Manuel Komroff papers, 1897-1979

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Abbott, Wilbur Cortez


Box 1 Anderson, Sherwood


Box 1 Antheil, George


Box 1 Archer, William


Box 1 Atkinson, Brooks


Box 1 Bacon, Ernst


Box 1 Bernays, Edward L.


Box 1 Boni, Albert


Box 1 Bosschère, Jean de


Box 1 Bruce, Edward


Box 1 Cabell, James Branch


Box 1 Caldwell, Erskine


Box 1 Chute, Marchette


Box 1 Clemens, Cyril


Box 1 Commins, Dorothy B. (Mrs. Saxe)


Box 1 Cournos, John


Box 1 Crawford, Jack Randall


Box 1 Crowley, Aleister


Box 1 Croy, Homer


Box 1 deMille, Cecil B.


Box 1 Dreiser, Theodore


Box 1 Durant, Will & Ariel


Box 1 Edmunds, John


Box 1 Ferriss, Hugh


Box 1 Frank, Waldo David


Box 1 Giles, Herbert A.


Box 1 Gingrich, Arnold


Box 1 Gogarty, Oliver St. John


Box 1 Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson


Box 1 Gregory, Augusta Persse (Lady)


Box 1 Hellman, Lillian


Box 1 Henri, Robert


Box 1 Horan, James D.


Box 1 Johnson, Nelson Trusler


Box 1 Joyce, James


Box 1 Kallen, Horace Meyer


Box 1 Kantor, MacKinlay


Box 1 Kemp, Harry Hibbard


Box 1 Kennedy, Edward M.


Box 1 Kennedy, Robert Francis


Box 1 Köhler, Wolfgang


Box 1 Komroff, Manuel



Box 1A Liveright, Horace


Box 1A MacCracken, Henry Noble


Box 1A Mac Veagh, Lincoln


Box 1A Marsh, Reginald


Box 1A Masters, Edgar Lee


Box 1A Mearns, Hughes


Box 1A Mencken, Henry Louis


Box 1A Moore, George


Box 1A Morris, Ira V.


Box 1A O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington


Box 1A O'Keeffe, Georgia


Box 1A O'Neill, Carlotta Monteray


Box 1A O'Neill, Eugene


Box 1A Pach, Walter


Box 1A Pound, Ezra


Box 1A Ray, Man


Box 1A Ross, Charles Griffith


Box 1A Russell, Bertrand


Box 1A Santayana, George


Box 1A Schonberg, Harold


Box 1A Sheaffer, Louis


Box 1A Simon, Richard Leo


Box 1A Smith, Lillian


Box 1A Schonberg, Harold


Box 1A Steegmuller, Francis


Box 1A Stein, Leo


Box 1A Stieglitz, Alfred


Box 1A Van Loon, Hendrick Willem


Box 1A Weeks, Edward Augustus, Jr.


Box 1A Wilder, Thornton


Box 1A Woodward, William E.


Box 1A Wright, Frank Lloyd


Box 1A Zigrosser, Carl


Box 1A Zorach, William

Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts



Box 2 Archer, William. Lidia

a.ms.s., 85p. & t.ms.s., 79p.


Box 2 Bacon, Ernst. A Christmas Canon

a.ms.s., 1p. (musical. score)


Box 2 Brant, Henry. Decision

a.ms.s., 9p. (musical score)


Box 2 French, Joseph Lewis--Books by Joseph Lewis French

t.ms. 2p.


Box 2 Kronenberger, Louis. Gambler in Publishing: Horace Liveright

Galley proofs, 15p.


Box 2 Liveright, Horace. [Autobiography]

t.ms., 207p.


Box 2 O'Neill, Eugene. Strange Interlude

Galley proofs, 99p.


Box 2 Wilde, Oscar. The Unpublished Parts of De Profundis

t.ms., 2, 1, 70p.

Series III: Cataloged Photographs


Box 2 Durant, Will and Ariel, undated

n.p., n.d.; Photograph, inscribed and signed.


Box 2 Durant, Will and Ariel, 1971

(Los Angeles?] 1971; Photograph, inscribed and signed.

Series IV: Uncataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts



Box 2A Applequist, Arnold


Box 2A Atkinson, Brooks


Box 2A Authors Guild


Box 2A Avrich, Paul


Box 2A Baskin, Alex


Box 2A Beatty, Warren


Box 2A Belsky, Bel


Box 2A Bina, Clarence A.


