Register of the Eric Hoffer papers
Finding aid prepared by David Jacobs
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
© 2003
434 Galvez Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003
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Title: Eric Hoffer papers
Date (inclusive): 1934-1996
Collection Number: 94057
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
147 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic foot boxes, 11 oversize boxes, 7 card file boxes, 1 painting
(74.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, reports, minutes, memoranda, printed matter, and audiovisual material relating to philosophy,
social psychology, the nature of mass movements, social violence, the social role of intellectuals, and social conditions
in the United States.
Creator:
Hoffer, Eric
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
Boxes 162 and 167 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research;
materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the
collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Video tapes (Boxes 144-146) may not be reproduced.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1994.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Eric Hoffer papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1898 |
Born, New York (?) |
1920s-1930s |
Worked as migrant farm laborer and gold miner in California, Oregon, and Washington |
1942 |
Began work as a longshoreman in San Francisco, California |
1951 |
Author,
The True Believer
|
1955 |
Author,
The Passionate State of Mind
|
1963 |
Author,
The Ordeal of Change
|
1967 |
Invited to the White House by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
|
Author,
The Temper of Our Time
|
1967-1969 |
Wrote nationally syndicated newspaper column, "Reflections" |
1968-1969 |
Member, National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence |
1969 |
Author,
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront
|
1973 |
Author,
Reflections on the Human Condition
|
1979 |
Author,
Before the Sabbath
|
1983 |
Autobiography,
Truth Imagined, published posthumously
|
|
Died, San Francisco, California |
|
Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan |
Scope and Content Note
The Eric Hoffer papers represent the largest single fund of primary sources documenting the unusual life and influential writings
of a celebrated and controversial individual who came to be known as America's "longshoreman philosopher." The collection
contains nearly everything ever written by Hoffer, including copious notes made throughout his lifetime, as well as a large
volume of correspondence from readers of his works. There are also newspaper columns and audiovisual materials which, taken
together with his writings, reveal a fuller picture of Hoffer as not only the solitary thinker, but a public figure engaged
with the world around him.
The documents in the Hoffer collection concern all periods of his life, and they include early, unpublished stories based
on his experiences as a migrant worker and sometime gold miner in California during the Depression. Although living at the
very margins of society, Hoffer made great efforts to educate himself on a wide variety of subjects. The NOTEBOOKS series
provides an annotated record of Hoffer's readings, along with his own observations on many topics. In these notebooks, the
genesis of his personal philosophy can be traced, as can the polishing of the aphoristic style that characterized much of
his published work. Hoffer continued his practice of keeping notebooks until late in his life, and these contain much unpublished
material, a large portion of which was transcribed before his death and is part of the collection.
Hoffer's first published work,
The True Believer (1951), brought him enduring acclaim for its analysis of mass movements in history and Hoffer's emphasis on the part played
by fanaticism in the trajectory of such movements. The term "true believer" entered the popular vocabulary as an archetype
of the political or religious zealot, and Hoffer's book is still invoked in contemporary discussions of religious fundamentalism
and political terrorism. The collection contains early drafts of this seminal work, as well as its final manuscript form.
Hoffer, who worked for many years as a longshoreman on the San Francisco docks, went on to write other books (
The Ordeal of Change and
The Temper of Our Time, among others) in which he set forth his ideas on history and social change, the relationship of humanity to nature, and
what, in Hoffer's view, was the often suspect role played by intellectuals as exponents of absolutist doctrine and as seekers
of power for themselves. Following several programs devoted to him on national television in the 1960s, Hoffer became a public
personality, and through numerous speeches and a syndicated newspaper column, he participated vocally in the often strident
debates over foreign and domestic policy in the United States during the Vietnam War era.
The SPEECHES AND WRITINGS series of the Hoffer collection contains the manuscript drafts of most of his books, as well as
copies of the numerous articles he wrote for various publications. Among the manuscripts, there are the original diaries used
as the basis for
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, and some later diary entries. An unpublished work, "Quotations and Comments," which Hoffer was working on at the time of
his death, can also be found in this series. Hoffer's notecards, where he compiled a vast number of citations from various
authors and which formed the raw material for much of his writing, comprise the CARD FILE series of the collection.
The collection contains the entire run of Hoffer's syndicated newspaper column, "Reflections," where for several years he
wrote on many topical subjects, such as student protest and black militancy, in an often vigorously polemical style. There
are also videotape recordings of television interviews made with Hoffer in the 1960s, as well as video and sound recordings
of some his public appearances.
The extensive CORRESPONDENCE series of the collection reflects the large audience for Hoffer's work, and also details his
relationships with publishers and editors, including the early encouragement of his writing by Margaret Anderson and Elizabeth
Lawrence. There is a separate series for the correspondence of Eric Hoffer's longtime companion, Lili Fabilli Osborne.
There are also substantial materials concerning Hoffer's sometimes stormy tenure as a member of the National Commission on
the Causes and Prevention of Violence, as well as ones relating to his time on the San Francisco Art Commission. The collection
also includes a significant amount of biographical and critical writings on Hoffer.
Additional primary documents relating to Eric Hoffer can be found in the collections of the San Francisco Public Library and
the Immigration History Research Center of the University of Minnesota (Margaret Anderson collection and the papers of the
organization and publication with which Anderson was affiliated, the Common Council for American Unity and
Common Ground).
Related Collection(s)
Eric Hoffer Archive, San Francisco Public Library
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Video tapes
Philosophy
Political psychology
Social psychology
Intellectuals -- United States
Violence -- United States
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Biographical File
1952-1985
Scope and Contents note
Addresses, articles and clippings, bibliography, biographies, certificates, diplomas, itineraries, membership books, memorial
register and resolutions, obituaries, programs, scrapbook, studies, arranged alphabetically by physical form, and subject
file, arranged alphabetically by subject.
Articles and clippings about or mentioning Eric Hoffer
box 2, folder 7
Typescript papers by Stanford Erickson, Sheila K. Johnson, and two anonymous authors
undated
box 2, folder 8
"Profiles: The Creative Situation" by Calvin Tomkins,
The New Yorker
1967 January 7
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 3, folder 1-2
Eric Hoffer: An American Odyssey by Calvin Tomkins
1968
Scope and Contents note
Proofs and correspondence
box 3, folder 3
"Eric Hoffer: The Crowded Life," documentary produced by WPBT, Miami, Florida
1968
Scope and Contents note
Press release and publicity materials
box 3, folder 4
America's Sunset Coast by Merrill Windsor, monograph containing a written profile and photographic illustration of Hoffer
1978
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 3, folder 5
Certificate for prayers offered on behalf of Hoffer
undated
box 3, folder 6
Certificates of appreciation from the National Advisory Council of the Peace Corps and the Western Pension Conference
1974, undated
box 4, folder 1-3
Diplomas for honorary degrees awarded to Hoffer
1971-1977
box 4, folder 5
Membership books, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
1948-1959
box 4, folder 7
Memorial resolutions passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Santa Monica City Council
1983
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence
box 4, folder 10
Programs for events honoring or involving Eric Hoffer
1964-1975
box 5, folder 1
Scrapbook compiled by Margaret Anderson, consisting largely of reviews and articles relating to Eric Hoffer
circa 1952
Studies by others on Eric Hoffer
1955-1973
box 5, folder 2-3
Doctoral dissertations
1970-1974
box 6, folder 1
Doctoral dissertation
1974
box 7, folder 1
Awards
1955-1983
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and programs relating to Hoffer's receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Commonwealth Club of California
Literature Award, the Myrtle Wreath Award, and a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
box 7, folder 2
Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay Prize
1970-1981
Scope and Contents note
Brochures, correspondence, essay, and poster relating to a prize established at the University of California at Berkeley.
box 7, folder 3-5
Memorial sculpture
1983-1985
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, correspondence, programs, guest list, press release, reports, and speeches relating to the commissioning and dedication
in San Francisco of the "Skygate" sculpture in honor of Eric Hoffer.
Correspondence
1941-1983
Scope and Contents note
Letters and cards, with some enclosures, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
box 25, folder 5
Alinsky, Saul D.
1958-1962
box 25, folder 6
Alioto, Joseph L.
1968-1972
box 25, folder 7
Altschuler, Irene Kaeppler
1968
box 25, folder 8
American Committee for Cultural Freedom
1955
box 25, folder 9
The American Spectator (Erich Eichman, Baron Von Kannon)
1980
box 25, folder 10
Anderson, M. Margaret
1941-1976
box 25, folder 13
The Asia Foundation (Harry H. Pierson, Robert V. Sedwick)
1955-1959
box 25, folder 15
Author's Guild, Inc. (Rex Stout)
1972
box 26, folder 9
Boston University Libraries (Howard B. Gotlieb, G. A. Harrer)
1965-1978
box 26, folder 11
Bowling, John W.
1964-1976
box 26, folder 20
Burger, Warren E.
1969-1981
box 26, folder 21
Burns, James MacGregor
1968
box 27, folder 2
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (John David Hamilton, Fred Harris, John McGreevy, Susan Murgatroyd, Thelma Rosen)
1967-1974
box 27, folder 3
Carruthers, John D.
1968-1971
box 27, folder 4
Caudill, Philip R.
1977-1978
box 27, folder 5
Cavalier (Robert J. Shea)
1966
box 27, folder 10
Citizen Exchange Corps (Stephen D. James)
1967
box 27, folder 11
Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam (Omar N. Bradley, Paul H. Douglas)
1967-1968
box 27, folder 16
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Inc. (Jack Beck, Albert Feldman, John Flynn, Donald C. Hamilton, Anthony Janak, David
Klinger, Enid Moore)
1956-1969
General note
See also Sevareid, Eric
box 27, folder 18
Connell, William
1967-1979
box 27, folder 21
Coward-McCann, Inc.
