Bennett Cerf papers, 1898-1977

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Adams, Samuel Hopkins


Box 1 Addams, Charles


Box 1 Anderson. Robert


Box 1 Annenberg, Walter


Box 1 Astaire, Fred


Box 1 Auchincloss, Louis


Box 1 Baldwin, Faith


Box 1 Baruch, Bernard M.


Box 1 Baskerville, Charles


Box 1 Baxter, Anne


Box 1 Beer, Thomas


Box 1 Benny, Jack


Box 1 Berlin, Irving


Box 1 Black, Hugo L.


Box 1 Bliven, Bruce


Box 1 Bow, Clara


Box 1 Bradley, Omar N


Box 1 Cabell, James Branch


Box 1 Canby, Henry Seidel


Box 1 Canfield, Cass


Box 1 Capote, Truman


Box 1 Cerf, Bennett A.


Box 1 Cerf, Christopher


Box 1 Cerf, Jonathan


Box 1 Cooke, Alistair


Box 1 Coppard, A. E.


Box 1 Cousins, Norman


Box 1 Crawford, Joan


Box 1 Darrow, Whitney, Jr.


Box 1 Dewey, Thomas E.


Box 1 Douglas, Norman


Box 1 Dreiser, Theodore


Box 1 Early, Stephen


Box 1 Eban, Abba


Box 1 Eisenhower, Dwight David


Box 1 Ervine, St. John


Box 1 Fadiman, Clifton


Box 1 Farley, Walter


Box 1 Farrar, John


Box 1 Faulkner, Estelle (Mrs. William)


Box 1 Faulkner, William


Box 1 Ferber, Edna


Box 1 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


Box 1 Flower, Desmond.


Box 1 Fontaine, Joan


Box 1 Furness, Betty


Box 1 Geisel, Theodor Seuss


Box 1 Gershwin, George


Box 1 Gershwin, Ira


Box 1 Gingrich, Arnold


Box 1 Goldwyn, Samuel, Jr.


Box 1 Goodson, Mark


Box 1 Grace, Princess of Monaco


Box 1 Green, Martyn


Box 1 Gruening, Ernest


Box 1 Harcourt, Alfred


Box 1 Harriman, William Averell


Box 1 Hart, Moss


Box 1 Hemingway, Ernest


Box 1 Hersey, John


Box 1 Hitchcock, Alfred


Box 1 Hobson, Laura


Box 1 Hogan, Frank Smithwick


Box 1 Hoover, John Edgar


Box 1 Humphrey, Hubert Horatio


Box 1 Huxley, Aldous L.



Box 2 Ingersoll, Ralph


Box 2 Javits, Jacob K.


Box 2 Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor (Mrs. L.B.)


Box 2 Johnson, Lyndon Baines


Box 2 Jones, James


Box 2 Jovanovich, William


Box 2 Kraing, Kenneth B.


Box 2 Kennedy, Edward M.


Box 2 Kent, Rockwell


Box 2 Kerr, Jean


Box 2 Kiplinger, Willard Monroe


Box 2 Knopf, Alfred A.


Box 2 Knopf, Helen


Box 2 Kober, Arthur


Box 2 Koch, Edward I.


Box 2 Kollek, Theodore


Box 2 Lefkowitz, Louis J.


Box 2 Lindsay, John Vliet


Box 2 Lindsay, Mary (Mrs. John V.)


Box 2 Logan, Joshua


Box 2 Loos, Anita


Box 2 McBride, Mary Margaret


Box 2 McFee, William


Box 2 McGovern, George


Box 2 Machen, Arthur


Box 2 McKuen, Rod


Box 2 Malraux, André


Box 2 Maugham, William Somerset


Box 2 Mencken, Henry Louis


Box 2 Merrick, David


Box 2 Michener, James A.


Box 2 Morley, Christopher


Box 2 Nash, Ogden


Box 2 Nathan, George Jean


Box 2 O'Flaherty, Liam


Box 2 O'Hara, John


Box 2 Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy


Box 2 Paley, William S.


Box 2 Robinson, Edwin Arlington


Box 2 Rockefeller, Margaretta F.M. (Mrs. N.A.)


Box 2 Rockefeller, Nelson A.


Box 2 Rodgers, Dorothy (Mrs. Richard)


Box 2 Rodgers, Richard


Box 2 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


Box 2 Roth, Philip


Box 2 Rusk, Dean


Box 2 Russell, Rosalind


Box 2 Schiff, Dorothy


Box 2 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.


