Jane Howard papers, 1930-1996

Jane Howard papers, 1930-1996

Summary Information

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Call No.:
MS#0619
Bib ID:
4079538 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Howard, Jane, 1935-1996
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
62 linear feet (150 boxes 6 card file boxes)
Language(s):
English .
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Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, scrapbooks, audio tapes, datebooks and calendars, photographs, printed material, and memorabilia. Included are files relating to articles which she researched and wrote while on the staff of LIFE magazine, especially on popular figures in current literature and the arts. There are also research files and typescripts for her books: PLEASE TOUCH, A DIFFERENT WOMAN, and FAMILIES. Among the correspondents are: Paul Bowles, Agnes de Mille, Ken Kesey, and Hope Cooke Namgyal

ADDITION: Research files for FAMILIES & research files, typescripts, and note cards for MARGARET MEAD: A LIFE and unpublished manuscripts and related research files.

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

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.

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jane Howard papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

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Ownership and Custodial History

Deposited by Jane Howard, 1979, 1985, 1989& 1996.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Howard, Jane. Method of acquisition--Deposit; Date of acquisition--1979. Accession number--M-1979.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Processed RL 06/--/1989.

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Biographical / Historical

Jane Temple Howard (1935-1996), journalist and author. was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter of Eleanor Nee Howard and newspaper reporter Robert Pickerell Howard. She received her A.B. degree from the University of Michigan in 1956. She also received an honorary D.Litt. from Grinell College in 1979 and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hamline University in 1984. Howard worked for LIFE magazine from 1956 until 1972 as a reporter, assistant editor, associate editor, and finally staff writer. She wrote numerous features for LIFE including interviews with Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote, John Updike, and Jacqueline Susann. Beginning in 1989, she worked for several years at LEAR'S magazine as a contributing editor and author of the monthly interview column"A Woman for LEAR'S." As a freelance writer, Howard contributed to SMITHSONIAN, ESQUIRE, THE WASHINGTON POST "BOOK WORLD", MADEMOISELLE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, and numerous other publications. Howard's first book, PLEASE TOUCH: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE HUMAN POTENTIAL MOVEMENT was published in 1970. A DIFFERENT WOMAN appeared in 1973, FAMILIES in 1978, and the biography, MARGARET MEAD: A LIFE, in 1990. At the time of her death, Howard was writing a book under the working title LOST IN THE INTERIOR which was to be a personal and historical account of the midwest.

Also enjoying a successful teaching career, Howard was a visiting lecturer at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (Fall 1974), the University of Georgia School of Journalism (Spring 1975), Yale University English Department (Spring 1976), and the SUNY Albany English Department (Winter 1978). She was a John Steinbeck Writer-in-Residence at Southampton College (Summer 1982), and a James Thurber Writer-in Residence at Ohio State University (Fall 1986). During the summers of 1989 and 1990, Howard led non-fiction writing workshops at the Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. She was also a professor of creative writing at Columbia University for several years during the 1990s.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Articles
Card files
Manuscripts for publication
Notes (documents)
Photographic prints
Name
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
Kesey, Ken
Life Magazine
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978
Subject
Authors, American -- 20th century
Journalism
Journalists -- United States -- 20th century
Popular culture
Psychology
Sociology
Women authors -- United States -- 20th century
Women journalists -- United States -- 20th century

Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts

See also Box 53


Box 1

Aiken, Conrad


Box 1

Bowles, Paul


Box 1

Chisholm, Shirley


Box 1

Cowley, Malcolm


Box 1

de Mille, Agnes George


Box 1

Ford, Elizabeth Bloomer (Mrs. Gerald R.)


Box 1

Kesey, Ken


Box 1

Mannes, Marya


Box 1

Marx, "Groucho' Julius


Box 1

Maslow, Abraham


Box 1

Micheline, Jack


Box 1

Moore, Marianne C.