1964-1970
box 28, folder 1
Curtis Brown, Ltd. (Allan C. Collins, Perry H. Knowlton, Joan Mann, Maureen Walters, Mollie Waters)
1958-1982
box 28, folder 2
Dagani, Nahum and Sarah
1970-1973
box 28, folder 4
D'Amboise, Jacques
1974-1981
box 28, folder 5
Danhurst, Donald
1966-1968
box 28, folder 8
DePauw University (William E. Kerstetter, Norman J. Knights, Dwight L. Ling)
1971-1972
box 28, folder 11
Doubleday and Co. (Judith Dollenmayer, Diane Matthews)
1967-1976
box 28, folder 12
Doyle, Dennis P.
1964-1979
box 28, folder 14
Dudley, Marilyn Rice
1968-1983
box 28, folder 15
Duke University (Mary Featherstone, Edgar T. Thompson)
1966-1967
box 28, folder 17
Dyer, Frederick C.
1975-1982
box 28, folder 19
E. P. Dutton and Co. (John Macrae III)
1968-1976
box 28, folder 22
Emhecht, Miklos P.
1965-1973
box 29, folder 1
Encyclopedia Britannica (Lucette Miller, Bonnie Oberman, Joseph H. Soulak)
1962-1981
box 29, folder 2
Erickson, Stanford
1970-1971
box 29, folder 3
Esquire (Byron Dobell, Don Erickson, Harold Hayes, W. H. Honan)
1963-1969
box 29, folder 4
Fabilli, Albert
1964-1973
box 29, folder 5
Fabilli, Giacinta
undated
box 29, folder 6
Fabilli, Josephine
1965-1983
box 36, folder 15
Fabilli, Lili
General note
See Osborne, Lili Fabilli
box 29, folder 11
Ferguson, Charles W.
1965-1967
box 29, folder 12
Finefrock, John H.
1973-1976
box 29, folder 19
Foundation for Research and Education on Eugenics and Dysgenics (Robert E. Kuttner)
1971
box 29, folder 20
Frame, Donald M.
1970-1973
box 29, folder 23
Fredlund, William
1977-1983
box 29, folder 24
Freedoms Foundation
1970-1978
box 29, folder 25
The Fund for the Republic, Inc.
1958
box 30, folder 1
Geyer, Georgie Anne
1967-1968
box 30, folder 2
Gordon, Mitchell
1964-1979
box 30, folder 3
Governors State University (William H. Dodd, Cliff Eagleton, Kiyo Mori, Virginia L. Piucci)
1977
box 30, folder 10
Harley, Alexander and Frances
1978-1980
Harper and Row (Simon Michael Bessie, Cass Canfield, Rose Daly, John Fischer, Anne Flagg, Lucy Guerlac, Beulah Hagen, Elizabeth
Lawrence, John Leggett, Corona Machemer, John Macrae, Pat McNees, Antonia Racchiele, Jane Shapiro)
box 31, folder 4
Harper's (Frederick L. Allen, Jeffrey Burke, John Fischer, Alice F. Fix, Herman Gollob, Lewis Lapham, Catherine Meyer)
1952-1977
box 31, folder 7
Hayakawa, S. I.
1964-1975
box 31, folder 10
Herbert, John W., Jr.
1978
box 31, folder 11
Hickel, Walter J.
1971-1979
box 31, folder 15
Hinderaker, Birk and Ivan
1965-1978
box 32, folder 4
Holiday (Martha J. Casselman, Ruth Graves)
1965-1966
box 32, folder 7
Hoover, J. Edgar
1970-1972
box 32, folder 12
Hudson Institute (Gail D. Kings, Gail L. Potter)
1972-1976
box 32, folder 13
Humphrey, Hubert H.
1968-1971
box 32, folder 15
IBM (Harry J. Orchard)
1968
box 32, folder 18
Institute for Educational Affairs (Phillip Marcus)
1982
box 32, folder 19
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (Bill Bailey, William Glazier, John R. Hahn, James R. Herman, Jim Kearney,
D. Lindberg)
1960-1980
box 32, folder 21
Jacobson, Jeanne
1963-1965
box 32, folder 22
Jacobson, Kenny
1963-1965
box 32, folder 23
Jacobson, Norman
1959-1976
box 32, folder 25
Jelliffe, Belinda
1969-1971
box 32, folder 28
Johnson, Lyndon B. and Lady Byrd
1967-1973
box 32, folder 29
Jones, George Lewis
1967-1970
box 33, folder 4
KGO Radio (John Hewitt, Agar Jaicks)
1973
box 33, folder 6
Kittrell, Charlie M.
1976-1983
box 33, folder 7
Klussmann, Frieda
1968-1971
box 33, folder 8
Knight, George and Dora
1964-1983
box 33, folder 9
Koerner, James D.
1969-1982
box 33, folder 10
KPFA Radio (Eleanor Moore)
1951
box 33, folder 11
KPIX Television (Wayne L. Cain, Caryl Coleman, Art Dlugach, Marvin Hall, Sylvia Hernandez, Dave Horwitz, Fred Joslyn)
1964-1973
box 33, folder 12
KQED Television (Helen Adler, Buzz Anderson, Joyce Campbell, James Day, Arthur Hough, Peggy Little, Richard O. Moore, Winifred
Murphy, Stephanie Pincson)
1962-1979
box 34, folder 1
Lane Community College (Bert Dotson, Terry Ann Forster, I. S. Hakanson, Keith Harker, Dale Parnell, Robert L. Pickering)
1967-1975
box 34, folder 2
Lawrence, Elizabeth
1950-1976
The Ledger Syndicate, Inc. (John W. Higgins)
box 34, folder 8
Lehmann, Edgar and Dorothy
1951-1952
box 34, folder 9
Lestrud, Vernon
1970-1972
box 34, folder 10
Levy, Alice and Jack
1969-1973
box 35, folder 1
Look (Dan Fowler, Mike Land, Leonard Rubin)
1954-1968
box 35, folder 3
Los Angeles Times (Jim Bellows, William J. Drummond, Charles O'Rear, Art Seidenbaum)
1967-1970
box 35, folder 13
McDonald, Margaret
1968-1973
box 35, folder 14
McGraw Hill Book Co. (Walter Clemons, Dan Lacy)
1968
box 35, folder 17
Menninger, W. Walter
1969-1982
box 35, folder 18
Michigan Technological University (R. L. Smith)
1970-1971
box 35, folder 19
Miller, Marjorie and Dora
1960-1964
box 35, folder 20
Milner, Sara and Cooper
1952-1962
box 35, folder 27
Moynihan, Daniel P.
1970-1974
box 35, folder 28
Mudrick, Marvin
1972-1977
box 35, folder 29
Muhlenberg College (John M. Morey)
1975
box 35, folder 32
National Advisory Council on Adult Education (Leonard R. Hill)
1971
box 35, folder 33
National Institute of Arts and Letters (Felicia Geffen, John Hersey, Hannah Josephson)
1964
box 35, folder 35
New America (Paul Feldman, Michael Harrington)
1971
box 35, folder 36
New Republic (Gilbert A. Harrison, Michael Straight)
1954-1966
box 36, folder 1
New York Times (Jack Beck, Lewis Bergman, Barbara Dubivsky, William C. FitzGibbon, Howard Goldberg, John Harvey, Lester Markel, Dirk F.
Ruemenapp, Harrison Salisbury, David Schneiderman, Harvey Shapiro, J. G. Stewart, Gerald Walker, Mary Beth Weinstein, John
M. Willig)
1953-1974
box 36, folder 2
New Yorker (William Shawn)
1967
General note
See also Tomkins, Calvin
box 36, folder 4
Nisbet, Robert and Caroline
1972-1978
box 36, folder 5
Nixon, Richard M.
1968-1972
box 36, folder 6
Northwest Review (Robert L. Curry, Jr.)
1962
box 36, folder 7
Nugent, Luci Johnson
undated
box 36, folder 8
O'Brien, Bob and Norma
1951
box 36, folder 9
Occidental College (John S. McNally)
1967
box 36, folder 11
Okerlund, Ed and Janet
1978
box 36, folder 12
Ollagend, Professor
undated
box 36, folder 13
Oltmans, Willem
1976-1977
box 36, folder 15
Osborne, Lili Fabilli
1964-1980
General note
(for correspondence with persons other than Eric Hoffer see LILI FABILLI OSBORNE FILE below)
box 36, folder 20
Pacheco, Roland
1973-1974
box 36, folder 22
Peace Corps (Brent Ashabranner, Joseph Blatchford, Roderick French, G. Payne Lucas, Wavie M. McCarthy, Louis Mitchell, Jerry
Norris, Jack Vaughn)
1967-1969
box 36, folder 23
P.E.N. (Charles Rolo)
1965
box 36, folder 24
Peterson, Everette and Sonya
1967-1969
box 36, folder 26
Phillips, Pauline (pseudonym, Abigail Van Buren)
1969-1971
box 36, folder 27
Playboy (Marilyn Grabowski, James Morgan, A. C. Spectorsky)
1967-1978
box 36, folder 31
Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Hedy Bergida, Steve Chawkins, Walter L. Meagher)
1965-1971
box 36, folder 32
President's Commission on White House Fellows (Joan K. Benziger, Bruce H. Hasenkamp, Thomas W. Pauken, Stephen P. Strickland)
1968-1976
box 37, folder 3
Reader's Digest (Catherine Conklin, Charles W. Ferguson, Nora J. Hair, Willard F. Hamilton, Virginia Kelly, Peter Kristoph, Laura McCormick,
Marjorie Nicholson, Henry Ohkawa)
1966-1982
box 37, folder 5
Redbook (Robert J. Levin)
1967
box 37, folder 7
Republican Party (Jeremiah Milbank, Jr.)
