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
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