Ivan I. Morris papers, 1931-1976

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Series VIII: 2003 Addition

Includes materials from 1999 gift


Subseries VIII.1: Restricted Correspondence



Box 41 Ivan Morris Personal Correspondence, 1974-1976

[RESTRICTED ]


Box 41 Mishima, Yukio To Ivan Morris, Tokyo, Jan.-Nov. 1970, 2 a.l.s. (with envelopes)

[RESTRICTED]


Box 41 Hiraoka, Yoko Sugiyama (Mrs. Yukio Mishima) To Ivan Morris, Tokyo, 21 June 1971, 3 page a.l.s. (written in Japanese; with envelope)

[RESTRICTED. Correspondence in Japanese]


Box 41 Stokes, Henry Scott To Ivan Morris, Tokyo, 28 Nov. 1970, 10 page t.l.s. (re: Yukio Mishima)

[RESTRICTED]


Box 41 Morris, Ivan Misunderstandings re Mishima Suicide, [n.p.], [1970], 4 page a.ms. (essay)

[RESTRICTED]


Subseries VIII.2: Arranged Correspondence



Box 42 Alexander, Annalita, 1993-1998


Box 42 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1956, 1961


Box 42 Amnesty International, 1970-1978, n.d.


Box 42 B, 1967-1976


Box 42 C, 1976


Box 42 F, 1952-1970


Box 42 G, 1959, 1972


Box 42 H, n.d.


Box 42 Jensen, Julie, n.d.


Box 42 Kiddo, Anson, 1971-1972


Box 42 Kiddo, Anson, 1973-1974, n.d.


Box 42 M, 1962-1976


Box 42 Morris, Edita, 8 May 1974


Box 42 Morris, Ivan, 1936-1969


Box 42 Morris, Ivan, 1970-1976, n.d.


Box 42 Morris, Ivan: Condolence Letters, 1976


Box 42 Morris, Nobuko, 1971, n.d.


Box 42 Nissenson, Hugh, 1975


Box 42 Oxford University Press, 29 Sept. 1960


Box 42 P, 1969


Box 42 R, 1969, 1976


Box 42 S, 1966-1975


Box 42 Tong, T. K., 20 May 1969


Box 42 V, 1965, 1973


Box 42 W, 1952, 1970


Box 42 Unidentified, 1966-1976, n.d.


Subseries VIII.3: Manuscripts



Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "Animal Words", list, 25 May 1969


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "By the Sea of Japan", story, n.d.


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "The Challenge of "Soka Gakkai"", article, published version appearing in Books & Writers, May 1966


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "Chess", notes, 1968-1969


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "Christmas Cards", lists, 1972-1975


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "Class Notes", n.d.


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "Coca-Cola", collection of poetry, 1944


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "Comment on Darkness in Summer", book review, Oct. 1973


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "The "Demos" in Japan", paper, 14 June 1960


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "Economic Realism in the Later Works of Ihara Saikuku", paper, published version in The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 3rd Series, Vol. VII,, 1959


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "English Language Notes", 1967[?]


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "L'évolution politique du Japon d'apres guerre", article, published version appearing in Politique Etrangere, June 1956


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "Fiction Non-Fiction Read", lists, 1940-1945


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "Foreign Policy Issue in the 1958 Elections", paper,, 1958


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "Government I", exam blue book, 22 Jan. 1943


Box 43 Morris, Ivan I Remember Pearl Harbor, book jacket blurb, 1975


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "In Defense of Communism", essay, 28 Jan. 1942


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "Interview with Kobe Abe", transcript, Nov. 1969


Box 43 Morris, Ivan "Japanese Foreign Policy and Neutralism", paper, 1959[?]


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "Library", list, 1967-1976


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "Losses", notes, 1967-1976, n.d.


Box 43 Morris, Ivan, ed. Madly Singing in the Mountains: An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley, book jacket, n.d.


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "A Man Who Rendered the Most Meritorious Services in the Meiji Restoration", translation of essay by Fukuzama Yukichi,, n.d.


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "A Meaningful Dialogue", play, fragment, n.d.


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] "Melancholia", collection of poetry, 1944


Box 43 Morris, Ivan [?] Miscellaneous Notes, 1954-1976, n.d.



Box 44 Morris, Ivan "The Moscow Negotiations and their Repercussions as Seen from Tokyo", article,, Sept. 1956


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] "Packing Lists", 1973-1974


Box 44 Morris, Ivan The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagan, translations, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, notes, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, advertisement, 1967


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] "Poems", collection of poetry, 1944


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "The Policeman and the Student: Some Notes on the Political Scene in Japan", essay,, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] Prayers, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan Research Notes, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] "Reviews", list, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] "Sentences", lists, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "The Setting", book, fragment, 1962[?]


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] "Socialist Merger in Japan", essay, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "Soka Gakkai Brings 'Absolute Happiness'", article, published version appearing in The New York Times Magazine, 18 July 1965


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "Some Aspects of the Tale of Genji Scroll", book, 1st draft,, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "Soviet-Japanese Peace Treaty Talks: The Negotiations as seen from Tokyo", article, published version in The World Today, Aug. 1955


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "Spanish I", exam blue book, 19 March 1943


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "Sunny Greece", letter to the editor, published version,, 20 June 1968


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "Swedish Course at the Lingauphone Institute", worksheets,, 1976


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "Uncensored Reflections", 1944


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] "U.S. and U.K. words", list, June 1969


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] "Useful Words", list, n.d.


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "Violence in Japanese Politics", introductory essay to special New Leader issue on Japan,, 6 Nov. 1960


Box 44 Morris, Ivan "The World of "The Tale of the Genji"", book, chapters 1-4,, Dec. 1961


Box 44 Morris, Ivan [?] Unidentified Fragments, 1966-1976, n.d.


Box 44 Unidentified Unidentified Fragments: Calligraphy, n.d.


Subseries VIII.4: Notebooks


Box 44 National Diary, 1941


Box 44 Address Book, 1972



Box 45 Address Book, 1976


Box 45 Address Book, 1976


Box 45 Guest Book for Reading of "The Green Card Romance", 3 Feb. 1988


Subseries VIII.5: Documents


Box 45 Agreement with Anthony Sheil Associates for the publication of The Lonely Monk and Other Puzzles, n.d.


Box 45 Agreement with John Brown Publisher of the Oxford University Press for a book about Japan,, 6 Nov. [n.y.]


Box 45 Guest Book, loose pages, n.d.


Box 45 Agreement with the Royal Institute of International Affairs for objective and systematic investigation of "The 'Reverse Course' in Japan",, 13 Dec. 1955


Box 45 Agreement with UNESCO for English translation of Saikaku, 23 Dec. 1955


Box 45 Agreement with Delamain et Boutelleau for introduction, 2 March 1956


Box 45 Agreements for English translation of Fires in the Plains by Shohei Ooka, Aug. 1956


Box 45 Agreement with Shohei Ooka and Curtis Brown, Ltd. for English translation of Fires in the Plains, 14 Feb. 1957


Box 45 Agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for English translation of The Golden Temple by Yukio Mishima,, 20 March 1957


Box 45 Contract for English translations of Japanese short stories for the Anthology of Modern Japanese Short Stories, 1957-1959


Box 45 Contract for English translation of Saikuku, 17 Sept. 1958


Box 45 Cards of introduction for Ivan Morris, 1960


Box 45 Letter of appointment to Assistant Professor of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University,, 4 Apr. 1960


Box 45 Contract for the publication of The World of the Tale of Genji, 26 Aug. 1960


Box 45 Letter of appointment to Assistant Professor of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University,, 3 Apr. 1961


Box 45 Contract with UNESCO for English translation of Court Diaries of Medieval Japan,, 6 June 1961


Box 45 Certificate of appointment to Associate Professor of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University,, 7 May 1962


Box 45 Agreement with Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. for an untitled non-fiction book on Japan,, 18 June 1962


Box 45 Agreement with D.C. Heath and Company for the publication of Japan 1931-1945--Militarism, Fascism, Japanism?, 4 Dec. 1962


Box 45 Agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for the publication of The World of "The Tale of Genji, 16 May 1963


Box 45 Agreement with Columbia University Press for the publication of the Dictionary of Selected Forms in Japanese Literature, 20 Dec. 1965


Box 45 Cards of introduction for Ivan Morris, 1966


Box 45 Agreement with George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. for publication of The Samurai, 11 Jan. 1966


Box 45 Agreement with Thames and Hudson Ltd. for "The Far East", contribution to The Seventeenth Century, ed. Hugh Trevor-Roper, 8 March 1966


Box 45 Agreement with John Brown Publisher of Oxford University Press for the publication of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, 4 May 1966


Box 45 Agreement with Columbia University Press for the publication of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, 20 Jan. 1967


Box 45 Agreements for publication of Madly Singing in the Mountains: An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley, 1968


Box 45 Agreement with Thames and Hudson Ltd. for publication of A Concise History of Japan, 15 Aug. 1968


Box 45 Agreement with Walker Publishing Co., Inc. for publication of The Riverside Puzzles, 2 Dec. 1968


Box 45 Agreement with Anthony Sheil Associates for publication of Pillow Book Puzzles, 15 Jan. 1969


Box 45 Program from Dinner in Honor of Ivan Morris, 27 May 1969


Box 45 Agreement with Kodansha International Ltd. for publication of The Genji Scroll, 2 Sept. 1969


Box 45 Contracts for publication of As I Crossed the Bridge of Dreams, 1970


Box 45 Agreement with Walter Verlag AG for the German publication of The Riverside Puzzles, 5 Jan. 1970


Box 45 Contract with Little, Brown and Company for the publication of The Lonely Monk and Other Puzzles, 5 Aug. 1970


Box 45 Agreement with Walter Verlag AG for German publication of The Riverside Puzzles and The Lonely Monk and Other Puzzles, 9 Nov. 1970


Box 45 Will and Testament of Annalita Alexander, 16 June 1976


Box 45 Announcement for Memorial Service for Ivan Morris, 17 Sept. 1976


Subseries VIII.6: Photographs



Box 46 Artwork, 1964, n.d.


