Guide to the Robert L. (Robert Luther) Duffus Papers , 1923-1970 M0203

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

1999

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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Robert L. (Robert Luther) Duffus Papers

Identifier/Call Number: M0203

Physical Description: 10.5 Linear Feet

Date (inclusive): 1923-1970

Language of Material: English .

General note

7/17/73

Names added to card file: new cards and additions

(* -signifies new card)

* Alphand, Herve

Anderson, Maxwell

Bliven, Bruce

* Brockway, George P.

Brooks, Van Wyck

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

* Gleason, Edgar T. (Scoop)

Keller, Helen

* LaGuardia, Fiorello H.

Older, Fremont

Sandburg, Carl

Sterling, J. E. Wallace

* Sulzberger, Arthur Hays

Biographical Note

ROBERT LUTHER DUFFUS

Robert Luther Duffus was born in Waterbury, Vt., July 10, 1888, the son of John McGlashan and Helen (Graves) Duffus. He obtained his A. B. from Stanford in 1910 and his A. M. in 1911. In addition, he was awarded an honorary L1.D. from Middlebury (Vt.) College in 1938.

Mr. Duffus was a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin from 1911 - 1913 and editorial writer from 1913 to 1918. He then became an editorial writer for the San Francisco Call from 1918 - 1919 and for the New York Globe from 1919 - 1923. He has been a member of the editorial staff of the New York Times since 1937. Died, Nov, 28, 1972.

Among the honors awarded are the Chevalier, Legion of Honor and the Phi Betta Kappa Key. Mr. Duffus is an author with books including The Innocents at Cedro (1944), The Valley and Its People (1944), Non-Scheduled Flight (1950), Williamstown Branch (Memoirs) (1959), The Waterbury Record (1960), and The Tower of Jewels (1961).

Scope and Content

A collection of manuscript, and various printer's proofs (galley, page, production) of the books of Robert L. Duffus. Also included are tearsheets of articles and New York Times editorials by Mr. Duffus.

ADDITION INCLUDES manuscripts of books, newsclips, correspondence (mostly to Duffus)

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Robert L. (Robert Luther) Duffus Papers , M0203, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Provenance

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robet L. Duffus, 1970 and 1973.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Access Restrictions

None.

ADVENTURE IN RETIREMENT.

Box 1, folder 1

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 263 pp.

Box 1, folder 2

b) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

map-folder 23

c) Production proof

THE CAT'S PAJAMAS.

Box 1, folder 3

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

Box 1, folder 4

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

Box 1, folder 5

c) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 165 pp.

Box 2, folder 1

d) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

JASON GOOSE.

Box 2, folder 2

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 336 pp.

Box 2, folder 3

b) Galley proof.

Box 2, folder 4

c) Page proof.

JASON POTTER'S SPACE WALK.

Box 3, folder 1

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 135 pp.

Box 3, folder 2

b) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

Box 3, folder 3

c) Page proof.

Box 3, folder 4

d) Production proof.

General note

* e,f,g: see also: List of July,'73 ADDITION

JIMMY'S PLACE.

Box 3, folder 5

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

Box 4, folder 1

b) Second draft, carbon typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 269 pp.

Box 4, folder 2

c) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 269 pp.

Box 4, folder 3

d) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

Box 4, folder 4

e) Page proof.

Box 5, folder 1

f) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

Box 5, folder 2

g) Galley proof.

NOSTALGIA, USA.

Box 5, folder 3

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 103 pp.

Box 5, folder 4

b) Galley proof,

Container Summary: 2 copies.

Box 5, folder 5

c) Page proof.

map-folder 23

d) Production proof

QUEEN CALIFIA'S ISLAND.

Box 6, folder 1

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 316 pp.

Box 6, folder 2

b) Galley proof.

Box 6, folder 3

c) Page proof.

Box 6, folder 4

d) Unbound set of printed pages.

THE POLAR ROUTE TO TIME GONE BY.

Box 7, folder 1

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 196 pp.

Box 7, folder 2

b) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

Box 7, folder 3

c) Page proof.

Box 7, folder 4

d) Production proof.

General note

* e & f: See also: List of July,'73 ADDITION

TOMORROW'S NEWS.

Box 8, folder 1

a) First draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 202 pp.

Box 8, folder 2

b) Second draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 140 pp.

Box 8, folder 3

c) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 141 pp.

Box 8, folder 4

d) Final draft, carbon typescript,

Container Summary: 141 pp.

THE TOWER OF JEWELS.

Box 9, folder 1

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 216 pp.

Box 9, folder 2

b) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

Box 9, folder 3

c) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

map-folder 23

d) Production proof

THE WATERBURY RECORD.

Box 10, folder 1

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 268 pp.

Box 10, folder 2

b) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

Box 10, folder 3

c) Page proof.

map-folder 24

d) Production proof

WEST OF THE DATE LINE.

