Finding Aid for the Carey McWilliams Papers LSC.1319
Finding aid prepared by Andrea Eitsert with assistance from Laurel McPhee, 2006; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline
Cubé.
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Title: Carey McWilliams papers
Creator:
McWilliams, Carey
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1319
Physical Description:
40.0 linear feet
(80 boxes and 11 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1894-1982
Date (bulk): 1921-1980
Abstract: Carey McWilliams (1905-1980) was a writer, lawyer, journalist, lecturer, activist, as well as Chief of the California Division
of Immigration and Housing (1938-1942) and editor of
The Nation (1955-1975). The collection contains personal diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, publicity materials, and assorted correspondence
and research files related to McWilliams's life and career.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Iris McWilliams, 1982 and 1995.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Carey McWilliams Papers (Collection 1319). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Custodial History
The papers of Carey McWilliams do not survive as a whole in any one place. Both during his lifetime and after his death, parts
of the papers were disposed of at various times by gift or sale. The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley,
has custody of many of the manuscripts for his books and the UCLA Department of Special Collections has several collections
in addition to Collection 1319 which were originally part of the McWilliams papers, the largest of which is Collection 1243
comprising research materials on farm labor in California and the problems of the Mexican American. This material was donated
to the Library in 1952 as part of the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Collections. In addition, the major
part of the following three groups of papers purchased by the Library in the 1950s, derived from McWilliams originally:
- #278: Mary (Hunter) Austin collection. Correspondence, manuscripts, articles and clippings by and about Mary (Hunter) Austin.
(ca. 150 pieces).
- #277: Ambrose Bierce collection. Correspondence, pictures, clippings, notes, and other material by and about Bierce, assembled
by McWilliams for his biography, Ambrose Bierce (New York, A.C. Boni, 1929). (ca. 500 items).
- #276: George Serling collection. Correspondence, manuscripts, articles, clippings and ephemera by and about George Serling.
(ca. 125 items).
Processing History
Collection 1319 was donated to the Library in 1982 and in 1995 by McWilliams' widow, Iris McWilliams. At the time of accessioning,
the papers were given preliminary processing by Manuscripts Division staff based on lists compiled by the donor. Andrea Eitsert
with assistance from Laurel McPhee rehoused, described, and arranged the collection into series levels to facilitate enhanced
access to materials, and created a new finding aid, 2006.
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Biography
Carey McWilliams was born December 13, 1905 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He completed his Juris Doctorate from the University
of Southern California in 1927. From 1927-1938, McWilliams was an attorney at the law firm Black, Hammack in Los Angeles.
In 1938, he was appointed as chief of Division of Immigration and Housing of the State of California, a position he kept until
1942. During the period from 1945-1955, he began his long association with
The Nation, becoming successively contributing editor, associate editor, and then editorial director. From 1955-1975, he was
The Nation's editor. In addition to his editorial duties, McWilliams was a prolific lecturer and writer, speaking on many subjects and
contributing articles and essays to numerous publications. After his retirement from
The Nation, he continued to write a regular column for that publication. His monographs include
Ambrose Bierce, a biography (1929);
Louis Adamic and shadow America (1935);
Factories in the field: the story of migratory farm labor in California (1939);
Ill fares the land: migrants and migratory labor in the United States (1942);
Brothers under the skin (1943);
Prejudice: Japanese-Americans, symbol of racial intolerance (1944);
Southern California country: an island on the land (1946);
A mask for privilege: anti-Semitism in America (1948);
North from Mexico: the Spanish-speaking people of the United States (1949);
California: the great exception (1949);
Witch hunt: the revival of heresy (1950); and his autobiography
The education of Carey McWilliams (1979). In the late 1970s, McWilliams was briefly a Regents Lecturer at the University of California Riverside and then taught
one quarter at the University of California Los Angeles in the History Department. He died of cancer at the age of 74 on June
27, 1980 in New York, New York.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of Carey McWilliams's bound volumes, manuscripts, publicity and criticism, printed materials, and
assorted correspondence and research files related to his life, writings, publishing and lecture activities, and political
causes. Files include personal diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, handwritten and typed notes, press releases, leaflets, pamphlets,
articles, clippings, professional and personal correspondence, and outlines and manuscript drafts. These files reflect McWilliams's
varied professional interests, including racial minorities, migrant farm workers, civil liberties, the Cold War, McCarthyism,
the press, American politics, literature, religious cults, and the West (notably California and Colorado). The manuscript
series documents McWilliams's original work in different genres: addresses, articles, reviews, fiction, and monographs. The
collection also contains materials related to McWilliams's tenure as the Chief of the California State Division of Immigration
and Housing (DIH), and a copy of the file compiled on him by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Bound volumes, 1921-1980 (24.5 boxes)
- Correspondence and research files, 1896-1982 (38 boxes)
- Division of Immigration and Housing, 1939-1964 (1 box)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1940-1980 (1 box)
- Lecture files, 1939-1980 (2 boxes)
- Manuscripts, 1896-1981 (18 boxes)
- The Nation, 1894-1980 (3 boxes)
- Printed materials, 1925-1980 (1 box)
- Publicity and criticism, 1929-1980 (1.5 boxes).
Related Material
-
Carey McWilliams papers, 1930-1940 (Collection 1243) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
-
Carey McWilliams Correspondence (Collection 1356) Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
-
Collection of material about Carey McWilliams, 1925-1948 (Collection 2023) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
-
Collection of materials by and about George Sterling, ca. 1901-1935 (Collection 276) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
-
Carey McWilliams collection of material about Ambrose Bierce, 1842-ca. 1914 (Collection 277) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
-
Carey McWilliams collection of material about Mary Hunter Austin, 1868-1934 (Collection 278) . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
-
Carey McWilliams papers, 1921-1980 (Collection BANC MSS C-H 46) . Available at Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.
-
Carey McWilliams miscellaneous papers, 1941-1945 . Available at Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA.
-
Honorable in all things oral history transcript: the memoirs of Carey McWilliams [oral history transcript] / Carey McWilliams, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1978. Available at UCLA
Library Special Collections.
-
Alice McGrath papers (Collection 1490) Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United States -- Race relations.
Migrant agricultural laborers -- California.
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- California.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
Diaries.
McWilliams, Carey -- Archives
1. Bound volumes
1921-1980
General Physical Description note: 24.5 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This series contains assorted types of bound volumes. Arranged in subseries A-D as follows:
- A. Diaries, 1922-1980 (7.5 boxes)
- B. Financial ledgers, 1945-1980 (4 boxes)
- C. Notebooks, 1921-1972 (2 boxes)
- D. Scrapbooks, 1923-1949 (11 boxes).
1A. Diaries
1922-1980
General Physical Description note: 7.5 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains McWilliams's personal diaries. A partial index is located at the beginning of the subseries. Preservation
photocopies of the diaries from 1924, 1927, and 1929-33 are located in box 32. All other items are arranged in chronological
order.
box 1, folder 1
Loose notebook papers with index to diaries
ca. 1975
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Notebook contains a partial index to the diaries from the years 1945-1975, intermixed with a general index/timeline for contemporary
events in "bound volumes" (unidentified) 1951-1974. Also contains miscellaneous notes and quotations, with subjects including:
1930s, 1940s, Legislative Investigation Report (1938 December 12), Dan Biderman, Clay Steinman, HUAC, Hamby, F.O. Matthiessen,
Moynihan, Memo of Conversation Angus Cameron (1976 August 13), and book reviews.
box 1, folder 2
Diary
1922-1924
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted diary entries and notes, both typed and handwritten. Includes reading lists, quotations and poems.
box 1, folder 3
Diaries
1923-1925
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
There is a preservation copy of the 1924 diary in box 32.
box 1, folder 4
Diary
1925-1927
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains loose clippings and 2 loose leaves.
box 1, folder 5
Diaries
1926-1928
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
1928 diary contains 2 black and white photographs, one of Betty Bond, the other unidentified. There is a preservation copy
of the 1927 diary in box 32.
box 1, folder 6
Diary
1929-1933
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains 1 loose clipping. There is a preservation copy of this diary in box 32.
box 2, folder 1
Diaries
1938-1939
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2, folder 2
Diaries
1940-1941
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2, folder 3
Diaries
1942-1943
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1942 diary contains 1 loose clipping.
box 2, folder 4
Diaries
1944-1945
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1944 diary contains 1 loose leaf.
box 3, folder 1
Diaries
1946-1947
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3, folder 2
Diaries
1948-1949
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1948 diary contains 3 loose leaves.
box 3, folder 3
Diaries
1950-1951
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3, folder 4
Diaries
1954-1955
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 4, folder 1
Diaries
1956-1957
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1957 diary contains 2 loose clippings.
box 4, folder 2
Diaries
1958-1959
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1958 diary contains 1 loose clipping and 2 loose leaves (In Remembrance of McWilliams's mother); 1959 diary contains 1 loose
leaf (Memorial for Susan McWilliams).
