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Literary File, 1919-1987 (continued)
Texts, 1919-1987 (continued)
Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Commentary, 1928-1986 (continued)
"Why I Am a Republican," Campaign News, Women's National Republican Club, Sept. 1956
"Why Study Latin? Connecticut Leaders Reply," The Connecticut Classical Association, circa 1950s
"Why the Chinese Fight," The China Monthly, 1943
"Why Tokyo Is Not in Ruins," CBL and Henry Reilly, New York Sun, 1942
"Why We Don't Like People," circa 1934
"Why We Should Elect Eisenhower," The Loomis Log, Sept. 26, 1952
"Will It Take the Wringer of Depression to Halt Raids on Treasury?" Honolulu Advertiser, June 22, 1978; reprint "Depression Needed?" Manchester New Hampshire Union Leader, Aug. 3, 1978
BOX 313 "Wings Over China," Life, Sept. 8, 1941
"Wings Over Majorca," circa 1934
"Without Portfolio" ( McCall's magazine columns)
Clippings
1960-1963
(4 folders)
BOX 314 1964-1967
(3 folders)
Correspondence, 1959, 1966-1968
Drafts, 1963-1967, undated
Index, 1960-1966
"Language Question," drafts and notes, 1965
Press commentary, 1960
Research, 1963, undated
"Woman: A Technological Castaway," 1973 Britannica Book of the Year.
"Woman's Place on the Payroll: 15,000,000 Women Want Peacetime Jobs; Does This Mean You?" American Weekly, Nov. 25, 1945
[Women], essay fragments, circa 1945-1950
"Women and Success," Bulletin of the Baldwin School, Sept. 1974; reprint, Reader's Digest, Apr. 1975
[Women and the war effort], Maryland Club Woman, 1944
"Women at the Peace Table," circa 1945
"Women Can Win the Peace," Chatelaine, Feb. 1944
BOX 315 [Women in politics], New York Journal American, 1944
[World food supply], June 1975
"The World War--Freedom or Slavery?" Daily Mail, 1942
"The World We Want to Live In," for the National Conference of Christians and Jews, circa 1942
"Your Letters May Win the Peace," Look, Nov. 23, 1948
"Youth's Crime: Some Notes on the Subject of William Pitt," New York American, Aug. 3, 1934
BOX 315 Journals and Notebooks, circa 1944-1970
Jottings of ideas for articles, books, and plays with notes on quotations and sources.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 315 circa 1944, 1949, 1957-1970s, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 315 Memoirs, 1935-circa 1960
Manuscript of an incomplete unpublished memoir, a notebook concerning Luce's ambassadorship to Italy, and other notes.
Arranged alphabetically by title or type of material and therein chronologically.
BOX 315 "Autobiography and Reno Notes," 1935
"Draft chapters for autobiography" [Catholic essays and notes], circa 1960s
(4 folders)
"Leaves from the Ambassador's Notebook," 1953
Miscellaneous notes, circa 1944, undated
BOX 316-321 Nonfiction Books, Pamphlets, and Proposals, 1940-1977
Clippings, drafts, pageproofs, outlines, notes, and proposals.
Arranged alphabetically by title and therein chronologically.
BOX 316 [Catholicism: proposed essays by chapter], circa 1950
"Rome 1940"
"Rome 1949"
"The Real Reason"
"Saving the White Man's Soul"
"St. Francis Xavier--Then and Now"
"China in the Spring"
Bibliography, 1949
Chapter lists, notes, 1941
Introduction, sample chapters, 1941
Europe in the Spring. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940
First edition
(2 folders)
BOX 317 (9 folders)
BOX 318 (10 folders)
BOX 319 Second and third editions, corrections
"The Image of Woman in the American Drama," outline and notes, circa 1970
"The Playwright in the Pew," chapter outline, undated
"Reflections on the Just War," chapter outlines, 1977
"The Roots of Woman, prospectus" for a six-hour television documentary/ mini-series, 1977
Saints for Now, edited by Luce with introduction. New York and London: Sheed and Ward, 1952
Drafts and notes
(5 folders)
Saving the White Man's Soul. Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Vision Press, circa 1949
BOX 320 Twilight of God. Henry Regnery Co., Human Affairs pamphlet, 1949 (drafts variously titled: "Christianity and the Red Religion," and "Christianity in the Atomic Age"; with chapter titles: "Is the U.S.A. a Christian Nation?", "How Anti-Religious Is Russia?", "Christianity or Totalitarianism?", "Must We Have a Holy War with Russia?")
(10 folders)
BOX 321 The Valor of Homer Lea. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1942. For additional material see Container 300, "Ever Hear of Homer Lea?" and Container 327, "General Homer Lea"
"The Wasp and the Tarantula: A Footnote on Drama and History"
Drafts, 1962
Informal address, Taliesen West, Ariz., 1963
Notes, 1962
BOX 321-325 Novels and Short Stories, 1919-1964
Clippings, drafts, outlines, and notes.
Arranged alphabetically by title and therein chronologically.
BOX 321 "Al the Advertising Man," partial draft, undated
"Balmy Bea," 1961
BOX 322 "The Double Bind," circa 1960
(2 folders)
"Joan's Third Party," partial draft, circa 1932
"The Little Dip," circa 1960
"The Long Retreat," outline, undated
"The Long Snorkel," Sports Illustrated, May 22, 1961; reprinted in Skin Diver Magazine, June 1962
(12 folders)
"The Mephistophelean Curl," circa 1919
"Mr. and Mrs. Squibb," circa 1930
"Money Isn't Everything," 1928[?]
"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished," circa 1960
"Portrait of a Fashionable Painter," Vanity Fair, Feb. 1931
"Portrait of a Young Man," circa 1930
"Priscilla Parkington," 1964
"A Quotation for Spring," by Julian Jerome (CBL), circa 1930
"Shark Rock Mission," 1958-1960 (initially titled, "Memoirs of T. Parking Quinn") For additional material see same container, "Priscilla Parkington," and Container 327, "The Diplomat"
(1 folder)
BOX 323 (14 folders)
BOX 324 (9 folders)
BOX 325 (5 folders)
"Temptation in Tivoli," 1962-1963
"The Thing Could Never Be," by Renee Marks (CBL), circa 1932
"This My Hand," 1929
"The Tree Sisters," incomplete
"Trial by Telephone," by Julian Jerome (CBL), circa 1930
"The Wonderful Cook and Butler," 1960-1962
BOX 325-339 Plays, 1919-1980
Acting scripts, drafts, storylines, synopses, outlines, and notes.
Arranged alphabetically by title and therein chronologically.
BOX 325 "Abide with Me," circa 1934-1935
(3 folders)
"An American Story," [1934]
"Balance of Power: A Political Extravaganza in a Prologue and Three Acts," synopsis, with John Gunther (1901-1970), [1943]
Candida, (Luce adaptation), Stamford, Conn., production, 1945
BOX 326 Child of the Morning, 1951
(4 folders)
Come to the Stable, 1949
BOX 327 Danae, notes, circa 1935
"Der Dummkopf," 1939
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