John Erskine papers, 1890-1951

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts



Box 1 A-D



Box 2 E-G



Box 3 H-Pas



Box 4 Pe-Y



Box 5 Cataloged manuscripts

Series II: Arranged Correspondence



Box 6 Army--United States, 1918-1948, 2 folders


Box 6 Art, 1933-1948


Box 6 Pirie MacDonald (1967-1942) (portrait photographer)--Correspondence , 1933-1943


Box 6 Arts and Letters--National Institute , 1918-1948


Box 6 Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963) (American literary critic, biographer, and historian)--Correspondence , 1915-1940



Box 7 Columbia


Box 7 Class of 1900, 1900-1949


Box 7 Correspondence, 1894-1951, 3 folders


Box 7 Grammar School--Essays, 1916, undated


Box 7 Committees, 1917-1949


Box 7 Cook, Clarence, 1931-1933


Box 7 Santayana, George, 1936-1941


Box 7 Students--Columbia, 1916-1949



Box 8 Correspondence--Education, 1917-1953, 2 folders


Photographs


Box 8 John Erskine and Eleanor Roosevelt with others, 1937


Box 8 John Erskine in a library, undated


Box 8 John Erskine at his Remington typewriter, undated



Box 9 Family--helping others, 1903-1950


Box 9 Fan Mail, 1926-1951, 2 folders



Box 10 Great Books, 1924-1951


Box 10 Hollywood, 1923-1949


Box 10 International--South American Tour , 1941-1949


Box 10 The Juilliard School, 1940-1957


Box 10 Keppel, Frederick P. (1875-1943) (Dean, Columbia College (1910-1917); President, Carnegie Corporation (1923-1941))--Correspondence , 1935



Box 11 Lectures, 1918-1951


Box 11 Speeches, 1927-1948


Box 11 Letters from Friends, 1919-1949


Box 11 Literary, 1908-1952


Box 11 Literary Circle, 1915-1948



Box 12 Music, 1912-1949


Box 12 New York Protestant Episcopal Public School, 1940-1941


Box 12 Offers--Other Universities , 1917, 1940


Box 12 Poetry, 1912-1949, 2 folders



Box 13 Plays--Radio and Stage, 1928-1953


Box 13 Politics, 1918-1948


Box 13 Pulitzer Prize, 1927-1936


Box 13 Religion, 1916-1949


Box 13 Robinson, Henry Morton (1898-1961) (American novelist known for the novel The Cardinal (1950)), 1926-1947


Box 13 The Saturday Evening Post , 1926-1948


Box 13 Social Parties, 1920-1944



Box 14 Writings--Correspondence, 1915-1949, 3 folder


Box 14 Vergil--Manuscript, 1941

Series III: Scrapbooks



Box 26 Académie de Dijon, Université de France, 1919-1961


Box 26 Livret de l'Étudiant--année scolaire [Student Handbook--School Year] (1953-1954), 1953


Livret de l'Étudiant--année scolaire [Student Handbook--School Year] (1964-1965), 1964


Box 26 The American Weekly--Agency Proofs of Illustrated Covers--Series: "Beauties of Shakespeare"--Cymbeline; Hamlet; King Lear; Love Labour's Lost; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Twelfth Night; The Winter's Tale , undated



Box 39 John Erskine--death of, 1951


Box 39 Condolence letters , 1951, 2 folders


Box 39 Obituaries--Newspapers , 1951, 1 scrapbook


Box 39 Photographs--Painting, Sculpture, Stage, 1931-1943, undated



Box 40 Volume 36, 1946, February-December


Box 40 Volume 37, 1946 December-1947 July



Box 41 Volume 42, 1949 January-1949 October


Box 41 Volume 43, 1949 September-1957 April



Box 42 The Memory of Certain Persons (Philadelphia; New York: J. B. Lippincott company, 1947), 1947-1949


Box 42 The Private Life of Helen of Troy (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1925), 1925-1936



Box 43 Adam and Eve: Though He Knew Better (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1927), 1927-1935, 2 scrapbooks



Box 44 Volume 1--France, 1919


Box 44 Volume 2--France, 1918-1919


Box 44 Volume 30, 1941-1942



Box 45 Brooklyn Daily Eagle--Daily Column--John Erskine, 1933 January-December, 1 scrapbook


