Gerald Sykes papers, 1921-1984

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1221
Bib ID:
4079758 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Sykes, Gerald, 1903-
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
42 linear feet (57 boxes 155 volumes 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.

Books from the library of Gerald Sykes inscribed to him and with his notes are shelved on-site.

The following boxes are located off-site: 2-56. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, notebooks, documents, photographs, course-related materials, and printed materials. The manuscripts include typescripts of Sykes' published and unpublished novels, monographs, plays, short stories, and articles. Among these are The Perennial Avant Garde, The Cool Millennium, and The Hidden Remnant. Sykes' notes and notebooks span the period from the early 1930s to 1980, and include preliminary ideas and sketches for his books, as well as autobiographical material. A small number of documents concern Sykes' wartime work in the U.S. Government Office of War Information. Course-related material including writings and correspondence of students taught by Sykes between 1962 and 1975 at the New School and as an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Printed materials consist of numerous reviews of Sykes' books, in addition to offprints and articles by Sykes. Included as well are printed materials about or connected with Sykes, offprints of articles inscribed to him, and many volumes from his library. The substantial correspondence series includes personal letters and correspondence with agents and publishers relating to his books. Correspondents include Harold Clurman, Aaron Copland, Lawrence Durrell, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Francis Steegmuller, as well as a number of Sykes' students. There is extensive correspondence between Sykes and the artist John Hartell from 1927 to 1983.

General

This collection includes additions that have not yet been processed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Cataloged correspondence: Box 1; Arranged correspondence: Boxes 2-11; Manuscripts: Boxes 12-36; Notes & notebooks: Boxes 37-42; Documents & photographs: Box 43; Teaching materials: Boxes 44-47; Subject files: Boxes 48-50; Printed materials Boxes 51-56; & Oversize folder: Photograph.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing 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.

Books from the library of Gerald Sykes inscribed to him and with his notes are shelved on-site.

The following boxes are located off-site: 2-56. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

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); Gerald Sykes 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 Mrs Claire Metcalfe Sykes, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Sykes, Mrs Gerald. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1985. Accession number--M-1985.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Sykes, Mrs Gerald. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1988. Accession number--M-1988.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Sykes, Mrs Gerald. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1991. Accession number--M-1991.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Sykes, Claire M. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--09/28/92. Accession number--M-92-09-28.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Processed 1985.

Papers Processed 1988.

Papers Processed HR 01/24/92.

Papers Processed HR 02/24/93.

Processed by Timothy Cross 1985; LR 1985; Henry Rowen 1/92; HR 2/93; HR 7/01.

Revision Description

2010-03-29 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Author, editor, critic, and professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research, who died in 1984.

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
Address books CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Announcements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Appointment books CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Articles CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Attendance records CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Card files CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Certificates CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Commonplace books CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Contracts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Curricula CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drafts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Essays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Examinations (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fiction (general genre) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galley proofs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Grade books CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Greeting cards CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Invitations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lectures CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lists (document genres) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Manuscripts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Monographs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notebooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notes (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographic prints CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poems CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Proofs (printed matter) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reprints CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reviews (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Schedules CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Screenplays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scripts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Syllabi CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Columbia University CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Diamond, David, 1915-2005 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Durrell, Lawrence CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fremantle, Anne, 1909-2002 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hopkins, Anthony, 1937- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Jung, Karl, 1902- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kazan, Elia CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kronenberger, Louis, 1904-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lerner, Max, 1902-1992 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
MacDowell, Marian, 1857-1956 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Miłosz, Czesław CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Moynihan, Daniel P (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Strand, Hazel CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Strand, Paul, 1890-1976 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Trilling, Diana CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
United States. Office of War Information CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Viereck, Peter, 1916-2006 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
American literature -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Art critics CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Books -- Reviews CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
College teachers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Critics CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Culture CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drama CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dramatists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Editors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fiction -- Technique CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Interpersonal relations -- Study and teaching CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Novelists, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scenarios CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Social psychology -- Study and teaching CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sociologists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sociology -- Study and teaching CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Television plays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID