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Series I: Personal Documents, 1921-1970
Series V: Photographs, 1920s-1990s
Series VI: Audio Visual Material, 1956-1981

Diana Trilling papers, 1921-1996

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Series I: Personal Documents, 1921-1970

This small series is composed of personal documents from Diana Trilling's early life. Academic records from her time at Radcliffe College, such as report cards, printed material and an autograph book, legal records concerning family members, yearbooks from Camp Lenore, course schedules from a vocal music institute, and a diary are found here. There is also a representative sample of appointment books and a family financial ledger.


Box 1 Folder 1 General, undated, 1921-1930, undated, 1921-1930

Box 1 Folder 2 Address Book, undated

Appointment Books

Box 1 Folder 3 undated, 1927-1931

Box 1 Folder 4 1960-1963

Box 1 Folder 5 1972-1977

Box 1 Folder 6 1980

Box 1 Folder 7 Barnard Certificate of Honor, 1989 April 5


Box 60 Folder 1 Biographical Statement (two drafts), [1982]


Box 1 Folder 8 Diary, 1922


Box 2 Folder 1 LenorLog, 1922-1924 (Camp Lenore), 1922-1924

Box 2 Folder 2 Lowell Institute, 1922 March-April

Box 2 Folder 3 Radcliffe College, 1923-1925, 1959, 1970, 1923-1925, 1959, 1970

Box 2 Folder 4 Rubin, Cecelia, 1973 February 9

Box 2 Folder 5 Rubin, Joseph--Trust Fund, 1934-1940

Box 2 Folder 6 Rubin, Joseph--Will, 1934 June 13

Box 2 Folder 7 Trilling, Diana--Will, 1949-1951

Box 2 Folder 8 Trilling, James--Wedding, undated

Box 2 Folder 9 Trilling, Lionel--Trust Fund, 1949 April 22

Box 2 Folder 10 Trilling, Lionel--Will, 1931-1951

Box 2 Folder 11 War Rations, 1943

Series II: Correspondence, 1927-1996

Series II holds Diana Trilling's correspondence. Letters within this series are between other family members, members of the literary community like other authors and publishing houses, fans of her work, friends of both Diana and Lionel Trilling, and invitations to lecture, write or review a literary text. In most cases, the carbon copy of Diana Trilling's initial letter or response to a letter has survived as well as any accompanying documents. The original order of the series consisted of two subseries: one arranged alphabetically and one chronologically. This has been maintained.

Subseries II.1: Alphabetical, 1939-1996

Letters found in Subseries 1 tend to be from Diana Trilling's friends and other family members and are often quite extensive. The Trillings had many friends in common so individuals such as Jacques Barzun, James and Elsa Grossman, Alan Ginsburg and Christopher Zinn have letters in this subseries. Correspondence with Nicolas Nabokov in regards to the American Committee for Cultural Freedom and Diana Trilling's subsequent resignation from the board are also held here. Of interest are letters between Diana Trilling and Lillian Hellman during the time that the two women were publicly fighting over politics and the "correct" history of the intellectual movement of New York within the 1930s and 1940s. Please note that although there are a few letters between Diana and Lionel Trilling, most are located in the Lionel Trilling Papers.

Box 2 Folder 12 Anderson, Quentin and Thelma, 1958-1979


Box 3 Folder 1 A through Barzun, 1939-1979

Box 3 Folder 2 Beichman, Arnold, 1952-1979

Box 3 Folder 3 Bell through C, 1939-1979

Box 3 Folder 4 D through F, 1939-1979

Box 3 Folder 5 Grossman, James and Ella, 1963-1975


Box 4 Folder 1 G through H, 1939-1979

Box 4 Folder 2 Hays, Elinor, 1964-1965

Box 4 Folder 3 I through L, 1939-1979

Box 4 Folder 4 M, 1939-1979

Box 4 Folder 5 N through Q, 1939-1979

Box 4 Folder 6 R, 1939-1979


Box 5 Folder 1 S, 1939-1979

Box 5 Folder 2 T through W, 1939-1979

Box 5 Folder 3 A through B, 1980-1985

Box 5 Folder 4 to 5 B, 1980-1985, (2 Folders)

Box 5 Folder 6 C through D, 1980-1985


Box 6 Folder 1 E through G, 1980-1985

Box 6 Folder 2 H, 1980-1985 (includes Hellman letters), 1980-1985

Box 6 Folder 3 I through L, 1980-1985

Box 6 Folder 4 M, 1980-1985

Box 6 Folder 5 M through R, 1980-1985


Box 7 Folder 1 to 2 S, 1980-1985, (2 Folders)

Box 7 Folder 3 Trilling, James, 1984-1985

Box 7 Folder 4 T through Z, 1980-1985

Box 7 Folder 5 A, 1986-1996

Box 7 Folder 6 B, 1986-1996, (2 Folders)


Box 8 Folder 1 B, 1986-1996

Box 8 Folder 2 C through D, 1986-1996

Box 8 Folder 3 E through G, 1986-1996

Box 8 Folder 4 H through J, 1986-1996

Box 8 Folder 5 K through L, 1986-1996

Box 8 Folder 6 M, 1986-1996, (2 Folders)


Box 9 Folder 1 M, 1986-1996

Box 9 Folder 2 N through Q, 1986-1996

Box 9 Folder 3 R, 1986-1996

Box 9 Folder 4 to 5 S, 1986-1996, (2 Folders)

