Leo Lerman papers, 1893-2012, bulk 1937-1994

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Series II: Topical Files, 1950s-1990s

This series contains files related to a number of Lerman's personal and professional interests. He kept topical files on subjects ranging from artists, his friends and associates, travel destinations, and collectibles. A typical topical file contains clippings related to the subject, as well as possibly a small amount of correspondence or memos related to the subject at hand.



Box 29 Adler, Renata


Box 29 Adler, Stella


Box 29 Akers, Karen


Box 29 Alain


Box 29 Alcott, Louisa May


Box 29 Alhadeff, Gini


Box 29 Allen, Woody


Box 29 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters


Box 29 American Painting


Box 29 Andrews, Julie


Box 29 Architecture


Box 29 Art, Miscellaneous


Box 29 Art Nouveau and Art Deco



Box 42 Art-- Exhibition Catalogs



Box 29 Arvin, Newton


Box 29 Asher, Gerald


Box 29 Attenborough, David


Box 29 Auden, W.H.


Box 29 Astor, Alice


Box 29 Avedon, Richard


Box 29 Baked Goods


Box 29 Balanchine, George


Box 29 Baldwin, Billy


Box 29 Baldwin, Phillip


Box 29 Barnes, Djuna


Box 29 Barnet, Dick


Box 29 Barrat, Martine


Box 29 Battcock, Gregory (Trylon & Perisphere)


Box 29 Batterberry, Michael


Box 29 Beaton, Cecil


Box 29 Beadle, Ernest


Box 29 Beerbohm, Max


Box 29 Behn, Aphra


Box 29 Bell, Aimee


Box 29 Bellini, Vincenzo


Box 29 Belmont, Caroline Slidell Perry (Mrs. August)


Box 29 Berkson, Eleanor Lambert


Box 29 Berliner, M


Box 29 Bernstein, Leonard


Box 29 Biddle, James


Box 29 Birsch, Andrew


Box 29 Bishop, Elizabeth


Box 29 Blair, Ola


Box 29 Blanch, Lesley, 2 folders


Box 29 Book Collecting


Box 29 Book and Magazine Sellers, 2 folders


Box 29 Bowles, Paul and Jane


Box 29 Bowls


Box 29 Box, E.


Box 29 Brook, Peter


Box 29 Browning, Robert


Box 29 Bruce, Evangeline


Box 29 Brunhoff, Madame de


Box 29 Buck, Joan Juliet


Box 29 Burnett, Carol


Box 29 Bultman, Fritz


Box 29 Byron, Lord

(contains a copy ofThe Great Byron Adventureby Doris L. Moore)


Box 29 Cadmus, Paul



Box 30 Callas, Maria, 10 folders


Box 30 Callow, Simon


Box 30 Cantwell, Mary


Box 30 Capote, Truman, 6 folders



Box 31 Capote, Truman, 3 folders



Box 103 Capote, Truman (oversized)



Box 31 Carey, Peter


Box 31 Carter, Graydon


Box 31 Channing, Carol and Charles Lowe


Box 31 Channing, Stockard


Box 31 Chase, Chevy


Box 31 Cipriani, Arrigo


Box 31 Chester, Louis


Box 31 Children's Books


Box 31 Christmas, 3 folders


Box 31 Churchill, Winston


Box 31 Cocteau, Jean


Box 31 Coe, Christopher, 3 folders


Box 31 Cohen, Arthur and Elaine


Box 31 Cole, Henri



Box 41 Collectibles-- Catalogs



Box 31 Collectors


Box 31 Collette


Box 31 Comden, Betty, 3 folders


Box 31 Condé Nast


Box 31 Coolidge, Calvin


Box 31 Cooper, Arthur


Box 31 Cousins, Norman


Box 31 Coward, Noel


Box 31 Covici, Pascal



Box 32 Cox, Christopher


Box 32 Crathorne, Lord


Box 32 Crisp, Quentin


Box 32 Cukor, George


Box 32 Curtiss, Mina, 3 folders



Box 41 Dance Programs and Periodicals

(including programs from the New York City Ballet, Sadler's Wells Ballet, Ballet Russes, The Ballet Theatre and The Royal Ballet, among others)



