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Collection Title: Irving Stone papers,
Date (inclusive): 1923-1990s,
Date (bulk): (bulk 1934-1989)
Collection Number: BANC MSS 95/205 cz
Creator:
Stone, Irving, 1903-1989
Extent:
Number of containers: 553 boxes, 34 oversize boxes, 37 oversize folders, and 3 v. -- not including an additional 11 boxes
(numbered 554-564) of fragile, restricted originals for which archival photocopies have been substituted within the collection.
Linear feet: 248
Linear feet: 248
Repository: The
Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: Consists of Stone's correspondence; research material, drafts, publicity, and ephemera related to his writings; professional
and personal papers; and subject files, along with some papers of his wife, Jean Stone. Stone's correspondence reflects his
many activities as both a private person and a public figure. His writings contain files for all his major works, chiefly
biographical novels, but also including biographies, history, novels, short stories, dramatic works, articles, speeches, and
reviews, as well as books he edited himself or with Jean Stone, and works by others to which he contributed segments. Also
includes files related to Stone's appearances, interviews, travels, bio-bibliographic information, contracts, honors and awards,
and teaching, along with family correspondence and some personal miscellany.
Jean Stone papers includes biographical material; an article written by her; files related to appearances, interviews, travel, and awards, as well as material detailing her activities within community organizations; and some personal miscellany. Jean Stone's edits of Irving Stone's drafts are found with his files for each work.
Jean Stone papers includes biographical material; an article written by her; files related to appearances, interviews, travel, and awards, as well as material detailing her activities within community organizations; and some personal miscellany. Jean Stone's edits of Irving Stone's drafts are found with his files for each work.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection open for research.
Copyrights to Irving Stone’s works have been assigned to the beneficiaries of the Jean Stone Living Trust: University of California,
University of Southern California, and the Sierra Club Foundation. Materials in these collections are protected by the U.S.
Copyright Law (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.) and generally may not be used without permission. Please contact Bancroft Library
for permission requests. Use may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, privacy and
publicity rights, licensing terms, and trademarks. All permission requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise
use these collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Identification of item], Irving Stone papers, BANC MSS 95/205 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Title: There was Light: manuscripts, correspondence, galleys, [ca. 1960-1969],
Identifier/Call Number: CU-370,
University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Books by Stone and books collected by Stone as research materials cataloged as part of the Book Collections of The Bancroft
Library (A24 and A25).
Photographs have been transferred to Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library and cataloged as the Irving Stone pictorial
collection, (BANC PIC 1995.064); photographs of Jack London collected by Irving Stone cataloged as The Irving and Jean Stone
Collection of Jack London Portraits, 1885-1915 (BANC PIC 1995.061--A).
Memorabilia has been transferred to Pictorial Collection of The Bancroft Library, and cataloged as Irving Stone memorabilia
and objects collection, (BANC PIC 1995.063--OBJ).
Videotapes/sound recordings have been transferred to the Microforms Collection of The Bancroft Library.
Microfilms of Darwin's extensive correspondence obtained from Cambridge colleges have been transferred to the Microforms Collection
of The Bancroft Library.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Stone, Irving, 1903-1989--Archives
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926
Noble, John, 1874-1934
Jackson, Rachel, 1767 -1828
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Adams, Abigail, 1744 -1818
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890
Darwin, Charles, 1758 -1778
Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903
Muir, John, 1838-1914
London, Jack, 1876-1916
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938
Warren, Earl, 1891-1974
Authors, American--20th century
Biographical fiction
Manuscripts for publication.
Interviews.
Awards.
Notes.
Bibliographies.
Stone, Irving, 1903-1989. Irving Stone collection
Stone, Jean
The Irving Stone Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Jean Stone on December 27, 1994, with additions made on May
17, 1999.
No additions are expected.
