Diana Trilling papers, 1921-1996

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Series IV: Subject Files, 1924-1996

Within Series IV are topical records used by Diana Trilling. Some of the files are research background for articles, legal and financial information concerning the Lionel Trilling Estate, Correspondence and accompanying documentation for the various publishing houses that Diana and Lionel Trilling worked with over the course of their careers, articles and clippings. The series is arranged into two subseries: Diana Trilling and Lionel Trilling.


Subseries IV.1: Diana Trilling, 1924-1996

The first subseries contains records documenting Diana Trilling's professional career as a critic and writer as well as her role as caretaker of her husbands literary estate. Records address Trilling's political activities, such as the American Committee for Cultural Freedom files and other professional and intellectual organizations which sought her support, public responses to her essays and lectures, and documents related to the creation and management of the Lionel Trilling Seminars. Clippings of articles about the Trillings and of potential essay topics and writings dedicated to Diana Trilling by other authors, notably Quentin Anderson and Lionel Trilling, are also held in this subseries. There is a substantial amount of material stemming from a series of oral histories conducted by Trilling on behalf of the Columbia University Oral History Department. Individuals interviewed consist primarily of Lionel Trilling's friends and intellectual colleagues from the 1930s through the 1950s. In addition to being the interviewer, Diana Trilling herself is the interviewee in several oral histories in this subseries, the most substantial being one conducted by Christopher Zinn. Please note that the dates of the Zinn interviews are not in chronological order. Trilling re-recorded many of the tapes due to poor transmission or personal reasons.



Box 36 Folder 23 American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF)--General, 1954-1969, 1983-1985, 1954-1969, 1983-1985


Box 36 Folder 24 American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF)--Address, 1961 April 6



Box 37 Folder 1 The American Intellectual Elite, 1970, 1995, 1970, 1995


Box 37 Folder 2 American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, 1980-1981


Box 37 Folder 3 The American Scholar, 1974-1979


Box 37 Folder 4 Archive, 1983-1987


Articles


Box 37 Folder 5 "Clarence O. Baring and the Attempted Murder of Mrs. Baring,", 1924


Box 37 Folder 6 "Diana Trilling Readies for the Next Political Battle,", 1995 September


