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Series IV: Professional Work, 1926-1987
Series V: Photographs, 1905-1963
Series VI: Realia, 1905-1971

Lionel Trilling papers, 1899-1987

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Series I: Personal Papers, 1899-1975

Series I holds some of Lionel Trilling's personal items. This small series has been arranged into two subseries: Documents and Journals. Academic records, biographical information, certificates, and other general personal documents are found in Subseries 1. Subseries 2 contains extensive personal writings, ranging from the mid-1920s to the end of Trilling's life. Subseries 1 is arranged by topic, while Subseries 2 is arranged chronologically. Family and personal photographs are located in Series V.

Subseries I.1: Documents, 1899-1975

This small subseries is composed of Lionel Trilling's personal items. Academic records, such as report cards from Columbia, the DeWitt Clinton High School yearbook and other publications featuring Trilling as a student, and essays written for his English classes at Columbia are found here. Other personal documents include a representative sample of his appointment books, a copy of the Trillings' marriage license, early poems written for family members, several passports, and birth and death certificates. There are also a few items belonging to his mother, Fannie Trilling.


Box 1 Folder 1 Academic Records, 1922-1928

Box 1 Folder 2 Address Book, undated

Box 1 Folder 3 Appointment Books, 1957-1974

Box 1 Folder 4 Biographical Material, 1974

Box 1 Folder 5 Birth and Death Certificates, 1956, 1975, 1956, 1975

Box 1 Folder 6 Columbia University Assignments, 1921-1923

Dewitt Clinton High School

Box 1 Folder 7 Publications, 1920-1921

Box 1 Folder 8 Scrapbook, 1919-1921

Box 1 Folder 9 Yearbook, 1921


Box 2 Folder 1 Early Writings, undated, 1918

Box 2 Folder 2 Funeral Program, 1975 November 10

Box 2 Folder 3 Marriage Certificate, 1929 June 12

Box 2 Folder 4 Passports, 1956-1972

Box 2 Folder 5 Printed Material, 1918-1925

Box 2 Folder 6 Trilling, Fannie, 1899, 1964, 1899, 1964

Subseries I.2: Journals, 1926-1975

Trilling recalled his daily activities, including classes taught, events observed, and conversations conducted with colleagues, friends and family members. However, the journals are not limited to narrative. Trilling also jotted down hypotheses concerning life, literature, and, in particular, the relationship between men and women, as well as potential stories and essays. These diatribes ranged from the merely observant: "Is it a terrible struggle for a bird to fly? Has he always the imminent panic of falling?" to the profoundly theoretical:

"There is one thing the world has immediate need of: I thought once it was a new religion but it is not that: it is that someone should ask a great thundering question-someone should ask it or the very earth should shout it, and the attentions of all to be turned to answer. We could not stand the certainty of a faith, I think. It is not at all necessary that the question be answered or answerable; it is only necessary that it be formulated and valid. But probably this is even more naively an impossible desire than for a new faith. What if I had only one question to answer?"

And, occasionally, to the very personal:

"Why do I so easily forget, and remember with so much surprise that one of the most intense and most un[scribbled word]edly passionate experiences I have had is the light of a scarlet leaved tree and that a flower can delight me? Why am I a little embarrassed to record this for myself?"

Some of the journal entries have annotations that appear to have been added a later date by Diana Trilling. These notes clarify names or provide context for some of the entries. Some of the journals are clearly dated, albeit inconsistently, while others have approximated dates.

Box 2 Folder 7 Undated

Box 2 Folder 8 1926 September-1929 Spring, 1926

Box 2 Folder 9 1930-1931

Box 2 Folder 10 1934-1936


Box 14-L-1 Abstract of the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, 1937


