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Hoffer (Eric) Papers
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Series 1 Notebooks, daybooks, and manuscripts

Physical Description: 29 folders

Scope and Content

This series contains 23 of Hoffer's original notebooks and daybooks, including a binder notebook containing the complete manuscript for The Passionate State of Mind, as well as their transcripts.
box 1, folder 1

Daybook (Spiral brand brown cover), 1946 February-May

General Note

Contains notes on the nature of mass movements
box 1, folder 2

Notebook (hardbound), 1946 August 3-1947 January 1

General Note

Second part contains thoughts which became part of The True Believer
box 1, folder 3

Transcript (113 leaves)

box 1, folder 4

Notebook (blue cover), [probably 1946] October-December

General Note

Written "Book" on top of first page. Contains notes on mass movements and articles Hoffer has read
box 1, folder 5

Notebook (Gyral brand brown cover), 1947 January-February

General Note

Contains notes on mass movements and quotations from books Hoffer has read. Photocopy (38 leaves) included
box 1, folder 6

Notebook labeled "Planning", 1947 January-May

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer. Photocopy (23 leaves) included
box 1, folder 7

Daybook labeled "Daybook beginning May 1947 End," 1947 May-August

General Note

Contains notes on mass movements
box 1, folder 8

Daybook QVII, 1947 August-1948 January

General Note

Contains notes on mass movements and quotations from books Hoffer has read. Inscribed "Lili: This is the last daybook of the lot…June 25, 1959" inside cover
box 1, folder 9

Transcript of Daybook QVII, first half

box 1, folder 10

Transcript of Daybook -QVII, second half

box 2, folder 1

1 Photocopy of transcript of Daybook QVII, first half

box 2, folder 2

Photocopy of transcript of Daybook QVII, second half

box 2, folder 3

Daybook QVIII, 1948 January 18-

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer and The Passionate State of Mind
box 2, folder 4

Daybook QIX, 1948 October-November

General Note

Labeled as "QIXI" but should be QIX. Contains notes for The True Believer
box 2, folder 5

Daybook QX, 1948 October-1949 February

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer
box 2, folder 6

Daybook QXI, 1949 March

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer. Includes a drafted letter to Margaret Anderson, who encouraged his writing, stating the he just finished the book and that the title is Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.
box 2, folder 7

Daybook QXII, 1949 April

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer
box 2, folder 8

Daybook QXIII, 1949 June

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer.
box 2, folder 9

Daybook QXIV, undated

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer and drafted letters to Margaret Anderson. Transcript (42 leaves) included
box 2, folder 10

Notebook (Li-Rite brand brown cover), [probably 1948]

General Note

Contains notes on mass movements and quotations from books Hoffer has read. Photocopy (48 leaves) included
box 2, folder 11

Notebook (Spiral brand brown cover), 1949 Oct

General Note

Contains notes on mass movements, quotations from books Hoffer has read, and a partially drafted letter to "Henry" expressing his delight over enforced idleness due to a dock strike. Transcript (34 leaves) and photocopy (27 leaves) included
box 2, folder 12

Notebook (Spiral brand brown cover), undated

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer
box 2, folder 13

Notebook, (Gyral brand brown cover), undated

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer
box 2, folder 14

Notebook (Gyral brand brown cover), undated

General Note

Contains outlined table of contents and notes for The True Believer. Partial transcript (3 leaves) included
box 3, folder 1

Notebook labeled "Book 1st draft beginning with Persuasion," undated

General Note

Contains notes for The True Believer Transcript (33 leaves) included
box 3, folder 2

2 notebooks labeled "Aphorisms" 1 & 2, undated

General Note

Part of the manuscript for The Passionate State of Mind Photocopy of second notebook (30 leaves) included
box 3, folder 3

Binder notebook, manuscript of The Passionate State of Mind, undated

box 3, folder 4

Photocopy (128 leaves)

box 3, folder 5

Transcript (33 leaves)

 

Series 2 Publications by and about Eric Hoffer

Physical Description: 5 folders

Scope and Content

This series contains clippings of Eric Hoffer's Opinion column as well as Sunday Thoughts and Eric Hoffer Speaks sections in the San Francisco Examiner. It also contains various publications about Hoffer's life and work.
box 3, folder 6

Eric Hoffer's Opinion column clippings, 1968-1970

box 3, folder 7

Sunday Thoughts and Eric Hoffer Speaks clippings, 1968

box 3, folder 8

Biographical information and clippings, 1951-1983

box 3, folder 9

"Would You Believe…?" by Paul Breines, "Eric Hoffer and Cold War Ideology" by Peter Wiley, 1967

General Note

Literary critiques on Eric Hoffer by University of Washington graduate students
box 3, folder 10

"The Working Mind: The Philosophy of Eric Hoffer" by Daniel David Slate, 2009 May

General Note

Stanford University Department of Philosophy Honors Thesis
 

Series 3 Photographs

Physical Description: 1 folder, 1 oversize folder

Scope and Content

This series contains black and white photographs of Eric Hoffer taken by George Knight printed or mounted on boards
box 3, folder 11

Photographs, 1964

General Note

4 photographs of Hoffer working on the docks, 1 photograph of Hoffer reading on the docks
oversize-folder 1

Photographs, 1964

General Note

3 photos of Hoffer working on the docks, 1 photograph of Hoffer working in the old Main Library Reading Room, 4 photographs of Hoffer writing
 

Series 4 Audiovisual recordings

Physical Description: 31 videotapes, 8 audiotapes

Scope and Content

This series contains audio and video recordings of and about Hoffer
box 4

3/4" U-matic videotapes, 1963, 1968

Physical Description: 14 videotapes

General Note

Conversations with Eric Hoffer, interview with James Day of KQED San Francisco (12 parts), 1963; Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind, interview with Eric Sevaraid, CBS News special (2 parts), 1968
box 5

VHS videotapes, 1963-1978

Physical Description: 17 videotapes

General Note

Conversations with Eric Hoffer, 1963; Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind, 1968; The Savage Heart: A Conversation with Eric Hoffer, 1969; People of Our Time: Eric Hoffer, [probably 1974]; Eric Hoffer: The Crowded Life, 1978
box 6

Reel-to-reel tapes, 1963

Physical Description: 3 reels

General Note

Books and Authors, WRCV, 1963; Leisure and the Masses, panel session at the Palace Hotel, 1963
box 6

Cassette tapes, 1963, 2005

Physical Description: 5 audiotapes

General

Books and Authors , WRCV, 1963; Leisure and the Masses , panel session at the Palace Hotel, 1963; The True Believer: Reflections on Eric Hoffer , lecture and panel discussion at San Francisco Public Library, 2005
Collection Contents
Notebooks, daybooks, and manuscripts
Publications by and about Eric Hoffer
Photographs
Audiovisual recordings
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