 58 Goodrich, Carter, 1948-1952

Box 1 Folder 59 Grabhorn, Edwin, 1935

Box 1 Folder 60 Graham, Philip, 1952

Box 1 Folder 61 Grew, Joseph, 1951

Box 1 Folder 62 Gunther, John, 1948-1965

Box 1 Folder 63 Halifax, Edward Frederick, 1942

Box 1 Folder 64 Hand, Learned, 1953

Box 1 Folder 65 Hanks, Nancy, 1966

Box 1 Folder 66 Heckscher, 1951-1975

Box 1 Folder 67 Hersey, John, 1975

Box 1 Folder 68 Herter, Christian, 1948

Box 1 Folder 69 Hugo, Jean, 1937-1938

Box 1 Folder 70 Humphrey, Hubert, 1953

Box 1 Folder 71 Ickes, Harold, 1937

Box 1 Folder 72 Isaacs, Stanley, 1950

Box 1 Folder 73 Jackson, Barbara, 1976

Box 1 Folder 74 Jebb, (Sir Hubert Miles), Gladwyn, 1953

Box 1 Folder 75 Johnson, Alvin, 1954

Box 1 Folder 76 Johnson, Lyndon B, 1963

Box 1 Folder 77 Johnston, Paul, 1934

Box 1 Folder 78 Kent, Henry, 1934

Box 1 Folder 79 Kerr, Clark, 1970

Box 1 Folder 80 Kerr, Jean, 1957

Box 1 Folder 81 Knopf, Alfred, 1935-1965

Box 1 Folder 82 Knopf

Box 1 Folder 83 Lamont, Thomas, 1963

Box 1 Folder 84 Lane, Margaret, Countess of Huntington, 1963

Box 1 Folder 85-86 Leffingwell, Russell, 1935-1959, (2 folders)

Box 1 Folder 87 Lehman, Edith Altschul, 1937-1938

Box 1 Folder 88 Lehman, Irving, 1935-1939

Box 1 Folder 89 Lerner, Max, 1950

Box 1 Folder 90 Lippman, Walter, 1968

Box 1 Folder 91 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1937

Box 1 Folder 92 Luce, Clare Boothe, 1976

Box 1 Folder 93 Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1935

Box 1 Folder 94 McCarran, Patrick, 1937

Box 1 Folder 95 McLeish, Archibald, 1968

Box 1 Folder 96 Macmahon, Arthur, 1949-1950


Box 2 Folder 1 Malik, Charles, 1950

Box 2 Folder 2 Mansfield, Howard, 1935

Box 2 Folder 3 Medina, Harold, 1953

Box 2 Folder 4 Merrill, Charles, 1935-1937

Box 2 Folder 5 Montague, Gilbert, 1946-1959

Box 2 Folder 6 Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1923

Box 2 Folder 7 Muggeridge, Malcom, 1953

Box 2 Folder 8 Oenslager, Donald, 1968

Box 2 Folder 9 Ogburn, Charlton, 1950

Box 2 Folder 10 Pearson, Norman, 1941

Box 2 Folder 11 Pell, Clairborne, 1954

Box 2 Folder 12 Plimpton, Francis, 1957-1958

Box 2 Folder 13 Plimpton, Francis, 1959-1975

Box 2 Folder 14 Proskauer, Joseph, 1938-1967

Box 2 Folder 15 Reid, Whitelaw, 1953

Box 2 Folder 16 Reston, James, 1970

Box 2 Folder 17 Ribicoff, Abraham, 1957-1961

Box 2 Folder 18 Rockefeller, David, 1975

Box 2 Folder 19 Rockefeller, Nelson, 1959-1969

Box 2 Folder 20 Rogers, Bruce, 1937

Box 2 Folder 21 Rogers, Lindsay, 1960-1969

Box 2 Folder 22 Roper, Elmo, 1952

Box 2 Folder 23 Ross, Harold, 1948

Box 2 Folder 24 Rusk, Dean, 1959

Box 2 Folder 25-26 Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1935, (2 folders)

