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Biography
Ernest Samuels was born on the south side of Chicago on May 19, 1903. His parents were Albert (also known as Alexander) and Mary (Kaplan) Samuels. He attended Chicago Public Schools, including Tilden Technical High School, after which he entered the University of Chicago as a pre-law student in 1919. He received a Bachelor of Philosophy in Law and French in 1923 and immediately entered the University of Chicago Law School. Although ill with tuberculosis for one year during this time, he received his J.D. in 1926. After graduation a recurrence of the disease forced him-to go to New Mexico in order to recuperate. After recovering he established a law practice in El Paso, Texas, in partnership with Harold Potash, remaining there from 1928-1930. In 1930 he then returned to Chicago to pursue a long standing interest in literature. While a student he had edited and written articles for The Pyramid, his fraternity literary magazine. From January to August 1931 he resumed his studies at the University of Chicago, this time in the English Department. He passed a proficiency examination to attain the equivalent credits of an undergraduate literature major and after three quarters of study, during which he wrote a thesis on Henry David Thoreau’s literary reputation, he received a Master of Arts in English. The prevailing economic situation led Samuels to take the first available position, teaching English and Law at Bryant Stratton College, a business school in Chicago. During his tenure there, 1931-1936, he was chairman of the English Department. He also developed a business English textbook-workbook, Business English Projects (1936 and later editions). The book was originally designed to supplement his own class work, but it was eventually adopted by 600 schools. He also resumed the practice of law, becoming licensed in Illinois in 1933. He pursued the law exclusively in 1936-1937, working for his brother Leo Samuels’ firm. He then received an offer to teach at the State College of Washington (later Washington State University) at Pullman. He taught his first upperclass literature classes at Washington State and this experience convinced him of the need to strengthen his background in literature; hence, in 1939 he again entered the University of Chicago to pursue a PhD in American and English literature. While at Pullman, he met and married Jayne Porter Newcomer on August 24, 1938. She held a Bachelor’s degree in education from Grinnell College and was a teaching fellow while pursuing her Master’s degree at Pullman. She later served as Samuels’ research associate and pursued her own career as a teacher and administrator at Kendall College in Evanston. The Samuels have three children: Susanna (1943), Jonathan (1944) and Elizabeth (1952). Returning to his studies at the University of Chicago full time in 1939, Samuels began the research project that would last for more than twenty years. His chief interest was post-Civil War American literature, and accordingly, his dissertation topic was, "The Early Career of Henry Adams.” Samuels received his PhD from Chicago in September 1942. Samuels was appointed Instructor of English in the fall of 1942 at Northwestern University, where he remained until his retirement in 1971. He became an Assistant Professor in 1946, Associate Professor in 1949, and full Professor in 1954. He also served as department chairman from 1964-1966 and held the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professorship from 1970-1971. While at Northwestern Samuels continued his research on the career of Henry
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Adams and in 1948 The Young Henry Adams was published by Harvard University Press. The first of what would become a three-volume biography was based upon his dissertation. He later wrote Henry Adams: The Middle Years (1958) and Henry Adams: The Major Phase (1964), after receiving permission to use the Adams papers, which had previously been closed. During the 1955-1956 academic year after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship, he took a leave of absence to work on the second volume. With its publication in 1958 Samuels was awarded the Parkman Prize by the Society of American Historians, and in early 1959, Columbia University awarded him the Bancroft Prize, as well. During the year 1958-1959 he served as Fulbright lecturer in American literature and civilization in Belgium. The zenith of his career came with the publication of Henry Adams: The Major Phase in the fall of 1964. The following May he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for 1965. Samuels himself later served on the Pulitzer Prize Jury in Biography and History. In 1966-1967 Samuels held the Leo S. Bing Visiting Professorship at the University of Southern California. He had already begun his next project, a biography of the art historian and critic Bernard Berenson. In 1971-1972 he was awarded a second Guggenheim Fellowship to research and write the Berenson biography, a project he worked on full-time after retiring from Northwestern in August 1971. The work was published in 1979. In addition, after having served on the editorial advisory committee for the Adams (family) Papers, Samuels became senior editor of the Henry Adams letters, a projected six-volume series. Samuels was an active member of several professional organizations including the Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, American Studies Association, American Association of University Professors, College English Association and the Massachusetts Historical Society. He also edited and wrote introductions to several new editions of Henry Adams’ major works.