Box 1

Namgyal, Hope Cooke


Box 1

O'Hair, Madalyn E. Mays Murray


Box 1

Stout, Rex Todhunter


Box 1

Susann, Jacqueline


Box 1

Tucker, Sophie


Box 1

Updike, John

Series II: Life Magazine Articles


Box 1

Adler, Bill, 1967


Box 1

African Students


Box 1

Aiken, Conrad On T.S. Eliot


Box 1

Alcoholism and Women


Box 1

Alpha Waves


Box 1

Astrowives, 1965


Box 1

Atkinson, Brooks, 1959


Box 1

Baird, Bil and Cora, 1962


Box 1

Baldwin, James


Box 1

Baskin, Leonard


Box 1

Bayh, Marvella


Box 1

Beard, James


Box 1

Biofeedback


Box 1

Blanding, Sarah G., 1962


Box 2

Bon Vivant Soup Chaos


Box 2

Bowles, Jane and Paul, 1967


Box 2

Browning, John


Box 2

Burns, Cathy


Box 2

Calder, Alexander


Box 2

Carson, Rachel


Box 2

Child, Julia


Box 2

Chisholm, Shirley


Box 2

Churchill, Sarah


Box 2

Cohen, Alexander


Box 2

Curtin, Phyllis


Box 2

Davis, Adele


Box 3

deMille, Agnes, 1963


Box 3

Dennis, Patrick, 1963


Box 3

Dewhurst, Colleen, and George C. Scott, 1963


Box 3

Dixon, Jeane


Box 3

Duke, Patty


Box 3

Early Life Research, 1957-


Box 3

Fielding, Temple, 1967


Box 3

Fischer, Bobby, 1962


Box 4

Free Schools


Box 4

Friedan, Betty


Box 4

Gezork - Stolen Earring, 1964


Box 4

Graves, Robert


Box 4

Greene, Graham


Box 4

Grost, Michael (kid genius), 1965


Box 4

Hall, Joyce


Box 4

Hamilton, Lindsay, 1962


Box 4

Harris, Lou, 1962


Box 5

Hartford, Huntigton, 1962


Box 5

Heckscher, August, 1962


Box 5

Heloise Cruse


Box 5

Hicks, Louise Day


Box 5

Huston, John


Box 5

Jacobs, Jane


Box 5

Jesus Freaks of Rye, N.Y.


Box 6

Keane, Walter


Box 6

Kesey, Ken


Box 6

Knopf, Alfred A. and Blanche


Box 6

Knowles, Everett


Box 6

LaVarre, Frank


Box 6

Linowitz, Sol


Box 6

Littlewood, Joan


Box 6

Lowell, Robert


Box 6

McGovern, Eleanor


Box 7

McLuhan, Marshall


Box 7

Mannes, Marya


Box 7

Marx, Groucho


Box 7

Masters, George


Box 7

Miller, Jonathan, 1963


Box 7

Mind Control


Box 7

Moffo, Anna, 1961


Box 7

Moore, Marianne, 1966


Box 7

Moses, Robert


Box 7

Murphy, R.C, 1959


Box 7

Nabokov, [Vladimir]


Box 8

Namgyal, Hope


Box 8

Nepal


Box 8

Niehans, Paul


Box 8

Norman, Don Cleveland


Box 8

Nudity


Box 8

O'Brien, Edna


Box 9

O'Hair, Madalyn Murray


Box 9

Palley, Reese


Box 9

Parachuting


Box 9

Perelman, S.J.


Box 9

Petzoldt, Paul


Box 9

Pollution


Box 9

Pornography


Box 10

Pornography


Box 10

Radziwill, Lee


Box 10

Right-Wingers of Wakeman Sound


Box 10

Rock, Dr. John


Box 10

Rockefeller, Happy, 1963


Box 10

Rooks, Conrad


Box 10

Roth, Henry


Box 10

Royal Canadian Air Force Exercises


Box 10

Rubenstein, Helena


Box 10

Sirachik, Mr. and Mrs. Philip


Box 10

Sartre, Jean-Paul


Box 11

Schippers, Thomas


Box 11

Schoenknecht, Walt


Box 11

Seeger, Pete


Box 11

Serebriakoff, Victor


Box 11

Shahn, Ben


Box 11

Silence


Box 11

Skinner, B.F.