Box 2 Folder 27 Saltonstall, Leverett, 1945-1961

Box 2 Folder 28 Sarnoff, David, 1951

Box 2 Folder 29 Schlesinger, Arthur, 1960-1968

Box 2 Folder 30 Seligman, Eustace, 1951-1975

Box 2 Folder 31 Seymour, Whitney North, 1968

Box 2 Folder 32 Smith, Datus, 1942

Box 2 Folder 33 Smith, Margaret, 1945-1970

Box 2 Folder 34 Stevenson, Adlai, 1960-1964

Box 2 Folder 35 Sulzberger, Arther, 1937-1963

Box 2 Folder 36-37 Sulzberger, Iphigene, 1935-1969, (2 folders)

Box 2 Folder 38 Swope, Herber, 1935-1952

Box 2 Folder 39 Symington, Stuart, 1953

Box 2 Folder 40 Symons, Alphonse, 1935

Box 2 Folder 41 Taft, Robert, 1943

Box 2 Folder 42 Taylor, Maxwell, 1948

Box 2 Folder 43 Thompson, Dorothy, 1941

Box 2 Folder 44 Treadwell, John, 1953-1958

Box 2 Folder 45 Truman, Harry, 1957

Box 2 Folder 46 Tydings, Millard, 1938

Box 2 Folder 47 Tyson, Levering, 1957-1961

Box 2 Folder 48 Updike, Daniel, 1935

Box 2 Folder 49 Van Doren, Irita, 1946

Box 2 Folder 50 Wardwell, Allen, 1937

Box 2 Folder 51 Warren, Earl, 1955

Box 2 Folder 52 Wechsler, James, 1963

Box 2 Folder 53 Weizmann, Chaim, 1947

Box 2 Folder 54 Welles, Sumner, 1943

Box 2 Folder 55 White, Walter, 1953

Box 2 Folder 56 Wilmont, John, 1963

Box 2 Folder 57 Wilson, Edward, 1953

Box 2 Folder 58 Woods, Rose Mary, 1969

Subseries I.2: Author-Title Files, 1933-1969

Files in this subseries hold correspondence between Altschul and authors, editors, illustrators, and others regarding the design and publication of books, broadsides, and pamphlets. Many also contain drafts, proofs, or final copies of broadsides and pamphlets. In general, files are arranged alphabetically by author and contain correspondence related to the publishing of a single work, though in some cases they may cover several works by the same author. It is unclear whether this arrangement is original or was imposed at a later date.

Box 2 Folder 58 Acheson, Dean--"Fifty Years After,", 1961

Box 2 Folder 59 Adams, Frederick B. Jr.--Radical Literature in America, 1939

Box 2 Folder 60 "Address to the People by Certain Members of the Senate,", 1938

Box 2 Folder 61 Adler, Elmer--Menu for a Dinner Honoring Adler, 1940

Box 2 Folder 62 Aldington, Richard--A Dream in the Luxemburg, 1935

Box 2 Folder 63 Aldrich, Amy--"Fifty Years Ago,", 1959

Box 2 Folder 64 Allen, Edgar W. and Eric M. Hassenberg--To Alain White: A Tribute, 1945

Box 2 Folder 65 Altschul, Charles--"The Influence of England,", 1954

Box 2 Folder 66 American Political Science Association--Award Scrolls, 1948-1953

Box 2 Folder 67 Annalita--"Be Careful,", 1968

Box 2 Folder 68 Armstrong, Hamilton Fish--"The Task and Price of World Leadership,", 1947

Box 2 Folder 69 Baerwald, Emil, 1869-1948--Quotations from his Funeral Service, 1948

Box 2 Folder 70 Ballantine, Arthur A.--Poems, 1955

Box 2 Folder 71 Baruch, Bernard M.--"Freedom for Man: A World Safe for Mankind: An Address," Introduction by August Hekscher,, 1955

Box 2 Folder 72 Benton, William--"Brien McMahon: A Tribute,", 1952


Box 3 Folder 1 Bingham, June--Do Cows have Neuroses?, 1948

Box 3 Folder 2 Borg, Madelaine, 1956

Box 3 Folder 3 Breton, Nicholas and Bruce Rogers (Illustrator)--Twelve Months, 1949