box 4, folder 3
Diaries
1960-1961
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Both diaries contain 1 loose clipping.
box 4, folder 4
Diaries
1962-1963
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 5, folder 1
Diaries
1964
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 5, folder 2
Diaries
1965
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 5, folder 3
Diaries
1966-1967
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1966 diary contains 2 loose clippings.
box 5, folder 4
Diaries
1968-1969
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1968 diary contains 1 loose clipping and 1 loose leaf; 1969 diary contains 1 loose leaf.
box 6, folder 1
Diaries
1970-1971
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1970 diary contains 3 loose leaves.
box 6, folder 2
Diaries
1972-1973
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1972 diary contains 1 loose clipping and 2 loose leaves.
box 6, folder 3
Diaries
1974-1975
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1975 diary contains 2 loose leaves.
box 6, folder 4
Diary
1976
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 1
Diaries
1977-1978
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1977 diary contains 1 loose clipping.
box 11, folder 2
Diary
1979
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains 8 loose clippings and 5 loose leaves.
box 11, folder 3
Diary
1980
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains 1 loose clipping and 1 loose leaf.
box 32, folder 1
Diary--Preservation copy
1924
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Original is in box 1.
box 32, folder 2
Diary--Preservation copy
1927
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Original is in box 1.
box 32, folder 3
Diary--Preservation copy
1929-1933
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Original is in box 1.
1B. Financial ledgers
1945-1980
General Physical Description note: 4 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains ledgers documenting McWilliams's personal and professional expenses. Items are arranged in chronological
order.
box 12, folder 1
Financial ledger
1945-1947
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 12, folder 2
Financial ledger
1948-1950
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 12, folder 3
Financial ledgers
1951-1952
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 12, folder 4
Financial ledger
1953-1954
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 12, folder 5
Financial ledger
1955
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 1
Financial ledger
1956
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 2
Financial ledger
1957
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 3
Financial ledger
1958
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 4
Financial ledger
1959
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 5
Financial ledger
1960
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 6
Financial ledger
1961
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 7
Financial ledger
1962
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 16, folder 1
Financial ledger
1963
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 16, folder 2
Financial ledger
1964
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 16, folder 3
Financial ledgers
1965-1966
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 16, folder 4
Financial ledgers
1967-1968
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 16, folder 5
Financial ledgers
1969-1970
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 16, folder 6
Financial ledgers
1970-1971
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 19, folder 1
Financial ledger
1972
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Includes hospital patient ID card.
box 19, folder 2
Financial ledger
1973
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 19, folder 3
Financial ledgers
1974-1975
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 19, folder 4
Financial ledgers
1976
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 19, folder 5
Financial ledgers
1977-1978
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 19, folder 6
Financial ledger
1979
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 19, folder 7
Financial ledger
1980
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
1C. Notebooks
1921-1972
General Physical Description note: 2 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains notebooks of holograph and typewritten notes, reading lists, outlines, and quotations. It also includes
a typewritten bibliography of McWilliams's published work from 1924-1972. Items are arranged in approximate chronological
order.
box 17, folder 1
Anti-Semitism
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten notes and quotations dated 1878-1941.
box 17, folder 2
Bibliography
1922-1924, ca. 1972
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten bibliography of McWilliams's published works from 1924-1972; and a loose-leaf, handwritten reading list dated
1924.
box 17, folder 3
Loose notebook leaves
1921-1922, 1939-1940
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Two groupings of loose notebook pages. First group consists of Division of Immigration and Housing appearances, a reading
list, and typed notes on subjects including Nipomo, migratory schools, Korean residents of California, Filipinos, Imperial
Valley, and agricultural strikes. Second group contains handwritten and typed reading lists and quotations.
box 17, folder 4
General notebook (1 of 4)
ca. 1930
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Extensive typed notes about and quotations from published articles (
The Nation,
The Outlook,
Saturday Evening Post, etc.). Reviews and notes on books, principally titles on political and social science. Cover is illustrated with a clipping
showing the view of Los Angeles from a hill garden.
box 17, folder 5
General notebook (2 of 4)
ca. 1939
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten notes and quotations dated from 1889-1936. The primary subject is Southern California. Also contains loose leaves
and many blank pages.
box 17, folder 6
General notebook (3 of 4)
ca. 1941
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten notes and quotations dated from 1904-1941. Subjects include the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and racism against the
Chinese.
box 17, folder 7
General notebook (4 of 4)
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten notes and quotations with references to 1871-1899. Subjects include the Spanish-American War and Ambrose Bierce.
box 18, folder 1
Quotations (1 of 2)
ca. 1931
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten quotations from
New Republic,
The Nation and other publications dated 1886-1931.
box 18, folder 2
Quotations (2 of 2)
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes and clippings of quotations in alphabetical order by person, and handwritten notes. Labeled "Quotes from writers"
on cover.
box 18, folder 3
Minorities and race in America
ca. 1940-1949
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes, quotations, and outlines. Primary subject is racism, including African Americans, Japanese-Americans, and the
South. Titles of outlines include "Race relations in tomorrow's America," "Reaction to Smith vs. Allright," "A practical solution
for America's race problem," "Orientals in American life," and "Japanese-Americans face the future," among others. Also includes
notes from an interview with Jacob Kravitz of the Jewish Welfare Federation in Dallas, dated 1946 March 30.
box 19, folder 8
Idea notebook
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Five pages of handwritten notes.
1D. Scrapbooks
1923-1949
General Physical Description note: 11 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains scrapbooks of clippings from a variety of publications, many mentioning McWilliams or his work. Some
scrapbooks also include clippings of articles and essays written by him. Items are arranged by the original scrapbook number
assigned to each volume by McWilliams himself.
box 56, folder 1
Scrapbook I
1939-1940
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings that mention
Factories in the Field. Clippings come from numerous publications, mostly newspapers, including some from
The Nation and a few written by McWilliams. Other subjects include migrant labor,
Grapes of Wrath, and books. Ca. 60 pages.
box 56, folder 2
Scrapbook II
1939
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings from numerous publications (mostly newspapers) that mention
Factories in the Field. Other subjects include migrant labor,
Grapes of Wrath, and books. Ca. 70 pages.
box 57, folder 1
Scrapbook III
1945-1946
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains primarily clippings and some assorted printed materials. Majority of clippings by or about McWilliams and/or his
work. Clippings come from numerous publications, mostly newspapers (including a few from
The Nation and PM). Subjects include
While You Were Gone,
Prejudice: Japanese Americans, Symbol of Racial Intolerance,
Primer for White Folks. Ca. 30 pages.
box 57, folder 2
Scrapbook IV
1935-1936
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains primarily clippings and some assorted printed materials. Majority of clippings by or about McWilliams and/or his
work. Clippings come from numerous publications, mostly newspapers, a few from
The Nation and
Pacific Weekly. Subjects include Louis Adamic, fascism, "yellow peril," anti-Semitism, the press. Ca. 50 pages.
box 58, folder 1
Scrapbook V
1939-1940
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains primarily newspaper clippings. Majority of clippings mention McWilliams's work as Chief of the Division of Immigration
and Housing. Clippings come from numerous publications, including 2 loose leaf articles from
NM. Subjects include farm labor, migrant labor,
Factories in the Field,
Grapes of Wrath, and the Bancroft Debates. Ca. 70 pages.
box 58, folder 2
Scrapbook VI
1938-1944
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings and some assorted printed materials. Majority of clippings mention McWilliams or his work. Clippings come
from numerous publications, mostly newspapers. Subjects include farm labor, migrant labor,
Factories in the Field (reviews), race relations, aliens, Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, Humphrey Cobb, Wage Rate Hearings. Ca. 90 pages.
box 59, folder 1
Scrapbook VII
1935-1938
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains newspaper clippings from numerous publications. Subjects are farm and migratory labor, and the Orange County strikes.
Ca. 50 pages.
box 59, folder 2
Scrapbook VIII
1942-1943
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, from numerous publications, of reviews of Ill Fares the Land. Many loose clippings in addition to scrapbook's
ca. 40 pages.
box 60, folder 1
Scrapbook IX
1939-1940
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings from numerous publications (mostly newspapers) and a few assorted printed materials. These clippings mention
McWilliams's work as Chief of the Division of Immigration and Housing and/or as author of
Factories in the Field. Subjects are primarily farm and migratory labor and housing. Contains 2 loose leaves in addition to scrapbook's ca. 60 pages.
box 60, folder 2
Scrapbook X
1944-1945
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings from numerous publications, mostly reviews of (or articles touching on the issues of)
Prejudice: Japanese Americans, Symbol of Racial Intolerance. Also includes a few articles written by McWilliams for
NM and
The Nation. Ca. 70 pages.
box 61, folder 1
Scrapbook XII
1923-1931, 1937
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains primarily clippings from numerous publications and some assorted printed materials, including an attestation of McWilliams's
membership in The Order of the Coif (a national honor society). Main subjects are George Sterling, and the New Regionalism.