Box 45 Galahad: Enough of his Life to Explain his Reputation (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1926), 1926-1928, 2 scrapbooks



Box 46 Volume 31--Trip--U.S. State Department--Inter-American Understanding--South America, 1940 December-1941 July


Box 46 Uncle Sam in the Eyes of his Family: A Novel (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1930), 1930-1934



Box 47 The Private Life of Helen of Troy (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1925), 1925-1927, 2 scrapbooks



Box 48 Book Reviews--Prohibition and Christianity, and Other Paradoxes; The Literary Discipline; and The Delight of Great Books, 1927-1934


Box 48 Book Reviews-- Solomon, My Son! , 1935-1936



Box 49 Erskine, John--Reviews of Melville Crane's January Garden (1926) and Behind Dark Spaces (1930), 1926, 1930


Box 49 The Governor's Vrouw: A Comic Opera in Two Acts , 1900 February 24


Box 49 Original Score, 1900


Box 49 Playbill-Program, 1900


Box 49 Member of the Art Commission--Certificate of Appointment--Office of the Mayor of the City of New York, 1935 August 8


Box 49 Photographs, undated


Box 49 Group Photograph--Varsity Show?, undated


Box 49 Portrait--Photograph--Erskine, John, undated


Box 49 Scrapbook--American Expeditionary Force, University Beaune, Cote d'Or, France, 1918-1919, 1 scrapbook


Box 49 Young love: Variations on a Theme (Indianapolis; New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1936) , 1936-1937, 1 scrapbook



Box 50 The Private Life of Helen of Troy (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1925), 1927-1935, 1 scrapbook


Box 50 The Influence of Women and Its Cure (Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1936), 1936-1937, 1 scrapbook



Box 51 Tristan and Isolde: Restoring Palamede (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1932) , 1931-1934


Box 51 Penelope's Man: The Homing Instinct (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928) , 1928-1930

Series IV: Biographical Files



Box 28 Thesis re John Erskine by Alfred P. Anders, 1950


Box 28 John Erskine Christmas card--print plate, undated


Box 28 List of books in library at 50 Park Avenue, 1952-1954, 2 folders


Box 28 John Erskine at age six--Weehawken, N.J.--photographs, 1885, 2 photographs


Box 28 Episcopal Church (1893)--John Erskine's activities, 1939


Box 28 John Erskine--Biographical memo, 1927-1947


Box 28 Erskine geneaology, 1921-1940


Box 28 Eliza Hollingsworth Erskine (John's mother)--correspondence and notes, undated


Box 28 Erskine Family, 1934-1963


Box 28 Margit Bethlen, 1914-1933


Box 28 Helen Erskine (John's sister), 1932-1949


Box 28 John Erskine's sister, Anna Graham Erskine--Correspondence and (1) photograph, 1933-1949


Box 28 Robert Erskine, 1898-1949


Box 28 Robert Erskine Family, 1933-1949


Box 28 Ella Burhorn--Governess--Weehawken, NJ , 1892-1952


Box 28 John Erskine--Letters to his mother, 1909-1919


Box 28 John Erskine's--sisters , 1949-1967


Box 28 Rev. John Erskine--Engraving--Gift of Frederick C. Grabner, 1949-1950



Box 29 Rhoda Erskine (1892-1934) (JE's sister. Barnard College (Class, 1915); taught general history and literature at the Juilliard School), 1918-1937


Box 29 Divorce (1945)--Correspondence--Friends--Reno, NV, 1945-1948


Box 29 John Erskine--Student--Columbia University (Class, 1900), 1902


Box 29 Columbia University (Class, 1900)--Ralph Lum, Sr. (1877-1952) (Civic leader and former chairman, Morris County [NJ] Republican Committee) , 1952


Box 29 Columbia University--Hjalmar H. Boyesen, II (1879-1929) (New York lawyer and son of Professor Hjalmar H. Boyesen (1848-1895) (Head, German Dept., Columbia University) , 1929


Box 29 Columbia University--Roelif Brooks (Class, 1900) (Rector, St. Thomas Church, 5th Avenue and 53rd Street, NYC) , 1941-1947


Box 29 Pauline I. Erskine [nee, Ives] (1878-1960) (JE's first wife)--Correspondence, 1931-1949