Box 37 Folder 7 Trilling, Diana, 1979-1986


Box 37 Folder 8 Baruch, Elaine, 1978-1979


Box 37 Folder 9 Bibliography of Lionel Trilling's Text, 1986


Box 37 Folder 10 Brandeis Arts Commission, 1981-1983


Box 37 Folder 11 "The Changing Myth of the Jew,", 1978


Box 37 Folder 12 Civilization--Correspondence, 1994-1995


Box 37 Folder 13 Civilization--"Fame and Celebrity,", 1996


Box 37 Folder 14 Clippings of Politics and Culture , 1925-1986


Box 37 Folder 15 Columbia College Today--Letters to the Editor, 1993-1994



Box 38 Folder 1 Columbia University Uprising, 1968


Box 38 Folder 2 Conant, Oliver, 1984


Box 38 Folder 3 Contracts and Copyright, 1962-1989


Box 38 Folder 4 Crank Letters, 1980-1995


Box 38 Folder 5 "Daughters of the Middle Class,", 1977


Box 38 Folder 6 D.H. Lawrence--Criticism, 1970-1983


Box 38 Folder 7 D.H. Lawrence--Reviews, 1947, 1958, 1947, 1958


Diana Trilling Interviews


Box 38 Folder 8 General, 1964-1967


Box 38 Folder 9 Alpern, Sarah, 1983 June 21


Box 38 Folder 10 Baruch, Elaine, 1979 August


Box 38 Folder 11 Kaufman, Alan, undated


Box 38 Folder 12 Radcliffe Tapes, undated


Zinn, Christopher


Box 38 Folder 13 Tape I, 1982 September


Box 38 Folder 14 Tape II, 1982 September


Box 38 Folder 15 Tape III, 1982 September



Box 39 Folder 1 Tape IV, 1982 October


Box 39 Folder 2 Tape V, 1982 October


Box 39 Folder 3 Tape VI, 1982 October


Box 39 Folder 4 Tape VII, 1982 October


Box 39 Folder 5 Tape VIII, 1982 November


Box 39 Folder 6 Tape IX, 1982 November


Box 39 Folder 7 Tape X, 1982 November


Box 39 Folder 8 Tape XI, 1983 August


Box 39 Folder 9 Tape XII, 1983 January


Box 39 Folder 10 Tape XIII, 1983 January



Box 40 Folder 1 Tape XIV, 1983 February


Box 40 Folder 2 Tape XV, 1983 February


Box 40 Folder 3 Tape XVI, 1983 February


Box 40 Folder 4 Tape XVII, 1983 September


Box 40 Folder 5 Tape XVIII, 1983 March


Box 40 Folder 6 Tape XIX, 1983 March


Box 40 Folder 7 Tape XX, 1983 March


Box 40 Folder 8 Tape XXI, 1983 April


Box 40 Folder 9 Tape XXII, 1983 April


Box 40 Folder 10 Tape XXIII, 1983 April


Box 40 Folder 11 Tape XXV, 1983 May



Box 41 Folder 1 Tape XXVI, 1983 May


Box 41 Folder 2 Tape XVII, 1983 May


Box 41 Folder 3 Tape XVIII, 1983 June


Box 41 Folder 4 Tape XXIX, 1983 June


Box 41 Folder 5 Tape XXX, 1983 June


Box 41 Folder 6 Tape XXXI, 1983 June


Box 41 Folder 7 Tape XXXII, 1983 July


Box 41 Folder 8 Tape XXXIII, 1983 July


Box 41 Folder 9 Tape XXXIV, 1983 July


Box 41 Folder 10 Tape XXXV, 1983 August


Box 41 Folder 11 Tape XXXVI, 1984 January


Box 41 Folder 12 Dwight Macdonald Interview, 1983


Box 41 Folder 13 Easy Rider and Its Critics, 1969-1970



Box 42 Folder 1 Ethergain, Edward, 1982-1992


Box 42 Folder 2 Eleanor and Hillary, 1996 January


Box 42 Folder 3 Genealogy, 1996


Box 42 Folder 4 Ginsberg, Allen--"Smoking Typewriters,", 1975-1978


Box 42 Folder 5 Graham, Philip L., 1953-1956, 1977, 1953-1956, 1977


Box 42 Folder 6 Guggenheim Application, 1990-1993


Harcourt Brace Jovanovich


Box 42 Folder 7 Contracts, 1982-1995


Correspondence


Box 42 Folder 8 1968-1977 September


Box 42 Folder 9 1977 October-1980, 1977


Box 42 Folder 10 1981-1992



Box 43 Folder 1 1993-1996



Box 60 Folder 4 to 6 General, 1968-1993, (2 Folders)


