Finding aid for the Stephen Longstreet papers
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Finding aid prepared by Sue Luftschein; additional data entry by Connor Beckner
USC Libraries Special Collections
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2013 October
Title: Stephen Longstreet papers
Collection number: 0175
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
121.08 Linear feet
117 boxes
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1970-1990
Date (inclusive): 1922-1995
Abstract: Typescripts, manuscripts, galleys, artwork, letters, financial records, and personal material created and collected by writer
and artist Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) over the course of his long career.
creator:
Bruccoli, Matthew J., (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008
creator:
Longstreet, Ethel
creator:
Longstreet, Stephen, 1907-2002
creator:
Melchior, Lauritz
creator:
Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-1964
Related Archival Materials
Stephen Longstreet Papers (Collection 380). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University
of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Longstreet Collection, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Stephen Longstreet paintings and drawings, Hoover Institution Archives
Acquisition
Gift of Ben and Lou Weinstein, Heritage Book Shop, 2007.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Stephen Longstreet papers, Collection no. 0175, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Scope and Content
The Stephen Longstreet papers consists of typescripts, manuscripts, galleys, correspondence, artwork, scrapbooks, financial
records, ephemera, and clippings, 1922-1995, created and collected by Stephen Longstreet. The collection documents Longstreet's
long and prolific career as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, and poetry, and as an artist. Typescripts
and manuscripts of most of Longstreet's written work can be found in the papers, as can either originals or reproductions
of a large percentage of Longstreet's artwork. Also included is some material created and collected by Longstreet's wife,
Ethel.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical note
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) was a prolific author and artist. Born Chauncey Weiner in New York in 1907, his family moved
to New Brunswick, New Jersey when he was a child. As a schoolboy, Longstreet changed his name from Chauncey to Henry, and
then again to Henri when he began his professional career as an artist in the early 1930s. The family name was originally
Wiener-Longstrasse, and Longstreet's first submitted manuscript (to Random House in 1940) was as Stephen Wiener-Longstrasse.
It was Bennett Cerf at Random House who suggested Longstreet drop the Wiener and anglicize the Longstrasse. Longstreet also
adopted and used the pen names Paul Haggard (circa 1938), Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee, Monte Redmond, W.W. Windstaff, and
Lucas Webb.
As Henri Wiener, Longstreet studied in Paris and at Rutgers and Harvard Universities; he graduated from the New York School
of Fine and Applied Art (Parsons) in 1929. On his return to the United States from Paris, his artistic style was considered
"too modern" to sell (he identified as a surrealist), and he thus pursued a career as a commercial and magazine artist and
cartoonist. His work was published in the
New Yorker,
Life,
Colliers, and the
Saturday Evening Post. Longstreet continued to produce art after turning to writing; in addition to creating illustrations for a number of his
own books, in particular his publications on jazz, Longstreet was also a prolific producer of collages and drawings.
In 1933 Longstreet began writing radio shows for John Barrymore, Bob Hope, and Rudy Vallee, thus launching his career as a
writer. He published over a hundred books, including the novels
Decade 1929-1939 (1940),
The Pedlocks (1951), and
The Flesh Peddlers (1962).
In addition to novels, Longstreet also wrote a number of scripts and plays. He was under contract at Warner Bros. in the 1940s
and penned "The Jolson Story" and "Stallion Road", based on his novel of the same name and starring Ronald Reagan. He also
wrote a screen adaptation of his novel
The Gay Sisters (1941) and the book for the musical "High Button Shoes", adapted from his semi-autobiographical novel,
The Sisters Liked Them Handsome.
Longstreet also wrote a number of non fiction books, many of them on one of his favorite topics, jazz. He was introduced to
jazz by Paul Robeson, whom he met in 1918 while Robeson was an undergraduate at Rutgers University.
Longstreet died in 2002.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bruccoli, Matthew J., (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008 -- Correspondence
Longstreet, Ethel -- Archives
Longstreet, Stephen, 1907-2002 -- Archives
Melchior, Lauritz -- Correspondence
Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-1964 -- Correspondence
Actors--Pictorial works
Artists--California--Los Angeles--20th century--Archival resources
Authors, American--California--20th century--Archival resources
Autobiography--Jewish authors--20th century--Archival resources
Clippings
Collages (visual works)
Drawings
Ephemera
Galley proofs
Jazz musicians--United States--Archival resources
Jazz musicians--United States--Pictorial works
Jazz--Pictorial works
Jazz--United States--Archival resources
Letters
Manuscripts
Notes
Nude in art--Pictorial works
Scrapbooks
Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources
Typescripts
Watercolors (paintings)
World War, 1939-1945--Pictorial works
Writings
Scope and Content
The Writings series consists of manuscripts and typescripts of Longstreet's novels, stories, non-fiction works, screen- and
teleplays, poetry, and outlines/notes for novels and books. In addition to manuscripts, both original and photocopied typescripts
are included. Longstreet would often edit photocopies, make notes on them about publication status, and/or sign them.
Arrangement
The Writings series is arranged by genre.
Novels and stories
Scope and Content
Manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys for most of Longstreet's novels. Many include handmade (by Longstreet) covers, original
or photocopied illustrations, edits and annotations.
Box 1, Folder 1-3
All or Nothing
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Lightly edited in pencil and ink, some inserted pages, some pages carbon and some original.
Box 32
All or Nothing
1983 June
General Physical Description note: Handbound first galleys. Book jacket pasted on cover.
Box 30
The Ambassadors
1977
General Physical Description note: Handbound galley with cover and title page inscribed with title by Longstreet.
