Lucinda Franks papers, 1960-2020

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Unprocessed box list



Box 1 Letters and 1964 diary, 1960s


Box 1 "My Father's Secret War" (book), 1940s-1990s

Photographs



Box 2 "Forensic File" (book), Feb 1999-2012

Ray Kelly interview; manuscript, correspondence



Box 3 "Wild Apples" (book), 1980s-1991

Published book "Wild Apples" with markings; notes; fan letter and blurbs; marketing and publicity; floppy disks; posters



Box 4 "Little Big People" (NYT article), 1992-1994

Draft manuscripts with editorial; related books; AMI (microcassettes); articles about her article



Box 5 Ireland, 1970s-1985

Newspaper clippings, booklets, drafts and notes, relating to Ireland


Box 5 "Absence of Malice" (CJR review), 1981

Drafts, notes



Box 6 Mixed materials, 1960s-2000

Mixed. College-era papers and later magazine work and speech. Poetry; "The Losers"; "On Magnolia Street"; draft short story; two photographs; writer's notebook. Material on "Sex and Kids". Speech from 2000



Box 7 "Wild Apples" (book), 1980s

"Wild Apples" drafts



Box 8 Contracts, 1980-1998


Box 8 Short stories, 1980-1998


Box 8 Unfinished musical, 1980-1998



Box 9 "The War for Baby Clausen" (New Yorker article), 1993

Materials about Jessica De Boer case. CRC with editorial for "Baby Jessica" New Yorker article; photographs and slides of baby Jessica; research and notes; 6 VHS tapes;one audiocassette tape



Box 10 "The Intimate Hillary" (Talk Magazine article), 1999

Notes and interviews concerning Hillary Rodham Clinton piece in Talk magazine; includes transcribed interviews.



Box 11 Teaching notes, 1977-1983

Teaching notes -- Princeton "Contemporary Press" (1977-1979); Vassar (1980-1983)


Box 11 Mixed research materials, 1980s



Box 12 "Sex Lives of Your Kids"

Transcripts of interviews with young people, Talk magazine. ("Sex and Kids"?). Three audiocassette tapes and seven microcassettes



Box 13 NYT first assignment, 1974


Box 13 Personal correspondence and photographs, 1979-1980



Box 14 OJ Simpson (People magazine article), 1995

People magazine article on OJ Simpson: drafts, clippings, magazines, notes, responses



Box 15 Mixed materials, 1970s-1990s

Mixed. "My Fathers Secret War" three CDs of appearances / talks, and photographs; mid-1970s Ireland writings and notebook; 1960s-1970s revolution; DVD "Dad's funeral talks";



Box 16 Personal correspondence, 1980s-1990s


Box 16 Calendar and datebooks, 1980s-1990s



Box 17 Travel writing (Bethlehem), 1981-1992


Box 17 "The War for Baby Clausen" (New Yorker article), 1990s

Jessica De Boer case files (five volumes of court documents)



Box 18 Mixed materials, 1980-1998

Research for articles on Agent Orange (1980), Ariel Sharon (1998), and OJ Simpson (1995)



Box 19 "My Father's Secret War" (book), 2007-2008

Articles, reviews, and marketing


Box 19 "Finally" (?), 2007-2008

Handwritten notes/drafts



Box 20 Personal correspondence, 1980s



Box 21 Unabomber, 1980s-1990s

Research on mail bombers going back to 1980s



Box 22 Articles about Vassar and Joyce Carol Oates, 1980s-1990s

Research, manuscripts, notes



Box 23 "Wild Apples" (book), 1980s

"Wild Apples" early drafts



Box 24 "My Father's Secret War" (book), 1941-1960

Research material for "My Father's Secret War" e.g. declassified State Dept material



