Finding Aid to the Robert Allerton Parker Papers, 1927-1970
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Finding Aid to the Robert Allerton Parker Papers, 1927-1970
Collection number: BANC MSS 71/235 z
The Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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- Processed by:
- The Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
- ca. 1971
- Encoded by:
- Charlotte Gerstein
Materials Cataloged Separately
- Books, written by Parker, which came with the collection, have been removed for separate cataloging.
- Photographs have been transferred to the Portrait Collection of The Bancroft Library.
Letters written by Robert Allerton Parker, 1940-1961.
Scope and Content Note
Letters written to Parker
Additional Note
Writings by Parker
The Incredible Messiah
Scope and Content Note
Mea Culpa
Scope and Content Note
Thomas Traherne
Scope and Content Note
The Transatlantic Smiths
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How to Write
Scope and Content Note
A Yankee Saint
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Ox Train
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Book reviews by Parker
Outlines for proposed books or articles
Scope and Content Note
Film scenarios
Scope and Content Note
Theatre
Scope and Content Note
Articles, many relating to art
Scope and Content Note
Incomplete articles on art
The Audience
Scope and Content Note
Note
Revolution in Amusement
Scope and Content Note
Note
Fragments of MSS
Notes kept by Parker in daybooks, 1947-1963 (9 v.)
Notes on variety shows and the theatre
Miscellaneous subject files including clippings, notes, etc.
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Art
Balzac's Comédie Humaine
China
Conversation
Famine
Films
Humor
Henry James
Las Vegas
Line
Literature
Machines
Mass observation
Edweard Muybridge
Mysticism
Radio
Science
Shadow plays
Television
Theatre
Unconsciousness
Vaudeville
Vaudeville - Orpheum
Additional Note
Vogue magazine layout
Scope and Content Note
A-Z Miscellany
Adlard, John
Letter, Dec. 25, 1961
Arensberg, Walter Conrad, 1878-
Letter, June 1, 1942
Barton, Bruce, 1886-
Letter, Jan. 20, 1936
Benét, William Rose, 1886-
Letter, Jan. 14, 1939
Bernays, Edward L., 1891-
Letter, Jan. 29, 1943
Borsodi, Ralph, 1888-
Letter, Sept. 28, 1943
Boston. Museum of Fine Arts
Letter, Apr. 23, 1945, by G. H. Edgell
Botterell, D. R.
Letter, June 8, [1959?]
Scope and Content Note
Buck, Pearl (Sydenstricker), 1892-
Letter, Oct. 31, 1944
Burrow, Trigant, 1875-
Letter, Feb. 23, 1938
Cantwell, Robert Emmett, 1908-
Letter, Nov. 16, 1935
Derleth, August William, 1909-
Letter, Mar. 23, 1943
Desroches, Henri Charles
Letter, Oct. 9, 1957
De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-
Letter, [1935]
Dobell, Percy John
Letter, May 4, 1940
Doubleday, Doran and Company
Letter, Nov. 23, 1943, by Le Baron R. Barker
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Letter, Nov. 1, 1938
Duke University. Press
Letter, Feb. 12, 1941, by F. C. Brown
Eaton, Gai
Letter, July 6, 1949
Edgerton, Franklin, 1885-
Letter, May 8, 1945
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939
Letter, Dec. 13, 1935
Field, Oliver Peter, 1897-
Letter, Nov. 4, 1950
Fitt, Frank
Letter, Aug. 13, 1959
Scope and Content Note
Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-
Letter, Apr. 5, 1959
Fremantle, Anne (Jackson), 1909-
Letter, May 13, n.y.
Friends of Emma Goldman
Letter, Apr. 5, 1940, by John Haynes Holmes
Gathorne-Hardy, Robert 1902-
Letter, May 25, 1959
Scope and Content Note
Hall, Adelaide Brooks (Mrs. Robert C. Hall)
Letter, Aug. 22, 1956
Scope and Content Note
Hare, Constance (Mrs. Montgomery Hare)
Letter, Sept. 15, [1959]
Scope and Content Note
Harvard University. Press
Letter, Feb. 14, 1941, by Dumas Malone
Heard, Gerald, 1889-
Letter, Apr. 22, 1937
Hindus, Milton
Letter, Apr. 20, 1947
Hough, Graham Goulden, 1908-
Letter, May 21, 1949
Houghton Mifflin Company
Letter, June 26, 1944, by Paul Brooks
Huxley, Aldous Leonard, 1894-1963
Letter, July 26, 1937
Johnson, Alvin Saunders, 1874-
Letter, Nov. 1, 1935
Kerenskii, Aleksandr Fedorovich, 1881-
Letter, Nov. 9, 1943
Knepper, Olga Chekhova
Letter
Kummer, George Nicholas
Letter, Mar. 30, 1966
Lancaster, Henry Carrington, 1882-
Letter, Jan. 6, 1941
Lanham, Edwin Moultrie, 1904-
Letter, Dec. 3, 1935
Lloyd, John William
Letter, Apr. 10, 1936
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1952
Letter, n.d.
Macdonald, Allan Houston, 1901-1951
Letter, Nov. 23, 1935
Markevitch, Igor
Letter, Aug. 9, 1956
Scope and Content Note
Marshall, Sarah Catherine (Wood), 1914-
Letter, May 15, 1961
Additional Note
Maurois, André, 1885-
Letter, Jan. 31, 1942
Maurois, Simone (de Caillavet) (Mrs. André Maurois)
Letter, [Mar. 1942?]