Box 9 Folder 6 T through V, 1986-1996


Box 10 Folder 1 W through Z, 1986-1996

Subseries II.2: Chronological, 1927-1996

Correspondence contained in Subseries 2 covers a variety of topics. Letters are from personal friends (and may be addressed to both Diana and Lionel Trilling), potential publishers and magazine editors who are inviting Diana Trilling to submit a piece or coordinating the publishing of one her books, other authors inquiring about the craft of writing, fans, individuals who criticize Trilling's many writings and, in particular, the type of political and culturally-biased perspective she employs, and distant relatives. There quite a number of condolence letters from Lionel Trilling's colleagues at Columbia University and other academic institutions, his many personal friends, and admirers , who knew him only through his body of work. This correspondence illuminates the kind of impact Lionel Trilling had, not only on the intellectual world, but on the world at large

Box 10 Folder 2 1927-1943

Box 10 Folder 3 1944-1945

Box 10 Folder 4 1946-1947

Box 10 Folder 5 1948-1949


Box 11 Folder 1 1950-1951

Box 11 Folder 2 1952-1955

Box 11 Folder 3 1956-1957 May

Box 11 Folder 4 1957 June-1958, 1957

Box 11 Folder 5 1959 January-May


Box 12 Folder 1 1959 June-1960, 1959

Box 12 Folder 2 1961-1962 April

Box 12 Folder 3 1962 May-1963 May

Box 12 Folder 4 1963 June-1964 April

Box 12 Folder 5 1964 May-December


Box 13 Folder 1 1965 January-June

Box 13 Folder 2 1965 July-1966 February

Box 13 Folder 3 1966 March-1967 February

Box 13 Folder 4 1967 March-December

Box 13 Folder 5 1968 January-July


Box 14 Folder 1 1968 August-December

Box 14 Folder 2 1969

Box 14 Folder 3 1970

Box 14 Folder 4 1971

Box 14 Folder 5 1972


Box 15 Folder 1 1973

Box 15 Folder 2 1974

Box 15 Folder 3 1975 January-October

Box 15 Folder 4 1975 November-December

1975--Condolences

Box 15 Folder 5 A through H


Box 16 Folder 1 I through R

Box 16 Folder 2 S through Y

Box 16 Folder 3 1976 January-March

Box 16 Folder 4 1976 April-August

Box 16 Folder 5 1976 September-December


Box 17 Folder 1 1977 January-April

Box 17 Folder 2 1977 May-September

Box 17 Folder 3 1977 October-1978 January

Box 17 Folder 4 1978 February-July

Box 17 Folder 5 1978 August-1979 January


Box 18 Folder 1 1979 February-September

Box 18 Folder 2 1979 October-December

Box 18 Folder 3 to 4 1995-1996

Box 18 Folder 5 to 6 Accession 2002, 1928-1991, 2002, 1928-1991

Series III: Writings, 1929-1996

Series III is one of the largest series is in the collection and is composed of Diana Trilling's diverse array of writings. Like her husband, Lionel Trilling, Diana Trilling was a prolific writer whose work was published in a variety of journals and magazines. She first submitted pieces for publication in the 1920s and was asked to contribute work up until her death. Within this series are manuscripts with multiple drafts, articles and essays, book reviews, and lectures. This series has been further arranged into two subseries.

Subseries III.1: Manuscripts and Drafts, 1964-1995

The first subseries holds manuscripts and drafts for Diana Trilling's major books:Claremont Essays, The Beginning of the Journey and Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor.There are also chapters of her childhood memoirs and material concerning her marriage to Lionel Trilling that is separate from the texts used inThe Beginning of the Journey.These drafts exist in multiple forms. Many of them went through several versions before the final one. In most cases, they are heavily annotated by Diana Trilling. In addition to the manuscripts themselves, there is often accompanying material for the individual titles consisting of correspondence with publishers, printed material for publicity purposes, and some reviews of the individual manuscripts.

The Beginning of the Journey


Box 19 Folder 1 to 2 Correspondence, 1993-1995, (2 Folders)

Box 19 Folder 3 Draft--General, 1993

Box 19 Folder 4 Draft--Chapter Three, 1993

Box 19 Folder 5 Final Draft I, 1993

Box 19 Folder 6 Final Draft II, 1993


Box 20 Folder 1 Final Draft III, 1993

Box 20 Folder 2 to 3 Notes, 1993, (2 Folders)

Box 20 Folder 4 The Paris Review, 1993

Box 20 Folder 5 Review, 1993-1995

Childhood Memoir

Box 20 Folder 6 Chapter One, 1983

Box 20 Folder 7 Chapter Two, 1983

Box 20 Folder 8 Chapter Three, 1983


Box 21 Folder 1 Chapter Six, 1983

Box 21 Folder 2 Chapter--Excerpts, 1983

Box 21 Folder 3 Chapter--Father, 1983

Box 21 Folder 4 Chapter--High School, 1983

Box 21 Folder 5 Chapter--Kindergarten, 1983

Box 21 Folder 6 Chapter--Radcliffe College, 1983

Box 21 Folder 7 Chapter--War in Europe, 1983

Box 21 Folder 8 Final Draft I, 1983


Box 22 Folder 1 Final Draft II, 1983

Box 22 Folder 2 Final Draft III, 1983

Claremont Essays

Box 22 Folder 3 to 4 Draft, 1964, (2 Folders)

Box 22 Folder 5 Reviews, 1964-1965

Memoirs of a Marriage

Box 22 Folder 6 Draft, 1990s


Box 60 Folder 2 Final Draft, 1990s

Box 60 Folder 3 Interview Transcript, 1990s


Box 22 Folder 7 Notes, 1990s

Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor


Box 23 Folder 1 General, undated, 1981, undated, 1981

Box 23 Folder 2 Clippings, 1980-1981

Box 23 Folder 3 Contract, 1981

Correspondence

Box 23 Folder 4 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980-1981

Box 23 Folder 5 Legal Matters, 1981-1982

Box 23 Folder 6 to 8 Public, 1981-1984, (3 Folders)

Drafts

Box 23 Folder 9 Discards, 1981, (2 Folders)


Box 24 Folder 1 to 2 Discards, 1981

Box 24 Folder 3 to 6 Manuscript, 1981, (4 Folders)


Box 25 Folder 1 New York Times Magazine , 1981

Box 25 Folder 2 to 5 Edited Galleys, 1981, (5 Folders)


Box 26 Folder 1 Edited Galleys, 1981

Box 26 Folder 2 Hamish Hamilton Limited, 1981-1982

Box 26 Folder 3 Interviews, 1981

Box 26 Folder 4 Insurance, 1981 August 24

Box 26 Folder 5 to 7 Notes--Courtroom, 1980, (3 Folders)


Box 27 Folder 1 to 4 Notes--Courtroom, 1980, (3 Folders)

Box 27 Folder 5 Notes--Non-Courtroom, 1979-1980


Box 28 Folder 1 to 2 Notes--Non-Courtroom, 1979-1980, (2 Folders)

Box 28 Folder 3 Penguin Books, 1981-1982

Box 28 Folder 4 Publicity--Post-Publication, 1981-1988

Box 28 Folder 5 Publicity--Pre-Publication, 1980-1981

Reviews

Box 28 Folder 6 America, 1981-1982

Box 28 Folder 7 Australia, 1982 June-July

Box 28 Folder 8 England, 1982 May-July

Box 28 Folder 9 Serialization, 1981-1982


Box 29 Folder 1 Shana Alexander, 1983 March

Box 29 Folder 2 Stranger in Two Worlds, 1986

Box 29 Folder 3 Transcriptions, 1980-1981

Box 29 Folder 4 Reviewing the Forties , 1978-1979

We Must March My Darlings

Box 29 Folder 5 "Daughters of the Middle Class," 1977 April 26 (lecture), 1977 April 26

Box 29 Folder 6 Draft I, 1976

Box 29 Folder 7 Draft II, 1976

Box 29 Folder 8 Draft III, 1976 (with research material), 1976

Box 29 Folder 9 to 11 Final Draft, 1977, (3 Folders)


Box 30 Folder 1 to 2 Final Draft, 1977

Box 30 Folder 3 "A Return to the Past," 1971-1972 (chapter), 1971-1972

Box 30 Folder 4 Reviews, 1977

Subseries III.2: Articles and Essays, 1929-1996

Subseries 2 is comprised of Diana Trilling's shorter writings in the form of articles and essays. The majority of the pieces were published, although there are some early works that were rejected. Many of the texts have accompanying documentation in the form of correspondence concerning the publication and editing of the text, research notes, and reviews after publication. In addition to the traditional articles and essays, lectures, speeches, book reviews and drafts are found in this subseries. Of particular interest are the columns Diana Trilling wrote for The Nation called "Fiction in Review" and her essays on Marilyn Monroe and the cultural impact of the film,Easy Rider.Also included in this subseries are two plays,Snitkenwritten with Bettina Sinclair andThe Young Wives' Taleboth of which are from the 1930s.

Box 30 Folder 5 Address to the Annual Conference of the Child Study Association, 1958 March 24

Box 30 Folder 6 "Aldous Huxley," 1974 (review), 1974

Box 30 Folder 7 "America and The Quiet American 1956 May 15 (review), 1956 May 15

Box 30 Folder 8 "America through Dark Spectacles," 1953 July (review), 1953 July

Box 30 Folder 9 "The American Female,", undated

Box 30 Folder 10 "And Life Comes Knocking at the Window,", undated

Box 30 Folder 11 Award Presentation in Honor of Lionel Trilling, 1976 December 6

Box 30 Folder 12 "The Baby-Nurses,", 1952 April

Box 30 Folder 13 "A Bang and a Whimper,", undated

Box 30 Folder 14 "Beppo,", 1939 January-February

Box 30 Folder 15 "The Bird with the Broken Wing,", undated

Box 30 Folder 16 "The Birthday Party,", undated


Box 31 Folder 1 Carnegie Corporation "American Shelf List,", 1956

Box 31 Folder 2 "Celebrating with Dr. Leary,", 1967

Box 31 Folder 3 "The Challenger,", undated

Box 31 Folder 4 Columbia Uprising of 1968, 1968 (notes), 1968, 1968

Box 31 Folder 5 Commentary Symposium, undated, 1967-1975, undated, 1967-1975

Box 31 Folder 6 "The Concerto,", 1968

Box 31 Folder 7 "The Conscience of the Intellectual,", 1960 May-June

Box 31 Folder 8 "Couples," 1968 April (review), 1968 April

Box 31 Folder 9 "Cultural Exchange,", 1958 June

Box 31 Folder 10 "The Cultural Mode in Political Criticism,", 1968

Box 31 Folder 11 "Culture and Anarchy,", undated

Box 31 Folder 12 "Culture, Biology and Our Sexual Roles,", 1970 June

Box 31 Folder 13 "The Culture of the Colleges: Oxford and Columbia,", 1965

Box 31 Folder 14 Diana Trilling: Biographical Sketch, 1976

Box 31 Folder 15 "Dorothy Thompson," 1973 March (review), 1973 March

Box 31 Folder 16 "Easy Rider and Its Critics,", 1970 April

Box 31 Folder 17 "The Education of a Woman,", 1950

Box 31 Folder 18 "Eight to Nine,", 1936 May-June

Box 31 Folder 19 "Etching,", undated

Box 31 Folder 20 "Feminism and Women's Liberation,", 1974 May

Box 31 Folder 21 "Footnote to My Life as a Critic"--Correspondence, 1991-1996

Box 31 Folder 22 "Footnote to My Life as a Critic"--Drafts, 1995-1996


Box 32 Folder 1 "Frieda Lawrence," 1973 May (review), 1973 May

Box 32 Folder 2 "The Girls of Camp Lenore"--Correspondence, 1995-1996

Box 32 Folder 3 "The Girls of Camp Lenore"--Draft, [1995]