Box 25 "The Intimate Hillary" (Talk Magazine article), 1990s

interviews, notes, research materials,


Box 25 Weather Underground magazines, 1970s


Box 25 Katherine Ann Power, 1970s-1999



Box 26 Binderian / Israel, 1980s

Binderian libel suit, 1980; Israel notes, early 1980s



Box 27 AV related to "My Father's Secret War" and "Wild Apples", 1990s-2000s

AV material. Formats: 1 betacam; ~20 VHS; lots of CD-Rs, microcassettes, 3.5'' floppy disks, audiocassettes. Content: LFM appearances: My Father's Secret War, Wild Apples



Box 28 "The Intimate Hillary" (Talk Magazine article), 1998-1999

Early timeline and drafts/ notes for Hillary Clinton article



Box 29 Set of Lucinda Franks published articles, 1960-1994



Box 30 "Israel after Lebanon" (NYT Magazine article), 1984

Notes and research


Box 30 Personal correspondence, 1980s

Plastic bag of letters



Box 31 Bullying, 2009


Box 31 "Sex Lives of Your Kids", 2000s

interview transcripts, annotated drafts


Box 31 "The Countess", 2000s

play about art historian John Ruskin, research material and notes



Box 32 Mixed materials, 1990s

Research material and notes on Jon Benet Ramsey; mixed and various writing notes



Box 33 Talk Magazine VHS tapes, 1990s

~ 20 VHS tapes. Talk Magazine compilation reels, appearances



Box 34 Miscellanous notes and speeches, 1990s



Box 35 "My Father's Secret War" (book), 1990s

"My Father's Secret War" draft; research materials about children (court cases)



Box 36 Personal correspondence and photographs, 1968-1969


Box 36 Mixed materials, 2000s-2020



Box 37 UPI, 1971-1974

UPI (clippings, notes, drafts)



Box 38 AV / digital, 1990s

Formats: VHS; 3.5'' floppy disks. Content: VHS is LFM appearances. Floppies: research and drafts including on Hilary Clinton



Box 39 "Timeless" (book), 2010s

"Timeless" book proposal, drafts, marked-up copy of book



Box 40 Article about closing of addiction services agency in NYC, 1970s-1980s

Research and notes



Box 41 "The War for Baby Clausen" (New Yorker article), 1993

Jessica de Boer adoption story, notes and research


Box 41 Personal correspondence, 1970-1971



Box 42 New Yorker article about Judge Sol Wachler, 1990s

Research, notes, drafts



Box 43 "Timeless" (book), 2014

Drafts for "Timeless" memoir



Box 44 "Waiting Out a War" (book), 1970s


Box 44 Travel writing, 1990s



Box 45 Pulitzer, 1970s

File titled "Pulitzer - important communications"; file titled "post-pulitzer letters"


Box 45 Mixed materials, 1960s-2010s

Includes from school essays from the late 1960s



Box 46 Personal correspondence, 1977-1978

Wrapped in bundles with rubber bands



Box 47 Notes of research on food memoir, 2015-2016



Box 48 Notebooks, 1960s-2010s


Box 48 personal Bible



Box 49 "My Father's Secret War" (book), 1940s-1960s

"My Father's Secret War" primary source research documents



Box 50 "Wild Apples" (book), 1980s

"Wild Apples" drafts



Box 51 Bernie Madoff, 2007-2008

Research materials, notes, court filings



Box 52 Personal materials / children / wedding letters and telegrams, 1970s-1980s



Box 53 Labelled files of work - story drafts, contracts, etc, 1980s-2000s



Box 54 "Wild Apples" (book), 1980s

"Wild Apples" drafts



Box 55 New York Times clippings, travel articles, 1970s-1980s



Box 56 UPI, 1970s

Clippings (topics: record industry, fashion, etc)