1972
box 37, folder 10
Roberts, Erling and Muriel
1969-1970
box 37, folder 11
Roberts, Malcom and Cindy
1970-1982
box 37, folder 12
Robinson, Michael
undated
box 37, folder 18
Rowand, E. C., Jr.
1965-1980
box 37, folder 20
Royce, Katharine
1967-1968
box 37, folder 22
San Francisco Examiner (Virginia Bullivant, Thomas Eastham, Charles L. Gould, Donald Grant, Lisa Hobbs, Steve McNamara, Luther Nichols, Robert Patterson,
M. H. Shector, Guy Wright)
1959-1970
box 37, folder 23
San Francisco Public Library (David E. Belch, William R. Holman, Ruth M. Isaacs, William L. Ramirez)
1962-1968
box 38, folder 2
Saturday Review (Sydney Bridgman, Norman Cousins, Jane M. Dozier, William H. Honan, Susan Stanwood, Horace Sutton, Ardeane Tratzki)
1962-1979
box 38, folder 3
Saxby, Sheila McDorney
1971-1977
box 38, folder 4
Scalapino, Robert and Dee
1972-1973
box 38, folder 5
Schuyler, George S.
1964-1965
box 38, folder 6
Schwartz, Robert L.
1962-1980
box 38, folder 13
Sherman, Barbara and Tex
1977-1979
box 38, folder 16
Shockley, William
1968-1973
box 38, folder 17
Shorenstein, Walter H.
1968-1978
box 38, folder 20
Singer, Max and Suzanne
1968-1982
box 38, folder 21
Skeptic (Henry B. Burnett, Jr., Christiane Schlumberger)
1976
box 38, folder 26
Stafford, William E.
1963-1964
box 38, folder 27
Stanford University (Julius Duscha)
1967
box 39, folder 1
Steiner, Charles S.
1969-1977
box 39, folder 4
Stokes, Robert C.
1965-1982
box 39, folder 6
Stone, Jim and Paula
1971
box 39, folder 7
Stonehill College (John T. Corr, Paul L. McPherran)
1971
box 39, folder 9
Straub, Pat and Robert
1968-1978
box 39, folder 11
Sturtevant, John
1978-1979
box 40, folder 3
Tyrell, R. Emmett, Jr.
1972-1973
box 40, folder 4
United States. Air Force (Jack N. Donohew, George J. Eade, Victor J. Fraley, Frank O. Hinckley, George Kolt, L. S. Lightner,
Wayne J. Lobbestael, Thomas S. Norman, S. J. Velarde)
1968-1973
box 40, folder 5
United States. Army (Jack L. Capps, W. C. Magathan, Joseph B. Messing)
1969-1974
box 40, folder 6
United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Elliot Richardson, James B. Roberts)
1970-1971
box 40, folder 7
United States. Department of Labor (Esther Peterson)
1968
box 40, folder 8
United States. Department of State (George V. Allen, Bernice W. Behrens, George M. Bennsky, Samuel D. Berger, J. Y. Bryan,
Dixon Donnelley, Eloise R. Lee, Howard P. Mace, Elbert G. Mathews, Camilla McComber, Blanche T. Moore, John F. Root, Madeleine
H. Russell, Peter S. Stern, Seymour Weiss)
1952-1975
box 40, folder 9
United States. Library of Congress (John C. Broderick, Nathan R. Einhorn)
1968-1972
box 40, folder 10
United States Civil Service Commission (Cradoc L. Bagshaw, Gerald R. Larion, John C. Matejka, John A. Rehfuss, Harry Wolf)
1967-1975
box 40, folder 11
United States Information Agency (Richard L. Borden, Nathan Glick, Ruth Hopkins, Frances G. Robinson, Alan E. Shevach, Garrett
K. Sias, Stephen W. Wordell)
1962-1975
box 40, folder 12
University of California, Berkeley (Ruth Blumberg, Claire Boskin, James M. Boyd, Paul R. Chernoff, Ruth N. Donnelly, Roger
W. Heyns, Thomas P. Jenkin, Robert F. Kerley, David T. McKibben, Martin Meyerson, Carl G. Rosberg, Jr., Sheila M. Saxby, Robert
A. Scalapino, Aaron Wildavsky, Frederick M. Wirt, Jane Zahn)
1955-1975
box 40, folder 13
University of Southern California (John R. Hubbard, James A. Peterson)
1972-1973
box 40, folder 14
Van Geuns, Robert E.
1968-1981
box 40, folder 16
Vetter, George B.
1951-1958
box 41, folder 1
Wadleigh, Alice
1968-1977
box 41, folder 2
Wadleigh, Frank
1969-1977
box 41, folder 6
Wasserman, Louis
1967-1969
box 41, folder 9
Westfahl, Wesley and Thelma
1971
box 41, folder 10
Wexler, Jerome J.
1963-1972
box 41, folder 17
Wolfe, Cameron W., Jr.
1974-1983
Yates, Margaret and Randall
Speeches and Writings
1934-1983
Scope and Contents note
Articles, diaries, drafts of books, proofs, printed copies of books, speeches, television interviews, and anthologies, arranged
chronologically by title, and translations, listed at the end.
box 42, folder 6
"The Age We Live in,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 42, folder 7
"Always and Today,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 42, folder 8
Aphorisms
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 42, folder 9
"Architects and Nature: On the Primacy of Man," speech
undated
General note
See AUDIOTAPES for recording of this talk
Scope and Contents note
Typescript.
box 43, folder 1
"Are Revolutions Revolutionary?"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 2
Article on American politics
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph fragment
box 43, folder 3
Article on American society
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 43, folder 4
Article on intellectuals and the Cold War
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 5
Article on modernization
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 6
Article on violence
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 7
"At Home," poem
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 43, folder 8
"The Awakening of Stagnant Societies,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 43, folder 9
"Beware the Intellectual,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 43, folder 10
"Bible,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 11
"The Bull of Phalaris,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 12
"Chance and Mr. Kunze,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 13
"Concerning Individual Freedom,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 43, folder 14
"A Disillusioned World,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 15
"Domestication,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph fragment
box 43, folder 16
"The Effects of the Negro Revolution,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
"Encounter in Trypton,"
undated
box 43, folder 19
"The Eternal Workingman's Point of View,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 43, folder 20
"The Flow of Human Energies,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 43, folder 21
"For My Black Brothers: Build Yourself a City," poem
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
"Four Years in Hank's Young Life,"
undated
box 44, folder 1
"Freedom and the Masses,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 44, folder 2
"From Town to Town and Other Stories,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 44, folder 3
"The Human Factor,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 44, folder 4
"Imitation,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 44, folder 5
Index of writing topics
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 44, folder 6
"Innovators,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 44, folder 7
"Islam and Modernization,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 44, folder 8
"Jehovah and the Occident,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 44, folder 9
"Juveniles,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 44, folder 10
"More Thoughts,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 44, folder 11
"The Old,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 44, folder 12
Poem on the subject of mortality
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 44, folder 13
"The Pride and the Greatness,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Proofs
box 44, folder 14
"The Process of Change,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
"Quotations and Comments,"
undated
box 45, folder 4
"The Readiness to Die,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 45, folder 5
"Reading the Old Testament for the First Time,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
"The Role of the Educated,"
undated
box 45, folder 8
"The Sheepherder's Sorrow,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 45, folder 9
Sketches for stories
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 45, folder 10
"Some Thoughts on Freedom,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 45, folder 11
Story
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 47, folder 1
"Thoughts: New Collection,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 47, folder 2
"Thoughts and Aphorisms,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 47, folder 3
"Thoughts on the Present,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 47, folder 4
"Tramps and Pioneers,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 47, folder 5
"Turning Points,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
"Unfinished Man: Thoughts on the Human Condition,"
undated
box 47, folder 8
Untitled manuscript
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 47, folder 9
"The Weak Things of the World,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 47, folder 10
"What We Do unto Others,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 47, folder 11
"Winter in the Middle West," poem
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 47, folder 12
Story written in El Centro, California
1934
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 47, folder 13
Autobiographical writing
1934-1936
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 49, folder 3-4
Printed copies
General note
See also boxes 75 and 76 for foreign editions
box 49, folder 5
Editorial comments by Evan Thomas
Anthologies containing excerpts from
The True Believer
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 49, folder 7
Robert A. Goldwin, Ralph Lerner, Gerald Strouzh, eds.,
Readings in World Politics
1957
box 50, folder 1
Edgar Litt, eds.,
The Political Imagination
1966
box 50, folder 2
Randall E. Decker, eds.,
Patterns of Exposition
1969
box 50, folder 3
Leonard S. Silk and Phillip Saunders, eds.,
Readings in the World of Economics
1969
box 50, folder 4
Robert A. Goldwin and Tony Pearce, eds.,
Readings in World Politics, second edition
1970
box 51, folder 1
Frederick Gentles and Melvin Steinfield, eds.,
Dream On, America
1971
box 51, folder 2
Gilbert Abacarian and Monte Palmer, eds.,
The Human Arena
1971
box 51, folder 3
Harold E. King, Lorne N. Colter, John K. Dunn, Richard C. Hespen, John R. Staton, eds.,
The Mermaid's Head and the Dragon's Tail
1972
box 51, folder 4
Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Mavis Bunker Taintor, eds.,
Revolution and Political Change
1972
box 51, folder 5
E. Graham Ward, eds.,
Essays in Generalization
1973
box 52, folder 1
Wilfred A. Ferrell and Nicholas A. Salerno, eds.,
Strategies in Prose
1973
box 52, folder 2
William Gamson and Andre Modigliani, eds.,
Conception of Social Life
1974
box 52, folder 3
"What Makes Nations Run Amuck?"