"Goronwy-and Others"

Box 32 Folder 4 Correspondence, 1994-1996

Box 32 Folder 5 Drafts, 1995

Box 32 Folder 6 Notes, undated, 1976, 1994, undated, 1976, 1994

Box 32 Folder 7 Germany, 1967

Box 32 Folder 8 "H.G. Wells and Rebecca West," 1974 (review), 1974

Box 32 Folder 9 "History of Five Decades," [1976] (notes)

Box 32 Folder 10 "The Image of Women in Contemporary Literature,", 1964

Box 32 Folder 11 "The Incas and Their Civilization,", undated

Box 32 Folder 12 "The Influence of Contemporary Literary Culture on the Gifted College Woman,", 1964 May

Box 32 Folder 13 Jimmy Carter, 1976

Box 32 Folder 14 Junior Bazaar--"About Books,", 1946-1947

Box 32 Folder 15 "A Journal of the Plague Years," 1973 June (review), 1973 June

Box 32 Folder 16 "Lawrence and the Movements of Modern Culture,", 1973

Box 32 Folder 17 "Leaving England," 1960s (notes), 1960s

Box 32 Folder 18 "Letter from Abroad,", 1966-1967

Letters to the Editor

Box 32 Folder 19 General, 1986-1990

Box 32 Folder 20 Commentary, 1968 June

Box 32 Folder 21 New York Review of Books, 1967, 1988, 1967, 1988

Box 32 Folder 22 The New York Times, 1977, 1984-1986, 1977, 1984-1986

Box 32 Folder 23 The New York Times Book Review , 1974-1986

Box 32 Folder 24 Partisan Review, 1955, 1965-1967, 1955, 1965-1967

Box 32 Folder 25 The Twentieth Century , 1953 August 12

Box 32 Folder 26 "The Liberal as Intellectual," undated (notes), undated

Box 32 Folder 27 "Life in the 1930s,", 1960

Box 32 Folder 28 "The Life of the Amazon,", 1942

Box 32 Folder 29 "Lost and Found,", undated

Box 32 Folder 30 "The Man with a Drum,", undated

"Marilyn Monroe: The Meaning of Her Life and Death"

Box 32 Folder 31 Correspondence, 1982


Box 33 Folder 1 Review, 1986

Box 33 Folder 2 Translation , 1991 July

Box 33 Folder 3 "The Marriage of Elsie and John," undated (written under pseudonym of Margaret Sayles), undated

Box 33 Folder 4 "Meeting with Mailer,", undated

Box 33 Folder 5 "Memo of a Visit," undated (notes), undated

Box 33 Folder 6 "Miss Villette's in the Springtime,", 1963 June

Box 33 Folder 7 "The Namesake,", 1930s

Box 33 Folder 8 NMC Theatre Commentary, 1949 November 20

The Nation--"Fiction in Review"

Box 33 Folder 9 1942 June 27-1944 January 22

Box 33 Folder 10 1944 January 29-1946 January 5

Box 33 Folder 11 1946 January 26-1947 September 20


Box 34 Folder 1 1947 October 11-1949 June 25

Box 34 Folder 2 Notebooks, 1943-1949

Box 34 Folder 3 Notes, undated, 1969

Box 34 Folder 4 "Notes on the Trial of the Century,", 1995

Box 34 Folder 5 "The Nurse,", undated

Box 34 Folder 6 "Of Husbands and Wives,", 1945 October 13

Box 34 Folder 7 "On the First Anniversary of President Kennedy's Death," 1964 Summer, 1964

Box 34 Folder 8 "On the Steps of Low Library,", 1968-1969

Box 34 Folder 9 O'Neill, Son and Artist, 1973 November (review), 1973 November

Box 34 Folder 10 "Onty Emma,", 1936 May

Box 34 Folder 11 "The Other Night at Columbia,", 1958

Box 34 Folder 12 "Out of Phase in Palermo,", undated

Box 34 Folder 13 Poems--General, undated

Box 34 Folder 14 Poems--Children, 1939


Box 35 Folder 1 The Portable D.H. Lawrence, 1946 (notes), 1946

Box 35 Folder 2 "Portrait of a Marriage," 1974 (review), 1974

Box 35 Folder 3 "The Prodigious Trio,", undated

Box 35 Folder 4 "The Psychology of Plenty,", 1945

Box 35 Folder 5 Puccini, 1970

Box 35 Folder 6 Reader's Reports , 1943 August 25

Box 35 Folder 7 "Reading by Ear"--Correspondence, 1994-1995

Box 35 Folder 8 Remarks at Aspen Institute Conference, 1975

Box 35 Folder 9 Reminiscence of Raymond Weaver, undated

Box 35 Folder 10 Response to Soviet Policies, 1959 January-February

Box 35 Folder 11 Reviews--General, 1942-1974

Box 35 Folder 12 Reviews--New York Times, undated, 1948-1983

Box 35 Folder 13 Reviewing the Forties, 1978 Fall, 1978

Box 35 Folder 14 "The Riddle of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 1963 Sping