Box 57 "My Father's Secret War" (book), 1990s

Drafts and notes



Box 58 "You Write Like a Man" (ncomplete memoir ), 2010s

Proposal, notes, drafts, correspondence


Box 58 Correspondence to LFM, 1970s-1980s


Box 58 Wedding and children material, 1970s-2010s



Box 59 "Wild Apples" (book), 1980s

"Wild Apples" drafts


Box 59 Toxic waste, 1990s

Research material



Box 60 Travel writing, 1990s

Notes and research; Northern Ireland



Box 61 "My Father's Secret War" (book), 1940s-1950s, 1990s

"My Father's Secret War" movie -- notes and research; chapter outlines



Box 62 "The War for Baby Clausen" (New Yorker article), 1993

Jessica de Boer adoption story,; drafts, notes, research



Box 63 Books, 1990s

"Wild Apples," "Diana" by Thomas Powers


Box 63 "Sex Lives of Your Kids", 1990s

Notes and research


Box 63 Northern Ireland, 1990s



Box 64 Clippings, 1970s-1980s


Box 64 Personal correspondence, 1970s-1980s



Box 65 "Waiting Out a War" (book), 1973

Draft manuscript


Box 65 Drafts of articles including "Dilemma of a Deserter", 1970s



Box 66 "My Father's Secret War" (book), 2004-2005

Files about the book including research and interviews, as well as movie script



Box 67 Mixed materials, 1998-2000s

Materials about "The Countess" (play about art historian John Ruskin, research material and notes; perhaps LFM wrote a review?); materials about a New Yorker story titled "Max"



Box 68 "Sex Lives of Your Kids", 1990s

Materials about "Sex and Kids" and other New York Times stories; redweld of seven audiocassette tapes, two microcassettes


Box 68 "The Intimate Hillary" (Talk Magazine article), 1990s

Research



Box 69 UPI, 1971-1974

Research, correspondence, drafts - Patty Hearst/SLA, women's sports, film script "Without a War", Squeaky Fromme



Box 70 Oregon, 1990s

Research materials, ten microcassettes, two audiocassettes about Oregon/arts


Box 70 Katherine Ann Power, 1970s-1990s

Drafts, galleys, notes, memos



Box 71 Notebooks and correspondence, 1990s


Box 71 "The Intimate Hillary" (Talk Magazine article), 1990s

Van Zandt FBI; Hilary Clinton clippings; press

Processed materials from Morgenthau papers, 1970-2010


Articles, 1970-2010



Box 72 "The Story of Diana [Diana Oughton]: The Making of a Terrorist", Selections 1970, United Press International (UPI), 1970 September


Box 72 "Two Families of Belfast", The Cincinnati Enquirer at 14-A, 1971 August 15


Box 72 McKinney, Jack, "Not-so-Fleet St. Covers Ulster" [re, Cindy Franks], UPI Log, 1971 August 26


Box 72 "Patty Hearst: As American as Apple Pie" [Diana Oughton], Ms. Magazine, vol. III, no. 4, 1974 October


Box 72 "I.R.A. Salutes Maire Drumm, A Slain Leader", The New York Times, pg. 1, 1976 November 2


Box 72 "Warfare Corrodes Almost Every Aspect of Life in Ulster", The New York Times, pg. 6, 1976 December 4


Box 72 " 'We want peace. Just peace.'," The New York Times Magazine, pgs. 29-31, 64-66, 68, 70, 76-78, 1976 December 19


Box 72 "An Obscure Gangster Is Emerging As the Mafia Chieftain in New York", The New York Times, pgs. 1, 34, 1977 February 20


Box 72 "Young Fun in Northern Ireland", The New York Times Book Review, pg. 10, 1977 April 10


Box 72 "Whatever Happened to Vassar?: An alumna of the 60's returns to the college as a teacher and finds some remarkable changes …", The New York Times Magazine, pgs. 120, 125-127, 1979 September 9


Box 72 "A Day at Miss Helen's Place", New York Magazine, pgs. 53-55, 1980 January 21


Box 72 "The Divided Youth of Israel", The New York Times Magazine, pgs. 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 54, 72 and 74, 1980 February 24


