Lenore Marshall papers, 1887-1980

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0847
Bib ID:
4079715 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Marshall, Lenore, 1897-1971
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
23.5 linear feet (40 boxes; 1 scrapbook in place of Box 22; 1 oversize folder)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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. There are no longer any access restrictions to materials relating to the peace movement (Boxes 13-22).

The scrapbook that was Box 22 is now housed in Flat Box 319; Box 22 no longer exists in the collection.

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia and printed materials. The correspondence deals with literary and political topics, from such people as Hayden Carruth, Irwin Edman, Lola Ridge and Norman Thomas; numerous manuscripts of Mrs. Marshall's writings, including the notes, drafts, manuscripts and proofs of her last novel THE HILL IS LEVEL and various manuscripts of the stories published in THE CONFRONTATION AND OTHER STORIES, and numerous manuscripts of poetry and short stories. Also included is material on the World War II draft of 19-year-olds, economic aid for Western Europe, the Vietnam War, the origin of SANE, the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, the Amchitka Islands nuclear tests, the Task Force against Nuclear Pollution, and personal correspondence from her own and her husband's families

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged as follows. Cataloged correspondence, manuscripts& photographs: Box 1-1A; Uncataloged correspondence & documents: Box 2-2B; Manuscripts: Box 3-12; Peace groups & SANE: Box 13-22; Subject files: Box 23-24; Printed materials: Box 25-29; & Oversize folder.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

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. There are no longer any access restrictions to materials relating to the peace movement (Boxes 13-22).

The scrapbook that was Box 22 is now housed in Flat Box 319; Box 22 no longer exists in the collection.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions 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); Lenore Marshall 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.

Alternate Form Available

Pearl S. Buck letter is also available on: microfilm. See MN# 91-2094-2.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Mrs. Lenore G. Marshall, 1967.

Bequest of Lenore G. Marshall, 1972.

Gift of James Marshall, 1974, 1982 & 1986.

Bequest of James Marshall, 1987-1988.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Marshall, Lenore G. Method of acquisition--Gift.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Estate of James Marshall. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--11/02/88. Accession number--M-88-11-02.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Entered in AMC 10/16/90.

Papers Processed HR 04/28/92.

Revision Description

2020-05-15 EAD document created by CCR.

2020-09-29 Statement on access to materials in Boxes 13-22 updated by CCR.

Biographical / Historical

Lenore Guinzburg Marshall, 1897-1971 (Barnard College A.B. 1919), American author and peace and anti-nuclear activist. A member of the Poetry Society of America, Authors League of America, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Pen and Brush Club of N.Y.C.; she was on the executive board of the Post World War Council, 1943-1969, a director of the International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists (P.E.N.) after 1965, and co-founder with Clarence Pickett and Norman Cousins of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). In 1917, she married James Marshall, 1896-1987, lawyer and educator (Columbia University LL.B. 1920).

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Advertisements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Announcements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bills (financial) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Certificates CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Diaries CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drafts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drawings (visual works) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Essays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fiction (general genre) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galley proofs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Genealogies (histories) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Interviews CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lecture notes CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lectures CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Manuscripts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notebooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Petitions CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poems CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Press releases CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Proceedings (reports) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Programs (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Proofs (printed matter) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reports CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reviews (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scores (documents for music) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sheet music CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Speeches (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Visiting cards CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
diplomas CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
minutes (administrative records) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Adamic, Louis, 1899-1951 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Adams, J. Donald (James Donald), 1891-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors' League of America CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Barnard College CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Benét, Laura CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Calisher, Hortense CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Calverton, V. F (Victor Francis), 1900-1940 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cook, Howard Norton, 1901-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Coudert, Frederic René, Jr., 1898-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Counts, George S (George Sylvester), 1889-1974 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cousins, Norman CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drew, Elizabeth CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Edman, Irwin, 1896-1954 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Edward MacDowell Association CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ernst, Morris L (Morris Leopold), 1888-1976 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Farrell, James T (James Thomas), 1904-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fischer, Louis, 1896-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fremantle, Anne, 1909-2002 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galantière, Lewis, 1895-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ginsberg, Louis, 1895-1976 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Haydn, Hiram Collins, 1907-1973 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hill, David B (David Bennett), 1843-1910 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hindus, Maurice Gerschon, 1891-1969 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hough, Henry Beetle, 1896-1985 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Howe, Irving CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ickes, Harold L (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Isaacs, Stanley M (Stanley Myer), 1882-1962 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Johnson, Josephine Winslow, 1910- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kizer, Carolyn CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Libby, Frederick J (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Loveman, Amy CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lowenfels, Walter, 1897-1976 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Macdonald, Dwight CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mann, Klaus, 1906-1949 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Marshall, James, 1896-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McGovern, George S (George Stanley), 1922-2012 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
PEN (Organization) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Phillips, William, 1907 November 14- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poetry Society of America CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Post War World Council CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ridge, Lola, 1873-1941 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Riesman, David, 1909-2002 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Rodman, Selden, 1909-2002 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Rosenberg, James N (James Naumburg), 1874-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ryskind, Morrie, 1895-1985 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sarton, May, 1912-1995 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scott, Evelyn, 1893-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Seaver, Edwin, 1900-1987 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Speyer, Leonora, 1872-1956 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stevenson, Adlai E (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stolberg, Benjamin, 1891-1951 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Strong, William Lafayette, 1827-1900 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tarbell, Ida M (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Taylor, Harold, 1914-1993 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Thompson, Dorothy, 1893-1961 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Untermeyer, Jean Starr, 1886-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Vas Dias, Robert CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Vinal, Harold, 1891-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Weeks, Edward, 1898-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
White, E. B (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Williams, Blanche Colton, 1879-1944 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Williams, G. Mennen, 1911-1988 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Woodward, William E., 1874-1950 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
American literature CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Antinuclear movement -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Civil rights -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Environmental protection CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ethical culture movement CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Nonviolence CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Novelists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Nuclear energy -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pacifism CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pacifists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Peace -- Societies, etc CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Peace movements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poets CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scrapbooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women -- Societies and clubs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women authors, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women poets CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women's rights CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID