Scope and Content Note
The papers of Lawrence Schlesinger Kubie (1896-1973) span the years 1916-1978 and consist of correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, reports, notes, financial and legal papers, family papers, printed material, photographs, and other material relating to Kubie's career in psychoanalysis. The collection is organized into six series: Family Papers (Restricted), Name File, Subject File, Research and Working Papers, Speeches and Writings File, and Miscellany
Individuals represented in the Name File include Catherine Drinker Bowen, Kitty Carlisle, Norman Cousins, Erik H. Erikson, Clifton Fadiman, Herbert Feis, Anna Freud, Edward Glover, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, Jacob K. Javits, MacKinlay Kantor, Karl A. Menninger, Robert Nathan, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt, Saint-John Perse, Jonas Salk, Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917-2007), and Robert Penn Warren. Although this series is comprised largely of general correspondence, the folders, as established by Kubie, also contain third-party correspondence and subject file material, with many files containing a variety of each.
Subjects of special interest include associations and societies, colleges and universities, conferences and meetings, government and military service, and Kubie's security clearance investigation, 1950-1952. Material concerning Kubie's speeches and lectures may also be found in the Subject File series among the folders in the conferences and meetings subseries.