Box 2 Folder 11 1938-1943

Box 2 Folder 12 Late, 1930s-1940s


Box 3 Folder 1 Late, 1930s-1941

Box 3 Folder 2 1944 October-1945 September 9, 1944 October-1945 September

Box 3 Folder 3 1945 September 9-1946 Summer, 1945 September

Box 3 Folder 4 1946 Summer-1948 September, 1946

Box 3 Folder 5 Late, 1940s

Box 3 Folder 6 1948 September-1952 April

Box 3 Folder 7 1952-1955


Box 4 Folder 1 Late 1950s-Late, 1960s

Box 4 Folder 2 1956 January-1957 October

Box 4 Folder 3 Circa, 1958

Box 4 Folder 4 1958

Box 4 Folder 5 1959 March-1961 July

Box 4 Folder 6 1959 August 19-1963, 1959 August

Box 4 Folder 7 1960 March-August

Box 4 Folder 8 Sincerity and Authenticity , 1960s

Box 4 Folder 9 1963-1965

Box 4 Folder 10 1965 Fall-1968, 1965

Box 4 Folder 11 1967 December-1970 December

Box 4 Folder 12 1968 Fall, 1968

Box 4 Folder 13 1969-1970 ?, 1969-1970

Box 4 Folder 14 1969-1971 ?, 1969-1971


Box 5 Folder 1 1970-1974

Box 5 Folder 2 1971-1972

Box 5 Folder 3 1973

Box 5 Folder 4 1974 April

Box 5 Folder 5 1974-1975

Series II: Correspondence, 1900-1983

Series II holds Lionel Trilling's personal and professional correspondence. These letters were sent between Trilling and family members, colleagues at Columbia University and outside of the institution, contacts at publishing houses, and friends. This series is the largest in the collection and along with the writings, illuminates some of Trilling's opinions of other writers, developing literary trends, and the changing political situation, in particular World War II and the rise of social justice organizations in the 1960s. However, much of the correspondence consists of requests for Trilling to lecture, review new literary texts and give recommendations to former students and colleagues.

The series has been arranged into two subseries: Alphabetical, by name or by topic, and Chronological. This collection was processed according to earlier manuscript processing standards followed; therefore letters of "significant" individuals were removed from their place within a loose chronological order and arranged alphabetically. Although this collection has been reprocessed and newly donated material has been integrated, the two systems of arrangement have been maintained since the original order is not clear.

Subseries II.1 Alphabetical, 1900-1983

Subseries 1 is comprised of letters received by Trilling from his friends, family members, and business colleagues. Subjects covered ranged a variety of issues. Often Trilling debated current events with his colleagues, like an exchange concerning affirmative action with Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Many prominent writers may be found here such as Allen Ginsberg, who maintained a long correspondence with Trilling and often included drafts and ideas for poems in his letters, E.M. Forster, Robert Penn Warren (who Trilling affectionately referred to as "Red"), Saul Bellow, and e.e. cummings. In addition, there are long exchanges with John Crowe Ransom, with whom Trilling founded the School of English at Kenyon College, Henry Rosenthal, one of Trilling's oldest and closest friends, and Columbia History professor, Jacques Barzun who, along with being a close friend of Lionel Trilling, co-taught interdisciplinary courses with him. Letters from publishers, in particular Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, and Viking Press illustrate the variety of professional literary relationships Trilling cultivated.

Family correspondence is available with the following individuals: James Trilling, Diana Trilling, Fannie Trilling (mother), David Trilling (father), Harriet Schwartz (sister), and Hyman Trilling (uncle). In general there is very little correspondence of this nature within the collection.

Box 5 Folder 6 A, 1931 February-1983 March

Box 5 Folder 7 Baldwin through Barzun, undated, 1933 October-1955 April, undated, 1933 October-1955 April

Box 5 Folder 8 Barzun through Bentley, undated, 1942 July-1975 November, undated, 1942 July-1975 November

Box 5 Folder 9 Beale through Butterfield, undated, 1931 October-1973 November, undated, 1931 October-1973 November


Box 6 Folder 1 Calkins through Chase, undated, 1929 April-1966 November, undated, 1929 April-1966 November

Box 6 Folder 2 Cherne through Cummings, undated, 1925-1964 September, undated, 1925-1964 September

Box 6 Folder 3 D, undated, 1929 October-1975 October, undated, 1929 October-1975 October

Box 6 Folder 4 E, undated, 1934 August-1974 May, undated, 1934 August-1974 May

Box 6 Folder 5 F, undated, 1927 March-1974 August, undated, 1927 March-1974 August

Box 6 Folder 6 G, undated, 1926 September-1928 August, 1945 November-1968 January, undated, 1926, 1945 November-1968 January

Box 6 Folder 7 H, undated, 1931 August-1974 April, undated, 1931 August-1974 April


Box 7 Folder 1 I through J, 1939 May-1974 February

Box 7 Folder 2 K, undated, 1929 July-1974 April, undated, 1929 July-1974 April

Box 7 Folder 3 L, undated, 1931 April-1961 December, undated, 1931 April-1961 December

Box 7 Folder 4 M, undated, 1928 February-1973 November, undated, 1928 February-1973 November

Box 7 Folder 5 N, undated, 1956 Septmber-1969 April, undated, 1956

Box 7 Folder 6 O, 1945 March-1969 March

Box 7 Folder 7 P, undated, 1941 March-1975 October, undated, 1941 March-1975 October

Publishers, 1947-1980, 3 folders

Box 7 Folder 8 A through Macy

Box 7 Folder 9 Martin through U


Box 8 Folder 1 Viking Press

Box 8 Folder 2 Rahv through Ransom, undated,1937-August-1957 October, undated

Box 8 Folder 3 Riesman through Rosenthal, undated, 1947 June-1975 June, undated, 1947 June-1975 June

