Container List

ADVENTURE IN RETIREMENT.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

c) Production proof; see oversize.

THE CAT'S PAJAMAS.

a) First draft, typescript (some carbon) with autograph correction pp. 1 - 103, 123 - 150 (end) (incomplete); 21 pp. fragmentary drafts.

b) Second draft, typescript (some carbon) with autograph corrections, pp. 1 - 123 (incomplete).

c) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

d) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

JASON GOOSE.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Galley proof.

c) Page proof.

JASON POTTER'S SPACE WALK.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

c) Page proof.

d) Production proof.

JIMMY'S PLACE.

a) First draft, typescript with autograph corrections, 242 pp., author's notation, 13 pp.

b) Second draft, carbon typescript with autograph corrections,

c) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

d) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

e) Page proof.

f) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

g) Galley proof.

NOSTALGIA, USA.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Galley proof,

c) Page proof.

d) Production proof, see oversize.

QUEEN CALIFIA'S ISLAND.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Galley proof.

c) Page proof.

d) Unbound set of printed pages.

THE POLAR ROUTE TO TIME GONE BY.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

c) Page proof.

d) Production proof.

TOMORROW'S NEWS.

a) First draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Second draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

c) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

d) Final draft, carbon typescript,

THE TOWER OF JEWELS.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

c) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

d) Production proof; see oversize.

THE WATERBURY RECORD.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

c) Page proof.

d) Production proof; see oversize.

WEST OF THE DATE LINE.

a) First draft, typescript with autograph corrections, 210 pp. Epilogue, 12 pp.; author's notations, 12 pp.

b) Second draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

c) Second draft, carbon typescript,

d) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

e) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

f) Page proof.

WILLIAMSTOWN BRANCH.

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

b) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

c) Galley proof.

d) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

e) Production proof; see oversize.

Printed Matter and Tearsheets

By My Way - a series of articles of humorous commentary by R. L. Duffus, run in Nation's Business monthly from October 1948 to March 1956.Tearsheets.

A FAIR PROSPECT. A series of 57 booklets of humorous commentary by R. L. Duffus, published as advertising for Nation's Business, April 1944 to October 1948.

Miscellaneous clippings, tearsheets, and whole number periodicals of items by R. L. Duffus.

Miscellaneous clippings, 1923 - 1924,pasted in scrapbook.

Scrapbooks of Clippings of New York Times Editorials by R. L. Duffus.

a) September 26, 1946 - October 10, 1950.

b) October 13, 1950 - February 5, 1956.

c) February 6, 1956 - February 21, 1960.

d) February 22, 1960 - September 24, 1962.

ADDITION Newsclips and Book Reviews re: Duffus.

Editorials written after retirement and Poems.

Tribute to Judge Learned Hand by R.L.D. Printed.

Miscellany

Newsclips and misc. re: R.L.D.'s death.

BOOKS

* JASON POTTER'S STAR WALK (later, SPACE WALK)

e) Typescript with autograph corrections,

f) typescript with autograph corrections, 131 pp. May 29, 1969.

g) 1 page of notes.

* THE POLAR ROUTE TO TIME GONE BY

e) typescript with autograph corrections,

f) typescript with autograph corrections,

ASHES ON A PROMONTORY

a) typescript with autograph corrections,

TLS, 12-26-72,Geo. P. Brockway to Mrs. R. L. Duffus - declines to publish. (Filed with correspondence)

THE DEATH OF ROSCOE CONKLING (1888)

a) typescript with autograph corrections, Mar. 30, 1967.

HOW TO BE 80 AND LIKE IT.

a) manuscript, Sept. 1971.

b) TLS n.d. Donald Bean to R.L.D. re: mss. (Filed with corresp.)

THE LAST SARDINE.

a) typescript with autograph corrections,

b) typescript with autograph corrections,

c) typescript with autograph corrections, 216 pp., Jan. 12, 1970.

ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS AND TYPESCRIPTS:

a) A California Byway.

b) The Two Kisses of Rafaelita.

c) The Silver Cord.

d) The Story of the Abstruse Vagabond.

e) Drusiana. (written for a short story contest)

f) An Incident in a Garden. (Eng. 22; Oct. 1, 1909)

g) The Crime of the Knave of Hearts.

Commencement Speech (Typescript). Middlebury College, Vermont. 1938.By R.L.D., with autograph corrections.

My Brother Bill (typescript) (6pp.) May (?), 1966.

Typescripts of 5 newspaper articles/editorials.

CORRESPONDENCE * OUTGOING

Robert L. Duffus to:

BLIVEN, BRUCE

1969, March 3

August 16

1970, October 27

November 13

November 17

1971, September 11

1972, September 16

October 14

BROCKWAY, GEORGE P. (President, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., R.L.D.'s Publisher)

1964, December 12re: Adventure & Queen Calafia

1964., Dec. 14re: Queen Calafia

1968, April 15re: Jason Goose

DUFFUS, WM. M. 1995, April 5.

