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Series V: Personal, 1915-1994

Samuel Roth papers, 1907-1994, bulk 1910-1979

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Series I: Writings, 1907-1990s

This, the largest series in the collection, includes mostly unpublished pieces by Samuel Roth, as well as collected works he edited; drafts of his daughter Adelaide Roth's memoir and essays, in addition to her extensive research materials; typescripts and holographs by various hands that either never made it to publication or are versions of material that was once published by one of Roth's many imprints.

I.1. Subseries: Writings by Samuel Roth, 1914-1969

Consisting mostly of typescripts, this large sub-series is brimming with Roth's multiple unpublished works, but also contains some copies of published pieces. Along with various short stories, plays, fictionalized histories, are multiple drafts of Roth's last autobiographyCount Me Among the Missing.Also in this sub-series is an epic work entitledThe Transfiguration.Other works includeThe Hebrew Melodies of Heinrich Heine, The Kingdom,a long series of psalms. Some manuscript pages have not been identified and remain untitled.


Box 1 Folder 1 "Across the Street,", 1960s

Box 1 Folder 2 "Anti Semitism as a Necessary Condition in the Jewish World,", 1930s

Box 1 Folder 3 The Broomstick Brigade--Play, 1914

Box 1 Folder 4 A Career in Publishing--Re: Roth publications,, 1938

Box 1 Folder 5 "Chapter One: The Arrest", Undated (author uncertain), Undated

Count Me Among the Missing

Box 1 Folder 6 "Adrift in London"--Extract for Journal of Modern Literature,, 1973

Drafts

Box 1 Folder 7 to 8 1-414, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 1 Folder 9 1-14, Undated

Box 1 Folder 10 2-280, Undated

Box 1 Folder 11 2-293, Undated

Box 1 Folder 12 29-96--Incomplete, Undated


Box 2 Folder 1 to 2 64-400, 1969, (2 Folders)

Box 2 Folder 3 187-400, 1969

Box 2 Folder 4 to 5 "Count Me Original Typewritten,"--74-414, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 2 Folder 6 Loose Pages, Undated (with binder cover), Undated

Box 2 Folder 7 The Natural History of Mishillim--1-396, 1969 (1 of 2 Folders), 1969


Box 3 Folder 2 Version of "Chapter 2,", 1969

Box 3 Folder 3 "The Dancing Priests of Isis," Undated (author uncertain), Undated

Box 3 Folder 4 "A Definition of Existentialism,", Undated

Box 3 Folder 5 "The Death of Dr Bell", Undated

The Diary

Box 3 Folder 6 "Bashkirtseff," Undated (author uncertain), Undated

Box 3 Folder 7 "Marie Bashkierstsoff,", Undated

The Getaway

Box 3 Folder 8 141 pages, Undated

Box 3 Folder 9 A Novelty--141 pages, Undated

Box 3 Folder 10 [Bound]--114 pages, Undated

Box 3 Folder 11 By Norman Lockridge--174 pages, Undated

Box 3 Folder 12 Incomplete, Undated

Box 3 Folder 13 Prison Story--16 pages, Undated (labeled "for Lou"), Undated

The Hebrew Melodies of Heinrich Heine


Box 4 Folder 1 Arranged Pages, 1960s

Box 4 Folder 2 Carbon Copy, 1960s (with notations), 1960s

Box 4 Folder 3 "for Chig,", Undated

Box 4 Folder 4 Incomplete Drafts, 1960s

Box 4 Folder 5 Introduction--With Irish's "Happiness,", Undated

Box 4 Folder 6 "in a Redaction by Samuel Roth,", 1960s

Box 4 Folder 7 Loose Pages, 1960s

Box 4 Folder 8 Helen Thy Beauty 145 pages, Undated

Heliogabalus


Box 5 Folder 1 to 2 341 Pages, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 3 to 4 Annotated,1960s, (2 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 5 to 6 Annotated--297 pages, 1962, (2 Folders)

(Fragile Material)

Box 5 Folder 7 By Norman Lockridge,1960s (1 of 2 Folders)


Box 6 Folder 1 By Norman Lockridge,1960s (2 of 2 Folders)

Box 6 Folder 2 15-236--End,1960s

Box 6 Folder 3 HERZL: A Play--Half-Filled Notebook, Undated (Dedicated to Israel Zangwill), Undated


Box 48 Folder 1 "The Hunt"--In The Hebrew Standard, 1914 (with letter), 1914


Box 6 Folder 4 "If I take the Witness Stand,", 1955

Box 6 Folder 5 The Immor(t)al David , Undated

Box 6 Folder 6 "In Passing", 1960s

Box 6 Folder 7 "In the Days of Caligula"--From "Agrippa," 1-19, Undated (author uncertain), Undated

Box 6 Folder 8 "Ishmael: A Portrait,", 1959

Box 6 Folder 9 Jack the Ripper--With Preface, 1950s (author uncertain), 1950s

Box 6 Folder 10 -With Illustrations , 1939-1940

Box 6 Folder 11 The Jewish Princess , 1939


Box 7 Folder 1 The Jewish Proposal--Play, Undated

Box 7 Folder 2 Kangaroo Court , Undated

The Kingdom

Box 7 Folder 3 General, 1960s

Box 7 Folder 4 A Book of Israeli Davidia , 1960s

Box 7 Folder 5 A Book of Israeli Psalms , 1960s

Box 7 Folder 6 The Israeli Book of Psalms--With Letter,, 1967

Box 7 Folder 7 The Israeli Book of Psalms , 1960s


Box 8 Folder 1 to 3 Israeli Davidia , 1960s, (3 Folders)

Box 8 Folder 4 "by David Zorn,", 1960s

Box 8 Folder 5 Out of Order, 1960s

(some pages Re: Heinrich Heine book)

Box 8 Folder 6 The Leader , Undated

Box 8 Folder 7 "The Man Who Loved to Kill Women,", Undated

Box 8 Folder 8 Meshullum Brings News from the True World--Incomplete, Undated

General


Box 9 Folder 1 "Bridgehead Books," Various Drafts, Undated

Box 9 Folder 2 "Last Writings,", 1940-1960

Box 9 Folder 3 "SR Writing & Latest Circs,", 1960s

Box 9 Folder 4 "Stuff of Memoirs,", Undated

Box 9 Folder 5 "Trifles,", Undated

Box 9 Folder 6 Early Published Writings, 1918-1920

Box 9 Folder 7 Loose Pages--Various Texts, Undated

Box 9 Folder 8 "Misc. MS," 1965, Undated, 1965, Undated

Box 9 Folder 9 Poems, Undated (with notes and illustrations), Undated

Box 9 Folder 10 Poems--Unidentified, Undated

Box 9 Folder 11 "Moon Over Broadway," "Excess Baggage,", 1948


Box 10 Folder 1 Murder at Sycamore Lodge , 1931

The Naked Woman: A Play in Four Acts

Box 10 Folder 2 to 3 Drafts, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 10 Folder 4 "The Heavenly Babe: Synoptic Adaptation of the Play,", 1928

Box 10 Folder 5 "Natalie,", 1929

Box 10 Folder 6 The New Wisdom--With Pages From Prince Hal, My Friend Yeshea, 1960