Box 102 Dance Programs and Periodicals-- Oversized



Box 32 Danilova, Alexandra


Box 32 Davidson, Victoria


Box 32 Denby, Edwin


Box 32 Delftware


Box 32 Deren, Maya


Box 32 De Wolfe, Elsie


Box 32 Diaghilev


Box 32 D'Anglejan, Didi


Box 32 D'Arezzo, Daniel


Box 32 Dickens, Charles


Box 32 Dickens, Charles and William Makepeace Thackeray


Box 32 Dickey, James


Box 32 Dietrich, Marlene, 2 folders


Box 32 Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)


Box 32 Dogs


Box 32 Doyle, Richard


Box 32 Draper, Ruth


Box 32 Dugdale, James


Box 32 Egypt



Box 33 Eight Empresses, 2 folders


Box 33 Eliot, T.S.


Box 33 English, Diane


Box 33 Evans, Joni


Box 33 Festival di Asolo


Box 33 Field, Guilliana Taberna de


Box 33 Fitzgerald, Frances


Box 33 Fisher, M.F.K.


Box 33 Fonteyn, Margot


Box 33 Food and Beverage


Box 33 Fortuny, 2 folders


Box 33 Fraser, Kennedy


Box 33 French, Herbert


Box 33 Frost, Robert


Box 33 Galleries and Exhibition Announcements


Box 33 Ganz, Julian and Joann


Box 33 Gardiner, Muriel


Box 33 Gardner, Mary


Box 33 Gaudi


Box 33 Geffroy, James


Box 33 Ghosts


Box 33 Gill, Leslie


Box 33 Giselle


Box 33 Goldner, Nancy


Box 33 Gordimer, Nadine


Box 33 Gordon, Ruth


Box 33 Gossip


Box 33 Gould, Stephen Jay


Box 33 Gourmet-- General and Cookbook Reviews


Box 33 Graham, John


Box 33 Graham, Martha, 2 folders


Box 33 Graves, Morris


Box 33 Graves, Robert


Box 33 Gray, Clive and Francine


Box 33 Greene, Graham


Box 33 Greene, Stephen


Box 33 Gregory, Andre


Box 33 Gregory, Grisha and Lydia



Box 34 Gritti Hotel


Box 34 Gross, Amy


Box 34 Grossinger, Jennie


Box 34 Guidry, Ron


Box 34 Guimaraes, Dona


Box 34 Haines, William


Box 34 Halberstam, David


Box 34 Halberstam, Eugenia


Box 34 Harris, Ed


Box 34 Harris, Julie


Box 34 Harvey, Georgette


Box 34 Haskett, Molly


Box 34 Hatfield, Hurd


Box 34 Heil, Jane


Box 34 Heilpern, John


Box 34 Hellman, Lillian


Box 34 Hemingway, Mariel


Box 34 Hepburn, Audrey


Box 34 Hepburn, Kate


Box 34 Herlie, Eileen


Box 34 Herman, Jerry


Box 34 Heywood Hill Bookshop


Box 34 Hill-Stead Museum


Box 34 Historical Houses-- American 18th Century


Box 34 Hockney, David


Box 34 Hoke, Helen


Box 34 Holroyd, Michael


Box 34 Hovis, Gene


Box 34 Howard, Jean


Box 34 Hubbard, Graydon


Box 34 Hubert, Karen


Box 34 Hunter, Richard


Box 34 Hutton, Lauren


Box 34 Imbs, Bravig and Valeska


Box 34 Inge, William


Box 34 James, Charles


Box 34 Janeway, Carol


Box 34 Jourdain, Eleanor


Box 34 Jullian, Philippe