Box 2 Schulberg, Budd


Box 2 Sevareid, Eric


Box 2 Shaw, Irwin


Box 2 Sherwood, M.H.C.


Box 2 Simon, Richard L.


Box 2 Slesinger, Tess


Box 2 Stein, Gertrude


Box 2 Steinbeck, John


Box 2 Stettinius, Edward R., Jr.


Box 2 Stevenson, Adlai E.


Box 2 Styron, William and Rose


Box 2 Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs


Box 2 Tracy, Honor


Box 2 Truman, Harry S.


Box 2 Tunney, James Joseph


Box 2 Updike, John


Box 2 Van Vechten, Carl


Box 2 Wagner, Phyllis F.C.


Box 2 Wallace, Henry Agard


Box 2 Warren, Robert Penn


Box 2 Weidman, Jerome


Box 2 White, Elwyn Brooks


Box 2 Wiesel, Elie


Box 2 Williams, G. Mennen


Box 2 Willkie, Wendell L.


Box 2 Woollcott, Alexander


Box 2 Wynn, Ed

Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts, Photographs, and Art


Box 2 Benson, Sally


Box 2 Cerf, Bennett A


Box 2 Clegg, Ernest


Box 2 Dwiggins, William Addison


Box 2 Ellis, Havelock


Box 2 Furness, Betty


Box 2 Geisel, Theodor Seuss


Box 2 Gooden, Stephen


Box 2 Haas, Robert


Box 2 Hollister, Paul


Box 2 Hoover, John Edgar


Box 2 Kent, Rockwell


Box 2 Lawrence, David Herbert


Box 2 Leighton, Clare


Box 2 Lindsay, Howard


Box 2 Losch, Tilly


Box 2 McFee, William


Box 2 Mdrley, Christopher


Box 2 Richards, Ceri


Box 2 Robinson, Edwin Arlington


Box 2 Shaw,George Bernard


Box 2 Sinatra, Frank


Box 2 Stephens, James


Box 2 Stevenson, Adlai


Box 2 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem


Box 2 Van Vechten, Carl


Box 2 Weston, Edward


Box 2 Woolsey, John Munro

Series III: Arranged Materials



Box 25 Articles and speeches by Cerf--A-Z


Audio Records



Box 74 "November 22"


Box 74 "Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music"

(Limited Edition)


Box 74 "Let's Talk About Writers with Bennett Cerf"


Clippings Books



Box 36 1916-1917


Box 36 1917-1919


Box 36 1918-1933


Condolence Letters


Record of Letters, (1 Volume)



Box 8 A-D



Box 9 E-L



Box 10 M-Z



Box 64 Condolence Message from Random House, Inc. concerning the death of Bennett Cerf



Box 25 Bennett Cerf interviewed by Arnold Michaelis, June 20, 1963, 1 audiocassettes

Interview from "View from the Top," WOR-TV



Box 31 Lecture Schedules, 1949-1971


Manuscripts and Proofs


Diaries



Box 11 1915-1949



Box 12 1950-1971


Box 12 Notebooks and Passports



Box 13 The Laugh's on Me



Box 14 The Laugh's on Me


Box 14 Treasury of Atrocious Puns



Box 15 The Sound of Laughter



Box 16 The Sound of Laughter



Box 17 The Sound of Laughter



Box 18 Stories to Make You Feel Better


At Random



Box 19 Typed Manuscript (t.ms.)



Box 20 Typed Manuscript (t.ms.)


Typed Manuscript (t.ms.)



Box 21 Cuts and Discards


Box 21 List of Illustrations


Box 21 Index


Box 21 Typesetters copy of typed manuscript (t.ms.)



Box 21a 1st Draft


Box 21a Uncorrected 1st Proof



Box 22 Master Galley


Box 22 Master Page Proofs


Box 22 Page Proofs (foul matter)


Box 22 Photographs and Illustrations for the Book



Box 23 Correspondence


Box 23 Reviews and Related Material



Box 63 Mock-Ups



Box 24 Try and Stop Me


Box 24 Cerfboard


Box 24 Vest Pocket of Anecdotes



Box 64 Miscellaneous



Box 35 Memorabilia and Miscellaneous Items



Box 26-28 Oral History Memoir, Columbia University

[This material has been withdrawn from this collection and returned to the Columbia University Center for Oral History.]