Box 10 Folder 7 "Re: Nightmare Alley,", 1950s

Notebooks


Box 49 Folder 1 "Books-Music," "JR,", Undated

Box 49 Folder 2 "Drama in Syracuse,", Undated


Box 10 Folder 8 "I am composing these notes late in the summer,", 1933

Box 10 Folder 9 "Idealists of East Broadway: Stories," and "Swine: A Novel," 1920s (some glued pages), 1920s


Box 49 Folder 3 "Jot-a-Lot," "Valley Rendez-Vous,", Undated


Box 50 Folder 1 "My Ten Nights in a Dance Hall," Undated (mostly blank), Undated


Box 49 Folder 4 "National Diary 1922"--Prose and List of Authors, 1922


Box 50 Folder 2 "The Natural History of David Zorn, Undated (mostly blank), Undated

Box 50 Folder 3 "The Wit and Wisdom of the Nations,", Undated


Box 11 Folder 1 "Notes for an Informal Talk,", 1965

Box 11 Folder 2 "Nutscha Sonnets," Undated (out of order), Undated

Box 11 Folder 3 "Open Plumbing"--From Two Worlds, 1920s

Box 11 Folder 4 Over Night: A Comedy of Minor Social Terrors , Undated

Box 11 Folder 5 Picasso for Children--Prototype, 1962

Box 11 Folder 7 The Poet's Sufferings--Pamphlet, 1911

Box 11 Folder 8 "Preparing for Peace"--Poems, Undated

Prince Hal and the Jewish Proposal, A Drama

Box 11 Folder 9 Draft, 1960 (with drawing of Jesus), 1960

Box 11 Folder 10 Draft, 1960 (incomplete), 1960

Box 11 Folder 11 to 12 The Princess Berenice: A Biography , Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 11 Folder 13 "A Quarter of a Century of Literary Criticism,", Undated

San Quentin

Box 11 Folder 14 "Corrected portion of San Quentin Novel"


Box 12 Folder 1 "Incomplete San Quentin,", Undated

Box 12 Folder 2 "Sodom"--185-231, 1960s

Box 12 Folder 3 "Sodom's Hot,", 1960s

Box 12 Folder 4 "Songs out of Season"--33 Poems, Undated

Star of the West

Box 12 Folder 5 By David Zorn, 1930s (incomplete), 1930s

Box 12 Folder 6 Unidentified--2-263, Undated (was with the pages of Star of the West), Undated

Box 12 Folder 7 Stone Walls Do Not , 1930

Box 12 Folder 8 "The Summoner," Undated (out of order), Undated

Box 12 Folder 9 Summer Thunder , 1960s

The Transfiguration

Box 12 Folder 10 Draft--414-829, 1930s (1 of 2 Folders), 1930s


Box 13 Folder 1 Draft--414-829, 1930s (1 of 2 Folders), 1930s

Box 13 Folder 2 to 3 Volume 1--1-213, 1930s, (2 Folders)

Box 13 Folder 4 Volume 2--214-428, 1930s (with Prologue), 1930s

Box 13 Folder 5 to 6 Volume 1--1-367, 1930s, (2 Folders)

Unidentified Manuscripts


Box 14 Folder 1 21-36, 39,45-65,68-75,96-107,473-726, Undated

Box 14 Folder 2 29-266, Undated

Box 14 Folder 3 Unidentified Story, Undated

Box 14 Folder 4 Untitled Series of Numbered Poems--Incomplete, Undated

Box 14 Folder 5 Untitled Typescript--Incomplete, Undated

Box 14 Folder 6 Western Star--111 pages, 1930s

Box 14 Folder 7 A Woman A Day: A Novel , Undated


Box 15 Folder 1 to 2 Young Berenice , Undated, (2 Folders)

1.1. Sub-subseries: Edited Calendars, Day-Books, and Other Collected Works,, 1932-1937

This small sub-sub-series gathers Roth's editorial efforts.

Box 15 Folder 3 A Calendar of Comfort for Catholics--Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1930s

Box 15 Folder 4 A Calendar of Courage for Music-Lovers--Romain Rolland, 1937

Box 15 Folder 5 A Calendar of Sorrow for Cynics--Anatole France, 1937

Box 15 Folder 6 Day-Book of Protest for Protestants--George Santayana, 1930s

Box 15 Folder 7 A Day-Book of Solace for Scientists--Alexis Carrel, Bound With The World of Balzac,, 1930s

Box 15 Folder 8 One Man's Adventure: Being the Life, Thoughts and Adventures of Arthur Symons, , 1936

Box 15 Folder 9 Plain English , 1932

Box 15 Folder 10 Richard Aldington's A Dream in the Luxembourg--102 Poems by Various Authors, Undated

Box 15 Folder 11 The Tender Passion: In Songs--101 Poems by Various Authors,, Undated

I.2. Subseries: Writings by Adelaide Roth, 1970s-1990s

Included here are chapters and drafts ofIn a Plain Brown Wrapper,Adelaide Roth's unpublished memoir, andWroth Wrackt Joyce,her essay on Samuel Roth and James Joyce, and other writings, working drafts, some with corrections. The folders listed as "Drafts" represent the versions of her memoir that were found in separate individual boxes. The "Chapters" folders were found in folders titled by Adelaide Roth and many of the documents of these folders bear Adelaide's annotations. Chapters found together were kept together. Efforts have been made to name folders according to chapter titles, unless Adelaide Roth had already given a given folder a title. In the latter case, the title was put in quotation marks.


Box 16 Folder 1 to 2 "Joyce"--"for Article on FW,", Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 16 Folder 3 to 4 Mixed Chapters of Plain Brown Wrapper and Wroth Wrackt Joyce, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 16 Folder 5 "MS: Joyce/Roth,", Undated

Plain Brown Wrapper

Chapters

Box 16 Folder 6 to 9 General, (4 Folders)

Box 16 Folder 10 1932, Undated (annotated), 1932, Undated


Box 17 Folder 1 "96 Willett Street," Undated (letter "to my cousins"), Undated

Box 17 Folder 2 "Building the Case & Conviction,", Undated

Box 17 Folder 3 "Columbia" to "Two Worlds Quarterly,", 1989

Box 17 Folder 4 "The End of the Line" to "Friday Nights at Home,", Undated

Box 17 Folder 5 "Enter the F.B.I." to "Number 5079,", Undated

Box 17 Folder 6 "Fifty Glenwood Avenue" to "The Ansonia,", 1987

Box 17 Folder 7 "Friendships,", Undated


Box 18 Folder 1 "The Literati" to "The Making of JML,", 1987

Box 18 Folder 2 "Love S," "Mr. Roth," and "1939,", 1988

Box 18 Folder 3 "The Mayflower" to "Number 5079,", 1988

Box 18 Folder 4 "Mostly Re: Trial," Undated (Annotated), Undated

Box 18 Folder 5 "Wrath Against Joyce" to "Sumner Sets a Trap,", Undated

Drafts

Box 18 Folder 6 Computer Printouts, Undated (1 of 9 Folders), Undated


Box 19 Folder 1 to 5 Computer Printouts, Undated (5 of 9 Folders), Undated


Box 20 Folder 1 to 3 Computer Printouts, Undated (3 of 9 Folders), Undated

Box 20 Folder 4 to 6 Typewritten, Undated (with notes)(3 of 5 Folders), Undated


Box 21 Folder 1 to 2 Typewritten, Undated (with notes)(2 of 5 Folders), Undated

Wroth Wrackt Joyce

Box 21 Folder 3 "1st Draft A.R. Kugel,", Undated

Box 21 Folder 4 "Article,", Undated

Box 21 Folder 5 to 6 Drafts, 1992, Undated, 1992, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 21 Folder 7 "Joyce, etc 1928,", Undated