Box 34 Jussel, Chris


Box 34 Kafka, Barbara


Box 34 Kazin, Pearl


Box 34 Keaton, Diane


Box 34 Kennedy, Caroline


Box 34 Kennedy Center Honors



Box 103 Kennedy, Jacqueline



Box 34 Kerner, Rose


Box 34 Kiesler, Frederick


Box 34 Kent, Olla


Box 34 King, Stephen


Box 34 Kipling, Rudyard


Box 34 Kirstein, Lincoln


Box 34 Koch, John


Box 34 Kramer, Jane


Box 34 Lambert, Evelyn


Box 34 Landesman Family


Box 34 Laurence, Paula


Box 34 Laurenson, Helen


Box 34 LaTouche, John


Box 34 Lauritzen, Peter


Box 34 Lavery, John



Box 35 Lecesne, James, 3 folders


Box 35 Lerman, Jerry


Box 35 Liberman, Alex


Box 35 Lieberson, Jonathan


Box 35 Lindamood, Peter


Box 35 Livingston, Nancy


Box 35 London


Box 35 Longworth, Alice Roosevelt


Box 35 Loos, Anita


Box 35 Loos, Mary Anita


Box 35 Lost and Found Library


Box 35 Lost Ladies


Box 35 Lunt, Alfred, Fontanne, and Lynn


Box 35 MacRae, Joyce


Box 35 Magriel, Paul


Box 35 Mailer, Norman


Box 35 Majolica, 3 folders


Box 35 Martin, Judith


Box 35 Marshall, Arthur


Box 35 Martin, Steve


Box 35 Mason, Jerry


Box 35 Massine, Lorca


Box 35 Matera, Barbara


Box 35 Maxwell, William


Box 35 McCallum, June


Box 35 McCann, Mary Ellen


Box 35 McCarthy, Mary


Box 35 McCourt, James



Box 36 McDowall, Roddy


Box 36 McElwaine, Sandra


Box 36 Mellon Polly


Box 36 Meier, Richard


Box 36 Mellen, Polly


Box 36 Menus, 3 folders


Box 36 Merchant, Ismail, Ivory, and James


Box 36 Messel, Oliver


Box 36 Millay, Edna St. Vincent


Box 36 Miller, Arthur


Box 36 Miller, Beatriz


Box 36 Minton


Box 36 Mirabella, Grace


Box 36 Montant, Jane


Box 36 Moore, Marianne


Box 36 Morley, Oliver


Box 36 Morris, Jan


Box 36 Mostel, Zero


Box 36 Muschamp, Herbert



Box 41 Music and Opera-- Programs



Box 36 Nathan, Joan


Box 36 National Theatre of the Deaf


Box 36 Nelson, Indiana


Box 36 Nesbitt, Cathleen


Box 36 Nevelson, Louise


Box 36 New York City Writers Conference


Box 36 Norman, Dorothy


Box 36 Novak, Barbara


Box 36 Obolensy, Serge


Box 36 O'Higgins, Patrick


Box 36 Ophuls, Marcel


Box 36 Oscars


Box 36 Otis, Elizabeth


Box 36 Page, Ruth


Box 36 Paintings


Box 36 Paperweights


Box 36 Parker, Bill


Box 36 Parker, Dorian Leigh


Box 36 Parsons, Betty


Box 36 Passante, Nico


Box 36 Penn, Irving


Box 36 Perl, Jed


Box 36 Pesetsky, Bette


Box 36 Peter the Great


Box 36 Phillips, Eleanore


Box 36 Picasso


Box 36 Picasso, Paloma


Box 36 Pitchers Family


Box 36 Porcelains


Box 36 Porter, Katherine Anne


Box 36 Pritchett, V.S.