Box 8 Folder 4 Rosenthal, 1923 July-1926 November

Box 8 Folder 5 Rosenthal through Rukeyser, 1927 January-1970 April


Box 9 Folder 1 S, 1927 November-1976 December

Box 9 Folder 2 T, 1938 November-1971 November

Box 9 Folder 3 Trilling, David, undated, 1926, undated, 1926

Box 9 Folder 4 Trilling, Diana to Trilling, Lionel, undated, 1929-1937, 1957, undated, 1929-1937, 1957

Box 9 Folder 5 Trilling, Fannie, 1953 August-1954 July, 1964 September-November, 1953, 1964 September-November

Box 9 Folder 6 Trilling, Harriet, undated, 1926 September-1927 May, undated, 1926 September-1927 May

Box 9 Folder 7 Trilling, Hyman to Trilling, David and Fannie, 1900-1901, 1919, 1900-1901, 1919

Box 9 Folder 8 Trilling, James, 1957 January

Box 9 Folder 9 Trilling, Lionel to Trilling, Diana, undated, 1928 October-1931 July, undated, 1928 October-1931 July, (2 Folders)

Box 9 Folder 10 Trilling, Lionel to Trilling, Diana, 1956 December-1962 May


Box 10 Folder 1 U through V, 1940 June-1962 September

Box 10 Folder 2 W though Z, 1929 October-1974 April

Subseries II.2: Chronological, 1925-1976

Letters held in Subseries 2 are similar in nature to those in Subseries 1. Correspondents include colleagues, publishers, personal friends, and students from Columbia University. Records concerning the Kenyon Institute, in particular the founding, the initial proposal, annual budget, and mission statement are found in January 1947. These letters are between Trilling, and fellow founders F.O. Matthieson and John Ransom. Many of the letters consist of requests to lecture at various academic institutions or to offer opinions of unpublished manuscripts. There are also letters from current and former students, many of whom were soldiers serving in Europe during World War II.