Box 21 Folder 8 Offprints, 1992

Box 21 Folder 9 "Sam Roth's Odyssey with Ulysses,", Undated

Box 21 Folder 10 Various Versions, Undated (annotated), Undated


Box 22 I.2.1. Sub-subseries: Research Materials, 1950s-1990s

Gathered here is research material that Adelaide Roth amassed while working on her memoir, and on her work regarding Samuel Roth's publishing ofUlyssesand other Joyce texts inTwo Worlds Monthly.Included here are correspondence, clippings, photocopies of archival materials, articles, and notebooks. The titles of folders originally labeled by Adelaide Roth are in quotation marks.

Box 22 Folder 1 Alger Hiss, 1992

Box 22 Folder 2 "Archive I: Letters",Undated

Box 22 Folder 3 to 4 Archival Research, 1980s, (2 Folders)

Box 22 Folder 5 Autobiographical Statement by Samuel Roth, Undated

Box 22 Folder 6 "Backup for Joyce/Roth Agreement,", Undated

Box 22 Folder 7 Biographical Information on Roth, Undated

Box 22 Folder 8 Catalogue of Roth Imprints--by Jay Gertzman, 1980s

Box 22 Folder 9 Chronology and Inventory of Letters, Undated

Clippings

Box 22 Folder 10 General, 1980s

Box 22 Folder 11 "Newspaper Clippings and Xeroxes," 1910s-1990s (with list of contents), 1910s-1990s

Box 22 Folder 12 Obituaries, 1940s-1970s

Box 22 Folder 13 Publisher's Weekly , July 22, 1974

Box 22 Folder 14 "A Reporter at Large," The New Yorker, September 16, 1985

Box 22 Folder 15 Computer Instructions, Undated

Box 22 Folder 16 "Disks,", Undated

Box 22 Folder 17 Essay on Roth by Arthur Sainer, Undated

Box 22 Folder 18 "Frank Tannenbaum,", Undated

Box 22 Folder 19 "Gertzman (Catalogues, Articles),", 1980s

Box 22 Folder 20 "Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,", 1990

Box 22 Folder 21 Hotel Floor Plans, Undated

Box 22 Folder 22 "Inventory List of Roth Pubs,", Undated


Box 51 Folder 1 Index Cards [organized by Adelaide Kugel, which contain some notes about, and writings of, her father], 1914-1981


Box 23 Folder 1 "INFO," 1980s, Undated, 1980s, Undated

Box 23 Folder 2 "John Quinn,", Undated

Box 23 Folder 3 "John Soclum"--With Correspondence, Undated

Box 23 Folder 4 "Joyce,", Undated

Box 23 Folder 5 Kefauver Hearings, 1955

Box 23 Folder 6 "Letters from Lewisberg,", Undated

Box 23 Folder 7 "Letters from Prison,", Undated

Box 23 Folder 8 "Libraries,", 1990s

Box 23 Folder 9 "Library,", Undated

Box 23 Folder 10 "Library Catalogue,", Undated

Box 23 Folder 11 List of Roth Books, Undated

Box 23 Folder 12 Milton Hindus, 1961

Box 23 Folder 13 "Misc.--& Source Material,", Undated

Notes

Box 23 Folder 14 to 15 General, Undated, (2 Folders)


Box 24 Folder 1 to 3 Plain Brown Wrapper , Undated, (3 Folders)

Box 24 Folder 4 Wroth Wrackt Joyce, Undated

Notebooks

Box 24 Folder 5 to 9 General, 1980s, Undated (5 of 6 Folders), 1980s, Undated


Box 25 Folder 1 General, 1980s, Undated (1 of 6 Folders), 1980s, Undated

Box 25 Folder 2 "Copy Editions,", Undated

Box 25 Folder 3 French, Undated (mostly blank), Undated

Box 25 Folder 4 "Translation Art Memoirs SR Library,", 1969

Box 25 Folder 5 to 7 With Contents Lists, Undated, (3 Folders)

Box 25 Folder 8 With Floppy Disks, 1970s-1980s

Box 25 Folder 9 "Obscenity-Porn,", Undated

Box 25 Folder 10 "People,", Undated

Box 25 Folder 11 Plagiarism, Undated

Box 25 Folder 12 Quotes by Famous Authors, Undated


Box 26 Folder 1 "Talese,", 1979

Box 26 Folder 2 Ulysses, Undated

Box 26 Folder 3 "University of Texas,", 1990s

I.3. Subseries: Writings by Others, 1907-1986

The bulk of the material in this sub-series includes typescripts of novels or short stories that never made it to publication in any of Roth's many imprints. Some of documents are alternate versions of published works. Many of the longer works were originally bound by Roth in soft binders marked "Property of Samuel Roth." Among the works never published are pieces by Maxwell Bodenheim, Ludwig Marcuse, Claude McKay, Harry Roskolenko, Arthur Symons, Denys Val Baker, George Sylvester Viereck among others. The authors of some of the materials in this sub-series are unidentified or have used pseudonyms.

Box 26 Folder 4 to 5 Absolute, John-- The Life and Times of Diddywot, the Wicked Youth,, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 26 Folder 6 Anonymous, "Alas, Poor Bollington!,", Undated

Box 26 Folder 7 Antrim, Robert--"Sam Roth: Prometheus of the Unprintable,", 1973

Bodenheim, Maxwell

Box 26 Folder 8 The Borderlands of Passion: A Novel of Greenwich Village, , 1950s

Box 26 Folder 9 Clara: A Novel--Incomplete Copies, 1950s

Box 26 Folder 10 Boylesve, René-- Les Bains de Bade With Keene Wallis' Enlish Translation,, Undated


Box 52 Folder 1 Colum, Mary and Padraic-- Our Friend James Joyce, 1958 (Note by Roth), 1958


Box 27 Folder 1 Coppard, A.E.--"The Man From Kilsheelan,", Undated

Box 27 Folder 2 Crowley, Aleister-- White Stains, Undated (Annotations by Roth), Undated

Box 27 Folder 3 Davis, Eddie-- Over Sexty, 1950s

Box 27 Folder 4 de Caylus, Comte Philippe--"Rococo in the Raw: Old Paris from a Coachman's Seat,", Undated

Box 27 Folder 5 Deutsch, Ursula--Poems, 1953

Box 27 Folder 6 Donnelly, RB-- Just Like the Flowers, Dear!,, 1932

Box 27 Folder 7 Douglas, Lord Alfred--"A Sonnet," from The Cherwell,, 1932


Box 52 Folder 2 Droz, Gustave-- Papa, Mamma and Baby, 1930 (notations by Roth), 1930


Box 27 Folder 8 Dr Enlind, Arvid--Preface to Inside Hitler, 1941 (with letter and card), 1941


