Guide to the B. Traven Collection, 1917-1989 M0570
- Ballio, Tino
- Baumann, Friedel
- Baumann, Michael L.
- Büchergilde Gutenberg
- Hagemann, E.R.
- Johnson, William
- Klein, Herbert Arthur
- Klein, Mina Cooper
- Lawrence Hill & Co.
- Kohner, Paul
- Küpfer, Peter
- López Mateos, Esperanza
- Luján, Rosa Elena
- Marut, Ret
- Mermet, Irene
- Olafson, Robert
- Raskin, Jonah
- Recknagel, Rolf
- Rosa Blanca (film)
- Spota, Luis
- Stevenson, Phil
- Stone, Judy
- Traven, B.
- Wieder, Josef
- Wyatt, Will
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series II. Klein's manuscripts and notes for projects 492925
Series IV. Photos and audio tapes 492921
Series I. Correspondence (arranged chronologically within subsection) 492827
With B. Traven 492895
General index of Klein's letters to and from Traven 492913
Traven-Klein letters, originals 492911 1933
Traven-Klein letters, originals 492909 1934
Original Klein letter to Traven, 492907 5/28/35
Original Klein letter to Traven, 492905 7/2/35
Originals of material sent by Traven, 492903 7/16/35
Klein letter to Traven, 492901 8/1/35
Original Klein letter to Traven, 492899 10/1/35
Traven-Klein letters, 492897 1933-35
With Traven's widow and publishers 492871
Rosa Elena Lujan (Traven's widow), 492893 1967-78
Correspondence, British publishers, 492891 1936-59
Lawrence Hill & Co., Hill & Wang, Inc., 492889 1966-70
Lawrence Hill & Co., 492887 1971-73
Lawrence Hill & Co., 492885 1974
Lawrence Hill & Co., 492883 1975
Lawrence Hill & Co., 492881 1976-80
Contracts and royalty reports from L. Hill, 492879 1975-79
Penn State Press, 492877 1976
Allison and Busby, 492875 1979
Ken Saunders, 492873 1980
With Traven scholars, libraries, Klein's attorney, newspapers 492829
E.R. Hagemann, 492869 1959-60
Phil Stevenson, (also has letters from Traven to Stevenson) 492867 1961-73
Grad student, 492865 1975
Judy Stone, (also notes on her book) 492863 1975
Jonah Raskin, 492861 1975-79
Rectification letters, UCLA Special Collections, 492859 1976
William Weber Johnson, 492857 1976
Paul Kohner, 492855 1976
George Hanson, 492853 1976-78
Michael Baumann, 492851 1976-1982
Tino Ballio, 492849 1977
Ernst Schürer, 492847 1982
Traven Conference correspondence, 492845 1982
Rolf Recknagel, 492843 1976-[82?]
Karl Guthke, 492841 1982-3
Peter Küpfer, 492839 1982-3
Martha Müller, 492837 1989
Klein's attorney Lauri Provencher, 492835 1979
NY Review of Books, 492833 June 1970
LA Times, 492831 1982
Series II. Klein's manuscripts and notes for projects 492647
Kleins' work on Traven stories 492819
Editing notecards for Traven tales 492825
Special materials on Jungle or Mahogany novels (book jackets, correspondence with publishers, translations that later appeared in Kleins' book) 492823
Master file, The Kidnapped Saint 492821
(Primarily first drafts of translations for The Kidnapped Saint) 492783
The Kidnapped Saint 492817
Submission 492815
Story of a Bomb 492813
Diplomat 492811
Frustration 492809
Reviving the Dead 492807
Accomplices 492805
Indian Dance in the Jungle 492803
Introduction, In the Freest State in the World 492801
In the Freest State in the World (text) 492799
In the Freest State in the World (endnotes) 492797
Rejected stories: Burro Trading #6 492795
Rejected stories: Unexpected Solution #12 [original missing] 492793
Rejected stories: Welfare Hospital #13 492791
Rejected stories: Foreign Correspondent #14 492789
Rejected stories: Dynamite #15 492787
Rejected stories: The Guard #16 492785
Primarily second drafts of translations for The Kidnapped Saint 492751
Submission #2 492781
Diplomats #3 492779
In the Freest State in the World #4 (1974 final typing) 492777
In the Freest State in the World #4 (1974 preliminary drafts) 492775
In the Freest State in the World #4 (notes by Kleins) 492773
Frustration #5 492771
Burro Trading #6 492769