This Week
1951 December 2
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 52, folder 4
Unpublished aphorisms
1952 July 26
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 52, folder 5
"The Nature of Stalinist Terror,"
This Week
1952 August 17
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, typescript, and printed copy
"The Role of the Undesirables,"
Harper's
1952 December
box 52, folder 7
Reprint, Rudolf Flesch, ed.,
Best Articles 1953
1953
"Why Captive Peoples Revolt,"
New York Times Magazine
1953 August 23
box 53, folder 3
"The Workingman Looks at the Boss,"
Harper's
1954 March
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and printed copy
box 53, folder 4
"The Process of Change,"
The Reporter
1954 March 2
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 53, folder 5
"The Awakening of Asia,"
The Reporter
1954 June 22
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 53, folder 6
"A Future for Intellectuals,"
The New Leader
1954 August 16
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 53, folder 7
"The Passionate State of Mind,"
Harper's
1954 December
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 53, folder 8
"The Man of Words,"
1955 (?)
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
The Passionate State of Mind
1955
box 54, folder 6
Untitled writing
1955
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
"The Intellectual and the Masses,"
The Pacific Spectator, Winter
1956
box 54, folder 8
Japanese translation published in
Americana
1956 October
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy and correspondence
box 54, folder 9
Vietnamese translation published in
Huong Xa
1958 October
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy and correspondence
box 55, folder 1
"God and the Machine Age,"
The Reporter
1956 February 23
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 55, folder 2
"The Rise and Fall of the Practical Sense,"
The Reporter
1958 December 11
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
"Thoughts on the Brotherhood of Men,"
New York Times Magazine
1959 February 15
box 55, folder 6
Reprint, Lester Markel, ed.,
Background and Foreground
1960
box 55, folder 7
Reprint, Sara L. Chalghian and Timothy G. Davies, eds.,
What I Meant to Say Was…
1966
box 55, folder 8
Lecture given at San Francisco State College
1959 March 30
Scope and Contents note
Class resolution and student papers
"How Natural Is Human Nature?"
The Saturday Evening Post
1962 January 13
box 55, folder 11
Reprint,
American Journal
1963 March
box 55, folder 12
"Imitation and Fanaticism,"
Northwest Review
1962 Spring
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 55, folder 13
"What Has Happened to Our Morality?" collective article including a contribution from Hoffer,
New York Times Magazine
1962 June 10
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy and correspondence
"Conversations with Eric Hoffer," television interview conducted by James Day, KQED Television
1963
box 56, folder 1
Holograph transcripts (incomplete)
box 56, folder 2
Typescript transcripts, nos. 1-6
The Ordeal of Change
1963
General note
See also box 76 for foreign editions
box 58, folder 2
Publisher's description and title pages
Anthologies containing excerpts from
The Ordeal of Change
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 58, folder 5
Sumner Ives and Stephen O. Mitchell, eds.,
Language, Style, Ideas
1964
box 58, folder 6
Ned E. Hoopes,
Who Am I?
1969
box 58, folder 7
Harold M. Hodges, Jr., ed.,
Conflict and Consensus
1973
box 59, folder 2
Jack L. Nelson, Kenneth Carlson, Thomas E. Linton, eds.,
Radical Ideas and the Schools
1972
box 59, folder 3
Robert C. Meredith, ed.,
An Anthology for Young Writers
1975
box 59, folder 4
"The Writer in an Automated World," public discussion among Eric Hoffer, Robert Kirsch, and Kenneth Rexroth, California Library
Association conference, San Francisco
1963 December 11
Scope and Contents note
Transcript published in
California Librarian, 1964 April. Printed copy
box 59, folder 5
"The Role of the Educated," speech, Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley
1964
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
"The Negro Is Prejudiced against Himself,"
New York Times Magazine
1964 November 29
box 59, folder 8
Correspondence, including published and unpublished letters to the editor
box 59, folder 9
Reprint,
U.S. News and World Report
1964 December 28
box 60, folder 1
"How Natural Is Human Nature?"
1964 December 21
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 60, folder 2
Speech on violence, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley
1965 April 2
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 60, folder 3
"A Time of Juveniles,"
Harper's
1965 June
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
"Automation Is Here to Liberate Us,"
New York Times Magazine
1965 October 24
"A Strategy for the War with Nature,"
Saturday Review
1966 February 5
box 60, folder 8
"Making a Mass Elite,"
Holiday
1966 March
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 60, folder 9
"Changes,"
Cavalier
1966 August
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 60, folder 10
"Comments on the Human Condition,"
Harper's
1966 November
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
The Temper of Our Time
1967
General note
See also box 76 for foreign editions
box 60, folder 15
Holograph and typescript draft
box 62, folder 1
Reprint of excerpt,
The Rotarian
1967 June
Anthologies containing excerpts from
The Temper of Our Time
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 62, folder 2
Hulon Willis, ed.,
Basic Usage, Vocabulary, and Composition
1971
box 62, folder 3
Ray Kytle, ed.,
Confrontation: Issues of the 70s
1971
"Man, Play and Creativity,"
Think
1967 September-October
box 62, folder 5
Spanish translation published in
Facetas
1968
Scope and Contents note
No.1. Printed copy
box 62, folder 6
Reprint,
The Blade Sunday Magazine
1968 April 7
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence
box 62, folder 7
Japanese translation published in
Japan-America Forum
1968 June
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 62, folder 8
Reprint,
Lantern
1968 June
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
"Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind," television interview with Eric Sevareid, CBS
1967 September 19
box 62, folder 9
Transcript and reviews
General note
See VIDEOTAPES for copy of broadcast
box 62, folder 10-11
Correspondence from viewers
box 63, folder 1
"Man and Nature: The Return of Nature," speech, University of California, Davis
1967 November
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and correspondence
box 63, folder 2
"The Madhouse of Change,"
Playboy
1968 December
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront
1969
General note
See also box 77 for Japanese edition
box 63, folder 3-4
Diaries used as the basis of book
1958-1959
Scope and Contents note
Holographs
Books containing excerpts from
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront
1974
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 64, folder 5
Gerald Kennedy, ed.,
My Third Reader's Notebook
1974
box 64, folder 6
Bazerman, Charles,
The Informed Writer
1981
"The Savage Heart: A Conversation with Eric Hoffer," television interview with Eric Sevareid, CBS
1969 January 28
box 65, folder 1-4
Transcripts
General note
See VIDEOTAPES for copy of broadcast
box 65, folder 5-7
Correspondence from viewers
box 65, folder 8
"End of a 830,726 Mile Voyage,"
Detroit News
1969 July(?)
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and printed copy
box 65, folder 9
Statement on moon landing,
New York Times
1969 July 21
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and printed copy
"Whose Country Is America?,"
New York Times Magazine
1970 November 22
box 66, folder 1
Printed copy
Scope and Contents note
Anthologies reprinting this article
box 66, folder 2
Donald Rude, ed.,
Alienation: Minority Groups
1972
box 66, folder 3
Harold Full, ed.,
Controversy in American Education
1972
box 66, folder 4
Robert Turk and Robert Kenney, eds.,
Selected Readings in the Social Sciences
1973
box 66, folder 5
Edward P. J. Corbett, ed.,
The Essay: Subjects and Stances
1974
box 66, folder 6
Diary entries
1971-1974
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
First Things, Last Things
1971
General note
See also box 77 for Japanese edition
Anthologies containing excerpts from
First Things, Last Things
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 67, folder 7
Louis G. Locke, William M. Gibson, George Arms, George Petty, eds.,
TLE Six: Options for the 1970s
1972
box 68, folder 1
D. W. Cummings and John Herum, eds.,
Tempo: Life, Work and Leisure
1974
"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely',"
New York Times Magazine
1971 April 25
box 68, folder 3
Reprint,
Reader's Digest
1971 August
box 68, folder 4
"A Better People," commencement address, Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts
1971 May 30
General note
See SOUND RECORDINGS for copy of speech
Scope and Contents note
Typescript.
box 68, folder 5
"A Better People," commencement address, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan
1971 June 12
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 68, folder 6
Speech upon receiving the Human Resources Award, Human Resources Congress, Chicago, Illinois
1972 August 26
General note
See also SOUND RECORDINGS for copy of speech
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
Reflections on the Human Condition
1973
box 68, folder 8
Excerpt, "Hidden Currents that Guide Our Lives,"
Family Weekly
1972 September 24
Scope and Contents note
Proofs
box 68, folder 9
Excerpt published in Alton C. Morris et al, eds.,
College English: The First Year
1978
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 68, folder 10
"Eric Hoffer: Reflections from the Waterfront," television interview, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
1974
Scope and Contents note
Transcript
box 68, folder 11
"Long Live Shame!,"
New York Times
1974 October 8
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 68, folder 12
"What We Have Lost,"
New York Times Magazine
1974 October 20
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 69, folder 1
Unpublished anthology of articles
1976(?)
Scope and Contents note
Holograph texts and printed selections from other works
In Our Time
1976
General note
See also box 77 for Japanese edition
box 69, folder 8
Holograph and typescript draft
box 70, folder 8
Excerpt, "I Savor the Joy of Dull Work,"
Family Weekly
1976 October 17
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 70, folder 9
"What America Means to Me,"
Reader's Digest
1976 September
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy and correspondence
"Capitalism," speech, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1977 April 28
box 71, folder 5
"The Crowded Life," television interview, PBS
1978 January
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence from viewers
box 71, folder 6
Speech, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1978 October(?)
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 71, folder 7
Speech, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1978 October(?)
Scope and Contents note
Transcript
box 71, folder 8
Speech, College High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1978 October(?)
General note
See SOUND RECORDINGS for tape of talk
Scope and Contents note
Transcript.
box 71, folder 9
Speech, Sooner High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1978 October(?)
General note
See SOUND RECORDINGS for tape of talk.