Description of the Series, Boxes 1-16 (1918-1977)
The Ernest Samuels Papers comprise 16 boxes of material spanning the years 1918-1977. The bulk of the collection, however, falls between 1942 and 1971, during Samuels’ tenure as a faculty member in Northwestern University’s English Department. Some material relating to his days as a student at the University of Chicago, his law practice in El Paso, Texas, and his tenure as a teacher at Bryant Stratton College in Chicago and Washington State University at Pullman is also included. The Samuels Papers have been arranged in five general categories: biographical materials, correspondence, academic files, published and unpublished writings and research files. The biographical materials include vita, news releases, autobiographical sketches an miscellany; clippings; reviews of Samuels’ books; and various memorabilia such as programs, book jackets, pamphlets, invitations and other miscellaneous personal materials. The correspondence is divided into two categories: general correspondence, arranged chronologically, and subject correspondence, arranged alphabetically by folder title. The general correspondence includes routine letters between Samuels and various Northwestern administrators like Franklyn Bliss Snyder, J. Roscoe Miller, Robert H. Strotz, Simeon Leland and Payson S. Wild. Correspondence with prominent individuals is partially indexed (see pages 4-5). Some correspondence regarding Samuels’ doctoral dissertation and other subsequent research is included with the general correspondence, rather than with the research
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correspondence. The subject correspondence includes correspondence with various colleagues, publishers and officials of professional organizations as well as correspondence concerning lectures, speeches, awards and committees that Samuels served on. Correspondence with prominent individuals included in the subject correspondence has also been partially indexed (see pages 5-6). The academic files include grade books for courses Samuels taught at Northwestern, unbound grade book pages, a few course syllabi, examinations and student papers. Samuels’ lecture notes, most of which are undated, are also included. The lecture notes are arranged alphabetically by title. Samuels’ published and unpublished writings include a copy of the edition of Business English Units, published by Bryant Stratton College. Later editions were titled Business English Projects and published by Prentice Hall. Samuels’ doctoral dissertation, which served as the basis for his book The Young Henry Adams, is also included here. The book introductions were prepared for new editions of Henry Adams’ works that Samuels edited, abridged or contributed notes and appendices. Samuels’ speeches files include note cards and texts of speeches or lectures he delivered. Included among Samuels’ student materials are copies of The Pyramid, the literary magazine produced by his college fraternity, Tau Delta Phi, which he wrote for and edited for one year. The research files include correspondence relating to Samuels research on Henry Adams career including correspondence with members of the Adams family, acquaintances of Henry Adams, and curators and librarians of various repositories that held Adams family materials. Members of the Adams family that Samuels corresponded with include Henry Adams’ nephews Charles Francis and Henry Adams and his niece Louisa Thoron. Also included in this category are Samuels research notes for his doctoral dissertation, notes on writing biography and miscellaneous notes; and transcriptions, photocopies and published materials utilized in preparing the Adams biography.
Provenance: The Ernest Samuels Papers were donated to the University Archives by Ernest Samuels in June 1977.
Restrictions: None.
Processors: Vakare Valaitis and Elisabeth Wittman, August 1977.
Separations: Four photographs of Henry Adams’ house (1962), five photographs of groups that Samuels was associated with (fraternity, theater, students, etc.), and three miscellaneous photographs of friends and relatives of Samuels have been transferred to the University Archives' photograph collection. One 600-foot open reel tape of an interview regarding Samuels’ 1965 Pulitzer Prize on WJJD radio (May 3, 1965) and one pin awarded to Samuels by Tilden Technical High School at its annual Achievement Dinner (May 18, 1960) have been transferred to the University Archives’ artifacts cabinet.
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Description of the Additions, Box 17 (1954)
This volume contains the proceedings, petitions, depositions, testimony, etc., in the case of Otto Eisenschiml vs. Fawcett Publications. Samuels gave expert testimony on behalf of the plaintiff. The case involved an article written in True magazine, a Fawcett publication, that was accused of plagiarizing Dr. Eisenschiml’s books. A folder of correspondence and related materials also from this case is in Box 6, Folder 15.
Provenance: This addition to the Ernest Samuels Papers was donated to the University Archives by Ernest Samuels on November 15, 1978.
Restrictions: None.
Processor: Elisabeth Wittman, November 1978.
Description of the Additions, Boxes 18-24 (1954-1979)
This addition, comprising seven boxes and spanning the period 1954-1979, consists of one folder of general correspondence dealing primarily with Samuels’ teaching, publications, speeches, and travels; two folders of correspondence with Harvard University Press pertaining mainly to the second and third volumes of his biography of Henry Adams; and six-and-a-half boxes of drafts of the whole, and of various chapters, of Samuels’ Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur, published by Harvard University Press in 1979, the first of a projected two-volume work. Also included are summary and excerpt notes; photocopies of letters, diaries, and other pertinent materials; and notes for documentation. A folder of miscellany includes a signed copy of a lease for the apartment in Florence the Samuels rented for eight months in 1972-73, his second Guggenheim year; and a review of the Berenson book that appeared in the Chicago Tribune.
Provenance: The additions were donated by Ernest Samuels on March 26. 1979, and on November 29, 1982 (Accessions #79-47 and #82-156), and by Nancy N. Clemente, editor at Harvard University Press, on February 12, 1980 (Accession #80-28).
Restrictions: None.
Processor: William K. Beatty, July 1983.
Separations: Thirteen spools or strips of black and white 35mm negatives have been separated from the papers. The negatives, on Agfa Gevaert, Kodak, Adox, and Ferrania-Pancro safety films, are from photographs of books and manuscripts pertinent to Samuels’ research interests. Included in these materials are Bernard Berenson correspondence and Henry Adams [?] manuscripts as well as leaves from Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy and Friendship’s Garland
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(New York: Macmillan and Co., 1883), The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, 2 vols. (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), and Walter Pater, The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1888). Some of the photographed leaves have been annotated. The negatives have been boxed together and shelved with like photographic materials.
Description of the Additions, Boxes 25-28 (1919-1986)
This addition fills four boxes and spans the period 1919-1986. The addition consists of one folder of biographical material, including a transcript of Samuels’ academic record at the University of Chicago; general correspondence; subject correspondence; speech files; and publication files. The general correspondence pertains primarily to Samuels’ research and teaching, speech and travel arrangements, project funding, and literary and political criticism. The correspondence is arranged chronologically. Subject correspondence forms the bulk of the addition and relates mainly to the Northwestern University English Department, the Library of Congress Council of Scholars, and Samuels’ research and publications. Subject correspondence files are arranged alphabetically according to topical folder headings. Speech files document a few of Samuels’ speaking engagements through drafts, notes, and related correspondence. The publication files relate largely to Samuels’ biographies of Bernard Berenson and Henry Adams. Folders are arranged first according to publication title and topically thereafter. A few folders of articles (some based on speeches), reprints, and reviews complete the addition. Of special interest in this addition are the typescript of Samuels’ interview with Berenson’s close friend, Nicky Mariano (Box 4, Folder 4), materials related to the presentation of the Carl Sandburg Award for Literature in October, 1980 (Box 1, Folders 1 and 7), correspondence and transcripts related to Samuels’ legal work with aliens in Texas (Box 1, Folder 2), and scattered letters pertaining to Meryle Secrest’s biography of Berenson as well as the book on Mary Berenson by Barbara Halpern and Jayne Samuels.