Box 29 Pauline I. Erskine--stocks


Box 29 Winifred Ives Clarke (1882-1957) (JE's sister-in-law; former Overseer of the Poor, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY)--Correspondence, 1930-1939


Box 29 Raymond Ives (1885-1955) (JE's brother-in-law; accountant at firm Stagg, Mather, and Hough Public Accountants)--Correspondence, 1926-1944


Box 29 Halley D. Erskine [nee, Douglas] (1910-2003) (fashion editor at Vogue and Glamour magazines; later photographer at Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan and House and Garden.)--Correspondence , 1942


Box 29 Graham Erskine (1911-1991) (JE's son; architect)--Letters to his Father, 1936-1937, 2 folders


Box 29 Graham Erskine and Hazel Gaudet-Erskine (1908-1975) (JE's daughter-in-law; social and communications scientist and a member of the Princeton Radio Project)--Correspondence , 1937-1952


Box 29 Graham, Hazel, and Halley Erskine--Correspondence, 1944-1969


Box 29 Anna Erskine Crouse (1916-2013) (JE's daughter; served on Juilliard's board for 27 years)--Correspondence, 1931-1948


Box 29 Timothy Crouse (Son of Anna Erskine Crouse; journalist and writer), 1949-1971



Box 30 Pauline (Root) Otis Danielson (1862-1946) (Wife of John De Forrest Danielson and Pauline I. Erskine's cousin), undated


Box 30 John Erskine's letters to Graham Erskine (son), 1930-1947


Box 30 John Erskine's letters to Hazel (daughter-in-law) and Graham Erskine (son) , 1945-1957


Box 30 France, 1918-1919


Box 30 John Erskine--Address [Given in French]--"La vie spirituelle aux États-Unis" ["Spiritual Life in the United States"] , undated


Box 30 Maurice Bec (French author), 1921-1932


Box 30 Whitman Lecture--University of Dijon (1919), 1944-1945


Box 30 France--First World War, 1918-1919


Box 30 American Expeditionary Forces University (A.E.F.) (Beaune, France)--A.E.F. pamphlets and orders, 1917-1919, 1948


Box 30 John Erskine letters--First World War, 1918-1919, 1937


Box 30 Frank Spaulding (1867-1960)--Correspondence, 1918-1953


Box 30 Will and Nina Nitze--Amherst College, undated


Box 30 Amherst College, 1915-1948


Box 30 Amherst College--John Erskine--Address--Senior Chapel, 1909



Box 31 Amherst College, 1907-1957


Box 31 Bigelow, William, 1939-1940


Box 31 Nitze, Will, 1932-1940


Box 31 Ruckmick, Christian A.--Ministry of Education and Fine Arts, Imperial Ethiopian Government , 1952-1953


Box 31 Whicher, George F., 1944


Box 31 Bruce Barton


Box 31 Brown, J. Thompson, 1927


Box 31 Cane, Melville, "John Erskine: An Appreciation", Columbia Library Columns, vol. vii, no. 1, 1957 November


Box 31 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) (American poet)


Box 31 Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi (1866-1943) (niece of the American poet Emily Dickinson), 1933-1947


Box 31 Edward MacDowell--MacDowell Colony, 1928-1971


Box 31 George Edward Woodberry address by John Erskine, 1948


Box 31 H.I. Benwick, 1934


Box 31 Columbia College Gazette, no. 1, 1916 December

Notations in Erskine's handwriting


Box 31 Students--Columbia University


Box 31 Alvah Bessie--student, 1929-1932


Box 31 Reginald Paget--student, 1917 June


Box 31 Max Schuster, 1951


Box 31 George Perera, 1950


Box 31 Robinson, Henry Morton, "John Erskine as I knew him", Columbia Alumni News, vol. XLVIII, no. 6 , 1957 March


Box 31 William Brown Meloney, Jr., 1930-1943


Box 31 Adeline L. (Atwater) Pynchon, 1951


Box 31 Sheridan Gibney, 1923-1925, 1950


Box 31 Columbia University--Photograph--Portrait--Erskine, John, 1925


Box 31 American Expeditionary Forces University (A.E.F.) (Beaune, France), 1919-1952