Box 11

Southern, Terry


Box 11

Spilhaus, Athelstan


Box 11

Stanley, Kim


Box 11

Styron, Rose


Box 11

Sutherland, Joan


Box 11

Swaggart, Jimmy


Box 12

Swamis


Box 12

Susann, Jacqueline


Box 12

Tree, Marietta


Box 12

Tucker, Sophie


Box 12

Updike, John


Box 12

Verdon, Gwen, and Bob Fosse


Box 12

Wouk, Herman


Box 12

Zimmerman, Isidore

Series III: Books


Subseries III.1: A Different Woman

Boxes 13 - 17, Files are arranged alphabetically


Box 13

Babbs, Gretchen , Oregon


Box 13

Boccaccio, Shirley , San Francisco


Box 13

Bonnema, Janet , Colorado


Box 13

Brown, Abigail , New York City


Box 13

Carrera of Bank of America


Box 13

Cheryl the Vagabond , El Salvador


Box 13

Chicanas , of Tucson


Box 13

Cussler, Margaret , Maryland


Box 13

Devore vs. Hughes , Santa Monica


Box 13

Emery, Linda Vs. Colorado Medical School


Box 13

Feminism Abroad, or lack thereof


Box 14

Goetz, Del Vs. Bank of America


Box 14

Griffith, Blanche , West Virginia


Box 14

Heyman, Abby Abortion film, New York City


Box 14

Hope, Karol Single motherhood , Los Angeles


Box 14

Jagerson, Todd Labor


Box 14

Kesey, Ken Women , Oregon


Box 14

Lanoue, Betty Vs. Bank of America


Box 14

Lucero, Carol Junian analyst, San Francisco


Box 14

McGaw, Audrey , San Diego


Box 14

Metcalf, Genevra , Colorado


Box 14

Milazzo, Lou Ann , Queens


Box 14

Milwaukee Consciousness Raising Group


Box 14

Mullins, Theresa


Box 14

Petrinovich, Mary Birth Control Clinic, Ca1ifornia


Box 14

Phillips, Barbara, and Katie Wells Vs. Bank of America


Box 15

Roberts, Sylvia Itinerant lawyer


Box 15

Roig, Mrs. Vs. New Orleans phone company


Box 15

Ross, Mari, and Sandy Wetzel Vs. Liberty Mutual


Box 15

Rothenberg, Sandra D.C. lawyer


Box 15

Rothman, Lorraine Lesbian self-help, Los Angeles


Box 15

Sadler Women & South


Box 15

Scheper, Nancy Berkeley single mother


Box 15

Scott, Jeanne Los Angeles YWCA


Box 15

Simborski, Irene Vs. Continental Can


Box 15

Smith, Orpha Vermont maple sugar


Box 15

Tunstall, Cro , Norfolk, Va.


Box 15

Van Velkinburgh, Doris California fisherperson


Box 15

Wadsworth, Beverly Vs. F.N.C.B.


Box 15

Witherill, Linda , New Hampshire cats


Box 15

Geographical File: Alabama - Louisiana


Box 16

Geographical File: Maine - Wyoming, Fan Mail and Miscellaneous


Box 17

Typescript


Subseries III.2: Families

Boxes 18 - 25, Files are arranged alphabetically


Box 18

Abortions


Box 18

Academic and Intellectual Families


Box 18

Adoptions and Baby Sales


Box 18

Advertising and Families


Box 18

Anthropology


Box 18

Arbitrary Extended Families


Box 18

Aries


Box 18

Arica


Box 18

Artists


Box 18

Attacks on Families


Box 18

Benne


Box 18

Black Families


Box 18

Books on Families


Box 18

Book Reviews and Quotes


Box 19

Bowen, Murray


Box 19

Businesses


Box 19

Careys


Box 19

Carlson & Friends


Box 19

Carters and Politics


Box 19

Cartoons


Box 19

Chapman, Richard (and Hobbes)