Box 72 "The Cook's Secret Is Apples", The New York Times, pgs. C1, C3, 1980 April 23


Box 72 "The Shawns — A Fascinating Father-and-Son Riddle", The New York Times, Section 2: Arts and Leisure, pgs. 1, 25, 1980 August 3


Box 72 "A Waterlevel Look at Upstate Life", The New York Times, Section 10: Travel, pgs. 1, 10-11 Article and Correspondence, 1980 September 14


Box 72 "Soldiers' Pay", The Nation, pg. 397, 1980 October 25


Box 72 "Behind the Fallaci Image", Saturday Review, pgs. 18-22, 1981 January


Box 72 "Two on an Island: Lucinda Franks and Robert Morgenthau", interviewed by Sharon Rosenthal, Daily News, pgs. M12-M13, 1981 January 12


Box 72 "Together Again", The Nation, pg. 165, 1981 February 14


Box 72 "October Harvest in Dutchess County", The New York Times, pgs. C1, C29, 1981 October 2


Box 72 "Hollywood update: Absence of Malice", Columbia Journalism Review, pgs. 59, 61, 63, 1981 November/December


Box 72 "The Seeds of Terror", The New York Times Magazine, pgs. 34-38, 44, 46, 54, 58-59, 72, 76, 1981 November 22


Box 72 "A Grand Hotel as Symbol: Jerusalem's venerable King David is a metaphor for the land in which it stands", The New York Times, Section 10: Travel, pgs. 6, 41, 1982 March 7


Box 72 "Rafting the Colorado: A close-up of the Grand Canyon", Travel and Leisure, pgs. 20, 22, 24, 1982 April


Box 72 "The Unadorned Pleasures of Amalfi: A flower-filled resort thrives without condos, Muzak or numbered beach chairs", The New York Times, Section 10: Travel, pg. 14, 1982 October 24


Box 72 "In France, The Cider Sparkles", The New York Times Magazine, Section 10: Travel, pgs. 12, 30, 1983 January 23


Box 72 "An Epicurean Journey Steering By the Stars: Less-exalted restaurants often can be winners", The New York Times, pgs. 19, 34, 1983 March 13


Box 72 "Where Carnegies Rusticated: Whimsy, eccentricity and the simple life on a Georgia island", The New York Times, Section 10: Travel, pgs. 27, 38, 1983 May 1


Box 72 "Israel After Lebanon", The New York Times Magazine, pgs. 30-36, 38, 66, 69, 1984 March 25


Box 72 "Searching for Christmas", The New York Times, Section 10: Travel, pg. 9, 1984 December 23


Box 72 "When Facing The Rapist: Is Resistance A Strategy?", The New York Times, The Home Section, pgs. C1, C6, 1984 December 27


Box 72 "A New Attack on Alcoholism", The New York Times Magazine, pgs. 46-50, 61-65, 69, 1985 October 20


Box 72 "… And Baby Makes Four: A vacation à deux becomes an entourage when parents can't bear to leave their toddler at home", The New York Times, Section 10: Travel, pgs. 16, 34, 1986 March 23


Box 72 "In France, the Meal as Metaphor: At restaurants in around Mougins, dining is a lessoin in the art of living well", The New York Times, Section 10: Travel, pgs. 9, 28, 1986 April 20


Box 72 Fabricant, Florence, "Farm Stands: Growth Industry Puts Produce at Hand", The New York Times, The Living Section, pgs. C1, C6, 1986 July 30


Box 72 "Teacher Had a Secret", reviewing Echoes in the Darkness by Joseph Wambaugh and Engaged to Murder: The Inside Story of the Main Line Murders by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, The New York Times Book Review, pg. 12, 1987 March 1


Box 72 "A Credit to the Nursery School", The New York Times, pg. 27, 1987 May 7


Box 72 "He Nearly Got Away – It Was a Saturday", reviewing Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring by Pete Earley, The New York Times Book Review, pg. 9, 1989 January 8


