Series I. Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Series II. Klein's manuscripts and notes for projects
Series III. Subject Files
Scope and Content Note
Series IV. Photos and audio tapes
Series V. Books and play
Scope and Content Note
Series VI. Serials
Scope and Content Note
Series VII. Addendum
Scope and Content Note
I. Correspondence (arranged chronologically within subsection)
With B. Traven
General index of Klein's letters to and from Traven
Traven-Klein letters, 1933originals
Traven-Klein letters, 1934originals
Original Klein letter to Traven, 5/28/35
Original Klein letter to Traven, 7/2/35
Originals of material sent by Traven, 7/16/35
Klein letter to Traven, 8/1/35
Original Klein letter to Traven, 10/1/35
Traven-Klein letters, 1933-35
With Traven's widow and publishers
Rosa Elena Lujan (Traven's widow), 1967-78
Correspondence, British publishers, 1936-59
Lawrence Hill & Co., Hill & Wang, Inc., 1966-70
Lawrence Hill & Co., 1971-73
Lawrence Hill & Co., 1974
Lawrence Hill & Co., 1975
Lawrence Hill & Co., 1976-80
Contracts and royalty reports from L. Hill, 1975-79
Penn State Press, 1976
Allison and Busby, 1979
Ken Saunders, 1980
With Traven scholars, libraries, Klein's attorney, newspapers
E.R. Hagemann, 1959-60
Phil Stevenson, 1961-73(also has letters from Traven to Stevenson)
Grad student, 1975
Judy Stone, 1975(also notes on her book)
Jonah Raskin, 1975-79
Rectification letters, UCLA Special Collections, 1976
William Weber Johnson, 1976
Paul Kohner, 1976
George Hanson, 1976-78
Michael Baumann, 1976-1982
Tino Ballio, 1977
Ernst Schürer, 1982
Traven Conference correspondence, 1982
Rolf Recknagel, 1976-[82?]
Karl Guthke, 1982-3
Peter Küpfer, 1982-3
Martha Müller, 1989
Klein's attorney Lauri Provencher, 1979
NY Review of Books, June 1970
LA Times, 1982
Series II. Klein's manuscripts and notes for projects
Kleins' work on Traven stories
Editing notecards for Traven tales
Special materials on Jungle or Mahogany novels (book jackets, correspondence with publishers, translations that later appeared in Kleins' book)
Master file, The Kidnapped Saint
(Primarily first drafts of translations for The Kidnapped Saint)
The Kidnapped Saint
Submission
Story of a Bomb
Diplomat
Frustration
Reviving the Dead
Accomplices
Indian Dance in the Jungle
Introduction, In the Freest State in the World
In the Freest State in the World (text)
In the Freest State in the World (endnotes)
Rejected stories: Burro Trading #6
Rejected stories: Unexpected Solution #12 [original missing]
Rejected stories: Welfare Hospital #13
Rejected stories: Foreign Correspondent #14
Rejected stories: Dynamite #15
Rejected stories: The Guard #16
Primarily second drafts of translations for The Kidnapped Saint
Submission #2
Diplomats #3
In the Freest State in the World #4 (1974 final typing)
In the Freest State in the World #4 (1974 preliminary drafts)
In the Freest State in the World #4 (notes by Kleins)
Frustration #5
Burro Trading #6
Saint in Pain #7, corrections to Michigan Quarterly Review version of The Kidnapped Saint
Auferweckung des Toten #9
Indian Dance in the Jungle #10
Accomplices #11
Unexpected Solutions #12, rewritten Short Stories version, June 1957
Welfare Establishment #13
Foreign Correspondent
Dynamite #15
Primarily second drafts, German versions of Traven stories
Der fremde Soldat
The Guard, in English translation by Klein
Mutter Beleke
Untitled
Khundar
Was in Frankreich alles geschehen kann
Erzählungen
Rejects: Traven stories in U.S. magazines, 1956-7
(Materials for book production)
list of materials received from L. Hill, 1973
Critiques from Hill et al.
Table of contents and plans for Hill book
Im Freiesten Staat der Welt
Intro I (draft of introduction)
Questions on German translations, 1974
Notes: Diaz regime and Mexico City sanitation
4 stories added in Cassell 1967book, Night Visitor
White Rose #1 (excerpt)
Klein's final drafts for The Kidnapped Saint
Submission #2
Diplomats #3
In the Freest State in the World #4
Frustration #5
Burro Trading #6
The Kidnapped Saint [draft lacks title page]
Tin Can #8
The Revival of a Dead Man #9
Indian Dance in the Jungle #10
Accomplices #11
Unexpected Solution #12
The Welfare Hospital
Foreign Correspondent #14
Dynamite #15
The Guard #16
First 43 galleys, The Kidnapped Saint
Proofs, The Kidnapped Saint
Master proofs of The Kidnapped Saint
Klein's writings and notes on Traven, chronologically ordered
Klein drafts of Traven reviews, 1930s
New Republic review by Klein, 1934
New Masses review by Klein, 1934
British Library: Traven material, 1973,etc.