Box 19

Chicano Families


Box 19

Collectives


Box 19

Communes and Real Estate


Box 19

Crimes


Box 19

Day Care


Box 19

Definitions of Family


Box 19

Deliberately Childless Couples


Box 19

Diseased Families


Box 19

Divorce


Box 19

East River Farm


Box 19

Economics and Families


Box 20

Editing Process


Box 20

Elderly Primagravidas


Box 20

Ethnicity


Box 20

Extrauterine Conception


Box 20

Families in General


Box 20

Fathers


Box 20

Family Reunions


Box 20

Familyologists


Box 20

Families of One


Box 21

Families and Feminism


Box 21

The Farm


Box 21

Foreign Families


Box 21

Foster Families


Box 21

Gage & Greeks


Box 21

Genealogy


Box 21

Government vs Families


Box 21

Grandparents


Box 21

Green and Black Rocks


Box 21

Heraldry


Box 21

Hippies


Box 21

History


Box 22

Homosexuality


Box 22

Housing


Box 22

Hsu, Francis


Box 22

Incest


Box 22

Interracial Families


Box 22

Iowa


Box 22

Jargon


Box 22

Jenkins, Gladys


Box 22

Jewish Families


Box 22

Jewish: Orbach-Cadein


Box 22

Kearney/Raschke


Box 22

Keniston


Box 22

Kids


Box 22

Laucks, Eulahh


Box 22

Lesbian Mothers


Box 22

Living in Sin


Box 22

Male Supremacy


Box 22

Marriage Contracts


Box 22

Marriage, Couples, Sex


Box 22

May-December Love


Box 22

Medicine


Box 22

Middle Age


Box 22

Midwifery


Box 22

Migrants


Box 22

Military Families


Box 23

Mobility


Box 23

Morality


Box 23

Mormons


Box 23

Mothers


Box 23

Movies


Box 23

Muktananda


Box 23

Multiple Births


Box 23

Mythology


Box 23

Narcissism


Box 23

Networks


Box 23

Nuns Marrying Priests


Box 23

Pets


Box 23

Polygamy


Box 23

Poor Families


Box 23

Retarded and Autistic Kids


Box 23

Scrambling of Identities


Box 23

Siblings


Box 23

South


Box 23

Statistics


Box 24

Step-Families


Box 24

Suicide


Box 24

Swenson


Box 24

Synergy


Box 24

Tax, Sol


Box 24

Teen Pregnancies


Box 24

Television


Box 24

Therapists


Box 24

Transexual Families


Box 24

Unitarians


Box 24

Very Rich Families


Box 24

Villains' Families


Box 24

Wilderness Families


Box 24

Winnowed Anthems


Box 25

Typescripts


Subseries III.3: Please Touch

Boxes 26 - 32, Files are arranged alphabetically


Box 26

Bach, George R. Aggressiveness


Box 26

Berlin, Jerry


Box 26

Bioenergetics


Box 26

Body Business


Box 26

Business Groups


Box 26

Correspondence


Box 26

Circuit Riders


Box 26

Criticism of Movement


Box 26

Education


Box 27

Encomia


Box 27

Encounter Groups


Box 27

Esalen & Catalogues


Box 27

Followup


Box 27

Foreign Uses of Groups


Box 27

Future of Movement


Box 27

Gibbs, Jack


Box 27

Gestalt - Perls et al.


Box 27

Gustaitis & other writers


Box 28

History


Box 28

HPM People and Mail


Box 28

Human Potential Movement Update


Box 28

Huxley, Aldous


Box 28

Japanese


Box 28

Leaderless Groups


Box 28

Lists of Groups


Box 28

Marathons


Box 28

Maslow, Abraham


Box 28

Moreno, J.L. Psychodrama


Box 28

Murphy, Michael


Box 28

Mysticism


Box 28

National Training Labs


Box 29

Nudity


Box 29

Odd Groups


Box 29

Original Notes


Box 29

Philosophy


Box 29

Reading List


Box 29

Research Notes


Box 29

Racial Groups


Box 29

Rolf, Ida


Box 29

Satir, Virginia


Box 29

Sex Education


Box 29

Sex and Marriage


Box 29

Synanom Chap


Box 29

Tavistock Clinic


Box 29

Weir, John


Box 30

Typescript


Box 31

Alphabetical Files: A-I


Box 32

Mi-Sy


Subseries III.4: Margaret Mead: A Life

Boxes 33 - 44, Files are arranged alphabetically


Box 33

A-Bl


Box 34

Bo-Cu


Box 35

Ek-Freeman's


Box 36

Freedom-La


Box 37

Le-Ne


Box 38

Notes (P. 1-965)


Box 39

Notes (P. 966-1191) No-Re


Box 40

Sa-W


Box 41

Chronological File: 1940's-1978


Box 42

Typescript Drafts: Chapters 1-12


Box 43

Typescript Drafts: Chapters 13-22


Box 44

Typescript Drafts: Chapters 23-End

Series IV: Miscellaneous Files


Box 45

Folders 1-6


Box 46

Folders 7-12

Series V: Note Cards


Card File 1


Card File 2


Card File 3


Card File 4


Card File 5


Card File 6

Series VI: 1989 Addition


Subseries VI.1: Families


Box 47

M-Re


Subseries VI.2: Margaret Mead: A Life

Boxes 48 - 52


Box 48

Co-Notes (chapter 1-3)


Box 49

Notes (chapter 4-7) - Re


Box 49

T.ms (setting copy for printer)


Box 50

Parts 1-5


Box 51

Parts 6-8


Box 52

Photographs for book

Series VII: Correspondence


Subseries VII.1: Cataloged Correspondence


Box 53

Adler, Renata To Jane Howard, New York, NY, 10 October 1976, t.l.s.


Box 53

Bellow, Saul To Jane Howard, Israel, June 1970, 2 a.p.c.s.


Box 53

Berryman, John To Jane Howard, Ireland, 15 March 1967 and June 1970, 1 t.l.s., 1 a.l.s.


Box 53

Capote, Truman To Scherman, France [?], 1966, 1 a.p.c.s.


Box 53

Chaplin, Charles To Scherman, Switzerland, 14 April 1964, 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Child, Julia To Jane Howard, Cambridge, MA, 21 November 1966, 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Close, Glenn To Jane Howard, 28 November 1985, a.l.s.


Box 53

Didion, Joan To Jane Howard, [v.d.], 6 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.


Box 53

Dorris, Michael To Jane Howard, Cornish, NH, 1 February 1989, 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Dunne, John To Jane Howard, [v.d.], 2 a.l.s., 4 t.l.s.


Box 53

Ford, Betty and Gerald R. To Jane Howard, [n.d.], 1 a.c.s.


Box 53

Graves, Robert To Jane Howard, Spain, 1 July 1963, 1 a.l.s.