Processed by Lisa de Larios, with assistance from Sarah Kanafani, Guadalupe Lugo, Christopher Martinez, and Martin Wells;
completed by Mary Morganti.
| 1903 | Irving Stone born to Charles and Pauline Rosenberg Tennebaum on July 14 in San Francisco (Calif.). |
| 1907 | Learns to read. |
| 1910 | Mother divorces father |
| 1912 | Begins to write. |
| 1916-1918 | Attends Lowell High School (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 1918 | Mother marries second husband; Stone takes his surname. Family moves to Los Angeles (Calif.). Stone enrolls at Manual Arts High School. |
| 1920 | Attends second semester at University of Southern California. |
| 1920-1923 | Attends University of California, Berkeley. Earns Bachelors of Arts in Economics. |
| 1923-1924 | Serves as Teaching Fellow in economics at University of Southern California. Earns Masters in Economics. |
| 1924-1926 | Instructor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. Attends University of California, Berkeley as a doctoral student of Economics. |
| 1925 | Mother dies. |
| 1926 | Wins Little Theatre Prize Play Contest at University of California, Berkeley. Begins career as author. Moves to New York (N.Y.). |
| 1926-1930 | Writes numerous plays, primarily one acts. Supports self by writing pulp fiction for magazines. |
| 1927-1928 | Travels through Europe; sees exhibition of Vincent Van Gogh's work. |
| 1928 | The Dark Mirror produced by the Lenox Hill Players. Begins to write Lust for Life |
| 1933 | Publishes Pageant of Youth (Alfred H. King, Inc.). |
| 1934 | Marries Jean Factor (b. 1916 or 1917). Publishes Lust for Life (Longmans, Green, and Co.) after being refused by seventeen publishers in three years. |
| 1936 | Truly Valiant produced on Broadway; the play closes after one performance. Returns to Berkeley (Calif.) to research Jack London. |
| 1937 | Returns to Southern California. Publishes Dear Theo (Houghton Mifflin). Daughter Paula born. |
| 1938 | Publishes Sailor on Horseback (Houghton Mifflin Company). |
| 1939 | Moves to Encino (Calif.). Publishes False Witness (Doubleday and Co., inc.), his last novel. Continues to use Doubleday and Co., inc. for the rest of his publishing career. |
| 1941 | Publishes Clarence Darrow for the Defense. |
| 1943 | Publishes They Also Ran. Begins work with the Research Institute of America. |
| 1944 | Publishes Immortal Wife. Son Kenneth born[?]. |
| 1945 | Moves to Beverly Hills (Calif.). Purchases first pre-Columbian works of art. |
| 1947-1954 | Publishes Adversary in the House (1947), Earl Warren: A Great American Story (1948), The Passionate Journey (1949), The President's Lady (1951), and Love is Eternal (1954). |
| 1955 | Founds and serves as president of the Fellows for Schweitzer. |
| 1956 | Publishes Men to Match My Mountains. Sells house in Beverly Hills (Calif.). Moves to Italy to begin research for The Agony and the Ecstasy. Remains in Italy for several years. |
| 1958 | Tours Greece and Turkey for the United States State Department. Returns to Beverly Hills. |
| 1960-1961 | Serves as president of the California Writers Guild. |
| 1961 | Publishes The Agony and the Ecstasy. Moves into final home in Beverly Hills. |
| 1962 | Tours Europe and the Eastern bloc for United States State Department. |
| 1964-1965 | Becomes president of the Beverly Hills Improvement Association, created to stop the planned Beverly Hills Freeway. |
| 1965 | Publishes Those Who Love. Receives Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Southern California. Teaches English course at the University of Southern California. |
| 1967 | Founding member of the California State Colleges Committee for the Arts. |
| 1968 | Receives Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley. Founds the Irving and Jean Stone Award for best biographical and historical novel. |
| 1971 | Publishes The Passions of the Mind after two decades of preparation. |
| 1975 | Publishes The Greek Treasure. California Museum of Science and Technology celebrates Stone's seventy-fifth birthday with testimonial dinner and the exhibition California's Irving Stone. |
| 1980 | Publishes The Origin. |
| 1985 | Publishes Depths of Glory. Serves as Regents Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Guest workshop lecturer at Sonoma State University in the English Department. |
| 1989 | Performs last public appearance in June. Dies in August, leaving final work on John Muir unfinished. |
The Irving Stone Papers, 1923-1990s, (bulk 1934-1989) consists of his correspondence; research material, drafts, and ephemera
related to his writings; professional and personal papers; and subject files, along with some papers of his wife, Jean Stone.