Also contains typewritten poetry manuscripts by Sterling, clippings of published poems and literary articles and reviews by
McWilliams. Contains loose leaves in addition to scrapbook's ca. 50 pages.
box 61, folder 2
Scrapbook XIII
1935-1938
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains newspaper clippings from numerous publications. Main subject is labor, including farm labor and wages. Ca. 50 pages.
box 62, folder 1
Scrapbook XIV
1939
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings from numerous publications (mostly newspapers) that mention
Factories in the Field. Other subjects include migrant labor,
Grapes of Wrath, and books. Ca. 50 pages
box 62, folder 2
[Scrapbook XXI]
1946-1949
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings from numerous publications of reviews of
Southern California Country. Includes 3 manuscripts of reviews (2 by George Stiller, 1 by Lawrence Clark Powell). Contains additional loose clippings
(2 envelopes). Ca. 60 pages.
box 63, folder 1
Scrapbook XVI
1933-1935
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, including many articles written by McWilliams for
California Curiosa,
Tides West,
New Republic and other publications. Subjects include Ambrose Bierce, California, and elections. Ca. 70 pages.
box 63, folder 2
Scrapbook XVII
1925-1932
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, primarily literary reviews by McWilliams for numerous publications. Also contains loose leaves in addition
to scrapbook's ca. 80 pages.
box 64, folder 1
Scrapbook XV
1933-1937
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, some assorted printed materials, and 2 loose leaves (1 from a manuscript about a journalist White). McWilliams
wrote many of these articles, which appeared in numerous publications including
American Mercury,
Pacific Weekly,
The Nation,
News of the World. Subjects include Ambrose Bierce, farm labor, Nazis, Fascism, and the Congress of Western Writers. Ca. 50 pages.
box 64, folder 2
Scrapbook XIX
1940
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains primarily newspaper clippings from numerous publications. Majority of clippings mention McWilliams's work as Chief
of the Division of Immigration and Housing. Subjects include farm labor, migrant labor and housing,
Factories in the Field, and George Kidwell's statements. Ca. 60 pages.
box 75, folder 1
Scrapbook XI
1943
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings from numerous publications. Most are reviews of
Brother Under the Skin, but a few address the Zoot Suit Riots. Also includes a list of newspaper and magazine advertising on McWilliams. Contains
a few loose leaves in addition to scrapbook's ca. 40 pages.
box 75, folder 2
Scrapbook XVIII
1939-1945
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings from numerous publications and some assorted printed materials, including a few articles written by McWilliams
for
The New Republic and
The Nation. Many clippings mention McWilliams's work as Chief of the Division of Immigration and Housing. Subjects include
Prejudice: Japanese Americans, Symbol of Racial Intolerance,
Ill Fares the Land, farm labor, and housing. Ca. 80 pages.
box 76, folder 1
[Scrapbook XX]
1945
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings/reviews of
Ill Fares the Land from British and Irish newspapers. 8 pages.
2. Correspondence and research files
1896-1982
General Physical Description note: 38 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This series contains McWilliams's general correspondence and research files, and comprises the bulk of the collection. Arranged
in subseries A-D as follows:
- A. Files on people, 1912-1982 (11 boxes)
- B. Files on subjects, 1914-1982 (20 boxes)
- C. General correspondence, 1923-1980 (6 boxes)
- D. Publisher correspondence, 1942-1980 (1 box).
2A. Files on people
1912-1982
General Physical Description note: 11 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains McWilliams's extensive research and correspondence files relating to specific individuals with whom
he corresponded, or who were research subjects for his writings. The files contain correspondence (by or about the person
named on the file), clippings, ephemera, and assorted printed materials. Arranged alphabetically by surname.
box 7, folder 1
Aickman, Duncan
1947
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Aickman, and typewritten poetry manuscripts.
box 7, folder 2
Algren, Nelson
1953, 1959-1961
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Algren, and a clipping.
box 7, folder 3
Alinsky, Saul
1952-1953, 1971-1972
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Alinsky, clippings, and a newsletter.
box 7, folder 4
Austin, Mary (1 of 2)
1934-1938, 1951, 1967-1977
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Austin and McWilliams's writings on her; 2 clippings.
box 7, folder 5
Austin, Mary (2 of 2)
1927-1934
General Physical Description note: ca. 130 items.
Scope and Contents note
box 7, folder 6
Bain, Terry
1971-1973
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Bain, and an essay by Bain.
box 7, folder 7
Banks, R.
1959
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Banks.
box 7, folder 8
Beals, Carleton
1979
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from John A. Britton, and a paper by Britton.
box 7, folder 9
Bentley, Eric
1963, 1969
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Bentley.
box 7, folder 10
Berman, Louise
1955-1956, 1963-1972
General Physical Description note: 56 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (primarily with Berman), a handwritten note, a booklet, a manuscript by McWilliams entitled "Remembering Louise
Berman," an invitation to her memorial, and an obituary.
box 7, folder 11
Bioff, Willie and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (1 of 2)
1939-1967
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, 2 manuscripts ("Congress goes to Hollywood" by Bernard J. McMahon and "Hollywood labor dispute--a study in immorality"
by George H. Dunne), and newspaper clippings.
box 7, folder 12
Bioff, Willie and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (2 of 2)
1949-1950
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Legal documents, such as transcripts, stipulations, and an opening statement, primarily from the case of Conference of Studio
Unions vs. Loew's Incorporated.
box 7, folder 13
Botkin, B.A.
1930-1933, 1975
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Botkin. Also includes a leaflet, a clipping, bibliographies compiled by Botkin and typed reviews of the publication
Folk-Say.
box 7, folder 14
Boyd, Andrew
1969-1970, 1979
General Physical Description note: 48 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Boyd, typed notes, and manuscripts by Boyd.
box 7, folder 15
Boyle, Kay
1970-1971
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Boyle.
box 8, folder 1
Bradbury, Ray
1952-1953, 1960
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Bradbury.
box 8, folder 2
Bronowski, Jacob (1 of 2)
1957-1976
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Bronowski's work, correspondence between Bronowski and McWilliams, typed notes, and four manuscripts (1
untitled by McWilliams, "Bronowski: Man of Many Gifts" by McWilliams, "Sociological Knowledge and Social Control" by Robert
Bierstedt, and "A Tribute to J. Bronowski" by Gerard Piel).
box 8, folder 3
Bronowski, Jacob (2 of 2)
1958-1975
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles and clippings, including published works by McWilliams about Bronowski.
box 8, folder 4
Brown, Jerry
1974-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Brown, one press release, and clippings.
box 8, folder 5
Bunker, Eddie
1972, 1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 29 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Bunker (as well as letters regarding Bunker), a book jacket, an article by Bunker, and clippings.
box 8, folder 6
Burgess, Larry E.
1979
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Burgess, and brochures on the A.K. Smiley Public Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine.
box 8, folder 7
Burke, Kenneth
1959-1969
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Burke, clippings, and an annotated poem and a manuscript by Burke.
box 8, folder 8
Cain, James M.
1933, 1969, 1977
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
One letter from Cain, and clippings.
box 8, folder 9
Carlson, Colonel Evans F.
1945, 1970
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten note from Alex Pesonen, an address by Carlson, and clippings of McWilliams's articles.
box 8, folder 10
Carney, Francis
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Carney.
box 8, folder 11
Carr, Harry
1931, 1975
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters (mostly from Carr to McWilliams), and a clipping.
box 8, folder 12
Carrington, Otis M.
1934
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Carrington about his brother's letters from Ambrose Bierce.
box 8, folder 13
Chandler, Raymond
1973-1976
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, including an article written by Chandler.
box 8, folder 14
Chavez, Cesar
1970-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Chavez, a press release, a leaflet, and newspaper clippings. Also includes a quote from Chavez about
Factories in the Field. These materials mostly refer to Chavez in context as the leader of the United Farm Workers.
box 8, folder 15
Chevalier, Haakon
1954-1967
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Chevalier regarding an open letter from Chevalier to J. Robert Oppenheimer that was to appear in
The Nation. Also includes correspondence between Philip M. Stern and McWilliams, and newspaper clippings.
box 8, folder 16
Chotiner, Murray
1960-1966
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
One letter regarding Chotiner, a typed note, clippings, and assorted printed materials.
box 8, folder 17
Clark, Evans
1951
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Clark, and a clipping.
box 8, folder 18
Cobb, Humphrey
1939-1978
General Physical Description note: 29 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (primarily with Cobb), along with some assorted printed materials, including a black and white photograph.
box 8, folder 19
Collins, Seward
1930-1931
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Collins.
box 8, folder 20
Condon, Richard
1962-1964
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Condon.
box 8, folder 21
Conover, Grandin
1969-1971
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Conover, one letter from Conover to McWilliams, and photocopies of Conover's work.
box 9, folder 1
Cooper, Evelyn N.