FORREST, WILLIAM P. (World Health Organization)

1948, March 22.(R.L.D.'s reply - see Incoming corresp.)

KELLER, HELEN

1960, August 26.(photocopy) (Reply - see Incoming corresp.)

MERRILL, REV. CHARLES C.

1957, August 22.(Reply - see Incoming corresp.)

OLDER, FREMONT

1920, June 21.

SULZBERGER, ARTHUR HAYS (Publisher, N.Y. Times)

1962, January 19(Reply - see Incoming corresp.)

VILLA, MRS. MARION

1969, June 21

1970, February 25

CORRESPONDENCE * INCOMING

ADLER, RUTH (Editor of Times Talk)

1967, March 6.re: article on Otto Tolischus.

ALLEN, WARNER M.

1948, March 22.re: Fair Prospects.

ALPHAND, HERVÉ (French Ambassador to the U.S.)

1958, June 19.re: article The Other France and poem, The Map of France. (In French).

AMRINE, MABEL CHILCOTT

1958, October 18.

ANDERSON, MAXWELL

1948, February 28.

ANGELL, ORSON (Director of Advertising for Nation's Business)

1948, March 2.re: survey of popularity of A Fair Prospect.

3 Enclosures: J. D. Ford (Weirton Steel Co.) to Ms. Vera Lundquist of the Nation's Business Survey, W. Stanley Pearce (Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.) to V. L.

Robert F. Wood (the Autocar Co.) to V. L.

1948, March 8.re: R.L.D.'s fan mail re: A Fair Prospect.

3 Enclosures: Edward A. Daubenspeck (Chamber of Commerce, Shelby, Montana).

J. T. Ruble (Clay County Chamber of Commerce, West Point, Mississippi).

John P. Taylor (RCA).

1972, August 30.

ATKINSON, BROOKS. 1962, Oct. 2.

BEAN, DONALD

n.d.Included with mss. How to be 80 and Like It.

BLADES, LESLIE BURTON

1966, August 3.re: Adventures in Retirement.

BLIVEN, BRUCE

1969, March 2re: Jason Goose.

1970, January 25.re: The Polar Route.

1970, October 15.re: Jason Potter's Space Walk with clip.

1972, April 18.re: The Santa Fe Trail.

BORLAND, HAL (and Barbara)

1970, February 8.

1970, August 26.with tearsheet re: Jason Potter's Space Walk.

1970, August 29.re: Flag Day editorial.

1972, November 24.

BROCKWAY, GEORGE P. (President, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., R.L.D.'s publisher)

1964, December 10.re: The Island of Queen Calafia; Adventures...

1964, December 18.

1964, December 28.

1965, June 24re: Queen Calafia.

1965, September 30.re: Jimmy's Place.

1965, October 6.

1965, December 6.

1968, May 1re: Jason Goose.

1968, May 6.

1969, January 13.

1969, December 31.

1970, January 7.

1971, April 22.re: The Last Sardine.

1971, May 25.

1972, September 22.[To Mrs. R.L. Duffus]

1972, December 26.[To Mrs. R. L. Duffus]

BURKE, SHIRLEY

1942, January 4.re: Treasury Star Parade radio program.

CHANDLER, R. K.

1958, November 27.re: Williamstown Branch.

CORBALLY, WINIFRED

1964, June 25

1966, June 24.

See also: KELLER, HELEN.

COWDRY, MRS. E. VINCENT

N. D.ALS (to Leah Louise).

[CRANE], CHARLES

1959, October 27.

[1959], December 24.

DAVIS, H. L.

1957, June 7.(mention of Clifford Irving).

DODDS, JOHN W.

1970, June 29.re: The Polar Route...

1971, May 10.re: Tomorros's News.

DORFMAN, JOSEPH.

1971, July 12.

DUFFUS, WILLIAM M. (Brother of R.L.D.)

1966, January 21.

1966, February 4.

EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.

1957, December 3.re: editorial R.L.D. wrote about him. with clips.

FONTANA, JOHN

1971, February 8.re: Williamstown Branch.

FORREST, WILLIAM P. (World Health Organization)

1948, March 19.(with reply by R.L.D. - Outgoing corresp.)

FRANCESCHI, ESTHER SEAVER (MRS. A. G.)

1959, February 5.re: Williamstown Branch.

Friedlander, [Paul?]

1963, Oct. 2.

GALPIN, PERRIN C.

1959, October 26.re: Waterbury Record.

GERMOND, PETER

1948, March 6.re: A Fair Prospect.

GLEASON, EDGAR T. (Scoop)

1959, March 31.

GRUENING, ERNEST.

[1965, Dec. 4].

HADDOCK, CONSTANCE M. (MRS. G. T.)

1969, February 23.

HAYDEN, HIRAM.

