Bernhard Joseph Stern papers
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Bernhard Joseph Stern papers
Inclusive Dates: 1926-1943
Collection Number: mssStern
Collector:
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956
Extent:
3 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The Bernhard Joseph Stern correspondence and papers reflects his work on the biography of Lewis Henry Morgan.
Language of Material: The records are in English and Russian.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
Bernhard Joseph Stern papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1968 and 1977.
Biography
Bernhard Joseph Stern (1894-1956) was an American born sociologist, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia. As a professor,
author, and lecturer, his interests were many faceted with special emphasis on anthropology.
He became so absorbed in Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881 - the first social evolutionist in the United States to gain an international
reputation) that he wrote the book,
Lewis Henry Morgan: Social Evolutionist. It was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1931.
In 1936 Dr. Stern entered into an agreement with the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences
in the Soviet Union. He was authorized to be the American member of the editorial committee for the publication of the complete
works of Lewis Henry Morgan.
Scope and Content
This collection includes subject matter related to Stern’s book about Lewis Henry Morgan and also his contract with the Soviet
Union in 1936. There are over 100 letters during the period 1926-1938 addressed to the University of Rochester Library where
so much Morgan material was deposited. In response, there are over 70 letters from the Rochester librarians. There are several
letters to publishers requesting them to consider his manuscript. Corresponding to this group are over 40 letters from various
American publishers in which they express reaction to his letters from various American publishers in which they express reaction
to his projected volume. Letters to persons who had known Morgan are included. There are copies of over 140 Morgan letters
and/or excerpts of them addressed to Joseph Henry (over 100 letters to him) and others during the period 1862-1881. There
are approximately 100 pieces including miscellaneous notes, drafts of articles, and outlines that were working material for
the volume. There are 20 printed reviews of the Morgan volume, three of which, appeared in the Soviet Union.
During the period 1931-1940 there are over 50 Stern letters to various Soviet scholars and over 20 letters written by the
Soviets to him. These letters (some in Russian with an accompanying translation) are concerned with the mutual interest in
Morgan and the 1936 contract, which was not trouble free.
Significant persons represented are: Robert Henrich Lowie (4 letters addressed to Stern, 1928-1929); and the Soviet scholars:
A.A. Busigin, J. Winnikow, I.I. Meshchaninov, I.P. Alcor-Koshkin, and M. Kosven.
Box 1 consists of letters addressed to Stern arranged alphabetically by author.
Box 2 consists of letters (copies) written by Stern to various persons arranged alphabetically by addressee; Stern’s notes
and drafts; printed reviews of his book
Lewis Henry Morgan: Social Evolutionist.
Box 3 consists of letters and/or excerpts (all copies) written by Morgan to various persons arranged alphabetically by addressee.
Other related material includes printed ephemera and photographs.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Kosven, M. O. (Mark Osipovich), 1885-
Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 -- Correspondence
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Archives
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Lewis Henry Morgan : social evolutionist
Corporate Names
Institut antropologii i ėtnografii (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR) -- Correspondence
University of Chicago -- Press -- Correspondence
University of Rochester -- Library -- Department of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives --Correspondence
Subjects
Anthropologists -- Soviet Union -- Correspondence
Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence
Biographers -- United States -- Archives
Sociologists -- United States -- Archives
Geographic Areas
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- Sources
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Sources
Genre
Letters (correspondence) -- Soviet Union
Letters (correspondence)-- United States
Professional papers -- United States
Personal papers -- United States
Folder 1
A letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928)
Folder 2
American Anthropologist letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1927-1929)
Folder 3
B letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936)
Folder 4
Brown University Library letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956,, (1930, Oct. 29)
Folder 5
C letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929-1936)
Folder 6
Century Company letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929, Jan. 23)
Folder 7
Columbia University Press letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1929)
Folder 8
D letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928)
Folder 9
D. Appleton & Co. letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928)
Folder 10
Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005 letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1936-1938)
Folder 11
H letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, [1930]
Folder 12
Harcourt, Brace and Company letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928)
Folder 13
Harper & Brothers letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928)
Folder 14
Houghton Mifflin Company letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956
Folder 15
Johnson, Alvin letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929, Dec. 10)
Folder 16
Kenyon, Alfred S. (Alfred Stephen), 1867-1943 letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1930, Oct. 27)
Folder 17
Knopp, Alfred A., Inc. letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1931)
Folder 18
Liverwright, Horace, Inc. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929, Jan. 22)
Folder 19
Longmans, Green & Co. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929, Jan. 23)
Folder 20
Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1929)
Folder 21
M letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936)
Folder 22
MacIver, R.M. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Feb. 17)
Folder 23