Box 11, folder 1

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

Box 11, folder 2

b) Second draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 228 pp.

Scope and Contents note

(includes epilogue added to first draft).

Box 11, folder 3

c) Second draft, carbon typescript,

Container Summary: 228 pp.

Box 11, folder 4

d) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 227 pp.

Box 12, folder 1

e) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

Box 12, folder 2

f) Page proof.

WILLIAMSTOWN BRANCH.

Box 12, folder 3

a) Final draft, typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 357 pp.

Box 12, folder 4

b) Galley proof, with autograph corrections.

Box 13, folder 1

c) Galley proof.

Box 13, folder 2

d) Page proof, with autograph corrections.

map-folder 24

e) Production proof

Printed Matter and Tearsheets

Box 13, folder 3

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

Box 13, folder 4

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

Box 14, folder 1

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

volume 15

Miscellaneous clippings, pasted in scrapbook. 1923 - 1924,

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

volume 16

a) Sep ember 26, 1946-Oct 10, 1950

volume 17

b) Oct 13, 1950-Feb 5, 1956

volume 18

c) Feb 6, 1956-Feb 21, 1960

volume 19

d) Feb 22, 1960-Sep ember 24, 1962

Box 14, folder 2

ADDITION Newsclips and Book Reviews re: Duffus.

Box 14, folder 3

Editorials written after retirement and Poems.

Box 14, folder 4

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

Box 14, folder 5

Miscellany

Box 14, folder 6

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

BOOKS

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

Box 20, folder 1

e) Typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 135 pp.

Box 20, folder 2

f) typescript with autograph corrections, 131 pp. 29-May-69

Box 20, folder 3

g) 1 page of notes.

* THE POLAR ROUTE TO TIME GONE BY

Box 20, folder 4

e) typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 165 pp.

Box 20, folder 5

f) typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 196 pp.

ASHES ON A PROMONTORY

Box 20, folder 6

a) typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 185 pp.

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

THE DEATH OF ROSCOE CONKLING (1888)

Box 21, folder 1

a) typescript with autograph corrections, 30-Mar-67

Container Summary: 70pp.

HOW TO BE 80 AND LIKE IT.

Box 21, folder 2

a) manuscript, Sep-71

Container Summary: 45pp.

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

THE LAST SARDINE.

Box 21, folder 3

a) typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 222 pp.

Box 21, folder 4

b) typescript with autograph corrections,

Container Summary: 222 pp.

Box 21, folder 5

c) typescript with autograph corrections, 216 pp., 12-Jan-70

ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS AND TYPESCRIPTS:

Scope and Contents note

(The following 7 manuscripts appear to be early stories written during college)

Box 22, folder 1

a) A California Byway.

Box 22, folder 2

b) The Two Kisses of Rafaelita.

Box 22, folder 3

c) The Silver Cord.

Box 22, folder 4

d) The Story of the Abstruse Vagabond.

Box 22, folder 5

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

Box 22, folder 6

f) An Incident in a Garden. (Eng. 22; 1-Oct-09

Box 22, folder 7

g) The Crime of the Knave of Hearts.

Box 22, folder 8

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

Box 22, folder 9

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

Box 22, folder 10

Typescripts of 5 newspaper articles/editorials.

Box 22, folder 11

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)

re: Adventure & Queen Calafia 1964, December 12

Box 22, folder 11

re: Queen Calafia 1964, Dec 14

re: Jason Goose 1968, April 15

DUFFUS, WM. M. 1995, Apr 5

FORREST, WILLIAM P. (World Health Organization)

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

KELLER, HELEN

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

MERRILL, REV. CHARLES C.

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

OLDER, FREMONT

1920, Jun 21

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

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

VILLA, MRS. MARION

1969, June 21

1970, February 25

CORRESPONDENCE * INCOMING

Box 22, folder 12

ADLER, RUTH (Editor of Times Talk)

re: article on Otto Tolischus. 1967, Mar 6

ALLEN, WARNER M.

re: Fair Prospects. 1948, Mar 22

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

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

AMRINE, MABEL CHILCOTT

1958, Oct 18

ANDERSON, MAXWELL

1948, Feb 28

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

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

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.

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

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, Aug 30

ATKINSON, BROOKS. 1962, Oct 2

Container Summary: TLS.