Provenance: Ernest Samuels donated these papers to the University Archives on December 3, 1986 (Accession #86-260).
Restrictions: None.
Processor: William K. Beatty, February-March 1987.
Separations: A small amount of duplicate material was discarded.
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Description of the Addition, Boxes 29-42 (1979-1987)
The addition, which comprises 14 boxes, consists entirely of manuscript drafts of Volume I of Samuels’ biography of Bernard Berenson, Bernard Berenson, the Making of a Connoisseur (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979), and of manuscript and proof drafts of Volume II, Bernard Berenson, the Making of a Legend (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987), on which Jayne Newcomer Samuels collaborated. Typescript drafts of Volume I fill Box 29 and half of Box 30. The remaining 12 and one-half boxes are devoted to Volume II. The six drafts (of which five are typescript and one is corrected page proof) are heavily annotated; the several drafts were occasioned by the publisher’s need to excise a significant amount of text from the final draft.
Provenance: The Addition was donated to the University Archives by Ernest Samuels as Accession #87-103 on June 3, 1987.
Restrictions: None.
Processor: Patricia Cloud, June 5, 1987.
Separations: Two folders containing the final corrected proof of Volume II were discarded.
Description of the Addition, Box 42 (1978)
The Addition comprises one folder of notes and correspondence concerning editorial corrections to Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (1979).
Provenance: The Addition was donated to the University Archives on July 7, 1987, by Ernest Samuels, as Accession #87-135.
Restrictions: None.
Processor: Patricia Cloud, July 9, 1987.
Separations: None.
Description of the Addition, Boxes 43-46 (1928-1987)
The addition, which fills three and one half boxes and spans the years 1928-1987, is composed principally of correspondence. The first box contains one folder of general correspondence (1935-87), and two folders of correspondence between Samuels and his close friend Joseph Leopold Cohen, exchanged while both were under treatment for tuberculosis, from which Cohen died in 1928 (1925-28). The three remaining folders in Box 43 hold letters written
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by Samuels to his mother, Mary Kaplan Samuels, while he was in E1 Paso and Washington state between 1928-39. These letters were written during the period Samuels met and married his wife, Jayne Newcomer Samuels. Correspondence in Box 44, which is arranged alphabetically by correspondent’s surname, concerns for the most part Samuels work documenting and writing the biography of Bernard Berenson. Correspondents include Edward Fowles, partner of Duveen Brothers art dealers; art historian John Rewald; curator of the museum founded through Berenson’s estate and maintained by Harvard University, I Tatti Institute, Myron P. Gilmore; Berenson’s longtime associate Nicky Mariano; and John Walker, Director of the National Gallery of Art. Folder 18 in Box 44 holds photograph prints of letters exchanged between Berenson and Ernest Hemingway; in Folder 19 are typed copies of letters exchanged between Berenson and Henry Adams. The originals of both sets of correspondence are in I Tatti. In Box 45 are contained copies of letters between Samuels and Berenson (1955-58), interviews for the biography (1956-73), publishers’ permissions, correspondence with Harvard University Press, and portions of the manuscript. The last four folders of the addition concern Samuels’ contributions to the Library of America’s edition of Henry Adams’ letters.
Provenance: The addition was donated to the University Archives by Samuels on July 13, 1987 (Accession #87-143).
Restrictions: Permission to cite or quote from letters in the addition must be obtained from owners of the originals.
Processors: Patricia Cloud and Bruce Scheffel, November-December 1987.
Separations: None.
Description of the Addition, Boxes 47-49 (1978-1979)
This addition has two major sections and one minor section. The minor section, Box 47, Folder One, is some general correspondence and articles from 1978-79. The second section contains correspondence on Colin Simpson’s publishing of Artful Partners, a book on Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen. Much of the correspondence expresses concern over the quality of Simpson’s book and over gaining access to the Duveen archives. The third section of this addition is the manuscript of Samuels’ Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur.
Provenance: These materials came to the University Archives directly from Samuels on November 4, 1987 (Accession #87-260).
Restrictions: None.
Processor: Carter A. Roeber; July 1, 1988.
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Description of the Addition, Box 50 (1988)
This addition is the edited text for the abridgement of Ernest Samuels’ three books about the life of Henry Adams into one volume.
Provenance: The addition was donated by Ernest Samuels to the University Archives on September 12, 1989 (Accession #89-177).
Restrictions: None.
