Inventory of the Robert W. Whitaker Collection
Inventory of the Robert W. Whitaker Collection
Collection number: GTU 2003-11-01
Graduate Theological Union ArchivesGraduate Theological Union
Berkeley, California
- Processed by:
- Martha Jenks
- Date Completed:
- February 2004
- Encoded by:
- David Stiver
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Series 1. Diaries 1985-1944
Diaries 1885-1886, 1898-1914
Diaries 1915-1935
Diaries 1936-1944
Series 2. Correspondence 1922-1969
Outgoing from RWW 1938-40
Incoming to RWW 1922, 1937-44
Incoming to RWW on his 80th birthday 1943
Re: William W. Busick undated
From Wells T. Miller 1942-43
From Floyd J. Seaman 1940
From William B. Thompson 1939
There is no File Folder 19
Claire Whitaker: Includes correspondence after RWW's death, some essays and poetry and correspondence with Robert Shaffer 1969
Series 3. Personal 1924-1944
Robert B. Whitaker (nephew) correspondent for Unity in China 1924
Photos of RWW and negatives circa 1898 and 193?
List of birthdays of famous figures in history circa 1937
Obituaries for RWW 1944
Newspaper articles about RWW 1927-44
Robert Whitaker Collection Finding Aid, Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles, CA no date
Series 4. Political Activity 1896-1944
Rockefeller Rhetorical Society meeting, Oakland, CA 10/16/1896
Conference of Christian Pacifists in California meeting, Los Angeles 10/1917
International New Thought Alliance 3rd Congress, St. Louis, MO 9/1917
"The Jazz of Patriotism: An Argument Against War in Four Episodes" by Fanny Bixby Spencer, Theater program 10/1928
Tom Mooney (See also: Short Essays, 1929, "Why Mooney Stays in Jail" Box ff; Short Essays, 1931, "Will Gov. Ralph Release Mooney?" Box ff; Manuscript Poetry, 1901-44, poetry written on reverse of correspondence discussing the Mooney case.) 1928-64
Symposium announcement for the Layman's League, "Process and Personality," 1st Unitarian Church, Los Angeles 1930
Series 5. Robert Whitaker's Essays, Articles, and Lectures: Published and Unpublished, Reprints and Manuscripts 1912-1940
Scope and Content Note
Record of Prose Articles 1926 October -1927 February
The Achievement of Youth in The Reflector 1904 February
America and the World (MSS) undated
America and World Problems (MSS) undated
The Anti-Japanese Agitation in California in The World Tomorrow 1920 November
Baptists and Economics in The Baptist 1929 August 31
Baptists and Social Evangelism (MSS) circa 1934
Baptists and the Social Gospel (MSS) 1934
Beecher, Bullard and Biography in The Christian Leader 1932 March 5
Between Banks and other short essays and fragments (MSS. On reverse of correspondence and letterhead from The People's Institute, Los Gatos, CA, and The International Polytechnical University, Los Angeles, circa 1920s
The Biography of a Book (MSS) versions 1 and 2 circa 1939
By Night A First Century Drama in Zion's Herald 1931 March 25
A California Greeting (MSS) for Licking Valley Courier , West Liberty, Kentucky 1928 April 13
The Call of California in The Labor Defender includes photo of RWW 1926 May
The Call of the Human (Book Review) in Unity 1938 January 3
Can Roosevelt Save Us? (MSS) 1912
The Carpenter Who Dared to be a Christ, a Revised Story of Jesus of Nazareth (MSS) undated
Chaplaincies for the Dead in Unity 1935 May 20