Box 42, Folder 6
The Ambassador
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript, "1st version".
Scope and Content
Outline of the novel's theme.
Box 2, Folder 5-7
Among Thieves
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Lightly edited with ink, hand drawn title page.
Box 2, Folder 8-10
Among Thieves
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopy, lightly edited.
Box 35, Folder 5
Among Thieves
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Two copies of Longstreet's Introduction.
Box 3, Folder 1-5
The Bank
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 3, Folder 6
The Bank
1976
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Heavily edited by publisher with red, black ink and pencil, changes made to page numbers, manuscript.
Box 30
The Burning Man
1958
General Physical Description note: Handbound galley with title inscribed on cover and title page by Longstreet. "1st gallies".
Box 25
Delilah's Fortune
1984
General Physical Description note: Uncorrected proofs; titled and signed by Longstreet on first page, with note "better paper than published version".
Box 20
The Divorce
1978
General Physical Description note: 3 copies. Copy 1 bound, signed and dated on title page; copy 2 bound and signed on cover; copy 3 unbound, with title handwritten
on back by Longstreet.
Box 5, Folder 4-7
Divorcing
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 31
Geisha
undated
General Physical Description note: Uncorrected proof.
Box 6, Folder 5-8, Box 7, Folder 1
The General
1974
General Physical Description note: Photocopy of a typescript, edited in black and red ink by publisher.
Box 7, Folder 2-6
Genesis
undated
General Physical Description note: Pages edited.
Box 30, Folder 1-3
The Golden Touch
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 48, Folder 9
[Cover for "I Took Off My High Button Shoes"]
undated
General Physical Description note: Typed with handwritten addition.
Box 47, Folder 10
Icarus Rising
undated
Scope and Content
Outline for a novel; incomplete.
Box 8, Folder 1, Box 7, Folder 7-8
Joy to the World
undated
General Physical Description note: Lightly edited.
Box 8, Folder 2-4
Joy to the World
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopy, lightly edited.
Box 42, Folder 9-10
Rough notes/Joy to the World
undated
General Physical Description note: Heavily edited typescript.
Box 9, Folder 1, Box 8, Folder 5-6
The Kingston Fortune
1975
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 21
The Kingston Fortune
1975
General Physical Description note: Copy 1: bound uncorrected proof, signed and dated by Longstreet on title page. Copy 2: promotional leaflet pasted to cover;
signed and dated by Longstreet on cover.
Box 9, Folder 2-4
Kingston Junction
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 35, Folder 4
Life in the Fast Lane, by Monte Redmond
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript, both photocopied and carbon. Light annotations. Handwritten cover page.
Box 25
Lower Than Angels, by W.W. Windstaff
1992, undated
General Physical Description note: Copy 1: handbound photocopied galleys, with title inscribed on cover by Longstreet. Copy 2: Uncorrected proofs, signed by
Longstreet.
Box 9, Folder 6-7
A Man at the Door
undated
Box 40, Folder 5
[Man of Montmartre mss title page]
circa 1958
Scope and Content
Original manuscript title page.
Box 21
Masts to Spear the Stars
1967
General Physical Description note: Unbound galleys; titled, signed and dated by Longstreet.
Box 43, Folder 2
Material for a Novel--The Middle Way
undated
General Physical Description note: Original typescript.
Box 10, Folder 8-10
No One Here with that Name
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 33, Folder 5-6
No One Here by that Name
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Box 16, Folder 6-7
There is No One here by that Name
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 17, Folder 3-4
There is No One here by that Name
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 21
The Nylon Island
1964
General Physical Description note: Handbound galleys with title and signature on first page; note by Longstreet on title page.
Box 25
Order my Firing Squad for the Afternoon, by W.W. Windstaff
1974, 1993
General Physical Description note: Bound galley, title inscribed on cover by Longstreet with note "Published as Lower Than Angles [sic] (1993)", note by Longstreet
on first page regarding publication status and dated 1974, book description pasted onto inside front cover.
Box 48, Folder 5
Order my Firing Squad for the Afternoon layouts
General Physical Description note: Photocopies.
Box 48, Folder 6
Photocopies of illustrations for an unpublished book "Order My Firing Squad for the Afternoon"
undated
Box 47, Folder 17
[W.W. Windstaff letter]
1929
Box 26, Folder 4
Out of Washington copy B
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 11, Folder 3-6
The Pedlock Inheritance
1972
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 22
The Pedlock Inheritance
1972, 1978
General Physical Description note: First galleys, signed and dated by Longstreet.
Box 22
Pedlock Saint, Pedlock Sinner
1969
General Physical Description note: Title inscribed on cover by Longstreet as "Pedlock Sinner, Pedlock Saint".
Box 12, Folder 1, Box 11, Folder 7
The Pedlocks in Love
1978
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 12, Folder 2-3
The Pedlocks in Love
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 31
The Pedlocks in Love
undated
General Physical Description note: Title inscribed on cover and title page by Longstreet.
Box 17, Folder 1-2
The Pembroke Colors
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 21
Pembroke Colors
1980
General Physical Description note: First galleys.
Box 43, Folder 1
Rough notes--Pembroke Colors
undated
General Physical Description note: Heavily edited typescript.
Box 39, Folder 3
Project X
undated
General Physical Description note: Original typescript with handwritten cover and title page.
Box 13, Folder 2-7
The Saint had Eight Wives
1967
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 23
Senator Silverthorn
1968
General Physical Description note: Handbound galley, title inscribed on cover and first page by Longstreet.