Box 3 Folder 4 Brewster, Kingman--Style, Pluck and Integrity, 1969

Box 3 Folder 5 Buschke, Albrecht, Richard Cheney and Alan White--The Two-Move Chess Problem in the Soviet Union, 1923-1943, 1943, 1923-1943, 1943

Box 3 Folder 6 to 7 Cahoon, Herbert, Compiler--The Overbrook Press Bibliography, 1963, (2 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 8 California, State Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 12, 1957

Box 3 Folder 9 Chiang May Ling Soong--Addresses, 1943

Box 3 Folder 10 Churchill, Winston Spencer--An Address by Winston S. Churchill, 1943

Box 3 Folder 11 Cleland, Thomas Maitland--"Progress" in the Graphic Arts, 1949

Box 3 Folder 12 Clemens, Samuel L.--Three Sketches, 1946

Box 3 Folder 13 Cohn, Alfred E. et al--A Memorandum on the Need for a New Journal on higher Education in the United States, 1943

Box 3 Folder 14 Cohn, David L.--America to England, 1940

Box 3 Folder 15 Conant, James B.--The Defense of Freedom, 1960

Box 3 Folder 16 Cook, Madge--Poems, 1934

Box 3 Folder 17 Council on Foreign Relations--Lamont, Thomas W., 1948

Box 3 Folder 18 Council on Foreign Relations--Resignation of Henry M. Wrist as President,, 1964

Box 3 Folder 19 Council on Foreign Relations--Resolution Adopted by the Board of Directors,, 1946 May 21

Box 3 Folder 20 Cousins, Norman--Wanted: Ten Billion Angry Men, 1958

Box 3 Folder 21 Dodd, Thomas J.--If Coexistence Fails (from Orbis), 1960

Box 3 Folder 22 Duggan, Laurence--In Memoriam, 1949

Box 3 Folder 23 Dunne, George--God Bless America, 1961


Box 4 Folder 1 Dwiggins, W.A--four-page Signature from Robert Nathan's One More Spring,1935

Box 4 Folder 2 The Economist--"Containment Plus,", 1952

Box 4 Folder 3 Edman, Irwin--If Not, Not, 1952

Box 4 Folder 4 Eisenhower, Dwight D.--Guildhall Address in London and the Address Before the Congress in Washington,, 1945

Box 4 Folder 5 Eisenhower, Dwight D.--The Spirit of Geneva, 1955

Box 4 Folder 6 Eisenhower, Dwight D.--A Tribute to Winston Spencer Churchill, 1965

Box 4 Folder 7 Emmett, Burton--"Notes for a Statement Regarding the Collection," P.M. Magazine Insert, 1937

Box 4 Folder 8 to 10 The English-Speaking Union of the United States, 1958, 1965, 1958, 1965, (3 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 11 Etheridge, Mark F.--"Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid?", 1953

Box 4 Folder 12 France, Anatole--L'Affaire Crainquebille, 1937

Box 4 Folder 13 Fulbright, James William--"The Price of Empire,", 1967

Box 4 Folder 14 Fulbright, James William--"Toward a More Creative Foreign Policy,", 1959

Box 4 Folder 15 Calantiere, Lewis--"America Today,", 1950

Box 4 Folder 16 Galbraith, John Kenneth--"How Keynes Came to America,", 1965

Box 4 Folder 17 George VI, King of Great Britain Donors to the King George VI Memorial Fund,, 1953

Box 4 Folder 18 Gist, Thomas--Indian Captivity, 1942

Box 4 Folder 19 Coldenson, Samuel--Philip J. Goodhart, 1856-1944, 1944, 1856-1944, 1944

Box 4 Folder 20 Greenman, Frederick F.--Wire Tapping and Civil Liberties, 1956

Box 4 Folder 21 "Alfred Whitney Griswald: In Memoriam,", 1964

Box 4 Folder 22 Griswold, Alfred Whitney--Inaugural Address, 1950

Box 4 Folder 23 Grolier Club--Report of the House Committee, 1955

Box 4 Folder 24 Haight, Anne Lyon--"Charles Dickens Tries to Remain Anonymous" and "Notes on the Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman,", 1939

