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<ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-NNC-RB" url="https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079077">4079077</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper>Albert Maltz papers<num>4079077</num></titleproper></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Rare Book and Manuscript Library</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://aspace.library.columbia.edu/assets/columbia.png" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><address><addressline>Butler Library, 6th Floor</addressline><addressline>Columbia University, Mail Code 1127</addressline><addressline>535 W. 114th St.</addressline><addressline>New York, NY 10027</addressline><addressline>Business Number: (212) 854-5153</addressline><addressline>Fax Number: (212) 854-1365</addressline><addressline>rbml@libraries.cul.columbia.edu</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/index.html" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/index.html" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address><p>This finding aid is made available for public use following the Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons designation.</p></publicationstmt><notestmt><note><p>Link to PDF finding aid added in fall 2018</p></note></notestmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2026-01-09 20:22:24 -0500</date>.</creation><langusage>Description is written in: <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English, Latin script</language>.</langusage><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc><revisiondesc><change><date>June 2020</date><item>PDF replaced with full finding aid, YH</item></change></revisiondesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <unittitle>Albert Maltz papers</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79041798" source="naf">Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046090" source="naf">University of California, Los Angeles</corpname>
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    <unitid>MS#0835</unitid>
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      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">10.5 linear feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">22 boxes</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1940/1983" type="inclusive">1940-1983</unitdate>
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  <arrangement id="aspace_23190f934528761a5dc8f9677ed72b8f">
    <head>Arrangement</head>
<p>Arranged.</p>  </arrangement>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_90c4cb44a9e7ce1d7978952ea3f2f779">
    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.</p>  </accessrestrict>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_996caa684a88130b32aa772891aca68f">
    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection has no restrictions.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Summary</head>
<p>Manuscripts of Maltz, including the notes, drafts, and typescripts for numerous short stories and for the novels, THE CROSS AND THE ARROW, THE UNDERGROUND STREAM, THE JOURNEY OF SIMON MCKEEVER, A LONG DAY IN A SHORT LIFE, and A TALE OF ONE JANUARY. Also, THE CITIZEN WRITER IN RETROSPECT, a two-volume oral history of Maltz done by the University of California, Los Angeles.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Albert Maltz papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
  <userestrict id="aspace_f3d7fa0008e67ddbfd7e5d49425bc39a">
    <head>Terms Governing Use and Reproduction</head>
<p>Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--Maltz, Albert. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1952. Accession number--M-52.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <bioghist id="aspace_fd7254c871ff007ed7442d08d8152e29">
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>Novelist, short story writer. (Columbia University A.B., 1930).</p>  </bioghist>
  <processinfo id="aspace_cfa42cf4712bacdf9f0ab73100700b30">
    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/1989.</p>  </processinfo>
  <acqinfo id="aspace_dc26b2a445837f6d6ec56b2730e48b34">
    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of Albert Maltz, 1952-1984.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <accruals id="aspace_1197ddf902626b74d769e3269d04a366">
    <head>Accruals</head>
<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
  <controlaccess>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004341" source="lcsh">American literature -- 20th century</subject>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300202595" source="aat">Oral histories (literary works)</genreform>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009808" source="lcsh">Authors, American</subject>
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  <dsc><c id="aspace_93cf0543c27f3b57fcc17874f50df965" level="file"><did><unittitle>Short story manuscripts </unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214404</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100422.1" label="box" type="box">1</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_bcf681285b7cf8c9412a0f23f9e2f8c0"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>Season of Celebration; A Piece of Paper; Afternoon in the Jungle; Sunday Morning on 20th Street; A Gentleman and his Son; Gypsy and the Dropforge Man; The Game; Goodbye; Letter from the Country; fragment of a short story begun in college; A Good American; Circus Come to Town; They Way Things Are.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_1b9009acb6f14d8a0cd3af895839923d" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Cross &amp; The Arrow (1) p. 1-799</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214405</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100423.2" label="box" type="box">2</container></did></c><c id="aspace_d5d6038a9e498351c79fe7a85e3c6274" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Cross &amp; The Arrow (2) p. 880- end</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214406</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100424.3" label="box" type="box">3</container></did></c><c id="aspace_2fa43d5d1df42060198ce96263d1ed38" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Cross &amp; The Arrow (3) Incomplete Draft; Discarded Drafts</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214407</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100425.4" label="box" type="box">4</container></did></c><c id="aspace_7b50df96b432f33cd305423f10859693" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Cross &amp; The Arrow (4)p. 1-677</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214408</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100426.5" label="box" type="box">5</container></did></c><c id="aspace_0cb2b70a34d727e4dabb3bea2455aa6e" level="file"><did><unittitle>Journey of Simon McKeever (1)</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214409</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100427.6" label="box" type="box">6</container></did></c><c id="aspace_9c829be6b27bf00b2d7f3aa05d84c615" level="file"><did><unittitle>Journey of Simon McKeever (2), notes and other material</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214410</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100428.7" label="box" type="box">7</container></did></c><c id="aspace_0bca047d5dc0d239af527b6eb6913e56" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Underground Stream (draft and notes)</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214411</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100429.8" label="box" type="box">8</container></did></c><c id="aspace_49e02cd3ac9f6940de86cb0f6a3b2eea" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Underground Stream</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214412</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100430.9" label="box" type="box">9</container></did></c><c id="aspace_d891df0c61577719a9e40891795d79fe" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Underground Stream (draft)</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214413</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100431.10" label="box" type="box">10</container></did></c><c id="aspace_7f00ffc4afbde050181d9b097a270eb4" level="file"><did><unittitle>Of Kings and Pawns (notes and discarded drafts)</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214414</unitid><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100432.11" label="box" type="box">11</container></did></c><c id="aspace_02437c1d9884e9495f71fd1f0deaf1a8" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Masters (notes)</unittitle><unitid 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about working for Maltz, 1990</p><p>Accession 2023-2024-M043</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_3aec929506895f19f1116b324e9c3614" level="file"><did><unittitle>The Citizen Writer in Retrospect (Oral History, UCLA)</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/1214429</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983/1983">1983</unitdate><container id="repositories.2.top_containers.100443.27" label="box" type="box">22</container></did></c></dsc>
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