Box 14, Folder 1-2, Box 13, Folder 8
The Silverthorns
1978
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 23
The Small Animals of Beverly Hills and Other Stories
undated
General Physical Description note: Galley pages pasted to yellow paper; original typed title page; original introduction inserted.
Box 14, Folder 5
The Sound of an American
undated
General Physical Description note: Incomplete typescript.
Box 23
Storm Watch
1979
General Physical Description note: Handbound, photocopied galleys, signed by Longstreet on the first page.
Box 15, Folder 1-3, Box 14, Folder 6
The Strange Ordeal of Sarah Pedlock
1975
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 15, Folder 4-8
Straw Boss
1978
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 44, Folder 4-6
Stribling, by Lucas Webb
1973
General Physical Description note: Photocopy of an edited typescript.
Box 15, Folder 9-10, Box 16, Folder 1-3
Strike the Bell Boldly
1977
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 16, Folder 4-5
Strike the Bell Boldly
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 29
Strike the Bell Boldly
1977
General Physical Description note: Bound, advance uncorrected proofs. Signed and dated by Longstreet on the title page.
Box 26, Folder 1
[Strike] The Bell [Boldly]
undated
General Physical Description note: Incomplete typescript.
Box 31
War in the Golden Weather
1965 February 2
General Physical Description note: Unbound galleys with editors marks.
Box 31
Wild Harvest
undated
General Physical Description note: Handbound galleys. Title inscribed by Longstreet on cover and title page. Note on title page: "paper back edition only/Fawcett"
in Longstreet's hand.
Box 19, Folder 1-2
The Young Man [sic] of Paris
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 24
M.B. Longman, The Power of Black
undated
General Physical Description note: Handbound galleys, title inscribed by Longstreet on cover and first page.
Box 33, Folder 7
[Untitled memoir?]
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Box 42, Folder 11
[Novel notes and themes]
undated
Scope and Content
Includes outlines and themes for June Wayne; The Bank; The Rivals; The Pedlocks in Love.
Box 42, Folder 12
[Outlines of literary projects]
1970, 1976, undated
Scope and Content
Includes outlines for The Buffalo Pope; The City on Two Rivers; The General; Kipling, His True Life and Times; The Pleasures
of the Eye; Straw Boss. Each is annotated with a note by Longstreet as to publication status.
Box 26, Folder 8-9
[Unidentified edited typescript]
undated
Box 26, Folder 10
[Unidentified typescript fragment]
undated
Box 27, Folder 1, 2
[Unidentified typescript pages
undated
Box 27, Folder 3-5
[Unidentified incomplete typescript]
undated
Box 28, Folder 1-2
[Unidentified novel--incomplete]
undated
Box 29, Folder 1-3, Box 28, Folder 3-6
[Unidentified typescript]
undated
Non-fiction
Scope and Content
Manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys for many of Longstreet's non-fiction works. Many include handmade (by Longstreet) covers,
original or photocopied illustrations, edits and annotations.
Box 40, Folder 6
Afterword for "Single Lady"
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopy and carbon.
Scope and Content
Afterword for John Monk Saunders' novel.
Box 35, Folder 7
All Done By Hand: The Drawings of Stephen Longstreet, 1935-1993
circa 1993
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript with photocopied illustrations. Title page and cardboard binding are hand written.
Box 36, Folder 1-2
All Done By Hand: The Drawings of Stephen Longstreet
circa 1993
General Physical Description note: 2 volume set. Photocopied typescript and illustrations, with pencilled edits and handwritten covers.
Box 36, Folder 3
All Done By Hand: The Drawings of Stephen Longstreet
circa 1993
General Physical Description note: Incomplete photocopied typescript with photocopied illustrations. Handbound in cardboard cover with title inscribed by Longstreet
on cover.
Box 77
All Done By Hand
undated
General Physical Description note: Primarily photocopies.
Box 1, Folder 4-7
All Star Cast
1976
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Heavily edited by publisher.
Box 2, Folder 1-4
All Star Cast
1977
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Medium editing with pencil and ink.
Box 20
All Star Cast
1977
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Book jacket pasted to cover. Contains typesetter's annotations.
Box 40, Folder 3
The American Civil War
undated
Scope and Content
Essay by Longstreet in Matthew Brady. Possibly for an unidentified book?
Box 36, Folder 4
The Bitter Wind
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations with handwritten title page.
Scope and Content
Sketchbooks and text, 1929-1940.
Box 37, Folder 1
The Bitter Wind: Sketchbooks of the Years of the Great Depression
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations with handwritten title page.
Box 37, Folder 2
The Bitter Wind, 1929-1940
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations with handwritten title page.
Box 20
The Boy in the Model-T
1956
General Physical Description note: Uncorrected proof.
Box 3, Folder 7-9
The Buffalo Pope: Life and Times of Sitting Bull
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopy of a typescript.
Box 4, Folder 1-3
The Buffalo Pope: Life and Times of Sitting Bull
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopy of a typescript.
Box 4, Folder 4-5
The Buffalo Pope: Life and Times of Sitting Bull
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopy of a typescript.
Box 14, Folder 3-4
Sitting Bull
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 33, Folder 1-2
The Bulls in the China Shop
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Box 4, Folder 6, Box 5, Folder 1
The Canvas Falcons
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 26, Folder 2
Carbon parts of Canvas Falcons/Geisha
undated
Box 47, Folder 1
Chicago, 1860-1919
undated
General Physical Description note: Pasteup of Longstreet's illustrations for the book.