Box 53

Kosinski, Jerzy To Jane Howard, New York, NY, 23 January 1978, 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Lehmann, John To Jane Howard, London, England, 13 May 1964, 1 a.l.s.


Box 53

Mead, Margaret To [v.p.], [v.p.], [v.d.], 4 t.l.s., 1 signature


Box 53

Morgenthau, Robert To Jane Howard , New York, NY, [v.d.], 3 t.l.s., 1 a.n.s.


Box 53

Nabokov, Vera To Jane Howard, [v.p.], [v.d.], 3 t.l.s.


Box 53

Nabokov, Vladimir To Jane Howard, Paris, France, [n.d.], 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Nixon, Pat To Jane Howard, San Clemente, CA, [n.d.], 1 a.l.s.


Box 53

Osborn, Bob To Jane Howard, Salisbury, CT, March 1965, 1 a.l.s.


Box 53

Perelman, S.J. To Jane Howard, [v.p.], [v.d.], 3 t.l.s., 1 a.p.c.s.

[1 newspaper clipping enclosed]


Box 53

Porter, Katherine Anne To Jane Howard, Washington, D.C., 9 November 1959, 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Pound, Ezra To Editor of Life Magazine, Venice, Italy, 2 April 1964, 1 a.l.s.


Box 53

Rockefeller, Mary To Jane Howard, Albany, NY [?], 31 December 1959, 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Roth, Henry To Jane Howard, [v.p.], [v.d.], 4 t.l.s.


Box 53

Satir, Virginia M. To Jane Howard, Palo Alto, CA, 9 September 1976, 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Schippers, Thomas To Jane Howard, Bayreuth, [n.d.], 1 a.p.c.s.


Box 53

Styron, Rose To Jane Howard, 21 May 1968, 1 a.l.s.


Box 53

Updike, John To Jane Howard and Dave Scherman, [v.p.], [v.d.], 6 t.p.c.s.

[only one card to Dave Scherman, five to J.T.H.]


Box 53

Van Doren, Mark To Jane Howard, Falls Village, CT, 16 December 1955 and 23 August 1959, 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Walters, Barbara To Jane Howard, 19 November 1979, 1 t.l.s.


Box 53

Waugh, Evelyn To Jane Howard, Taunton, 17 September 1964, 1 a.l.s.


Box 53

Wolfe, Tom To Jane Howard, New York, NY, 2 January 1967, 1 a.l.s.


Subseries VII.2: Arranged (Alphabetically)


Box 54

50 Plus - DuBois


Box 55

E - Hok

[Includes letters from Jane Howard to other people in the general "H" file.]


Box 56

Hogbin - Mayhew


Box 57

McGill University - Notre Dame Magazine


Box 58

O - Sadler


Box 59

Sangamon State University - Sterling Lord Agency


Box 60

T - Yale University Press

[Also includes a folder of miscellaneous correspondence]


Subseries VII.3: Arranged (Chronologically)

1956 - 1970s, Boxes 61 - 67


Box 61

Howard Lipsey and Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1956 - 1959 [?], 1 folders


Box 61

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1958, 1 folders


Box 61

Roy Riddick Miscellaneous correspondence, 1961, 1 folders


Box 61

"Worth Saving - '60s," Miscellaneous correspondence, 1960s, 1 folders


Box 61

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1960s - 1970s, 1 folders


Box 62

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1970 - 71, 1 folders


Box 62

Time, Inc. Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1960s - 1970s, 1 folders


Box 62

McWhirter, Bill Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1960s, 1 folders


Box 62

Goldstein, Sandoval, others Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1966 - 68, 1 folders


Box 62

Goldstein, Tingle Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1969, 1 folders


Box 62

"Worth Saving - '70s," Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1970s, 1 folders


Box 62

Brownwood, David Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1970s, 1 folders


Box 62

"MacDowell People" Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1970s, 1 folders


Box 62

Sandoval, Goldstein, others Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1972 - 74, 1 folders


Box 62

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], Winter, 1973 - 74, 1 folders


Box 62

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], Spring, 1974, 1 folders


Box 62

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1970s, 1 folders


Box 62

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1979, 1 folders


Box 62

Miscellaneous correspondence, Sag Harbor, [v.p.], 1980, 1 folders


Box 62

Miscellaneous correspondence, "To Save", [v.p.], 1981, 1 folders


Box 63

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1980s


Box 64

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1985 - 87

[Also includes some clippings, flyers and miscellaneous items.]