Box 31 Rene Galland, 1913-1938


Box 31 Columbia University--Classes--Fan Mail, 1925-1937


Box 31 John Erskine--Letters, 1889-1946


Box 31 John Erskine--Music Career, 1926-1948


Box 31 Melville Clark--Correspondence re, harps, 1947


Box 31 The Juilliard School


Box 31 Raymond Morin--Correspondence re, David Karlofsky (pianist), 1950, 1957


Box 31 Gottschalk, Louis Moreau--American composer and pianist--articles, 1968


Box 31 Revue de la Franco-Ancienne, no. 134 , 1961 January


Box 31 Townsend, Atwood--"Good Reading", 1937-1952


The Juilliard



Box 32 Bostelmann, Louis J. , 1948


Box 32 John Erskine--Memories, 1957-1958


Box 32 John Erskine--Portrait--Photograph--Fabian Bachrach, Jr. (1917-2010), 1940


Box 32 Students, 1950, undated


Box 32 Allen Wardwell, 1951


Box 32 Albert Stoessel (1894-1943)--John Erskine's Tribute to, 1943 November 12


Box 32 Chautauqua Bell Tower , 1951


Box 32 Ernest Hutcheson, 1929-1973, 2 folders


Box 32 Ernest and Imgart Hutcheson, 1932-1945


Box 32 Oscar Wagner, 1937-1942


Box 32 Frederick and Stefi Kiesler, 1944


Box 32 Florence Page Kimball, 1937-1941


Box 32 Harold Bauer, pianist [a.l.s. to John Erskine removed for cataloging.] , 1945 February 21


Box 32 Barrère, Georges, 1939 November 26


Box 32 James Friskin, 1934, 1939


Box 32 Carl Friedberg, 1936-1946


Box 32 Paul and Zosia Kohanski, undated


Box 32 Ruth Ottaway Sokoloff, 1955


Box 32 Leopold Auer, 1930


Box 32 Edouard Dethier, 1942


Box 32 Fritz Kreisler's student--Kenneth Gordon, violinist, 1948


Box 32 Rudolph Ganz, 1940-1944


Box 32 Concerts--Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, 1948 September 16


Box 32 Automobile Accident--John Erskine--Michigan (1935), 1935-1947


Box 32 State of Michigan--Automobile Accident--John Erskine, 1935-1936


Box 32 John Erskine--National Committee for Music Appreciation, August 15, 1940


Box 32 Harold Keyes, 1937-1944


Box 32 Proposed trip to France (1949), 1948-1949



Box 33 Frank S. Hackett (First head of the Riverdale School (1907-1949)), 1950


Box 33 Barnard College, 1943


Box 33 Italy--France, 1924-1925


Box 33 Jeannette Bliss Gillespey, 1901-1926


Box 33 Wilton, Connecticut--home remodeling, 1927-1928


Box 33 Lectures--correspondence, 1927-1928


Box 33 Columbia University--Willard King Fund honoring John Erskine


Box 33 Columbia University--button (Class of 1900), 1950


Box 33 Gifts to Columbia in memory of John Erskine--Acknowledgements of Gifts to Erskine Memorial (1957), 1955-1957


Columbia University


Box 33 Class of 1900--Melville Cane's memories of John Erskine--draft, undated, 2 copies


Box 33 Grayson Kirk, 1951


Box 33 Irwin Edman on behalf of General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Helen W. Erskine--Telegram re, possible visit, 1950 April 3


Box 33 1971 Appraisal--Erskine Gifts , 1970-1971


Box 33 Special Collections, 1963-1971


Box 33 Henry Morton Robinson, "John Erskine as I knew him", Columbia Alumni News, vol. 48, no. 6 (1957 March) 8-10


Box 33 Columbia University Bicentennial, 1954

2 folders


Box 33 Class of 1900--Columbia University, 1948-1949


Box 33 Directory--Columbia University, 1949


Box 33 Events and History--Columbia University (1954), 1954-1955


Box 33 Formal Presentation--John Erskine papers--Columbia University, 1957


Box 33 Gift of John Erskine's books--Columbia University, 1964


Box 33 Library Columns honoring John Erskine--Columbia University , 1957


Box 33 Oral History--Columbia University, 1964


Box 33 George Bye--photographs, 1934, 1937, 2 photographs


Box 33 Correspondence, 1936, undated


Box 33 Radio, 1937



Box 34 France, 1919, 1950


Box 34 Brady, Leslie Snowden (1909-1992) (Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, who had served as counselor for cultural affairs in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and public affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.), 1949