1951-1953
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Cooper.
box 9, folder 2
Couch, William Jr.
1966-1970
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Couch.
box 9, folder 3
Cowell, Henry
1939-1965
General Physical Description note: 45 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, primarily from Olive Thompson Cowell, and clippings. Also contains correspondence with the prison board and a few
letters from McWilliams to Henry Cowell.
box 9, folder 4
Crane, Clarkson
1928-1931, 1961-1975
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of letters, primarily from Crane to McWilliams.
box 9, folder 5
Curtis, Christine Turner
1931-1935
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Curtis.
box 9, folder 6
Daggett, Charles
1951
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Daggett.
box 9, folder 7
Dahlberg, Edward
1937, 1968, 1977
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Dahlberg; one article and one clipping.
box 9, folder 8
Day, Mark
1975-1979
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Day, typed notes, and a clipping.
box 9, folder 9
Dekker, Albert
1968-1979
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters concerning Dekker, one typed note, a manuscript by Dekker, and clippings.
box 9, folder 10
di Giovanni, Norman Thomas
1962-1967
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with di Giovanni; one article and one clipping.
box 9, folder 11
Downey, Sheridan
1933-1949
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Downey, handwritten and typed notes, and assorted printed materials. Also includes correspondence with Downey
and Stephen Downey.
box 9, folder 12
Dreier, Mary
1955-1961
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Dreier.
box 9, folder 13
Eastlake, William
1959, 1963, 1966-1971
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Eastlake; one black and white photograph of Eastlake, and some letters regarding his work.
box 9, folder 14
Eaton, Cyrus
1955-1979
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Eaton; photocopy of a letter from Anna Louis Strong to Eaton, a press release, and clippings.
box 9, folder 15
Ellsberg, Daniel
1970
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Memoranda concerning a conversation in which Ellsberg discusses Henry Kissinger.
box 9, folder 16
Elman, Richard
1959-1979
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Elman.
box 9, folder 17
Erikson, Erik H.
1950, 1953
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Erikson.
box 9, folder 18
Fante, John (1 of 3)
ca.1933-1960
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence (undated) with Fante, and clippings.
box 9, folder 19
Fante, John (2 of 3)
1933-1948
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Fante, and a manuscript entitled "St. Anthony's Forty Wards." Also includes letters concerning "Home is
the Hunter," by Fante and McWilliams.
box 9, folder 20
Fante, John (3 of 3)
1951-1979
General Physical Description note: 45 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Fante, but also with Marilyn Murphy-Pittman (regarding a biography she was writing on Fante)
and Joyce Fante.
box 9, folder 21
Feliz, Zoe Anne
1974 June
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
A research paper by Feliz entitled "Carey McWilliams: A Selected Bibliography of His Works 1924-1954."
box 9, folder 22
Flanner, Hildegarde
1928-1980
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Flanner, and clippings of her publications.
box 9, folder 23
Fleming, D.F.
1961-1962, 1968
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Fleming, and reviews.
box 10, folder 1
Follett, Wilson
1930-1966
General Physical Description note: 51 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters primarily from Wilson or Margaret Follett to Carey or Dorothy McWilliams. Clippings of published works by Follett.
box 10, folder 2
Galvao, Henrique
1960-1963, 1970, 1974
General Physical Description note: 67 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, primarily regarding an article Galvao wrote for
The Nation (including some correspondence between Galvao and McWilliams). Also contains clippings, press releases, two Galvao manuscripts
in Portuguese, and
The Seizing of the Santa Maria.
box 10, folder 3
Gitt, J. W.
1948-1970
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily between Gitt and McWilliams, but also between Gitt and Freda Kirchwey or George Kirstein.
box 10, folder 4
Glass, Murv Jr.
1974-1979
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Glass, and photocopies of clippings.
box 10, folder 5
Gottlieb, Bob
1974-1976
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Gottlieb and Edward T. Chase.
box 10, folder 6
Goulden, Joseph C.
1970-1971
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Goulden.
box 10, folder 7
Gruening, Ernest
1964-1973
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Gruening and George McGovern, and a clipping.
box 10, folder 8
Halsell, Grace
1977-1978
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Halsell.
box 10, folder 9
Haslam, Gerald
1974-1978
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Haslam.
box 10, folder 10
Hilton, Ronald
1960-1961, 1967
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Hilton; a press release and television program transcript, and clippings.
box 10, folder 11
Hiss, Alger
1978-1980
General Physical Description note: 42 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters (including two from Hiss to McWilliams), clippings, articles, and book reviews.
box 10, folder 12
Huling, Betty
1968-1969
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence concerning Huling.
box 10, folder 13
Jeffers, Robinson
1903-1935, 1962, 1973-1978
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Robinson and Uma Jeffers, and a letter from Jeffers to Louis Adamic. Also includes clippings, typed copies
of poems by Jeffers, three copies of
The Carmelite, and assorted printed materials.
box 10, folder 14
Jones, Idwal
1964, 1970
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings.
box 10, folder 15
Josephson, Matthew
1952-1953, 1960, 1967-1979
General Physical Description note: 43 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Josephson, and letters from Hannah Josephson and David E. Shi. Manuscripts, including "The August 27 Attack
on Radio and Book Publishing" by Josephson, and a chapter entitled "The Age of Darkness" by Shi. Clippings.
box 10, folder 16
Julian, C.C.
1977
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of article.
box 10, folder 17
Kauffman, Joseph P.
1962-1964
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence concerning Kauffman, a television transcript, and a manuscript of a statement by
The Nation's editors.
box 14, folder 1
Kelley, Edith Summers
1928-1940, 1972-1978
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Kelley, Matthew J. Bruccoli, and Jane Weisman Stein. Photocopies of letters, copies of poems by Kelley,
and one clipping.
box 14, folder 2
Kenny, Robert W.
1942-1979
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, including two from Kenny to McWilliams; clippings, and assorted printed materials.
box 14, folder 3
Kerby, Phil
1952, 1967-1970, 1976
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Kerby; manuscript of a speech by Kerby.
box 14, folder 4
King, Martin Luther
1967, 1972
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with David E. Luellen, and an annotated manuscript of a February 1967 King speech given in Los Angeles at
The Nation's conference on American foreign policy.
box 14, folder 5
Kirchwey, Freda (1 of 3)
1948-1954
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence between Kirchwey and McWilliams. Also includes letters from J.W. Gitt, and Dudley Nichols.
box 14, folder 6
Kirchwey, Freda (2 of 3)
1972-1976
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Kirchwey, including correspondence with Sara Alpern in relation to her dissertation on Kirchwey.
box 14, folder 7
Kirchwey, Freda (3 of 3)
1940-1949, 1976
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, and assorted printed materials.
box 14, folder 8
Kirstein, George and Lincoln
1963-1978
General Physical Description note: 38 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence between the Kirsteins and McWilliams. Also includes a typed note and clippings.
box 14, folder 9
Lamb, Edward
1951, 1976-1980
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Lamb, a press release, and clippings.
box 14, folder 10
Lamont, Corliss
1955-1978
General Physical Description note: 29 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (primarily with Lamont), typewritten notes, clippings, and a manuscript by Lamont. One Basic Pamphlet by Lamont
entitled
My First Sixty Years, and assorted printed materials.
box 14, folder 11
Lane, Mark
1964-1970
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding a manuscript by Lane rejected by
The Nation. Also includes press releases and clippings.
box 14, folder 12
Lasch, Christopher
1967
General Physical Description note: 47 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Lasch. Also includes one letter from Ralph Bunche to James Storrow, a partial clipping, and
a handwritten note.
box 14, folder 13
Lernoux, Penny
1976-1980
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Lernoux to McWilliams.
box 14, folder 14
Lieber, Maxim
1962-1966
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Lieber.
box 14, folder 15
Lindsay, John V.
1961-1975
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Lindsay (primarily letters from Lindsay to McWilliams), a press release, and a clipping.
box 15, folder 1
Love, Eulia (1 of 2)
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Love, press releases, photocopies of clippings, and assorted printed materials.
box 15, folder 2
Love, Eulia (2 of 2)
1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 15, folder 3
MacLeod, Leroy
1929-1934, 1966
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from MacLeod.
box 15, folder 4
MacLeod, Norman
1931-1932
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with MacLeod.
box 15, folder 5
Mandell, Maurice
1955-1957
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Mandell.
box 15, folder 6
Mann, Abby
1979
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letter and a manuscript for
The Sleepy Lagoon Murders.
box 15, folder 7
Matthiessen, F.O.