Box 65

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1985 -91


Box 66

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1994 - 95


Box 67

Miscellaneous correspondence, [v.p.], 1994


Subseries VII.4: Arranged (Family)

1928 - 1960, Boxes 68 - 70


Box 68

Jack Howard Miscellaneous correspondence, 1928


Box 68

The Howard Family Birth announcement, Miles City, MT, 1935, 1 telegram


Box 68

The Howard Family Death announcement, Pomona, CA, 1941, 1 telegram


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1938 - 39


Box 68

From John Harvey Howard Miscellaneous correspondence, World War II


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1940s


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1949 - 52


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1953

[Includes letters from R.P. Howard and Ann C. Howard]


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1954


Box 68

From John Harvey Howard Miscellaneous correspondence, 1954


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1950s


Box 68

From Robert P. Howard Miscellaneous correspondence, 1950s


Box 68

From Jane T. Howard Letters to family from University of Michigan, 1951 - 1954


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1955


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1956


Box 68

The Howard Family and Friends Miscellaneous correspondence, 1956


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1956


Box 68

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1957 - 61


Box 68

John H. and James Howard Miscellaneous correspondence, 1959


Box 68

The Howard Family and Friends Miscellaneous correspondence, 1960


Box 69

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1961 - 1983


Box 70

The Howard Family Miscellaneous correspondence, 1961 - 1983

[Includes many letters from R.P. Howard to Jane Howard; correspondence from the Condon Family; sympathy correspondence regarding the death of R. P. Howard.]

Series VIII: Writings


Subseries VIII.1: Margaret Mead: A Life

Research materials, Boxes 71 - 77, Boxes 71 - 74 are arranged alphabetically by individuals' last names.


Box 71

A - E

[Includes correspondence, research materials, notes.]


Box 72

F - H

[Includes correspondence, research materials, notes.]


Box 73

H - R

[Includes correspondence, research materials, notes.]


Box 74

R - Z

[Includes correspondence, research materials, notes, and one folder of misc. items.]


Box 75

Miscellaneous research materials

[Includes notes and drafts.]


Box 76

Miscellaneous research materials

[Includes notes and post-publication materials.]


Box 77

Printed material from research files.

[Includes books, booklets, clippings, pamphlets, brochures and misc.]


Subseries VIII.2: Families


Box 78

Research and related materials

[Includes notes, fragmentary drafts, promotional and touring materials and book reviews. Some material may also refer toA Different Woman.]


Subseries VIII.3: Please Touch


Box 79

Research and related materials

[Includes notes, fragmentary drafts, promotional and touring materials, clippings and book reviews.]


Subseries VIII.4: A Different Woman


Box 80

Research and related materials

[Includes printed matter, notes, drafts, promotional and touring materials, clippings and book reviews. Some material may also refer toFamilies.]


Subseries VIII.5: Lost In The Interior, a work in progress

Boxes 81 - 86


Box 81

Research and related materials

[Includes research materials, printed matter, clippings, notes and general correspondence.]


Box 82

Research and related materials

[Includes research materials, printed matter, clippings, notes, a list of travels and author's bibliographies.]


Box 83

Research and related materials

[Includes research materials, topical research, printed matter, clippings, notes, xeroxed articles and book exerpts.]


Box 84

Chapter drafts and notes

[Includes mostly typed drafts with handwritten edits.]


Box 85

Chapter drafts and notes

[Includes mostly typed drafts with handwritten edits, fragments of drafts, structure notes, interveiw notes, travel journal fragments, Hoard Family reunion materials and various research materials.]


Box 86

Printed materials from research files

[Includes pamphlets, booklets, brochures, maps, directories, newsletters, magazines, and other miscellaneous items.]


Subseries VIII.6: Unpublished Manuscript

Boxes 87 - 88, most likely derived from research for theLost in the Interiorproject.


Box 87

Parts I, II and III, edited and unedited typescript drafts

[As their subject matter is the Midwest, it is likely that these unpublished manuscripts are the result of the research and writing that Howard placed under the heading Lost in the Interior.]


Box 88

Parts IV a and IV b, typescript drafts

[Box also inclues notes, research and progress reports.]


Subseries VIII.7: Life Magazine


Box 89

Research materials, notes and drafts

[Includes an index of published articles, clippings, notebooks, interview notes and various related items.]


Subseries VIII.8: Lear's Magazine

Boxes 90 - 97, "A Woman for Lear's" column. Boxes 90 - 92: pieces published in the column. Boxes 93 - 97: unpublished pieces, drafts, nominations or research on candidates.


Box 90

Research materials and drafts, January 1990 - October 1990

[Includes various background materials on subjects, interviews, notes and revisions, proofs and related correspondence.]


Box 91

Research materials and drafts, November 1990 - August 1991

[Includes various background materials on subjects, interviews, notes and revisions, proofs and related correspondence.]


Box 92

Research materials and drafts, September - October 1991

[Includes instructions for finding candidates, master lists of candidates from 1989 - 1992, various background materials on subjects, interviews, notes and revisions, proofs and related correspondence.]


