Richard L. Simon papers, 1915-1992

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Photographs


Subseries I.1: Cataloged Correspondence



Box Cataloged 1 Aitken, William Maxwell, 1st Baron Beaverbrook


Box Cataloged 1 Arno, Peter


Box Cataloged 1 Barton, Bruce


Box Cataloged 1 Berlin, Irving


Box Cataloged 1 Bourke-White, Margaret


Box Cataloged 1 Bowles, Chester


Box Cataloged 1 Brown, John Mason


Box Cataloged 1 Capa, Robert


Box Cataloged 1 Cartier-Bresson, Henri


Box Cataloged 1 Cerf, Bennett Alfred


Box Cataloged 1 Craven, Thomas


Box Cataloged 1 Crosby, Caresse


Box Cataloged 1 Dali, Salvador


Box Cataloged 1 Davies, Joseph Edward


Box Cataloged 1 De Voto, Bernard August ine


Box Cataloged 1 Dietz, Howard


Box Cataloged 1 Douglas, Paul Howard


Box Cataloged 1 Downes, Olin


Box Cataloged 1 Eastman, Max


Box Cataloged 1 Eban, Abba


Box Cataloged 1 Eisenhower, Dwight David


Box Cataloged 1 Eisenstaedt, Alfred



Box Cataloged 2 Ferber, Edna


Box Cataloged 2 Field, Marshall


Box Cataloged 2 Flagg, James Montgomery


Box Cataloged 2 Flexner, Abraham


Box Cataloged 2 Ford, Henry, II


Box Cataloged 2 Fromm, Erich


Box Cataloged 2 Fulbright, James William


Box Cataloged 2 Gladwyn, (Sir) Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron


Box Cataloged 2 Goldberg, Rube


Box Cataloged 2 Goodman, Benny


Box Cataloged 2 Halsey, Margaret Frances


Box Cataloged 2 Halsman, Philippe


Box Cataloged 2 Hammerstein, Oscar, 2nd.


Box Cataloged 2 Handy, William Christopher


Box Cataloged 2 Hecht, Ben


Box Cataloged 2 Heller, Joseph


Box Cataloged 2 Highet, Gilbert


Box Cataloged 2 Hobson, Laura Zametkin


Box Cataloged 2 Hore-Belisha, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Baron


Box Cataloged 2 Howe, Mark Anthony de Wolfe


Box Cataloged 2 Javits, Jacob Koppel


Box Cataloged 2 Kaufman, George S.


Box Cataloged 2 Keller, Helen


Box Cataloged 2 Kern, Jerome


Box Cataloged 2 Komroff, Manuel


Box Cataloged 2 Kostelanetz, Andre


Box Cataloged 2 Lehman, Herbert Henry


Box Cataloged 2 Longwell, Daniel


Box Cataloged 2 Lorant, Stefan


Box Cataloged 2 Loveman, Amy


Box Cataloged 2 Luce, Clare Boothe


Box Cataloged 2 Luce, Henry Robinson


Box Cataloged 2 McCarthy, Joseph R.


Box Cataloged 2 Marshall, George Catlett


Box Cataloged 2 Meyer, Eugene


Box Cataloged 2 Mielziner, Jo


Box Cataloged 2 Murrow, Edward R.



Box Cataloged 3 Pike, James Albert


Box Cataloged 3 Porter, Cole


Box Cataloged 3 Reiner, Fritz


Box Cataloged 3 Roberts, Kenneth Lewis


Box Cataloged 3 Robinson, Henry Morton


Box Cataloged 3 Robinson, Jackie


Box Cataloged 3 Rodgers, Richard


Box Cataloged 3 Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt


Box Cataloged 3 Rubinstein, Arthur


Box Cataloged 3 Sarnoff, David


Box Cataloged 3 Sennitzler, Arthur


Box Cataloged 3 Schuster, Max Lincoln


Box Cataloged 3 Scully, Frank


Box Cataloged 3 Selznick, David 0.


Box Cataloged 3 Sheen, Fulton John


Box Cataloged 3 Sloan, Alfred Pritchard


Box Cataloged 3 Spaeth, Sigmund


Box Cataloged 3 Spellman, Francis Joseph, Cardinal


Box Cataloged 3 Stone, Edward Durell


Box Cataloged 3 Stout, Rex Todhunter


Box Cataloged 3 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays



Box Cataloged Box 4 Taylor, Deems


Box Cataloged Box 4 Truman, Harry S.


Box Cataloged Box 4 Van Doren, Irita Bradford


Box Cataloged Box 4 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem


Box Cataloged Box 4 Weidman, Jerome


Box Cataloged Box 4 Wilson, Sloan


Box Cataloged Box 4 Zanuck, Darryl F.