Box 52 Folder 3 Erskine, John-- The Shadowed Hour Published by The Lyric, 1917

Box 52 Folder 4 Fletcher, Frances-- A Boat of Glass--Signed "For David Zorn,", 1926


Box 27 Folder 9 Franklin, Benjamin--"On Body Odors,", Undated

Box 27 Folder 10 Gertzman, Jay--"Mail-Order Distribution of Erotica in the 1930s," Undated (with note to Adelaide Roth), Undated

Box 27 Folder 11 Gilman, Sander--"The Ashes of the Holocaust,", 1986

Golden, Lon [pseudonym]

Box 27 Folder 12 The Things They Love--From "Where They Dare Not Tread,", Undated

Box 27 Folder 13 The Things They Love , Undated

Box 27 Folder 14 Hamalian, Leo--"Nobody Knows My Names,", 1974

Box 27 Folder 15 Hamill, John--"Confession"--Copy Re: Hoover exposé, 1932


Box 52 Folder 5 Heine, Heinrich-- Poems & Ballads,, 1947


Box 28 Folder 1 Hemingway, Ernest-- Collected Poems, 1920s

Box 28 Folder 2 Hill, Oliver-- Pan's Garden, 1928 (with draft by Roth of "The Bachelor as a Child Lover"), 1928

Box 28 Folder 3 Hindus, Milton--Excerpt From The Crippled Giant,, 1990

Box 28 Folder 4 Hirsch, Tina-- The House Next Door--Screenplay Based on a Book by Elizabeth Fenwick, 1970s

Jogge, John

Box 28 Folder 5 to 8 Murder in the Nth Degree , Undated, (4 Folders)


Box 29 Folder 1 Journal of Modern Literature, April, 1974 (with annotations), April, 1974

Box 29 Folder 2 Kugel, Candice--Poem About Roth, Undated

Box 29 Folder 3 Lorrain, Jean--"Princesses of Ivory and of Ecstasy,", Undated

Box 29 Folder 4 Lorenz, Marie--"A Self-Made Woman,", Undated

Box 29 Folder 5 The Lyric --Various Poems, 1916

Box 29 Folder 6 Marcuse, Ludwig--"Nietzsche's Biographer," 1950s (with letters by Roth), 1950s

Box 29 Folder 7 to 8 McKay, Claude-- Amiable With Big Teeth,, 1941, (2 Folders)

Box 29 Folder 9 Menard, Wilmon--Introduction to Vahine!, 1968 (with clippings), 1968

Box 29 Folder 10 m'ira-- Friends & Strangers--Introduction by Norman Lockridge, 1968

Box 29 Folder 11 Morgan, Meilys--"Love in the Mountains,", Undated

Morton, Thomas J.

Box 29 Folder 12 "His Follow-Home Woman," Undated (with letter), Undated

Box 29 Folder 13 "Timothy Jerimiah O'Malley,", Undated

Box 29 Folder 14 Page, Francis-- Confucius Comes to Broadway, 1940 (with annotations by Roth), 1940

Box 29 Folder 15 "Poets Corner,", Undated

Box 29 Folder 16 Reboux, Paul-- The ABC of Love: A Dictionary--With Page by Keene Wallis, Undated

Box 29 Folder 17 Reznard, Jules-- Portrait of a Middle-Aged Poet,, 1927


Box 52 Folder 6 Robinson, Edwin Arlington-- Lancelot: A Poem--Published by The Lyric, 1920


Box 29 Folder 18 Roth, Joseph--"DIZ," "Hoochypap," and "Smith,", 1952-1960


Box 30 Folder 1 Roth, Richard--Writings, 1960s

Box 30 Folder 2 Ryan, Bill and Leslie Horwitz, "The Man Who Paved the Way"-- from HUSTLER, 1977

Roskolenko, Harry

Box 30 Folder 3 Four Titled Chapters of Unidentified Manuscript, Undated

Box 30 Folder 4 Untitled Novel , Undated


Box 49 Folder 5 Saintsbury, George-- Essays on French Novelists--With Letter, 1910 (autographed), 1910

Sawyer, Joseph H.


Box 30 Folder 5 "Still Water Runs Deep," Undated (annotations by Roth), Undated

Box 30 Folder 6 "White-Collar Crime,", Undated

Box 30 Folder 7 Score, John B-- Natural Immunity & Good Health--With Letter, 1965

Box 30 Folder 8 Shields, Jane and Val Baker--"MS and Returns,", Undated

Symons, Arthur

Box 30 Folder 9 The Life, Thoughts, & Adventures of Arthur Symons--With Preface by Samuel Roth, , 1936

Box 30 Folder 10 "Four Unpublished Plays by Arthur Symons,", 1907

Box 30 Folder 11 Tobie--French Play--With Incomplete Translation,, 1967

Box 30 Folder 12 Trumbo, Dalton--Two-Page Text Re: Peggy Roth, Undated

Box 30 Folder 13 Val Baker, Denys-- Three in One Bed, Undated

Viereck, George Sylvester

Box 30 Folder 14 "Doubtful Poems,", Undated

Box 30 Folder 15 "Eyeless Paradise," aka "Are Women Necessary?", Undated

Box 30 Folder 16 "Roses of Priapus,", Undated

Box 30 Folder 17 "Preliminary Suggestions" for Samuel Roth's Count Me Among the Missing, Undated

Box 30 Folder 18 Wallace, Dixie--"For the Love of Dad,", Undated

Wallis, Keene

Box 30 Folder 19 Dante's Paradise in Translation, Undated (incomplete), Undated


Box 31 Folder 1 Paradise by Dante Alighieri , Undated

Box 31 Folder 2 Poems, Undated

Box 31 Folder 3 Weldon, John Lee-- The Male Rosary (A Play in One Act),, Undated

Box 31 Folder 4 Willard, Otto-- Vahine! Vahine! A Sex Survey of Tahitian Trollops,, 1960s

Box 31 Folder 5 Woods, Andrew H--"Syphilis in Shakespeare…", 1934

Box 31 Folder 6 Wyckoff, James--"The Door Between,", Undated

Series II: Legal Documents, 1926-1969

The files in this series that Roth compiled himself were kept intact and their original titles preserved. A large amount of legal correspondence—spanning decades—is here, as well as official court documents.

II.1. Subseries: Notes and Prepared Legal Files, 1931-1959

This sub-series contains legal files and notes that Samuel Roth prepared and arranged himself. The original folder titles were kept; if the folder was untitled, then the name it now bears reflects the dates of the documents it contains. Most of the material consists of court-issued documents, photocopies, transcripts, and even correspondence. The bulk of the legal files are contained within this sub-series. The order in which the material was kept within Roth's original folders has been maintained.

