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Harry Scherman papers, 1937-1969 49 boxes
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- Co-founder and chairman of the board of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
with publishers, agents, authors, Book of the Month Club judges, and organizations with which he was
Book-of-the-Month Club - Creator
- Scherman, Harry, 1887-1969
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Large groups of correspondence with members of the editorial board including Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Marquand, Christopher Morley, and William Allen White, which contain insights into the Club's activities, organization, and literary policies. Also, material relating to Scherman's careers as writer, economist, and philanthropist. Mr. Scherman's economic activities are represented by files of correspondence and papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Union, and the Committee on Economic Development. Among the personal items in the collection are manuscripts of his publications, reviews of his writings, numerous awards he has received, photographs, and documents relating to his long and rich career. There are two particularly warm letters from Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein. Also, additional personal and professional correspondence files of Scherman with publishers, agents, authors, Book of the Month Club judges, and organizations with which he was affiliated.
Ralph Thompson papers, 1944-1956 4 boxes
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- Author, teacher, editor. Thompson was an editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club from 1951 until 1975
Book-of-the-Month Club
Christopher Morley and their reports dealing with the selection of books to be offered by the Book-of-the - Creator
- Thompson, Ralph, 1904-1979
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Thompson's correspondence with John Mason Brown, Henry S. Canby, Basil Davenport, Clifton Fadiman, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Gilbert Highet, Paul Horgan, John K. Hutchens, Amy Loveman, John Marquand, and Christopher Morley and their reports dealing with the selection of books to be offered by the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Gilbert Highet papers, 1929-1978 21.27 linear feet
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- the Book-of-the-Month Club, as a Judge; with Encyclopedia Britannica Sound Seminars; correspondence
Book-of-the-Month Club
numerous poems and essays to other periodicals and newspapers. He was also a judge for the Book‐of‐The - Creator
- Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978
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Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs, and printed materials relating to his research, writing, and teaching. The correspondence relates chiefly to research for his books, articles, essays, and lectures as well as reactions, scholarly and popular, to his works. There are single letters for authors including Maxwell Anderson, Lawrence Durrell, Randall Jarrell, and Upton Sinclair; several letters each from John Masefield, James Thurber, and E.B. White; 21 letters from Clifton Fadiman; correspondence with Columbia University faculty and students; with classical scholars in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe; with publishers including Alfred A. Knopf and Oxford University Press; with his literary agent Curtis Brown, Ltd.; with HORIZON MAGAZINE, as chairman of its Advisory Editorial Board; with the Book-of-the-Month Club, as a Judge; with Encyclopedia Britannica Sound Seminars; correspondence concerning his very popular syndicated radio talks; and letters from his readers, ranging from members of women's literary clubs to headmasters of British secondary schools.
Amy Loveman letters, 1935-1943 1 box
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- the Reading Department and member of the Board of Judges) of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Book-of-the-Month Club - Creator
- Loveman, Amy
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Letters written to Loveman from Leonard Bacon, Charlotte Bassett, Herschel Brickell, Hermann Broch, Witter Bynner, Carl Carmer, George Catlin, Mary Ellen Chase, George Dangerfield, Marcia Davenport, Babette Deutch, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, George S. Hellman, Gilbert Highet, and M.A. De Wolfe Howe.
Bernardine Kielty papers, 1923-1965 3.36 linear feet
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- magazine STORY, columnist for the LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, and BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB NEWS, and book reviewer
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- Kielty, Bernardine
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Correspondence, manuscripts, and books of Kielty. Of special interest are the long and rich files of letters from Dorothy Canfield Fisher and W. Somerset Maugham, as well as letters from other contemporary authors, among them, Bernard Berenson, Isak Dinesen, Rumer Godden, Franz Werfel, and Kathleen Winsor.
Ira and Edita Morris papers, 1892-1988 30.1 linear feet
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- Washington, D. C. During his career, Edwin worked for the publisher Little, Brown, the Book of the Month Club
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- Morris, Edita, 1902-1988
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Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, documents, printed materials, books, and other papers of Ira V. and Edita Morris from 1892 to 1988. The couple's literary careers are documented by typescripts, notes, book reviews, and published versions of their work. Some of these materials are written in French, German, Swedish, Japanese, and other foreign languages. Included are subject files, financial records, and materials related to the Hiroshima House for atomic bombing victims and the couple's political activities. In addition, there is correspondence, documents, and photographs related to Edwin Seaver and his family.
Oral History Research Office microfiche, circa 1945-1989, 1973-1988 4 Linear Feet
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- project (22), Book-of-the-Month Club project (16), Popular arts project (16), Occupation of Japan project
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- Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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The Oral History Research Office microfiche contains 1165 interviews and the Annual Reports of the OHRO from 1948-1975. The microfiche was published in six segments, the first being published in 1973 and the last in 1988. Microfiche was initially manufactured and sold by the Microfilming Corporation of America (MCA) and then by Meckler Publishing.