Saint in Pain #7, corrections to Michigan Quarterly Review version of The Kidnapped Saint 492767
Auferweckung des Toten #9 492765
Indian Dance in the Jungle #10 492763
Accomplices #11 492761
Unexpected Solutions #12, rewritten Short Stories version, 492759 June 1957
Welfare Establishment #13 492757
Foreign Correspondent 492755
Dynamite #15 492753
Primarily second drafts, German versions of Traven stories 492733
Der fremde Soldat 492749
The Guard, in English translation by Klein 492747
Mutter Beleke 492745
Untitled 492743
Khundar 492741
Was in Frankreich alles geschehen kann 492739
Erzählungen 492737
Rejects: Traven stories in U.S. magazines, 492735 1956-7
(Materials for book production) 492713
list of materials received from L. Hill, 492731 1973
Critiques from Hill et al. 492729
Table of contents and plans for Hill book 492727
Im Freiesten Staat der Welt 492725
Intro I (draft of introduction) 492723
Questions on German translations, 492721 1974
Notes: Diaz regime and Mexico City sanitation 492719
4 stories added in Cassell book, Night Visitor 492717 1967
White Rose #1 (excerpt) 492715
Klein's final drafts for The Kidnapped Saint 492675
Submission #2 492711
Diplomats #3 492709
In the Freest State in the World #4 492707
Frustration #5 492705
Burro Trading #6 492703
The Kidnapped Saint [draft lacks title page] 492701
Tin Can #8 492699
The Revival of a Dead Man #9 492697
Indian Dance in the Jungle #10 492695
Accomplices #11 492693
Unexpected Solution #12 492691
The Welfare Hospital 492689
Foreign Correspondent #14 492687
Dynamite #15 492685
The Guard #16 492683
First 43 galleys, The Kidnapped Saint 492681
Proofs, The Kidnapped Saint 492679
Master proofs of The Kidnapped Saint 492677
Klein's writings and notes on Traven, chronologically ordered 492649
Klein drafts of Traven reviews, 492673 1930s
New Republic review by Klein, 492671 1934
New Masses review by Klein, 492669 1934
British Library: Traven material, etc. 492667 1973,
Büchergilde Gutenberg [Traven publishers], 492665 1926-
Introduction to The Freest State in the World, 492663 1979
Additional biographical material for Freest State 492661
Alphabetical guide to Traven material, 492659 1976
Titles for tentative Traven book 492657
Book on Traven 492655
Misc. Traven notes, 492653 1982
Klein-Traven letters analyzed 492651
Series III. Subject files 492461
Klein's chronological files with notes and/or material on Traven that appeared in each year: periodical articles, BT Mitteilungen, notes from UCLA Special Collections material on Traven. with some omissions 492495 Pre-1920 to 1985,
Undated file in UCLA Special Collections 492645
492643 Pre-1920
492641 1926
492639 1927
492637 1928
492635 1929
492633 1930
492631 1931
492629 1932
492627 1933
492625 1934
492623 1935
492621 1936
492619 1937
492617 1938
492615 1939
492613 1940
492611 1942
492609 1943
492607 1944
492605 1945
492603 1946
492601 1947
492599 1948
492597 1949
492595 1950
492593 1951
492591 1952
492589 1953
492587 1954
492585 1955
492583 1956
492581 1957
492579 1958
492577 1959
492575 1960
492573 1961
492571 1963
492569 1966
492567 1967
492565 1969
492563 1970
492561 1971
492559 1972
492557 1973
492555 1974
492553 1975
492551 1976
492549 1977
492547 1978-80
492545 1985
Bang, Herman, influence on Traven 492543
Bek-Gray, Robert 492541
Cheuse, Alan 492539
Communist press critics of Traven 492537
Huston, John on Traven 492535
Land des Frühlings, notes and analysis 492533
Library of Congress, notes on Traven holdings 492531
Lopez Mateos, Esperanza 492529
Manana and Luis Spota 492527
The Marut-Traven connection 492525
Marut (Traven) and earlier 492523 1922
Powell, L.C. and Traven, 492521 Aug-76
Recknagel, Rolf, checklist of articles on Traven 492519
Revolution, German, notes 492517
Sex, women, and Traven 492515
Socialism in Germany, notes 492513
Spanish language sources on Traven 492511