Box 10 Folder 3 Undated

Box 10 Folder 4 1925 March-1931 November

Box 10 Folder 5 1932 May-1937 December

Box 10 Folder 6 1938 January-1939 May


Box 11 Folder 1 1939 June-1940 December

Box 11 Folder 2 1941 January-1942 June

Box 11 Folder 3 1942 July-1943 June

Box 11 Folder 4 1943 July-December

Box 11 Folder 5 1944 January-August

Box 11 Folder 6 1944 September-1945 March


Box 12 Folder 1 1945 April-September

Box 12 Folder 2 1945 October-1946 March

Box 12 Folder 3 1946 April-September

Box 12 Folder 4 1946 October-1947 March

Box 12 Folder 5 1947 April-September


Box 13 Folder 1 1947 October-November

Box 13 Folder 2 1947 December-1948 February

Box 13 Folder 3 1948 March-April

Box 13 Folder 4 1948 May-September

Box 13 Folder 5 1948 October-1949 February


Box 14 Folder 1 1949 February-March

Box 14 Folder 2 1949 April-August

Box 14 Folder 3 1950 January-1951 September

Box 14 Folder 4 1951 October-1952 April

Box 14 Folder 5 1952 May-December


Box 15 Folder 1 1953 January-March

Box 15 Folder 2 1953 April-September

Box 15 Folder 3 1953 October-December

Box 15 Folder 4 1954 January-April

Box 15 Folder 5 1954 May-July

Box 15 Folder 6 1954 August-November


Box 16 Folder 1 1954 December-1955 January

Box 16 Folder 2 1955 February-March

Box 16 Folder 3 1955 April-May

Box 16 Folder 4 1955 June-August

Box 16 Folder 5 1955 September-October

Box 16 Folder 6 1955 November-December


Box 17 Folder 1 1956 January-February

Box 17 Folder 2 1956 March-April

Box 17 Folder 3 1956 May-July

Box 17 Folder 4 1956 August-October 19, 1956 August-October

Box 17 Folder 5 1956 October 20-November, 1956 October

Box 17 Folder 6 1956 December-1957 February


Box 18 Folder 1 1957 March-April

Box 18 Folder 2 1957 May-July

Box 18 Folder 3 1957 August-October

Box 18 Folder 4 1957 November-December

Box 18 Folder 5 1958 January-February

Box 18 Folder 6 1958 March-April


Box 19 Folder 1 1958 May-June

Box 19 Folder 2 1958 July-September

Box 19 Folder 3 1958 October-November 10, 1958 October-November

Box 19 Folder 4 1958 November 11-December, 1958 November

Box 19 Folder 5 1959 January-February

Box 19 Folder 6 1959 March-April


Box 20 Folder 1 1959 May-June

Box 20 Folder 2 1959 July-September

Box 20 Folder 3 1959 October-November

Box 20 Folder 4 1959 December-1960 January

Box 20 Folder 5 1960 February-April


Box 21 Folder 1 1960 May-August

Box 21 Folder 2 1960 September-November

Box 21 Folder 3 1960 December-1961 February

Box 21 Folder 4 1961 March-May

Box 21 Folder 5 1961 June-August


Box 22 Folder 1 1961 September-October

Box 22 Folder 2 1961 November-December

Box 22 Folder 3 1962 January-February

Box 22 Folder 4 1962 March-April

Box 22 Folder 5 1962 May-June

Box 22 Folder 6 1962 July-September


Box 23 Folder 1 1962 October-November

Box 23 Folder 2 1962 December-1963 January

Box 23 Folder 3 1963 February-March

Box 23 Folder 4 1963 April-May 21, 1963 April-May

Box 23 Folder 5 1963 May 22-July, 1963 May


Box 24 Folder 1 1963 August-October

Box 24 Folder 2 1963 November-December

Box 24 Folder 3 1964 January-February

Box 24 Folder 4 1964 March-April

Box 24 Folder 5 1964 May-June


Box 25 Folder 1 1964 July-October

Box 25 Folder 2 1964 November

Box 25 Folder 3 1964 December-1965 January

Box 25 Folder 4 1965 February-March

Box 25 Folder 5 1965 April-May

Box 25 Folder 6 1965 June-July


Box 26 Folder 1 1965 August-October

Box 26 Folder 2 1965 November-December

Box 26 Folder 3 1966 January-February

Box 26 Folder 4 1966 March-April

Box 26 Folder 5 1966 May-June


Box 27 Folder 1 1966 July-September

Box 27 Folder 2 1966 October-November

Box 27 Folder 3 1966 December-1967 March

Box 27 Folder 4 1967 April-June

Box 27 Folder 5 1967 July-September

Box 27 Folder 6 1967 October-November 12, 1967 October-November


Box 28 Folder 1 1967 November 14-1968 January 15

Box 28 Folder 2 1968 January 16-February, 1968 January

Box 28 Folder 3 1968 March-April

Box 28 Folder 4 1968 May-July

Box 28 Folder 5 1968 August-October

Box 28 Folder 6 1968 November-1969 January


Box 29 Folder 1 1969 February-April

Box 29 Folder 2 1969 May-October

Box 29 Folder 3 1969 November-1970 February

Box 29 Folder 4 1970 March-June

Box 29 Folder 5 1970 July-October


Box 30 Folder 1 1970 November-1971 January

Box 30 Folder 2 1971 February-March

Box 30 Folder 3 1971 April-June

Box 30 Folder 4 1971 July-September

Box 30 Folder 5 1971 October-December

Box 30 Folder 6 1972 January-February


Box 31 Folder 1 1972 March-May 14, 1972 March-May

Box 31 Folder 2 1972 May 15-July, 1972 May

Box 31 Folder 3 1972 August-November

Box 31 Folder 4 1972 December-1973 January

Box 31 Folder 5 1973 February-March

Box 31 Folder 6 1973 April-July


Box 32 Folder 1 1973 August-October

Box 32 Folder 2 1973 November-December

Box 32 Folder 3 1974 January-March 19, 1974 January-March

Box 32 Folder 4 1974 March 20-April, 1974 March

Box 32 Folder 5 1974 May-June

Box 32 Folder 6 1974 July-September


Box 33 Folder 1 1974 October-November

Box 33 Folder 2 1974 December-1975 January

Box 33 Folder 3 1975 February-March

Box 33 Folder 4 1975 April-May

Box 33 Folder 5 1975 June-August

Box 33 Folder 6 1975 September-1976 January

Series III: Writings, 1925-1975

This series is the second largest in the collection and contains Lionel Trilling's extensive writings. The texts span his entire career and cover a variety of intellectual, cultural, and personal subjects. Many of the texts have accompanying annotations written by Trilling. These notations illustrate his creative process and provide insight in the way he crafted his writing. The series has been arranged into three subseries based upon the original order of the papers. The subseries are: Manuscripts and Papers, Articles, and Reviews.

Subseries III.1: Manuscripts and Papers, 1931-1975

This subseries is composed of drafts of Lionel Trilling's longer writings, in the form of manuscripts, academic papers, lectures, and essays. In terms of manuscripts, there are drafts ofBeyond Culture, The Liberal Imagination, andSincerity and Authenticity. The Middle of the Journeyis present in many versions that are each substantially unique. Other papers held in this subseries include lectures given at numerous institutions such as the 92nd Street YMWHA and the Aspen Film Conference, as well as acceptance speeches for various honors received, afterwards and forewords to other individual's writings, essays concerning literary and cultural events and selected book reviews. These reviews have been maintained within the subseries rather than separated into Subseries 3 in order to preserve the original order. Some of the drafts have descriptive notes written by Diana Trilling in which she compares the text in its draft form to a later published or rewritten version.


