Geoffrey Parsons papers, 1919-1959
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0979
- Bib ID:
- 4079207 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Parsons, Geoffrey, 1879-1956
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 4 linear feet (8 boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, notebooks, memorabilia, a tape cassette, photographs, and printed materials. The collection is primarily correspondence files, both personal and professional, along with book reviews, awards and diplomas, letters of condolence on his death, clippings, and correspondence, manuscripts and printed materials relating to THE STREAM OF HISTORY. The correspondence relates specifically to the third edition. The manuscripts are typed and holograph inserts for the third edition and possibly for the second edition as well. Among the manuscripts are twenty-two notebooks containing holograph notes and drafts of chapters. The printed material consists of one copy of THE STREAM OF HISTORY, 1934 edition.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Geoffrey Parsons papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Mrs. John C. Long, 1988, 1990, 1991& 1993.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Mrs. John C. Long. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/07/88. Accession number--M-88-07-12.
Letters of Lawrence Gilman et al: Source of acquisition--Long, Mary P. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--03/29/93. Accession number--M-93-03-29.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Processed 08/22/89.
Letters of Lawrence Gilman et al Cataloged HR 01/11/94.
Biographical / Historical
Journalist and author. Parsons was chief editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune from 1924 until 1952, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Earlier he had been an editorial writer for The Sun from 1901 until 1913 when he joined the Herald Tribune.
Subject Headings
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| Articles |
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| Audiocassettes |
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| Awards |
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| Bills (financial) |
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| Certificates |
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| Correspondence |
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| Drafts (documents) |
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| Editorials |
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| Essays |
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| Interviews |
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| Invitations |
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| Manuscripts (documents) |
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| Memorabilia |
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| Notebooks |
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| Obituaries |
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| Photographs |
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| Poems |
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| Reviews (documents) |
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| Adams, Franklin P (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 |
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| Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989 |
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| Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965 |
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| Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012 |
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| Beebe, Lucius, 1902-1966 |
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| Bonnet, Henri, 1888-1978 |
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| Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969 |
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| Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 |
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| Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 |
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| Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 |
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| Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 |
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| Cleland, T. M (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964 |
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| Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 |
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| Curie, Eve, 1904-2007 |
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| Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950 |
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| Davis, Elmer, 1890-1958 |
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| Dewey, Thomas E (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 |
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| Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 |
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| Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959 |
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| Duranty, Walter, 1884-1957 |
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| Finkelstein, Louis, 1895-1991 |
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| Folks, Homer, 1867-1963 |
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| Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 |
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| Galantière, Lewis, 1895-1977 |
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| Gallup, George, 1901-1984 |
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| Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 |
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| Gunther, John, 1901-1970 |
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| Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959 |
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| Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 |
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| Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 |
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| Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966 |
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| Hough, Henry Beetle, 1896-1985 |
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| Hu, Shi, 1891-1962 |
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| Ickes, Harold L (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 |
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| Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986 |
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| Kennedy, Joseph P (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 |
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| La Guardia, Fiorello H (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947 |
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| Landon, Alfred M (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 |
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| Lehman, Herbert H (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963 |
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| Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976 |
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| Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 |
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| Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985 |
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| Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 |
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| MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 |
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| Marquis, Don, 1878-1937 |
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| Michener, James A (James Albert), 1907-1997 |
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| Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942 |
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| Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 |
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| Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967 |
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| Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 |
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| Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 |
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| O'Hara, John, 1905-1970 |
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| Perkins, Maxwell E (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947 |
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| Rockefeller, John D., Jr (John Davison), 1874-1960 |
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| Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 |
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| Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951 |
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| Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-1978 |
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| Shirer, William L (William Lawrence), 1904-1993 |
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| Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965 |
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| Stassen, Harold E (Harold Edward), 1907-2001 |
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| Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 |
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| Vandenberg, Arthur H (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951 |
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| Ward, Barbara, 1914-1981 |
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| Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961 |
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| White, E. B (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985 |
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| White, William Allen, 1868-1944 |
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| Willkie, Wendell L (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944 |
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| Authors, American -- 20th century |
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| Civilization -- History |
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| Evolution |
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| History -- Philosophy |
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| Journalism |
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| Journalists -- United States -- 20th century |
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| World history |
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