Scope and Contents note
Transcript.
box 71, folder 10
"What Solzhenitsyn Said Was True,"
Manchester Union Leader
1978 November 4
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 71, folder 13
Holograph draft, with some typescript pages
box 72, folder 1
Typescript draft, with some holograph pages
"Beware the Intellectual," speech, Edison Centennial Symposium, San Francisco, California
1979 April 4
box 73, folder 3
Correspondence, program, and symposium paper by René Dumont, "From Agricultural Plenty to the Hunger of the Third World"
box 73, folder 4
"Islam and Modernization,"
The American Spectator
1980 June
Scope and Contents note
Typescript, printed copy, and correspondence
box 73, folder 7
"The Weak as Change Agents,"
The Tarrytown Letter
1981 April
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 73, folder 8
Between the Devil and the Dragon
1982
Scope and Contents note
Reviews
Truth Imagined
1983
General note
See also OVERSIZE MATERIALS for proofs
box 75
Foreign translations of
The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, The Temper of Our Time, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, First Things, Last
Things
, and
In Our Time
1965-1979
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 76
Foreign translations of
The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, The Temper of Our Time, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, First Things, Last
Things
, and
In Our Time
1965-1979
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 77
Foreign translations of
The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, The Temper of Our Time, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, First Things, Last
Things
, and
In Our Time
1965-1979
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
Notebooks
1936-1981
Scope and Contents note
Originals and typed transcriptions, arranged chronologically.
Numbered and dated originals
box 82, folder 1
No. QII
1949 November 10 - 1950 January 9
box 82, folder 2
No. QIN
1950 January 10 - March 31
box 82, folder 4
No. QIIIN
1950 April 29 - June 11
box 82, folder 5
No. QIVN
1950 June 11 - July 20
box 82, folder 6
No. QVN
1950 July 20 - August 19
box 82, folder 7
No. QVI
1950 August 20 - October 8
box 82, folder 8
No. QVII
1950 October 8 – November 18
box 82, folder 9
No. QIII
1950 November 19 - 1951 January 5
box 82, folder 10
No. QIX
1951 January 5 - April 14
box 82, folder 11
No. 10
1951 April 14 – May 22
box 82, folder 12
No. 11
1951 May 22 – July 9
box 82, folder 13
No. 12
1951 July 10 – September 18
box 82, folder 14
No. 13
1951 September 18 – November 3
box 82, folder 15
No. 14
1951 November 4-30
box 82, folder 16
No. 15
1951 November 30 – December 20
box 83, folder 1
No. 17
1951 December 20 - 1952 January 23
box 83, folder 2
No. 18
1952 January 23 – March 20
box 83, folder 3
No. 19
1952 March 20 – July 5
box 83, folder 4
No. 20
1952 July 5 – September 21
box 83, folder 5
No. 21
1952 September 23 – December 19
box 83, folder 6
No. 22
1952 December 19 – 1953 March 5
box 83, folder 7
No. 23
1953 March 7 – July 19
box 83, folder 8
No. 24
1953 July 19 – September 19
box 83, folder 9
No. 25
1953 September 19 – December 12
box 83, folder 10
No. 26
1953 December 12 - 1954 April 27
box 83, folder 11
No. 27
1954 April 27 – June 22
box 83, folder 12
No. 28
1954 June 22 – October 15
box 83, folder 13
No. 29
1954 October 16 - 1955 January 16
box 83, folder 14
No. 30
1955 January 17 – March 13
box 84, folder 1
No. 31
1955 March 14 – April 24
box 84, folder 2
No. 32
1955 April 25 – June 24
box 84, folder 3
No. 33
1955 June 25 – August 20
box 84, folder 4
No. 34
1955 August 22 – October 25
box 84, folder 5
No. 35
1955 October 25 – December 26
box 84, folder 6
No. 36
1955 December 26 - 1956 February 4
box 84, folder 7
No. 37
1956 February 4 – May 5
box 84, folder 8
No. 38
1956 May 5 – July 17
box 84, folder 9
No. 39
1956 July 17 – October 14
box 84, folder 10
No. 40
1956 October 1 – December 31
box 84, folder 11
No. 41
1956 December 31 - 1957 April 1
box 84, folder 12
No. 42
1957 April 1 – June 8
box 84, folder 13
No. 43
1957 June 8 – July 15
box 84, folder 14
No. 44
1957 July 15 – September 28
box 85, folder 1
No. 45
1957 September 28 – December 29
box 85, folder 2
No. 46
1957 December 29 - 1958 April
box 85, folder 3
No. 47
1958 April – July 4
box 85, folder 4
No. 48
1958 July 5 – October
box 85, folder 5
No. 49
1958 October – December
box 85, folder 6
No. 50
1959 January – March
box 85, folder 7
No. 51
1959 April – May 9
box 85, folder 8
No. 52
1959 May 9 – July 5
box 85, folder 9
No. 53
1959 July 5 – September 11
box 85, folder 10
No. 54
1959 September 12 – November 23
box 85, folder 11
No. 55
1959 November 23 - 1960 February 6
box 85, folder 12
No. 56
1960 February 6 – May 31
box 85, folder 13
No. 57
1960 June 13 – July 18
box 85, folder 14
No. 58
1960 July 18 – September 1
box 85, folder 15
No. 59
1960 September 2 – October 22
box 85, folder 16
No. 60
1960 October 23 - 1961 February 26
box 85, folder 17
No. 61
1961 February 27 – June 16
box 85, folder 18
No. 61A
1961 June 17 – July 16
box 86, folder 1
No. 62
1961 June 25 – September 4
box 86, folder 2
No. 63
1961 September 4 – October 7
box 86, folder 3
No. 64
1961 October 8 – November 30
box 86, folder 4
No. 65
1961 November 30 - 1962 March 6
box 86, folder 5
No. 66
1962 March 6 – May 8
box 86, folder 6
No. 67
1962 May 9 – June 18
box 86, folder 7
No. 68
1962 June 18 - September 29
box 86, folder 8
No. 69
1962 October-November
box 86, folder 9
No. 70
1962 December 6 - 1963 March
box 86, folder 10
No. 71
1963 March 21 – May 13
box 86, folder 11
No. 72
1963 May 13 – June 11
box 86, folder 12
No. 73
1963 June 11 – August 13
box 86, folder 13
No. 74
1963 August 13 – December 5
box 86, folder 14
No. 75
1963 December 5 - 1964 January 1
box 86, folder 15
No. 76
1964 January 6 – February 10
box 86, folder 16
No. 77
1964 February 10 – June 7
box 86, folder 17
No. 78
1964 June 7 – September 1
box 86, folder 18
No. 79
1964 September 1 – November 3
box 86, folder 19
No. 80
1964 November 3 – December 17
box 87, folder 1
No. 81
1964 December 17 - 1965 January 26
box 87, folder 2
No. 82
1965 January 27 – March 9
box 87, folder 3
No. 83
1965 March 9 – April 20
box 87, folder 4
No. 84
1965 April 20 – May 26
box 87, folder 5
No. 85
1965 May 26 – June 27
box 87, folder 6
No. 86
1965 June 27 – October 18
box 87, folder 7
No. 87
1965 October 18 – December 26
box 87, folder 8
No. 88
1965 December 26 - 1966 March 9
box 87, folder 9
No. 89
1966 March 9 – June 6
box 87, folder 10
No. 90
1966 June 6 – August 6
box 87, folder 11
No. 91
1966 August 7 – November 25
box 87, folder 12
No. 92
1966 November 25 - 1967 April 7
box 87, folder 13
No. 93
1967 April 7 – July 7
box 87, folder 14
No. 94
1967 July 8 – August 11
box 87, folder 15
No. 95
1967 August 11 – October 28
box 87, folder 16
No. 96
1967 October 28 - 1968 March 6
box 88, folder 1
No. 97
1968 March 6 – July 20
box 88, folder 2
No. 98
1968 July 2 – October 22
box 88, folder 3
No. 99
1968 October 23 - 1969 January 22
box 88, folder 4
No. 100
1969 January 22 – April 28
box 88, folder 5
No. 101
1969 April 28 – June 28
box 88, folder 6
No. 102
1969 June 28 – September 22
box 88, folder 7
No. 103
1969 September 22 – November 22
box 88, folder 8
No. 104
1969 November 23 - 1970 February 20
box 88, folder 9
No. 105
1970 February 19 – May 14
box 88, folder 10
No. 106
1970 May 14 – September 14
box 88, folder 11
No. 107
1970 September 14 – December 21
box 88, folder 12
No. 108
1970 December 22 - 1971 April 2
box 88, folder 13
No. 109
1971 April 2 – June 17
box 88, folder 14
No. 110
1971 June 18 – October 5
box 88, folder 15
No. 111
1971 October 5 - 1972 January 25
box 89, folder 1
No. 112
1972 January 25 – April 26
box 89, folder 2
No. 113
1972 April 26 – July 6
box 89, folder 3
No. 114
1972 July 7 – September 15
box 89, folder 4
No. 115
1972 September 15 – December 13
box 89, folder 5
No. 116
1972 December 13 - 1973 February 27
box 89, folder 6
No. 117
1973 February 27 – May 7
box 89, folder 7
No. 118
1973 May 7 – July 9
box 89, folder 8
No. 119
1973 July 9 – October 10
box 89, folder 9
No. 120
1973 October 10 – 1974 March 15
box 89, folder 10
No. 121
1974 March 15 – July 11
box 89, folder 11
No. 122
1974 July 11 – November 1
box 89, folder 12
No. 123
1974 November 7 – 1975 January 30
box 89, folder 13
No. 125
1975 September 26 – November 23
box 89, folder 14
No. 126
1975 November 23 - 1976 May 8
box 90, folder 1
No. 127
1976 May 8 – December 31
box 90, folder 2
No. 128
1976 December 31 – 1977 March 26
box 90, folder 3
No. 129
1977 March 27 – May 29
box 90, folder 4
No. 130
1977 May 29 – July 5
Typed transcriptions of numbered and dated originals
General note
For dates, see those for originals above)
Scope and Contents note
(Notebook numbers correspond to the originals. Page numbers refer to typescript, which does not fully reproduce the contents
of the originals.
