Irwin Edman papers, 1930-1954

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts



Box 1 Adler, Mortimer J.


Box 1 Allen, Frederick L.


Box 1 Armour, Richard


Box 1 Auden, Wystan Hugh

(Also available on microfilm)


Box 1 Barton, Bruce


Box 1 Beard, Charles A.


Box 1 Bishop, John Peale


Box 1 Brooks, Van Wyck


Box 1 Brown, John Mason


Box 1 Burgess, Gelett


Box 1 Burlingham, C.C.


Box 1 Bush, Wendell T.


Box 1 Canfield, Cass


Box 1 Capote, Truman


Box 1 Carr, Sir Cecil T.


Box 1 Colum, Mary Gunning Maguire


Box 1 Colum, Padraic


Box 1 Coss, John Jacob


Box 1 Coudert, Frederic R.


Box 1 Cousins, Norman


Box 1 Davis, Elmer


Box 1 Deutsch, Babette


Box 1 Dewey, John


Box 1 Douglas, William Orville


Box 1 Edman, Irwin


Box 1 Epstean, Edward


Box 1 Farrell, James T.


Box 1 Feeney, Leonard


Box 1 Finley, John H.


Box 1 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


Box 1 Frankenberg, Lloyd


Box 1 Freeman, Joseph


Box 1 Gallico, Paul


Box 1 Guérard, Albert


Box 1 Hand, Learned


Box 1 Huebsch, Ben


Box 1 Hughes, Langston


Box 1 Isherwood, Christopher


Box 1 Janeway, Eliot


Box 1 Joad, C.E.M.


Box 1 Johnson, Alvin S.



Box 2 Kent, Rockwell


Box 2 Lamprecht, Sterling P.


Box 2 Lang, Paul Henry


Box 2 Land, Edwin H.


Box 2 Lasky, Melvin J.


Box 2 Leinsdorf, Erich


Box 2 Lilienthal, David E.


Box 2 Longwell, Daniel


Box 2 Loveman, Amy


Box 2 McCord, David


Box 2 MacLeish, Archibald


Box 2 Maugham, William Somerset


Box 2 Meiklejohn, Alexander


Box 2 Meyer, Agnes S«


Box 2 Moore, Douglas


Box 2 Neff, Emery


Box 2 Nevins, Allan


Box 2 O'Brien, Justin


Box 2 O'Faolain, Sean

(Also available on microfilm MN# 11939-1)


Box 2 Oppenheimer, Robert


Box 2 Perry, Ralph Barton


Box 2 Plath, Sylvia


Box 2 Pope, Arthur Upham


Box 2 Prezzolini, Giuseppe


Box 2 Rogers, Lindsay


Box 2 Ruml, Beardsley


Box 2 Schuster, Max Lincoln


Box 2 Seldes, Gilbert


Box 2 Sheean, Vincent


Box 2 Shotwell, James T.


Box 2 Singer, Isador


Box 2 Smith, David Eugene


Box 2 Speyer, Leonora


Box 2 Stout, Rex


Box 2 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays


Box 2 Swope, Herbert Bayard


Box 2 Thomas, Norman


Box 2 Thurber, James


Box 2 Tudsbery, M.T


Box 2 Van Doren, Irita


Box 2 Van Doren, Mark


Box 2 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem


Box 2 Viereck, Peter


Box 2 Wheelock, John Hall


Box 2 Whitridge, Arnold


Box 2 Wise, Stephen S.


Box 2 Wolfe, Paul A.


Box 2 Wolff, Kurt


Box 2 Woodbridge, Frederick J.E.