Box 34 Folder 1 An Address to Jewish Students, undated

Box 34 Folder 2 Afterward to The Unpossessed by Tess Slesinger,, 1966

Box 34 Folder 3 "Aggression and Utopia: A Note on William Morris' News from Nowhere,", undated

Box 34 Folder 4 American Anthology, 1942 October

Box 34 Folder 5 "The Anti-Hero," (lecture at YMHA), undated

Box 34 Folder 6 "Anxious Exits: A Review of a Dance Recital,", undated

Box 34 Folder 7 "Art and Neurosis,", 1945

Box 34 Folder 8 "Art, Will and Necessity,", 1974

Box 34 Folder 9 "The Arts, The Artist, and Society," (Carnegie Tech Symposium), undated

Box 34 Folder 10 Aspen Film Conference Keynote Address, 1963 August 30

Box 34 Folder 11 Autobiographical Lecture, undated

Box 34 Folder 12 to 13 Beyond Culture , 1965, (2 folders)


Box 35 Folder 1 Beyond Culture , 1965

Box 35 Folder 2 Birthday Ode, 1946

Box 35 Folder 3 "The Changing Myth of the Jew,", undated

Box 35 Folder 4 Class of 1925 Speech, 1966 May 3

Box 35 Folder 5 "Clio Pops in on Mr. Guedalla,", undated

Box 35 Folder 6 "Coeducation: The Amalgamation of Barnard and Columbia,", 1968

Box 35 Folder 7 "The Columbia Academic Community,", 1968

Box 35 Folder 8 Comment on Dr. Bernard Meyer's Paper on Joseph Conrad, 1962 December 12

Box 35 Folder 9 "Contemporary American Literature in Its Relation to Ideas,", 1949

Box 35 Folder 10 "Culture and the Little Magazine,", 1946

Box 35 Folder 11 "Dreiser and the Liberal Mind,", 1946 April

Box 35 Folder 12 "Dreiser, Parrington and Reality,", 1946

Box 35 Folder 13 E.M. Forster , 1964

Box 35 Folder 14 The Earthy Comedy: James Joyce, 1932 June 17

Box 35 Folder 15 Elements that Are Wanted, 1940

Box 35 Folder 16 Elliott E. Cohen, undated

Box 35 Folder 17 Essays (not proofread), undated, 1952-1953, undated, 1952-1953

The Experience of Literature

Box 35 Folder 18 General, 1963-1967

Box 35 Folder 19 Drama, 1964


Box 36 Folder 1 Fiction, 1964

Box 36 Folder 2 Poetry, 1964

Box 36 Folder 3 Scott Fitzgerald, 1945 August 25

Box 36 Folder 4 "The Fair Courts of Life: James Joyce in His Letters,", 1967-1974

Box 36 Folder 5 "Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture,", 1955

Box 36 Folder 6 "A Gathering of Fugitives," undated, 1955-1956, undated, 1955-1956

Box 36 Folder 7 "General Education and the American Preparatory System,", 1973 October-December

Box 36 Folder 8 Harvard University Acceptance Speech, 1962 June

Box 36 Folder 9 "The 'Image' of the University,", 1968

Box 36 Folder 10 "The Immortality Code,", 1941

Box 36 Folder 11 Introduction of Northrop Frye, 1963 November

Box 36 Folder 12 "Kipling,", 1943 October-1944 January

Box 36 Folder 13 "Liberal Anti-Communism Revisited,", 1967 May

The Liberal Imagination


Box 37 Folder 1 Foreword to a New Issue, 1974

Box 37 Folder 2 French Translation--Manuscript, undated

Box 37 Folder 3 French Translation--Notes and Revisions, undated

Box 37 Folder 4 to 5 Manuscript, 1949 December, (2 folders)

Box 37 Folder 6 Preface to a New Issue, undated

Box 37 Folder 7 The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (review), undated

Box 37 Folder 8 Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader--Preface, 1970

Box 37 Folder 9 Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader--Introduction, 1970

Box 37 Folder 10 "Literature and Intellect: A Note on Contemporary American Literature,", 1949

Box 37 Folder 11 "Little Dorrit,", 1952

Box 37 Folder 12 "The Meaning and Making of Leadership: A Community of the Elite,", undated

Box 37 Folder 13 Melville Cane, 1974

Box 37 Folder 14 Memoir, 1974

The Middle of the Journey


Box 38 Folder 1 General, 1947

Drafts

Box 38 Folder 2 One through Three, 1947

Box 38 Folder 3 Four and Five, 1947

Box 38 Folder 4 Six, 1947

Box 38 Folder 5 Seven, 1947

Box 38 Folder 6 Eight--Incomplete, 1947


Box 39 Folder 1 Nine, 1947

Box 39 Folder 2 to 3 Ten, 1947, (2 folders)