Box 4 Folder 25 Haight, Anne Lyon--Morals, Manners, Etiquette and the Three R's, 1949


Box 5 Folder 1 Halifax, Lord Marquess of, George Saville--"The Lady's New Year's Gift,", 1935

Box 5 Folder 2 Hand, Learned--"Liberty,", 1941

Box 5 Folder 3 Hand, Learned--"Rational Inquiry and the Triumph of Wisdom,", 1954

Box 5 Folder 4 Heilbronner, Robert L.--"New Horizons in Economics,", 1964

Box 5 Folder 5 High, Stanley--"To Chick - At Fifty,", 1952

Box 5 Folder 6 Horsfall, Percy--"Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Robert Henry Brand,", 1963

Box 5 Folder 7 Hubby, Germain A.--Commemoration of New Canaan Country School, 1956

Box 5 Folder 8 Jackson, Barbara Ward--"Herbert Lehman at 80,", 1958

Box 5 Folder 9 Jacobs, Walter and Alain White--Variation Play: A Study in the Mechnisms and Relationship of Black Moves in the Two-Move Chess Problem, 1943

Box 5 Folder 10 Johnson, Lyndon Baines--"An Eloquent Plea-for Action: An Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of Congress,", 1963 November 27

Box 5 Folder 11 Judah Magnes Foundation--Judah Magnes Memorial Booklet, 1949

Box 5 Folder 12 Kennan, George--"The Liberal Arts in Contemporary American Society,", 1953

Box 5 Folder 13 Kennedy, John F.--An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Legislature,, January 9, 1961

Box 5 Folder 14 Kerr, Jean--"Toujour Tristess,", 1957

Box 5 Folder 15 King, Martin Luther Jr.--"Letters From Birminghton Jail,", 1968


Box 6 Folder 1 Lane, Margaret--L'Amitie Amoureuse, 1963

Box 6 Folder 2 Lasalle, Ferdinand--Une Page d'Amour de Ferdinand Lasalle, 1959

Box 6 Folder 3 Lehman, Irving--"Benjamin Nathan Cardozo,", 1938

Box 6 Folder 4 "Sam A. Lewisohn, 1884-1951,", 1951

Box 6 Folder 5 Leyburn, James G.--Pierson College: The First Decade, 1933-1943., 1944

Box 6 Folder 6 Lippman, Walter--The Confrontation, 1959

Box 6 Folder 7 Luce, Clare Boothe--"Little Rock and the Muscovite Moon: Challenges to American Leadership, An Address,", 1957

Box 6 Folder 8 MacArthur, Douglas--An Address Delivered at Los Angeles, California, 1955 January 26

Box 6 Folder 9 McLeish, Archibald--"The Great American Frustration,", 1968

Box 6 Folder 10 Malgaigne, Joseph Francois--Conseils pour le Choix dune Bibliotheque Ecrits pour une Jeune Fille, 1936

Box 6 Folder 11 Malik, Charles--"The Problem of Asia,", 1951

Box 6 Folder 12 Malik, Charles--War and Peace, 1950

Box 6 Folder 13 Mallory, Walter H.--Remarks at a Small Dinner on the Occasion of his Retirement as Exective Director of the Council on Foreign Relations,, 1959

Box 6 Folder 14 Mansfield, Comins--"Adventures in Composition,", 1944

Box 6 Folder 15 Maude, Angus--"Why is Waffle?", 1957

Box 6 Folder 16 May, George O.--"Truth and Usefulness in Accounting,", 1950

Box 6 Folder 17 Meredith, George--"Modern Love,", 1942

Box 6 Folder 18 Merrick, Leonard--Conrad in Quest of His Youth, 1968


Box 7 Folder 1 Meyer, Agnes--"Freedom of the Mind,", 1953

Box 7 Folder 2 Meyer, Ernest L.--"A Footnote on L'Amour,", 1947

Box 7 Folder 3 Mill, John Stuart--"On Liberty,", 1964

Box 7 Folder 4 Muggeridge, Malcolm--"Senator McCarthy McCartyized: Or, The Biter Bit,", 1953