Processor: Tyler Walters, October 18, 1989
Description of the Addition, Boxes 51-53 (1935-1995)
This addition to the Ernest Samuels Papers fills three boxes and spans the period between 1935 and 1995. It is composed of biographical material, correspondence, financial records, and files relating to Samuels’ publications. The biographical material consists primarily of newspaper clippings relating to Samuels’ research on Henry Adams. The correspondence is divided into two categories: general correspondence, arranged chronologically by date, and subject correspondence, arranged alphabetically by folder title. The general correspondence includes correspondence concerning Samuels’ research on Henry Adams and on Bernard Berenson. The subject correspondence forms the bulk of the correspondence and relates mainly to Samuels’ publisher, Harvard University Press, to the Massachusetts Historical Society and to Northwestern University. The financial records concern royalties from Samuels’ many books, published by the Harvard University Press and by the Houghton Mifflin Company. The publication files, arranged alphabetically by publication, consist mainly of scholarly reviews of Samuels’ books on Berenson and Adams.
Provenance: This addition combines three separate accessions. The first was donated to the University Archives on October 5, 1994 as Accession #94-183; the second series on July 15, 1996 as Accession #96-109 and the third on May 22, 1997 as Accession #97-55.
Processor: Alex Strauss, February 1998.
Separations: Thirty-nine extraneous books were removed from this addition. Photographs were separated and filed in the University Archives’ photograph collection. All duplicate materials were discarded.
NOTE: Finding-aid scanned and reformatted by Jessica Mayle and Andrew Green, November- December 2002.
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Index to Prominent Correspondents Name Date I. General Correspondence Charles Francis Adams December 9, 1948 Henry Adams December 9, 1948 Ray A. Billington January 24, 1960 Ray A. Billington August 16, 1973 Carl Bode January 5, 1952 Carl Bode September 9, 1958 Carl Bode September 26, 1958 Carl Bode October 6, 1958 Carl Bode February 6, 1959 Carl Bode February 19, 1959 Carl Bode March 3, 1959 Carl Bode June 1, 1959 Carl Bode September 20, 1965 Carl Bode October 20, 1969 Carl Bode March 10, 1970 Daniel J. Boorstin April 1, 1950 Daniel J. Boorstin April 29, 1959 Daniel J. Boorstin June 18, 1959 Daniel J. Boorstin May 5, 1970 Daniel J. Boorstin February 8, 1973 Daniel J. Boorstin August 13, 1973 Kenneth Colegrove May 24, 1947 Norman Cousins September 3, 1953 Paul H. Douglas April 12, 1962 Bergen Evans December 22, 1973 Louis Gottschalk June 18, 1943 Melville Herskovitz March 12, 1959 Melville Herskovitz April 16, 1959 Alfred A. Knopf April 23, 1947 Alfred A. Knopf May 14, 1947 Alfred A. Knopf April 22, 1955 Alfred A. Knopf June 1, 1955 George McGovern October 18, 1967 Lewis Mumford January 22, 1968 Alan Nevins August 28, 1941 Alan Nevins March 6, 1943 Alan Nevins June 14, 1943 Russell B. Nye 1962
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Name Date Russell B. Nye April 12, 1971 George T. Romani March 9, 1965 Charles Scribner August 1, 1949 William G. Stratton July 12, 1955 Louisa Thoron July 1942 Louisa Thoron January 27, 1943 Louisa Thoron December 9, 1943 James Thurber February 24, 1953 Clarence Ver Steeg January 7, 1963 Henry A. Wallace April 5, 1945 Robert F. Winch June 13, 1976 Robert F. Winch October 14, 1976
II. Subject Correspondence Ray A. Billington January 20, 1961 Ray A. Billington May 4, 1965 Ray A. Billington May 4, 1966 Ray A. Billington December 25, 1966 Carl Bode May 6, 1957 Carl Bode April 8, 1958 Carl Bode July 15, 1960 Carl Bode February 18, 1961 Carl Bode April 3, 1962 Carl Bode April 12, 1962 Carl Bode October 21, 1965 Carl Bode October 27, 1965 Carl Bode June 20, 1968 Caxton Club --Ray A. Billington November 2, 1962 --Ray A. Billington November 19, 1962 --Ray A. Billington January 23, 1963 Fulbright, Official Correspondence --Everett M. Dirksen April 23, 1958 --Paul H. Douglas April 25, 1958 Pulitzer Prize in Biography 1965 --Daniel J. Boorstin June 11, 1965 --Paul H. Douglas June 8, 1965 --Hubert H. Humphrey May 6, 1965 --Irv Kupcinet May 8, 1965 --Russell B. Nye May 1965 --Donald Rumsfeld May 6, 1965
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Name Date --Donald Rumsfeld June 18, 1965 Pulitzer Prize Jury on History 1969 --Henry Steele Conmager November 4, 1968 --Henry Steele Commager November 16, 1968 --Bruce Catton October 31, 1968 --Bruce Catton November 11, 1968 --Bruce Catton December 3, 1968 --Bruce Catton December 16, 1968 Arnold Toynbee January 10, 1955 Arnold Toynbee May 18, 1955