Box 35 Folder 15 "The River Bank,", undated

Box 35 Folder 16 "The Rope Dancers" and "Time Remembered,", undated

Box 35 Folder 17 "The Sale of a Work of Art,", 1942 May

Box 35 Folder 18 Selected Letters of D.H. Lawrence , 1957-1960


Box 36 Folder 1 "The Self as Subject," 1983 February 23 (lecture), 1983 February 23

Box 36 Folder 2 "Self-Mythologizing and Lillian Hellman,", 1962

Box 36 Folder 3 Snitken 1930 (play co-written with Bettina Sinclair), 1930

Box 36 Folder 4 Speaking of Literature and Society, 1980 February (editor's foreword), 1980 February

Speeches

Box 36 Folder 5 Overseas Press Club, 1956

Box 36 Folder 6 Pasternak, 1958

Box 36 Folder 7 School for Ethical Culture, 1958 September

Box 36 Folder 8 Women's Faculty Club, 1969 May 7

Box 36 Folder 9 Statement Read to Board of Directors, American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 1961 January 10

Box 36 Folder 10 Toodles Stories, 1939

Box 36 Folder 11 "Thursday the Beats, Tuesday the Analysts,", 1975 April

Box 36 Folder 12 "A Train of Powder," undated (review), undated

Box 36 Folder 13 "The Uncomplaining Ackerley,", 1969 August

Box 36 Folder 14 Untitled Short Story, 1929 Summer (set in Florence), 1929 Summer

Box 36 Folder 15 "Virginia Woolf's Special Realm," undated (review), undated

Box 36 Folder 16 Visit to Camelot, undated

Box 36 Folder 17 "What Is Happening to Love?, 1959 Summer

Box 36 Folder 18 The Widowed,", undated

Box 36 Folder 19 "The Wisdom of Dr. Benjamin Spock,", 1970

Box 36 Folder 20 "Women and Their Minds,", 1959 July

Box 36 Folder 21 "Women's Lib,", 1971 April

Box 36 Folder 22 The Young Wives' Tale, 1930s (play), 1930s

Series IV: Subject Files, 1924-1996

Within Series IV are topical records used by Diana Trilling. Some of the files are research background for articles, legal and financial information concerning the Lionel Trilling Estate, Correspondence and accompanying documentation for the various publishing houses that Diana and Lionel Trilling worked with over the course of their careers, articles and clippings. The series is arranged into two subseries: Diana Trilling and Lionel Trilling.

Subseries IV.1: Diana Trilling, 1924-1996

The first subseries contains records documenting Diana Trilling's professional career as a critic and writer as well as her role as caretaker of her husbands literary estate. Records address Trilling's political activities, such as the American Committee for Cultural Freedom files and other professional and intellectual organizations which sought her support, public responses to her essays and lectures, and documents related to the creation and management of the Lionel Trilling Seminars. Clippings of articles about the Trillings and of potential essay topics and writings dedicated to Diana Trilling by other authors, notably Quentin Anderson and Lionel Trilling, are also held in this subseries. There is a substantial amount of material stemming from a series of oral histories conducted by Trilling on behalf of the Columbia University Oral History Department. Individuals interviewed consist primarily of Lionel Trilling's friends and intellectual colleagues from the 1930s through the 1950s. In addition to being the interviewer, Diana Trilling herself is the interviewee in several oral histories in this subseries, the most substantial being one conducted by Christopher Zinn. Please note that the dates of the Zinn interviews are not in chronological order. Trilling re-recorded many of the tapes due to poor transmission or personal reasons.

Box 36 Folder 23 American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF)--General, 1954-1969, 1983-1985, 1954-1969, 1983-1985

Box 36 Folder 24 American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF)--Address, 1961 April 6


Box 37 Folder 1 The American Intellectual Elite, 1970, 1995, 1970, 1995

Box 37 Folder 2 American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, 1980-1981

Box 37 Folder 3 The American Scholar, 1974-1979

Box 37 Folder 4 Archive, 1983-1987

Articles

Box 37 Folder 5 "Clarence O. Baring and the Attempted Murder of Mrs. Baring,", 1924

Box 37 Folder 6 "Diana Trilling Readies for the Next Political Battle,", 1995 September