Box 5, Folder 2-3
City on Two Rivers: Life and Times of New York
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 32, Box 20
City on Two Rivers
1975
General Physical Description note: Copy 1: Galleys. Photocopied book jacket pasted to cover; note by Longstreet on first page indicating that this is the full
version of the book, before publisher's cuts. Copy 2: Handbound galleys with title inscribed by Longstreet on cover. Cover
also has a color photograph attached. Signed and dated by Longstreet on the title page with note "(uncut version) in proof
sheets only". Clippings inserted.
Box 39
City on Two Rivers: Profiles of New York--Yesterday and Today
1975
General Physical Description note: Hardcover with dust jacket; illustrations and clippings tipped in by Longstreet.
Box 47, Folder 5
[City on Two Rivers acknowledgments]
undated
Box 48, Folder 4
New York book art used and unused
undated
Box 47, Folder 12
The Drawings of Jossi Stern
1974
Scope and Content
Introduction by Longstreet. Accompanied by a copy of the proof.
Box 33, Folder 3
The Dream
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Box 37, Folder 3
The Dream That Swallowed the World: The Hollywood Years
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations with handmade, handwritten cover.
Box 37, Folder 4
The Dream That Swallowed the World: A Hollywood Life
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations with handmade, handwritten cover. Note on cover by Longstreet: "loose pages and various
sections".
Box 37, Folder 5
The Dream That Swallowed the World: Life Inside the Movies
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations. Handmade cover, with note by Longstreet: "early version".
Box 37, Folder 6
The Dream That Swallowed the World: Inside the Movies
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations. Handmade cover.
Box 47, Folder 2
Dreams That Swallowed the World
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations. Handwritten cover and title page. Some of the illustrations are hand-tinted.
Box 47, Folder 6
[Edward G. Robinson art collection essays]
1972
Box 47, Folder 7
Eadward Muybridge's Running Horse Pictures
undated
Box 47, Folder 8
Errol Flynn, Gentleman
1977
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript with handwritten note by Longstreet: "to be published 1979 in a book MOVIE PORTRAITS by Workman Press
NYC".
Box 6, Folder 3-4
The Fabulous Bystander - The Artist as a Historian of Society
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Lightly edited.
Box 47, Folder 9
The Greater Pacific Food and Cook Book
undated
Scope and Content
Book outline.
Box 33, Folder 4
I Remember--A Grab Bag of Name Dropping
undated
General Physical Description note: Part typescript, part manuscript.
Box 43, Folder 8
From Storyville to Harlem
undated
General Physical Description note: Handmade portfolio of mostly photocopies.
Box 43, Folder 9
Storyville to Harlem
undated
General Physical Description note: Handmade portfolio with primarily photocopies.
Scope and Content
Note by Longstreet on cover: "Jazz sheets including many texts not used in final book".
Box 46, Box 45
Storyville to Harlem
undated
Scope and Content
2 copies of the published hardcover, with tipped in illustrations, both original and photocopied; many of the latter are hand
colored. The illustrations are Longstreet's own. "File Copy--prints" is written on the spine.
Box 46
Storyville to Harlem
undated
Scope and Content
Hardcover book with hand colored illustrations. Also includes some tipped in illustrations.
Box 81
[From Storyville to Harlem and Jazz covers]
undated
Box 44, Folder 2
Unused text and art not from original version/Storyville to Harlem
undated
Box 43, Folder 11-13
[Jazz dictionary]
undated
General Physical Description note: Incomplete typescript.
Box 57
Jazz from A to Z
1990
General Physical Description note: Paperback copy with tipped- and pasted-in drawings and photographs.
Box 44, Folder 1
Jazz Solos/Poems and Images
undated
Box 71, Folder 2
Jazz Solos
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio of poems and images; most of the images of photocopies that have been enhanced by Longstreet.
Box 44, Folder 3
Up River: The Jazz of Kansas City and Chicago
undated
General Physical Description note: Primarily photocopied typescript and illustrations.
Box 47, Folder 11
[Jazz note]
undated
Scope and Content
Handwritten note by Longstreet on jazz in Mexico.
Box 48, Folder 8
[Jazz cover]
undated
Scope and Content
Longstreet's handmade cover design.
Box 9, Folder 5
The Lorne Greene Ponderosa Cookbook
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 26, Folder 3
[The Lorne Greene Ponderosa Cookbook chapter 24]
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 29, Folder 4
Complete Intro to Lost Generation to Grapes of Wrath
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 37, Folder 7
From "The Lost Generation" to "The Grapes of Wrath"
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations. Handmade cover, hand colored.
Box 38, Folder 1
[From "The Lost Generation" to "The Grapes of Wrath"]
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations. Incomplete.
Box 38, Folder 2
From "The Lost Generation" to "The Grapes of Wrath"
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations.
Box 10, Folder 1-2
My First Murder and After/Village Boy
undated
Box 10, Folder 3
My 3 Nobel Prizes
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 32, Folder 1
[Material for "My Three Nobel Prizes"]
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript.
Box 32
Nell Kimball
1970
General Physical Description note: Handbound galleys with "Nell Kimball galleys" inscribed on cover by Longstreet.
Box 10, Folder 4-7
Nell Kimball
1968
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 38, Folder 3
Pain and Glory: Going to the Wars
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations. Handwritten title pages, with two different titles: Pain and Glory, and Pain and
Valor.
Box 38, Folder 4
Pain and Valor: Every Man's Wars
undated
General Physical Description note: Drawings only. Photocopies. Note by Longstreet on handwritten cover: "Art--no text".
Box 38, Folder 5-6
Paris, USA: Americans in the City of Light
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopies typescript and illustrations. Handwritten cover.
Box 39, Folder 1
Paris, USA: Americans in the City of Light
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations. Some original pages. Incomplete. Handwritten cover.
