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Eric L. McKitrick Papers, 1934-2001

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Series V: Correspondence, 1937-2001

This series contains three sets of correspondence files: professional, alphabetical, and a small amount of personal correspondence from the 1930s-1940s.

Subseries V.1: Professional Correspondence, 1940s-2001

includes correspondence on job offers, reprint permissions, and with publishers. McKitrick kept chronological files for both general professional and publisher correspondence. He also kept files on specific publishers. The files on publishers include correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, and information on McKitrick's reading and consulting projects.

Professional Correspondence


Box 19 Folder 10 to 11 1950s-1961


Box 20 Folder 1 to 6 1962-1980s

Box 20 Folder 7 to 8 Informal and Miscellaneous, 1940s-1960s

Publishers Miscellaneous

Box 20 Folder 9 to 10 1950s-1964, (2 Folders)


Box 21 Folder 1 to 2 1965-1970s, (2 Folders)

Box 21 Folder 3 Hill and Wang, 1966-1974

Box 21 Folder 4 New York Review of Books, 1965-1996

Box 21 Folder 5 Columbia University Press, 1955-1979

Box 21 Folder 6 to 7 Oxford University Press, 1962-2001, (2 Folders)

Box 21 Folder 8 Harper's, 1962-1990


Box 22 Folder 1 Knopf, 1954-1990

Box 22 Folder 2 Random House, 1975-1976

(Comments on Gore Vidal's 1876 manuscript)

Box 22 Folder 3 American Historical Review, 1964-1993

Box 22 Folder 4 University of Chicago Press, 1959-1991

Box 22 Folder 5 Prentice-Hall, 1962-1972

Box 22 Folder 6 Time, Inc., 1962

Box 22 Folder 7 American Quarterly, 1957-1972

Box 22 Folder 8 Political Science Quarterly, 1954-1974

Box 22 Folder 9 John Wiley--Bill Gum, 1962-1969

Box 22 Folder 10 Harcourt, Brace, 1960-1966


Box 23 Folder 1 Commentary, 1959-1964

Box 23 Folder 2 Scott Foresman, 1964-1968

Box 23 Folder 3 Reprint Permissions, 1969-1986


Box 34 Folder 5 Job Offers, 1952, 1961-1974, 1952, 1961-1974

Subseries V.2: Alphabetical File, 1953-2000

is comprised of files on both personal and professional correspondents. Many files also function as subject files; these files include correspondence not only with the named persons, but also in reference to them in relation to manuscripts, recommendations, and projects. In addition to correspondence, many files include clippings, manuscripts, and memorials prepared by McKitrick.

Most of the correspondents in the alphabetical file are colleagues, dissertation advisees, former students, and historians, but correspondence with members of Grace Church and the Century Association is also included in the files. Important correspondents include Bishop Christopher FitzSimons Allison, Stanley Elkins, Richard Hofstadter, Elizabeth McCaughey (Ross), Lionel Trilling, C. Vann Woodward, and Mike Wallace (co-author ofGotham: A History of New York City to 1898).


Box 26 Folder 4 Allison, Fitz, circa, 1988-2000

(Bishop Christopher FitzSimons Allison)

Box 26 Folder 5 Banner, L & J, 1973-1984

Box 26 Folder 6 Basen, Neil, 1997

Box 26 Folder 7 Beisner, Bob, 1960-1977

Box 26 Folder 8 Ben-Atar, Doron, 1990-1998

Box 26 Folder 9 Bender, Tom, 1979-1987


Box 27 Folder 1 Blanton, Walker, 1961-1971

Box 27 Folder 2 Brandeis: Levy-Meyers-Roche, 1962-1965

Box 27 Folder 3 Brock, William, 1961-1986

Box 27 Folder 4 Brown, Tom, 1978-1981

Box 27 Folder 5 Burton, Ann, 1976-2000

Box 27 Folder 6 Burrows, Ed, 1999

Box 27 Folder 7 Chadwick, Owen, 1974-1991

Box 27 Folder 8 Chatfield, Jack, 1982-1996

Box 27 Folder 9 Copley, Susan & David, 1994-1999

Box 27 Folder 10 Cornog, Evan, 1989-2001

Box 27 Folder 11 Cross, Bob, 1971-2001

Box 27 Folder 12 David, Craig, 1994-2000

Box 27 Folder 13 De Lorenzo, Dominick, 1978-1979

Box 27 Folder 14 De Mott, Ben, 1977-2000


Box 28 Folder 1 Detlefson, [Ellen] Gay, 1972-1979

Box 28 Folder 2 Diamond, Sig, 1994-2000

Box 28 Folder 3 Eisenberg, Carol, 1983-1989

Box 28 Folder 4 to 8 [Elkins], Stan, 1953-2000, (5 Folders)

Box 28 Folder 9 Ellis, Joe, 1988-2000

Box 28 Folder 10 Fields, Barbara, 1992-1993

Box 28 Folder 11 Fiering, Norman, 1981

Box 28 Folder 12 Foner, Eric, 1970-1981

Box 28 Folder 13 Foner, Naomi (Children's Television Workshop),1972-1977


Box 29 Folder 1 Gay, Peter, 1964-1996

Box 29 Folder 2 Goldblatt, Stuart, 1964-1976

Box 29 Folder 3 Greene, Jack, 1970-1983

Box 29 Folder 4 Gronim, Sara, 2001

Box 29 Folder 5 Hazzard, Shirley, 1994-2001

Box 29 Folder 6 Heichler, Kate, 1997-1998

Box 29 Folder 7 Higham, John, 1959-1999

Box 29 Folder 8 Hofstadter, [Richard], 1957-1995

Box 29 Folder 9 Hollander, Jean A., 1963-1964

Box 29 Folder 10 Howard, Chet, 1954-1992

Box 29 Folder 11 Hunt, Draper, 1968-1993

Box 29 Folder 12 Jackson, Ken, 1984-2000

Box 29 Folder 13 James, Ellen Malino, 1963-1998

Box 29 Folder 14 Kaplanoff, Mark, 1973-1979


Box 30 Folder 1 Kenyon, Cecilia, 1998-2001

(Much of this related to a project on the writings of Cecilia Kenyon undertaken by McKitrick and others)

