Randolph Silliman Bourne Papers, 1910-1966

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Series III: Materials on Bourne, by others, 1918-1994

Series III includes works by others about Bourne, such as correspondence, biographers' handwritten notes, and publications. All, or nearly all, of these materials were written after Bourne's death. Series III also includes posthumous publications of Bourne's work.



Box 9 Fenninger, Natalie Bourne letter to Esther Cornell, 1918 December 26


Box 9 Bourne, Sarah Randolph letters to Esther Cornell, 1919 January 13, February 18, (2 folders)


Box 9 R. S. Bourne, by S. A. Sacks, undated



Box 12 The Dial and The Liberator with James Oppenheim's elegy for Randolph Bourne,, 1919



Box 20 The Dial , 1920 January



Box 9 Letters to Agnes de Lima regarding Bourne, 1920, 1947-1955, (8 folders)


Box 9 Assorted manuscripts about, belonging to, or otherwise related to Bourne, circa 1910-1960



Box 10 Letters written to John Moreau relating to his Randolph Bourne: Legend and Reality (Washington Public Affairs Press, 1966)

The letters are from persons who knew Bourne and who read Moreau's manuscript.



Box 20 Biographers' notes and clippings, circa 1910s-1940s


Box 20 Louis Filler's notes on Randolph Bourne, circa 1940s


Box 20 Clippings about Randolph Bourne, circa 1940s


Box 20 Proofs from Bourne section of American Writers, published by Scribner's, 1974

Sent to Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarian Kenneth Lohf by the publisher.


Box 20 Louis Filler, Randolph Bourne (Washington, D.C.: American Council on Public Affairs, 1943)., 1943


Box 20 Olaf Hansen (ed.), Randolph Bourne: The Radical Will (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977)., 1977


Box 20 Jeroen Staring, "F. Mattias Alexander, Randolph Bourne, and John Dewey: Playing Detective with Man's Supreme Inheritance," (Nijmegen, Netherlands: Druk and Vorm, 1994)., 1994