1944-1950, 1973-1978
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Matthiessen, and clippings.
box 15, folder 8
Matusow, Harvey
1954-1960, 1968
General Physical Description note: 36 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Matusow, clippings, a press release, and assorted printed materials.
box 15, folder 9
McCann, Frasier
1953-1979
General Physical Description note: 38 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters (primarily from McWilliams to McCann), and a clipping.
box 15, folder 10
McGovern, George
1968-1979
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with McGovern, primarily letters from him to McWilliams.
box 15, folder 11
McGrath, Alice Greenfield
1944-1945, 1953, 1970-1980
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with McGrath. Includes letters regarding the Sleepy Lagoon case, one press release, one 3x5 color snapshot
of McGrath in a small group, one copy of the Performing Arts playbill, clippings, and a manuscript of a statement by McWilliams
for the Guy Endore pamphlet regarding the Sleepy Lagoon case.
box 15, folder 12
McPherson, Aimee Semple (1 of 2)
1946-1947
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding McPherson, typed notes, and a 30 page timeline/outline.
box 15, folder 13
McPherson, Aimee Semple (2 of 2)
1929, 1978-1979
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
A study by Gary Tavetian, and clippings.
box 15, folder 14
Meiklejohn, Alexander
1964-1965
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Alexander and Helen Meiklejohn, and clippings.
box 15, folder 15
Mencken, H. L. (1 of 3)
1928-1941, 1955, 1977
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, primarily from Mencken to McWilliams.
box 15, folder 16
Mencken, H. L. (2 of 3)
1912, 1924-1934, 1965
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings by and about Mencken. Also includes lecture notes by McWilliams, "Six Points About H.L. Mencken," and a McWilliams
article "Notes on H. L. Mencken" from
The Wooden Horse.
box 15, folder 17
Mencken, H. L. (3 of 3)
1926-1931, 1971-1977
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings (mostly written by Mencken).
box 20, folder 1
Mikulski, Marta
1957-1973
General Physical Description note: 84 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Mikulski, 12 black and white photographs of paintings done by Kazimierz Mikulski.
box 20, folder 2
Mills, Omer
1948
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence concerning Mills, and McWilliams's Affidavit.
box 20, folder 3
Monroe, Eason
1951, 1974-1975
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Monroe, photocopies, and a clipping.
box 20, folder 4
Morse, Wayne
1959, 1969-1973
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (primarily with Morse), and two press releases.
box 20, folder 5
Mucha, Jiri
1967-1969
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Mucha.
box 20, folder 6
Murrow, Edward R.
1955
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Murrow and Fred Friendly, typed statements by McWilliams in response to Anne Smart's request his work
be banned, a transcript from the television show
See It Now, and a clipping.
box 20, folder 7
Navarro, Joseph (1 of 7)
1969-1970
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Navarro. Subjects include Navarro's review of
North from Mexico, the reissue of
North from Mexico, the founding of the
Journal of Mexican American History, and a bibliography by Navarro and Ruben Cortez entitled
Mexican-American History: A Critical Selective Bibliography. Also contains a review of aforementioned bibliography by McWilliams dated 1969 October 15.
box 20, folder 8
Navarro, Joseph (2 of 7)
1971
General Physical Description note: 42 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Navarro. Subjects include works relating to their common interests, Navarro's paper on McWilliams's
contribution to the history of ethnic minorities, Navarro's studies, and funding for the
Journal of Mexican American History. Also includes chronologies by McWilliams of his work/life.
box 20, folder 9
Navarro, Joseph (3 of 7)
1972
General Physical Description note: 68 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence primarily with Navarro. Subjects include Navarro's research for his dissertation on McWilliams, the article,
"The Incarceration of the Japanese-Americans" by William Petersen, and a Guy T. Nunn letter with documents about McWilliams
held by The National Archive. Also contains two letters from Alice Greenfield McGrath to McWilliams, 1 letter from McWilliams
to William F. Buckley, Jr., correspondence with Kathleen O'Connor Navarro, a 10 page typed answer by McWilliams in response
to Navarro's questions concerning his work/life, and the outline and abstract from Navarro's dissertation.
box 20, folder 10
Navarro, Joseph (4 of 7)
1973
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Navarro, including a letter in which McWilliams discusses red-baiting. The primary subject
is Navarro's research for his dissertation on McWilliams. Also contains correspondence with John Bright and William Petersen,
a revised dissertation abstract and outline, as well as a copy of an article by McWilliams, "The Battle of Camp San Vicente."
box 20, folder 11
Navarro, Joseph (5 of 7)
1974-1975
General Physical Description note: 43 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Navarro. Subjects include Navarro's research for his dissertation on McWilliams and the
Journal of Mexican American History. Also contains correspondence with Kathleen O'Connor Navarro, and two manuscripts by Navarro from his dissertation (Chapter
2 and The Twenties).
box 20, folder 12
Navarro, Joseph (6 of 7)
1976-1980
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence, primarily with Joseph and Kathleen O'Connor Navarro. Subjects include Navarro's research for his
dissertation on McWilliams and the
Journal of Mexican American History.
box 20, folder 13
Navarro, Joseph (7 of 7)
ca. 1970-1980
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts: "Carey McWilliams as Minority Historian," "The Contribution of Carey McWilliams to Ethnic Historiography," and
"Early Years and Rocky Mountain Background, 1905-1922."
box 22, folder 1
Nelson, Patricia
1974-1977
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Nelson.
box 22, folder 2
Neruda, Pablo
1964-1977
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, and copies of Neruda's poems.
box 22, folder 3
Neutra, Richard
1948-1954, 1966-1979
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (with accompanying materials) primarily between Richard and Dione Neutra and McWilliams.
box 22, folder 4
Nixon, Richard (1 of 6)
1969-1974
General Physical Description note: 38 items.
Scope and Contents note
Memo, report, newsletters, press releases, clippings.
box 22, folder 5
Nixon, Richard (2 of 6)
1969-1978
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings.
box 22, folder 6
Nixon, Richard (3 of 6)
1970-1977
General Physical Description note: ca. 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 22, folder 7
Nixon, Richard (4 of 6)
1969-1977
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 22, folder 8
Nixon, Richard (5 of 6)
1969-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 80 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 22, folder 9
Nixon, Richard (6 of 6)
1969-1977
General Physical Description note: ca. 80 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 23, folder 1
Noble, Robert
ca. 1950
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Leaflets.
box 23, folder 2
Nossiter, Bernard
1955-1957
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Nossiter.
box 23, folder 3
Orans, Alice
1937-1947, 1954, 1970, 1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted printed materials, primarily regarding either the Committee to Aid Agricultural Organization or the ACLU, including
migrant labor ephemera. Also contains a letter from McWilliams to Sheridan Downey and a few letters from Alice and Martin
Orans to McWilliams.
box 23, folder 4
Packard, Walter
1966-1977
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Packard, including correspondence with Emma L. Packard. Also includes two manuscripts: a statement by McWilliams
and an introduction by Alan Temko.
box 23, folder 5
Pasternak, Boris
1958, 1960
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Two letters, a handwritten note, and clippings regarding Pasternak winning the Nobel Prize.
box 23, folder 6
Pauling, Linus
1958-1960, 1975, 1977
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Two letters from Pauling to McWilliams, a handwritten note, and clippings.
box 23, folder 7
Perry, Bernard
1965, 1973-1977
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Perry, as well as related letters concerning a
Nation anthology.
box 23, folder 8
Phillips, Gifford
1965-1971
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence between Phillips and McWilliams, and a memo.
box 23, folder 9
Piel, Gerard
1966-1972
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters from Piel to McWilliams, typed notes, and clippings.
box 23, folder 10
Purdy, James
1960, 1964, 1969
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Purdy.
box 23, folder 11
Radin, Max
1939-1940, 1950
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript entitled "The Nomination of Max Radin: People, Politics, and the California Supreme Court" by David M. Margolick.
Also includes a clipping.
box 23, folder 12
Rechy, John
1959-1975
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Rechy, and a clipping.
box 23, folder 13
Rexroth, Kenneth
1959, 1962, 1965, 1977
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Rexroth, an annotated text by McWilliams, and a clipping.
box 23, folder 14
Ring, Frances
1975-1979
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Ring.
box 23, folder 15
Rodman, Samuel and Alexander Racolin, attorney
1955-1958
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Rodman and Racolin, concerning
The Nation.
box 23, folder 16
Rose, Stanley
1954, 1975
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Maude Rose and Charles Katz, and clippings.
box 23, folder 17
Roszak, Theodore
1961-1979
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Roszak, and a clipping.
box 23, folder 18
Sahl, Mort
1966
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, including one letter from John Fante to McWilliams, and one letter from McWilliams to Sahl.
box 23, folder 19
Samish, Arthur
1949-1954, 1971
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, including one from Samish to McWilliams, a typewritten statement by McWilliams, two copies of
Frontier journal, and clippings.
box 23, folder 20
Sánchez, George
1968-1974
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Sánchez including one letter from Sánchez to McWilliams, and a manuscript McWilliams for a volume honoring
Sánchez.
box 23, folder 21
Saroyan, William
1971-1975
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Saroyan, and clippings.
box 23, folder 22
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr. (1 of 2)
1950-1956, 1967
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Schlesinger, typed notes, and an untitled manuscript of a letter addressing the deterioration of civil liberties.
box 23, folder 23
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr. (2 of 2)
1951-1960, 1976-1977
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings.
box 23, folder 24
Schuman, Frederick L.