Box 39, Folder 2
Paris-USA
undated
General Physical Description note: Primarily photocopied typescript and illustrations. Some original pages. Incomplete.
Box 11, Folder 1-2
Paris. USA
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 47, Folder 13
The Producer: An Enigma Wrapped in a Riddle
undated
Scope and Content
Essay or book chapter.
Box 12, Folder 4-5
Queen Bees
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 13, Folder 1, Box 12, Folder 6
The Queen Bees
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 30, Folder 4
[Salute to American Cooking]
undated
General Physical Description note: Incomplete typescript.
Box 23
A Salute to American Cooking, by Stephen and Ethel Longstreet
1968
General Physical Description note: Handbound galley, title inscribed by Longstreet on front cover and first page.
Box 43, Folder 3
Notes for The Solid Gold Ice Box
1969
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Scope and Content
Accompanied by note from Longstreet indicating the book was never written.
Box 23
Sometimes I Wonder
undated
General Physical Description note: Galleys. Signed by Longstreet on first page.
Box 47, Folder 14
Strange and Exotic Drinks of the South Seas
undated
Scope and Content
Essay or book chapter.
Box 26, Folder 5-6
[A Treasury of the World's Great Drawings
undated
General Physical Description note: Copy 1: Original typescript, heavily edited. Copy 2: carbon.
Box 40, Folder 7
[A Treasury of the World's Great Drawings--Rembrandt essay]
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript with ink edits.
Box 47, Folder 15
[Introduction to A Treasury of the World's Great Drawing]
undated
Box 47, Folder 16
[Treasury of Drawings essays]
undated
Box 24
Treasury of Great Prints
1977
General Physical Description note: Galleys. Title inscribed on first page by Longstreet.
Box 43, Folder 4
The Vanishing Point
undated
General Physical Description note: Heavily edited typescript.
Box 17, Folder 5
Warcries
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 31, Box 24
War Cries
1969
General Physical Description note: Copy 1: First galleys. Signed by Longstreet on title page; inscribed with title on last page. Copy 2: Handbound final galleys.
Title inscribed by Longstreet on cover.
Box 18, Folder 1-2, Box 17, Folder 6
We all went to Paris
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 18, Folder 3-6
We all went to Paris
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 29, Folder 5
We All Went to Paris
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopied and trimmed galley pages.
Box 43, Folder 6
Will the Real Bogie Stand Up?
undated
Scope and Content
Outline for a biography.
Box 30, Folder 5
Geishas and Courtesans: A History of the Yoshiwara
1968
General Physical Description note: Carbon. Note by Longstreet on title page: "unedited--rough".
Box 26, Folder 7
[Geishas/Yoshiwara edited pages]
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 24
Yoshiwara, by Stephen and Ethel Longstreet
1970
General Physical Description note: Handbound galleys with book jacked pasted to cover.
Box 43, Folder 7
[Notes for Yoshiwara]
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Box 27, Folder 6-7
[Yoshiwara]
undated
General Physical Description note: Edited typescript.
Box 40, Folder 4
[Title and first page from Yoshiwara]
1970
Scope and Content
Handwritten title page: "Original MSS ready for printer Yoshiwara by Stephen & Ethel Longstreet with publisher's changes in
photocopy added". First page includes publisher's edits in pencil.
Box 19, Folder 3-4
A Young Man's World
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 34, Folder 4
Illustrations for the Queen Bees and All Star Cast
undated
General Physical Description note: Clippings, commercial photographs, commercial illustrations pasted to paper with Longstreet's handwritten captions.
Scope and Content
Note by Longstreet on original envelope: "as many of these are borrowed--do not mark them in any way--and return them after
use"/"not used".
Box 48, Folder 2
[Miscellaneous illustrated text pages]
undated
Poems
Scope and Content
Typescripts and manuscripts of Longstreet's poetry.
Box 34, Folder 1
[Poems]
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript. Originally housed in a portfolio, which is included in the folder.
Box 34, Folder 2-3
[Poems]
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Box 35, Folder 1
A New Poem by Kingsmill Johns
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript carbon.
Scope and Content
"The New Emperor's New Clothes".
Box 35, Folder 2
Poems
undated
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Box 35, Folder 3
[Poems and illustrations]
undated
General Physical Description note: Original typescripts and photocopies; many pages have pencilled notations. Illustrations are both original and photocopied.
Box 6, Folder 1-2
Dont Answer the Door
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 35, Folder 6
Dont Answer the Door
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript with edits in ink. Illustrated; many of the illustrations are photocopies.
Box 40, Folder 1
[Poems and images]
undated
General Physical Description note: Original and photocopied typescripts; original and photocopied illustrations. Includes a Longstreet handmade cover for "Buy
Back Yesterday (Troubled Sleep)".
Box 40, Folder 2
Poems No. 3
undated
General Physical Description note: Original typescripts and photocopies.
Box 40, Folder 8
The Beach House
undated
General Physical Description note: Edited typescript. No cover.
Box 40, Folder 9
The Beach House
undated
General Physical Description note: Photocopy with cover.
Box 42, Folder 7
Carrie Seabrook, the Doctor in Buckskin
undated
Scope and Content
"An outline for a dramatic series by Marion Zola and Stephen Longstreet". Typescript.
Box 40, Folder 10
Company Comin'
undated
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
Box 40, Folder 11
Copper Hill
1947 November 4
General Physical Description note: Original typescript.
Box 40, Folder 12, 13
The Crime
undated
General Physical Description note: Copy 1: Photocopy; signed by Longstreet on title page; no cover. Copy 2: Photocopy with cover.