Box 39 Folder 4 Eleven, 1947

Box 39 Folder 5 to 6 Twelve, 1947


Box 40 Folder 1 to 2 Thirteen, 1947

Box 40 Folder 3 Introduction to Later Edition, 1976

Box 40 Folder 4 "Milton Levy,", 1962 January 18

Box 40 Folder 5 "Mind in the Modern World,", 1972

Box 40 Folder 6 The Modern Element in Literature, undated

Box 40 Folder 7 Novel--Untitled, undated

Box 40 Folder 8 "The Novelist of the Divine: A Review of Kafka's The Castle,", 1965

Box 40 Folder 9 Of This Time, Of That Place --Drafts One and Two,, 1940


Box 41 Folder 1 Of This Time, Of That Place --Revised Versions,, undated

Box 41 Folder 2 "The Oliver Twist in the Party Line,", undated

Box 41 Folder 3 to 4 The Opposing Self --Manuscript,, 1957, (2 folders)

Box 41 Folder 5 The Opposing Self --Notes and Gallery Proofs,, 1957

Box 41 Folder 6 "The Other Margaret,", undated

Box 41 Folder 7 "Our Hawthorne,", undated

Box 41 Folder 8 Oxford Anthology of English Literature, 1972

Box 41 Folder 9 Palm Coast Development Seminar, 1974 December

Box 41 Folder 10 "The Person of the Artist,", 1957 May 20


Box 42 Folder 1 Personal Memoir, 1975 September-October

Box 42 Folder 2 Perspectives U.S.A., 1952

Box 42 Folder 3 The Princess Casamassima: An Introductory Essay, 1948

Box 42 Folder 4 "The Progressive Psyche: A Review of Self-Analysis by Karen Horney,", 1942 September

Box 42 Folder 5 Prospectus of a Book on Matthew Arnold, 1931

Box 42 Folder 6 "Reality in America,", undated

Box 42 Folder 7 "A Recollection of Raymond Weaver,", undated

Box 42 Folder 8 "Reflections on a Lost Cause: English Literature and American Education,", undated

Box 42 Folder 9 Response to the Award of the Alexander Hamilton Medal, 1972

Box 42 Folder 10 Review of E.R. Wasserman's and R. Gitting's Books on Keats, 1953

Box 42 Folder 11 Richard Volney Chase, Jr., 1962 October 12

Box 42 Folder 12 Robert Warshaw, undated

Box 42 Folder 13 "The Scholar's Tale,", 1936

Box 42 Folder 14 "The Sense of the Past,", 1942 April 8

Box 42 Folder 15 "Sex and the Science: The Kinsey Report,", 1950

Box 42 Folder 16 Sherwood Anderson, undated

Sincerity and Authenticity

Box 42 Folder 18 Outline

Draft One, 1970

Box 42 Folder 19 Part I

Box 42 Folder 20 Part II


Box 43 Folder 1 Part III

Box 43 Folder 2 Part IV

Box 43 Folder 3 Part V

Box 43 Folder 4 Part VI

Box 43 Folder 5 Draft Two--Parts I through VI, 1970

Box 43 Folder 6 to 7 Final Draft--Parts I through VI, 1972 March, (2 folders)


Box 54 Folder 9 Autograph Book, 1972 October


Box 44 Folder 1 "The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time,", 1952-1953

Box 44 Folder 2 "A Speech on Robert Frost: A Cultural Episode,", 1959

Box 44 Folder 3 Swift Scholarship, 1970

Box 44 Folder 4 "Tacitus Now,", 1942

Box 44 Folder 5 "The Time of Life,", 1944

Box 44 Folder 6 Trinity College Address, 1955

Box 44 Folder 7 "Two Analyses of Sigmund Freud"--Review, 1947 December 14

Box 44 Folder 8 Van Doren, Mark--Award Speech, 1966 February

Box 44 Folder 9 Van Wyck Books: Scenes and Portraits--Review, 1953

Box 44 Folder 10 "Week of April 19,", 1936 April

Box 44 Folder 11 "Why We Read Jane Austen,", 1975

Box 44 Folder 12 William Wordsworth, 1970-1971

Subseries III.2: Articles and Essays, 1925-1974

Subseries 2 is comprised of shorter pieces of texts, some of which have been published in journals and magazines. Few of these exist in multiple draft form. This subseries is arranged by topic and includes articles on cultural and literary events, book reviews from journals such asThe New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, andThe Nation, letters to the editor, and published essays that are organized by journal title. Some notable titles includeThe Griffin, a journal that was published by The Readers' Subscription a group whose board members were Trilling, W.H. Auden, and Jacques Barzun,Commentary, andMenorah Journal. Of interest is a small sample of Trilling's writings that were translated into other languages or published in other countries.