Box 2A Birenbaum, William M.


Box 2A Black, Janeth


Box 2A Blacker, Robert


Box 2A Blotner, Joseph


Box 2A Boch, Alfred


Box 2A Boni, Nell


Box 2A Book Bank USA


Box 2A Boston University


Box 2A Buckler, Ernest


Box 2A Burack, A. S.


Box 2A Burg, Norman Nils


Box 2A Cerf, Bennett


Box 2A Chubb, Thomas Caldecott


Box 2A Circle of Confusion


Box 2A Clemens, Cyril


Box 2A Cohen, Herman


Box 2A Cohen, Lester


Box 2A Columbia University


Box 2A Consumers Reports


Box 2A Consumers Union


Box 2A Cook, Fred J.


Box 2A Cooper, Arthur Bryan


Box 2A Cooper, Lou


Box 2A Daniel, Clifton


Box 2A Danliov, Stephen Joseph


Box 2A Donaghy, Jack T.


Box 2A Dudgeon, Mollie


Box 2A duPont de Nemours & Co.


Box 2A Eaton Paper Co.


Box 2A Ellis, Donna


Box 2A Farmer, David


Box 2A Feder, U.A. (Abe)


Box 2A Foulke, Emerson


Box 2A Fontana Paperbacks


Box 2A Ford, Hugh


Box 2A Fortas, Abe


Box 2A Gaede, Jean


Box 2A Gatner, Elliott


Box 2A Gordon, Morris


Box 2A Grand Union Company


Box 2A Greene, William M.


Box 2A Gübelin, Inc.


Box 2A Hartley, Wesley S.


Box 2A Harvey, Ruby M.


Box 2A Hayden, Julie H.


Box 2A Hershey, Burnet


Box 2A Hoffman, Bud


Box 2A Honeywell, Inc.


Box 2A Ingher, Maury


Box 2A Jackson, Martha


Box 2A Jones, Danny W.


Box 2A Jones, Mrs. Toni


Box 2A Kallen, Rachel (Mrs. Horace Meyer)


Box 2A Kallen, Horace Meyer


Box 2A Katz, Matthew A.


Box 2A Kaye, Marjorie


Box 2A Kemp, Harry


Box 2A Kennedy, Edward


Box 2A Kertész, André


Box 2A Klopfer, Donald S.


Box 2A Koss, Mrs. Fay


Box 2A Kover, Joseph


Box 2A Lafayette Electronics


Box 2A Landesman, Ruth


Box 2A Lawrence, Joseph A.


Box 2A Lee, Wei-Koo


Box 2A Lester, Henry M.


Box 2A Locke, Charles


Box 2A Look


Box 2A McClellan, John


Box 2A Marek, Hannelore & Mrs. H.


Box 2A Martel Electronics


Box 2A Massey, L. R.


Box 2A Merrifield, Gail


Box 2A Michailovsky, Boyd


Box 2A Michailovsky, Eugene


Box 2A Mielke, Thelma


Box 2A Minkoff, George Robert


Box 2A Montgomery, James A.


Box 2A Morris, Edeta & Ivan


Box 2A Mowrer, Hadley (Mrs. Paul Scott)


Box 2A Mowrer, Paul Scott


Box 2A New York Times


Box 2A Overseas Press Club


Box 2A Pachner, William


Box 2A Padover, Saul K.


Box 2A Parker, Robert Allerton


Box 2A Philadelphia Museum of Art


Box 2A Philips, Sidney


Box 2A Poli, Kenneth


Box 2A Reiss, Malcolm


Box 2A Reynolds, Charles


Box 2A Robinson, Frank K.


Box 2A Robuck, Michael J.


Box 2A Rosenstone, Robert A.


Box 2A Samuel, C. K.


Box 2A Schlaefer, C. J.


Box 2A Schloemer, C. J.


Box 2A Sigurdsson, Olafur Johann


Box 2A Simmonds, Roy S.


Box 2A Smith, Wendell


Box 2A Sobral, Geraldo


Box 2A Soman, Arthur


Box 2A Sonnentag, E(?) Jr.


Box 2A Speicher, Eugene


Box 2A Stevens, Dorcy Cole (Mrs. Stanford)


Box 2A Strating, J. J.


Box 2A Strout, Richard


Box 2A Sutton, William A


Box 2A Tavuchis, Dr. S. C.


Box 2A Tisch, William and Dana


Box 2A Tobin, Monica H.


Box 2A United-Statas Post Office


Box 2A Weston, Cole


Box 2A Weyhe, E., Co.


Box 2A Whittemore, Reed


Box 2A Wilder, Thornton


Box 2A Witkin, Lee D.


Box 2A Wright, Frank Lloyd


Box 2A Yoken, Melvin B.


Box 2A Zamm, Alfred V.


Box 2A Letters of condolence to Elinor M. Barnard (Mrs. Komroff), 1974-1975


Box 2A Miscellaneous


Box 2A Miscellaneous--about Komroff

Series V: Manuscripts by Komroff



Box 3 Abbé Doret's secret


Box 3 An accident


Box 3 Aesop and the oracle of Thebes


Box 3 All for love, and love for all


Box 3 All in our day


Box 3 Alone the stranger passes


Box 3 Anatomy of a dictator


Box 3 Animals


Box 3 Ants


Box 3 The apple tree saga


Box 3 The arrest of Prince Basil


Box 3 At the feet of Li Po


Box 3 Bakunin - prophet of revolution


Box 3 Barabbas was a robber


Box 3 Baron von Starmer and Beau, the Harlem bouncer


Box 3 The beating of the reed


Box 3 Bees, ants and war


Box 3 Beethoven


Box 3 Beheading of John the Baptist


Box 3 Behind fortune's throne



Box 4 Big city, little boy


Box 4 By the breath of God


Box 4 Carol's career


Box 4 Chapel in the forest


Box 4 Chariot in the sky


Box 4 China's one way gate


Box 4 The Christian bite


Box 4 The Christmas surrender


Box 4 Circle of confusion



Box 5 Come, follow me!


Box 5 Contrary Japan


Box 5 Coronet



Box 6 Creation


Box 6 The cycle of myrrh


Box 6 The dark wanderer


Box 6 David and Goliath


Box 6 A day of pleasure


Box 6 Dear Mikado


Box 6 Death of an outcast


Box 6 The death of Herod


Box 6 The death of Judas


Box 6 Dialogues in the desert


Box 6 The diamond ring


Box 6 Dictators die hard


Box 6 A dog from nowhere


Box 6 Don Quixote rides again


Box 6 An Easter in Spain


Box 6 Echo of evil



Box 7 The end of a long journey


Box 7 The end of Lopez


Box 7 Expect and live


Box 7 A famous place


Box 7 Feast of the jesters


Box 7 The five soldiers


Box 7 The flaxen-haired mannequin


Box 7 Flight into Egypt



Box 8 The fool and death


Box 8 For happiness - an easy step down


Box 8 From civilian to soldier - the process of transformation in America's mass army


Box 8 The garden of Femadia


Box 8 The genial governor of Judea


Box 8 Genot - man of victory


Box 8 George, saint of courage


Box 8 The girl who wept tears of real pearl


Box 8 Give them justice


Box 8 The grace of lambs


Box 8 The great tomorrow


Box 8 The greatest belief of all


Box 8 The greatest story in the world


Box 8 Hamlet's dagger


Box 8 The happy land without a sky


Box 8 Hara-kiri for Japanese generals


Box 8 The hara-kiri of Baron Kura


Box 8 A herd of swine



Box 16 Hidden message

See: The love between Che-lin and Black Goose



Box 8 How Christmas came


Box 8 How does it feel to be free!



Box 6 How to be a dictator

See: Dictators die hard


How to write a novel



Box 9 First draft



Box 10 First draft, corrected


Box 10 Second draft


Box 10 Second draft, revised



Box 11 Notes


Box 11 I am one of you


Box 11 If you were my boy


Box 11 If you were my girl


Box 11 In quest of a heart's desire


Box 11 In the land of Egypt


Box 11 In the name of liberty


Box 11 In the years of Our Lord


Box 11 Introduction

Introduction to Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn.


Box 11 An innocent visitor


Box 11 Invitation to danger


Box 11 I, the tiger



Box 12 Jade star



Box 13 Jade star



Box 14 The joy of waiting


Box 14 Juggler's kiss


Box 14 Kiss Cupid and live


Box 14 The lady & the Titanic


Box 14 The last court


Box 14 The laugh that threatens


Box 14 Lecture notes for novel writing workshop at Columbia University


Box 14 The lepers in the wilderness


Box 14 A letter to the children at Christmas


Box 14 The life and miracles of St. Nicholas


Box 14 Light of the moon



Box 15 A little bedroom far away


Box 15 A little bit of butter


Box 15 The little black box


Box 15 Little forces of nature



Box 4 The little glass heart.