Box 34 Correspondence, 1915-1948


Box 34 John Erskine--London [England], 1950


Box 34 Correspondence--Europe, 1950


Box 34 John Erskine--Wills, 1947, 1949


Box 34 Honorary degree--Hendrix College, Conway, AR, 1933


Box 34 The City College, New York, NY, 1948


Box 34 Medal--Citation--Mr. John Erskine, Chairman, Educational Commission, U.S. Civilian Distinguished Service Medal #976 , 1918


Box 34 John Erskine--Letters to Helen Worden Erskine (1896-1984 (journalist and author. Reporter and columnist, The World (later New York World-Telegram (1926-19440; wrote for many magazines (1944-1956); JE's wife.), 1945, 1948, undated


Box 34 Princeton University--Correspondence re, letters of Carl Van Doren (1885-1950) (American critic and biographer), 1951


Box 34 Tuesday Lectures, 1947


Box 34 Erskine--Engagements, 1949


Box 34 John Erskine--Lease Agreements--various homes, 1925-1950


Box 34 London [England] , 1951


Box 34 Valescure, San Raphaël, France, 1951


Box 34 Letters of Condolence, 1951-1952


Box 34 Obituaries--John Erskine, 1951-1957


Box 34 Hollywood, CA--correspondence and photographs, 1939-1940, 2 photographs


Box 34 South America--Correspondence, 1941-1961


Box 34 South America--Trip to, 1941


Box 34 Lectures, 1941-1943


Box 34 University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL--photographs, 1943, 2 photographs


Box 34 Columbia University--Bicentennial Celebration (1754-1954), 1954


Box 34 Gifts in Memory of John Erskine , 1952-1957


Box 34 Henry Morton Robinson--article , 1957


Box 34 Argentina--Florencio de los Ángeles Molina Campos (1891-1959) ( Argentine illustrator and a painter), 1940-1942


Box 34 Germán Arciniegas Angueyra (1900-1999) (Colombian historian, writer and journalist who was known for his advocacy of educational and cultural issues) , 1953


Box 34 George Edward Woodberry address by John Erskine, 1948, 1 photograph


Box 34 Spinoza Tri-Centennial Celebration Dinner--Hotel Plaza, 1932 November 24, 1 photograph



Box 35 Bob Henry--John Erskine's nurse, 1951


Box 35 John Erskine--last illness, 1949


Box 35 John Erskine--health, 1950


Box 35 John Erskine--funeral--honorary pallbearers, 1951


Box 35 Helen Worden


Box 35 Life with John Erskine, 1931-1961


Box 35 Paris, 1931


Box 35 John Erskine--correspondence, 1927-1949


Box 35 France--New York--power of attorney, 1950


Box 35 John Erskine--The World-Telegram--clippings, 1927-1928


Box 35 Obituaries--John Erskine, 1951


Box 35 Albuquerque, NM, 1943


Box 35 Virginia City, NV, 1945, 1 photograph


Box 35 University of Miami, 1950


Box 35 Coral Gables, FL, 1945-1956


Box 35 George Sidney Hellman (1878-1958) (American author, editor, and rare book, manuscript and art dealer and collector), 1910-1947



Box 36 John Erskine--Correspondence, 1915-1950


Box 36 Correspondence--Cane, Melville Henry (1879-1980) (American poet and lawyer, who studied at Columbia University, and author of the influential book, Making a Poem (1953)), 1926-1951


Box 36 Correspondence--Cane, Melville, Henry--copies , 1899-1909


Box 36 Correspondence--miscellaneous, 1928-1947


Box 36 Christmas Card--Columbia University--C.S.B. to J.E., 1912


Box 36 Fan Mail, 1918-1956


Box 36 Publicity, 1951, 1958


Box 36 Kay Bynum--Southwest Writers Conference, Corpus Christi, TX, 1944-1948


Box 36 John Erskine's world, 1969, undated


Box 36 Holidays, 1936


Box 36 Favorite books, undated


Erskine Library at 452 West 62nd Street, NYC , undated


Box 36 Art gifts, 1949


Box 36 "Erskine, the Reader", Providence Journal, undated


Box 36 John Erskine--social life, 1935, undated


Box 36 Calling card plate , undated


Box 36 List of Bets as to Who Will Succeed Roosevelt in 1936, 1935 April 30


Box 36 Friends


Box 36 Anderson, Arabella, 1969


Box 36 Bosworth, Welles (architect in France), 1935-1948


Box 36 Joseph-Felix Bouchor (French artist, 1853-1937), 1920


Box 36 de Lima, Charles (re, France), 1947


Box 36 Conklin, Neve (friend of Georges Barriere), 1951


Box 36 Columbia University--Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1945