1953-1954
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (primarily with Schuman), a conference program, a typewritten press release by Schuman, and a Petition for
Review.
box 23, folder 25
Scotten, William E. Jr.
1924-1928
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Scotten to McWilliams. Also includes poems by Scotten.
box 23, folder 26
Seidenbaum, Art
1964-1979
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Seidenbaum, and newspaper clippings of articles written by him in which he mentions McWilliams.
box 23, folder 27
Self, Edwin
1975-1979
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Self.
box 23, folder 28
Shane, Joseph D.
1955-1966
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Shane. Includes a letter from Clore Warne to McWilliams.
box 23, folder 29
Shapiro, Vic
1951-1952
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Shapiro, and two statements by him.
box 23, folder 30
Sherrill, Bob
1962-1968, 1978-1981
General Physical Description note: 27 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Sherrill, handwritten note, and clippings.
box 24, folder 1
Sinclair, Upton
1926-1942, 1968, 1978-1980
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, primarily from Sinclair to McWilliams, a copy of
The Upton Sinclair Quarterly, and clippings. Also contains the McWilliams's article "The Strange Case of Upton Sinclair."
box 24, folder 2
Smedley, Agnes
1942-1943, 1950, 1974-1975
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Smedley, and clippings.
box 24, folder 3
Smith, Jack
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings of articles by Smith.
box 24, folder 4
Snow, Edgar
1938, 1955-1972
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Snow. Also includes handwritten and typed notes (some concerning suggested articles and new
featured series for
The Nation), a press release, clippings, and assorted printed materials.
box 24, folder 5
Stein, Jane Weissman
1975-1977
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Stein, primarily letters from her.
box 24, folder 6
Steinbeck, John
1934-1941,1968-1978
General Physical Description note: 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Steinbeck, including correspondence with John Seelye, and one piece of correspondence with Steinbeck. Also
contains handwritten and typed notes, press releases, clippings, 2 McWilliams's articles ("The Farmers Get Tough," and "A
Man, a Place, and a Time"), 2 McWilliams's manuscripts ("They Still Keep Coming" and "Steinbeck and the 1930s in California"),
and assorted printed materials.
box 24, folder 7
Sterling, George
1952-1980
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Sterling, notes, and an article.
box 24, folder 8
Strong, Anna Louise
1936-1937
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Strong, an article, and a clipping.
box 24, folder 9
Swados, Harvey
1958-1958
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Swados appearing at the Aspen Institute, including one letter from Swados to McWilliams.
box 24, folder 10
Terkel, Studs
1972
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
One letter from Terkel, a manuscript by Terkel entitled "Celebrities and Nobodies," and clippings.
box 24, folder 11
Thompson, Hunter
1965, 1974
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
A postcard from Thompson to McWilliams, and clippings.
box 24, folder 12
Thurber, James
1952
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Thurber.
box 24, folder 13
Towne, Robert
1974-1976
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Towne, and clippings.
box 24, folder 14
Trumbo, Dalton (1 of 5)
1959-1977
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Trumbo, and clippings.
box 24, folder 15
Trumbo, Dalton (2 of 5)
1949
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript of the
Amicus Curiae Brief written by McWilliams for the case Lawson & Trumbo vs. United States. This fragile document is the original. Please examine
the preservation copy in the next folder.
box 24, folder 16
Trumbo, Dalton (3 of 5)
1949
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript of the
Amicus Curiae Brief written by McWilliams for the case Lawson & Trumbo vs. United States. This is the preservation copy. The original is in the
preceding folder.
box 24, folder 17
Trumbo, Dalton (4 of 5)
1949
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 typewritten note from Clay (no last name) to McWilliams, a typewritten manuscript of the
Amicus Curiae Brief (slightly different than the one in previous folder) written by McWilliams for the case Lawson & Trumbo vs. United States,
a typewritten statement regarding the "Hollywood Ten" also written by McWilliams, and the published Brief of Alexander Meiklejohn,
of Cultural Workers in Motion Pictures and Other Arts, and of Members of the Professions, as Amici Curiae.
box 24, folder 18
Trumbo, Dalton (5 of 5)
1951
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
A letter from Albert Maltz to McWilliams, and a copy of Robert W. Kenny's brief the "Right of Silence" in the appeal Lawson
& Trumbo vs. United States.
box 44, folder 1
Twe, Dihdwo
1951-1956, 1973
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Twe and either McWilliams or Freda Kirchwey; clippings.
box 44, folder 2
Vale, Rena
1939-1942, 1954
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Affidavit of Vale before the Assembly Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities in California. Also includes a press
release with Lloyd Barenblatt's Objection to the Committee, an article written by Vale, and two letters.
box 44, folder 3
Vernier, Paul
1934-1936
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Vernier, primarily letters from Vernier to McWilliams.
box 44, folder 4
Villard, Oswald Garrison
1943
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Villard.
box 44, folder 5
Warne, Clore
1951-1969
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Warne. Also contains one letter from Warne to William O. Douglas, a program, clippings, and a manuscript
of a lecture given by McWilliams at ACLU dinner in Los Angeles on December 14, 1969.
box 44, folder 6
Warren, Earl (1 of 2)
1940-1946, 1965-1969, 1974
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters regarding Warren, including one from Edmund G. Brown. A chronology of Warren in California, and printed materials
prepared by research committees (Kenny for Governor and the CIO).
box 44, folder 7
Warren, Earl (2 of 2)
1943-1948, 1964-1965, 1974
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten notes, pamphlets, and clippings.
box 44, folder 8
Werth, Alexander
1949, 1963-1969
General Physical Description note: 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Werth, handwritten and typed notes, a clipping, and assorted printed materials. Also includes
an annotated manuscript by Werth entitled "De Gaulle's Plea for Siniavsky and Daniel."
box 44, folder 9
Wills, Ross
1924, 1934-1935
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Wills, and a typewritten manuscript by Wills.
box 44, folder 10
Wilson, Edmund
1929-1930, 1962-1979
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, mostly photocopies of ones from Wilson to McWilliams, and a clipping.
box 44, folder 11
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott
1979
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Irving R. Cohen, and a paper by Cohen.
box 44, folder 12
Wright, Stanton MacDonald
1913-1928, 1971-1979
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Wright, three letters from Leslie Baird to McWilliams, handwritten notes, and clippings.
box 44, folder 13
Wuliger, Robert
1950-1953
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Wuliger.
box 44, folder 14
Yankwich, Leon R.
1939, 1951-1953, 1964
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Yankwich to McWilliams. Also includes a manuscript and a publication by Yankwich.
box 44, folder 15
Yeats, W.B.
1960, 1965
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles and clippings.
box 44, folder 16
Zeitlin, Jake
1936-1982
General Physical Description note: 42 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily with Zeitlin. A black and white photograph, stock certificates, clippings, and assorted printed
materials.
2B. Files on subjects
1914-1982
General Physical Description note: 20 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains McWilliams's extensive research files relating to specific topics, issues, or concepts. The files
contain correspondence, handwritten and typed notes, press releases, leaflets, articles, and clippings. Some of the folders
contain information about his work and political activities, most notably in the folders entitled "Red-Baiting." McWilliams's
original file names were maintained during processing wherever possible, though some were altered to ensure consistency and
collocation. Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
box 33, folder 1
Japanese (1 of 3)
1941-1952, 1960, 1969-1979
General Physical Description note: 51 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, press releases, a pamphlet entitled "The Japanese American Incarceration: A Case for Redress," a photocopied
manuscript of James Michener's introduction to Michi Weglyn's book "Years of Infamy," and assorted printed materials. Includes
letters from A.H. Petersen, Ruth E. McKee, Russell Leong, Mine Okubo, Thomas H. Kreneck, Sandra Oshiro, Nicholas Dancy, Don
T. Nakanishi, James Holliday, Afton Dill Nance, Minejiro Hayashida, Larry Tajiri, and others.
box 33, folder 2
Japanese (2 of 3)
1943-1948, 1970-1982
General Physical Description note: 37 items.