Box 37 Folder 7 Trilling, Diana, 1979-1986

Box 37 Folder 8 Baruch, Elaine, 1978-1979

Box 37 Folder 9 Bibliography of Lionel Trilling's Text, 1986

Box 37 Folder 10 Brandeis Arts Commission, 1981-1983

Box 37 Folder 11 "The Changing Myth of the Jew,", 1978

Box 37 Folder 12 Civilization--Correspondence, 1994-1995

Box 37 Folder 13 Civilization--"Fame and Celebrity,", 1996

Box 37 Folder 14 Clippings of Politics and Culture , 1925-1986

Box 37 Folder 15 Columbia College Today--Letters to the Editor, 1993-1994


Box 38 Folder 1 Columbia University Uprising, 1968

Box 38 Folder 2 Conant, Oliver, 1984

Box 38 Folder 3 Contracts and Copyright, 1962-1989

Box 38 Folder 4 Crank Letters, 1980-1995

Box 38 Folder 5 "Daughters of the Middle Class,", 1977

Box 38 Folder 6 D.H. Lawrence--Criticism, 1970-1983

Box 38 Folder 7 D.H. Lawrence--Reviews, 1947, 1958, 1947, 1958

Diana Trilling Interviews

Box 38 Folder 8 General, 1964-1967

Box 38 Folder 9 Alpern, Sarah, 1983 June 21

Box 38 Folder 10 Baruch, Elaine, 1979 August

Box 38 Folder 11 Kaufman, Alan, undated

Box 38 Folder 12 Radcliffe Tapes, undated

Zinn, Christopher

Box 38 Folder 13 Tape I, 1982 September

Box 38 Folder 14 Tape II, 1982 September

Box 38 Folder 15 Tape III, 1982 September


Box 39 Folder 1 Tape IV, 1982 October

Box 39 Folder 2 Tape V, 1982 October

Box 39 Folder 3 Tape VI, 1982 October

Box 39 Folder 4 Tape VII, 1982 October

Box 39 Folder 5 Tape VIII, 1982 November

Box 39 Folder 6 Tape IX, 1982 November

Box 39 Folder 7 Tape X, 1982 November

Box 39 Folder 8 Tape XI, 1983 August

Box 39 Folder 9 Tape XII, 1983 January

Box 39 Folder 10 Tape XIII, 1983 January


Box 40 Folder 1 Tape XIV, 1983 February

Box 40 Folder 2 Tape XV, 1983 February

Box 40 Folder 3 Tape XVI, 1983 February

Box 40 Folder 4 Tape XVII, 1983 September

Box 40 Folder 5 Tape XVIII, 1983 March

Box 40 Folder 6 Tape XIX, 1983 March

Box 40 Folder 7 Tape XX, 1983 March

Box 40 Folder 8 Tape XXI, 1983 April

Box 40 Folder 9 Tape XXII, 1983 April

Box 40 Folder 10 Tape XXIII, 1983 April

Box 40 Folder 11 Tape XXV, 1983 May


Box 41 Folder 1 Tape XXVI, 1983 May

Box 41 Folder 2 Tape XVII, 1983 May

Box 41 Folder 3 Tape XVIII, 1983 June

Box 41 Folder 4 Tape XXIX, 1983 June

Box 41 Folder 5 Tape XXX, 1983 June

Box 41 Folder 6 Tape XXXI, 1983 June

Box 41 Folder 7 Tape XXXII, 1983 July

Box 41 Folder 8 Tape XXXIII, 1983 July

Box 41 Folder 9 Tape XXXIV, 1983 July

Box 41 Folder 10 Tape XXXV, 1983 August

Box 41 Folder 11 Tape XXXVI, 1984 January

Box 41 Folder 12 Dwight Macdonald Interview, 1983

Box 41 Folder 13 Easy Rider and Its Critics, 1969-1970


Box 42 Folder 1 Ethergain, Edward, 1982-1992

Box 42 Folder 2 Eleanor and Hillary, 1996 January

Box 42 Folder 3 Genealogy, 1996

Box 42 Folder 4 Ginsberg, Allen--"Smoking Typewriters,", 1975-1978

Box 42 Folder 5 Graham, Philip L., 1953-1956, 1977, 1953-1956, 1977

Box 42 Folder 6 Guggenheim Application, 1990-1993

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Box 42 Folder 7 Contracts, 1982-1995

Correspondence

Box 42 Folder 8 1968-1977 September

Box 42 Folder 9 1977 October-1980, 1977

Box 42 Folder 10 1981-1992


Box 43 Folder 1 1993-1996


Box 60 Folder 4 to 6 General, 1968-1993, (2 Folders)

Box 60 Folder 7 Harris Case, 1980-1982

Box 60 Folder 8 Lionel Trilling Editions, 1976-1981


Box 43 Folder 2 Jovanovich, Peter, 1989-1991

Box 43 Folder 3 Legal Issues, 1965-1985

Hellman, Lillian

Box 43 Folder 4 Controversy, 1976-1977

Box 43 Folder 5 Death, 1984

Box 43 Folder 6 McCarthy Suit, 1980

Box 43 Folder 7 History of Five Decades, 1968-1976

Box 43 Folder 8 Honorary Party for The Nation, 1944 June

Box 43 Folder 9 Hyde, Jim, 1995-1996

Box 43 Folder 10 "Imagining Our Time: The Vocation of Diana Trilling,", 1993

Box 43 Folder 11 Irving Howe Interview Correspondence, 1994

Box 43 Folder 12 Israel Visit, 1974-1977

Box 43 Folder 13 The Jewish Braille Institute of America, 1981-1983

Box 43 Folder 14 Kazin, Alfred--Lionel Trilling's Death, 1978, 1990, 1978, 1990

Box 43 Folder 15 Klingenstein, Susanne, 1992 March-April

Box 43 Folder 16 Legal Issues, 1993-1995

Box 43 Folder 17 "The Liberated Heroine," 1977-1978 (lecture), 1977-1978


Box 44 Folder 1 "Lionel Trilling, A Jew at Columbia,", 1979 March-April

Box 44 Folder 2 Lionel Trilling--As Subject, 1978-1985

Box 44 Folder 3 "Lionel Trilling and Allen Ginsberg,", 1986 July 4

Box 44 Folder 4 Lionel Trilling Award, 1994

Box 44 Folder 5 Lionel Trilling Bibliography, 1991-1992

Lionel Trilling Estate

Box 44 Folder 6 Boyers, Robert, 1977-1978

Box 44 Folder 7 Chace, William, 1976-1979

Box 44 Folder 8 Christiansen Controversy, 1977-1979

Box 44 Folder 9 Des Pres, Terrence, 1976-1977

Box 44 Folder 10 French, Philip, 1977-1980

Box 44 Folder 11 Grumet, Elinor, 1976-1979

Box 44 Folder 12 Herman, George, 1979 February

Box 44 Folder 13 Krupnick, Mark, 1976-1986

Box 44 Folder 14 Kubal, David, 1978-1979

Box 44 Folder 15 Lopate, Phillip, 1981

Box 44 Folder 16 Meyers, Jeffrey, 1981

Box 44 Folder 17 Platt, Michael, 1977-1979

Box 44 Folder 18 Salmet, Tom, 1977-1994


Box 45 Folder 1 Sennett, Richard, undated

Box 45 Folder 2 Shoben, Edward, 1980

Box 45 Folder 3 Solotaroff, Theodore, 1976-1977

Box 45 Folder 4 Wald, Alan, 1946-1981

Box 45 Folder 5 Wellek, René, 1977-1979

Box 45 Folder 6 Lionel Trilling Reader , 1986-1996

Box 45 Folder 7 Lionel Trilling Seminars, 1995-1996

Box 45 Folder 8 Little, Brown and Company, 1974-1976 (Lillian Hellman controversy), 1974-1976