"1949-1952"

Box 31 Folder 7 April Term, 1949

Box 31 Folder 8 Court Proceedings, Undated

Box 31 Folder 9 "Sexual Conduct of Men and Women,", 1949

"1954-1955"

Box 31 Folder 10 "Dear Sir," re: Avalon Press, Undated

Box 31 Folder 11 & L. Docket 17/287, Undated

Box 31 Folder 12 & L. Docket 19/93, Undated

Box 31 Folder 13 Good Times Mailability by Scheiman,, 1955

Box 31 Folder 14 H.E. Docket No.2/341, by Atlas, 1955

Box 31 Folder 15 Juvenile Delinquency Testimony, 1958

Box 31 Folder 16 "Atlas Dealings,", 1950s

Box 31 Folder 17 "Book injunction lifted," 1931 (Hoover book), 1931

Box 31 Folder 18 "The Case, Preparatory to 1955 Trial," 1955-1958 (with Parole application), 1955, 1955-1958

Box 31 Folder 19 to 20 "Cases (parts of) 1929-59,", 1920s-1950s, (2 Folders)


Box 32 Folder 1 "H.E. Docket No. 2/245,", 1953-1954

Box 32 Folder 2 "How would this serve as a windup to the brief?", Undated

Box 32 Folder 3 "Notes on the case," Undated (Includes "Table of Contents"), Undated

Box 32 Folder 4 "Post-Office,", 1938-1950

Box 32 Folder 5 "Roth v. Post-Office,", 1956

Box 32 Folder 6 "(Roth) GOOD TIMES v. POST OFFICE DEPT,", 1954

Box 32 Folder 7 "ROTH--GOOD TIMES v SHEEHAN,", 1954-1956

Box 32 Folder 8 "Samuel Roth etc v Riegelman-USDCSNY 85-340,", 1948-1957

Box 32 Folder 9 "Supreme Court,", 1958

Box 32 Folder 10 "The 26 Counts and the Issue They Raise,", 1956

Untitled by Roth

Box 32 Folder 11 Regarding Court of Appeals, 1960s

Box 32 Folder 12 Bridgehead Books, 1964-1965


Box 53 Folder 1 C148-9 Forms, Photocopies, Notes, 1957-1960


Box 32 Folder 13 Court forms, Correspondence, Photocopies, 1956


Box 53 Folder 2 Exhibits, Registers, Court Forms, 1956-1959


Box 32 Folder 14 General Release Form, 1951

Box 32 Folder 15 Mail Order Forms, 1950s

Box 32 Folder 16 Motion for a New Trial and Other Forms, 1957-1959


Box 33 Folder 1 Notes, 1954

Box 33 Folder 2 Roth v. Goldman, 1949

Box 33 Folder 3 Sworn Statement, 1959

II.2. Subseries: Legal correspondence, 1926-1969

Contained here is correspondence related to various court cases in which Samuel Roth was involved. As with the other series, folders previously compiled and labeled by Roth were kept intact, and whenever possible, the same folder title was used. Included here is in-coming and out-going correspondence of Samuel Roth, and his spouse, Pauline Roth, related to Roth's various court cases.

General

Box 33 Folder 4 1954-1961

Box 33 Folder 5 Post Office Visit, 1947

Box 33 Folder 6 Albrecht, 1958

Box 33 Folder 7 Alter, William and Maury Maverick, 1937

Box 33 Folder 8 Atlas, Nicholas, 1953

Box 33 Folder 9 Atlas to Kinsey, 1955

Box 33 Folder 10 Bosone, Beck, 1965

Box 33 Folder 11 De Witt & Van Aken, 1926, 1928, 1926, 1928

Box 33 Folder 12 Fleshin, J.B., 1964-1966

Box 33 Folder 13 Monte Levy, Herbert, 1956-1959

Box 33 Folder 14 Oberwager, 1934

Box 33 Folder 15 O'Brien, 1955

Box 33 Folder 16 Olitt, J. Jerome, 1966-1969

Box 33 Folder 17 Rabinowitz & Boudin, 1955

Box 33 Folder 18 Sayler, Probation Officer, 1960

Box 33 Folder 19 Scheiman, 1956-1957

Box 33 Folder 20 Strachan, 1968

Box 33 Folder 21 Terrizzi, 1956

Box 33 Folder 22 Wittenberg, 1956

II.3. Subseries: Court Documents, 1947-1961

Documents issued by courts and lawyers during Roth's many trials: briefs, pamphlets, minutes, statements, are found here. The Briefs, from the Post Office Department, the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States District Court Southern District of New York, cover many different specific sections of Roth's trials and related legal matters. Included here are both bound briefs printed by the court press (italicized titles) and typewritten drafts issued by the defendant's lawyers or those representing the court.

Briefs

Box 33 Folder 23 Deposition Regarding Whittaker Chambers, 1948

Box 33 Folder 24 Hearings on Scope of Soviet Activity in US, , 1956

Box 33 Folder 25 Post Office Department, 1954-1957

Box 33 Folder 26 Supreme Court New York County, 1947

Supreme Court of the United States

Box 33 Folder 27 No. 582, Petition for Writ of Certoriari, , Undated

Box 33 Folder 28 October Term, 1948

Box 33 Folder 29 October Term, 1956 (1 of 2 Folders), 1956


Box 34 Folder 1 October Term, 1956 (1 of 2 Folders), 1956

Box 34 Folder 2 October Term, 1957

Box 34 Folder 3 October Term, 1958

Box 34 Folder 4 October Term, 1960

Box 34 Folder 5 October Term, 1961

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Box 34 Folder 6 Appendix to Appellant's Brief , Undated

Box 34 Folder 7 Brief and Appendix for Appellant , 1956

Box 34 Folder 8 Brief for the USA , 1958

Box 34 Folder 9 Brief of Appellant , Undated

Box 34 Folder 10 No. 387, October Term, 1955

Box 34 Folder 11 Notice of Motion for Bail , 1958

Box 34 Folder 12 Reply Brief of Appellant , Undated

Box 34 Folder 13 Roth v. Goldman, No. 152, October Term, 1948

Box 34 Folder 14 RULES , 1954

Box 34 Folder 15 Transcript of Record , 1948

United States District Court Southern District of New York


Box 35 Folder 1 Affidavits I-VI, 1960

Box 35 Folder 2 Affidavit and Rebuttal, 1959-1961

Box 35 Folder 3 "Discarded" Motions and Drafts, 1959

Box 35 Folder 4 "Judge Cashin's Denial," Memorandum, 1959

Box 35 Folder 5 Notice of a Motion for a New Trial, 1959

Box 35 Folder 6 Notices of Settlement, 1956

Box 35 Folder 7 Stipulations of Discontinuance, 1956

Box 35 Folder 8 Summons, 1953

Box 35 Folder 9 Mandatory Release and Parole, 1960-1961


Box 54 Folder 1 Roth v. United States-- Stenographer's Minutes,, 1956


Box 35 Folder 10 Roth v. United States--Summary by Monte Levy, 1959

Series III: Correspondence, 1909-1993

The material in this series spans Samuel Roth's lifetime and includes both personal and professional correspondence. Adelaide Roth's correspondence, both personal and research-related, is also here.

III.1. Subseries: Samuel Roth, 1909-1971

This sub-series consists of Samuel Roth's correspondence, both personal and professional and includes "prison letters" that Roth wrote while serving time. The bulk of these letters were addressed to his wife, Pauline. Also here is a large amount of professional and business correspondence. The folder titles used by Roth's own filing system have been kept and are indicated by quotation marks. Roth's chronological arrangement of this material has been maintained.