Scope and Contents note
1971 UCLA Asian American Studies Conference materials, teacher and student manuals entitled "Citizens Behind Barbed Wire,"
articles, and clippings. Also includes 2 papers: "Japanese American Internment in Retrospect" by Sandra Sachiko Oshiro and
"Evacuation" by Ives Neely.
box 33, folder 3
Japanese (3 of 3)
1962, 1969-1979
General Physical Description note: ca.70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings, including McWilliams's Nation article "Japanese Out of California."
box 33, folder 4
Kersten Committee
1954
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letter from Jack H. Bishop, handwritten and typed notes, newsletters, a copy of the Congressional Record and the Second Interim
Report of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression, and clippings (ca. 50).
box 33, folder 5
Labor (1 of 2)
1977-1978
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Moe Foner, press releases, leaflets, and a photocopy of untitled manuscript by B.J. Widick.
box 33, folder 6
Labor (2 of 2)
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper), and a copy of
The Nation. Subjects include unions, George Meaney, and Jimmy Carter.
box 33, folder 7
Landslides
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 35, folder 1
Los Angeles
1930-1980
General Physical Description note: 41 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letter, typewritten note, an untitled manuscript by Sam Enriques about growing up in Palos Verdes, and clippings.
box 35, folder 2
Los Angeles--Population Growth and Incomes
1953-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes, news releases, a leaflet, a copy of the publication
TASK, and clippings (mostly newspaper). Also contains 2 manuscripts by Dennis L. Cuddy: "The Yanks are Coming," and "Down Under
Ho!"
box 35, folder 3
Los Angeles--Smog
1979
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 35, folder 4
Media
1971, 1978-1980
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases, newsletters, articles, and clippings. Also contains 1 letter from the Select Commission on Immigration and
Refugee Policy with accompanying materials. Subjects include Spanish-speakers in the United States, North American economic
ties, and immigration.
box 35, folder 5
Mexican-Americans
1972-1978
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters (1 from Kathleen O'Connor Navarro primarily concerning the
Journal of Mexican American History), a paper entitled,
Mexican Migrants and Relief in Depression California (author unknown), and clippings.
box 35, folder 6
Mexican-Americans--Ethnic Minorities
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, handwritten notes, copy of
Somos journal, and clippings. Contains letters from Dr. Julian Samora, Kathy Valdez, and Margaret E. Bailey. Subjects include Mexican-Americans
in California and in higher education, immigration, and bilingual education.
box 35, folder 7
Mexican-Americans--Religion
1974, 1979
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 35, folder 8
Mexican-Americans in California--1970s (1 of 2)
1923, 1941, 1954, 1959, 1978-1979
General Physical Description note: 54 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Robert J. Salazar, letters, typed note, leaflet, press releases, clippings, photocopies of clippings,
and photocopies of legal documents in Spanish and English relating to claims between Mexico and the United States. Includes
3 papers: "Texas Land Grant Heirs Seek Justice" by Salazar, "Mexico/U.S. Worker Migration Policy Considerations" by Rudy Torres,
and "A Wind from the South" by Richard Louv.
box 35, folder 9
Mexican-Americans in California--1970s (2 of 2)
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 80 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 35, folder 10
Mobilization for Democracy Committee
1945
General Physical Description note: 64 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (primarily concerning contributions made at the July 20th meeting at the Olympic Auditorium to help defeat
Gerald L. K. Smith), typed notes, minutes, and assorted financial documents. Also includes McWilliams's letter of resignation
as treasurer of the committee.
box 36, folder 1
Muckraking (1 of 2)
1896, 1970, 1977-1979
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typed notes, a press release, articles, and clippings.Includes the article "Is Muckraking Coming Back?" by
McWilliams, and typewritten copy of essay "Huntington Lying in his Last Ditch" by Ambrose Bierce.
box 36, folder 2
Muckraking (2 of 2)
1977-1982
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 36, folder 3
Muggings
1968-1973
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper) dealing with crime and racism. Includes McWilliams's article "After You're Mugged."
box 36, folder 4
Neo-Fascism
1963-1973
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
A partial typewritten statement by Laurent B. Frantz along with a clipping and a newsletter. Also includes a paper by Carl
Marzani entitled, "Watergate and American Neo-Fascism," and 2 pamphlets (
The Mood of The Nation, and
The Threat of American Neo-Fascism).
box 36, folder 5
The New Californians (1 of 3)
1938,1955, 1969-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed note, press release, articles, and clippings (mostly newspaper). Also includes typed copies of articles Curtis Pendergast
wrote for the
Sacramento Bee entitled "Foreign Colonies of Fresno." The primary subject is the various immigrants in California.
box 36, folder 6
The New Californians (2 of 3)
1962, 1972-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Leaflets and clippings (mostly newspaper. Subjects include African-Americans, and Asian, Arab, and Jewish immigrants. Also
contains a copy of the publication Participant, a National Science Foundation publication entitled, "Scientists, Engineers,
and Physicians from Abroad," and a paper from the California Office of the Lieutenant Governor called "Third World Population
in California."
box 36, folder 7
The New Californians (3 of 3)
1973-1979
General Physical Description note: ca.70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper). Subjects include Native Americans, and Korean, Vietnamese, and Chinese immigrants.
box 36, folder 8
New Politics (1 of 6)
1957-1967
General Physical Description note: 28 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with David Thomson and Tom Burns, typed notes, newsletter, pamphlets (including two from the Socialist Party),
and clippings
box 36, folder 9
New Politics (2 of 6)
1957-1960
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes, newsletter, pamphlet (Socialism in the Sixties: The Irresponsible Society), articles, and clippings. Also includes
"The Dilemma of Punishment" (a lecture by David L. Bazelon), "The Corporation: Will it be Managed by Machines" (a paper by
Herbert A. Simon), "The Irrepressible Issues of the 60s" (an address by Adolf A. Berle, Jr.).
box 37, folder 1
New Politics (3 of 6)
1953-1962
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper). Subjects include nationalism, technology, and political unrest.
box 37, folder 2
New Politics (4 of 6)
1965-1967
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Harvey Wheeler, Charles Tait, and C. George Benello. Also contains letters, press releases, a manuscript
by Wheeler ("A Call to a New Politics"), a publication entitled, "Harvey Wheeler on The Restoration of Politics," leaflets,
articles, and clippings.
box 37, folder 3
New Politics (5 of 6)
1960-1967
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include the Left, international politics, and the Vietnam War.
box 37, folder 4
New Politics (6 of 6)
1965-1966
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
A copy of the newsletter
Inter/Change, a copy of publication
The Public Interest, minutes from the Conference on Strengthening the New Politics, and a paper by Harvey Wheeler: "American Participational
Democracy."
box 37, folder 5
New York and Los Angeles (1 of 2)
1975-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 100 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press release and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 37, folder 6
New York and Los Angeles (2 of 2)
1926-1929, 1959-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 100 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 37, folder 7
New York City (1 of 2)
1971-1975
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles, clippings, and a paper from the State of New York's Division of the Budget entitled, "Comments on the Feasibility
and Practicality of New York City Becoming a Separate State."
box 38, folder 1
New York City (2 of 2)
1963-1964, 1971-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 38, folder 2
Oakies
1975-1979
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
A typed note, and newspaper clippings.
box 38, folder 3
Oil
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 80 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typed notes, a press release, and clippings. Subjects include spills, shortage, imports, and companies.
box 38, folder 4
Orange County
1974-1979
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Melvin Bernstein, and clippings.
box 38, folder 5
Owens Valley (1 of 2)
1957, 1966-1967,1975-1980
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Christopher D. Stone and Robert Conhaim, a handwritten note, a script by Will Thornbury entitled, "Eagles, Wolves
and Lambs: The Times Explosion of 1910," a copy of the publication
Aqueduct, and clippings.
box 38, folder 6
Owens Valley (2 of 2)
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Primary subject is water.
box 38, folder 7
Peekskill
1949
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
ACLU report and pamphlet both entitled, "Violence in Peekskill."
box 38, folder 8
People's Temple (1 of 3)
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters from Abram Eisenman, press releases, articles, and clippings.
box 38, folder 9
People's Temple (2 of 3)
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 38, folder 10
People's Temple (3 of 3)
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 38, folder 11
Poetry
1925-1939, 1962-1979
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten poems and clippings of poems about California.
box 38, folder 12
Poland
1965
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (with Witold Lipski, Maxim Lieber, Stanislaw Ehrlich, and Grzegorz Jaszunski), letters, handwritten contact
information, business cards, and typewritten lists of questions and people McWilliams interviewed during his visit. Also contains
his article "Poland's Perennial Problem." McWilliams traveled to Poland in July of 1965.
box 39, folder 1
Political Economy
1978-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letter from Art Seidenbaum, an untitled paper about American political parties, a newsletter, and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 39, folder 2
Politics (1 of 7)
1969-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 100 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 39, folder 3
Politics (2 of 7)
1973-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper), and a photocopy of a manuscript by Peter Wiley entitled, "San Francisco, Your Neighbor, and
Labor."
box 39, folder 4
Politics (3 of 7)
1971
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Election Time Series Analysis of Attitudes of Trust in Government survey by the Center for Political Studies.
