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Joseph Freeman papers, 1920-1965

Summary Information

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Call No.: MS#0456
Bib ID 4079704 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965
Title Joseph Freeman papers, 1920-1965
Physical Description 4 linear feet (9 boxes)
Language(s) English .
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Arrangement

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, documents, photographs, clippings, and other printed materials. Most of Freeman's own letters are written to Anne Williams Feinberg, his secretary. Among the cataloged correspondence are: Sherwood Anderson, Margaret Bourke-White, Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Lincoln Steffens. There is the manuscript of his book NEVER CALL RETREAT.

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You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Joseph Freeman papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Joseph Freeman, 1952.

Gift of Charmion von Wiegand, 1980.

Gift of Anne Feinberg, 1982.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Freeman, Joseph. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1952. Accession number--M-1952.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Entered in AMC 10/04/90.

Revision Description

2020-09-23 EAD document created by CCR.

Subject Headings

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Advertisements Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
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Drawings (visual works) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Lectures Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Manuscripts (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Notebooks Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Photographs Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Poems Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
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Reviews (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Scripts (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

Subject

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Authors, American Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Critics Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Editors Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Poets Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Poets, American Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Scrapbooks Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Songs Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Poet, editor, and critic. Freeman graduated from Columbia University in 1919 with an A.B. He was an editor of "New Masses" from 1926 until 1937; an editor of "The Liberator" and of "Partisan Review;" a foreign correspondent for the "Chicago Tribune" the "New York Herald Tribune" and "Tass." He was the author of NEVER CALL RETREAT, AN AMERICAN TESTAMENT, and other works. Later in life he worked in the field of public relations. His wife, Charmion von Wiegand, was an abstract painter.

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Series I: Correspondence and Miscellaneous


Cataloged Correspondence and Drawings



Box 1 Anderson, Sherwood


Box 1 Bodenheim, Maxwell


Box 1 Bourke-White, Margaret


Box 1 Brown, Gladys


Box 1 Caldwell, Erskine


Box 1 Dahlberg, Edward


Box 1 Dehn, Adolph


Box 1 Dos Passos, John


Box 1 Dreiser, Helen Richardson


Box 1 Dreiser, Theodore


Box 1 Ficke, Arthur Davison


Box 1 Freeman, Joseph


Box 1 Gannett, Lewis Stiles


Box 1 Gropper, William


Box 1 Harcourt, Alfred


Box 1 Herbst, Josephine Frey


Box 1 Hughes, Langston


Box 1 Humphries, Rolfe


Box 1 Kent, Rockwell


Box 1 Komroff, Manuel


Box 1 Millay, Edna St. Vincent


Box 1 Richter, Hans


Box 1 Riding, Laura


Box 1 Steffens, Lincoln


Box 1 Rivera, Diego


Box 1 Siqueiros, David A.


Box 1 Tate, Allen


Box 1 Varèse, Edgar


Box 1 Miscellaneous Correspondence


Box 1 Miscellaneous Document


Box 1 Photographs


Box 1 Printed, miscellaneous

Series II: Manuscripts and Printed Works by Freeman



Box 2 An American Testament

3 printed copyies and reviews. t.ms. has been added.



Box 2A The Birds

xerox of printed copy


Box 2A [Book Reviews by Joseph Freeman]

t. ms. and printed copies.


Box 2A Born Again

t. ms., carbon, of screenplay.



Box 3 Collected Poems

2 bound copies of carton t. ms.



Box 4 Collected Poems

Bound copy of t. ms.


Box 4 [drawings]

a. ms.


Box 4 The Fire is Falling

t. ms.


Box 4 The Forbidden Tree

t. ms.


Box 4 The Geometric Line in the Art of Mondrian and Kandinsky

t. ms.


Box 4 Hurray for Everything?

Printed copy of magazine article.


Box 4 Letters from Sergei Dinamov

Printed copy of magazine article.


Box 4 Murder Monopoly

Printed copy of magazine article.


Box 4 The Minotaur

For film by Hans Richter.



Box 5 Never Call Retreat

t. ms.



Box 6 Never Call Retreat

t. ms., proofs, reviews, advertising, etc.



Box 7 Paradise Forever: Part Three

t. ms.


Box 7 [poems - untitled]

a. ms. and t. ms.



Box 8 Portrait of Michael Hague: American Poet

t. ms.


Box 8 A Prophet of Doom

Printed copy of magazine article.


Box 8 The Rainbow

t. ms. and notebook.


Box 8 The Search for Ancestors

Printed copy of newspaper column.


Box 8 A Simple Conversation

t. ms.


Box 8 [songs]

t. ms.


Box 8 Spring Came on Forever

t. ms.


Box 8 The Stroke of Noon

Carbon t. ms. of poems.


Box 8 The Vision of the Thirties

Printed copy of lecture.


Box 8 Walt Whitman

t. ms. of screenplay.


Box 8 What a World!

Printed copies of newspaper column.


Box 8 [Untitled Manuscripts]

a. ms. and t. ms.


Box 8 Scrapbook of Freeman's newspaper columns