Roth's early correspondence (1915-1925), while wide, is not deep. Here also is found general correspondence regarding Roth's short-lived journal,The Lyric,and thePoetry Bookshop, Two Worlds,and other publishing-related correspondence. When the material was originally kept in an originally-labeled folder, the same folder title was used for the finding aid.

General

Box 35 Folder 11 1917-1925, 1950-1973, Undated, 1917-1925, 1950-1973, Undated

Box 35 Folder 12 1931-1939

Box 35 Folder 13 1940s

Box 35 Folder 14 "1909-16,", 1916-1918

Box 35 Folder 15 "1917,", 1916-1919

Box 35 Folder 16 "1918-19,", 1918-1919

Box 35 Folder 17 "1920-21,", 1920-1925

Box 35 Folder 18 "1922-25,", 1922-1926

Box 35 Folder 19 Alma, C.B., 1921-1922

Box 35 Folder 20 Anonymous, 1954

Box 35 Folder 21 Beach, Sylvia, 1925

Box 35 Folder 22 Beau , 1926

Box 35 Folder 23 Bennett, James, Director of Prisons, 1956, 1958, 1956, 1958

Box 35 Folder 24 Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1917-1919

Box 35 Folder 25 Bryher, 1921

Box 35 Folder 26 Buck, Thomas F, 1954


Box 36 Folder 1 The Colonial Press, 1949-1966

Box 36 Folder 2 Congregation Shearith Israel, 1955-1956

Box 36 Folder 3 "Copyright Matters,", 1930-1968

Box 36 Folder 4 Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1963-1968

Box 36 Folder 5 "The Death of Dr. Bell,", 1931-1932

Box 36 Folder 6 Douglas, Lord Alfred, 1932-1933

Box 36 Folder 7 Eban, Abba, 1969

Box 36 Folder 8 Eliot, T.S., 1921, 1945, 1921, 1945

Box 36 Folder 9 Elliott, John Tiffany, 1953-1958

Box 36 Folder 10 Embry, Jacqueline, 1921

Box 36 Folder 11 Erskine, John, 1917-1920

Box 36 Folder 12 Fletcher, Frances, 1925, Undated, 1925, Undated

Box 36 Folder 13 Fletcher, John Gould, 1917

Box 36 Folder 14 Ford, Ford Madox, 1922

Box 36 Folder 15 A Golden Treasury of the World's Wit and Wisdom, 1936, 1966-1967, 1936, 1966-1967

Box 36 Folder 16 Hartman, Gustave, 1964-1967

Box 36 Folder 17 H.D. (Hilda Aldington), 1918-1919

Box 36 Folder 18 Housand, Charles E--Fellow Inmate, 1958

Box 36 Folder 19 Jennings, Leslie N., 1917-1918

Box 36 Folder 20 Kiki-- The Education of a French Model, 1950-1957, 1969-1970, 1950-1957, 1969-1970

Box 36 Folder 21 Kin, David George, 1949-1953

Box 36 Folder 22 Kugel, James L., 1970-1971

Box 36 Folder 23 Kugel, John Hans, 1967

Box 36 Folder 24 Lowell, Amy, 1917-1919

Box 36 Folder 25 The Man Who Killed Kitchener , 1932-1933

Box 36 Folder 26 McKay, Claude, 1941 (Includes Contract), 1941

Box 36 Folder 27 My Sister and I, 1952-1958, Undated, 1952-1958, Undated

Box 36 Folder 28 Oppenheim, James, 1916-1917

Box 36 Folder 29 Plotkin, David G., 1941-1942

Box 36 Folder 30 Post, Samuel H. Award Books, 1965-1966

Box 36 Folder 31 Pound, Ezra, 1921, 1925, 1921, 1925

Prison Letters

Box 36 Folder 32 Roth, Adelaide Kugel, 1956-1960

Box 36 Folder 33 Roth Family, 1928-1930


Box 37 Folder 1 Roth, Joseph, 1958-1959

Box 37 Folder 2 Roth, Pauline, 1936-1939

Box 37 Folder 3 to 6 Roth, Pauline Roth, 1956-1960, (4 Folders)

Box 37 Folder 7 Roth, Peggy, 1958, 1960, 1958, 1960

Box 37 Folder 8 Reiser, Oliver P., 1945-1946

Box 37 Folder 9 Roth, Adelaide, 1960s, Undated, 1960s, Undated

Box 37 Folder 10 Roth, Joseph, 1909-1919

Box 37 Folder 11 Roth, Pauline, 1960

Box 37 Folder 12 Roth, Robert, 1942, Undated, 1942, Undated

Box 37 Folder 13 Ryan, William, 1973-1975

Box 37 Folder 14 Samuel, Maurice, 1915-1919


Box 38 Folder 1 to 2 Seven Sirens Press and Other Imprints , 1950s-1970s, (2 Folders)

Box 38 Folder 3 Sinclair, Upton, 1942

Box 38 Folder 4 Symons, Arthur, 1921-1926

Box 38 Folder 5 Tannenbaum, Frank, 1916-1917, 1945, 1916-1917, 1945

Box 38 Folder 6 Teasdale Filsinger, Sara, 1917-1919

Box 38 Folder 9 Untermeyer, Louis, 1917, 1921, 1917, 1921

Box 38 Folder 10 Vogel, Jesse--Regarding The Education of a French Model,, 1968

Box 38 Folder 11 Waggish Tales, 1933, 1943, Undated, 1933, 1943, Undated

Box 38 Folder 12 Weaver, Harriet Shaw, 1922

Box 38 Folder 13 Whol, M., 1963 (found in copy of Jews Must Live, 1963

Box 38 Folder 14 Wood, Clement, 1921-1922

Box 38 Folder 15 Woodberry, George Edward, 1917-1918

Box 38 Folder 16 Zangwill, Israel, 1920-1925

III.2. Subseries: Adelaide Kugel Roth, 1974-1993

Included here are Adelaide Roth's many communications with various archives and libraries regarding Samuel Roth. The letters often include photocopies, clippings, and notes. Most of the material here was arranged by Adelaide Roth herself and every effort was made to maintain her arrangement.

Box 38 Folder 17 General, 1974-1984

Box 38 Folder 18 "FBI - FOIA,", 1981

Box 38 Folder 19 Gertzman, Jay, 1985-1993

Box 38 Folder 20 Legman, Gershon, 1980-1993

Box 38 Folder 21 Pauline Roth's Death, 1977

Box 38 Folder 22 "Personal Letters", 1976-1993 (1 of 2 Folders), 1976-1993


Box 39 Folder 1 "Personal Letters", 1976-1993 (1 of 2 Folders), 1976-1993

Box 39 Folder 2 "Plain Brown Correspondence,", 1973-1993

Box 39 Folder 3 Publishers and Agents, 1982-1992

Box 39 Folder 4 Samuel Roth's Death, 1974

Series IV: Publishing, 1919-1974

This series contains a plethora of ads, mail order forms, promotional prototypes, and other ephemera including realia such as printing blocks and original artwork. Official documentation related to Roth's publishing business such as book contracts, receipts, and permissions to do business, along with sample stories from Roth's American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free can also be found here.

