Guide to the Roger Hagan papers M2252

Malgorzata Schaefer

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

November 2017

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Note

This is a listing rather than a true finding aid.

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Roger Hagan papers

creator: Hagan, Roger

source: Hagan, Roger

Identifier/Call Number: M2252

Physical Description: 3.0 Linear Feet (6 boxes and 1 map folder)

Date (inclusive): c. 1958-1966

Biographical / Historical

Roger Hagan was the editor of the newsletter published by the Committee of Correspondence founded in 1960. Hagan had been a graduate student assistant of David Riesman and was a frequent collaborator with him as well as with Erich Fromm. Hagan worked as a research assistant for Fromm in the early 1960s.

Scope and Contents

Materials consist of largely of correspondence with and documents by or related to Erich Fromm and David Riesman, including book reivews, articles, newspaper clippings, teaching notes, and more. Also includes documents related to the Committee of Correspondence and the Committee of Correspondence newsletter, later called The Correspondent. A diary of Hagan's while at a conference in Japan in 1964 and photographs from that time are also present. Much of the material in the collection relates to the peace movement and the Socialist Party during the 1950s and 1960s.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. The digital portion of the collection is CLOSED until processed.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Roger Hagan; 2017. Accession MSS 2017-236.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Roger Hagan papers (M2252). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Hagan, Roger

box 1, folder 1

Correspondence - Erich Fromm to Roger Hagan, with some letters from Roger Hagan to Erich Fromm, mostly typescript 1960-1966

box 1, folder 2

Letters to Erich Fromm 1959-1964

box 1, folder 3

Book reviews and articles to Erich Fromm

box 1, folder 4

Additional book notes for Erich Fromm

box 1, folder 5

Erich Fromm's proposed Socialist Party platform statement, with some responses, including an extensive exchange between David Riesman and Fromm

box 1, folder 6-7

Correspondence with David Riesman, including some with Erich Fromm 1958-1997

General

Most of 1962-1964 correspondence missing

box 2, folder 1

Correspondence with David Riesman, including some with Erich Fromm 1958-1997

box 2, folder 1

Summary description of most of the letters written by David Riesman

box 2, folder 2

Stewart Meacham, the Bear Mountain Conference

box 2, folder 3

On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn - book critiques

box 2, folder 4

Documents relating to the founding of The Committee of Correspondence

box 2, folder 5

Wikipedia article on The Committee of Correspondence Newsletter

box 2, folder 6-7

The Committee of Correspondence Newsletter, no. 1-22

box 3, folder 1

Council for Correspondence Newsletter (continues The Committee of Correspondence Newsletter), no 23-27

box 3, folder 2

The Correspondent (continues Council for Correspondence Newsletter), no. 28-35

box 3, folder 3

Correspondence related to the ceasing of publication of The Correspondent

box 3, folder 4

"The New Left and Liberalism Reconsidered: The Committee of Correspondence and the Port Huron Statement," by Prof. Daniel Geary; email exchanges with Prof. Geary

box 3, folder 4

"Children of the Lonely Crowd: David Riesman, the Young Radicals, and the Splitting of Liberalism in the 1960's, by Prof. Daniel Geary

box 3, folder 5

In memorium - articles about David Riesan by Michael Maccoby, Harvard Magazine the Harvard Gazette, and by Orlando Patterson in the New York Times

box 3, folder 6

David Riesman's Harvard course, Soc. Sci. 136: Character and Social Structure in America - lecture notes and section discussion summaries, spring term 1958-59

box 3, folder 7

David Riesman's Harvard course, Soc. Sci. 136: American Character and Social Structure - teaching notes from year 1 1960

box 3, folder 8

David Riesman's observations of Japan from his trip in October 1961

box 3, folder 9

Some notes on the Dartmouth College Japan-America Round Table, September 30-October 7, 1962, marked confidential

box 4, folder 1

The Conference - a privately printed book of Roger Hagan's confidential diary from the 1964 Second Dartmouth Conference on Japanese-American relations (in Kurashiki, Japan). See photographs in Box 6, Folder 3

box 4, folder 1

Character and Social Structure in America: selected papers from social sciences 136, Harvard, 1959. Edited and with introductions by Roger Hagan, preface by David Riesman

box 4, folder 2

Files relating to the King Broadcasting Co. of Seattle, the first U. S. broadcasting company to editorialize against the Vietnam War

box 4, folder 3-5

Articles authored by Roger Hagan about Riesman's Harvard course, nuclear war preparations, defense policy, foreign policy, the new left, the peace movement, and social and economic policy and theory - typescripts or published in journals 1959-1965

box 4, folder 6

Responses to articles, including some by Riesman and by Fromm

box 5, folder 1

Radical students

map-folder 7

Radical students - newspaper clippings

map-folder 7

Newspaper clippings that illuminate the period

map-folder 7

Letter to Mr. Bullitt asking to be a resident tutor 1959

Material Specific Details: Brittle

box 5, folder 2-3

Letters and documents that illuminate the period

box 5, folder 3

New Left papers

box 5, folder 4-6

David Riesman's general observations memos during his transition year from University of Chicago to Harvard 1958-1959

half-box 6, folder 1

The Freshman Program 1959-1960

half-box 6, folder 2

Social Sciences 136, Harvard

half-box 6, folder 3

Photographs from the Second Dartmouth Conference on Japanese-American relations (in Kurashiki, Japan), black and white 1964