Box 72 "The Little Red Chair", The New York Times Magazine, pgs. 28, 30, 1989 March 12


Box 72 "Olga Havel: Czechoslovakia's reluctant First Lady has stood by her man through thick and much thin", People magazine, pgs. 141, 143-144, 146, 1990 September 10


Box 72 Viewpoint: "In praise of older moms: Don't let anyone tell you that you have to start your family right now", Glamour magazine, pg. 172, 1991 November


Box 72 "He Dies in Her Arms", reviewing Happy Endings by Sally Quinn, The New York Times Book Review, pg. 6, 1991 December 22


Box 72 Annals of Surveillance: "To Catch a Judge: How the F.B.I. closed in on Sol Wachtler", The New Yorker, pgs. 58-66--Article, Correspondence and Drafts, 1992 December 21


Box 72 "In the Jaws of the Jungle" [The Amazon] [unpublished], 1993


Box 72 Annals of Law: "The War for Baby Clausen", The New Yorker, pgs. 56-73--Article, Correspondence and Draft, 1993 March 22


Box 72 "Little Big People: A generation of affluent parents have raised the precocious, worldly children they wanted to be – and are now confronted with the results of their experiment", The New York Times Magazine, pgs. 28-32, 34--Article, Correspondence and Drafts, 1993 October 10


Box 72 Annals of Crime: "Return of the Fugitive: The surrender of anti-war radical Katherine Ann Power was expected to close a painful chapter in American history, but it's had a very different effect", The New Yorker, pgs. 40-46, 48-59, 1994 June 13


Box 72 "The Judge and I: As Sol Wachtler is released from a halfway house, Joy Silverman pulls back the curtain on their strange affair, from first kiss to bizarre and frightening end", New York magazine, pgs. 40-46, 1994 November 14


Box 72 "Backstage at the O.J. Trial: In and out of the courtroom, there are other human dramas that you can't see on TV", People magazine, 1995 March 25


Box 72 Forensic Sculptor--Collected Articles, 1995


Box 72 "Bitter Harvest: Victory in hand, O.J.'s lawyers turn on each other", People magazine, 1995 October 16


Box 72 "Local Mailbomber, Still at Large", The New Yorker, 1996 April 15


Box 72 "Don't Shoot: In the new F.B.I., patience comes first", The New Yorker, 1996 July 22


Box 72 "An Uneasy Alliance", The New Times Magazine, 1998 April 5


Box 72 "The Warrior's Peace" [General Ariel Sharon], New York magazine, 1999 January 4


Box 72 "Miracle Kid", The New Yorker, 1999 May 17, 2 folders


Box 72 "The Intimate Hillary", talk magazine, 1999 September



Box 73 Sex Lives of Children, Talk magazine--Correspondence and Collected Articles, 2000 February


Box 73 "Sex Lives of Children", Talk magazine--Media Appearances Larry King Live and The Oprah Winfrey Show [(2) DVD-R], 2000 February


Box 73 "A Twisted Victorian Love Story That Won't Die Out", The New York Times, 2000 May 26


Box 73 Vacation article [abridge version of earlier article], The New York Times, 2000 July 12


Box 73 "Unlocking the Unconscious" [Wolf Kahn], ArtNews, 2001 December


Box 73 "A Growth Spurt in Vietnam", The New York Times, 2002 August 12


Box 73 "All in This Together: A Family, a Small Boat, A Long Trip to Canada", The New York Times, 2003 August 29


Box 73 "Animal-Watching Deep in the Amazon", The New York Times, 2003 October 26


Box 73 "My Baby, Myself: Interviews with six teenage mothers in Pittsfield, Mass." Review of Growing Up Fast by Joanna Lipper, The New York Times Book Review at 34, 2003 December 14


Box 73 "Champlain on Two Wheels: Island-hopping in northern Vermont, weary and weathered", The New York Times at 5 and 14, 2004 August 29