Box 41, Folder 1
The Fabulous Rookie
undated
Box 41, Folder 2
The Girls
circa 1960
Scope and Content
Note by Longstreet on first page: "NBC series announced--never produced".
Box 42, Folder 8
High Button Shoes
1979
Scope and Content
Treatment for 1979 reworking of Longstreet, Cahn, and Styne's original musical. Note by Longstreet on title page: "never produced--producers
produced no money".
Box 41, Folder 3
The Ivory Floor
undated
Scope and Content
By Stephen Longstreet and Ethel Godoff.
Box 41, Folder 4
Joe Monte Christo
circa 1955
Scope and Content
Note by Longstreet on title page: "For the author Joseph Schilkraut [sic]--announced for production as a TV series--but never
produced".
Box 41, Folder 5
Man of Montmartre
circa 1959
Scope and Content
Note by Longstreet on title page: "bought by Monogram Studios/never put into production".
Box 41, Folder 6
Nell Kimball: A Memoir with Music
undated
Box 41, Folder 8
The Snow Devil
undated
Scope and Content
Signed by Longstreet on first page with note: "Mr. Hall never got this film into production".
Box 42, Folder 1, 2, 3, 4
Venus Touched Me
undated
General Physical Description note: Four copies; copies 1 and 2 have identical title pages; copy 3 has simplified title page; copy 4 has commercial cover.
Box 43, Folder 5
Wahela Looks Back
circa 1950
Separated Materials note
Note by Longstreet on title page: "An idea by Val Burton for a musical--he could get no composer or lyric written".
Box 42, Folder 5
The Young Man from Boston
1965 July 21
Scope and Content
Television script for a documentary on John F. Kennedy. Inscribed by Longstreet on first page: "Script & research by Stephen
Longstreet".
Box 47, Folder 18
The Young Man from Boston
General Physical Description note: Spiral bound brochure.
Scope and Content
Publicity brochure for the KABC program. Note by Longstreet on the cover identifies him as the writer.
Essays and columns
Scope and Content
Clippings.
Box 34, Folder 5
"Books of the Week" and miscellaneous clippings
undated
Box 34, Folder 6
"Books and Writers",
Quote magazine
1975-1978
Box 34, Folder 7
[Magazine articles by Longstreet]
1964-1967
Box 34, Folder 8-9
"Among the Publishers",
Canyon Crier
1970-1975
Book art
Scope and Content
Material gathered or created by Longstreet to be used as illustrations for unidentified books; see also individual titles.
This series also includes Longstreet book jackets and flyers for books.
Box 48, Folder 3
[Book illustrations]
undated
General Physical Description note: Clippings and photographs, many with Longstreet's captions.
Scope and Content
For books on Hollywood and New York?
Box 48, Folder 7
Book covers and jackets
undated
Box 48, Folder 11
[Ads and flyers for books by Longstreet]
1964-1976
Box 72
[Handmade book cover for unidentified book]
undated
Box 47, Folder 3-4
Robert Eringer, Parallel Truths
circa 1995
Scope and Content
Accompanied by a note to Longstreet from the author.
Art
1922-1990
Scope and Content
Originals and reproductions in the form of photocopies of Longstreet's artwork. Includes drawings, watercolors, and 2- and
3-dimensional collages. This series also includes material on Longstreet as an art collector. Longstreet was a prolific documenter
of his own work, creating "portolios" of drawings out of photocopies as well as producing photocopies of his work in general.
Many of these photocopies were reworked by Longstreet; he would draw over photocopies, add watercolor to them, paste new sections
over parts of them, and/or sign them.
Notebooks, sketchbooks, portfolios
1951-1987, undated
Box 78
Collection of reproductions and phone doodles by the artist
undated
General Physical Description note: A repurposed book filled with photographs of Longstreet works of art and exhibitions; photocopies of works; and original drawings
and watercolors.
Box 80
Etc
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio of general drawings, both originals and photocopies.
Box 80
Famous heads
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio of portraits, both originals and photocopies.
Box 69
[General drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with Longstreet drawings, both original and photocopies. Many of the photocopies have been drawn
or colored over.
Box 70
[General drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with photocopies of Longstreet drawings.
Box 79
[General drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Notebook with both original and photocopied drawings.
Box 68
[Hollywood drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with Longstreet drawings, both original and photocopies. Many of the photocopies have been drawn
or colored over.
Box 71, Folder 5
[Hollywood portfolio]
circa 1970
General note
Photocopies of drawings of actors and filmmakers enhanced with watercolors.
Box 69
[Japan drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with Longstreet drawings, both original and photocopies. Many of the photocopies have been drawn
or colored over.
Box 58, Box 59, Box 60
[Jazz drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with primarily original Longstreet drawings (some photocopies).
Box 61, Box 62
[Jazz drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with Longstreet drawings, both original and photocopies. Many of the photocopies have been drawn
or colored over.
Box 63
[Jazz drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio style notebook with photocopies of Longstreet drawings.
Box 72, Folder 3
[Jazz portfolio]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio of photocopied drawings.
Box 79
[Jazz portfolio]
undated
General Physical Description note: Notebook with both original and photocopied drawings. Cover is a 1975 Longstreet lecture announcement.
Box 71, Folder 4
Josephine Baker
1951
Scope and Content
Portfolio of original drawings and watercolors made in Baker's dressing room between shows, Los Angeles, 1951.
Box 66
[Nudes and erotica]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with primarily original Longstreet drawings (some photocopies). One contains a manuscript essay by
Longstreet, "What is Erotic?"