Box 36 Columbia University--Matthews, Brander, 1916


Box 36 Cooper, Jack, 1940-1941


Box 36 Crane, Josephine B. (socialite and wife of U.S. Senator Winthrop Murray Crane) , 1947


Box 36 Crawford, J.G., 1918-1920


Box 36 de Mille, Clara and William, 1946


Box 36 Fowler, Gene, 1851


Box 36 The Grand Duchess Marie, 1947


Box 36 Knopf, Alfred and Blanche, 1934-1942


Box 36 Miller, Margaret (John Erskine's secretary), 1960


Box 36 Oursler, Fulton and Grace, 1936


Box 36 Peaslee, Amos, 1942


Box 36 Qouleo, Cecile--relatives of, 1948


Box 36 Mailing Lists, 1940-1947


Box 36 George H. Doran--Invitation to meet Edgar Wallace, 1929


Box 36 Students--Columbia University--Ferris Greenslet, 1944


Box 36 Héléne Boussinesq, 1924-1934


Box 36 Hervey Allen, 1926


Box 36 Correspondence--Miscellaneous, 192-1957


Box 36 St. John's College in Annapolis, MD--Catalogues, 1938, 1952



Box 37 George Catlin, II, 1933


Box 37 Newcomb Carlton, 1938


Box 37 Anais Nin--Hugh Guiler, 1924-1931


Box 37 Thanassis Aghnides, Greek Ambassador, U.N., 1946


Box 37 Marie Doro (Stewart), 1951


Box 37 Harold Reilly, 1947, 1949


Box 37 Father Vincent Donovan, 1942


Box 37 Simone de Caillavet (1894-1968) (wife of the French author André Maurois (1885-1967)), 1942, 1968


Box 37 Richard Aldrich (1863-1937) (American music critic), 1937


Box 37 Ethel Louise Donaldson Waldo and George C. Waldo (Editor, The Bridgeport Post and Telegram) , 1943


Box 37 Haniel Clark Long (1888-1956) (American poet, novelist, publisher and academic), 1946


Box 37 Winthrop Ames (1870-1937) (American theatre director and producer, playwright and screenwriter), 1936


Box 37 George Bellows (1882-1925) (American painter) [t.l.s. to John Erskine [removed to cataloged correspondence] , 1924 January 8


Box 37 Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) (American literary critic, biographer, and historian)


Box 37 Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (American writer and playwright), circa 1951 January 11


Box 37 Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, PhD (1876-1939) (Richmond, VA); Lewis Parke Chamberlayne (1879-1917) (Professor, U. of South Carolina), 1909-1914, 1934-1936


Box 37 Anna George de Mille (1878–1947) (American feminist and Georgism [the single tax movement] advocate), 1924-1946


Box 37 William Cole Esty (1895-1954) (William Esty Co., Inc. [advertising]) , 1949


Box 37 Leonora Speyer (1872-1956) (American poet and violinist), 1955-1956


Box 37 Erskine letter to Mary Rose Sciarra Himler Bradford (writer) (wife of Roark Bradford (1896-1947) (American short story writer and novelist), 1947


Box 37 Captain John Gade, Bob Utter, Dave Hennen Morris, 1942


Box 37 Franklin P. Adams, re: Edward B. Marks, 1944


Box 37 Forrest Davis (Editor, Denver Rocky Mountain News), 1936


Box 37 Edward Harding, friend, W.T.W., 1942


Box 37 Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) (American sculptor and landscape architect) , 1921, 1929


Box 37 Martin Archer Flavin (1883-1967) (American playwright and novelist), 1947


Box 37 Leonebel Jacobs (1883-1967) (American portrait painter, writer, sculptor), 1937, 1963


Box 37 Carl Engel (1883-1944) (French-born American pianist, composer, musicologist, who was also president of G. Schirmer, Inc.) , 1935-1943


Box 37 Ruth Draper, 1937


Box 37 Philip Gordon, undated


Box 37 Marcia Davenport, 1932


Box 37 Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza (1887-1955) (Chairman of the Government Junta of Chile (1932), and secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) (1954-1955)), 1944-1945