Montillon, Michael
Letter, Aug. 13, 1959
Scope and Content Note
Neilson, Francis, 1867-
Letter, Feb. 2, 1943
New York World Telegram
Letter, Nov. 14, 1935, by Harry Hansen
Perkins, Maxwell Evarts, 1884-
Letter, Nov. 22, 1943
Plumer, James Marshall
Letter, Mar. 12, 1945
Putnam's (G. P.) Sons
Letter, Aug. 17, 1938, by E. H. Balch
Read, Sir Herbert, 1893-
Letter, Apr. 19, 1946
Reyneau, Betsy Graves
Letter, Apr. 23, 1960
Additional Note
Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-
Letter, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Slater, John Rothwell, 1872-
Letter, May 21, 1942
Scope and Content Note
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Letter, Jan. 9, 1944, by Theodore Newcomb
Stillman, Clara (Gruening)
Letter, Jan. 27, 1948
White, Helen Constance, 1896-
Letter, Jan. 29, 1941
Yale University. Press
Letter, Dec. 23, 1940, by E. Davidson
Abbott, Leonard Dalton, 1878-
2 letters, 1936
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962
9 letters, 1956-1960
Additional Note
Allport, Floyd Henry, 1890-
2 letters, 1942-1947
Atlantic Monthly
12 letters, 1936-1940, by Edward Weeks, Paul Hoffman and Chester B. Kerr
Scope and Content Note
Balch, Earle Henry, 1893-
See Putnam's (G. P.)
Sons
Barker, Le Baron R., 1904-
See Doubleday, Doran
and Company
Blood, Anna W., 1887-
3 letters, 1943
Scope and Content Note
Brandt, Joseph August, 1899-
See Princeton
University. Press
Brett, George Platt, 1893-
See Macmillan
Company
Brown, Frank Clude, 1870-
See Duke University.
Press
Canavaggia, Marie
6 letters, 1939-1947
Additional Note
Céline, Louis Ferdinand, 1894-1961
See Destouches, Louis Ferdinand, 1894-1961
Chicago. University. Press
3 letters, 1941, by W. K. Jordan
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
36 letters, 1943-1947
Additional Note
Coomaraswamy, Luisa
5 letters, 1945-1949
Davidson, Eugene Arthur, 1902-
See Yale
University. Press
Denoël, Robert
2 letters, 1937
Scope and Content Note
Destouches, Louis Ferdinand, 1894-1961
9 letters, 1937-[1947?]
Additional Note
Note
Dickinson, Robert Larou, 1861-
See National
Committee on Maternal Health, Inc.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
2 letters, 1941-1942
Edgell, George Harold, 1887-
See Boston. Museum
of Fine Arts
Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-
2 letters, 1960
Gilkes, Lillian Barnard, 1902-
2 letters, 1961-1962
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957
2 letters, 1942 and n.d.
Grierson, Margaret S.
2 letters, 1959-1960
Additional Note
Hansen, Harry, 1884-
See New York World
Telegram
Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.
3 letters, 1927-1941, by Harrison Smith, Frank V. Morley and Lambert Davis
Haydn, Hiram, 1907-
3 letters, 1959
Hedden, Worth Tuttle (Mrs. Walter Hedden)
2 letters, 1935
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-
See Friends of Emma
Goldman (in A-Z miscellany)
James, William, 1882-
5 letters, 1959-1960
Jen-Paul
2 letters, 1940-1941
Scope and Content Note
Jolas, Maria
5 letters, 1936-[1959?]
Additional Note
Jordan, Wilbur K., 1902-
See Chicago University.
Press
Kroll, Effie Evelyn
2 letters, 1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
Lesourd, Catherine Marshall, 1914-
See Marshall,
Sarah Catherine (Wood), 1914-
Little, Brown & Company
2 letters, 1937-1940, by Laetitia Bolton and C. Raymond Everitt
Macmillan Company
5 letters, 1934-1943, by G. P. Brett, Jr., Howard S. Cady and Lois Dwight Cole
Malone, Dumas, 1892-
See Harvard University.
Press
Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-
2 letters, 1927
Morley, Frank Vigor, 1899-
See Harcourt, Brace
and Company, Inc.
Museum Press, Ltd.
17 letters, 1959-1961, by D. I. Vesey
Scope and Content Note
Additional Note
National Committee on Maternal Health, Inc.
6 letters, 1935, by Robert L. Dickinson and Raymond Squier
Newcomb, Theodore Mead, 1903-
See Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues
Northbourne, Walter Ernest Christopher James, baron, 1896-
3 letters, 1949
Noyes, George Wallingford
4 letters, 1927-1935
Noyes, Irene C. (Mrs. George Wallingford Noyes)
3 letters, 1934-1935
Noyes, Pierrepont Burt, 1870-
7 letters, 1927-1937
Scope and Content Note
Princeton University. Press
26 letters, 1941-1945, by Joseph A. Brandt, Datus C. Smith
Additional Note
Raja Singam, S. Durai
2 letters, 1947
Random House, Inc.
7 letters, 1940-1960, by Saxe Commins, Pat Rose and Mary Heathcote
Rourke, Constance Mayfield, 1885-1941
3 letters, 1938-1941
Smith, Datus Clifford, 1907-
See Princeton
University. Press
Smith, Harrison, 1888-
See Harcourt, Brace and
Company, Inc.
Smith, Stella Worden (Noyes) (Mrs. E. Deming Smith)
6 letters, 1930-1937
Scope and Content Note
Treadwell, Sophie
8 letters, 1959-1962
Vesey, Desmond Ivo
See Museum Press,
Ltd.
Wade, Gladys Irene, 1895-
10 letters, 1940-1944
Scope and Content Note
Weeks, Edward Augustus, 1898-
See Atlantic
Monthly