Box 65
[Paris drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebook with primarily original Longstreet drawings (some photocopies).
Box 64
"Poems art"
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio style notebook containing drawings of many different subjects.
Box 80
[Portfolio of watercolors]
undated
Box 65
Travel sketches
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebook with primarily original Longstreet drawings (some photocopies).
Box 67
[The West]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with primarily original Longstreet drawings (some photocopies).
Box 65
World Cookbook drawings
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebook with primarily original Longstreet drawings (some photocopies).
Box 69
[War drawings]
undated
General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with Longstreet drawings, both original and photocopies. Many of the photocopies have been drawn
or colored over.
Photocopy portfolios
1981-1987
Scope and Content
Handmade portfolios/folders of photocopies of Longstreet's drawings. Almost all are signed and numbered on the "copyright"
page. Most of the photocopied drawings are enhanced with additional ink or watercolors.
Box 83
All or Nothing
circa 1986
General Physical Description note: 8 copies.
Box 84
Allegro
1987
General Physical Description note: 3 copies.
Box 84
Antics
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 copy.
Box 85
Bad Habits
1984
General Physical Description note: 3 copies.
Box 86
Casual Pleasures/Bad Habits
1984
General Physical Description note: 6 copies.
Box 85
A Collection
1987
General Physical Description note: 3 copies.
Box 87
The Computer Age
1983
General Physical Description note: 6 copies.
Box 88
Dimensions
1985
General Physical Description note: 5 copies.
Box 88
Ecce Homo
1987
General Physical Description note: 1 copy.
Box 89
Facades
1985
General Physical Description note: 5 copies
Box 90
From "The Lost Generation" to "The Grapes of Wrath"
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 copy.
Box 90
In the Dark
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 copies.
Box 83
Life and Times of Sitting Bull
1986
General Physical Description note: 7 copies.
Box 91
Life on the Fast Lane
1981
General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
Box 92
Lower Than the Angels
1982-1983
General Physical Description note: 3 copies.
Box 94, Box 95
Orwell's World
1983
General Physical Description note: 9 copies.
Box 91
Our Times in Line
1982
General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
Box 95
The Red Badge of Courage
1982
General Physical Description note: 2 copies. 1 consists only of cover.
Box 96
Slings and Arrows
1984
General Physical Description note: 4 copies.
Box 98
Toe Dance Macabre
1983
General Physical Description note: 4 copies.
Box 93
Towards the 21th [sic] Century
1983
General Physical Description note: 6 copies.
Box 97
The Wars of the Jews
1982
General Physical Description note: 3 copies.
Box 97
Wild Lines
1983
General Physical Description note: 4 copies.
Box 73, Box 74
Drawings scrapbooks
undated
General Physical Description note: Two oversize coffee table books in which Longstreet pasted, on every page, photographs of his work, exhibition announcements,
photocopies of drawings, and original works. The original contents of each book are entirely covered. Each book was given
a new cover by Longstreet.
Box 75, Box 76
Scrapbooks
undated
General Physical Description note: Scrapbooks with photographs of Longstreet's work, exhibition announcements, and some original drawings and watercolors.
Box 101, Box 115-117, Box 102-113, Item 1-3
Drawings and watercolors
1924-1984
Scope and Content
Includes a 1924 and 1930 drawing with "Paul Haggard" inscribed on the reverse.
Box 72, Folder 1, Box 71, Folder 3
[Miscellaneous drawings]
1926, 1938, undated
Scope and Content
Loose drawings, some matted, both originals and enhanced photocopies. Subjects include jazz, artists and writers, New York,
nudes, Japan, and a self portrait.
Box 81
[Photographs of jazz watercolors]
undated
Box 102-113, Box 101, Box 99
[Drawings]
1924-1980s
Scope and Content
Original black and white drawings on paper.
Box 102-113, Box 115-117, Box 101, Box 100
[Watercolors and pen and ink drawings]
1930s-1980s
Box 101
Prints
1973
Scope and Content
"Lawyers, Progress, and Our Law Courts" 8 Original Lithographs by Stephen Longstreet".
Box 98, Box 82
"Enhanced" photocopies
Scope and Content
Longstreet would often create multiple photocopies of his drawings and watercolors. Almost all were "enhanced" in some way,
either with a signature, additional pasted on elements, watercolor enhancements, or inscriptions.
Box 48, Folder 10
[Longstreet as illustrator]
undated
Scope and Content
Flyer and postcard with illustrations by Longstreet.
Box 51, Folder 3
[Magazine cover art by Longstreet]
circa 1930s
Box 81
["Quote" cover]
1975 May 14
Box 81
[Jazz postcards with Longstreet illustrations]
undated
Box 81
[Poster for the 6th International Traditional Jazz Festival Breda]
1976
Longstreet art collections
Box 50, Folder 6
[Longstreet art collections]
1955, 1964
Box 71, Folder 1
[Daumier's Master Prints of the Theatre; Daumier's Sideshow of Politics and Politicians; Lawyers and Law Courts]
1967, 1972, 1973
Scope and Content
Portfolios issues by Kistler Company from the collection of Stephen Longstreet; commentary by Longstreet.
Box 72, Folder 4
[Daumier Paris exhibit flyers]
1961
Box 77
[Portfolio of prints by Nina L.D. Fraser]
1952
Correspondence and letters
1930-1980
Scope and Content
Letters from publishers, fans, celebrities, friends. In addition to the individually named files, the series includes letters
from Hoagy Carmichael, Fred Dannay (Ellery Queen), Albert Dekker, Vina Delmar, Rupert Hughes, Mrs. Sinclair Lewis (Grace Heggle
Lewis), Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Winchell, and Herman Wouk. Also includes letters addressed to various Longstreet aliases/pen
names, including Lucas Webb, Paul Haggard, and Thomas Burton.
