Nathan Halper papers, 1923-1986

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Budgen, Frank Levin, Harry


Box 1 Cage, John Luening, Otto


Box 1 Campbell, Joseph Mailer


Box 1 Chomsky, Noam


Box 1 Dos Passos, Elizabeth (Mrs John)


Box 1 Duchamp, Alexina (Mme Marcel)


Box 1 Ellmann, Richard


Box 1 Howe, Irving


Box 1 Levin, Harry


Box 1 Luening, Otto


Box 1 Mailer, Norman


Box 1 Motherwell, Robert


Box 1 Schapiro, Meyer


Box 1 Seldes, Gilbert


Box 1 Smith, Paul


Box 1 Trilling, Lionel


Box 1 Wilson, Edmund

Series II: Cataloged Photograph


Box 1 Photograph of Nathan Halper

Series III: Miscellaneous


Box 1 Miscellaneous and printed miscellaneous


Box 1 Miscellaneous and printed miscellaneous

Series IV: Chess


Box 1 Articles and notes


Box 1 Articles on Russian chess


Box 1 Printed--miscellaneous


Box 1 Printed--periodicals


Box 1 Score sheets



Box 2 Trophy--Marshall Chess Club, 1970

Series V: Columbia University and Other Schools



Box 3 Course papers & notes


Box 3 N.Y. Regents Diploma, 1923


Box 3 Printed--miscellaneous


Box 3 Printed--periodicals


Box 3 Transcripts

Series VI: Criticism


Box 3 Book reviews--manuscripts and printed


Box 3 Canaday, John


Box 3 Maugham, William Somerset


Box 3 Proust, Marcel


Box 3 Shakespeare, William: Titus Andronicus


Box 3 Miscellaneous

Series VII: Fiction



Box 4 Correspondence


Box 4 Autobiographical articles--manuscripts


Box 4 Autobiographical articles--printed


Box 4 Autobiographical novel--Drafts, 16 folders



Box 5 Autobiographical novel--16 folders of drafts (cont.)


Box 5 Miscellaneous


Box 5 Poetry


Box 5 Short stories

Series VIII: Fiction--Translations



Box 6 Latin poetry


Box 6 Yiddish poetry and prose


Yiddish: Friedman, Jacob


Box 6 Glatstein, Jacob


Box 6 Grade, Chaim


Box 6 Halpern, Moishe Leib


Box 6 Hofstein, David


Box 6 Kulback, Moishe


Box 6 Kvitko, L.


Box 6 Leib, Mani


Box 6 Raizin, A.


Box 6 Ravitch, Melech


Box 6 Shneour (Shnayer), Zalman (l)


Box 6 Shneour (Shnayer), Zalman


Box 6 Wolf, Lazar


Box 6 Yungman, M.


Box 6 Printed items

Series IX: Jewish Names



Box 7 Correspondence


Box 7 Printed--clippings: "Your name", newspaper column


Box 7 Printed--miscellaneous


Box 7 Typescript drafts



Box 8 Manuscript Notes and Cards

Series X: James Joyce



Box 9 Correspondence: A-H



Box 10 Correspondence: J-Z


Manuscripts and notes



Box 11 Dubliners



Box 12 Finnegans Wake



Box 13 Finnegans Wake



Box 14 Finnegans Wake



Box 15 Finnegans Wake



Box 16 Finnegans Wake--copies annotated by Nathan Halper



Box 17 Miscellaneous



Box 18 Miscellaneous



Box 19 Notebooks and notecards



Box 20 Papers by others



Box 21 Seminars and symposia


Box 21 Sources--readings, arranged by author



Box 22 Studies in Joyce . By Nathan Halper. Ann Arbor


Box 22 UMI Research Press [cl983]--manuscript


Box 22 proofs, typescripts, indicies, etc.


Box 22 [ The Young James Joyce ] The Early James


Box 22 Joyce . By Nathan Halper. New York, Columbia University


Box 22 Press, 1973--manuscripts, proofs, typescripts, indicies, etc.


Printed materials



Box 23 Books


Box 23 Clippings


Box 23 Misc.


Box 23 Offprints and reprints


Box 23 Photographs


Box 23 Periodicals (l)



Box 24 Periodicals (2)

Series XI: New England



Box 25 Early history of New England -- projected book for the


Box 25 Federal-Writers' Project in 1938 on the Mashpee MA, 1938


Indian. Reservation, "book never completed":


Box 25 Correspondence


Box 25 Notebooks


Box 25 Notecards


Box 25 Notes & drafts (l)



Box 26 Notes & drafts (2)


Box 26 Printed miscellaneous


Box 26 Provincetown Art Association: Sketchbook of class work, ca.l971


Box 26 Provincetown--manuscripts


Box 26 Provincetown-periodicals: The Crackerbarrel, 1937.


Box 26 Provincetown, 1934.


Box 26 Provincetown Poets, 1975-1976.



Box 27 Shankpainter, 1970-1981.


Box 27 Provincetown--printed miscellaneous

Series XII: Memorabilia



Box 28 Memorabilia From Iran (where Halper was stationed during World War II) and Persian tankard



Box Flat 742 Persian Backgammon set [19th century?]



Box 28 Halper's desk nameplate