Box 30 Folder 2 Kerber, Linda, 1998

Box 30 Folder 3 Klein, Herbert, 1957-1969

Box 30 Folder 4 Kline, M.-J., 1962-1992

Box 30 Folder 5 Kurtz, Steve, 1962-1996

Box 30 Folder 6 Leonard, Tom, 1976-1977

Box 30 Folder 7 Little, Lester, 1994-1999

Box 30 Folder 8 McCaughey, Elizabeth, 1973-1996

Box 30 Folder 9 McCaughey, Bob, 1971-2001

Box 30 Folder 10 McFarland, Gerald, 1965-1978

Box 30 Folder 11 McTighe, Geraldine, circa, 1971-2000

Box 30 Folder 12 Malone, Dumas, 1959-1974

Box 30 Folder 13 Marcus, Joel, 1984-1986


Box 31 Folder 1 Markoe, Karen, 1978-1991

Box 31 Folder 2 Matson (Formerly Mitten), Cathy, 1982-1985

Box 31 Folder 3 Mattern, David, 1986-1992

Box 31 Folder 4 Meisinger, Diana, 1982-1984

Box 31 Folder 5 Merton, R.K.--Festschrift, 1971-1973

Box 31 Folder 6 Miles, Nelson, 1997-1999

Box 31 Folder 7 Miller, Wilbur R., 1976-1994

Box 31 Folder 8 Mitchell, Joe, circa, 1996

Box 31 Folder 9 Morrison, Jim, 1970-1998

Box 31 Folder 10 Onuf, P., 1975-1978, 1989, 1975-1978, 1989

Box 31 Folder 11 Paxton, Bob, 1994

Box 31 Folder 12 Pernick, Martin, 1972-1983

Box 31 Folder 13 Pole, Jack, 1973-1984

Box 31 Folder 14 Riesman, David, 1953-1959

Box 31 Folder 15 Riesman, Janet, 1982-1991

Box 31 Folder 16 Robarge, David, 1985-1997

Box 31 Folder 17 Robbins, Karen, 1985-1996


Box 32 Folder 1 Rosenberg, Rosalind, 1980-1999

Box 32 Folder 2 Ross, Kristie, 1981-1993

Box 32 Folder 3 Rutledge, Fleming, 1977-2000

Box 32 Folder 4 Saxton, Martha, 1987-1996

Box 32 Folder 5 Schlesinger, Steve, 1989-1993

Box 32 Folder 6 St. George, Andrew, 1985-1987

Box 32 Folder 7 Schuyler, David, 1975-1987

Box 32 Folder 8 Singal, Daniel J., 1970-1984

Box 32 Folder 9 Sloan, Herbert, 1979-1993

Box 32 Folder 10 Spencer, Linda S., 1970-1971

Box 32 Folder 11 Snay, Mitchell, 2000


Box 33 Folder 1 Sprague, Claire, 1964-1967, Undated, 1964-1967, Undated

Box 33 Folder 2 Stebenne, David, 1990-1996

Box 33 Folder 3 Straus, Michael, 1991-2000

Box 33 Folder 4 Swanson, Ken, 1989-1990

Box 33 Folder 5 Tabachnik, Leonard, 1961-1975

Box 33 Folder 6 Taylor, Bill, 1961-1990

Box 33 Folder 7 Trilling, Lionel, 1953-1975, 2000, 1953-1975, 2000

Box 33 Folder 8 Vos, Frank, 1985-1996

Box 33 Folder 9 Waldman, Elaine, 1962-1978

Box 33 Folder 10 Wallace, Mike, 1972-1977, 1999, 1972-1977, 1999

Box 33 Folder 11 Wilson, Jack, 1973-1978, 1995, 1973-1978, 1995

Box 33 Folder 12 Winter, Ernst, 1966-1971

Box 33 Folder 13 Withington, Ann, 1985-1990

Box 33 Folder 14 Wood, Gordon, 1992-1994

Box 33 Folder 15 to 16 Woodward, C. V., 1954-1999


Box 34 Folder 1 Worth, Jr., William A., 1970-1976

Box 34 Folder 2 Young, Jessica, 1974-1988

Box 34 Folder 3 Zvesper, John, 1973-1984

Subseries V.3: Personal and Family Correspondence, 1937-1946

This subseries includes several files of "old letters" kept by McKitrick. These files include correspondence that McKitrick received from his parents, friends, and future wife during World War II.


Box 23 Folder 4 Juvenilia, circa, 1934-1944

(Includes correspondence with Forbes Leigh Satre at Fort Lewis and Camp Abbot)

Old Letters

Box 23 Folder 12 Edyth Stevenson, 1937-1946

(later McKitrick's wife)


Box 24 Folder 1 to 3 Letters from McKitrick's Parents, 1941-1945, (3 Folders)