Box 46 Indentified People, n.d.


Box 46 Japan, n.d.



Flat Box 681 Japan, n.d.



Box 46 Morris, Ivan and Family, 1968, n.d.



Flat Box 681 Morris, Ivan and Family, n.d.


Flat Box 681 Morris, Ivan and Family, 1965, n.d.


Flat Box 681 Morris, Ivan and Family, n.d.


Flat Box 681 Roosevelt, Franklin D., n.d.



Box 46 Unidentified People, 1923, n.d.


Box 46 Unidentified Places, n.d.



Flat Box 681 Unidentified Portraits, n.d.


Flat Box 681 Unidentified Portraits, n.d.



Box 46 Negative, n.d.


Subseries VIII.7: Audio Recordings

Contents transcribed from label information provided on boxes for reel to reel audiotapes.


Box 46 Act I backward, n.d., 7 inch reel


Box 46 Act III and blank; Gordon Cook, Blank and Sleeping Beauty, Act II, Blank for April 21,, n.d., 7 inch reel


Box 46 Copia dell'intervista con la Signorina Annalita Marsigli, n.d., 5 inch reel


Box 46 "The Fiction of Yasunari Kawabata," Oriental-Western Literary Relations Conference of MLA,, 29 Dec. 1968, 7 inch reel


Box 46 I Dig Love; Love, Ashe Puthli, n.d., 5 inch reel



Box 41 Ivan Morris Memorial Service (DUB), Tracks A & B, 7 1/2 IPS,, 16 Sept. 1976, 5 inch reel

[RESTRICTED]



Box 46 Lee Graham Interview (Modern Japan) DUB, 29 Oct. 1975, 7 inch reel



Box 47 "Nom" Theatre Tape Recording, Full Track Mono, 7 1/2 IPS, n.d., 7 inch reel


Box 47 Novograd, n.d., 7 inch reel


Box 47 The Pillow Book Part 2, Part 3 of 5, 7 1/2 IPS, Program 1 of 7; Net #PA 311-3-Teachers-Jacobson; Reel #2,, n.d., 7 inch reel


Box 47 The Pillow Book Part 3, Part 3 of 5, 7 1/2 IPS, Program 2 of 7-; Saltzman Telephone #1,, n.d., 7 inch reel


Box 47 The Pillow Book Part 4, Part 4 of 5, Program 4 of 7; Reel #4, n.d., 7 inch reel


Box 47 The Pillow Book Part 5, Part 5 of 5, 7 1/2 IPS, Program 7 of 7; Reel #5,, n.d., 7 inch reel


Box 47 Talk by I. M. at Asia House, Dec. 1967, 7 inch reel


Box 47 Talks re Waley, 1967, 7 inch reel


Box 47 [Unidentified], n.d., 5 inch reel


Box 47 [Unidentified], n.d., 5 inch reel


Subseries VIII.8: Printed Materials



Box 48 Amnesty International Articles, 1971-1975, n.d.


Box 48 Ballet Program for Koma Ayako Ogawa Ballet Studio, 23 April 1973

[Program in Japanese]


Box 48 "Be Careful" by Annalita, Jan. 1968


Box 48 Blank Postcards, n.d.


Box 48 Book Reviews, 1969-1975, n.d.


Box 48 Casino Card, n.d.


Box 48 Congressional Record, Speech of Hon. Gale W. McGee on Academic Freedom,, 27 July 1965


Box 48 Eulogies to Ivan Ira Morris, 1976


Box 48 Film Reviews, 1976


Box 48 Human Rights Newspaper Clippings, 1974-1977, n.d.


Box 48 "The Iwakura Mission in Sweden" by Bert Edström, Working Paper 43,, Oct. 1997


Box 48 "The Japanese Riots" from Notes of the Month The World Today, Vol. 16, no. 7, July 1960


Box 48 Literature from the Foundation for New Educational Projects, 1977


Box 48 Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings, 1977-1984, n.d.


Box 48 Morris Family Newspaper Clippings, 1954-1956, n.d.


Box 48 Program for Annual Commemoration Service at Columbia University,, 20 Feb. 1977


Box 48 Resume for H. Clay Alexander, n.d.


Box 48 Style Sheets, 1956-1966, n.d.


Box 48 Tegami No Kakikata from Airyodu (publisher), 1968, Text in Japanese


Box 48 Theater Program for "The Grinding Machine" by Annalita Alexander,, 1978


Box 48 "The Tiger Cages of Con Son" from Winners and Losers by Gloria Emerson, Jan. 1977


Box 48 The Written Script, a novel by Annalita Marsigli,, 1998