Box 7 Folder 5 Nathan, Robert and W.A. Dwiggins (Illustrator)--"One More Spring,", 1935

Box 7 Folder 6 Nevinson, Henry W.--Farewell to America, 1935

Box 7 Folder 7 New York Court of Appeals--"In Memoriam: Irving Lehman, 1876 - 1945," 1945, 1876, 1945

Box 7 Folder 8 New York Supreme Court Anniversary, 1941

Box 7 Folder 9 New Yorker Magazine--"The Night of the Blackout,", 1965

Box 7 Folder 10 Nixon, Richard M., John Kennedy--"On the Results of the Election, 1960"(cover title: "A Gleam of Light Ahead") Foreword by Frank and Helen Altschul,, 1960

Box 7 Folder 11 Paix et Liberte, Paris--"Balance Sheet of a Dictatorship,", undated

Box 7 Folder 12 Perry, Ralph Barton and Rudolph Ruzicka (Illustrator)--"Plea for an Age Movement,", 1943

Box 7 Folder 13 Phillips, Wendell--Toussaint L'Ouverture, 1963

Box 7 Folder 14 Pinckney, Mary Stead--Letter Book: November 14th, 1796 to August 29th 1796, 1946

Box 7 Folder 15 Plimpton, Francis T.P.--"In Praise of Polygamy,", 1957


Box 8 Folder 1 Prevost, Abbe and T.M. Cleland--"Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut,", 1958

Box 8 Folder 2 Project Hope Journal, 1967

Box 8 Folder 3 Ransom, Will--"A Brochure in Honor of Gutenberg,", 1941

Box 8 Folder 4 Redfield, Robert--"Talk with a Stranger,", 1958

Box 8 Folder 5 Reston, James B.--Eulogy for Orvil E. Dreyfoos, 1963

Box 8 Folder 6 "James Harvey Rogers: In Memoriam,", 1940

Box 8 Folder 7 "The Round Table War Pamphlet: The Issue,", 1940

Box 8 Folder 8 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.--"Herbert H. Lehman: The Conservative as Radical,", 1967

Box 8 Folder 9 Shepardson, Whitney H.--"Early History of the Council on Foreign Relations,", 1960

Box 8 Folder 10 Steinbeck, John--A Letter Written in Reply to a Request for a Statement about His Ancestry,, 1940

Box 8 Folder 11 Sterne, Laurence--A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick,, 1936

Box 8 Folder 12 Stevenson, Adlai E.--"Must We Have War?", 1954

Box 8 Folder 13 to 14 Stevenson, Robert Louis and Jean Hugo (Illustrator)--An Inland Voyage, 1938. Hugo, Jean, illustrator, (2 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 15 Streeter, Edward--"Words of Welcome,", 1962

Box 8 Folder 16 Thompson, Dorothy--The Abbey, the Museum, the Commons. 1941 and "In Support of the Precident," 1945, 1941, 1945

Box 8 Folder 17 Tompkins, Boylston A.--A Toast proposed by Boylston A. Tompkins on the Eve of the Wedding of Judith Lee Tompkins and Henry Taylor Compton, Jr.,, 1955

Box 8 Folder 18 U.S. Congress, "Adverse Report of the Committee of the Judiciary,", 1937


Box 9 Folder 1 Valentine, Alan--"A Modest Proposal for the Care and Use of Subversives,", 1954

Box 9 Folder 2 Vandenberg, Arthur--"The American Position,", 1948

Box 9 Folder 3 Van Tassel, Etta May--"Beyond Geography: A Few Poems,", 1946

Box 9 Folder 4 Warren, Earl--"The Blessings of Liberty,", 1955

Box 9 Folder 5 Wasson, R. Gordon--"Toward a Russian Policy,", 1951

Box 9 Folder 6 Weizmann, Chaim--"Before the United Nations,", 1947

Box 9 Folder 7 Welles, Sumner--An Address (not printed), 1943

Box 9 Folder 8 Wharton, Edith--Ethan Frome, 1967

White, Alain

Box 9 Folder 9 Chess books, 1941 - 1949, 1941, 1949

Box 9 Folder 10 F. Gamage : An Artist in Chess Problems , 1941

Box 9 Folder 11 F. Gamage--Second Book (not printed), 1943-1949

Box 9 Folder 12 White, Alain and Comins Mansfield--Frederick Gamage and Vincent Eaton: A Century of Two-Movers,, 1941