Box 93

Candidates A - D

[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and related correspondence.]


Box 94

Candidates E - L

[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and related correspondence.]


Box 95

Candidates M - S

[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and related correspondence.]


Box 96

Candidates S, T - Z

[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and related correspondence.]


Box 97

Candidates and nominees for column

[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and nominees, drafts, notes, rejected candiates and drafts and misc. ]


Subseries VIII.9: Freelance Writings

Boxes 98 - 102


Box 98

50 Plus - Family Circle

[Includes research materials, drafts, notes, clips, interview materials, galleys.]


Box 99

Family Weekly - Madamoiselle

[Includes research materials, drafts, notes, clips, interview materials and book review materials.]


Box 100

More - People

[Includes research materials, drafts, notes, clips and interview materials.]


Box 101

Washington Post - Miscellaneous Publications

[Includes research and book review materials, drafts, notes, lists of published freelance articles, loose clips and a yellow binder of clips.]


Box 102

Playboy - Vogue

[Includes research and interview materials, drafts, notes, clips and galleys.]


Subseries VIII.10: Miscellaneous Writings

Boxes 103 - 104


Box 103

By Jane Howard, drafts and notes

[Includes interview notes and drafts, autobiographical writings,a spiral notebook and research materials. Some fragments are undated, unidentified or possibly unpublished.]


Box 104

By other people, drafts and notes

[Includes partial manuscripts and drafts -- some with comments by Jane Howard --, an interview with Howard, and a signed MFA thesis by Jane Smiley.]


Subseries VIII.11: Speeches


Box 105

Drafts, notes and related correspondence

[Includes materials from Jane Howard's speeches regarding various publications, speeches given at colleges and universities, miscellaneous speaking engagements and correspondence regarding speaking requests.]

Series IX: Teaching Materials

Boxes 106 - 109


Subseries IX.1: Columbia University


Box 106

Lecture notes, readings, handouts, student work and other related materials


Subseries IX.2: Split Rock Arts Program and Student Work


Box 107

Lecture notes, readings, handouts, class materials, student work and other related materials

[Includes evaluations, reading list, stories by students, Split Rock catalog.]


Subseries IX.3: University of Iowa, Univeristy of Georgia, Yale, S.U.N.Y.at Albany


Box 108

Lecture notes, readings, class materials and excercises, student work, correspondence and other related materials

[Includes "Advice on Teaching Writing," reading lists, "Exemplary Prose," "What Teaching's Taught Me," and examples of the use of humor in writing.]


Subseries IX.4: Miscellaneous Teaching Materials


Box 109

Lecture notes, readings, class materials and excercises, student work, correspondence, faculty reports, bulletins and other related materials

[ Includes materials regarding biographical writing, many of materials are from the Columbia Writing Division.]

Series X: Datebooks and Calendars


Box 110

1961 - 1977, 20 volumes, 8 folders folder

Series XI: Journals

Boxes 111-129


Box 111

Volumes 1 - 10, notebooks and loose pages in folders, 1956 - 1971


Box 112

Volumes 11 - 15, loose pages in folders, 1973 - 74

[some parts fragmentary]


Box 113

Volumes 16 - 22, loose pages in folders and notebooks, 1975 - 1979


Box 114

Volumes 23 - 32, 1970 - 1980, 10 notebooks handwritten


Box 115

Volumes 33 - 45, May 1980 - April 1981, 13 notebooks handwritten


Box 116

Volumes 46 - 58, May 1981 - July 1982, 13 notebooks handwritten


Box 117

Volumes 59 - 71, July 1982 - June 1983, 13 notebooks handwritten


Box 118

Volumes 72 - 84, June 1983 - April 1984, 13 notebooks handwritten


Box 119

Volumes 85 - 97, 29 April, 1984 - 10 March, 1985, 13 notebooks handwritten


Box 120

Volumes 98 - 109, 11 March, 1985 - 27 November, 1985, 12 notebooks handwritten


Box 121

Volumes 110 - 121, December 1985 - November 1986, 12 notebooks handwritten


Box 122

Volumes 122 - 133, 22 November 1986 - 28 October 1987, 12 notebooks handwritten


Box 123

Volumes 134 - 145, November 1987 - 30 October 1988, 12 notebooks handwritten


Box 124

Loose leaf journal entries, January 1987 - December 1988, 4 folders t.s.

[Entries transcribed from handwritten journals and edited. Some dates unclear.]