Box 44 Folder 13 General, 1938-1974

Articles

Box 44 Folder 14 Undated

Box 44 Folder 15 1930-1954

Box 44 Folder 16 1960-1975

Book Reviews

Box 44 Folder 17 General, 1930-1952

Box 44 Folder 18 Kenyon Review , 1940-1948


Box 45 Folder 1 The Menorah Journal , 1929-1931

Box 45 Folder 2 The Nation , 1930-1948

Box 45 Folder 3 The New Republic , 1930-1941

Box 45 Folder 4 New York Evening Post , 1927-1929

Box 45 Folder 5 The New York Times Book Review, 1948-1957, 1974, 1948-1957, 1974

Box 45 Folder 6 The New Yorker , 1949-1951

Box 45 Folder 7 PM's Weekly , 1941 March-June

Box 45 Folder 8 Partisan Review, undated, 1937-1938, 1948, undated, 1937-1938, 1948

Box 45 Folder 9 Introductions to Books, 1956-1962

Box 45 Folder 10 Letters to the Editor, undated, 1933, 1945, 1966-1972, 1933, 1945, 1966-1972

Printed Essays

Box 45 Folder 11 Commentary , 1949-1974

Box 45 Folder 12 Encounter , 1956-1965

Box 45 Folder 13 The Griffen , 1952-1959

Box 45 Folder 14 Horizon , 1947-1949

Box 45 Folder 15 Kenyon Review , 1940-1947

Box 45 Folder 16 Menorah Journal , 1925-1930

Box 45 Folder 17 Mid-Century , 1952-1962


Box 46 Folder 1 Morningside , undated

Box 46 Folder 2 The Nation, undated, 1930, 1942-1949, undated, 1930, 1942-1949

Box 46 Folder 3 The New Republic , 1943-1944

Box 46 Folder 4 Partisan Review, undated, 1938-1951, 1961, undated, 1938-1951, 1961

Box 46 Folder 5 Transcripts--"The Best Years,", 1962

(based onOf This Time, Of That Place)

Box 46 Folder 6 Transcripts--Edmund Wilson, 1973 July

Translations

Box 46 Folder 7 1940-1951

Box 46 Folder 8 1953-1954


Box 47 Folder 1 1956-1959

Box 47 Folder 2 1960-1974

Subseries III.3: Notes, 1952-1974

Notes used for lectures at Columbia University and other institutions are held in Subseries 3. These lecture notes are arranged by topic and cover subjects such as Russian and American Literature, Jane Austen, Rudyard Kiping, William Wordsworth and Keats. There are also a large number of notes Trilling used for his Comparative Literature Course. In addition, there are three card files holding topical notes on authors and literary works that Trilling often wrote about.

Box 47 Folder 3 American Literature, undated

Box 47 Folder 4 Austen, Jane, 1952-1957

Box 47 Folder 5 Byron, Lord George Gordon, 1963

Comparative Literature Course

Box 47 Folder 6 General, undated

Box 47 Folder 7 Conrad, Joseph, 1958-1962

Box 47 Folder 8 Frazer, James G., 1959-1961

Box 47 Folder 9 Freud, Sigmund, 1959

Box 47 Folder 10 Gide, André, undated

Box 47 Folder 11 Hemingway, Ernest, undated


Box 48 Folder 1 Joyce, James, 1959-1966

Box 48 Folder 2 Kafka, Franz, undated

Box 48 Folder 3 Lawrence, D.H., 1963-1964

Box 48 Folder 4 Mann, Thomas, 1958-1962

Box 48 Folder 5 Nietzsche, W., 1958-1963

Box 48 Folder 6 Shaw, George Bernard, 1962 November

Box 48 Folder 7 Thackeray, W.M., undated

Box 48 Folder 8 Yeats, William B., 1958-1963

Box 48 Folder 9 Contemporary American Literature Course, undated

Box 48 Folder 10 Dickens, Charles, 1952

Box 48 Folder 11 Endymion, undated

Box 48 Folder 12 Erikson, Erik, undated

Box 48 Folder 13 Freud, Sigmund and Jung, Carl Gustav, undated

Box 48 Folder 14 Huckleberry Finn, 1973


Box 49 Folder 1 Keats, John, undated

Box 49 Folder 2 Kipling, Rudyard, 1972

Box 49 Folder 3 Middlemarch ", undated

Box 49 Folder 4 Russian Literature, 1959 February

Box 49 Folder 5 Sartur Resartus, undated

Box 49 Folder 6 Scott, Sir Walter, undated

Box 49 Folder 7 Sincerity--Oxford University Lectures, undated

Box 49 Folder 8 Sincerity and Authenticity--Columbia University Seminar, undated

Box 49 Folder 9 Swift, Jonathon, 1958-1969

Box 49 Folder 10 Twain, Mark: Innocents Abroad, undated

Wordsworth, William

Box 49 Folder 11 General, 1962-1964

Box 49 Folder 12 Bibliographies, 1955-1974

Box 49 Folder 13 Lectures I through VII, undated

Box 49 Folder 14 Wuthering Heights , undated

Card Files


Box 50 American Authors

Box 50 Arendt, Hannah: On Revolution

Box 50 Austen, Jane

Box 50 Bibliographical Notes

Box 50 Cather, Willa

Box 50 Crane, Stephen

Box 50 Dreiser, Theodore

Box 50 Eliot, T.S.