BEAN, DONALD

Box 22, folder 12

Included with mss. How to be 80 and Like It. undated

BLADES, LESLIE BURTON

re: Adventures in Retirement. 1966, Aug 3

BLIVEN, BRUCE

re: Jason Goose. 1969, March 2

re: The Polar Route. 1970, Jan 25

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

re: The Santa Fe Trail. 1972, Apr 18

BORLAND, HAL (and Barbara)

1970, Feb 8

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

re: Flag Day editorial. 1970, Aug 29

1972, Nov 24

Box 22, folder 13

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

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

1964, Dec 18

1964, Dec 28

re: Queen Calafia. 1965, June 24

re: Jimmy's Place. 1965, Sep ember 30

1965, Oct 6

1965, Dec 6

re: Jason Goose. 1968, May 1

1968, May 6

1969, Jan 13

1969, Dec 31

1970, Jan 7

re: The Last Sardine. 1971, Apr 22

1971, May 25

[To Mrs. R.L. Duffus] 1972, Sep ember 22

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

BURKE, SHIRLEY

Box 22, folder 14

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

CHANDLER, R. K.

re: Williamstown Branch. 1958, Nov 27

CORBALLY, WINIFRED

1964, June 25

Container Summary: (photocopy)

1966, Jun 24

Container Summary: (photocopy)

See also: KELLER, HELEN.

COWDRY, MRS. E. VINCENT

ALS (to Leah Louise). undated

[CRANE], CHARLES

1959, Oct 27

1959, Dec 24

DAVIS, H. L.

(mention of Clifford Irving). 1957, Jun 7

DODDS, JOHN W.

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

re: Tomorros's News. 1971, May 10

Box 22, folder 14

DORFMAN, JOSEPH.

1971, Jul 12

Container Summary: TLS

Box 22, folder 14

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

1966, Jan 21

1966, Feb 4

Box 22, folder 15

EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.

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

FONTANA, JOHN

re: Williamstown Branch. 1971, Feb 8

FORREST, WILLIAM P. (World Health Organization)

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

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

re: Williamstown Branch. 1959, Feb 5

Friedlander, [Paul?]

1963, Oct 2

Container Summary: TLS.

Box 22, folder 16

GALPIN, PERRIN C.

re: Waterbury Record. 1959, Oct 26

GERMOND, PETER

re: A Fair Prospect. 1948, Mar 6

GLEASON, EDGAR T. (Scoop)

1959, Mar 31

GRUENING, ERNEST.

1965, Dec 4

Container Summary: ALS.

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

1969, Feb 23

HAYDEN, HIRAM.

1948, Mar 19

HOUGH, HENRY BEETLE

1969, Dec 17

1970, Aug 24

1971, Dec 29

1972, Jun 3

INGRAM, K. C.

1948, Feb 5

KAYE, FRANK M.

1966, Oct 12

Box 22, folder 17

KELLER, HELEN

1960, Aug 23

Container Summary: (photocopy)

Scope and Contents note

(with reply - Outgoing corresp.)

1960, May 12

Container Summary: (photocopy)

See also: CORBALLY, WINIFRED.

KREHBIEL, EDWARD

1948, Mar 17

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

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

LAMPSON, ROBIN

1968, May 5

Box 22, folder 17

LEAVITT, RAY (S. F. Press Club)

1968, Apr 5

1968, Apr 12

LILIENTHAL, DAVID E.

1959, May 25

re: Adventure in Retirement 1965, Feb 9

LOWRY, HELEN (sister)

re: Robert Aura Smith. 1959, Dec 10

Box 22, folder 18

MANN, LUCY (MRS. WILLIAM M.)

---- 22-Oct

MASLIN, MARSH

---- 24-May

MERRIL, REV. CHARLES C.

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

MERZ, CHARLES

Memo. 1961, Apr 26

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

MOULTON, ELLA SIBLEY (MRS. WILLARD A.)

1958, Dec 14

OAKES, JOHN B.

Memo re: Pulitzer Prize undated

ORTON, LARRY M.

1963, Oct 6

Container Summary: TLS

PATTERSON, Wm. D.

1962, Oct 9

Container Summary: TLS

PRESCOTT, ORVILLE

1964, Dec 29

PROFFITT, CHARLES G.

1963, Jan 28

Container Summary: TLS

RABINOWITZ, AARON

1970, Oct 25

Container Summary: TLS

RICHEY, PAUL

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

ROBINSON, BELLE D.

1958, Nov 29

Box 22, folder 19

SANDBURG, CARL

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. 1935, Feb 19

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

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

Container Summary: TLS

SHANNON, WILLIAM V.

1966, May 9

STARK, [JEN], MRS. LOUIS

1957, Dec 15

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

1948, Mar 16

1954, Dec 30

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

1962, Sep 18

Box 22, folder 19

TOWNSEND, EARLE L.

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

TRAILL, J. E.

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

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

1948, Feb 18

WOLFF, MARIAN

undated

Box 22, folder 20

MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE

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

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

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

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

SULZBERGER, ARTHUR HAYS to Mr. Gilmore D. Clark

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

Box 22, folder 21

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

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

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 undated

Sulzberger, Iphigene Ochs 1972, Dec 2

Scope and Contents note

(Mrs. Arthur Hayes)