Box 60 Folder 7 Harris Case, 1980-1982


Box 60 Folder 8 Lionel Trilling Editions, 1976-1981



Box 43 Folder 2 Jovanovich, Peter, 1989-1991


Box 43 Folder 3 Legal Issues, 1965-1985


Hellman, Lillian


Box 43 Folder 4 Controversy, 1976-1977


Box 43 Folder 5 Death, 1984


Box 43 Folder 6 McCarthy Suit, 1980


Box 43 Folder 7 History of Five Decades, 1968-1976


Box 43 Folder 8 Honorary Party for The Nation, 1944 June


Box 43 Folder 9 Hyde, Jim, 1995-1996


Box 43 Folder 10 "Imagining Our Time: The Vocation of Diana Trilling,", 1993


Box 43 Folder 11 Irving Howe Interview Correspondence, 1994


Box 43 Folder 12 Israel Visit, 1974-1977


Box 43 Folder 13 The Jewish Braille Institute of America, 1981-1983


Box 43 Folder 14 Kazin, Alfred--Lionel Trilling's Death, 1978, 1990, 1978, 1990


Box 43 Folder 15 Klingenstein, Susanne, 1992 March-April


Box 43 Folder 16 Legal Issues, 1993-1995


Box 43 Folder 17 "The Liberated Heroine," 1977-1978 (lecture), 1977-1978



Box 44 Folder 1 "Lionel Trilling, A Jew at Columbia,", 1979 March-April


Box 44 Folder 2 Lionel Trilling--As Subject, 1978-1985


Box 44 Folder 3 "Lionel Trilling and Allen Ginsberg,", 1986 July 4


Box 44 Folder 4 Lionel Trilling Award, 1994


Box 44 Folder 5 Lionel Trilling Bibliography, 1991-1992


Lionel Trilling Estate


Box 44 Folder 6 Boyers, Robert, 1977-1978


Box 44 Folder 7 Chace, William, 1976-1979


Box 44 Folder 8 Christiansen Controversy, 1977-1979


Box 44 Folder 9 Des Pres, Terrence, 1976-1977


Box 44 Folder 10 French, Philip, 1977-1980


Box 44 Folder 11 Grumet, Elinor, 1976-1979


Box 44 Folder 12 Herman, George, 1979 February


Box 44 Folder 13 Krupnick, Mark, 1976-1986


Box 44 Folder 14 Kubal, David, 1978-1979


Box 44 Folder 15 Lopate, Phillip, 1981


Box 44 Folder 16 Meyers, Jeffrey, 1981


Box 44 Folder 17 Platt, Michael, 1977-1979


Box 44 Folder 18 Salmet, Tom, 1977-1994



Box 45 Folder 1 Sennett, Richard, undated


Box 45 Folder 2 Shoben, Edward, 1980


Box 45 Folder 3 Solotaroff, Theodore, 1976-1977


Box 45 Folder 4 Wald, Alan, 1946-1981


Box 45 Folder 5 Wellek, René, 1977-1979


Box 45 Folder 6 Lionel Trilling Reader , 1986-1996


Box 45 Folder 7 Lionel Trilling Seminars, 1995-1996


Box 45 Folder 8 Little, Brown and Company, 1974-1976 (Lillian Hellman controversy), 1974-1976


Box 45 Folder 9 Lopate, Phillip, 1994


Box 45 Folder 10 Mailer, Norman, 1971


Box 45 Folder 11 "Making Double Judgments: The Criticism of Diana Trilling,", 1995


Box 45 Folder 12 Marshall, Margaret, 1935-1945


Box 45 Folder 13 Memoir Excerpt, 1993


Box 45 Folder 14 McMurty, Larry, 1993-1994


Box 45 Folder 15 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 1976-1980


Box 45 Folder 16 New York Herald-Tribune" Response Letters, 1958 May-June


Box 45 Folder 17 Op-Ed Magazine Proposal, 1995 January


Oral History



Box 46 Folder 1 General, 1982-1987


Box 46 Folder 2 Bentley, Eric, 1976 March 31


Box 46 Folder 3 Bentley, Eric, 1979 April 9


Box 46 Folder 4 Donadio, Stephen, 1976 February 7


Box 46 Folder 5 Fadiman, Clifton, 1976 April 21


Box 46 Folder 6 Fadiman, Clifton, 1976 June 7


Box 46 Folder 7 Feiffer, Jules, 1976 July 20



Box 47 Folder 1 Ferber, Herbert, 1979 March 20


Box 47 Folder 2 Fuchs, David, 1979 January 8


Box 47 Folder 3 Goldwater, Walter--draft, 1979 January 4


Box 47 Folder 4 to 5 Goldwater, Walter--final, 1979 January 4-15


Box 47 Folder 6 Grossman, James and Elsa, 1976 January 24


Box 47 Folder 7 Grossman, James and Elsa, 1976 March 13


Harrington, Michael


Box 47 Folder 8 Draft, 1976 March 20



Box 48 Folder 1 Final, 1976 March 20


Box 48 Folder 2 "The Young Michael Harrington," 1976, 1990-1994, 1976, 1990-1994


Box 48 Folder 3 Hays, Judge Paul R. and Elinor--draft, 1976 January 31


Box 48 Folder 4 Hays, Judge Paul R. and Elinor--final, 1976 January 31


Box 48 Folder 5 Hollander, John, 1976 January 27


Box 48 Folder 6 Hovde, Carl, 1976 March 17


Box 48 Folder 7 Howe, Irving, 1978 December 19


Box 48 Folder 8 Hunt, John, 1976 July 12


Kristol, Bea, 1976 February 27 (Gertrude Himmelfarb), 1976 February 27

Item removed from box 48 and destroyed, in accordance with the interviewee's wishes. kws 2021-04-06



Box 49 Folder 1 Kunitz, Stanley, 1979 January 23


Box 49 Folder 2 Lipman, Sam, 1979 September 14


Box 49 Folder 3 Macdonald, Dwight--draft, 1979 March 28


Box 49 Folder 4 Macdonald, Dwight--final, 1979 March 28


Box 49 Folder 5 Marcus, Steven, 1976 January 19


Box 49 Folder 6 Marcus, Steven, 1976 August 2-4


Box 49 Folder 7 Morrow, Felix, 1979 October 18



Box 50 Folder 1 Novack, George, 1978 May 11


Box 50 Folder 2 Phillips, William, 1976 March 28


Box 50 Folder 3 Rosenthal, Michael, 1976 January 13


Box 50 Folder 4 Rovere, Richard, 1978 December 7


Box 50 Folder 5 Schulman, Bob, 1976 February 29


Box 50 Folder 6 Shaw, Peter, 1979 April 6


Box 50 Folder 7 Stern, Fritz, 1976 February 10


Box 50 Folder 8 Thomson, Virgil, 1977 May 6



Box 51 Folder 1 Thompson, Jack and Susan, 1976 February 1


Box 51 Folder 2 Trilling, Diana, 1976 January-March


Box 51 Folder 3 Trilling, Diana, 1979 January 9


Box 51 Folder 4 Warshaw, Paul, 1978 January 10


Box 51 Folder 5 White, Bede, 1976 April 14


Box 51 Folder 6 Other Authors, undated, 1929-1931, 1945, 1972, undated, 1929-1931, 1945, 1972


