Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Nathan Halper papers
Halper, Nathan
4078342
MS#0539
English
/repositories/2/resources/5033
13.26 linear feet
28 boxes, 1 flat box
1923-1986
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in twelve series.
Restrictions on Access
This collection has no restrictions.
Restrictions on Access
The following boxes are located off-site: 2-28. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nathan Halper papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Halper, Marjorie Windust. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1984.
Related Archival Materials
Materials relating to Halper's art gallery were given to: The Archives of American Art in: Address--National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. 20560.
Biographical sketch
Nathan Halper, 1907-1983 (Columbia A.B. 1927; Ph.D. 1973), author, translator, and art dealer, was an authority on the writings of James Joyce. He also translated and published much Yiddish literature, reviewed books and operated an art gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts where he lived for half the year.
Processing Information
Papers Processed HR 02/--/86.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, word lists, documents, photographs, clippings, periodicals, and other printed materials concerning his writings, translations, and criticism. Most of the manuscript drafts and notes are for his critical and analytical studies of Finnegans Wake and of other works by James Joyce.
Scope and Content
There are also draft translations from the Yiddish of various authors, early autobiographical articles and chapters for an autobiographical novel, general literary criticism, articles on chess, as well as notes and drafts for his research in 1938 into the history of the Indians of New England and of the Mashpee Indian Reservation on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Scope and Content
There are many periodicals and other printed materials about Provincetown where he maintained his art gallery. Some years before his death, he began a study of Jewish-American family names; there are many notes, drafts, and clippings for his projected book on the subject which was not completed. Among the correspondents are John Cage, Richard Ellmann, Norman Mailer, Robert Motherwell, Lionel Trilling, and Edmund Wilson.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Yiddish literature -- Translations into English
Indians of North America -- History
Mashpee Indians
Names, Personal -- Jewish
Chess
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Provincetown (Mass.)
Cage, John
Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Mailer, Norman
Motherwell, Robert
Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
Series I: Cataloged Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/111430Budgen, Frank Levin, Harry/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114421Cage, John Luening, Otto/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114431Campbell, Joseph Mailer/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114441Chomsky, Noam/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114451Dos Passos, Elizabeth (Mrs John)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114461Duchamp, Alexina (Mme Marcel)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114471Ellmann, Richard/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114481Howe, Irving/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114491Levin, Harry/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114501Luening, Otto/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114511Mailer, Norman/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114521Motherwell, Robert/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114531Schapiro, Meyer/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114541Seldes, Gilbert/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114551Smith, Paul/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114561Trilling, Lionel/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114571Wilson, Edmund/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114581Series II: Cataloged Photograph/repositories/2/archival_objects/111431Photograph of Nathan Halper/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114591Series III: Miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/111432Miscellaneous and printed miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114601Miscellaneous and printed miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115121Series IV: Chess/repositories/2/archival_objects/111433Articles and notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114611Articles on Russian chess/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114621Printed--miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114631Printed--periodicals/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114641Score sheets/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114651Trophy--Marshall Chess Club/repositories/2/archival_objects/11146619702Series V: Columbia University and Other Schools/repositories/2/archival_objects/111434Course papers & notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114673N.Y. Regents Diploma/repositories/2/archival_objects/11146819233Printed--miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114693Printed--periodicals/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114703Transcripts/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114713Series VI: Criticism/repositories/2/archival_objects/111435Book reviews--manuscripts and printed/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114723Canaday, John/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114733Maugham, William Somerset/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114743Proust, Marcel/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114753Shakespeare, William: Titus Andronicus/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114763Miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114773Series VII: Fiction/repositories/2/archival_objects/111436Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114784Autobiographical articles--manuscripts/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114794Autobiographical articles--printed/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114804Autobiographical novel--Drafts/repositories/2/archival_objects/11148116 folders4Autobiographical novel--16 folders of drafts (cont.)