Personal Papers



Box 3 1926 1929-1933, 1926, 1929-1933



Box 4 1936-1940



Box 5 1941-1943



Box 6 1943-1945



Box 7 1947-1971 undated, 1947-1971, undated


Photographs



Box 32 Photographs of Cerf



Box 33 Photographs of Bennett Cerf, Phyllis Cerf, Gustave Cerf, Cerf family, and miscellaneous



Box 34 Photographs and photograph albums

(Primarily Cerf, family, and friends; 1981 and 1984 additions to the collection)



Box 75 Photograph Albums



Box 64 Miscellaneous


Printed Material



Box 39 About Cerf



Box 40 Articles by Cerf



Box 41 Articles by Cerf



Box 62 Bookplates of Bennett Cerf



Box 42 Books by Cerf



Box 43 Books by Cerf



Box 44 Books by Cerf



Box 45 Books by Cerf



Box 46 Books by Cerf



Box 47 Books by Cerf



Box 48 Books by Phyllis Cerf Wagner



Box 49 Books from the Library of Bennett Cerf



Box 50 Books from the Library of Bennett Cerf



Box 51 Books from the Library of Bennett Cerf



Box 52 Books from the Library of Bennett Cerf



Box 53 Books from the Library of Bennett Cerf



Box 54 Books from the Library of Bennett Cerf



Box 55 Books from the Library of Bennett Cerf



Box 61 Columbia University; Miscellaneous



Box 75 Inscribed Copy of The Look Book


Box 75 Inscribed Copy of Salt Air



Box 63 Leighton, Clare The Return of the Native, 1929


Box 63 Woodcuts; one of 30 numbered sets of 12 prints, signed; illustrations for Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, (New York: Harper Brothers, 1929)



Box 74 Musical Score for "Joanna"

(Autographed by Rod McKuen)



Box 56 Random House and Miscellaneous



Box 57 Random House and Modern Library Catalogues



Box 58 Random House Catalogues (Triplicate)


Box 58 Random House Stock Information



Box 59 Random House Printed Material



Box 60 Random House Printed Material (duplicates)


Scrapbooks



Box 37 1933-1940



Box 38 1940-1943



Box 74 1944 January -October, 1944



Box 65 1944 November -1946 November, 1944



Box 66 1946 December -1949 June, 1946



Box 67 1949-1952 April, 1949-1952



Box 68 1952 April -1954 December, 1952



Box 69 1955 January -1957 October, 1955



Box 70 1957 October -1960 July, 1957



Box 71 1960 July -1964 April, 1960



Box 72 1964 April -1968 February, 1964



Box 73 1968 January -1971, 1968



Box 74 1945-1970



Box 29 Wagner, Phyllis Cerf et al. Charlotte, Isabelle, Phyllis and Susan's New York . New York.



Box 30 Wagner, Phyllis Cerf et al. Charlotte, Isabelle, Phyllis and Susan's New York . New York.

Series IV: Oversized Materials



Box Flat Box 294 Academic Gown



Box Flat Box 293 Charcoal portrait of Bennett Cerf by René Bouchet



Box Flat Box 296 Condolence message from Random House, Inc. concerning the death of Bennett Cerf


Box Flat Box 296 Honorary Degree Awards



Box Flat Box 295 Manuscripts and Proofs--At Random, the Reminiscences of Bennett A. Cerf, 1977

(Page proofs, photographs, end-paper)


Photographs (Oversized)


Box Flat Box 295 Bennett Cerf in front of the Random House building (photograph by Ray Shorr)


Box Flat Box 295 Bennett Cerf with Marilyn Monroe


Box Flat Box 295 Bennett Cerf in office


Box Flat Box 295 Bennett Cerf in office with Secretary Paulene Kreeswork Freidnear


Box Flat Box 295 Bennett Cerf at desk


Box Flat Box 295 David Klopper, Robert Hoas, and Bennett Cerf


Box Flat Box 295 Jonathan and Christopher Cerf (sons of Bennett and Phyllis Cerf)


Box Flat Box 295 Other Miscellaneous Photographs



Box Flat Box 293 Photograph of Bennett Cerf in office



Box Flat Box 296 Bennett Cerf in office (Photograph by Ray Shorr)


Box Flat Box 296 James Silverman, Robert Berstein, Bennett Cerf, and Lyndon Johnson


Box Flat Box 296 Photograph of sign, "Sioux City Welcomes Bennett Cerf"


Box Flat Box 296 Bennett Cerf in office with children's books


Box Flat Box 296 Bennett Cerf (as younger man)


Box Flat Box 296 Other Miscellaneous Photographs


Box Flat Box 296 John O'Hara (Photograph by Phyllis Cerf)



Box Flat Box 293 Photostat reproduction of front page of "New York Times" 1898 May 25, 1898



Box Flat Box 294 Two mock-ups: cartoon sketches