Robert Joseph Flaherty papers, 1884-1970

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Series I: General correspondence


Cataloged correspondence:

On microfilm reels MN#1901 and 1902



Box 1 Folder 1 Aldrich, Chester Holmes, 1934-10-19


Box 1 Folder 2 Allégret, Marc, 1939-02-13


Box 1 Folder 3 Anand, Mulk Raj, 1936-11-22


Box 1 Folder 4 Anderson, Eleanor G., 1949-06-18


Box 1 Folder 5-11 Benoit-Levy, Jean, 1948-09-06-1956-05-07


Box 1 Folder 12-13 Betjeman, Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode, 1937-05-23-1937-09-07


Box 1 Folder 14 Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1947-10-16


Box 1 Folder 15-16 Bromfield, Louis, 1937-03-30-1941


Box 1 Folder 17-22 Bunker, Ellsworth, 1945-10-26-1958-06-07


Box 1 Folder 23-32 Bynner, Witter, 1938-10-18-1947


Box 1 Folder 33-35 Caswell, Edward C., 1950-02-19-1959-07-20


Box 1 Folder 36-43 Collier, John, 1937-02-05-1941


Box 1 Folder 44 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves, 1951-07-25


Box 1 Folder 45-50 Davidson, Jo, 1948-10-27-1949-11-17


Box 1 Folder 51 Doubleday, Russell, 1934-12-12


Box 1 Folder 52-62 Duranty, Walter, 1944-08-25-1945-03-17


Box 1 Folder 63 Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1928-07-20


Box 1 Folder 64-66 Epstein, Jacob, 1934-1937-05-05


Box 1 Folder 67-68 Epstein, Margaret Gilmour Dunlop, 1935-02-06-1938-10-05


Box 1 Folder 69-70 Evans, Montgomery, 1939-06-30-1939-09-26


Box 1 Folder 71-115 Flaherty, Robert J., 1906-1919



Box 2 Folder 1-110 Flaherty, Robert J., 1920-1930



Box 3 Folder 1-144 Flaherty, Robert J., 1931-1951



Box 4 Folder 1 Flanner, Jannet, 1941-12-04


Box 4 Folder 2-6 Flower, Robin Ernest William, 1932-03-28-1936-12-25


Box 4 Folder 7 Ford, Henry, 1949-04-21


Box 4 Folder 8 Freeman, Joseph, 1930-12-15


Box 4 Folder 9-10 Freuchen, Peter, 1939-1953-10-12


Box 4 Folder 11-16 Gibbings, Robert, 1938-06-26-1938-12-8


Box 4 Folder 17 Gish, Lillian, 1951-07-25


Box 4 Folder 18 Glenavy, Charles Campbell, ca. 1932


Box 4 Folder 19-46 Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1934-05-06-1957-08-08


Box 4 Folder 47-54 Grierson, John, 1936-07-01-1962-03-15


Box 4 Folder 55 Haddon, Alfred Cort, 1932-02-07


Box 4 Folder 56-63 Hall, Norman, 1928-01-20-1944-06-12


Box 4 Folder 64 Huston, John, 1948-01-15


Box 4 Folder 65 Huston, John, 1953-10-09


Box 4 Folder 66 Huxley, Aldous, 1939-12-22


Box 4 Folder 67-84 Huxley, (Sir) Julian, 1934-04-27-1943-11-28


Box 4 Folder 85 Ingram, Rex, 1924-12-10


Box 4 Folder 86 Jooss, Kurt, 1938-08-04


Box 4 Folder 87-88 Kauffer, Edward McKnight, 1941-12-04-1951-08-08


Box 4 Folder 89-91 Lord, Russell, 1940-05-23-1942-01-13


Box 4 Folder 92 Komroff, Manuel, 1941-11-26


Box 4 Folder 93 Korda, Alexander, 1936-12-31


Box 4 Folder 94-95 Lasky, Jesse L., 1924-09-26-1931-06-30


Box 4 Folder 96 Leslie, (Sir) Shane, 1934-06-20


Box 4 Folder 97-99 Lord, Russell, 1939-09-04-1940-03-08


Box 4 Folder 100-102 Keating, John, 1932-10-12-1932-12-30


Box 4 Folder 103 Keller, Helen, 1949-11-29


Box 4 Folder 104 Kent, Rockwell, 1940-04-10


Box 4 Folder 105-133 Lord, Russell, 1942-01-15-1959-12-25


Box 4 Folder 134-137 Lorentz, Pare, 1938-07-07-1939-05-31


Box 4 Folder 138-140 Losey, Joseph, 1935-02-19-1942-08-11


Box 4 Folder 141-143 Luhan, Mabel Dodge



Box 5 Folder 1 McBride, Mary Margaret, 1947-12-18


Box 5 Folder 2-3 Machen, Arthur, 1938-07-07-1938-07-20


Box 5 Folder 4 MacManus, Seumas, 1935-01-04


Box 5 Folder 5 Malraus, André, 1965-09-13


Box 5 Folder 6 Marshall, Herbert, 1938-07-12


Box 5 Folder 7 Massey, Vincent, 1937-06-02


Box 5 Folder 8-9 Mielziner, Jo, 1944-11-27-1948-06-02


Box 5 Folder 10 Morot-Sir, Edouard, 1959-07-13


Box 5 Folder 11-67 Mullen, Pat, 1934-1962


Box 5 Folder 68-69 Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1930-01-16-1930-10-11