Unnumbered dated originals
Newspaper Columns
1967-1970
Scope and Contents note
Articles for "Sunday Thoughts" and "Reflections," listed chronologically, and letters to the editor for "Reflections," listed
at the end.
box 95, folder 1
"Sunday Thoughts,"
San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
1967-1968
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
"Reflections," nationally syndicated column
box 95, folder 5
"Freedom and Power,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 95, folder 6
"Reflections on Juveniles,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 95, folder 7
"The Workingman in Czechoslovakia,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 95, folder 8
"The Negro Needs Genuine Heroes – Not Slogan-Slingers,"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 95, folder 9
"Fulfillment of the Undesirables,"
1968 January 14
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 95, folder 10
"Automation – The New Garden of Eden?"
1968 January 28
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and proofs
box 95, folder 11
"Youth Is a Time of Ferment,"
1968 February 11
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 95, folder 12
"I Answer Some Mail,"
1968 February 18
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 95, folder 13
"The Rude Awakening of Asia,"
1968 March 3
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 95, folder 14
"Anyone Can Write a Column like This,"
1968 March 10
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 95, folder 15
"The Occident – Mystery of the World,"
1968 March 17
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 95, folder 16
"A Kind Word for the Intellectual,"
1968 March 24
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 95, folder 17
"A Century of Juveniles,"
1968 March 31
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 95, folder 18
"A Worker Looks at Management,"
1968 April 7
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 95, folder 19
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,"
1968 April 14
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 95, folder 20
"The Pride and the Greatness,"
1968 April 21
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 95, folder 21
"The Playful Mood,"
1968 April 29
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 95, folder 22
"The Disease of Rioting,"
1968 May 5
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 95, folder 23
"Europeans Are Being Americanized and Vice Versa,"
1968 May 12
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 95, folder 24
"Nature Is for the Birds,"
1968 May 19
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 95, folder 25
"Israel Stands Alone,"
1968 May 26
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 95, folder 26
"The Negro's Vicious Circle,"
1968 June 2
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 95, folder 27
"Kids and Men on Campus,"
1968 June 9
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 95, folder 28
"The Damnation of the Young,"
1968 June 16
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 95, folder 29
"Readiness to Work,"
1968 June 23
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 95, folder 30
"The Lessons of French Revolt,"
1968 June 30
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 95, folder 31
"Who Needs Freedom?"
1968 July 7
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 95, folder 32
"Where Do They Go from Here?"
1968 July 14
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 95, folder 33
"The Pain of Imitating,"
1968 July 21
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 1
"The Cult of Violence,"
1968 July 28
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 2
"Education and Democracy,"
1968 August 4
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 3
"Thoughts on Czechoslovakia,"
1968 August 11
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 4
"Forty Years in the Desert,"
1968 August 18
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 5
"The Practical Sense,"
1968 August 25
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 96, folder 6
"Common People in America,"
1968 September 1
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 7
"A Nation of Lower Mujicks,"
1968 September 8
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 8
"Negro Pride,"
1968 September 15
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 9
"Can the Middle Fight Back?"
1968 September 22
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 10
"Predictability: Past and Present,"
1968 September 29
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 11
"Heaven and the Jailkeeper,"
1968 October 6
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 12
"Misfits and Outcasts,"
1968 October 13
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 13
"Grievance and Protest,"
1968 October 20
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 14
"Man's Most Useful Occupation,"
1968 October 27
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 15
"The Stupid, Corrupt Americans,"
1968 November 3
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 16
"Avant-Garde,"
1968 November 10
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 17
"Negro Anti-Semitism,"
1968 November 17
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 18
"The New Empire: A United Europe,"
1968 November 24
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 19
"The Cure of Lawlessness,"
1968 December 1
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 20
"The 'Useless' Intellectual,"
1968 December 8
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 21
"Thoughts on Affluence,"
1968 December 15
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 22
"Who Is Sick?"
1968 December 22
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 23
"Clichés about America,"
1968 December 29
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 24
"Decade of the Young,"
1969 January 6
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 25
"A New Monster,"
1969 January 12
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 26
"An Ill Wind for Israel,"
1969 January 19
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 27
"Order on the Campus,"
1969 January 26
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 28
"The Birth of Negro Communities,"
1969 February 2
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 29
"The Astronauts,"
1969 February 9
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 30
"Who the 'Intellectual' Is,"
1969 February 16
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 31
"Who Is Influencing Whom?"
1969 February 23
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 32
"Skills and Freedom,"
1969 March 2
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 33
"Our Natural Allies,"
1969 March 9
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 34
"The Alibi of Discrimination,"
1969 March 16
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 35
"Originating and Borrowing,"
1969 March 23
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 36
"Student Activists,"
1969 March 30
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 37
"The Quality of a Society,"
1969 April 6
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 38
"When Words Are Dangerous,"
1969 April 13
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 39
"Israel among the Nations,"
1969 April 20
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 96, folder 40
"Maintenance,"
1969 April 27
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 96, folder 41
"The Weak Things of the World,"
1969 May 4
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 1
"Writers and Artists,"
1969 May 11
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 2
"Fighting Words,"
1969 May 18
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 3
"Guilt and Social Order,"
1969 May 25
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 4
"Reflections on the Young,"
1969 June 1
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 5
"The Meek Majority,"
1969 June 8
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 6
"The Vulnerable Social Body,"
1969 June 15
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 7
"What Kind of Country?"
1969 June 22
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 8
"More on the Young,"
1969 June 29
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 9
"What Ails Professor Marcuse?"
1969 July 6
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 10
"Past and Future Evils,"
1969 July 13
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 11
"Black Pride,"
1969 July 20
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 12
"Rudeness,"
1969 July 27
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 13
"Sociologists and Violence,"
1969 August 3
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 14
"Human Perfection,"
1969 August 10
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 15
"On the Campus,"
1969 August 17
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 16
"God and the Machine Age,"
1969 August 24
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 17
"Change,"
1969 August 31
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 18
"Man and God,"
1969 September 7
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 19
"Power in America,"
1969 September 14
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 20
"The Return of the Past,"
1969 September 21
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 21
"The Passage from Boyhood to Manhood,"
1969 September 28
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 22
"The Masses and History,"
1969 October 5
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 23
"Majorities and Minorities,"
1969 October 12
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 24
"Who Has Talent?"
1969 October 19
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 25
"Man and Nature,"
1969 October 26
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 26
"Intellectual Refugees,"
1969 November 2
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 27
"Holy Revolution,"
1969 November 9
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 28
"The Trader in History,"
1969 November 16
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 29
"Cities: Past and Present,"
1969 November 23
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 30
"In Time of Rapid Change,"
1969 November 30
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 31
"Dehumanization,"
1969 December 7
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 32
"Civilization in Asia,"
1969 December 14
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 33
"Who Makes History?"
1969 December 21
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 34
"Black Power,"
1969 December 28
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 35
"In Praise of Luxuries,"
1970 January 4
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 36
"The Perils of Affluence,"
1970 January 11
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 37
"Israel Stands Alone,"
1970 January 18
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 38
"Things Which Are Not,"
1970 January 25
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 39
"Who Does Whose Work?"
1970 February 1
Scope and Contents note
Holograph, typescript, and printed copy
box 97, folder 40
"A Workingman's Country,"
1970 February 8
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 41
"The New Type of Rich,"
1970 February 15
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 97, folder 42
"Are Revolutions Revolutionary?"
1970 March 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 97, folder 43
"The Effects of the Negro Revolution,"
1970 March 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
Letters to Eric Hoffer from readers of "Reflections"
National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence File
1968-1970
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, memoranda, working materials, statements, and reports, arranged chronologically by physical form.
Correspondence relating to Eric Hoffer's tenure as a commissioner
box 102
Working materials
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, consultant reports, research reports, and other printed matter
box 103
Working materials
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, consultant reports, research reports, and other printed matter
box 104
Working materials
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, consultant reports, research reports, and other printed matter
box 105
Working materials
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, consultant reports, research reports, and other printed matter
box 106
Working materials
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, consultant reports, research reports, and other printed matter
box 107
Working materials
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, consultant reports, research reports, and other printed matter
Investigative reports
1969
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 108, folder 4
Shut It Down! A College in Crisis
Task force reports
1968-1969
box 109
Preliminary drafts
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 110
Preliminary drafts
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Typscript
box 111
Preliminary drafts
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Typscript
box 112
Preliminary drafts
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Typscript
box 113
Preliminary drafts
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Typscript
box 114
Preliminary drafts
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Typscript
box 115
Preliminary drafts
1968-1969
Scope and Contents note
Typscript
Final versions
1969
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 116, folder 1
Assassination and Political Violence
box 116, folder 5
Firearms and Violence in American Life
box 117, folder 1
Law and Order Reconsidered
Progress report
1968-1969
box 119, folder 1-4
Final report
1969
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
San Francisco Art Commission File
1968-1973
Scope and Contents note
Certificates; correspondence, memoranda, and reports; and minutes, arranged alphabetically by physical form.
box 120, folder 1
General
1968-1971
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to Eric Hoffer's tenure as commissioner.
Certificates of appointment
Lili Fabilli Osborne Correspondence File
1961-1994
Scope and Contents note
Letters and cards, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. For correspondence with Eric Hoffer, see CORRESPONDENCE
series.
box 121, folder 1
Birthday and Christmas cards
box 121, folder 4
Bay, Christian and Juanita
1968-1983
box 121, folder 7
Buckley, William F., Jr.
1983
box 121, folder 10
Dagani, Nahum and Sarah
1971-1973
box 121, folder 11
D'Amboise, Jacques
1984-1985
box 121, folder 13
Eaton, William and Joan
1972-1980
box 121, folder 14
Fabilli, Josephine (sister of Lili Fabilli Osborne)
1969-1986
box 121, folder 15
Ferguson, Charles W.