IV.1. Subseries: Promotional Materials, 1919-1960s

Arranged alphabetically by book or magazine title when promoting a specific publication, or by slogan when promoting the press's products at large, this sub-series consists of materials used for promoting and advertising the books published by Roth's various imprints. The bulk of the materials are advertisement proofs, created during the years following World War II, but also included here are mail-order forms, negatives, photographs, and even printing blocks. There are a few clippings of book reviews, or receipts for ad payments, or ad drafts. Some of these proofs are oversized. As with previous series, folders created and arranged by Roth were kept intact and their original titles are in quotation marks. A few of the latter folders include correspondence and discarded advertising prototypes.

General


Box 48 Folder 2 Designs and Lettering, 1950s


Box 39 Folder 5 Erotic Titles, Undated

Box 39 Folder 6 Negatives, Undated

Box 39 Folder 7 Order Forms and Promos, 1940s-1960s, Undated, 1940s-1960s, Undated


Box 48 Folder 3 Various Titles--Promotions, Undated


Box 39 Folder 8 "Ads,", 1950s-1960s

American Aphrodite

Box 39 Folder 9 General, 1950s-1960s

Box 39 Folder 10 "Aphrodite Material,", Undated

Box 39 Folder 11 Art, Undated

Box 39 Folder 12 Cover Negative and Photo, Undated

Box 39 Folder 13 Nudes, 1950s


Box 48 Folder 4 Oversize, 1950s


Box 39 Folder 14 Bumarap , Undated


Box 48 Folder 5 Bumarap , 1940s-1950s


Box 39 Folder 15 The Crippled Giant , 1950


Box 53 Folder 3 The Crippled Giant , 1950


Box 39 Folder 16 Diaitis: Cancer Prevention and Cure , 1960s


Box 53 Folder 17 Drink and Stay Sober and Skin-Edge Razors, 1950s


Box 48 Folder 6 Drink and Stay Sober , Undated


Box 39 Folder 18 The Education of a French Model , 1950s


Box 53 Folder 4 The Education of a French Model , Undated


Box 39 Folder 19 Everybody's Pleasure, Undated


Box 48 Folder 7 Everybody's Pleasure, 1960s


Box 53 Folder 5 Fantazius Mallare , Undated


Box 39 Folder 20 Forlorn Sunset , Undated


Box 48 Folder 8 Golden Treasury of the World's Wit and Wisdom, , Undated


Box 40 Folder 1 Good Times , 1950s-1960s

Box 40 Folder 2 I Was Hitler's Doctor , 1940s-1950s


Box 53 Folder 6 I Was Hitler's Doctor , 1940s


Box 48 Folder 9 I was Hitler's Doctor , 1940s-1950s


Box 53 Folder 7 Julius Caesar , Undated


Box 40 Folder 3 Jews Must Live for Christmas Gifts, 1964 (found in re-edition of Jews Must Live), 1964

Box 40 Folder 4 Living Dolls , Undated


Box 48 Folder 10 Living Dolls , 1950s


Box 40 Folder 5 My Friend Yeshea , 1960s


Box 48 Folder 11 My Friend Yeshea , Undated


Box 40 Folder 6 My Life with Jesus --Promotional Drafts,, Undated

Box 40 Folder 7 My Sister and I , 1950s


Box 53 Folder 8 My Sister and I , 1950s


Box 48 Folder 12 My Sister and I , 1950s


Box 53 Folder 9 The Natural History of David Zorn , Undated


Box 48 Folder 13 The Nude in the French Theatre , Undated


Box 53 Folder 10 Papier-mâché plate of "Unusual Classics,", 1953

Box 53 Folder 11 Parisian Nights , Undated


Box 40 Folder 8 Parisian Nights , Undated

Box 40 Folder 9 The Peephole of the Present , 1940s


Box 48 Folder 13 The Peep-Hole of the Present , 1940s


Box 40 Folder 10 Picasso for Children , 1962


Box 48 Folder 14 Picasso for Children , 1960s


Box 40 Folder 11 Poetry Book Shop and The Lyric, 1919-1920


Box 53 Folder 12 Sex Can Be Fun As Well as Useful & Educational, , 1960s


Box 40 Folder 12 The Sexual Conduct of Men & Women , 1950s

Box 40 Folder 13 Shopping for Life & Pleasure, 1961, Undated, 1961, Undated


Box 48 Folder 15 Shopping for Life & Pleasure, Undated


Box 40 Folder 14 Skin-Edge Micro-Blades, Undated

Box 40 Folder 15 Tina and Jimmy Learn How They Were Born, 1948-1949, Undated, 1948-1949, Undated


Box 48 Folder 16 Tina & Jimmy Learn How They Were Born , 1960s


Box 40 Folder 16 Unusual Books, 1950s, Undated, 1950s, Undated


Box 51 Folder 2 Unusual Books --Printing Block, Undated


Box 40 Folder 17 Violations of the Child Marilyn Monroe , 1960s


Box 48 Folder 17 Yankee Trader , Undated


Box 53 Folder 13 You Scratch My Back , Undated


Box 41

IV.2. Subseries: Business Files and Materials, 1930-1974

This subseries contains mostly book contracts, with some receipts, business certificates, financial documents, copyright registrations, and newspaper clippings regarding books published by various Roth imprints. In rare cases, some correspondence accompanies the book contract. In addition, photographs, printing blocks, and documents related to Roth's publishing endeavors can be found here. The material is arranged alphabetically.

Box 41 Folder 1 to 4 Address Books, 1930s-1950s, (4 Folders)

Box 41 Folder 5 "After Two Years of Retirement,", Undated

Box 41 Folder 6 "Bibliography of E. Phillips Oppenheim,", 1966


Box 48 Folder 18 Book Jacket Design-- This Northern Country , 1940s


Box 41 Folder 7 "Book Leads Inc"--Ledger, 1948-1949

Box 41 Folder 8 Business Certificates, 1941-1966

Box 41 Folder 9 "Business for Sale,", 1958


Box 42 Folder 1 Certificates of Dissolution, 1947-1950

Clippings

Box 42 Folder 2 Editions of Thunder: The White Man's Viewpoint, 1964-1966 (Includes Ads for Jews Must Live)

Box 42 Folder 3 Fritz Duquesne, 1930s

Box 42 Folder 4 Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Box 42 Folder 5 My Uncle Benjamin , 1941

Box 42 Folder 6 Reviews of Bumarap and Halfway, 1947

Box 42 Folder 7 Reviews of Europe, 1920

Box 42 Folder 8 Reviews of Herbert Hoover Book, 1933

Box 42 Folder 9 Reviews of Songs Out of Season and Jews Must Live, , 1931-1934

Box 42 Folder 10 Reviews of Various Titles, 1952, 1970, 1972, 1952, 1970, 1972

Box 42 Folder 11 "What Jesus Really Looked Like," by Samuel Roth, 1955

Box 42 Folder 12 "The Colonial Press Diary,", 1957

Box 42 Folder 13 to 15 Contracts, 1930s-1950s, (3 Folders)