Stone's correspondence reflects his many activities as both a private person and a public figure. The correspondence includes
letters with life long friends; his publishers, agents, and lawyers; organizations with which he was involved; and people
that he met in the course of his work as a researcher and an author. Correspondence also includes the fan mail that Stone
received for all of his major works, and several of his other works.
Stone's writings consist of his major works, other works that he published, and other writings. The major works include his
biographical novels, biographies, a history, and several novels. Stone saved his research material from the majority of his
works, as well as his drafts, Jean Stone's edited drafts, and drafts created by his publishers. He also collected files of
the works' publicity, reviews, and adaptations. Other works consist of works he edited, some with Jean Stone, and works containing
of his own writings edited. Stone often retained drafts for the other works as well as publicity and some research material.
Other writings consist of short stories, dramatic works, articles, speeches, reviews, contributions, and testimonials. Stone
saved the research material and drafts for these writings, published copies of his works, and publicity and ephemera from
his writings.
Stone's professional papers consist of files related to his appearances, interviews, travels, bio-bibliographic information,
contracts, honors and awards, and teaching. Appearance, travel, and honors and awards files contain primarily ephemera, along
with some correspondence. Interview files primarily consist of published copies of his interviews, along with some drafts
of the interviews. The bio-bibliographic files contain biographical writings by and about Stone, as well as biographical information
compiled for Jean Stone, bibliographic information compiled by the Stones and others, and personal publicity. Contract files
contain only contracts, and the teaching files consist primarily of transcripts of Stone's lectures.
Stone's subject files contains material representing the breadth of Stone's interests, as well as files related to his works
and his works' subjects. Stone's interests include the arts and artists, his community, and the biographical novel. Files
relating to his works and the subjects of his works consist primarily of clipping files. Stone also collected files on possible
future projects, his friends, and several lawsuits.
Stone's personal papers contains correspondence with his family and some personal miscellany. The personal miscellany consists
primarily of birthday and anniversary material, as well as some material related to his parents, education, children, houses,
cars, and office. Jean Stone's papers contain much the same material as Stone's. She also made appearances, conducted interviews,
received awards, was involved in several local organizations, and collected her own personal publicity.
When the collection was processed, Stone's interests as a researcher were kept in mind, and material usually considered not
to be of lasting value was generally retained. Some originals have been restricted and housed separately because of conservation
concerns; photocopies of these fragile items have been substituted for the removed originals.
Key to Original Items Restricted for Preservation
- Box 554
- Papers from Box 5 - Box 148, folder 27
- Box 555
- Papers from Box 148, folder 28 - Box 189, folder 3
- Box 556
- Papers from Box 189, folder 4 - Box 219
- Box 557
- Papers from Box 220 - Box 294, folder 9
- Box 558
- Papers from Box 294, folder 10 - Box 317, folder 12
- Box 559
- Papers from Box 318 - Box 356
- Box 560
- Papers from Box 357 - Box 384
- Box 561
- Papers from Box 385 - Box 449
- Box 562
- Papers from Box 451 - Box 476, folder 5
- Box 563
- Papers from Box 476, folders 6-12
- Box 564
- Papers from Box 477 - Box 551
- Box 565
- Soundscriber discs from:
- Box 256, folder 10
- Box 450, folder 6
- Box 484, folder 8
- Box 488, folder 19
- Box 489, folder 4
- Box 515, folders 12, 14
- Box 548, folder 6
- Box 552, folder 12