MacMillan & Co. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928, Jan. 2)
Folder 24
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931)
Folder 25
Minnesota University letters to be Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931)
Folder 26
Myer, John H. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Apr. 18)
Folder 27
N letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936)
Folder 28
New York State Library letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1936, Feb. 14)
Folder 29
New York University letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1936)
Folder 30
North Carolina University letters to Bernhard Josteph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1932)
Folder 31
P letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928, July 26)
Folder 32
President's Research Committee on Social Trends letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Jan. 12)
Folder 33
Putnam, G.P. letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929-1936)
Folder 34
R letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (
Folder 35
Rochester Historical Society (Rochester, N.Y.) letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928)
Folder 36
Russian review of
Lewis Henry Morgan, Social Evolutionist, (1932)
Folder 37
S letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1949)
Folder 38
Scientific Monthly letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1927, June 12)
Folder 39
Scribner, Charles, Sons letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1937, Feb. 5)
Folder 40
Sociliast Labor Party letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1936-1937)
Folder 41
T letter to Bernard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Mar. 21)
Folder 42
Union College letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1945)
Folder 43
Union Soviet Socialist Republics letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931-1940)
Folder 44
University of Chicago Press letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1940)
Folder 45
University of Rochester letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1927-1938)
Folder 46
University of Washington. Libraries letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1931)
Folder 47
University of Wisconsin letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Mar. 14)
Folder 48
V letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931-1936)
Folder 49
Viking Press letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929)
Folder 50
Wells College letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936)
Folder 51
White, Leslie A., 1900-1975 letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931)
Folder 52
Yale University letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936)
Box 2
Correspondence, manuscripts, and notes
Folder 1
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to A-C, (1928-1936)
Folder 2
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to D-L, (1928-1945)
Folder 3
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to M-P, (1927-1938
Folder 4
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to S-Y, (1928-1949)
Folder 5
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to U.S.S.R., (1931-1936)
Various academies and scholars
Folder 6
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to U.S.S.R., (1937-1938)
Various academies and scholars
Folder 7
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to University of Chicago Press, (1929-1943)
Folder 8
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to University of Rochester, (1926-1935)
Folder 9
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1937 letters to University of Rochester, (1935-1937)
Folder 10
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to Union College, (1928-1936)
Folder 11
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Lecture notes
Folder 12
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Lewis Henry Morgan - American Ethnologist, (1928)
Folder 13
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Lewis Henry Morgan Today, An Appraisal of his Scientific Contributions, (1945)
Folder 14
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- "The man Lewis H. Morgan...", [1940]
Folder 15
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- "The Life of Lewis Henry Morgan..." [outlines (documents)]
Folder 16
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Miscellaneous notes, [1940]
Folder 17
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Miscellaneous notes and drafts, (1931-1935)
Folder 18
Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Printed reviews of
Lewis Henry Morgan, Social Evolutionist, (1931-1941)
17 items
Included: Other works and bibliography
Box 3
Correspondence, notes, printed ephemera, and photographs
Folder 1
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1823-1887, (1865-1881)
Folder 2
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letter to Asa Gray, (1877, Mar. 14)
Folder 3
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to Joseph Henry, 1797-1878, (1862-1868)
Folder 4
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to Joseph Henry, 1797-1878, (1868-1872)
Folder 5
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to Joseph Henry, 1797-1878, (1873-1881)
Folder 6
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to A.H. (Albert Harrison) Mixer, 1822-1908, (1870-1871)
Folder 7
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to John Wesley Powell, 1837-1902, (1870-1880)
Folder 8
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to W.I. Rheese, (1871)
Folder 9
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letter to W.F. Warner, (1873, Oct. 16)
Folder 10
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letter to "Mr. Editor", (1866, Oct. 3)
Folder 11
American Antiquity -- Lewis H. Morgan's Journal of a Trip to Southwestern Colorado and New Mexico, June 21 to August 7, 1878,
(1942)
Folder 12
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907 excerpts to Lewis Henry Morgan, 1818-1881, (1876-1880)
Folder 13
Industrial Unionist, vol. 2, no. 7, vol. 2, no. 8, and vol. 3, no. 7, (1933-1934)
Folder 14
Kocbeh, Marc O. -- Printed articles, (1946)
Folder 15
Miscellaneous notes, [1938]
Folder 16
Miscellaneous letters (correspondence) to and from various persons, (1866-1937)
Folder 17
Miscellaneous notes, (1841-1936)
Folder 18
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 -- Photographs, (1945)
Folder 19
Union College -- Union Worthies Number One Lewis Henry Morgan, (1945)
Folder 20
Receipts and sales slips, (1930-1936)
Folder 21
Rochester History, vol. 3, no. 4, (1946)
Folder 22
"Weekly People," (1938, Nov. 26)