Box 52, Folder 3
Bradbury, Ray
1970, 1975, 1980
Box 52, Folder 4
Bruccoli, Matthew
1972-1976, undated
Box 52, Folder 6
Cerf, Bennett
1939, 1941, 1942
Box 52, Folder 8
deMille, Cecil B.
1942, 1952
Box 52, Folder 9
Dominion Road School, New Zealand
1973
Scope and Content
Fan mail from elementary school students.
Box 52, Folder 13
Gross, Milt
1942, undated
Box 52, Folder 16
Ingersoll, Ralph
1945, 1947
Box 52, Folder 17
J
1954, 1974, 1977, undated
Box 52, Folder 21
Luce, Henry R.
1942, 1943
Box 52, Folder 23
Mayer, Brown & Platt
1974-1975
Box 52, Folder 25
McDonald-Wright, Stanton
1971
Scope and Content
Includes typescript written by Wright for "We All Went to Paris".
Box 52, Folder 26
Melchior, Lauritz
1930-1954
Box 52, Folder 28
Neutra, Richard
1954, 1957
Box 52, Folder 33
Simon and Schuster
1953-1954
Box 52, Folder 34
Schildkraut, Joseph
1956-1957
Box 52, Folder 36
Trachtenberg, Irving
1975
Box 52, Folder 38
University of Southern California
1957, 1973-1975
Scope and Content
See also Teaching series.
Box 52, Folder 41
Warner, Jack L.
1942, 1948
Box 52, Folder 43
[Unidentified]
1963-1975, undated
Box 50, Folder 1-5
Teaching
Scope and Content
Letters to Longstreet regarding teaching activities from Los Angeles State College and USC; class lists; and handwritten notes,
presumably for teaching purposes. See also University of Southern California folder in Correspondence and letters series.
Press
Scope and Content
Reviews of Longstreet's work, both writings and art; clippings about Longstreet; notices of exhibitions and lectures.
Box 81, Box 48, Folder 13
[Clippings about Longstreet]
1961-1968
Box 81, Box 51, Folder 4-5
[Exhibition and lecture announcements]
1964-1990
Scope and Content
"These Are My Walls" exhibit, 1990; Longstreet Retrospective, 1965; The Artist as Historian lecture, 1973 and The 20th Century's
Faces and Images exhibition announcement, 1982, mounted together.
Box 49, Folder 5, Box 51, Folder 6
[Miscellaneous clippings and programs]
Box 81
[New York Times clipping and Hirshfeld illustration for High Button Shoes]
Box 81
[Poster for "The Gay Sisters"]
undated
Scope and Content
Signed by Longstreet.
Box 48, Folder 14
Press & etc.
1976-1986, undated
Box 48, Folder 12, Box 72, Folder 5
[Reviews--clippings]
1964-1976
Box 49, Folder 2
[Stephen Longstreet interviews]
undated
General Physical Description note: Transcripts.
Box 53, Box 54
Financial records
1962-1972, 1974-1981, 1985-1987, 1990, 1995
Scope and Content
Records documenting income and expenses. Also includes household bills and the Longstreets' checking account records.
Ethel Longstreet papers
Scope and Content
Course material gathered by Ethel Longstreet for her course on linguistics taught at USC; these include many student papers.
Also included is a daily diary with notes on a variety of different subjects, and copies of correspondence sent by lawyer
Leonard Horwin to various state and federal offices and newspapers on the topic of US relations with Israel.
Box 55, Folder 1
[Ethel Longstreet (?) notebook]
circa 1980
Scope and Content
1980 Desk Diary used, presumably by Ethel Longstreet, as a notebook. It contains notes on a variety of topics, including art,
politics, literature, and philosophy.
Box 55, Folder 2
[Linguistics course]
1984
Scope and Content
Syllabus and photocopied readings for Ethel Longstreet's LING 100: Language and Mind course, taught at USC School of Cinema
and Television.
Box 56, Folder 1-2, Box 55, Folder 3-5
[Student papers--Linguistics]
1984, 1985, 1989
Box 56, Folder 3-6
[Leonard Horwin letters]
1989
Scope and Content
Photocopies of letters sent by attorney Leonard Horwin to politicians and media outlets regarding American-Israeli politics.
Box 114
"Your Dream-My Dream"
undated
Scope and Content
Ethel Longstreet appearances. Host: "SRG".
Personal
Scope and Content
Family photographs, cards and letters; clippings and catalogs on art history; ephemera from trips taken by the Longstreets.
Box 72
[Art catalogs]
Scope and Content
Catalogs on various European art and artists.
Box 51, Folder 1
[Art clippings]
undated
Scope and Content
Possibly source material for book illustrations.
Box 50, Folder 9, Box 51, Folder 2
Box 50, Folder 8
[Family]
undated
Scope and Content
Letters, cards, ephemera from family members.
Box 72, Folder 2
[Italian art book]
undated
Scope and Content
Pages torn from a book on Italian art.
Box 81
[Lorser Feitelson signed exhibit poster]
1972
Box 81
[New York School of Fine and Applied Art diploma]
1929 June
General Physical Description note: Longstreet pasted his signature over his calligraphed name.
Box 50, Folder 7, Box 72, Folder 6
[Photographs]
undated
Scope and Content
Photographs of Longstreet; Longstreet's family; Longstreet artwork; and book illustrations.
Box 81
[Portraits of Longstreet]
undated