A Chaplaincy or a Crusade in The Christian Community 1935 March 7
The Church Next Door in The Christian Century 1934 July 11
The Churches and the Class Struggle in America (MSS) undated
The Churches and Labor (MSS), on reverse of leaflets from the Russian American Demonstration School, Ukraine Farming and Machinery Corporation circa late 1920s
The Churches and the New Abolitionism (MSS) undated
The Churches and the Social Crisis in The Christian Leader 1934 July 21
Collaboration in the Churches in Unity 1935 April 15
Communism and Religiophobia in Pacific Weekly 1935 October 28
Communism Must be Understood in The Christian 1933 June 10
A Cosman in The Cosman, A Call to World Consciousness, World Fellowship, and World Unity ed. RWW 1922 September 9
The Cosman Service 1928
Creative Revolution (MSS) undated
Criminal Legalism (MSS) undated
The Cross and the Communist in Advance (incomplete) 1934 September 13
Cupid and the Cloth (Notes on personal lives of some Presbyterian clergy) (MSS) undated
The Democracy of Jesus (MSS) 2 versions undated
Doing the Impossible in The Monitor undated
A Double Default (MSS) undated
A Dream and an Address, and other short essays (MSS) circa 1940s
Drugging the Prophets in Advance 1932 December 24
The Dualism of Christianity (MSS) circa 1940
An Everyday Heroine, a eulogy to RWW's sister-in-law (MSS) undated
The Fear of Materialism (MSS) undated
Federalism and American Fascism in The Christian Leader 1934 April 28
The First Americans (MSS) undated
The Gandhis of California in Unity 1924 December 15
A Great Speech in Young People 1908 October 24
Gullibility of the Good (MSS) undated
Hi-Diddle-Diddle Hymnology in The Front Rank undated
How Long? (incomplete) in Unity 1934 March 5
The Insurgent, An Epistle of Progress 1911 February
The Intelligent American (MSS) undated
Is the World an Opinion? The Fundamental Difference in The Churchman 1935 November 1
It Doesn't Pay, A Word to the Sorrowing undated
Jesus and Jew-Baiting in Unity 1934 October 1
Jesus and the Problems of Today (notes) (MSS) undated
Jesus and the World of Tomorrow (MSS) 2 versions undated
Jews and the World Process (MSS) 2 versions undated
Jesus and Things as They Are (MSS) undated
Jesus of Nazareth (MSS) 1943
Labor and World Unity (referenced in the article) 1928
Laughter and Life undated
Laymen and the Social Gospel in The Christian Century 1934 September 19
Ethics of Student Life (MSS) undated
Letter to the Editor in The Open Forum 1926
Life Facts Ruin Picture of Christ as Young Sheep in Tomorrow undated
The Los Gatos Idea leaflets 1915 1918
Man and His World, The Cosman Press 1925
Man and the World Community (MSS) undated
The Man Who Might Have Been 1899
More or Less Bible Stories (MSS) undated
My Country is the World (MSS) undated
Nearer My God to Thee in Unity 1938 February 21
Never! William Never! in The Christian Leader 1935 January 25
A New Abolitionism in The Churchman 1930
New Evangelism or Religion in Terms of World Process circa 1923
New History (MSS) undated
No Place for the OO Church in The Presbyterian Tribune 1934 December 27
Notes on the Bible (MSS) undated
One Woman's Worth, the Story of Lucretia Watson Taylor circa 1913
Our Sacred Cows in Unity 1936 March 3
Outlines of History, includes Story of Man and correspondence 1930-31