III. Research Correspondence Charles Francis Adams April 24, 1942 Henry Adams September 2, 1941 Henry Adams June 24, 1943 Henry Adams July 30, 1943 Louisa Thoron April 4, 1953 Louisa Thoron April 21, 1954 Louisa Thoron May 25, 1954 Louisa Thoron August 20, 1955 Louisa Thoron February 5, 1969 Louisa Thoron July 25, 1959 Louisa Thoron September 4, 1959 Louisa Thoron October 4, 1959 Louisa Thoron September 9, 1960 Louisa Thoron February 9, 1960 Louisa Thoron 1961 Louisa Thoron (February 1962) Louisa Thoron June 15, 1963
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Box Folder Title Date BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL 1 1 General Biographical Materials 1919-1960 2 General Biographical Materials 1961-1977 3 Scrapbook 1923-1928 4 Clippings 1928 5 Clippings 1929 6 Clippings 1930 7 Clippings 1944-1949 8 Clippings 1950-1958 9 Clippings 1959 10 Clippings 1960-1962 11 Clippings 1964 12 Clippings 1965 13 Clippings 1966-1969 14 Clippings 1970-1977 Book Reviews 15 The Young Henry Adams (1948) 1949-1952 16 Henry Adams: The Middle Years (1958) 1958-1959 17 Henry Adams: The Major Phase (1964) 1965-1968
2 1 History of the United States During the Administration of 1967 Jefferson and Madison (1967) 2 The Education of Henry Adams (1974) 1974 3 Royalty Statements 1936-1953 4 Memorabilia 1919, 1928-1930 5 Memorabilia 1931-1960 6 Memorabilia 1962-1966 7 Memorabilia 1967-1975 8 Memorabilia (undated) CORRESPONDENCE 9 General 1918, 1922-1930
3 1 General 1931-1940 2 General 1941 3 General 1942 4 General 1943 5 General 1944 6 General 1945 7 General 1946 8 General 1947 9 General 1948 10 General 1949 11 General 1950
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Box Folder Title Date 3 12 General 1951 13 General 1952
4 1 General 1953 2 General 1954 3 General 1955 4 General 1956 5 General 1957 6 General 1958 7 General 1959 8 General 1960 9 General 1961 10 General 1962 11 General 1963 12 General 1964 13 General 1965
5 1 General 1966 2 General 1967 3 General 1968 4 General 1969 5 General 1970 6 General 1971 7 General 1972 8 General 1973 9 General 1974 10 General 1975 11 General 1976 12 General 1977 13 General (undated) Subject Correspondence 14 American Association of University Professors and the American 1955-1960 Civil Liberties Union
6 1 American Studies Association, lecture 1959-1966 2 Amherst College, lecture 1959-1966 3 Atlantic Monthly Press 1961-1962 4 Bancroft Prize 1959 5 Beth Emet Synagogue, lecture 1966 6 Ray Billington 1955-1966 7 Carl Bode 1954-1968 8 Chicago Sobell Committee 1954-1955 9 Case Western Reserve University, lecture 1943-1965
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Box Folder Title Date 6 10 Caxton Club 1962-1963 11 College Association for Public Events and Services 1968 12 Committee on International Exchange of Persons 1942-1943 13 Cosmos Club 1963-1968 14 Ronald Crane, honorary degree 1963 15 Eisenschiml vs. True magazine 1954-1957 16 Friends of American Writers 1969-1970 17 Fulbright, general correspondence 1958-1959 18 Fulbright, documents 1958-1959 19 Fulbright, Hays Advisory Committee 1961-1964 20 Fulbright, Lecture Tours 1958-1959 21 Fulbright, Official Correspondence 1957-1962 22 Walter Gilhooley [Walter B. Scott] 1944-1952 23 Guggenheim Fellowship 1954-1957 24 Guggenheim Fellowship 1970-1973 25 Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. 1959-1969
7 1 Harper and Row 1965-1968 2 Harvard University Press 1947-1971 3 Frances Herskovitz 1963 4 Houghton Mifflin Co. 1963-1976 5 Humanities Orientation, lecture 1964 6 Illinois Board of Higher Education 1965-1971 7 Institute of American Literature and Culture 1952-1953 8 Institute of American Literature and Culture, correspondence 1952-1953 9 Institute of American Literature and Culture, corres. with students 1952-1954 10 Howard Jones 1962, 1966 11 William Jordy 1948-1962 12 Knox College, lecture 1964-1965 13 Simeon Leland 1954-1966
8 1 Edward Lurie 1954-1965 2 Howard Munford 1961-1973 3 New York Northwestern Alumni Club 1966 4 New York University Lecture Series: “Writers who Changed 1964 America” 5 North Carolina Association of Academic Deans 1969 6 Northern Illinois University, lecture 1965-1966 7 Northwestern University Office of Information Service 1959-1964 8 Parkman Prize 1959-1960, 1964 9 Pulitzer Prize in Biography 1965 10 Pulitzer Prize in Biography 1965 11 Pulitzer Prize Jury on Biography (1967) 1966-1967
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Box Folder Title Date 8 12 Pulitzer Prize Jury on Biography (1968) 1967-1968 13 Pulitzer Prize Jury on Biography (1972) 1971-1972 14 Pulitzer Prize Jury on History (1969) 1968-1969 15 Random House 1965-1966 16 Jayne Samuels 1946-1974 17 Lyndon Shanley, The Making of Walden 1956 18 Teacher’s Insurance and Annuity Association 1955-1967 19 Tilden Technical High School 1966 20 Arnold Toynbee 1954-1955 21 University of Chicago Press 1965-1967 22 Voice of America, Forum Series 1967-1968 23 Washington State University at Pullman 1967