1967-1971
box 121, folder 17
Gordon, Mitch and Marilyn
1967
box 121, folder 19
HarperCollins Publishers (Pamela Jelley, Corona Machemer, Marilyn Small)
1978-1992
box 121, folder 22
Jones, G. Lewis
1969-1970
box 122, folder 1
Kittrell, Charlie M.
1981-1984
box 122, folder 2
Klussman, Frieda
1983-1984
box 122, folder 3
Knight, George and Dora
1966-1983
box 122, folder 4
Koerner, James D.
1970-1971
box 122, folder 7
Ledger Syndicate (John W. Higgins)
1967-1971
box 122, folder 11
Menninger, W. Walter
1972
box 122, folder 12
Osborne, Eric (son of Lili Fabilli Osborne)
undated
box 122, folder 13
Phillips, Pauline (pseudonym, Abigail Van Buren)
1969-1974
box 122, folder 14
Quinlan, Wayne and Betty
1968
box 122, folder 16
Roberts, Erling and Muriel
1971
box 122, folder 17
Roberts, Malcolm and Cindy
1973-1984
box 122, folder 18
Rowand, E. C. and Mary Louise, Jr.
1968-1984
box 122, folder 20
Scalapino, Robert and Dee
1976
box 122, folder 21
Schwartz, Robert L.
1980-1981
box 122, folder 23
Straub, Jeff and Alberta
1979
box 122, folder 24
Straub, Pat and Robert
1970-1982
box 122, folder 25
Thompson, Edgar T.
1967-1975
box 122, folder 26
Tomkins, Calvin
1966-1973
box 122, folder 28
Wadleigh, Alice
1964-1976
box 122, folder 29
Wadleigh, Frank
1978-1984
box 122, folder 33
Yates, Margaret
1968-1971
Card File
undated
Scope and Contents note
Note cards, unsorted and sorted alphabetically by name of author or subject.
Sorted
Scope and Contents note
Consists mainly of quotations, listed by author.
Writings by Others
1950-1973
Subject File
1960-1979
Scope and Contents note
Brochures, clippings, and serial issues, arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 133, folder 3
Authors League of America
box 133, folder 4
Everson, William (pseudonym, Brother Antoninus)
box 133, folder 5
Free Speech Movement
1964-1965
box 133, folder 9
Humphrey, Hubert
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials relating to the 1968 presidential campaign
box 134, folder 2
Osborne, Lili Fabilli
General note
See also LILI FABILLI OSBORNE CORRESPONDENCE FILE above
Printed Matter
1949-1982
Scope and Contents note
Brochures, monographs, reports, and serial issues, largely relating to domestic and international politics, social policy,
and education.
box 142
Material not yet described
Scope and Contents
See also Box 164 and 165
Sound Recordings
1969-1981
Scope and Contents note
Sound tape reels and sound cassettes, arranged chronologically.
box 143, folder 1
One sound tape reel of a talk by Eric Hoffer
1969 May 9
box 143, folder 2
One sound tape reel of a television interview with Eric Hoffer
1969 January 28
box 143, folder 3
One sound cassette of a conversation with Eric Hoffer
undated
box 143, folder 4
One sound cassette of a speech by Eric Hoffer, Boston University
undated
box 143, folder 5-7
Three sound cassettes of a speech by Eric Hoffer, "Architects and Nature: On the Primacy of Man,"
undated
box 143, folder 8
Four sound cassettes of a commencement address and talks by Eric Hoffer, Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts
1971 May 30
box 143, folder 9
One sound cassette of a speech by Eric Hoffer upon receiving the Human Resources Award, Human Resources Congress, Chicago
1972 August 26
box 143, folder 10
One sound cassette of a speech by Eric Hoffer, College High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1978 October(?)
box 143, folder 11
One sound cassette of a speech by Eric Hoffer, Sooner High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1978 October(?)
box 143, folder 12
One sound cassette of an interview with Eric Hoffer, San Francisco
1980
box 143, folder 13-14
Two sound cassettes of a talk by William Fredlund
1981 March 7
Videotapes
1963-1979
Scope and Contents note
Arranged chronologically.
box 144, folder 1-12
"Conversations with Eric Hoffer," 12 VHS videotape cassettes
1963
Scope and Contents note
Interview by James Day of KQED. 12 parts.
Access
Use copy reference number: 94057_v_0005890
box 145, folder 1
"Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind," television interview with Eric Sevareid
1967 September 19
Scope and Contents note
CBS News special. Commercials breaks are included in recording. Recording is from the CBS News Archive.
Access
Use copy reference number: 94057_v_0006312
box 145, folder 2
"The Savage Heart: A Conversation with Eric Hoffer," television interview with Eric Sevareid, CBS
1969 January 28
Scope and Contents note
CBS News special. Commercials breaks are included in recording. Recording is from the CBS News Archive.
Access
Use copy reference number: 94057_v_0006318
box 145, folder 3-4
"People of Our Time: Eric Hoffer," John McGreevy Productions
1974(?)
box 145
Reflections from the Waterfront, with Eric Hoffer
1974
Access
Use copy reference number: 94057_v_0008548
Scope and Contents note
Program on Eric Hoffer
box 146, folder 1
"Eric Hoffer at Woolaroc," Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1977 April(?)
Scope and Contents note
Director: S. Clark. Outdoor interview of Eric Hoffer conducted by Judy Hagedorn (sp?) and Jan Kazier (sp?). Color, unedited
footage. Produced by Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA).
Access
Use copy reference number: 94057_v_0002065
box 146, folder 2-3
"An Evening with Eric Hoffer: Capitalism," Bartlesville, Oklahoma, parts 1-2
1977 April
Scope and Contents note
Eric Hoffer lecture "Capitalism" given in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Introduction by Charlie Kittrell of Philips Petroleum Co.
Produced, directed by Jim Rankin. Produced by Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA).
Access
Use copy reference number: 94057_v_0002064
box 146, folder 4-6
"Eric Hoffer: Points of View and Positions in Life," Bartlesville, Oklahoma, parts 1-3
1979 July
Scope and Contents note
Studio interview of Eric Hoffer conducted by Charlie Kittrell of Philips Petroleum Co. Bartlesville, OK. Produced by Oklahoma
Educational Television Authority (OETA).
Access
Use copy reference number: 94057_v_0002062
Photographs
1950-1985
Scope and Contents note
Prints, albums, and oversize prints, arranged by physical form and chronologically therein.
box 147, folder 1
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer addressing students
undated
box 147, folder 2
Five prints depicting Eric Hoffer
undated
box 147, folder 3
Twelve prints depicting Eric Hoffer
undated
box 147, folder 4
Four prints depicting Eric Hoffer speaking to a group of military officers
undated
box 147, folder 5
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Lili Fabilli Osborne
undated
box 147, folder 6
Three prints depicting Eric Hoffer with Erling Roberts, and one print depicting a painting of Eric Hoffer by Erling Roberts
undated
box 147, folder 7
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Stacy Cole
undated
box 147, folder 8
Four prints depicting a bust of Eric Hoffer sculpted by Jane Rich
undated
box 147, folder 9
One reproduction of a photograph of Eric Hoffer by Dan Stroud
undated
box 147, folder 10
One print depicting G. Lewis Jones, Brisbane, Australia
undated
box 147, folder 11
One print depicting the spine of a book belonging to Eric Hoffer,
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
undated
box 147, folder 12
Four prints depicting a church complex
undated
box 147, folder 13
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer
circa 1950
box 147, folder 14
One print depicting Eric Hoffer
1951
box 147, folder 15
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Lili Fabilli Osborne, and one print depicting Eric Hoffer with Steven and Eric Osborne
1960s
box 147, folder 16
Three prints depicting Eric Hoffer working as a longshoreman, San Francisco
1960s
Scope and Contents note
Photographs taken by George Knight
box 147, folder 17
One print depicting Eric Hoffer attending a meeting of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, San Francisco
1960s
Scope and Contents note
Photograph taken by George Knight
box 147, folder 18
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and one print depicting Eric Hoffer in the studios of
KQED Television, San Francisco
1960s
Scope and Contents note
Photographs taken by George Knight
box 147, folder 19
Two proof sheets of photographs depicting Eric Hoffer on the docks in San Francisco
1963
box 147, folder 20
One print depicting students of Lili Fabilli Osborne
1963 May
box 147, folder 21
Four prints depicting Eric Hoffer at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
1964
box 147, folder 22
One print depicting Ernie Zaugg, South Vietnam
1966
box 147, folder 23
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer talking to students at the University of California at Berkeley
circa 1966-1967
Scope and Contents note
Photographs taken by George Knight
box 147, folder 24
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Jack Vaughn, Washington, D.C.
circa 1967
box 147, folder 25
One print depicting Eric Hoffer, with a dedication to Lili Fabilli Osborne
1967
box 147, folder 26
One print depicting Col. Joe Cotton
1967
box 147, folder 27
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer with G. Lewis Jones and Ambassador Allen, Washington, D.C.
1967 October 4
box 147, folder 28
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer
1967 December
box 147, folder 29
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer at the inaugural of Mayor Joseph Alioto, San Francisco
circa 1968
box 147, folder 30
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Hubert Humphrey
1968
box 147, folder 31
Nine prints depicting Eric Hoffer and Lili Fabilli Osborne during a visit to Texas with E. C. and Mary Louise Rowand
1968
box 147, folder 32
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with G. Lewis Jones, Washington, D.C.