Box 37 Mary Davenport, 1938-1949


Box 37 Jo Davidson (1883-1952) (American sculptor) , 1939-1948


Box 37 Vernon Mansfield Davis (1855-1931) (a justice of the New York Supreme Court (1st Judicial District (1902-1925)), undated


Box 37 Harry Hansen (1884-1977) (Literary critic, New York World-Telegram), 1932-1948


Box 37 Henry S. Drinker (1880-1965) (American lawyer and amateur musicologist), 1934-1942


Box 37 Philip J. McCook (1873-1963) (New York Supreme Court Justice), 1949


Box 37 Norwich University--U.S. Major General Ernest N. Harmon (lecture invitation), 1952


Box 37 Walter Damrosch (1862-1950) (German-born American conductor and composer) and family, 1929-1947


Box 37 José Ferrer (1912-1992) (Puerto Rican actor, film director and theatre director) [1 letter removed for cataloging], 1952-1953


Box 37 Caroline King Duer (1865-1956) (Editor at Vogue magazine and writer), 1949


Box 37 Dartmouth College--Roy Bullard Chamberlin (1887-1966) (Chapel Director, Dartmouth College), 1935


Box 37 Sibyl Sophie Julia, Lady Colefax (nee, Halsey) (1874-1950) (English interior decorator and socialite), 1926-1930


Box 37 Episcopal Church, 1935


Box 37 Rev. Dr. William W. Bellinger (1863-1943) (Vicar, St. Agnes Protestant Episcopal Church, Trinity Parish (1908-1943)) , 1928-1936


Clubs


Box 37 "The Bohemians" (New York Musicians' Club), 1950


Box 37 Columbia University Club, 1951


Box 37 The Lotos Club, 1929


Box 37 The MacDowell Colony, 1932-1966


Box 37 Benefit--Carnegie Hall , 1917, 1926


Box 37 Chandler, Frank W., 1943


Box 37 Marian MacDowell (nee. Marian Griswold Nevins) (1857-1956) (American pianist and philanthropist) , 1937-1950


Box 37 Working Plan, 1932, 1949


Box 37 American Library in Paris, 1947


Box 37 Friends of Columbia Libraries, 1964


Box 37 MacDowell Colony, 1922



Box 38 Aspen Institute, 1950


Box 38 The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1949


Box 38 French Institute, 1941-1950


Box 38 American Writers Association, Inc. — John Erskine, National Chairman, 1946-1947


Box 38 Metropolitan Opera, 1931-1950


Box 38 Authors Club, 1916-1926


Box 38 Beaune Association, 1921-1948


Box 38 John Erskine newspaper clippings, 1920s


Box 38 French organizations, undated


Box 38 Century Club, 1939-1951


Box 38 The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1951


Box 38 The Screen Writers' Guild — The Screen Writer, 1946 July, 1946 October


Box 38 The Poetry Society of America, 1947, 1951


Box 38 The Grolier Society, 1937


Box 38 Public Use of Arts Committee, 1938-1939, 1952


Box 38 St. Agatha School for Girls, 1935, 1937

Series V: Other Materials



Box 15 Correspondence, 1909-1949, 3 folders


Manuscripts


Box 15 "Heart's Enduring", 1914 January 15, undated, 2 copies


Box 15 "Learning to Read", 1914 July 2


Box 15 Address--Notes--The Hill School [Pottstown, PA], 1915 June 8


Box 15 "At the Front" [First Impressions], undated


Box 15 "Champlain", undated


Box 15 "Childhood", undated


Box 15 "Immortal Things", undated


Box 15 "Legend", undated


Box 15 "Our Diary", undated


Publications


Box 15 Poem: "Actaeon" in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, vol. LXIII, no. 3 at pp. 379-382 , 1902 January


Box 15 "Noblesse Oblige" A Romance in Verse by de Mille, William C. and John Erskine. The Metropolitan Magazine at pp. 72-81 , 1907



Box 16 Awards, 1918-1936


Box 16 John Erskine, Chairman, Educational Commission, U.S. Civilian Distinguished Service Medal, 1918


Box 16 Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914–1918 [Commemorative Medal of the War 1914–1918] , created by Act of June 23, 1920