9 1 Payson Wild 1957-1969 2 Wisconsin, Board of Regents of State Colleges 1961 ACADEMIC FILES General 3 Grade Books 1942-1949 4 Grade Books 1949-1971 5 Grade Books, unbound pages 1934-1970 6 Summer School 1952, 1955 7 English C-51 Syllabi 1946-1969 8 English B-1 Examinations c. 1931-71 9 Examinations, Papers and Miscellany 1962-1969 Lecture Notes 10 Aeschylus, Agamemnon c. 1931-71 11 Aeschylus, Choephroe c. 1931-71 12 Aeschylus, Eumenides c. 1931-71 13 Aeschylus, Prometheus c. 1931-71 14 Aristophanes, The Frogs c. 1931-71
10 1 Jane Austen, Emma c. 1931-71 2 Boswell, Life of Johnson c. 1931-71 3 Robert Browning c. 1931-71 4 Lord Byron, Don Juan c. 1931-71 5 Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales c. 1931-71 6 Dante, Inferno c. 1931-71 7 Daniel Defoe c. 1931-71 8 Dostoevsky c. 1931-71 9 Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov c. 1931-71 10 George Eliot, Adam Bede c. 1931-71 11 Emerson, essays c. 1931-71 12 Emerson, poetry c. 1931-71
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Box Folder Title Date 10 13 Emerson, Nature c. 1931-71 14 English A. Vincent Sheean, Personal History c. 1931-71
11 1 Euripedes, Hippolytus c. 1931-71 2 Euripedes, Medea. c. 1931-71 3 Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam c. 1931-71 4 Flaubert, Madame Bovary c. 1931-71 5 Goethe, Faust c. 1931-71 6 Greek plays c. 1931-71 7 Greek tragedy c. 1931-71 8 Thomas Hardy c. 1931-71 9 Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge c. 1931-71 10 Homer, Iliad, Odyssey c. 1931-71 11 Ibsen c. 1931-71 12 Johnson, The Alchemist c. 1931-71 13 Johnson, essays c. 1931-71 14 Keats c. 1931-71 15 Machiavelli, The Prince c. 1931-71 16 Milton, sonnets c. 1931-71 17 Walter Pater c. 1931-71 18 Plato, Apology c. 1931-71 19 Plato, Greek thought c. 1931-71 20 Plato, Phaedrus c. 1931-71 21 Plato, The Republic c. 1931-71 22 Pope, Essay on Man c. 1931-71 23 Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra c. 1931-71
12 1 Shakespeare, Henry IV c. 1931-71 2 Shakespeare, King Lear c. 1931-71 3 Shakespeare, Richard II c. 1931-71 4 Shelly c. 1931-71 5 Sophocles, Antigone c. 1931-71 6 Sterne, Tristram Shandy c. 1931-71 7 Swift, Gulliver’s Travels c. 1931-71 8 Tennyson c. 1931-71 9 Thackeray, Vanity Fair c. 1931-71 10 Virgil, The Aeneid c. 1931-71 11 Voltaire, Candide c. 1931-71
13 1 Wordsworth, Prelude c. 1931-71 2 Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey c. 1931-71 PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS Books
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Box Folder Title Date 13 3 Business English Units (workbook), Chicago: Bryant and Stratton 1938 (bound volume) 4 "The Early Career of Henry Adams," PhD. Diss., University of Sept. 1942 Chicago, Dept. of English Language and Literature (bound vol.) Book Introductions 5 Mont Saint Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams; notes and 1960 edited by Ernest Samuels 6 Democracy and Esther by Henry Adams; ed. by Ernest Samuels 1961 7 History of the United States During the Administration of 1967 Jefferson and Madison; edited and abridged by Ernest Samuels
14 1 The Education of Henry Adams edited by Ernest Samuels 1974 Articles 2 Biographical 1960-1971 3 Book Reviews 1930-1965 4 Miscellaneous 1943-1960 Speeches 5 Henry Adams 1943-1976 6 Biography 1967-1969 7 Darwin n.d. 8 Abraham Lincoln n.d. 9 Linguistics n.d. 10 Occasional 1928-1977 Student Materials 11 Themes 1919-1922 12 Themes 1922-1931
15 1 Poetry 1919-1928 2 "Henry Adams and Southern Question" c. 1937-42 3 The Pyramid 1923-1924 4 The Pyramid 1924-1930 RESEARCH FILES Correspondence 5 General 1949-1972 6 Charles Francis Adams 1942 7 Henry Adams 1941-1943 8 Thomas Adams 1960-1976 9 Bernard Berenson 1959-1965 10 Lyman Butterfield 1955-1968 11 Alexander Clark 1953 12 Wilhelmina Harris 1950-1970 13 John Hay materials 1943-1970 14 Paul Myerson 1953-1954
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Box Folder Title Date 15 15 Tahiti 1954-1962 16 Louisa Thoron 1953-1963 17 Turreau/Yrujo Letter 1956
General Research Materials 18 PhD dissertation, research notes 1941
16 1 Biography 1951-1969 2 Notes n.d. 3 Transcriptions n.d. 4 Photocopies n.d. 5 Photocopies n.d. 6 Published materials n.d.
17 Bound United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit, No. 1954 vol. 11830: Proceedings, etc.
18 1 Correspondence, general 1954-71, 1978 2 Correspondence, Harvard University Press 1954-1962 3 Correspondence, Harvard University Press 1963-1965 4 Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur: Tabular n.d. summaries, chapters 1-10 5 Berenson: Draft, chapters 1-5 1972 6 Berenson: Chapters 1-14 1974 7 Berenson: Revised pages 1974 8 Berenson: Comments on text 1975 9 Berenson: Cancelled and revised pages n.d.