See: The Christian bite.



Box 15 The little master of the sky


Box 15 A little pup from Alaska


Box 15 Live dangerously


Box 15 The Liveright story

Liveright's biography.



Box 16 Lost in Jerusalem


Box 16 The lost song


Box 16 Lots of luck


Box 16 The love between Che-lin and Black Goose


Box 16 The magic bow: a romance of Paganini


Box 16 The magic keyboard


Box 16 The magic of madness


Box 16 Manuel Komroff: the gold standard candidate



Box 17 The march of the hundred


Box 17 Mathew Brady


Box 17 A million franc reward


Box 17 The miracle of miracles


Box 17 Miss Maupassant


Box 17 Miss Robinson Crusoe


Box 17 A morning in court


Box 17 Mozart



Box 18 My friend from Tibet


Box 18 Napoleon's hat under glass



Box 14 Never misspell a name

See: The lady &the Titanic



Box 18 The new class


Box 18 A New York tempest


Box 18 No bad news today


Box 18 O' thunderous drums



Box 19 Out of today's horror

See: The saga humane



Box 18 Over seven million transformed - an account of the new mass army America is building


Box 18 The package fantasy


Box 18 The packed suitcase


Box 18 The passing of a little unit


Box 18 Prince of the captivity


Box 18 Princess Kashmir


Box 18 Private journal


Box 18 Profit by my experience.


Box 18 A publicity stunt



Box 19 A red coat for night


Box 19 Red days and nights


Box 19 The red giant


Box 19 The refined art of stealing


Box 19 Remember December


Box 19 Requiem


Box 19 Return of the Magi


Box 19 Ride of the two thieves


Box 19 Round trip to Japan


Box 19 The saga humane


Box 19 Saint Karl Marx


Box 19 The serpent in Eden


Box 19 The Siamese hands


Box 19 Six men and a boy


Box 19 The slave girl from Judea


Box 19 Smile, little John



Box 20 So you won't talk


Box 20 Something of the sting


Box 20 Somewhere in the Pacific


Box 20 A Spanish episode


Box 20 A star for Bobby


Box 20 The story of Jesus



Box 20A A story teller's world

[Autobiography]. Typescripts, notebooks, photocopies and printed works. Unpubished ms. copyrighted March 20, 1991 under the title: Encounters.



Box 20B A story teller's world

[Autobiography]. Typescripts, notebooks, photocopies and printed works. Unpubished ms. copyrighted March 20, 1991 under the title: Encounters.



Box 20 The story without words


Box 20 The strange masterpiece


Box 20 The Sunday of palms and prophecy


Box 20 Take these things hence


Box 20 The tattooed forehead


Box 20 Telling tales


Box 20 The ten lepers in the wilderness


Box 20 That blowzy goddess fame


Box 20 That bum Weathermore


Box 20 There go the thieves


Box 20 The thousand and first Hollywood night


Box 20 Three strings of pearls


Box 20 Through the terror - and away


Box 20 Thumbs



Box 21 Told in the stars


Box 21 Tomorrow! Tomorrow!


Box 21 Tones


Box 21 Traced in moonlight.


Box 21 The travels of Marco Polo


Box 21 Troubles in hell



Box 22 The twenty-nine minutes


Box 22 The two Mrs. Parringtons


Box 22 Unknown sayings of Jesus


Box 22 The voice of fire


Box 22 Waterloo



Box 23 Waterloo--notes


Box 23 We boys of China.


Box 23 A wedding feast


Box 23 Where rain cannot enter


Box 23 Where the shoe pinches


Box 23 Who wrote this?


Box 23 The whole world is outside


Box 23 Within the arena


Box 23 Within the clockwork


Box 23 The yellow fox


Box 23 Ziggi the clown


Box 23 Untitled historical novel of the Revolutionary Period in New York City--notes on cards


Box 23 Scrapbook of clippings, book reviews, etc.

Series VI: Photographs

Boxes 24A and 24B were part of the 1986 gift.


Photographs



Box 24 Antheil, George


Box 24 Archer, William


Box 24 Armitage, Merle


Box 24 Atkinson, Brooks


Box 24 Bent, Silas


Box 24 Boni, Albert


Box 24 Brickell, Herschel


Box 24 Bruce, Ned


Box 24 Burman, Ben Lucian


Box 24 Burnett, Whit


Box 24 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand


Box 24 Cohn, Louis


Box 24 Cournos, John


Box 24 Cummings, E. E.


Box 24 Durant, Will


Box 24 Duranty, Walter


Box 24 Frankl, Paul T.


Box 24 Fuller, Buckminster


Box 24 Gordon, Withold


Box 24 Green, Andrew


Box 24 Jagendorf, Moritz


Box 24 Kerr, Stewart


Box 24 Komroff, Manuel


Box 24 Kuniyoshi, Yasuo


Box 24 Linscott, Robert


Box 24 McClellan, John


Box 24 Mattei, Toni


Box 24 Moss, Arthur


Box 24 O'Brien, Edward J.


Box 24 O'Neill, Eugene


Box 24 Parker, Robert Allerton


Box 24 Ramsey, Terry


Box 24 Rascoe, Burton


Box 24 Reiner, Fritz


Box 24 Smith, Thomas R.


Box 24 Stein, Leo


Box 24 Varese, Edgar


Box 24 Weeks, Edward


Box 24 Weinberger, Harry


Box 24 Nature photographs taken by Manuel Komroff


Photograpic negatives by Komroff (Earlier)



Box 24A Antile, George


Box 24A Armitage, Merle


Box 24A Atkinson, Brooks


Box 24A Bent, Silas


Box 24A Boni, Albert


Box 24A Céline, Louis Ferdinand


Box 24A Cournos, John


Box 24A Cowell, Henry


Box 24A Cowen, Nat


Box 24A Cramer, Florence


Box 24A Cramer, Konrad


Box 24A Cummings, E. E.


Box 24A Duranty, Walter


Box 24A Frankel, Paul


Box 24A Fuller, Buckminster


Box 24A Gould, Joe


Box 24A Gütterbock, Hans Gaston


Box 24A Harvey, Harold


Box 24A Kerr, Stewart


Box 24A Komroff, Manuel


Box 24A Kuniyoshi, Yasuo


Box 24A McClellan, John


Box 24A Maier, Howard


Box 24A Marak, Kurt


Box 24A Morris, Ira


Box 24A Moss, Arthur and Sue


Box 24A O'Brien, Edward


Box 24A Phillips, Sidney


Box 24A Pick, Robert


Box 24A Rascoe, Burton


Box 24A Reiner, Fritz


Box 24A Resnick, Nat


Box 24A Siegel, Adrian


Box 24A Smith, Thomas R.


Box 24A Stone, Ed


Box 24A Tisch, William


Box 24A Varese, Edgar


Box 24A Weinberger, Harry


Box 24A Withold, Gordon


Photograpic negatives by Komroff (Later)



Box 24B Berman, Ben Lucion


Box 24B Bock, Alfred


Box 24B Bruce, Ned


Box 24B Burnet, Withold


Box 24B Cohn, Louis


Box 24B Gordon, Withold


Box 24B Green, Andrew


Box 24B Harvey, Harold


Box 24B Moss, Arnold


Box 24B Parker, Robert Allerton


Box 24B Stein, Leo


Box 24B Tietz, E.


Box 24B Weeks, Ted

Series VII: Printed Material



Box 25 Boni and Liveright Catalogs, 1925-1932, 1973, 14 items


Box 25 Books written by Komroff



Box 26 Books written by Komroff



Box 27 Books written by Komroff



Box 28 Books written by Komroff



Box 29 Books edited by Komroff



Box 30 Books edited by Komroff



Box 31 Books edited by Komroff



Box 32 Books edited by Komroff



Box 33 Books translated by Komroff



Box 34 Books translated by Komroff



Box 35 Books translated by Komroff



Box 36 Books and Periodicals with contributions by Komroff


Box 36 Books about Komroff



Box 37 Books inscribed to Komroff



Box 38 Books inscribed to Komroff



Box 39 Books inscribed to Komroff



Box 40 Books inscribed to Komroff



Box 41 Books inscribed to Komroff

Series VIII: Oversized

One piece of artwork.



Mapcase 14-D-9 Barnard, Elinor M. (Mrs. Manuel Komroff) [Shane - Son of Eugene O'Neill], 1925, 56 x 35.5 cm

Watercolor painting. Signed.