Copyright

Count Me Among the Missing , 1974

Inside Hitler--Letter of Authentication , 1966

My Friend Yeshea , 1962, 1967

My Sister and I , 1952

Box 42 Folder 21 Cover Design-- The Natural History of David Zorn,, Undated

Box 42 Folder 22 Dust Jacket-- A Journey With Love, Undated

Financial


Box 43 Folder 1 Advertising Payments, 1968

Box 43 Folder 3 Budget Notes, 1948, 1950s

Box 43 Folder 4 Ledger of Expenses, 1933

Receipts

Box 43 Folder 5 1946-1966

Box 43 Folder 6 Purchase Of Samuel Roth's Publishing Business, 1970

Box 43 Folder 7 Rental Agreement, 1957

Box 43 Folder 8 Royalty Statements, 1960, 1965, 1960, 1965

Seven Sirens Press

Box 43 Folder 9 to 11 Bank Statements, 1961-1970, (3 Folders)

Box 43 Folder 12 to 13 Bills, 1950s-1970s, (2 Folders)


Box 51 Folder 3 to 4 Checks, 1956-1970, (2 Folders)


Box 43 Folder 14 Ledger of Expenses, 1950s-1960s (Includes Clippings of Marilyn Monroe), 1950s-1960s

Box 43 Folder 15 Mutual Payroll Book, 1960s


Box 44 Folder 1 Taxes, 1960s

Box 44 Folder 3 Letterhead--Assorted, Undated

Box 44 Folder 4 List of Authors and Editors, Undated

Box 44 Folder 5 Loft Leases, 1942, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1942, 1961, 1965, 1967

Box 44 Folder 6 "Lord Alfred Douglas Materials," 1930s (Portraits and Correspondence), 1930s

Box 44 Folder 7 MS RECORDS Notebook, 1968 (with correspondence), 1968

Box 44 Folder 8 "Partial List of Good Times Writers and Artists,, Undated

Box 44 Folder 9 Permission to do Business as Philosophical Book Club,, 1945

Photographs and Negatives

Box 44 Folder 10 Baker, Denys Val, Undated

Box 44 Folder 11 Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1948

Box 44 Folder 12 Heatter, Basil, Undated

Box 44 Folder 13 John, Angelo P., Undated

Box 44 Folder 14 Monroe, Marilyn, 1950s-1960s

Box 44 Folder 15 Nietzsche, Elizabeth, Undated

Box 44 Folder 16 Reiser, Oliver, 1940s

Box 44 Folder 17 Roth, Samuel, 1940s (for Vanity Fair), 1940s

Box 44 Folder 18 Wagner, Cossima, Undated


Box 51 Folder 5 Printing Blocks, Undated

Box 51 Folder 6 Printing Blocks and Metal Plate of The World Sensorium,, Undated


Box 44 Folder 19 Record of Ads Placed, 1960s


Box 45

IV.3. Subseries: American Aphrodite, 1950s

This subseries contains stories and essays clipped from issues ofAmerican Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy Free.The material has been arranged alphabetically by title, with the name of the author, when known, indicated.

Box 45 Folder 1 "The Amores of P. Ovidius Naso,", 1950s

Box 45 Folder 2 "The Duet," by H.E. Bates, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 3 "The Dutch Lover,", 1952

Box 45 Folder 4 "Forbidden Books,", 1950s

Box 45 Folder 5 "The Greater Omnibus of Private Books," by H.A. Manhood, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 6 "The Half 'n Half Woman,", 1950s

Box 45 Folder 7 The Horn Book by Gershon Legman, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 8 "The Kiss to the Leper," by François Mauriac, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 9 "Laughter in Hell" and Other Poems by George Sylvester Viereck, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 10 Lexicon of Love: A Guide to the Affections and Disaffections of Mankind, by Samuel Roth, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 11 "The Life and Death of St. Herbault" by Patrick Kirwan, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 12 "Maiden's Fury: A Short Novel on the Attempted Seduction of an Ugly Woman," by H.A. Manhood,, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 13 "Midnight… Place Pigalle" by Maurice Dekobra, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 14 "Mrs. Edmond's Life," by H.E. Bates, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 15 "The Odalisque," with "Was Shakespeare a Man or a Woman?" by Viereck,, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 16 "One of Norah's Early Days," by Rhys Davies, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 17 "A Passion Before Death," by James Hanley, and "The Penultimate Adventure" by Norman Davey,, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 18 "Restless Night…" and "The Anatomy of Female Itch,", 1951

Box 45 Folder 19 "Sexual Secrets of the Orient," 1950s.

Box 45 Folder 20 "The Strange Confession of Monsieur Mountcairn: A Practising Homosexual,", 1950s

Box 45 Folder 21 "Sun," Unexpurgated, by D.H. Lawrence, 1950s

Box 45 Folder 22 "The Twilight of the Nymphs" by Pierre Louÿs, 1951

Box 45 Folder 24 "The Wife of King Candaules," by Theophile Gautier, 1950s

Series V: Personal, 1915-1994

This small series comprises documents such as family photographs, financial materials including bank statements and tax-related documents, wills and testaments, funeral matters, and a framed print of Samuel Roth's village of birth in rural Poland.

General


Box 46 Folder 1 Adelaide Kugel Roth, 1943 1960s-1990s, Undated, 1943, 1960s-1990s, Undated

Box 46 Folder 2 Samuel Roth, 1970s, Undated, 1970s, Undated

Box 46 Folder 3 Calendar, 1963

Box 46 Folder 4 Children's Drawings, Undated

Box 46 Folder 5 Claim for Disability Benefits, 1960

Box 46 Folder 6 Clippings, 1950s-1970s

Box 46 Folder 7 Death Certificates, 1974-1977

Financial

Box 46 Folder 8 Banking, 1960s-1970, 1987, 1960s-1970, 1987

Box 46 Folder 9 Car Insurance, 1970

Box 46 Folder 10 Taxes, 1951-1970 (2 of 3 Folders), 1951-1970


Box 47 Folder 1 Taxes, 1951-1970 (1 of 3 Folders), 1951-1970

Box 47 Folder 2 to 3 Freedom of Information Act, FBI Files, Undated, (2 Folders)

Box 47 Folder 4 Health-Related, 1960s, Undated, 1960s, Undated


Item 1 "A Map of the Village of Nuszcze in the Province of Tarnopol Poland," 1952 (Framed Art), 1952


Box 47 Folder 5 Marriage Certificate--Samuel and Pauline Roth, 1985

Photographs

Box 47 Folder 6 "Pearl Gray,", 1922

Box 47 Folder 7 Picture-Postcards--Samuel Roth and Frank Tannenbaum, 1915

Box 47 Folder 8 Police Raid, 1955

Box 47 Folder 9 Roth Family, 1930s, Undated, 1930s, Undated

Box 47 Folder 10 Samuel Roth, 1955 (with note), 1955

Box 47 Folder 11 Samuel Roth and Poetry Book Shop, 1920s, 1940s, 1920s, 1940s

Box 47 Folder 12 Rent-related, 1950s-1960s

Scrapbooks


Box 53 Folder 14 Clippings--Mostly Nietzsche and Mitchell, 1940s-1950s

Box 53 Folder 15 to 16 Clippings--Reviews, Letters, 1930s-1950s, (2 Folders)

Wills


Box 47 Folder 13 Joseph Roth, 1933 (with note), 1933

Box 47 Folder 14 Pauline Roth, 1969-1970s

Box 47 Folder 15 Samuel and Pauline Roth, 1949-1969

Box 47 Folder 16 Samuel Roth, 1974

(with Death Certificate and Obituary)