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BOX I:1-30 Part I: Accession No. 13,595, General Editorial File, 1932-1957
Correspondence, memoranda, and other items pertaining to the operations of publishing the American Scholar, its policies, organization, and relationships with advertising representatives, editorial board, Phi Beta Kappa, and printers. Includes editorial correspondence with authors contributing to continuing departments of the magazine, such as editorials and book reviews.
Arranged chronologically by fiscal year (Aug-July) and therein by subject. An appendix of select correspondents in the file is available in the Manuscript Division Reading Room.
BOX I:1 1932-1945
Advertising
Circulation
General
Analysis
Editorial
Advisers
Board
Correspondence
Board
General
Readers' comments
General reprint permission
Printing and production
Promotion and publicity
Readers' Council
BOX I:2 Promotion
1945-1947
Advertising
By American Scholar
James, William and Eleanor
Miscellaneous
American Scholar Series
Circulation
Bookstores
Renewal figures
Editorial
Advisers
Board
General
Members
Barzun, Jacques
Brooks, Van Wyck
Commager, Henry Steele
Duffus, Robert L.
BOX I:3 Edman, Irwin
Frank, Jerome
Gauss, Christian
Howe, Will D.
Lerner, Max
Nason, John W.
Nielson, William A.
Nicolson, Marjorie Hope
Robeson, Paul
Shapley, Harlow
Stauffer, Donald
Van Doren, Irita
Welles, Sumner
Whicher, George Frisbie
"American Scholar Forum"
Autumn 1946
Winter 1946-1947
Spring 1947
Summer 1947
General correspondence
Miscellaneous
A-F
BOX I:4 G-Z
(2 folders)
Wells, Carleton F.
Haydn, Hiram, personal file
Readers' Forum
Winter 1946-1947
Spring 1947
"The Reader Replies," summer 1947
BOX I:5 Printing and production
Rumford Press
Correspondence
Printing estimates
Promotion
Correspondence
General
Press releases
Special mailings, 1946-1947
Survey
Einstein, Albert
Publicity
1947-1948
Advertising, William and Eleanor James
Circulation, bookstores
Editorial
Advisers
BOX I:6 Board members
Barzun, Jacques
Brooks, Van Wyck
Duffus, Robert L.
Edman, Irwin
Frank, Jerome
Gauss, Christian
Hamilton, Walton E.
Lerner, Max
Nicolson, Marjorie Hope
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Robeson, Paul
Shapley, Harlow
Stauffer, Donald
Van Doren, Irita
Whicher, George Frisbie
"American Scholar Forum"
Autumn 1947
Winter 1947-1948
Spring 1948
Summer 1948
General correspondence
(3 folders)
BOX I:7 Haydn, Hiram, personal file
Editors' of other magazines comments on fifteenth anniversary issue, autumn 1947
"The Reader Replies"
Autumn 1947
Winter 1947-1948
Spring 1948
Summer 1948
Miscellaneous, Oct. 1947-Aug. 1948
Printing and production
Binding
Rumford Press
Syndication agreements
BOX I:8 William Byrd Press
Promotion
Correspondence
Press releases
Special mailings
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