Box 45 Folder 9 Lopate, Phillip, 1994

Box 45 Folder 10 Mailer, Norman, 1971

Box 45 Folder 11 "Making Double Judgments: The Criticism of Diana Trilling,", 1995

Box 45 Folder 12 Marshall, Margaret, 1935-1945

Box 45 Folder 13 Memoir Excerpt, 1993

Box 45 Folder 14 McMurty, Larry, 1993-1994

Box 45 Folder 15 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 1976-1980

Box 45 Folder 16 New York Herald-Tribune" Response Letters, 1958 May-June

Box 45 Folder 17 Op-Ed Magazine Proposal, 1995 January

Oral History


Box 46 Folder 1 General, 1982-1987

Box 46 Folder 2 Bentley, Eric, 1976 March 31

Box 46 Folder 3 Bentley, Eric, 1979 April 9

Box 46 Folder 4 Donadio, Stephen, 1976 February 7

Box 46 Folder 5 Fadiman, Clifton, 1976 April 21

Box 46 Folder 6 Fadiman, Clifton, 1976 June 7

Box 46 Folder 7 Feiffer, Jules, 1976 July 20


Box 47 Folder 1 Ferber, Herbert, 1979 March 20

Box 47 Folder 2 Fuchs, David, 1979 January 8

Box 47 Folder 3 Goldwater, Walter--draft, 1979 January 4

Box 47 Folder 4 to 5 Goldwater, Walter--final, 1979 January 4-15

Box 47 Folder 6 Grossman, James and Elsa, 1976 January 24

Box 47 Folder 7 Grossman, James and Elsa, 1976 March 13

Harrington, Michael

Box 47 Folder 8 Draft, 1976 March 20


Box 48 Folder 1 Final, 1976 March 20

Box 48 Folder 2 "The Young Michael Harrington," 1976, 1990-1994, 1976, 1990-1994

Box 48 Folder 3 Hays, Judge Paul R. and Elinor--draft, 1976 January 31

Box 48 Folder 4 Hays, Judge Paul R. and Elinor--final, 1976 January 31

Box 48 Folder 5 Hollander, John, 1976 January 27

Box 48 Folder 6 Hovde, Carl, 1976 March 17

Box 48 Folder 7 Howe, Irving, 1978 December 19

Box 48 Folder 8 Hunt, John, 1976 July 12

Kristol, Bea, 1976 February 27 (Gertrude Himmelfarb), 1976 February 27

Item removed from box 48 and destroyed, in accordance with the interviewee's wishes. kws 2021-04-06


Box 49 Folder 1 Kunitz, Stanley, 1979 January 23

Box 49 Folder 2 Lipman, Sam, 1979 September 14

Box 49 Folder 3 Macdonald, Dwight--draft, 1979 March 28

Box 49 Folder 4 Macdonald, Dwight--final, 1979 March 28

Box 49 Folder 5 Marcus, Steven, 1976 January 19

Box 49 Folder 6 Marcus, Steven, 1976 August 2-4

Box 49 Folder 7 Morrow, Felix, 1979 October 18


Box 50 Folder 1 Novack, George, 1978 May 11

Box 50 Folder 2 Phillips, William, 1976 March 28

Box 50 Folder 3 Rosenthal, Michael, 1976 January 13

Box 50 Folder 4 Rovere, Richard, 1978 December 7

Box 50 Folder 5 Schulman, Bob, 1976 February 29

Box 50 Folder 6 Shaw, Peter, 1979 April 6

Box 50 Folder 7 Stern, Fritz, 1976 February 10

Box 50 Folder 8 Thomson, Virgil, 1977 May 6


Box 51 Folder 1 Thompson, Jack and Susan, 1976 February 1

Box 51 Folder 2 Trilling, Diana, 1976 January-March

Box 51 Folder 3 Trilling, Diana, 1979 January 9

Box 51 Folder 4 Warshaw, Paul, 1978 January 10

Box 51 Folder 5 White, Bede, 1976 April 14

Box 51 Folder 6 Other Authors, undated, 1929-1931, 1945, 1972, undated, 1929-1931, 1945, 1972