19 1 Berenson: Cancelled and revised pages n.d. 2 Berenson: Chapters 1-10 1975-1977 3 Berenson: Chapters 11-20 1976-1977 4 Berenson: Annotations by Jayne Samuels 1977 5 Berenson: Chapters 12-14 1978 6 Berenson: Draft, chapters 15-16 1978
20 1 Berenson: Draft, chapters 19-20 1978 2 Berenson: Draft, chapters 22-24 1978 3 Berenson: Chapters 25-26 1978 4 Berenson: Draft, chapters 27-28 1978 5 Berenson: Draft, chapters 29-30 1978 6 Berenson: Draft, revised pages n.d. 7 Berenson: Edited typescript, preface-chapter 10 1978
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Box Folder Title Date 21 1 Berenson: Edited typescript, chapters 11-18 1978 2 Berenson: Edited typescript, chapters 19-25 1978 3 Berenson: Edited typescript, chapters 26-30 1978 4 Berenson: Edited typescript, bibliography, footnotes, index 1978 5 Berenson: Source materials, Senda Berenson (1887-1889) n.d. 6 Berenson: Source materials, Irving P. Fox (1883-1888) n.d. 7 Berenson: Source materials, Isabella Stewart Gardner (1887-89) n.d. 8 Berenson: Source materials, Mary Costelloe Berenson (1890-91) n.d. 9 Berenson: Source materials, General (1884-1892) n.d.
22 1 Berenson: Source materials, General (1884-1892) n.d. 2 Berenson: Source materials, General (1892-1893) n.d. 3 Berenson: Source materials, General (1894) n.d. 4 Berenson: Source materials, General (1895) n.d. 5 Berenson: Source materials, Mary Costelloe Berenson Diary n.d. (1895) 6 Berenson: Source materials, General (1895) n.d.
23 1 Berenson: Source materials, General (1897) n.d. 2 Berenson: Source materials, General (1898) n.d. 3 Berenson: Source materials, General (1899) n.d. 4 Berenson: Source materials, General (1900) n.d. 5 Berenson: Source materials, General (1902) n.d. 6 Berenson: Source materials, General (1902) n.d. 7 Berenson: Source materials, General (1903) n.d. 8 Berenson: Source materials, Mary Berenson, “Life” (1934) n.d. 9 Berenson: Source materials, used in early chapters n.d. 10 Berenson: Source materials, Preface n.d. 11 Berenson: Notes, chapters 1-2 n.d.
24 1 Berenson: Notes, chapters 3-4 n.d. 2 Berenson: Notes, chapters 5, 8-9 n.d. 3 Berenson: Notes, chapters 23-29 n.d. 4 Berenson: Notes, used in chapter 1 n.d. 5 Berenson: Notes, used in chapter 2 n.d. 6 Berenson: Miscellaneous 1972-73, 1979
25 1 Biographical Materials 1919-1931, 1980 2 General Correspondence 1929-37, 1954-69 3 General Correspondence 1970-1978 4 General Correspondence Jan.-Aug. 1979 5 General Correspondence Sep.-Dec. 1979 6 General Correspondence Jan.-June 1980
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Box Folder Title Date 25 7 General Correspondence July-Dec. 1980 8 General Correspondence 1981 9 General Correspondence 1982-1986 SUBJECT CORRESPONDENCE 10 Boorstin, Daniel 1954-1986 11 Ellman, Richard 1956-1985 12 Fixter, Michael 1962-1969 13 Gold, Charles S. 1974-1977
26 1 Hagstrum, Jean 1958-1965 2 Hayford, Harrison 1956-1966 3 Howell, Ben 1966-1973 4 Lang, Joseph 1970, 1979 5 Langbaum, Robert and Francesca 1977-1982 6 Levenson, J.C. 1967-1985 7 Library of America 1979-1984 8 Library of Congress, Council of Scholars 1978-1982 9 Lurie, Edward 1976-1978 10 McCoy, Garnett 1986
27 1 Massachusetts Historical Society 1983-1986 2 Mayo, Robert 1954-1968 3 National Endowment for the Humanities 1970-1976 4 Perry, Barnard 1967-1986 5 Soballe, Capt. Verner J. 1966 6 Strotz, Robert 1968-1969 7 Tehan, Arline 1971-1983 8 Todd, Edgeley 1954-1969 9 Vandersee, Charles 1974-1984 10 Vickers, H.R. 1976-1978 11 Vincent, Howard 1955-1962 SPEECHES 12 Berenson Biography 1979-1980 13 A Biographer Looks at Autobiography 1978-1979 14 A Biographer’s Quest 1983 15 Confession of a Biographer 1983, n.d. 16 Library of Congress, Council of Scholars 1980 PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur 17 Corrections 1979-1981 18 Correspondence 1979 19 Correspondence: Converse, William 1968-1969 20 Correspondence: Harvard University Press 1966-1982
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Box Folder Title Date 27 21 Correspondence: Permissions 1971-1978
28 1 Correspondence: Philadelphia Museum of Art 1972 2 Front Matter n.d. 3 Illustrations 1978 4 Interview: Nicky Mariano n.d. 5 Miscellaneous 1969, 1979-80 The Education of Henry Adams 6 Correspondence 1958-81 Henry Adams (biography) 7 Correspondence 1965, 1976-1977 8 Genealogy n.d. 9 Illustrations 1964 The Letters of Henry Adams 10 Correspondence 1965-1982 11 Correspondence: Harvard University Press 1979-1985 Articles 12 Confessions of a Biographer 1981 13 Henry Adams and Bernard Berenson: Two Boston Exiles 1983-1984 14 Reprints 1952, 1960 15 Book reviews written by Samuels 1950-1952 16 Reviews of books written by Samuels 1974-1983
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (1979) 29 1 Typescript Draft 1979 2 Typescript Draft 1979 3 Final Typescript 1979 4 Final Typescript 1979 5 Final Typescript 1979
30 1 Final Typescript 1979 2 Final Typescript 1979 3 Final Typescript 1979 4 “Security Copy” 1979 Bernard Berenson, the Making of a Legend (1987) 5 Typescript Draft 1985
31 1 Typescript Draft 1985 2 Typescript Draft 1985 3 Typescript Draft 1985 4 Typescript Draft 1985