Box 50 Freud, Sigmund

Box 50 Fuller, H.B.

Box 50 Huckleberry Finn

Box 50 James, Henry

Box 50 Karlinsky, Simon

Box 50 Keats, John

Box 50 Lederer, Emil

Box 50 Lewes, G.H.

Box 50 Robinson: The Freudian Left

Box 50 Rousseau, J.J.

Box 50 Sincerity and Authenticity

Box 50 Walzer: Revolution of the Saints

Box 50 Wharton, Edith

Box 50 Wordsworth, William

Box 50 Miscellaneous Authors and Subjects

Box 50 Swift Scholarship

Card Files


Box 51 Austen, Jane

Box 51 Conrad, Joseph

Box 51 Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Box 51 Eliot, T.S.

Box 51 Faulkner

Box 51 Gide, A.

Box 51 Joyce, James

Box 51 Kafka

Box 51 Keats, John

Box 51 Lawrence, D.H.

Box 51 Mann, T.

Box 51 Nietzsche

Box 51 Rousseau, J.J.

Box 51 Swift, J.

Box 51 Yeats, W.B.

Box 51 Modern Literature: Miscellaneous

Card Files


Box 52 Wordsworth

Series IV: Professional Work, 1926-1987

The records in Series IV document Trilling's professional career as a professor of Literature, a literary critic, and a commentator on the changing political and cultural landscape of the United States. Included in this series are accolades, such as honorary degrees, awards, and grants received as well as meeting minutes and notices from professional organizations that Trilling was a member of. Columbia University records, such as committee correspondence and reports, course syllabi and attendance lists. This series is arranged by topic.


Box 53 Folder 1 General, 1946-1952, 1965, 1946-1952, 1965

Box 53 Folder 2 Aspen Institute, 1963 August

Box 53 Folder 3 Awards, 1951, 1974, 1951, 1974

Box 53 Folder 4 BBC Radio Shows, 1972-1973

Box 53 Folder 5 The Century Association, 1959, 1974-1975, 1959, 1974-1975

Columbia University

Box 53 Folder 6 Administrative Records, undated, 1933, 1956, 1975, 1933, 1956, 1975

Box 53 Folder 7 Alexander Hamilton Medal, 1972 March

Box 53 Folder 8 Examinations, 1952, 1966, 1952, 1966

Box 53 Folder 9 Grade Books, undated, 1960-1968

[Restricted until 2040]

Box 53 Folder 10 Library, undated

Box 53 Folder 11 Printed Material, 1926, 1939-1941, 1976, 1926, 1939-1941, 1976

Box 53 Folder 12 Reference Letters, 1957-1975

[Restricted until 2037]

Box 53 Folder 13 Syllabi, 1966-1974

Box 53 Folder 14 Guggenheim Foundation, 1975

Box 53 Folder 15 Interviews, undated, 1974 January, undated, 1974 January

Box 53 Folder 16 Honorary Degrees, 1955-1974


Box 54 Folder 1 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, 1972

Box 54 Folder 2 Lionel Trilling Award, 1975-1976

Box 54 Folder 3 The Mid-Century Book Society, 1951-1963

Box 54 Folder 4 Posthumous Items, 1976-1977, 1986-1987, 1976-1977, 1986-1987

Box 54 Folder 5 Printed Material, undated, 1947-1976, undated, 1947-1976

Box 54 Folder 6 Visiting Scholar, 1972-1973

Box 54 Folder 7 Writings by Others, undated, 1944-1976, undated, 1944-1976

Series V: Photographs, 1905-1963

This small series holds photographs of Lionel Trilling, select friends, and several family members. Identified individuals include Lionel Trilling as both a youth and adult, his Uncle Hyman, his mother, Fannie Trilling, and Jacques Barzun. The majority of the family photographs were bequeathed to James Trilling and not included in the donation of this archive. For more photographs, please see the Diana Trilling Papers housed at the RBML at Columbia University.

Box 54 Folder 8 Photographs, undated, 1905, 1945, 1963, undated, 1905, 1945, 1963


Mapcase 14-L-1 Oversized Photographs, undated, 1915-1920, undated, 1915-1920

Series VI: Realia, 1905-1971

Series VI contains personal memorabilia such as the baby shoes of Lionel Trilling and his sister, Harriet Schwartz, as well as some academic medals that he won while at High School and The Alexander Hamilton Award that he was given from Columbia University


Box 55 Baby Shoe--Harriet Schwartz, 1910-1915

Box 55 Baby Shoes--Lionel Trilling, 1905

Medals

Box 55 The Alexander Hamilton Medal, 1971

Box 55 Clinton Club Short Story Contest, 1920 November

Box 55 DeWitt Clinton High School, 1920 June