1968 October 28
box 147, folder 33
Nine prints depicting a bust of Eric Hoffer sculpted by Jonathan Hershfeld
1970
box 147, folder 34
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Lili Fabilli Osborne
1970s
box 147, folder 35
Six prints depicting Eric Hoffer
1970s
box 148, folder 1
Eleven prints depicting Eric Hoffer at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts
1971 May 30
box 148, folder 2
Sixteen prints depicting Eric Hoffer at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts
1971 May 30
box 148, folder 3
Seven prints depicting Eric Hoffer at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts
1971 May 30
box 148, folder 4
One print depicting Eric Hoffer
1972
box 148, folder 5
Sixteen prints depicting Eric Hoffer
1974
Scope and Contents note
Photographs taken by Ara Güler
box 148, folder 6
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Helen and Saul Klein
1974 June 17
box 148, folder 7
One copy of a printed portfolio containing a photograph of Eric Hoffer taken by Ara Güler
1975
box 148, folder 8
Five prints depicting Eric Hoffer and William Loeb, and one print depicting Eric Hoffer and Lili Fabilli Osborne
1975
box 148, folder 9
One print depicting Eric Hoffer
1975
box 148, folder 10
Three prints depicting Eric Hoffer
circa 1976
box 148, folder 11
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Anne Wiggins, one print depicting Eric Hoffer with E. Bennett Wiggins, and one print
depicting Eric Hoffer alone
1976 January 5
box 148, folder 12
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer, Lili Fabilli Osborne, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kitrell
circa 1977
box 148, folder 13
Two prints depicting Eric Hoffer
1977 December 16
Scope and Contents note
Photographs taken by Michael Alexander
box 148, folder 14
One print depicting a televised image of Eric Hoffer
1978 January 18
box 148, folder 15
One print depicting Eric Hoffer
1979
box 148, folder 16
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Janet Oberlund and Ruth and Reed Swenson
1979 April
box 148, folder 17
One print depicting Eric Hoffer and Lili Fabilli Osborne, two prints depicting Eric Hoffer individually, and two prints depicting
Lili Fabilli Osborne individually
circa 1980
box 148, folder 18
Two prints depicting the dedication ceremony for a sculpture honoring Eric Hoffer
1985
box 149, folder 1
One album of prints relating to visits by Eric Hoffer and Lili Osborne with E. C. and Mary Louise Rowand, Dallas, Texas, and
San Francisco, California
1970
box 149, folder 2
Two albums of prints depicting Eric Hoffer at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts
1971 May
box 149, folder 3
One album of prints depicting Eric Hoffer at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan
1971 June 12
box 150, folder 1-2
Two albums of prints depicting Eric Hoffer during a visit to Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1977
Scope and Contents note
Photographs taken by Dan Stroud
Oversize prints of photographs taken by George Knight
box 151, folder 1
One print depicting Eric Hoffer with Lee Greenwood, Sara Knight, and Selden Osborne
1964
box 151, folder 2
One print depicting Lili Fabilli Osborne
1966
box 151, folder 3
One print depicting Eric Hoffer at the University of California at Berkeley
1966
box 151, folder 4
One print depicting Eric Hoffer working on the San Francisco waterfront
1967
box 151, folder 5
One print depicting Eric Hoffer and Eric Osborne
1964
box 151, folder 6
One print depicting Eric Hoffer and Sara Knight
1967
box 151, folder 7
One print depicting Eric Hoffer and William Eaton
1967
box 151, folder 8
One print depicting Eric Hoffer and Stephen Osborne
1967
box 151, folder 9
One print depicting Lili Fabilli Osborne, Stephen Osborne, and Eric Osborne
1967
box 151, folder 10-11
Two prints depicting Stephen and Eric Osborne
1967
box 151, folder 12
One print depicting Stephen Osborne
1968
box 151, folder 13
One print depicting a vase of flowers
1968
box 151, folder 14-15
Two copies of a print depicting Eric Hoffer reading a newspaper
1971
box 151, folder 16
One framed print depicting Eric Hoffer
1971
Oversize prints of photographs taken by others
box 151, folder 17-23
Seven prints depicting Eric Hoffer with Lyndon Johnson at the White House, Washington, D.C.
1967
Scope and Contents note
Two prints are signed, with a dedication to Hoffer, by Lyndon Johnson
box 151, folder 24-31
Eight prints depicting Eric Hoffer in his study
1970s
box 151, folder 32
One print depicting Eric Hoffer at a fundraising dinner for Israel
1975 May
Scope and Contents note
Photograph taken by Bill Paul
box 151, folder 33
One print depicting Eric Hoffer
1973
Scope and Contents note
Photograph taken by Mimi Jacobs
box 151, folder 34
One print depicting Eric Hoffer in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1977
box 151, folder 35-36
Two prints depicting the Earth as seen from Apollo 8 in lunar orbit
1968
box 151, folder 37
One print depicting children playing
undated
Motion Picture Film
undated
box 152
Passionate State of Mind, 16mm film
Scope and Contents note
One reel containing a CBS television interview with Eric Hoffer.
Oversize Material
1959-1985
Scope and Contents note
Albums, art works, awards, certificates, posters, and other oversize materials arranged alphabetically by physical form.
box 153, folder 1
One album of correspondence between Eric Hoffer and Barney Brown, including some correspondence with persons other than Eric
Hoffer and clippings, compiled by Barney Brown
1971-1985
General note
See also Brown, Barney in CORRESPONDENCE series above
box 153, folder 2
One album of photographs and clippings relating to the awarding of an honorary degree to Eric Hoffer, Muhlenberg College,
Allentown, Pennsylvania
1975 June 5
box 154, folder 1-4
Four drawings by Eric Osborne
undated
box 154, folder 5-11
Seven etchings by Alec Stern
1959
box 154, folder 12-13
Two brochures containing etchings by Alec Stern
1959
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies
box 154, folder 14-17
Four drawings by Bonnie N. Cooke illustrating aphorisms by Eric Hoffer
1971
art rack
One acrylic portrait of Eric Hoffer
1966
Awards, certificates, and honors received by Eric Hoffer
box 155, folder 1
Commemorative paperweight, Geotechnical Society, University of California at Berkeley
undated
box 155, folder 2
Commemorative paperweight, The Press Club of San Francisco
undated
box 155, folder 3
Medallion awarded by the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco for
The True Believer
undated
box 156, folder 1
Framed certificate of appointment to the Art Commission of San Francisco
1968 March
box 156, folder 2
Plaque given in honor, Jewish National Fund, Los Angeles, California
1969 August 29
box 156, folder 3
Framed certificate of membership, National Historical Society
1970 March 1
box 156, folder 4
Certificate of honorary citizenship, New Orleans, Louisiana
1970 June 28
box 156, folder 5
Certificate of appointment to the Art Commission of San Francisco
1971 March
box 156, folder 6
Metal plaque, with a facsimile of an honorary degree received from Michigan Technological University
1971 June 12
box 156, folder 7
Metal plaque representing the Human Resources Award, Human Resources Congress, Chicago, Illinois
1972 August 26
box 157, folder 1
Framed certificate of membership, Four Chaplains Legion of Honor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1974 November 12
box 157, folder 2
Plaque given in appreciation, Hastings 1066 Foundation, Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California
1975
box 157, folder 3
Mounted certificate of honor, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
1977
box 157, folder 4
Encased medallion for outstanding achievement, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
1978
box 158, folder 1
Encased Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded
1983 February 23
box 158, folder 2
Proclamation awarding Presidential Medal of Freedom, signed by Ronald Reagan
1983 February 23
box 158, folder 3
Program for Presidential Medal of Freedom awards ceremony
1983 February 23
box 159, folder 1
Brochure publicizing Eric Hoffer's newspaper column, "Reflections,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 159, folder 2
Galley proofs of
Truth Imagined
1983
Scope and Contents note
See also SPEECHES AND WRITINGS above for more materials relating to this title
box 159, folder 3
Invitation in presentation album, "A Matter of Faith," Metromedia Producers Group
undated
box 160, folder 1
Poem, "The Scholar," by W. Fred Wilson, in frame
undated
box 160, folder 2
One poster advertising Eric Hoffer's newspaper column, "Reflections," in the
Salt Lake Tribune
undated
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 160, folder 3
Three printed copies of a poster advertising "People of Our Time," a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series including a
program devoted to Eric Hoffer
undated
box 161, folder 1-4
Four ceremonial sashes, worn by Eric Hoffer when receiving honorary degrees
undated
box 161, folder 6
One embroidered Japanese silk brocade
box 162
Longshoreman's plug, with identifying serial number
Access
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box 162
Two cargo hooks used by Eric Hoffer in his work as a longshoreman
Access
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box 162
One wooden rack containing seven pairs of reading glasses and a magnifying glass
Access
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box 167
One leather bag
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box 162
One wooden box given by Eric Hoffer to Lili Fabilli Osborne, containing two pipes, a packet of cigarettes, and a bag of pipe
cleaners
Access
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box 162
One pair of cufflinks with the seal of the State of California, in a metal box
Access
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box 162
One cigarette case
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box 162
One cigarette box
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box 162
Two political buttons from the Zionist Organization of America
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box 162
One nametag for the National Advisory Council
Access
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box 162
One cigar box containing three pocket knives, three coin purses, one eyeglass holder, and a tobacco pouch
Access
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box 162
One paperweight commemorating the American bicentennial
1976
Access
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box 163
Material not yet described
box 164
Material not yet described
Scope and Contents
See also Box 142 and 165
box 165
Material not yet described
Scope and Contents
See also Box 142 and 164
Incremental Materials
Processing Information
These incremental materials were processed to a baseline standard that employs an accession inventory for description. An
accession inventory is a basic description of an archival collection with no attempt at intellectual arrangement. The depth
of description varies depending on the format of the materials and the amount of pre-existing description received when the
materials were acquired.
box 166
1954-1967, undated
Scope and Contents
This box includes correspondence and writings (journals, poetry, etc.). The following is a list of original enclosure titles
contained in the box: "Writings on suicide."