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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
Title Lenore Marshall papers, 1887-1980
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.

Arrangement

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.

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

Using the Collection

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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

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); 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.

Subject Headings

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

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Advertisements Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Announcements Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Bills (financial) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Certificates Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Diaries Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Drafts (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Drawings (visual works) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Essays Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Fiction (general genre) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Galley proofs Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Genealogies (histories) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Interviews Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Lecture notes Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Lectures Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Manuscripts (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Notebooks Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Petitions Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Photographs Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Poems Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Press releases Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Proceedings (reports) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Programs (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Proofs (printed matter) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Reports Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Reviews (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Scores (documents for music) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Sheet music Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Speeches (documents) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Visiting cards Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
diplomas Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
minutes (administrative records) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

Subject

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

History / Biographical Note

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).