Juan J. Linz papers, 1936-2010, bulk 1950-1989

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Series II: Correspondence and notes

Official Correspondence and Personal Notes, 1950s-1968

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Box 1 Folder 3 Paper on democracy from summer school in south of France, 1949

Box 1 Folder 3 Official Correspondence from Columbia and the lnstituto de Estudios Politicos, as well as other U.S. and documents, 1950s-1960s

Including dismissal from IEP and draft of response

Box 1 Folder 3 Personal notes on life and studies in the United States and future plans, 1950s

Box 1 Folder 3 Correspondence with Columbia Faculty, 1960s

Box 1 Folder 3 Correspondence Columbia/Yale, 1967-1968

Box 1 Folder 3 Yale Annual Reports

Political Correspondence, 1950s-1960s

Box 1 Folder 4 Rodolfo Llopis and other PSOE figures

Box 1 Folder 4 Francisco Benet (anthropology student at Columbia) including Community Study Proposal

Box 1 Folder 4 Antonio Garcia Lopez

Box 1 Folder 4 Letter to Don Juan de Borbón from Linz, Benet, Garcia López and Luchsinger (1955) (Draft) and Response of Don Juan, 1955

Box 1 Folder 4 Plans and drafts of manifestos of Columbia group (Linz, Benet, and Luchsinger) and Garcia López (Halifax), mid 1950s

Box 1 Folder 4 Linz letter to New York Times about Opus Dei, 1957

Box 1 Folder 4 Letters from Julio Cerón's family, 1960

Box 1 Folder 4 Correspondence with Hugh Gaitskill (Labour Party) about Suez Crisis, 1956

Box 1 Folder 5 Alexander Kesküla Material and Correspondence

Columbia University, 1950s-1960s

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Box 2 Several folders with notes from Merton lectures and Merton-Lazarsfeld seminar

Box 2 Several folders with notes from courses Nagel, Kaplan, Kingsley Davis, and on methodology

Box 2 Articles by Juan on freedom and medicine in the Middle Ages, research for Hofstadter Academic Freedom Project

Box 2 Notes from Bell-Linz Seminar, 1962-1963

Including very interesting early notes on breakdowns

Linz Correspondence

The correspondence archive is very incomplete, especially the letters of recommendation, which continued long after Linz's retirement.

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Box 6 Correspondence related to Quantitative History Piece (1968-1971) and to Breakdowns Volumes (in capacity as editor, 1970s), 1970s

Box 6 Correspondence with/about Important Spanish Public Figures

Box 6 Correspondence, 1960s

Box 6 Correspondence, 1970s, 2 folders

Box 6 Correspondence about Amando de Miguel controversy (arrest), 1971

Box 6 Correspondence, 1980s

Box 6 Correspondence, 1990s, 2 folders

Box 6 Correspondence, 2000s

Box 6 Yale Student Evaluations and Letters of Recommendation

Box 6 Translation of Linz work correspondence

Box 6 Correspondence related to specific works of Linz

Box 6 Correspondence related to Linz's Collected Works

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