Box 36 Proust, Marcel, 3 folders



Box 37 Proust, Marcel, 5 folders


Box 37 Quidor, John


Box 37 Quilts


Box 37 Radziwill, Lee


Box 37 Railwayana


Box 37 Rare Books and Their Prices


Box 37 Reagan, Nancy


Box 37 Real People: Book Characters


Box 37 Reed, Julia


Box 37 Reinhardt, Max


Box 37 Resnick, Regina


Box 37 Research, Proposals, Ideas-- Fiction, 3 folders


Box 37 Research, Proposals, Ideas-- General, 5 folders


Box 37 Research-- Palladio



Box 38 Rhys, Jean


Box 38 Riddle, Clara


Box 38 Roditi, Edouard


Box 38 Rolo, Charles


Box 38 Rosenbach, Abraham


Box 38 Ross, Herbert and Nora


Box 38 Roth, Phillip


Box 38 Rugs


Box 38 Runaways, 2 folders


Box 38 Saal, Rollene


Box 38 Saarinen, Aline


Box 38 Saatchi, Charles and Doris


Box 38 Schatski, Walter


Box 38 School of American Ballet


Box 38 Scott, Zachary, Ford, and Ruth


Box 38 Sharaff, Irene


Box 38 Shaw, Mark


Box 38 Shells


Box 38 Sheraton, Mimi


Box 38 Shore, Jaye


Box 38 Sills, Beverly


Box 38 Simpson, Jeffrey


Box 38 Singer, Norman


Box 38 Sitwell Family


Box 38 Skittles


Box 38 Snapper, Elsa


Box 38 Snow, Carmel


Box 38 Society


Box 38 Sonnenberg, Benjamin


Box 38 Sondheim, Stephen


Box 38 Sontag, Stephen


Box 38 Speiser, Martha


Box 38 Spinsters/"Bachelor Girl"


Box 38 Spoons, Apostle


Box 38 Staffordshire


Box 38 Stamps


Box 38 Stark, Freya


Box 38 Strange, Mopsy


Box 38 Straus, Dorothea


Box 38 Stuart, Jan


Box 38 Svinin, Paul


Box 38 Swanson, Gloria


Box 38 Stutz, Geraldine


Box 38 Sze, Mai Mai


Box 38 Talmey, Allene


Box 38 Tabori, George


Box 38 Tarlow, Rose


Box 38 Taylor, John


Box 38 Tchelitchew, Pavel


Box 38 Tebaldi, Renata


Box 38 Television



Box 39 Thames, Susan



Box 43 Theater-- Programs



Box 60 Theater-- Programs and Playbills



Box 39 Theater Hall of Fame


Box 39 Thimbles


Box 39 Thomas, Dylan


Box 39 Thompson, Sylvia


Box 39 Tiffany & Co. Table Setting


Box 39 Tober, Barbara


Box 39 Tobies


Box 39 Todd, Michael


Box 39 Tomlin, Lily


Box 39 Tony Awards


Box 39 Tourel, Jennie


Box 39 Toys


Box 39 Tree, Iris


Box 39 Trilling, James


Box 39 Trilling, Lionel and Diana


Box 39 Truman, James


Box 39 Tudor, Antony


Box 39 Tynan, Kenneth and Kathleen


Box 39 Udell, Rochelle


Box 39 Vanderlip, Elin


Box 39 Van Vechten, Carl


Box 39 Vanity Fair



Box 102 Vanity Fair-- Portraits and Histories, 1870s and 1880s, 1870s, 1880s



Box 39 Venice, 2 folders


Box 39 Viardot, Pauline


Box 39 Victoria (Queen)


Box 39 Vienna


Box 39 Vilades, Pilar


Box 39 Vogue


Box 39 Volmer, Suzanne


Box 39 Vreeland, Diana



Box 40 Walcott, Derek


Box 40 Walker, Dorothea


Box 40 Warton, Meredith


Box 40 Warwick, Katherine


Box 40 Watches


Box 40 Wayne, June


Box 40 We Give You New York


Box 40 Weissberger, Arnold


Box 40 Welty, Eudora


Box 40 West, Rebecca


Box 40 Wilson, Peter


Box 40 Williams, Maggie


Box 40 Williams, Tennessee


Box 40 Williams, William Carols


Box 40 Winkelman, Anne


Box 40 Wilson, Sandy


Box 40 Wintour, Anna


Box 40 Wise, Thomas


Box 40 Wolff, Michael


Box 40 Woolf, Virginia, 3 folders


Box 40 Woman Print Order


Box 40 Wright, Clifford


Box 40 Wylie, Eleanor


Box 40 Yorck, Ruth Landshoff


Box 40 Young, Marguerite


Box 40 Zandt, Pamela van


Box 40 Zweigenthal, Gail