Box 125

Volumes 146 - 157, October 1988 - October 1989, 12 notebooks handwritten


Box 126

Volumes 158 - 170, November 1989 - March 1991, 13 notebooks handwritten


Box 127

Volumes 171 - 182, April 1991 - June 1992, 12 notebooks handwritten


Box 128

Volumes 183 - 194, June 1992 - December 1993, 12 notebooks handwritten


Box 129

Volumes 195 - 204, December 1993 - January 1996, 10 notebooks handwritten

Series XII: Memorabilia

Boxes 130 - 132


Subseries XII.1: School Years


Box 130

Miscellaneous school and school-related items from elementary school through college.

[Includes a yearbook, school papers, pieces written for school publications.]


Subseries XII.2: Howard Family


Box 131

Miscellaneous personal items, keepsakes and items of family business

[Includes childhood drawings, writings by Robert P. Howard, address lists, home inventories, genealogical information, and items regarding various family members' deaths, marriages, retirement, military service.]


Subseries XII.3: Diplomas and Awards


Box 132

Academic diplomas and award certificates, framed and unframed

[Chicago Foundation for Literature Award, New Trier High School, University of Michigan, Grinnell College, Hamline University.]

Series XIII: Documents


Box 133

Official documents regarding finances, legal affairs or contracts

Series XIV: Printed Material


Box 134

Miscellaneous printed material

[Includes materials used in research, clippings and newsprint, dust jackets, and items from travel and speaking engagements or requests.]

Series XV: Topical Files


Subseries XV.1: Art


Box 135

Materials on woodworking


Subseries XV.2: Business


Box 135

Related items

[Clippings saved by Jane Howard]


Subseries XV.3: Didion/Dunne


Box 135

Items from Jane Howard's personal communication with Joan Didion and John Dunne

[Clippings and some handwritten notes]


Subseries XV.4: Health


Box 135

Related items


Subseries XV.5: Lear's Magazine


Box 135

Media coverage of Lear's magazine


Subseries XV.6: Howard, Jane


Box 135

Various media and personal items concerning Jane Howard

[Includes media coverage of J.H. and clippings, autobiographical notes, lists of published works, and a handwritten list of stories written]


Subseries XV.7: Literature


Box 135

Related items

[Includes information about and reviews of books, information about creative writing, and clippings about libraries.]


Subseries XV.8: Media


Box 135

Related items

[Includes items regarding television, radio, the press.]


Subseries XV.9: Music


Box 135

Related items

[Includes items regarding the Symphony of the United Nations and Joseph Eger.]


Subseries XV.10: People


Box 135

Various items regarding individuals


Subseries XV.11: Politics


Box 135

Related items


Subseries XV.12: Religion


Box 135

Related items

[Eastern and Western religions]


Subseries XV.13: Simon and Schuster


Box 135

Various media items relating to the company Simon and Schuster


Subseries XV.14: Miscellaneous


Box 135

Various items

Seris XVI: Miscellaneous Files


Box 136

Various items

[Mostly personal items including lists, Howard's plan for arranging her personal papers, fragmentary writings and notes, unidentified writings, book ideas.]

Seris XVII: Audiotapes


Box 137

Various audiotapes, [n.d.] & ca. 1970-1989, 18 cassettes, 1 five-inch reel

[Many tapes relate to the Margaret Mead: A Life project.]

Series XVIII: Scrapbooks

Boxes 138 - 141


Subseries XVIII.1: Families and Miscellaneous Writings


Box 138

Three folders of materials relating to the writing and research of Families; one green binder of various clippings of Howard's work.

[Includes reviews, clippings, correspondence.]


Subseries XVIII.2: Please Touch and A Different Woman


Box 139

One black binder of reviews and interviews relating to Please Touch; one yellow binder of reviews of A Different Woman.


Subseries XVIII.3: MacDowell Colony


Box 140

One black binder containing photographs and information about the art program at the Colony; one folder of photographs and negatives that accompanied the scrapbook; one folder of materials related to the Colony and the surrounding region that also accompanied the scrapbook., New Hampshire


Subseries XVIII.4: Life Magazine


Box 141

One red binder of clips of Howard's LIFE pieces; three folders of loose LIFE clippings by Howard arranged alphabetically by subject (or interviewee); one folder of miscellaneous loose LIFE clippings; one folder of various LIFE magazines.

[Red binder also contains some photographs]

Series XIX: Photographs

Boxes 142 - 143


Subseries XIX.1: Life Magazine


Box 142

One red binder of various photographs taken to accompany Howard's stories in LIFE.


Subseries XIX.2: Life Magazine and The Howard Family


Box 143

Loose Life photographs arranged in folders alphabetically by subject; one folder of unidentified LIFE photos; one folder of Jane Howard's personal and family photos; one folder of negatives.

Series XX: Addresses

Alphabetically arranged cards in black metal box


Box 144

Miscellaneous addresses and phone numbers, business and personal, 1979 - 1982 [?]