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114825Miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114835Poetry/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114845Short stories/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114855Series VIII: Fiction--Translations/repositories/2/archival_objects/111437Latin poetry/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114866Yiddish poetry and prose/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114876Yiddish: Friedman, Jacob/repositories/2/archival_objects/111488Glatstein, Jacob/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115136Grade, Chaim/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115146Halpern, Moishe Leib/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115156Hofstein, David/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115166Kulback, Moishe/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115176Kvitko, L./repositories/2/archival_objects/1115186Leib, Mani/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115196Raizin, A./repositories/2/archival_objects/1115206Ravitch, Melech/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115216Shneour (Shnayer), Zalman (l)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115226Shneour (Shnayer), Zalman/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115236Wolf, Lazar/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115246Yungman, M./repositories/2/archival_objects/1115256Printed items/repositories/2/archival_objects/1115266Series IX: Jewish Names/repositories/2/archival_objects/111438Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114897Printed--clippings: "Your name", newspaper column/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114907Printed--miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114917Typescript drafts/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114927Manuscript Notes and Cards/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114938Series X: James Joyce/repositories/2/archival_objects/111439Correspondence: A-H/repositories/2/archival_objects/1114949Correspondence: J-Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/11149510Manuscripts and notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/111496Dubliners/repositories/2/archival_objects/11152711Finnegans Wake/repositories/2/archival_objects/11152812Finnegans Wake/repositories/2/archival_objects/11152913Finnegans Wake/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153014Finnegans Wake/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153115Finnegans Wake--copies annotated by Nathan Halper/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153216Miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153317Miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153418Notebooks and notecards/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153519Papers by others/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153620Seminars and symposia/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153721Sources--readings, arranged by author/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153821Studies in Joyce . By Nathan Halper. Ann Arbor/repositories/2/archival_objects/11153922UMI Research Press [cl983]--manuscript/repositories/2/archival_objects/11154022proofs, typescripts, indicies, etc./repositories/2/archival_objects/11154122[ The Young James Joyce ] The Early James/repositories/2/archival_objects/11154222Joyce . By Nathan Halper. New York, Columbia University/repositories/2/archival_objects/11154322Press, 1973--manuscripts, proofs, typescripts, indicies, etc./repositories/2/archival_objects/11154422Dedication of a James Joyce Bloomsday Conference/repositories/2/archival_objects/1811446198515-L-1Printed materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/111497Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/11154523Clippings/repositories/2/archival_objects/11154623Misc./repositories/2/archival_objects/11154723Offprints and reprints/repositories/2/archival_objects/11154823Photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/11154923Periodicals (l)/repositories/2/archival_objects/11155023Periodicals (2)/repositories/2/archival_objects/11155124Series XI: New England/repositories/2/archival_objects/111440Early history of New England -- projected book for the/repositories/2/archival_objects/11149825Federal-Writers' Project in 1938 on the Mashpee MA/repositories/2/archival_objects/111499193825Indian. Reservation, "book never completed":/repositories/2/archival_objects/111500Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/11155225Notebooks/repositories/2/archival_objects/11155325Notecards/repositories/2/archival_objects/11155425Notes & drafts (l)/repositories/2/archival_objects/11155525Notes & drafts (2)/repositories/2/archival_objects/11155626Printed miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/11150126Provincetown Art Association: Sketchbook of class work, ca.l971/repositories/2/archival_objects/11150226Provincetown--manuscripts/repositories/2/archival_objects/11150326Provincetown-periodicals: The Crackerbarrel, 1937./repositories/2/archival_objects/11150426Provincetown, 1934./repositories/2/archival_objects/11150526Provincetown Poets, 1975-1976./repositories/2/archival_objects/11150626Shankpainter, 1970-1981./repositories/2/archival_objects/11150727Provincetown--printed miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/11150827Series XII: Memorabilia/repositories/2/archival_objects/111441Memorabilia From Iran (where Halper was stationed during World War II) and Persian tankard/repositories/2/archival_objects/11150928Persian Backgammon set [19th century?]/repositories/2/archival_objects/11151013v, 32w, 05, 01 Halper's desk nameplate/repositories/2/archival_objects/171108813v, 32w, 05, 01