Pacifism and the Prospective European War in Unity 1935 November 18
The Passion of Socialism undated
The Peace Breakers in The World Tomorrow 1930
The People's Choice in California in Unity 1934 November 12
Political Fundamentalism in The Christian Leader 1931 August 15
Prophecying and the Community Church in The Christian Community 1934 October 21
The Quality of Mercy (MSS) undated
The Real Trouble with Religion (MSS) undated
The Realism of Resentment in Unity 1932 May 2
Realism and Liberalism in The Christian Leader 1934 October 20
The Religious and Russia in Zion's Herald 1929 November 27
The Return to Jesus (MSS) undated
Revolution and the Class Struggle (MSS) undated
Revolution and the Jew in Unity 1934 October 15
The Sacrilege at San Jose (California) in Unity 1934 January 8
San Francisco Tells the World in Unity 1934 August 20
Seattle Union Record article series 1924
Short essays and Letters to the Editor published 1928-40
Short essays and Letters to the Editor (MSS) 1929-30
Short published essays and articles (MSS) includes some poetry 1929-30
Short published essays (MSS) 1930-31
Sketches (MSS) including Ham and Japheth, Bad Temper, Outline Work in the Life of Jesus, A Warm Bye and Bye, A Sound Preacher, Brother Ministers and Bishop Kim: Early Days of Episcopate. Undated
Three essays published together: Smith's Valley, Wanted - An Original Deed and Two of a Kind in Why? A Magazine Devoted to the Single Tax 1900 August
The Story of Man (MSS) undated
The Story of the United States (MSS) undated
Strange Company (MSS) undated
The Study Table (review of Upton Sinclair's book and the movie made from it The Wet Parade) in Unity 1932 May 9
The Stumbling Block 1942
Summing Up (MSS) 2 versions undated
Supreme Sin of the Ages (MSS) undated
Sympathy and Sense in the Star circa 1917
The Table (MSS) undated
Thanksgiving in Reverse in The Watchman-Examiner 1934 November 15
The Tired and Attired Radicals in The Christian Leader 1934 August 25
This Side of Heaven in The Christian 1932 October 20
Toward an Intelligent America 1935
A Tribute to May Johnson in Unity 1936 January 20
Tribute to Ralph Cheyney in Unity 1941 December
Ultimate Democracy in Unity 1933 August 7
Uncle Tim's Talent in The Watchman-Examiner 1934 September 6
War! In The Open Forum 1939 May 6
The Week-Day Pulpit published by RWW Vol. 1, nos. 1-3 1912 March
What is History? (MSS) undated
What is Religion? (MSS) undated
What Price Intelligence in Unity 1933 August 7
When Augustus Reigned 1943 February
When War is On and other articles 1934
Where the Shoe Pinches in California in The Christian Leader 1935 February 23
Why Callest Thou Me Good? 1913
Will Organized Religion Break with Capitalism? (MSS) undated
A Word about Hero Worship in Unity 1935 August 5
The World Community 1940
The World Community - The Way Out of Chaos (MSS) 1940
The World Family Letter circa 1940
The Yesterday and Today of Socialism undated
Essay Fragments (MSS) Autobiography[?] circa 1929-36, 1940, some undated
Series 6. Poetry 1884-1944
Scope and Content Note
Sub-series A. General information regarding poems. 1907 - 1931
Letter to Dorothy Falawn about Social Song by RWW 1937
(There is no file folder 45)
Record of Published Poetry. See also Poetry 1884-1936 for List of Poems in Box 6 ff 17. 1907-26.