Box 51 Folder 7 Park, Catherine, 1995-1996

Box 51 Folder 8 Partial Bibliography, 1994-1996

Box 51 Folder 9 Performing Arts Book, 1992

Permissions

Box 51 Folder 10 1964-1979


Box 52 Folder 1 1981-1990

Box 52 Folder 2 1991-1996

Box 52 Folder 3 Podhoretz, Norman, 1980

Box 52 Folder 4 Professional Accolades, 1980-1994

Publishers

Box 52 Folder 5 General, 1972-1974

Box 52 Folder 6 A through C, 1957-1996

Box 52 Folder 7 D through H, 1957-1996

Box 52 Folder 8 N through O, 1957-1996


Box 53 Folder 1 P through S, 1957-1996

Box 53 Folder 2 U through V, 1957-1996

Box 53 Folder 3 V through W, 1957-1996

Box 53 Folder 4 Permissions, 1952-1976

Box 53 Folder 5 Publisher's Requests, 1991

Box 53 Folder 6 Quentin Anderson Interview, 1984 February

Box 53 Folder 7 Reading at Lionel Trilling Seminar, 1985

Box 53 Folder 8 Rebecca West Biography, 1994-1995

Box 53 Folder 9 Recommendation Letters, 1978-1993

Box 53 Folder 10 Rutgers University Press, 1993-1994

Box 53 Folder 11 Said, Edward, 1986

Box 53 Folder 12 Scottsboro Case, 1993

Box 53 Folder 13 Sidney Hook Biography, 1993

Box 53 Folder 14 Solotaroff, Theodore, 1961, 1976, 1961, 1976

Box 53 Folder 15 Sontag, Susan on Communism, 1982


Box 54 Folder 1 Trilling, Lionel--Funeral, 1975

Box 54 Folder 2 Videl, Gore, 1995

Box 54 Folder 3 Viking Press, 1970-1980

Box 54 Folder 4 White House Dinner, 1962 April 29

Subseries IV.2: Lionel Trilling, 1960-1996

This small subseries is composed of records concerning the life of Lionel Trilling, in particular his published pieces and his archive. In regards to his personal papers, there is correspondence concerning the donation of the papers and requests for permission to access them. Files in regards to Lionel Trilling's writings such as copyright renewals, correspondence and contracts with publishing houses, permission to reuse his material, and general information about the Uniform Edition are found in this subseries as well. In addition to these records, this subseries holds material about the impact of Lionel Trilling on Columbia University and the greater academic community. In particular, there is material relating to the Lionel Trilling Award, the Lionel Trilling Seminars, and copies of scholarly work on Lionel Trilling. Included are Lionel Trilling's F.B.I. and government files.

Box 54 Folder 5 Bibliography, 1985

Box 54 Folder 6 Copyright Renewals, 1977-1993

Box 54 Folder 7 Government Files, 1960-1964

Box 54 Folder 8 Lionel Trilling Award, 1976-1992

Lionel Trilling Papers

Box 54 Folder 9 Donations, 1978-1995

Box 54 Folder 10 Permissions, 1979-1995

Box 54 Folder 11 Requests for Letters, 1976-1982

Lionel Trilling Seminars

Box 54 Folder 12 1976-1978


Box 55 Folder 1 1979-1987

Box 55 Folder 2 1988-1995

Box 55 Folder 3 New York Psychoanalytic Institute, 1978 September-November

Permissions

General

Box 55 Folder 4 1979-1986

Box 55 Folder 5 1987-1989

Box 55 Folder 6 1990-1993


Box 56 Folder 1 1994-1996

Box 56 Folder 2 Chelsea House, 1984-1989

Box 56 Folder 3 Rushdie, Salman, 1989

Box 56 Folder 4 Scholarly Work on Lionel Trilling, 1980-1982

Uniform Edition

Box 56 Folder 5 Autobiographical Lecture, undated, 1970-1978, undated, 1970-1978

Correspondence

Box 56 Folder 6 1976-1978 May

Box 56 Folder 7 1978 June-1979

Box 56 Folder 8 1980-1986

Box 56 Folder 9 Printed Material, 1979

Box 56 Folder 10 Reception, 1980-1981

Box 56 Folder 11 Reviews, 1978-1981

Series V: Photographs, 1920s-1990s

Series V contains photographs of the Trilling family and friends. Included are photographs of Lionel Trilling's father and grandfather, David Trilling and Israel Cohen, respectively. There are also photographs of James Trilling and group photographs of the entire family. Portraits of Diana Trilling and publicity photographs for her book Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor are also in this series. Diana Trilling's time at Radcliffe College and Camp Lenore during the 1920s is well represented. While the individuals in many of these earlier pictures are not identified, the atmosphere of the time period and the impact these two places had on Diana Trilling is clear in the composition of the pictures.


Box 57 Folder 1 Bettina and David Sinclair, 1930s

Box 57 Folder 2 Camp Lenore, 1922-1924

Box 57 Folder 3 Diana Trilling--Portraits, 1982, 1990s, 1982, 1990s

Box 57 Folder 4 Diana Trilling--Publicity Photographs, undated, 1981, undated, 1981

Family Photographs

Box 57 Folder 5 General, undated, 1933, 1960-1968, undated, 1933, 1960-1968

Box 57 Folder 6 James Trilling, undated, 1949, 1964-1969, 1980s, undated, 1949, 1964-1969, 1980s

Box 57 Folder 7 Lionel Trilling, undated, 1965, undated, 1965

Box 57 Folder 8 Friends, undated, 1928, undated, 1928

Box 57 Folder 9 Radcliffe College, 1920s

Box 57 Folder 10 Unknown Individuals, undated

Box 57 Folder 14 to L to 1 Oversized Unknown Individuals, undated

Series VI: Audio Visual Material, 1956-1981

This series holds several interviews. Included are two reel to reels, one of which has Diana Trilling discussing her edited book Reviewing the Forties and the other is an interview of Vladimir Nabokov conducted by Lionel Trilling for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Also in this series is a film clip from the NBC series "Elder Wise Men." In the clip, Lionel Trilling interviews Ernest Jones about Freud.

Box 57 Folder 11 Audio Cassette--Diana Trilling Speaking with Patricia McCann on WOR Radio, 1981 November 12


Box 58 Film--Ernest Jones Interview by Lionel Trilling for NBC Show "Elder Wise Men,", 1956 September 23


Box 59 Reel to Reel--Diana Trilling Interview of Reviewing the Forties, 1978 October 2

Box 59 Reel to Reel--Vladimir Nabokov Interview by Lionel Trilling for the Canadian Public Broadcasting Company, 1960