1948, March 19.

HOUGH, HENRY BEETLE

1969, December 17.

1970, August 24.

1971, Dec. 29

1972, June 3.

INGRAM, K. C.

1948, February 5.

KAYE, FRANK M.

1966, October 12.

KELLER, HELEN

1960, August 23.

1960, May 12.

See also: CORBALLY, WINIFRED.

KREHBIEL, EDWARD

1948, March 17.

LA GUARDIA, FIORELLO H. (Mayor of New York).

1941, December 29.re: article on La Gaurdia to be written by R.L.D.

LAMPSON, ROBIN

1968, May 5.

LEAVITT, RAY (S. F. Press Club)

1968, April 5.

1968, April 12.

LILIENTHAL, DAVID E.

1959, May 25.

1965, Feb. 9.re: Adventure in Retirement

LOWRY, HELEN (sister)

1959, December 10.re: Robert Aura Smith.

MANN, LUCY (MRS. WILLIAM M.)

---- October 22.

MASLIN, MARSH

---- May 24.

MERRIL, REV. CHARLES C.

1957, August 15.(with reply - Outgoing corresp.)

MERZ, CHARLES

1961, April 26.Memo.

1966, March 26.re: death of R.L.D.'s brother (William M.?]

MOULTON, ELLA SIBLEY (MRS. WILLARD A.)

1958, December 14.

OAKES, JOHN B.

n.d.Memo re: Pulitzer Prize

ORTON, LARRY M.

1963, Oct. 6.

PATTERSON, Wm. D.

1962, Oct. 9.

PRESCOTT, ORVILLE

1964, December 29.

PROFFITT, CHARLES G.

1963, Jan. 28.

RABINOWITZ, AARON

1970, Oct. 25

RICHEY, PAUL

1948, March 4.re: A Fair Prospect - copy enclosed with missing pages.

ROBINSON, BELLE D.

1958, November 29.

SANDBURG, CARL

1935, February 19.re: ref. to Mark Sullivan as historian; re: Sandburg's actions in 1898 as U.S. volunteer in Puerto Rico engaged in driving out the Madrid government.

1943, July 15.re: R.L.D.'s Lincoln Poem entitled Feb. 12, 1863.with cvr.

1960, Dec. 7.re: R.L.D.'s The Tower of Jewels.

SHANNON, WILLIAM V.

1966, May 9.

STARK, [JEN], MRS. LOUIS

1957, December 15.

SULZBERGER, ARTHUR HAYS (Publisher, N.Y. Times)

1948, March 16.

1954, December 30.

1962, January 22.(reply to R.L.D.'s of Jan. 19, 1962 - Outgoing).

1962, Sept. 18.

TOWNSEND, EARLE L.

1942, September 29.re: R.L.D.'s leaving the Westport Defense Training Unit.

TRAILL, J. E.

1958, Sept. 5.re: family history and Old John Duffus. With newsclip re: Williamstown Branch; business card; signature of J. W. Duffus, Burlington, Vt., April 14, 1886.

TRIGGS, A. B. (MRS. OSCAR LOVELL)

1948, February 18.

WOLFF, MARIAN

n.d.

MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE

HUBBARD, Mrs. William B. (Cousin Elizabeth) to Ursula.

1960, February 9.with note describing Cousin Elizabeth signed W.M.D. [Wm. M. Duffus?]

ROSS, Roland to Editor, N.Y. Times.

1937, August 2.re: article by R.L.D.

SULZBERGER, ARTHUR HAYS to Mr. Gilmore D. Clark

1960, January 4.re: editorial by R. L. D. - The Torch.

LETTERS OF CONDOLENCE TO MRS. R. L. DUFFUS

Angell, Orson 1972, Dec. 5

Bliven, Bruce 1972, Nov. 30

Borland, Hal & Barbara 1972, Dec. 1

Brockway, George P. 1972, Nov. 30

Chase, Stuart & Marian [1972]

Chenery, William L. 1972, Dec. 6

Dodds, John W. 1972, Dec. 1

Gruening, Ernest 1972, Nov. 30

Hough, Henry Beetle 1972, Nov. 30

[Keyserling], Leon H. 1972, Dec. 12

Keyserling, Mary D[ublue] 1972, Dec. 4

McLeod, Rev. James W. 1972, Dec. 9 R.L.D. - In Appreciation with copy of N.Y. Times article by R.L.D.:I am an American.

Miller, Wm. F. 1972, Dec. 4(Vice Pres. & Provost- Stanford U.)

Oakes, John B. 1972, Dec. 9

Ogden, Wm. D. 1972, Nov, 30

O'Neill, Charles 1972, Nov. 30

O'Neill, Charles 1972, Dec. 13

Smith, Fletcher 1973, Jan. 26

Sterling, J.E. Wallace n.d.

Sulzberger, Iphigene Ochs 1972, Dec. 2