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Series I: Correspondence, 1917-1981
Series II: People, 1920-1966
Series III: Writings, 1917-1932

Maxwell Bodenheim papers, 1917-1981, bulk 1917-1938

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Series I: Correspondence, 1917-1981

This series contains correspondence that was exchanged between Bodenheim and his wife Minna, letters sent to Bodenheim from friends, colleagues, and publishers, and letters sent to Minna Bodenheim from individuals other than Maxwell Bodenheim The material is arranged chronologically by year. The series also includes correspondence about Bodenheim's divorce and the suit brought against him for Replenishing Jessica, along with royalty statements and contracts from publishers.


Box 1 Folder 1 To Maxwell Bodenheim--General, 1919-1935

To Minna Bodenheim

Box 1 Folder 2 General, 1930-1954

Box 1 Folder 3 to 12 From Maxwell Bodenheim, 1917-1939, (19 Folders)


Box 2 Folder 1 to 9 From Maxwell Bodenheim, 1917-1939, (19 Folders)

Box 2 Folder 10 Legal Proceedings, 1935-1981

Box 2 Folder 11 Contracts and Royalty Statements, 1929-1934

Series II: People, 1920-1966

This series consists of two folders containing materials on Bodenheim's son Solbert and on Louis Grudin, respectively. Some materials relating to Solbert's childhood are included. Included in the Grudin folder are several letters from Bodenheim as well as an outline for the Seven Sneers Manifesto which Bodenheim proposed to Grudin, drafts of several poems sent by Bodenheim, and Grudin's eulogy for Bodenheim, which was never read.

Box 2 Folder 12 Bodenheim, Solbert, 1920-1932

Box 2 Folder 13 Grudin, Louis, 1924-1966

Series III: Writings, 1917-1932

This series is arranged into seven subdivisions by type of material--essays, novels, plays, poems, reports, shorts stories, and talks. These subdivisions are arranged alphabetically, and except for the poetry file which is arranged chronologically, the folders and materials within them are arranged alphabetically by title. The essays file contains critical essays, published and unpublished, written between the mid 1920s and 1930s. The novels file contains typescripts and manuscripts of published and unpublished novels from 1924 to 1932, including Georgie May, Crazy Man, Six A.M., and Sixty Seconds. The plays file includes manuscripts and typescripts of various plays by Bodenheim, all of which are unpublished. The poems file contains manuscripts and typescripts of poem drafts and translations written between 1917 and the 1930s. Included are poems for Minna and Myself and poems from the unpublished collection Tenderly. The reports subseries contains drafts of undated reports by Bodenheim on Fyodor Dostoevsky and Karl Wasserman. The short stories file is made up of manuscripts and typescripts of 3 undated short stories--"Alarm Clock", "Paris Negro", and "The Silver Locket." The talks file contains Bodenheim's text for several undated talks and discussions.

Box 2 Folder 14 General

Essays:

Box 2 Folder 15 "The American Menagerie" and "Crime and the Underworld", 1929

Box 2 Folder 16 "Georgie May Answers the 'Virtuous' Critics", circa, 1928


Box 3 Folder 1 to 7 Laughing at Bombast circa, 1930s, (7 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 8 "The Relation of Economics to Poetry", "Should Sex Dominate American Literature?", and "What's Wrong with American Literature", circa, 1930s


Box 2 Folder 17 Untitled Manuscript, "Bohemia is a word often used... ", ca 1923-4, (5 pages)

Accession 2016.2017.M133

Novels:

Crazy Man


Box 3 Folder 9 Manuscript, circa, 1924

Box 3 Folder 10 to 11 Typescript, circa, 1924, (2 Folders)

Box 3 Folder 12 Georgie May manuscript, circa, 1928

Box 3 Folder 13 "Incredible Manuscript", undated

Box 3 Folder 14 Six A.M. typescript, circa, 1932

Box 3 Folder 15 Sixty Seconds manuscript, circa, 1929


Box 4 Folder 1 to 2 Strange Girl typescript, circa, 1930, (2 Folders)

Box 4 Folder 3 General manuscript, undated

Dream, Boy!

Box 4 Folder 4 Manuscript, undated

Box 4 Folder 5 Typescript, undated

Box 4 Folder 6 Georgie May typescript, circa, 1928

Box 4 Folder 7 The Kitchen Absurd typescript, undated

Box 4 Folder 8 Love in Greenwich Village manuscript, undated

Box 4 Folder 9 The Merry Priest typescript, undated

Box 4 Folder 10 One Street manuscript, undated

Box 4 Folder 11 What's it all About? manuscript, undated

Box 4 Folder 12 Typescript and manuscript, 1917

Box 4 Folder 13 Typescript, Li Po Translations, circa, 1917

Box 4 Folder 14 From Minna and Myself typescript and manuscript, circa, 1918

Box 4 Folder 15 typescript and manuscript, "Minna Poems", 1918-1919

Box 4 Folder 16 Typescript and manuscript, 1921-1928

Box 4 Folder 17 From Tenderly typescript and manuscript,, 1928-1929

Box 4 Folder 18 "Gray Rivers" published, circa, 1930s

Box 4 Folder 19 Reports--"Karl Wasserman" manuscript and typescript and "Fyodor Dostoevsky" manuscript,, undated

Poems:


Box 5 Folder 1 "Sincerely Yours, Culture" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 2 "Poem to a Rose" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 3 "Sonnet" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 4 "Captain Simmons" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 5 "Death" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 6 "Blind" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 7 "To a Woman" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 8 "Insanity" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 9 "North Clark Street, Chicago" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 10 "Mr. Dogma Takes a Stroll" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 11 "South State Street: Chicago" typescript, undated

Box 5 Folder 12 "Rattle-Snake Mountain Fable I" typescript, undated


Box 2 Folder 17 "To Ben Reitman", ca 1923-4, (2 pages)

Accession 2016.2017.M133

Short Stories


Box 4 Folder 20 "Alarm Clock" typescript, undated

Box 4 Folder 21 "Paris Negro" manuscript, undated

Box 4 Folder 22 "The Silver Locket" typescript, undated

Talks

Box 4 Folder 23 Untitled manuscript and "Poetry and Greenwich Village" manuscript, undated

Box 4 Folder 24 "Poetry and Sex" manuscript, "What's Wrong with American Novels" typescript, and untitled manuscript pages,, undated