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Box Folder Title Date 32 1 Typescript Draft 1985 2 Typescript Draft 1985 3 Typescript Draft 1985 4 Typescript Draft 1985 5 Typescript Draft 1985
33 1 Typescript Draft 1985 2 Typescript Draft 1985 3 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 4 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 5 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986
34 1 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 2 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 3 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 4 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 5 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 6 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986
35 1 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 2 Typescript Draft, Revised 1986 3 Typist’s Copy 1986 4 Typist’s Copy 1986 5 Typist’s Copy 1986
36 1 Typist’s Copy 1986 2 Typist’s Copy 1986 3 Typist’s Copy 1986 4 Typist’s Copy 1986 5 Typist’s Copy 1986 6 Typescript Draft, Revised 10/20/86 7 Typescript Draft, Revised 10/20/86
37 1 Typescript Draft, Revised 10/20/86 2 Typescript Draft, Revised 10/20/86 3 Typescript Draft, Revised 10/20/86 4 Typescript Draft, Revised 10/20/86 5 Typescript Draft, Revised 10/20/86
38 1 Typescript Draft,Revised 10/20/86 2 Typescript Draft,Revised 10/20/86 3 Typescript Draft,Revised 10/20/86 4 Typescript Draft,Revised 10/20/86
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Box Folder Title Date 38 5 Typescript Draft, Revised 10/20/86
39 1 Typescript Draft, Preface n.d. 2 Typescript Draft, Preface n.d. 3 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 4 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 5 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 6 Typescript Draft, Final 1986
40 1 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 2 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 3 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 4 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 5 Typescript Draft, Final 1986
41 1 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 2 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 3 Typescript Draft, Final 1986 4 Typescript Draft, Final 1986
42 1 Corrected Proof 1987 2 Corrected Proof 1987 3 Corrected Proof 1987 4 Editorial Corrections 1978
43 1 General 1935-87 2 E. Samuels to Joseph Leopold Cohen 1925-28 3 Joseph Leopold Cohen to E. Samuels 1925-28 4 E. Samuels to Mary Kaplan Samuels, from El Paso 1928-30 5 E. Samuels to Mary Kaplan Samuels 1937-38 6 E. Samuels to Mary Kaplan Samuels 1938-39
44 1 Bernard Berenson 1955-57 2 Lawrence Berenson 1969-79 3 Edward Fowles 1968-69 4 Myron P. Gilmore 1965-76 5 R.W.B. Lewis 1974-86 6 Nicky Mariano 1956-70 7 Museums 1980 8 John Rewald 1979-82 9 Luisa Vertova 1980-86 10 Peter Viereck 1966-67 11 Villa I Tatti 1968-86
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Box Folder Title Date 44 12 John Walker 1968-86 13 Daniel Wildenstein 1964-85 14 Various 1968-80 15 Various 1979 16 Universities and Museums 1979-85 17 University of California 1987 18 Ernest Hemingway: Letters to Bernard Berenson (Copies) 1949-57 19 Henry Adams to Bernard Berenson (Copies) 1907-1916
45 1 E. Samuels to Bernard Berenson 1955-58 2 Interviews 1956-71 3 Permissions 1979-86 4 Manuscript 1986 5 Manuscript 1986 6 Harvard University Press, Correspondence 1984-86 7 Harvard University Press, Correspondence 1986-87 8 Library of America: Henry Adams letters 1986-87
46 1 Charles Vandersee, Correspondence 1963-77 2 Charles Vandersee, Correspondence 1971-76 3 J. C. Levenson, Correspondence 1986-87
47 1 General Correspondence 1978-79 2 Correspondence and Notes on Simpson Affair 3 Correspondence regarding Simpson 4 Miscellaneous and Proof of Artful Partners 5 Manuscript 6 Manuscript 7 Manuscript
48 1 Manuscript 2 Manuscript 3 Manuscript 4 Manuscript 5 Manuscript 6 Manuscript
49 1 Manuscript with Changes, Index, Inserts and Bibliography
50 Edited text of 1-vol. abridgement of Henry Adams biography
51 1 Personal Data, Clippings 1935-1988 2 Correspondence 1949-1987
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Box Folder Title Date 51 3 Correspondence 1988-1990 4 Correspondence 1991-1994, n.d. 5 Harvard University Press 1987-1988 6 Harvard University Press 1989-1990 7 Harvard University Press 1990-1995
52 1 Jenkins, Roger 1987-1995 2 Levenson, J.C. 1986-1994 3 Massachusetts Historical Society 1986-1995 4 Northwestern University 1942-1977 5 Rudenstine, Angelica Zander 1990-1991 6 Updike, John 1987 7 Harvard University Press, royalties on various books 1965-1989 8 Houghton Mifflin Co. royalties, The Education of Henry Adams 1966-1995 9 “Henry Adams and Bernard Berenson: Two Boston Exiles” 1983 10 Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur, reviews 1977-1981 11 Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend, reviews 1987-1988 reviews 1987-1988
53 1 Correspondence of Henry Adams and Bernard Berenson, draft n.d. 2 Henry Adams, notes n.d. 3 Henry Adams, permission requests 1989 4 Henry Adams, reviews 1989-1992 5 Henry Adams: Selected Letters, reviews 1992-1993 6 The Letters of Henry Adams, reviews 1988-1991
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