Subseries I.2: Cataloged Manuscripts and Photographs



Box Cataloged 1 Breuer, Bessie


Box Cataloged 1 Craven, Thomas



Box Cataloged 2 Horn, Alfred Aloysius "Trader Horn"


Box Cataloged 2 Johnson, Josephine Winslow


Box Cataloged 2 Kantor, MacKinlay


Box Cataloged 2 Kober, Arthur


Box Cataloged 2 Lowell, Joan (Helen Wagner Buchanan Bowen; Mrs. Thompson Buchanan; Mrs. Lee A. Bowen)



Mapcase 14-M-5 Nash, Ogden



Box Cataloged 3 Peattie, Donald Culross


Box Cataloged 3 Porter, Cole


Box Cataloged 3 Ripley, Robert LeRoy


Box Cataloged 3 Schnitzler, Arthur

Series II: General Correspondence and Personal Papers

(correspondence, manuscripts, diary notes, appointment calendars, legal documents, etc., 1956-1958, includes some Simon and Schuster correspondence)



Box 1 1924-1941



Box 2 1941-1947



Box 3 1948-1952



Box 4 1953-1956



Box 5 1956



Box 6 1957-1958



Box 7 1959-1969


Box 7 Simon family memorabilia and photographs

Series III: Books, Authors, and Projects



Box 8 Advertising book: Robert P. Crane, Albert D. Lasker, John E. Kennedy, Lord & Thomas,, 1915-1950



Box 9 Aldrich, Richard Stoddard: Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A., 1955-1957


Box 9 American heroes and heroism, 1948-1955


Box 9 Arno, Peter: A hell of a way to run a railroad!, 1955-1956


Box 9 Basic reference manual, 1944


Box 9 Be of good cheer, 1955


Box 9 Blanton, Smiley: Love or perish., 1954-1957



Box 10 Bolitho, William (William Bolitho Ryall) -- photograph


Box 10 Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., 1948-1955


Box 10 Booketeria project, 1953-1954


Box 10 Bridge to the classics-Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, 1954


Box 10 Broby-Johansen, Rudolf: Body and clothes., 1954-1955


Box 10 Buckley, Peter: Bullfight., 1958


Box 10 Burning issues-The Platform Press, 1954-1955


Box 10 Chotzinoff, Samuel -- photograph, 1930


Box 10 Concise desk dictionary., 1953-1955


Box 10 Cross word puzzle books, 1924-1926


Box 10 Davies, Joseph Edward: In the days of their power and glory, 1954-1955


Box 10 De Seversky, Alexander P., 1954-1956


Dreyfuss, Henry: Designing for people.


Box 10 1954-1956



Box 11 1955



Mapcase 14-M-5 Durant, Will - photoengravings



Box 11 Eisenhower, Dwight David, 1945-1952


Box 11 Encyclopedia, 1954


Box 11 Halsey, Margaret Frances, 1952


Box 11 Horn, Alfred Aloysius "Trader Horn"

(See Also: Oversize)


Box 11 Howe, Helen: The success., 1955-1957


Box 11 Lasker, Mary Woodard: The Albert Lasker Collection., 1956-1957


Box 11 Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1926


Box 11 Life Magazine: Picture history of western man., 1951


Box 11 Life Magazine: The world we live in., 1954


Box 11 Little Golden Books, 1950-1954


Box 11 Lorant, Stefan, 1943-1944



Mapcase 14-M-5 Lovell, Joan-photograph



Box 12 Madrigal, Margarita, 1947-1952


Box 12 Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1926


Box 12 NATO picture book


Photography series


Box 12 Bischof, Werner: Japan., 1954-1956


Box 12 Bodine, A.Aubrey: My Maryland.


Box 12 Bourke-White, Margaret, 1953-1955


Box 12 Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1952-1956


Box 12 Craig, John D., 1931-1937



Box 13 Dali, Salvador & Philippe Halsman: Dalifs mustache., 1954-1955

(See Also: Oversize)


Box 13 Donnelley, R.R., & Sons Company-color printing, 1946-1950


Box 13 Doscher, John W., 1946-1955


Box 13 Eisenstaedt, Alfred, 1954-1955


Box 13 Elisofon, Eliot, 1954-1957


Box 13 Halsman, Philippe, 1940-1950


Box 13 Hoban, Tana-photographs

(See Also: Oversize)



Box 14 Natkin, Marcel: Pour r£ussir vos photos en noir, en coleur, 1957


Box 14 Newman, Arnold


Box 14 Post Card Project, 1948-1955


Box 14 Post card project: Fritz Henle -- photographs

(See Also: Oversize)



Box 15 Post card project: Fritz Henle -- photographs

(See Also: Oversize)


Box 15 Riverdale Camera Club, 1952-1953



Mapcase 14-M-5 Schell, Sherrill-portrait photographs of Simon & Schuster Authors

(Including Eddie Cantor, J.C. Powys, and Will Durant)


Mapcase 14-M-5 Schmidt, J.W.: "The merry heart" -- photograph, 1944



Box 15 Schulthess, Emil: USA., 1955-1956


Box 15 Simon, Richard Leo: [camera article], 1935


Box 15 Simon, Richard Leo: The dream camera. In: The Atlantic, 1942 August, 1942



Box 16 Simon, Richard Leo: [Rolleiflex book], 1950


Box 16 Simon, Richard Leo: Miscellaneous, 1938-1957


Box 16 Treasury of great photographs, 1954


Box 16 Pocket Books Encyclopedia., 1953-1954


Project Art, 1955-1957


Box 16 Chanticleer Company, Inc.