Box 9 Wilde, Oscar and Rudolph Ruzicka--The Happy Prince and Other Tales, 1936

Box 9 Folder 2 Willkie, Wendell Lewis--Occasional Addresses, 1940

Box 9 Folder 3 Wilson, Woodrow--"Leaders of Men,", 1950-1951

Box 9 Folder 4 Wilson, Woodrow--"The Road Away from Revolution,", 1948

Box 9 Folder 5 Wolfers, Arnold--"Eulogy for William M. Burden III,", 1962

Box 9 Folder 6 The Woodrow Wilson Foundation--Joseph Daniels Memorial Tribute, 1941

Box 9 Folder 7 Yale University--Report of the President's Advisory Committee, 1952

Box 9 Folder 8 Zenger, John Peter--"A Brief Narrative of the Trial of John Peter Zenger,", 1947

Box 9 Folder 9 Zilborg, Gregory--"I Won't Apologize: Two Letters,", 1939

Subseries I.3: General Correspondence, 1934-1978

This subseries is comprised of general correspondence arranged by year. It includes requests for books and pamphlets, correspondence with other presses, and the occasional letter of praise from an enthusiastic collector. In most cases, both the incoming mail and copies of Overbrook's responses are present.

Box 9 Folder 10 General, 1934-1940

Box 9 Folder 11 to 14 General, 1960-1965, (4 Folders)


Box 11 Folder 1 to 4 General, 1966-1978, (4 Folders)

Series II: General, 1929-1977

This small but varied series contains documents related to the operation of the press, including financial records, internal correspondence, and paper samples. It also holds copies of the Overbrook Bibliography and information on book exhibits.

Box 11 Folder 5 The American Institute of Graphic Arts. Fifty Books of the Year Exhibitions, 1939, 1942, 1945, 1939, 1942, 1945

Box 11 Folder 6 Andrade, Barry Jack de Costa--Chess Problems, 1944-1948


Box 12 Folder 1 Bibliographies of Overbrook Press from 1934-1969 by Norman Strouse, 1973-1975, 1934-1969, 1973-1975

Box 12 Folder 2 University of California--Exhibition of Overbrook Press Books, 1943

Box 12 Folder 3 Census and Federal Trade Commission--U.S. Correspondence, 1943-1944

Box 12 Folder 4 The Columbiad Club--Hartford Book Show, 1938

Box 12 Folder 5 Electoral Charts, 1936

Box 12 Folder 6 Employment--Illustrators and Artists, 1939

Box 12 Folder 7 Evans Margaret B., Art Director--Memos, 1940

Box 12 Folder 8 to 10 Financial, 1929-1937, (3 Folders)


Box 13 Folder 1 to 3 Financial, 1938-1947

Box 13 Folder 4 Financial--Stamford Trust Company, 1944-1949

Box 13 Folder 5 Inquiries and Requests, 1935-1961


Box 14 Folder 1 to 2 Inventories, Orders and Recipients of Books, 1936-1977

Box 14 Folder 3 Legal Discussions--Memos and Minutes, 1933-1944

Box 14 Folder 4 New York Times National Book Fair, 1937

Box 14 Folder 5 Orders, 1956-1965

Box 14 Folder 6 Paper samples and type specimens, undated

Box 14 Folder 7 Sloan, Frank R., 1946-1947

Box 14 Folder 8 Strouse, Norman--"The Overbrook Press: An Example of Collecting in Depth,", 1975

Box 14 Folder 9 Printed Items, undated

Box 14 Folder 10 General Correspondence, 1966-1969

Box 14 Folder 11 Inventory, 1967-1977

Box 14 Folder 12 Legal Documents, 1929