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Finding Aid for the Eugen Joseph Weber Papers, 1950-

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Table of contents

Container List

A Modern History of Europe.

Box 1, Folder 1

Part I: “The renaissance & reformation.”

Physical Description: (Holograph manuscript in two spiral notebooks)

Box 1, Folder 2

Part II: “Early modern Europe.”

Physical Description: (Holograph manuscript in two spiral notebooks)

Box 2, Folder 1

Part III: “An age of revolutions: 1715-1848.”

Physical Description: (Holograph manuscript in three spiral notebooks)

Box 3, Folder 1

Holograph manuscript in four spiral notebooks.

Box 4, Folders 1-3

Part I.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 4, Folder 1

First draft.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 4, Folder 2

Second draft.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 4, Folder 3

Final draft [p.1-251].

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Boxes 4-5

Part II.

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 4, Folder 4

First draft.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 4, Folder 5

Second draft.

Physical Description: (Carbon typescript)

Box 5, Folder 1

Final draft [p.259-570].

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Boxes 5-6

Part III.

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 5, Folder 2

First draft.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 5, Folder 3

Second draft.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 6, Folder 1

Final draft [p.580-1014].

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 6, Folder 2

Illustrations for Part III.

Physical Description: (Photocopies)

Boxes 7-8, Folder 1

Part IV.

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 7, Folder 1

First draft.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 7, Folder 2

Second draft [lacking p.1-8].

Physical Description: (Carbon typescript)

Box 8

Final draft [p.1015-1750].

Physical Description: (Typescript, 3 folders)

Box 9, Folder 1

Index.

Physical Description: (Carbon typescript)

Box 9, Folders 2-3

Miscellaneous notes, etc. re text.

Box 10

Records and note cards.

Scope and Content Note

Records are second stage of mas., between holograph notebook and typescript.

Boxes 11-12

Note cards.

Box 13

Bibliography Note cards.

Box 14

[p.4-702]; Proof sheets.

Box 15, Folder 1

[p.705-end]; Proof sheets.

Box 15, Folder 2

Partial text; Galley proofs.

Box 15, Folder 3

Bibliography and index; Galley proofs.

Box 16

Text, table of contents [lacks bibliography and index]; Galley proofs.

Box 27, Folder 1

Correspondence with publisher (room in box).

Box 28

Galley proofs.

The Western Tradition: a Book of Readings . . ..

Box 17, Folder 1

Typescript.

Box 17, Folder 2

Galley proofs.

Box 17, Folder 3

Index.

Physical Description: (Typescript and galley proofs)

Box 25, Folder 6

Correspondence, drafts, etc.

Box 32, Folder 1

Galley proofs (front matter).

Box 32, Folder 2

vol.1.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 32, Folder 3

vol.2.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 56

Proofs of 5th edition.

The European Right.

Box 23, Folder 2

Carbon typescript.

Box 23, Folder 3

Galley proofs.

The Nationalist Revival in France.

Box 24, Folder 1

Correspondence with publisher.

Box 24, Folder 2

Carbon typescript.

Box 24, Folder 3

Galley proofs.

A Century of Modern Taste: from Romanticism to Surrealism.

Note

[Not published?]

Box 25, Folder 1

Outline, and correspondence with publishers.

Box 25, Folder 2

Drafts, outlines.

Journal Articles.

Box 25, Folder 3

“The Anti-Utopia of the Twentieth Century.”

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, notes, drafts.

Box 25, Folder 7

“An Anxious Pride: Old and New Orientations in French Foreign. .”

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and carbon typescripts.

Box 25, Folder 4

“Sartre and Surrender,” and other journal articles.

Scope and Content Note

Typescripts and correspondence.

Box 25, Folder 5

“Some Comments on the Nature of the Nationalist Revival in France.”

Scope and Content Note

Typescripts and correspondence.

Note

(see previous folder)

Box 26, Folder 1

“Pas d'ennemis a gauche,” and other journal articles.

Physical Description: (Typescript and carbon typescript)

Box 26, Folder 3

Articles on French Left/Right.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and notes.

Box 26, Folder 2

“No Enemies on the Left?”

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, drafts, and typescripts.

Box 26, Folder 4

“New Wine in Old Bottles: les Families Spirituelles de la France.”

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, typescript and carbon typescripts

Box 26, Folder 5

“Gymnastics and Sports in fin-de-siecle France: Opium of the Classes.”

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, notes, and carbon typescripts

Box 31, Folder 2

“The Betrayal of the Intellectuals,” and other articles.

Scope and Content Note

Carbon typescripts, clippings, etc.

[Various Publications].

Boxes 41, 43

Fin de Siecle.

Box 41

Publisher's proofs[?].

Box 43

Draft. ca. 1982

Scope and Content Note

EW still retains original manuscript copies of his publications; he often typed rewrites from his handwritten copy, then had a typist produce subsequent copies.

Boxes 41, 45

My France.

Scope and Content Note

Publisher's proofs[?].

Note

One of EW's most notable publications collection boxed 17 Aug 1993 as per call from EW. cbb

Box 46

A Simple Life.

Scope and Content Note

Publisher's proofs[?].

Box 46

Peasants into Frenchmen.

Scope and Content Note

Research notes.

Box 47

Movements, Currents, Trends....

Box 47

Typed manuscript of publication.

Box 51

Publisher's proofs[?]. 1992

Boxes 44, 49-51

Action Francaise.

Box 44

Part I.

Scope and Content Note

First of EW's publications; originally filed in a notebook

Box 49

Research notes re Action Francaise.

Box 50

“Action Francaise and Catholicism” file.

Box 51

Index.

Boxes 55-56

Hollow Years.

Note

Addition, December 1997

Box 55

Holograph manuscript, various versions.

Box 56

Photocopies.

Box 56

Copy of Dutch translation.

Boxes 45, 56

Life of a Simple Man.

Box 45

Publisher's proof[?].

Box 56

Weber correspondence advocating reprint. ca.1980

Note

Addition, December 1997

Unidentified.

Box 18

First chapter: “A country of savages.”

Physical Description: (Holograph, in 3 spiral notebooks, no.1-3)

Box 19

Holograph, in 2 spiral notebooks, no.6-7.

Box 20

Holograph, in 2 spiral notebooks, no.6-7.

Box 21

Holograph, in 4 spiral notebooks, no.8.

Box 22

Holograph, in 3 spiral notebooks and one ledger.

Box 23, Folder 1

First chapter: “The age of masses.”

Physical Description: (Typescript, photocopy)

Box 27, Folder 2

Note cards.

Box 29

First chapter: “A country of savages.”

Scope and Content Note

Typescript, printer's copy.

Box 30

Typescript, printer's copy (begins Box 29).

Box 31, Folder 3

Unidentified Manuscript.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 33

Typescript (photocopy) in four folders.

Boxes 34-40

Note cards.

[Miscellaneous].

Box 31, Folder 1

Introduction to Jean Barois.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and typescript (photocopy) and . .

Box 41

“The Western Tradition” (television lecture notes). ca. 1989

Scope and Content Note

Grant funded series on public television, originating from WGBH (Boston); first aired in 1989; still being broadcast

Boxes 42-43

Dissertation, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.

Note

[Weber] did not receive degree - dissertation committee never approved of final draft.

Box 42

First draft.

Physical Description: (vol.1, blue binding)

Box 43

First and second drafts.

Scope and Content Note

First draft (vol.2, blue binding)
Second draft (vol.1 & 2, red bindings)

Box 44

[...Readings...], University of Iowa. 1956

Scope and Content Note

Fist edition of Western civilization readings; created to use as a text ins EW's courses

Box 45

Anti-clerical poster, France. ca. 1890's

Physical Description: (Poster is extremely fragile and in 2 pieces)

Scope and Content Note

Acquired by EW while conducting research on Leo Taxil, French journalist who attacked the catholic church and Masonic orders.

Box 48

Reprint files for course no.472[?].

Physical Description: (Photocopies)

Box 48

Untitled manuscript of publication.

Box 48

“Socialists and the Jewish Question.”

Scope and Content Note

Photocopy of typscript by Edmund Silberuer[?].

Box 49

“Zones.”

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Boxes 45, 49-50

Correspondence. ca. 1956-1982

Box 45

Files maintained by secretary in notebooks. ca. 1979-1982

Physical Description: (2 vols.)

Box 49

1960-1961.

Scope and Content Note

Mostly about research in France ( re “Action Francaise?”)

Box 50

ca. 1956-.

Scope and Content Note

Short papers (lectures?) interfiled.

Boxes 49-50

Historical time lines compiled by EW (“Chart”).

Box 50

University of Alberta files. ca. 1955

Box 50

Publication, no title.

Physical Description: (Typescript)

Box 50

Publisher's files. ca.1955-1958

Scope and Content Note

re D.C. Heath & Company, University of Iowa, etc.

Box 50

“Romania” file.

Box 48

Research notes.

Scope and Content Note

Card files

Boxes 50-51

Research files.

Box 51

Microfilm reels.

Scope and Content Note

Film copies of primary French documents (?) have bibliographers review (?).

Boxes 52-54

E. Weber handwritten notes re publications correspondence with publisher/Norton. ca. 1985-

Scope and Content Note

re Hollow Years revisions of 5th edition Western Tradition (D.C. Heath) Fin de Siecle (holograph manuscript)

Note

Addition, December 1997

Boxes 44, 46, 49, 52-54

UCLA course files. 1952 and n.d.

Box 49

Course lecture notes.

Physical Description: (.50 cu.ft.)

Box 44

“Intellectual History” (?) course lecture notes.

Box 46

Course lectures notes. ca. 1952

Scope and Content Note

Includes materials from other institutions.

Box 52-54

[No further description available].

Note

Addition, December 1997

Container List

A Modern History of Europe.

The Western Tradition: a Book of Readings . . ..

The European Right.

The Nationalist Revival in France.

A Century of Modern Taste: from Romanticism to Surrealism.

Journal Articles.

[Various Publications].

Unidentified.

[Miscellaneous].