Büchergilde Gutenberg [Traven publishers], 1926-
Introduction to The Freest State in the World, 1979
Additional biographical material for Freest State
Alphabetical guide to Traven material, 1976
Titles for tentative Traven book
Book on Traven
Misc. Traven notes, 1982
Klein-Traven letters analyzed
Series III. Subject files
Klein's chronological files with notes and/or material on Traven that appeared in each year: periodical articles, BT Mitteilungen, notes from UCLA Special Collections material on Traven. Pre-1920 to 1985,with some omissions
Undated file in UCLA Special Collections
Pre-1920
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1963
1966
1967
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978-80
1985
Bang, Herman, influence on Traven
Bek-Gray, Robert
Cheuse, Alan
Communist press critics of Traven
Huston, John on Traven
Land des Frühlings, notes and analysis
Library of Congress, notes on Traven holdings
Lopez Mateos, Esperanza
Manana and Luis Spota
The Marut-Traven connection
Marut (Traven) 1922and earlier
Powell, L.C. and Traven, Aug. 1976
Recknagel, Rolf, checklist of articles on Traven
Revolution, German, notes
Sex, women, and Traven
Socialism in Germany, notes
Spanish language sources on Traven
Special materials, Universitas-Verlag
UCLA Special Collections, MCK file
Wieder, Josef
Der Ziegelbrenner, 1917-22,copies and analysis
Der Ziegelbrenner, notes from British Museum, 1973
Der Ziegelbrenner, notes from Recknagel
Transcriptions of Marut [Traven] writings by Rolf Recknagel, 1969
Printed materials about Traven, chronologically ordered
Articles by Michael Baumann, 1975-77
Notes from Das B. Traven Buch, 1976
Serial material on Traven, Aug. 1976
Periodical pieces on BT, 1977
LA Times, 1978
Reviews of Will Wyatt's book, 1979-80
Traven material, July 1983
Traven seminar, USC, Nov. 12, 1977
Materials on Canadian production, 1976-77
Materials on BBC production, 1977-78
Films, Traven
(Miscellany)
Traven mat'l to sort and file
German publications of BT books, misc. material
Newspaper articles about Mexico, 1982
Series IV. Photos and Audio Tapes
Rosa Elena Lujan, Mexico City, Jan. 1973
Photos from BBC documentary, 1977
Conference photo, 1982
2 cassettes on P. APC [Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, daughter organization of the MLA] B. Traven Seminar, Los Angeles, Nov. 12, 1977(2.5 hours). Presentations by panelists (Judy Stone, Michael Baumann, Charles Humphrey, Robert Goss, et al.), followed by open discussion moderated by Robert Olafson. The Kleins attended.
Series V. Books and Play
B. Traven, Stories by the Man Nobody Knows (Regency: Evanston, 1961).Annotated paperback.
Peter Küpfer, Aufklären und Erzählen. Das literarische Frühwerk B. Travens (Diss., Zurich, 1981).[With dedication to Herbert Arthur Klein]
Robert B. Olafson, The Great Traven Hunt or Erica's Dream. A Play in Three Acts (1977).Copy is lightly annotated.
Series VI. Serials
BT Mitteilungen [subject folder; for location of issues see Addendum] No. 2-11 ed. by Esperanza Lopez Mateos and Josef Wieder (Zurich); no. 12-33 ed. by Josef Wieder (Zurich); no. 24-36 ed. by Rosa Elena Lujan (Mexico City) and Josef Wieder (Zurich).
The B. Traven Newsletter. Vol. 1 no. 1 (Autumn-winter 1976)and 2 (summer 1976)ed. by Terrence Ponick, University of South Carolina. [The file includes correspondence with Ponick.]
Frente a Frente. Organ Central de la Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios LEAR Sección Mexicana. Mexico City. Ed. Fernando Gamboa. [Hoover Library has other issues] 1936:3 (Ma).
Smithsonian. March 1983.
Jewish Currents. New York. [SUL has other issues] 1961: Sept. 1975: Oct.(2 copies); Nov.(2 copies); Dec.(2 copies) 1976: Jan.; Feb.; Mar.; Apr.; May; June; July-Aug.; Sept.; Oct.; Nov.; Dec. 1977: Feb.
Series VII. Addendum
Serials dispersed throughout the collection:
- BT Mitteilungen [subject folder in box 17; SUL has other issues]
1951: 2 (F,missing p. 1-5); 3 (Ap); 4 (Jun); 5 (Au)
1952: 6 (Mar); 7 (May); 8 (Jul); 9 (Oct)
1953: 10 (May); 11 (Aug); 12 (Dec)[incomplete]
1954: 13 (F); 14 (Ap); 15 (Jul); 16 (S); 17 (D)
1955: 18 (Au); 19 (D)[incomplete]
1956: 20 (F); 21 (Jun); 22 (Au); 23 (N)
1957: 24 (Ja); 25 (Ap); 26 (Jul); 27 (Au); 28 (Au)
1958: 29 (Ma); 30 (Au); 31 (Nov); 32 (D)
1959: 33 (Mar); 34 (May); 35 (N)
1960: 36 (Ap)
- Der Ziegelbrenner, 1917-22.[SUL has other issues]
- Büchergilde. Monatsschrift der Büchergilde Gutenberg. Zurich.
1929: 10 (Oct)
1934: 5 (May)
1936: 1 (Ja); 4 (Ap)
1939: 6 (Jun); 9 (Se) 11 (N)
1940: 1 (Ja)
1959: 5 (May); 6 (Jun); 7 (Jul)
- Der Bücherfreund. Mitteilungsblatt des Vereins Schweizer Bücherfreunde. Zurich.
1939: 14 (Se); 15 (Oc); 16 (N)