Box 5 Folder 70 O'Flaherty, Tom, 1934-07-20


Box 5 Folder 71-72 Ormandy, Eugene, 1948-04-23-1948-09-21


Box 5 Folder 73 Oursler, Fulton, 1936-12-18


Box 5 Folder 74 Parsons, Geoffrey, 1948-01-30


Box 5 Folder 75-93 Peacock, (Sir) Edward Robert, 1935-02-13-1939-10-18


Box 5 Folder 94 Peacock, Katherine Coates (Lady), 1937-04-08


Box 5 Folder 95-96 Perkins, Maxwell E., 1937-10-29-1937-12-23


Box 5 Folder 97-105 Perkins, Maxwell, 1938-03-29-1942-11-06


Box 5 Folder 106 Pinchot, Gifford, 1931-03-19


Box 5 Folder 107 Rank, Joseph Arthur Rank, Baron, 1955-04-06


Box 5 Folder 108 Pinchot, Gifford, 1931-07-30


Box 5 Folder 109-112 Ray, Satyajit, 1957-12-28-1958-07-05


Box 5 Folder 113-131 Renoir, Dido Freire (Mrs. Jean), 1939-02-14-1944


Box 5 Folder 132-151 Renoir, Jean, 1939-1951



Box 6 Folder 1 Roper, Elmo, 1951-08-06


Box 6 Folder 2-48 Rotha, Paul, 1938-08-08-1963-08-07


Box 6 Folder 49 Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1957-10-02


Box 6 Folder 50-54 Sabu, 1938


Box 6 Folder 55 Sedgwick, Ellery, 1942-08-13


Box 6 Folder 56 Selznick, David O., 1941-08-08


Box 6 Folder 57 Serkin, Rudolf


Box 6 Folder 58 Siegmeister, Elie, 1947-09-12


Box 6 Folder 59 Stieglitz, Alfred, 1934-11-08


Box 6 Folder 60 Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1951-07-27


Box 6 Folder 61 Strother, French


Box 6 Folder 62 Sutherland, (Sir) John Donald, 1935-02-12


Box 6 Folder 63 Swanson, Gloria


Box 6 Folder 64-70 Tallents, (Sir) Stephen, 1938-06-03-1953-10-13


Box 6 Folder 71-86 Thomas, Lowell, 1937-04-15-1966-04-13


Box 6 Folder 87 Trapp, Agathe, and others, 1941-08-01


Box 6 Folder 88 Trapp, Hedwig, 1941-08-07


Box 6 Folder 89 Trapp, Maria Augusta Kutschera von, 1952-10-06


Box 6 Folder 90 Udall, Stewart, 1961-12-15


Box 6 Folder 91-92 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1954-06-13


Box 6 Folder 93-101 Walpole, Hugh, 1937-05-21-1938-06-18


Box 6 Folder 102-105 Wagner, Walter F., 1939-04-15-1939-06-10


Box 6 Folder 106 Waugh, Alec, 1948-12-15


Box 6 Folder 107-108 Welles, Orson, 1940-1941-06-13


Box 6 Folder 109 White, William Allen, 1934-10-22


Box 6 Folder 110-112 Whitney, John Hay, 1948-10-13-1951-10-29


Box 6 Folder 113-114 Young, Roland, 1948-09-28-1951-07-24


Box 6 Folder 115-134 Zinnemann, Fred, 1935-01-26-1966-03-27


General correspondence:



Box 7 1916-1937 & undated, 1916-1937, undated

On microfilm reel MN#1903



Box 8 1938-1942

On microfilm reels MN#1903 & 1904



Box 9 1943 - 1949

On microfilm reels MN#1904 & 1905


Box 9 Letter from Robert Flaherty to William Edwin Rudge, circa 1946-1947

Accn: 2016.2017.M084. Gift of Joanna Rudge Long



Box 10 1950-1951 & letters of condolence at the death of R.J.F., 1950-1951

On microfilm reel MN#1905


Family correspondence



Box 11 Frances Hubbard Flaherty (Mrs. Robert J.)

On microfilm reel MN#1906



Box 12 Barbara Lee Flaherty and her family

On microfilm reel MN#1907



Box 13 Frances Farnham Flaherty and her family (Burns)

On microfilm reel MN#1908



Box 14 Monica Lambard Flaherty and her husband (Frassetto)

On microfilm reel MN#1908 & 1909


Box 14 Misc. family members

On microfilm reels MN#1908 & 1909