Box 2 Wouk, Herman


Box 2 Zweig, Stefan

Series II: Uncataloged Correspondence



Box 3 A-B



Box 4 C-F



Box 5 G-L



Box 6 M-R



Box 7 S-Z

Series III: Edman's Manuscripts



Box 8 "After many New York a summer dies the swan" (Commentary on Aldous Huxley)


Box 8 Answer to a literary critic age nine


Box 8 "Anybody who says he ain't never been lost ain't never been far" (This Week), Jan. 1951


Box 8 Architecture and the spirit of man. By Hudnut [Book review] (New Republic), Nov. 1950


Box 8 Art as education (Museum of Modern Art), April 1950


Box 8 Art as freedom and education


Box 8 As the twig is bent


Box 8 A breath of air. By Rumer Godden [Book review] (New York Herald Tribune), Jan. 1951


Box 8 [Brotherhood Week], Nov. 1949


Box 8 A child's garden of literary criticism (New York Times), Sept. 1949


Box 8 Contribution of the Humanities and the Professional Schools


Box 8 [Dewey]


Box 8 [Dewey Meeting at CU] Suggestions for D.D. Eisenhower's speech, Oct. 1949


Box 8 Education of a humanist


Box 8 Nietzsche; philosopher, psychologist, Antichrist. By Obeter A. Kaufmann [Book review] (New York Times), Jan. 1951


Box 8 Emerson as unrequired reading (Crowell Co.), May 1951


Box 8 The emperor hasn't any clothes on [Book review of "Order of the day] by Thomas Mann (New Republic), Nov. 1950


Box 8 Freedom and the Liberal Arts (Skidmore College), May 1951


Box 8 [Fackenthal, F. D.]


Box 8 Family reunion. By Ogdon Nash [Book review]


Box 8 George Santayana (New Leader), Oct. 1952


Box 8 Great expressions of human rights. By R.M. McIver [Book review] (New York Times, April 1950


Box 8 Great visions of philosophy. By William P. Montague [Book review] (New York Herald Tribune), Mar. 1951


Box 8 Havelock Ellis philosopher of love. By Houston Peterson [Book review]


Box 8 "Herbert, half wise half century ago…"


Box 8 "I like these verses, every one…" [Book review in verse] (New York Times), June 1950


Box 8 If I could free My Heart [poem]


Box 8 In Noah's Ark. By Rumer Godden [Book review]


Box 8 Independent Member. By A.P. Herbert [Book review] (New York Times), May 1951


Box 8 Introduction to Don Quixote (Limited Editions Club), Oct. 1949


Box 8 John Dewey at ninety (New York Times), Oct 1949


Box 8 The Last aristocrat [Book review of "Dominations and powers" by Santayana] (New Yorker), May 1951


Box 8 Lyrics. By Oscar Hammerstein [Book review]


Box 8 Many a watchful night, by John Mason Brown [Book review] (PM), Dec. 1944


Box 8 [Meditation]


Box 8 Memorandum: On the need for a fresh English translation of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov


Box 8 Morris Raphael Cohen


Box 8 Herbert Edwin Hawkes


Box 8 Norman Thomas and the democratic home


Box 8 Of fear and freedom. By Carlo Levi [Book review] (The New Republic), Feb. 1950


Box 8 On Talking to Strangers (This Week), June 1949


Box 8 The philosopher as man of letters


Box 8 The philosophy of civilization. By Albert Schwertzer [Book review] (New York Times), Sept. 1949


Box 8 Prayer for all poets at this time.


Box 8 Rueful reflection


Box 8 [Russell, Bertrand]


Box 8 Santayana's profound commentary on man's spirit [Book review]


Box 8 Science and the dream of happiness, May 1946


Box 8 "Ten years of Hitler" (Opinion), Jan. 1943


Box 8 This winter of our discontent


Box 8 To a fellow passenger, six months old (New Yorker), Oct. 1950


Box 8 To John Dewey


Box 8 Under whatever sky (Column in The American Scholar)


Box 8 Under whatever sky (Viking Press)


Box 8 Unpopular essays. By Bertrand Russell [Book review] (New York Times), Jan. 1951


Box 8 The uses of philosophy


Box 8 "With lots of love, with little malice…"


Box 8 Words to live by (This Week), June 1949


Box 8 The World of Fiction. By Bernard DeVato [Book review] (New York Times), March 1950


Box 8 World within world. By Stephen Spender [Book review]


Box 8 Miscellaneous manuscripts