Box 16 Medal awarded by The Poetry Society of America in Appreciation of His Presidency (1922-1924), 1924


Box 16 Authors Club Memorial Fund Alexander Finta Walt Whitman / Prometheus Bronze Medallion Medal, 1925


Box 16 National Broadcasting Company 10th Anniversary Medal--To Those Who Have Shared With Us In The Advancement Of Broadcasting , 1936


Box 16 Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor--Medal, undated


Box 16 David Bispham Memorial Medal, undated


Box 16 Honorary Degree


Box 16 Honorary degree Doctor of Humanities--Citation--Boston University , 1935 June 10


Box 16 Portrait of John Erskine--Artist: Joseph-Felix Bouchor (French, 1853-1937)--signed 'J-F. Bouchor' (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed in French (on the lower right)--'Au nj ['nj' = Jean] Erskine / Paris 4 avril 1919 / en souvenir de mon affection / J-F. Bouchor' ['To nj [John] Erskine / Paris April 4 1919 / in memory of my affection / J-F. Butcher']--oil sketch on paper--[3 15/16 x 5 7/16 in. (10.0 x 13.8 cm.)], 1919 April 4



Box 17 Documents, 1895-1947


Box 17 MacDowell Colony--Correspondence, 1931-1948


Box 17 Miscellaneous--Correspondence, 1914-1951


Box 17 Musical Scores, 1947


Box 17 My Life as a Teacher--Manuscript--Draft, 1948


Box 17 Phi Beta Kappa--Correspondence and t.ms., 1931-1948


Box 17 Photographs


Box 17 Printed Materials, 1900-1964


Box 17 The Start of the Road--Manuscript--Draft



Box 19 Columbia Publications


Box 19 The Columbian , 1910


Box 19 The Columbian [Dedicated to John Erskine], 1921


Box 19 Grade Book--English Classes, 1909-1912


Box 19 Grade Book--English Classes, 1915-1917


Box 19 Grade Book--English Classes, 1921-1924


Box 19 Grade Book--English Classes, 1925-1927


Box 19 The Naughty-Naughtian: Being the book of the class of 1900... , 11 June 1900



Box 20 Columbia songs [compiled by a committee appointed by the Alumni Council, Burnet C. Tuthill, editor in chief, R. Arrowsmith, chairman], 1913


Box 20 Columbia songs [compiled by a committee appointed by the Alumni Council, Burnet C. Tuthill ... [et al.]], 1924


Box 20 Lecture, class notes, and correspondence with parents , 1904-1922, 2 folders



Box 21 Miscellanous Notes



Box 24 Printed Materials--Works by John Erskine, 1899-1942


Box 24 Printed Materials — Works by J. Erskine


Box 24 Erskine, John, "MacDowell at Columbia: Some Reflections", The Musical Quarterly, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, 1942 October



Box 25 Correspondence, 1895-1930


Box 25 John Erskine to James Morrison Erskine (1851-1916) (JE's father; owner of Erskine and Company a silk factory) , 1895, 1907, 2 folders


Box 25 John Erskine to Eliza Jane Erskine (née Hollingsworth) (JE's mother) , 1907, 1918-1919, 2 folders


Box 25 John Erskine to Rhoda Erskine (1892-1934) (JE's sister. Barnard College (Class, 1915); taught general history and literature at the Juilliard School), 1907-1930


Box 25 John Erskine to others, 1918, undated


Box 25 John Erskine to Santa Claus, 1889, undated


Box 25 Toby Baxter to John Erskine, 1923 December 30


Box 25 Scrapbook--My Life as a Teacher (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1948)--Correspondence and Reviews, 1948-1949


Box 25 Gentle reader monthly magazine , 1931 July



Box 27 Articles by J. Erskine (printed), 1907-1970

Series VI: Books



Box 18 Books



Box 22 Books



Box 23 Books



Box B1 Books



Box B2 Books



Box B3 Books



Box B4 Books



Box B5 Books



Box B6 Books



Box B7 Books



Box B8 Books

Series VII: Presented Books



Box PB1 Presented books



Box PB2 Presented books



Box PB3 Presented books



Box PB4 Presented books



Box PB5 Presented books



Box PB6 Presented books



Box PB7 Presented books



Box PB8 Presented books



Box PB9 Presented books



Box PB10 Presented books



Box PB11 Presented books