Box 51 Folder 7 Park, Catherine, 1995-1996


Box 51 Folder 8 Partial Bibliography, 1994-1996


Box 51 Folder 9 Performing Arts Book, 1992


Permissions


Box 51 Folder 10 1964-1979



Box 52 Folder 1 1981-1990


Box 52 Folder 2 1991-1996


Box 52 Folder 3 Podhoretz, Norman, 1980


Box 52 Folder 4 Professional Accolades, 1980-1994


Publishers


Box 52 Folder 5 General, 1972-1974


Box 52 Folder 6 A through C, 1957-1996


Box 52 Folder 7 D through H, 1957-1996


Box 52 Folder 8 N through O, 1957-1996



Box 53 Folder 1 P through S, 1957-1996


Box 53 Folder 2 U through V, 1957-1996


Box 53 Folder 3 V through W, 1957-1996


Box 53 Folder 4 Permissions, 1952-1976


Box 53 Folder 5 Publisher's Requests, 1991


Box 53 Folder 6 Quentin Anderson Interview, 1984 February


Box 53 Folder 7 Reading at Lionel Trilling Seminar, 1985


Box 53 Folder 8 Rebecca West Biography, 1994-1995


Box 53 Folder 9 Recommendation Letters, 1978-1993


Box 53 Folder 10 Rutgers University Press, 1993-1994


Box 53 Folder 11 Said, Edward, 1986


Box 53 Folder 12 Scottsboro Case, 1993


Box 53 Folder 13 Sidney Hook Biography, 1993


Box 53 Folder 14 Solotaroff, Theodore, 1961, 1976, 1961, 1976


Box 53 Folder 15 Sontag, Susan on Communism, 1982



Box 54 Folder 1 Trilling, Lionel--Funeral, 1975


Box 54 Folder 2 Videl, Gore, 1995


Box 54 Folder 3 Viking Press, 1970-1980


Box 54 Folder 4 White House Dinner, 1962 April 29


Subseries IV.2: Lionel Trilling, 1960-1996

This small subseries is composed of records concerning the life of Lionel Trilling, in particular his published pieces and his archive. In regards to his personal papers, there is correspondence concerning the donation of the papers and requests for permission to access them. Files in regards to Lionel Trilling's writings such as copyright renewals, correspondence and contracts with publishing houses, permission to reuse his material, and general information about the Uniform Edition are found in this subseries as well. In addition to these records, this subseries holds material about the impact of Lionel Trilling on Columbia University and the greater academic community. In particular, there is material relating to the Lionel Trilling Award, the Lionel Trilling Seminars, and copies of scholarly work on Lionel Trilling. Included are Lionel Trilling's F.B.I. and government files.


Box 54 Folder 5 Bibliography, 1985


Box 54 Folder 6 Copyright Renewals, 1977-1993


Box 54 Folder 7 Government Files, 1960-1964


Box 54 Folder 8 Lionel Trilling Award, 1976-1992


Lionel Trilling Papers


Box 54 Folder 9 Donations, 1978-1995


Box 54 Folder 10 Permissions, 1979-1995


Box 54 Folder 11 Requests for Letters, 1976-1982


Lionel Trilling Seminars


Box 54 Folder 12 1976-1978



Box 55 Folder 1 1979-1987


Box 55 Folder 2 1988-1995


Box 55 Folder 3 New York Psychoanalytic Institute, 1978 September-November


Permissions


General


Box 55 Folder 4 1979-1986


Box 55 Folder 5 1987-1989


Box 55 Folder 6 1990-1993



Box 56 Folder 1 1994-1996


Box 56 Folder 2 Chelsea House, 1984-1989


Box 56 Folder 3 Rushdie, Salman, 1989


Box 56 Folder 4 Scholarly Work on Lionel Trilling, 1980-1982


Uniform Edition


Box 56 Folder 5 Autobiographical Lecture, undated, 1970-1978, undated, 1970-1978


Correspondence


Box 56 Folder 6 1976-1978 May


Box 56 Folder 7 1978 June-1979


Box 56 Folder 8 1980-1986


Box 56 Folder 9 Printed Material, 1979


Box 56 Folder 10 Reception, 1980-1981


Box 56 Folder 11 Reviews, 1978-1981