Circumstances of Composition: for My Country, The Burden and Live for Something 1931
Sub-series B. Longer Poems. Arranged alphabetically by title. 1896 - 1939
An Author's Thanksgiving and other published poems undated
A Booklet of Verse 1933
Blessed are They That Mourn undated
The Call of the Human (reviewed by Llewellyn Peck) undated
Christmas Poetry: Christmas, Room for the Son of Mary! Room! and The Lifted Latch 1928-29
The Continual Christmas and other poems undated
A Defense of Materialism Includes World Saviors and The Trails of Tragedy unpublished undated
He Leadeth Me published in The Los Gatos Idea undated
The Insurgent published by RWW and includes his poetry undated
Invictus the Immutable (includes hand-tinted photographs of Liberty Gap and the High Sierra) circa 1925
Lincoln and Labor 1927
Love's Renaissance 1926
The Miff Tree circa 1934
A Moonlit Morning published in Versecraft 1939
Mother-Love and The Jolly Good Fellow undated
My Country is the World two versions. Originally written 1899 1939, 1944
My Country is the World self-published in a collection with other poems undated
My Country is the World in The World Community 1946
My Enemy and Who is to Blame? undated
Resurrection in The Churchman 1939
A Song of Democracy undated
Songs of Fellowship undated
The Starred Mother in Banners of Brotherhood 1933
The Stranger undated
The Striker and Who is to Blame? undated
The Trails of Tragedy 1927
The Time Builder undated
Two Heroes undated
Wheel-Barrow Saints 1936
Whitakerettes: Pith and Proverbs fragment 1910-35
Who Weeps Today? 1896
The World Community: The Way Out of World Chaos. Includes notes on circumstances of composition 1939
Sub-series C. Published Poetry. Arranged chronologically. 1925 - 1939
Sub-series D. Manuscript Poetry. Arranged chronologically. 1884 - 1944
Series 7. Collected Pamphlets. Arranged aphabetically by author. 1885-1943
Alexander, Morton, Good Morning God! undated
Around the Inland Sea (Japan) 1924
Baily, H. Lavinia, Grotius, a Study from the Seventeenth Century 1906
Brown, Ann Robertson, What is Worthwhile 1893
Bryan, William Jennings, The Prince of Peace 1909
Dole, Charles F., In the Face of War 1914
Dole, Charles F., The Principles of the Peace-Makers undated
Drummond, Henry, The City Without a Church 1893
Fiske, John, The Everlasting Reality of Religion undated
Gray Gorden, ed., Evening Melodies undated
Greenfield, Rev. George, Reconciliation 1918
Heagle, Rev. D., The Great Anti-Slavery Agitator Hon. Owen Lovejoy 1886
Holmes, John Haynes, 4 pamphlets: My Visit to India, What the World Looks Like Today, My Adventures with Religion in India, How May We Live in Times Like These Some Rules of Conduct 1947-49
Horton, R.F., Mrs. Besant's Prophecy 1912
Jordan, David Starr, War, Business and Insurance 1915 November
King James Version (from the Bible Society Record) undated
Kingman, Charles, Christianity Through the Centuries 1936
Krishnamurti, J., At the Feet of the Master 1926
Lee, C. and J., Logos, Or In What Our Faith Consists 1941
Lowenstein, Herman, Relationship of Christ to the Continuity of Conflict circa 1941
McConnell, Francis, Democratic Christianity 1919
MacMurray, John, Creative Society undated
Myers, James, Prayers, Personal and Social 1943
Nine Pages from Nine Holy Books, Bahai Bookshop 1939
Not on Calvary: A Layman's Plea for Mediation in the Temptation in the Wilderness 1892
Park, John Edgar, The Keen Joy of Living 1908
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men: In His Name undated
Poynting, J.H., Sir Oliver Dodge 1910
Rauschenbusch, Walter, Dare We Be Christians 1925
Rhoades, John Harsen, Church Without Walls 1941
Rhoades, John Harsen, From the Crow's Nest 1941
Rhoades, John Harsen, Johathan's Apothegms Vol. II 1942
Shipley, Maynard, New Light on Prehistoric Cultures 1924
Spaulding, Solomon, The Manuscript Found or Manuscript Story from a Verbatim Copy of the Original Including Correspondence Touching the Manuscript its Preservation and Transmission Until it came into the Hands of the Publishers (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) 1885
Strong Sydney The World's Best Man undated
(There is no File Folder 48)
Turnball, H. Clay, Light on the Story of Jonah 1894
Webster, R.M., The Good News that Jesus Preached 1914
Wilde, Oscar, The Ballad of Reading Gaol undated
Series 8. Periodicals 1931-1944
Christianity and Society, 5:3 1940
Christian Century, 2 issues 1934 September 26, 1938 March 16
The Churchman, 3 issues 1927 November 19 1936, September 1 1937, February 15
The Junior Statesman, 4:2 1937
The Open Forum, 8:19 1931
Radical Religion 1935-39
Unity, 2 issues 1927 March 28, 1944 July