Meyer Schapiro letters and manuscripts of Whittaker Chambers and James Thomas Farrell, 1923-1991

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Buckley, William Frank, Jr., 1925- To Meyer Schapiro, Switz., 24 Feb. 1967, 1 page t.l.s.

[Signed by Secretary; with copy of related letters]


Box 1 Chambers, Whittaker, 1901-1961 To Meyer Schapiro, [v.p.], [1924-1953], 44 a.l.s., 1 a.l., 9 t.l.s., 18 t.l., 2 a.p.c.s., 1 p.l.

[Reading copies]


Box 1 Chambers, Whittaker To the Politburo of the Communist Party USA, [n.p.], [Early 1937], 1 ms.l.

[Reading Copies; "Dictated by WC," in the hand of Meyer Schapiro?; 2 photocopies and 1 typewritten transcript]



Box 2 Chiaromonte, Nicola To Meyer Schapiro, [New York?], 2 Aug & [summer] 1944, 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.


Box 2 Corman, Cid To Meyer Schapiro, Kyoto, 25 July 1983, 2 t.l.s.


Box 2 Farrell, Hortense Alden (Mrs. James T.) To Meyer Schapiro, v.p., [1938] - 1944, 5 t.l.s.


Box 2 Farrell, Hortense Alden (Mrs. James T.) To Mr. and Mrs. Meyer and Lillian Milgram Schapiro, Rheims & Chartres, July [ca.l] - 8, 1938, 2 a.p.c.s.

[Signed by "Hortense and Jim"]


Box 2 Farrell, James T. To Meyer Schapiro, [v.p.], 11 Dec 1937 - 29 May 1944, 389 t.l.s., 69 t.l., 3 a.p.c.s., 25 a.l.s., 1 t.pc.



Box 3 Farrell, James T. To Meyer Schapiro, [v.p.], 2 June 1944 - 24 Aug 1974, 257 t.l.s., 24 t.l., 2 a.p.c.s., 174 a.l.s.



Box 4 Farrell, James T. To Meyer Schapiro, [v.p.], 5 Feb 1976 - 1 June 1979, 86 t.l.s., 3 t.l., 3 t.p.c.s., 6 a.l.s.


Box 4 Mitchell, Frances To Meyer Schapiro, New York, [ca. 1950], 2 t.l.s.


Box 4 Schapiro, Meyer To James T. Farrell, [New York], [June - July 1938?], 1 t.l.

[With 3-page draft in the author's hand]

Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts



Box 5 Farrell, James T. "Author defends character Studs Lonigan", Louisville, 22 Nov 1960, 2 t.ms.

[Multilith copy: "Comment by Farrell" as printed in The Louisville Times ]


Box 5 Farrell, James T. "The action of the government of Irag...", [New York], 6 Feb 1969, 5 t.ms.

[Carbon copy: With corrections in the writer's hand; article for a journal; with envelope]


Box 5 Farrell, James T. Golden Youth, [New York], 1963, 3 a.ms.

[Poem; with covering a.n.]


Box 5 Farrell, James T. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, [New York], 1963, 1 a.ms.

[Poem; autograph note indicates the poem was printed in the Congressional Record, 15 Jan 1964]


Box 5 Farrell, James T. Lebanon: a first impression, [New York], 1961, 7 t.ms.

[Essay on the political situation in the Middle East; "unpublished"]


Box 5 Farrell, James T. Political Parties...by Robert Michels, New York, [1966-67], 7 t.ms.

[xerox copy; article on Michels' book, suggested by J.P. Nettl's biography of Rosa Luxemburg, Oxford University Press, 1966]


Box 5 Farrell, James T. Requiem For a Literary Bank Account, [New York], [1961?], 4 t.ms.s

[p.4 missing; multilith copy, title and notes in the author's hand, with his signature]


Box 5 Farrell, James T. What Time Collects, [New York], [Feb 1964], 15 t.ms.

[Final draft of Chapters thirty-three, thirty-four, and thirty-six]


Box 5 Schapiro, Meyer [Comments on James T. Farrell's achievements], [S. Londonderry, Vt.], 9 Aug 1978, 1 t.ms.

[Commendation on James T. Farrell in reply to the request of the University of Chicago Alumni Association in considering him for their Professional Achievement Award.]


Box 5 Raphael, Max Zur Erkenntnistheorie des Marxismus, [Paris], [1933], 280 t.ms.

[the last 10 pages: Anmerkungen]

Series III: Clippings


Box 5 Farrell, James T. Clippings about...

Series IV: Miscellaneous Material


Box 5 Farrell, James T. Miscellaneous correspondence


Box 5 Farrell, James T. Miscellaneous letters about


Box 5 Farrell, James T. printed articles


Box 5 Notes removed from Ammianus Marcellinus, 1996


Box 5 Notes removed from "Hero of Alexandria", 1996


Box 5 Notes removed from "Oracula Sibyllina", 1996

Series V: Research Materials on Whittaker Chambers



Box 6 Tanenhaus, 1995


Box 6 Herbert Solow, 1995


Box 6 Clippings, 1995


Box 6 Clippings, articles, etc., 1995


Box 6 Poems, 1922-25, from the Zukovsky Papers, Univ. of Texas (Austin), 1995


Box 6 cleared; ready for CU, 1995


Box 6 VIII, 1995


Box 6 IX, 1995


Box 6 X: Hamilton, J.W., 1978-80, 1995


Box 6 Allen Weinstein, 1975, 1995


Box 6 XII, 1995


Box 6 Notes for J.D. Fox, 1995