Box 73 "Love and Learn", Tango magazine at 104, 2005 fall


Box 73 Switzerland, 2006 March


Box 73 "Blogs and Stories: John Ramsey", The Daily Beast, 2008 October 14


Box 73 "Blogs and Stories: Were Ruth and Bernie Madoff Partners in Crime?", The Daily Beast, 2009 January 27


Box 73 "My Birthday With Sonia", The Daily Beast, 2009 July 26


Box 73 "Inside Story on the Bernie Madoff Scandal; Reporter Lucinda Franks Tells All Thursday", interview with Mike Seccombe, Vineyard Gazette, 2009 August 11


Box 73 "Blogs and Stories: Bullied to Death", The Daily Beast, 2010 March 30


Box 73 Article on Men, undated


Box 73 "Rattlesnakes on Sour Mountain", The New Yorker--Draft--unpublished, undated


Box 73 Manuscript--Draft--unpublished, undated


Books, 1991-1996


Box 73 Wild Apples--Reviews of, 1991 October


Box 73 Firefly--Manuscript--unpublished draft, 1996 February


My Fathers Secret War: A Memoir


Book Parties, 2007


Box 73 Washington, DC, 2007 March 16


Box 73 New York, NY, 2007 April 4


Box 73 New York, NY, 2007 April 23


Box 73 Vineyard Haven (Tisbury), MA, 2007 August 4


Box 73 Correspondence, 2006-2007


Box 73 Franks, Thomas--Interview Segments--Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY, 1994 June 6

(5 DVDs)


Box 73 Lobby Cards, undated


Box 73 Movie, 2009


Manuscripts


Box 73 Draft--unedited, 2007


Box 73 Uncorrected proof, 2007


Media Appearances, 2007


Box 73 Fox and Friends , 2007 March 14

[(1) DVD-R; Start: 00:11, End: 04:19]


Box 73 Larry King Live , 2007 May 19, 21

[(5) DVD-R; Start: 00:09, End: 06:30]


Box 73 The Charlie Rose Show , 2007 August 31

[(1) DVD-R; Start: 30:27, End: 41:59]


Box 73 Living the Life (CBN), 2007 November 14

[(2) DVD-R; Start: 00.08, End: 07:32]


Box 73 Press Release, undated


Box 73 Reviews, 2007


Box 73 Keller, Julia, "Discovering a father's deepest secret", Chicago Tribune [Online Edition], 2007 March


Box 73 Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. of Birmingham, AL, 2007


Box 73 Connelly, Sherryl, "Backstory: 'My Father's Secret War', by Lucinda Franks", [New York] Daily News, pg. 20, 2007 March 11


Box 73 Brawarsky, Sandee, "The Father She Never Knew", The Jewish Week: Serving the Jewish Community of Greater New York, 2007 March 30


Box 73 Scott, Joanna, "'My Father's Secret War: A Memoir' by Lucinda Franks: Was he a spy? The author uncovers a parent's hidden espionage activities in World War II", Los Angeles Times, 2007 March 18


Box 73 Benfer, Amy, "Spy Dad", Metro, 2007 March 12


Box 73 Smith, Liz, "What happens in Macao …", New York Post, pg. 26, 2007 April 3


Box 73 Lipsky, Seth, " From a Father's Secret, A Universal Tale", New York Sun, pg. 13, 2007 March 27


Box 73 Gallagher, Dorothy, "The Spy Who Loved Her: A reporter investigates her father's World War II experience", The New York Times Book Review, pg. 13, 2007 March 11


Box 73 Kantrowitz, Barbara, "Secrets, Lies and Love", Newsweek, pgs. 52-53, 2007 March 12


Box 73 Donohoue, Dick, "Three Answers: Lucinda Frank", Publishers Weekly Daily, 2007 February 5


Box 73 Minzesheimer, Bob, "What did you do in the war, Daddy?", USA Today, 2007 March 14