Special materials, Universitas-Verlag 492509
UCLA Special Collections, MCK file 492507
Wieder, Josef 492505
Der Ziegelbrenner, copies and analysis 492503 1917-22,
Der Ziegelbrenner, notes from British Museum, 492501 1973
Der Ziegelbrenner, notes from Recknagel 492499
Transcriptions of Marut [Traven] writings by Rolf Recknagel, 492497 1969
Printed materials about Traven, chronologically ordered 492471
Articles by Michael Baumann, 492493 1975-77
Notes from Das B. Traven Buch, 492491 1976
Serial material on Traven, 492489 Aug-76
Periodical pieces on BT, 492487 1977
LA Times, 492485 1978
Reviews of Will Wyatt's book, 492483 1979-80
Traven material, 492481 July 1983
Traven seminar, USC, 492479 12-Nov-77
Materials on Canadian production, 492477 1976-77
Materials on BBC production, 492475 1977-78
Films, Traven 492473
(Miscellany) 492463
Traven mat'l to sort and file 492469
German publications of BT books, misc. material 492467
Newspaper articles about Mexico, 492465 1982
Series IV. Photos and Audio Tapes 492451
Rosa Elena Lujan, Mexico City, 492459 Jan-73
Photos from BBC documentary, 492457 1977
Conference photo, 492455 1982
2 cassettes on P. APC [Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, daughter organization of the MLA] B. Traven Seminar, Los Angeles, (2.5 hours). Presentations by panelists (Judy Stone, Michael Baumann, Charles Humphrey, Robert Goss, et al.), followed by open discussion moderated by Robert Olafson. The Kleins attended. 492453 12-Nov-77
Series V. Books and Play 492443
B. Traven, Stories by the Man Nobody Knows (Regency: Evanston, Annotated paperback. 492449 1961
Peter Küpfer, Aufklären und Erzählen. Das literarische Frühwerk B. Travens (Diss., Zurich, [With dedication to Herbert Arthur Klein] 492447 1981
Robert B. Olafson, The Great Traven Hunt or Erica's Dream. A Play in Three Acts Copy is lightly annotated. 492445 1977
Series VI. Serials 492431
BT Mitteilungen [subject folder; for location of issues see Addendum] No. 2-11 ed. by Esperanza Lopez Mateos and Josef Wieder (Zurich); no. 12-33 ed. by Josef Wieder (Zurich); no. 24-36 ed. by Rosa Elena Lujan (Mexico City) and Josef Wieder (Zurich). 492441
The B. Traven Newsletter. Vol. 1 no. 1 and 2 ed. by Terrence Ponick, University of South Carolina. [The file includes correspondence with Ponick.] 492439 (Autumn-winter 1976) (summer 1976)
Frente a Frente. Organ Central de la Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios LEAR Sección Mexicana. Mexico City. Ed. Fernando Gamboa. [Hoover Library has other issues] 3 (Ma). 492437 1936:
Smithsonian. 492435 Mar-83
Jewish Currents. New York. [SUL has other issues] (2 copies); (2 copies); (2 copies) 492433 1961 Sep 1975 Oct Nov Dec 1976 Jan; Feb ; Mar ; Apr ; May ; Jun ; Jul-Aug ; Sep ; Oct ; Nov ; Dec 1977 Feb
Series VII. Addendum 492385
Serials dispersed throughout the collection: 492387
- BT Mitteilungen [subject folder in box 17; SUL has other issues] 492409
missing p. 1-5); 492429 1951: 2 (F, 3 (Ap); 4 (Jun); 5 (Au)
492427 1952: 6 (Mar); 7 (May); 8 (Jul); 9 (Oct)
[incomplete] 492425 1953: 10 (May); 11 (Aug); 12 (Dec)
492423 1954: 13 (F); 14 (Ap); 15 (Jul); 16 (S); 17 (D)
[incomplete] 492421 1955: 18 (Au); 19 (D)
492419 1956: 20 (F); 21 (Jun); 22 (Au); 23 (N)
492417 1957: 24 (Ja); 25 (Ap); 26 (Jul); 27 (Au); 28 (Au)
492415 1958: 29 (Ma); 30 (Au); 31 (Nov); 32 (D)
492413 1959: 33 (Mar); 34 (May); 35 (N)
492411 1960: 36 (Ap)
- Der Ziegelbrenner, [SUL has other issues] 492407 1917-22
- Büchergilde. Monatsschrift der Büchergilde Gutenberg. Zurich. 492393
492405 1929: 10 (Oct)
492403 1934: 5 (May)
492401 1936: 1 (Ja); 4 (Ap)
492399 1939: 6 (Jun); 9 (Se) 11 (N)
492397 1940: 1 (Ja)
492395 1959: 5 (May); 6 (Jun); 7 (Jul)
- Der Bücherfreund. Mitteilungsblatt des Vereins Schweizer Bücherfreunde. Zurich. 492389
492391 1939: 14 (Se); 15 (Oc); 16 (N)