Box 16 Conzett & Huber (Zürich)



Box 17 Costs-selling price; Puerto Rican data


Box 17 Decorator Guide

(See Also: Oversize)


Box 17 Distribution prog.


Box 17 Frames (designers)


Box 17 Globus, Rudo S.


Box 17 Insurance


Box 17 Mailing list


Box 17 Memoranda


Box 17 Office routine


Box 17 Printed miscellaneous



Box 18 Printed miscellaneous


Box 18 Prospectus


Box 18 Reproduction lists


Box 18 Reproduction of art masterpieces


Box 18 Shorewood Press


Box 18 Test program



Box 19 Ray, J.H. Randolph: My little church around the corner, 1953-1957


Box 19 Report digest, 1938-1941


Box 19 Robinson, Henry Morton: The Cardinal., 1949-1955


Box 19 Sang und Klang [RCA Victor music book], 1949


Box 19 Schnitzler, Arthur, 1929


Box 19 Simon, Richard Leo: Trade winds [column in: The Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. 29, No. 383, 1946 September, 1946


Box 19 Simon, Richard Leo: The unpredictable Horace Liveright


Box 19 Sims, P. Hall (2 photographs)


Box 19 Sliesinger, Tess-photograph, 1933


Box 19 Time-Life almanac project, 1952


Treasure of American popular music of the 20th century, 1933-1958



Box 20 Bartlett, Ella Herbert (Mrs. Robert S.) re: Victor Herbert


Box 20 Carbons


Cavalcade of songs


Box 20 Complete arrangements


Box 20 Correspondence


Box 20 Data


Box 20 Lists



Box 21 1900-1905


Box 21 1905-1910


Box 21 1910-1915


Box 21 1915-1920


Box 21 1920-1925


Box 21 1925-1930


Box 21 1930-1935


Box 21 1935-1940


Box 21 1940-


Box 21 End sheets


Box 21 General research


Box 21 Master list


Box 21 Miscellaneous


Box 21 Permission forms


Box 21 Schirmer, G.


Box 21 Songs of our youth



Box 22 Tysen, John C.: buying or selling your house, 1955-1956


Box 22 Victor, Paul-Emile, 1949-1955



Box 23 Weidman, Jerome, 1944-1947


Box 23 Weil, Richard, Jr.: The National Association for Mental Health, Inc., 1953-1954


Box 23 Werfel, Franz, 1930


Box 23 Wharton, John F., 1950-1957


Box 23 Wilson, Sloan: The man in the gray flannel suit., 1953-1957


Box 23 Miscellaneous Authors: drawings and photographs

Series IV: Simon and Schuster, Inc.



Box 24 Advertising & promotion



Box 25 Advertising & promotion



Box 26 Annual Reports, 1924-1957



Box 27 Annual Reports, 1924-1957



Box 28 Annual Reports, 1924-1957



Box 29 Annual Reports, 1924-1957



Box 30 Annual Reports, 1924-1957



Box 31 Annual Reports, 1924-1957



Box 32 Annual Reports, 1924-1957



Box 33 Board of Directors: minutes & memoranda, 1950-1957



Box 34 Board of Directors: minutes & memoranda, 1950-1957



Box 35 Miscellaneous, 1931-1957


Miscellaneous


Box 35 Applications, 1955-1956


Box 35 Book Production, 1954


Box 35 An editorial research report on The Inner Sanctum Library S & S.,, 1946


Box 35 Meetings-special projects, 1953-1956


Box 35 Memoranda, 1946-1957


Box 35 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, 1952-1956


Box 35 Richard L. Simon Fellowship, 1956



Box 36 Miscellaneous financial, 1925-1926



Box 37 Organization & reorganization



Box 38 Organization & reorganization

Series V: Richard L. Simon--Financial



Box 39 Bankers Trust Company, 1944-1960



Box 40 Bankers Trust Company, 1944-1960



Box 41 Bankers Trust Company, 1944-1960



Box 42 Bankers Trust Company, 1944-1960


Banks



Box 43 The First Stamford National Bank and Trust Company, 1947-1960


Box 43 Manufacturers Trust Company, 1935-1946



Box 44 Houses, 1936-1952



Box 45 Income Tax, 1924-1959



Box 46 Income Tax, 1924-1959


Box 46 Insurance, 1936-1957



Box 47 Miscellaneous


Miscellaneous


Box 47 Estate & will


Box 47 Legal


Box 47 "Monkey Shine" [Stock purchases]


Box 47 Personal accounting


Box 47 Social security receipts


Box 47 Vault & safe


Box 47 Wormser, René A.