box 39, folder 5
Politics (4 of 7)
ca. 1970s
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles by William Domhoff.
box 39, folder 6
Politics (5 of 7)
1971-1976
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed quotation and notes, press releases, article, and clippings.
box 39, folder 7
Politics (6 of 7)
1977
General Physical Description note: ca. 80 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 39, folder 8
Politics (7 of 7)
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
A press release, and newspaper clippings. Also contains a McWilliams's article from the New Statesman entitled, "Mexico's
Needy Neighbor." Subjects include the North American Common Market, Mexican tomatoes, and Latino politics.
box 39, folder 9
Politics 1976--Private Vices and Public Benefits (1 of 2)
1973-1975
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Stephen W. Hartman, 1 handwritten note from Jay Marin, press releases, a newsletter, articles, and clippings.
box 39, folder 10
Politics 1976--Private Vices and Public Benefits (2 of 2)
1975
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 press releases, and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 40, folder 1
The Press
1961-1977
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter, handwritten and typed notes, a proposal, a prospectus, an address by Seric Sevareid, articles, and clippings. Also
includes McWilliams's article "A Frank Appraisal of the Press."
box 40, folder 2
Problem Solving
1962-1972
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters from Stuart Cuthbertson, a typed note, a press release, and clippings.
box 40, folder 3
Puerto Rico
1962, 1979-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 press release, and newspaper clippings. Includes 2 articles by McWilliams: "Timing was propitious, says The Nation of Plebiscite"
(
Island Times), and "Adopted without consent, Puerto Rico weighs its future" (
Los Angeles Times).
box 40, folder 4
Race and Intelligence
1969, 1974
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from E. Earl Baughman, 1 press release, a paper by Gerard Piel entitled "...Ye May Be Mistaken," and newspaper clippings.
box 40, folder 5
Red-Baiting (1 of 2)
1950-1953
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typed notes, newsletters, leaflets, and an article by McWilliams entitled, "Demagogues and Democracy."
box 40, folder 6
Red-Baiting (2 of 2)
1936, 1953-1959
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Includes 2 copies of the journal
Alert, and an article by McWilliams entitled, "The Writer and Civil Liberties" (
The Open Forum).
box 40, folder 7
Red-Baiting--Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
1953-1958, 1977
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, the television transcript of a broadcast by Tom Duggan, press releases, minutes, statement of principles,
a program, and a clipping. McWilliams helped form this Committee.
box 40, folder 8
Red-Baiting--Investigations (1 of 2)
1948-1954, 1957
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (including 1 letter from Hubert H. Humphrey to Freda Kirchwey with an accompanying statement, 1 letter from
Victor Rabinowitz with an accompanying memorandum, and 1 piece of correspondence with Guy Endore), typed notes, press releases,
pamphlets, a newsletter, newspaper clippings, and the Sixth Report of the Senate Investigating Committee on Education. Some
of these materials refer to McWilliams's purported communist ties.
box 40, folder 9
Red-Baiting--Investigations (2 of 2)
1947-1956
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings, and printed materials concerning Lillian Tapley, Chairman of the Plymouth Meeting Library Committee,
being subpoenaed by the Un-American Activities Committee.
box 40, folder 10
Red-Baiting--Sacramento
1963
General Physical Description note: 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (including with W. Colston Leigh, Inc.), signed contracts, a report, and newspaper clippings, most of which
refer to protests over McWilliams's appearance in Sacramento.
box 40, folder 11
Red-Baiting--The Tenney Committee
1948-1954
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
References to McWilliams that appeared in the Fourth Report of the California Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American
Activities accompanied by McWilliams's comments. Also includes a list of activities with which McWilliams was associated compiled
by the committee and related materials.
box 41, folder 1
Relevance (1 of 3)
1969-1973
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newsletter, articles, and clippings. Subjects include the search for relevancy in higher education, politics, and religion.
Includes McWilliams's article "In Quest of Relevance."
box 41, folder 2
Relevance (2 of 3)
1969-1972
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 41, folder 3
Relevance (3 of 3)
1969-1972
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 41, folder 4
Scientology
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 80 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter, typed notes, clippings, and photocopies of clippings.
box 41, folder 5
Skokie, Illinois--Rights (1 of 3)
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes, a press release, articles, and clippings from
The Nation. Also includes a signed note from Alice Greenfield McGrath.
box 41, folder 6
Skokie, Illinois--Rights (2 of 3)
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include racism, book banning, free speech, Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan.
box 41, folder 7
Skokie, Illinois--Rights (3 of 3)
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include racism, free speech, Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan.
box 41, folder 8
Small Magazines (1 of 2)
1956-1965, 1974-1979
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter to Morris Rubin, articles (including 6 by Theodore Peterson), and clippings.
box 41, folder 9
Small Magazines (2 of 2)
1936, 1956-1957, 1971-1977
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters (including 1 from Bob Sherrill), handwritten notes, a leaflet, articles (2 by McWilliams: "The Nation and the Magazine
of Opinion" and "A Frank Appraisal of the Press") and newspaper clippings.
box 42, folder 1
Socialism (1 of 3)
1914, 1950-1980
General Physical Description note: 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes, press releases, leaflets, articles, and clippings. Also contains a paper by Richard Platkin and Charles O'Connell
entitled, "Does Dutt's Thesis Apply to the Contemporary U.S. Crisis?"
box 42, folder 2
Socialism (2 of 3)
1976-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings and reviews.
box 42, folder 3
Socialism (3 of 3)
1964-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings and reviews. Includes a copy of
The Nation.
box 42, folder 4
Southern California Newspapers
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings.
box 42, folder 5
Spanish Speaking Minority (1 of 2)
1978-1980
General Physical Description note: 43 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Dennis Laurence Cuddy and the Association of Mexican American Educators, letters, handwritten and typed
notes, press releases, and clippings. Includes an untitled article by McWilliams about illegal aliens.
box 42, folder 6
Spanish Speaking Minority (2 of 2)
1976-1980
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings, and a
Los Angeles Times pull-out about Mexico. Includes 2 McWilliams's articles ("Dope & Jobs: The Border Story" from
The Nation, and a Second Thoughts column discussing the Immigration and Naturalization Services proposed fence between Mexico and the
United States).
box 42, folder 7
Synanon
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Victor Navasky, 1 letter from Arthur H. Samuelson to Victor Navasky, articles, and clippings.
box 42, folder 8
Tic Douloureux
1966-1979
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with doctors, clippings, and typed and handwritten notes documenting the occurrences and treatment of the painful
facial twitch from which McWilliams suffered.
box 42, folder 9
Two Americas
1970-1975
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
A press release, a newsletter, articles, and clippings.
box 43, folder 1
Two-Party System (1 of 2)
1965-1966
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Stuart Cuthbertson, newsletters, articles, clippings, and assorted printed materials. Also includes papers ("Technology
and the Enterprise of Philosophy" by Emmanuel G. Mesthene, "Ideas in Action" by Stephen Horn, and "Social Cleavages in the
1964 Election" by Philip E. Converse).
box 43, folder 2
Two-Party System (2 of 2)
1965-1966
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 43, folder 3
Vietnam Aftermath (1 of 2)
1965-1978
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Frederick L. Schuman and Stephen G. Cary, handwritten note from Joseph H. Crown, a paper entitled "The Saga of
the Lawyers Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam" by Crown, a lecture entitled "Tragedy in Vietnam" by Schuman, handwritten
and typed notes, lists of
Nation articles about Vietnam, and clippings.
box 43, folder 4
Vietnam Aftermath (2 of 2)
1966-1978
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 43, folder 5
Violence and Television
1975-1977
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases, and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 43, folder 6
War on Poverty
1963-1965
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
A press release, a clipping, a copy of
The Yale Law Journal, and a report for the California Welfare Study Commission by Earl Raab and Hugh Folk entitled, "Pattern of Dependent Poverty
in LA."
box 43, folder 7
Water
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 press release, and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 43, folder 8
Zoot Suit--The Play
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: 48 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Kenneth Brecher, 1 playbill, 1 copy of
Westways, a newsletter, and clippings. Also includes an annotated copy of McWilliams's article for
The Nation. The subjects are the play's production in Los Angeles and New York, and its author Luis Valdez.
box 43, folder 9
Zoot Suit--Sleepy Lagoon
1969, 1975-1979
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Ernest-Ulrich Franzen, handwritten and typed notes, a reading list about Mexicans in North America, a
notebook from unidentified source, and newspaper clippings and photocopies. Subjects include the Zoot Suit riots, and the
monograph Zoot Suit Murders by Thomas Sanchez.
box 45, folder 1
1920s
1958-1976
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters, handwritten and typed notes, articles, and clippings.
box 45, folder 2
1930s (1 of 3)
1938-1942, 1960-1976
General Physical Description note: 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript about organized labor in Hollywood and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees entitled, "Chapter
I: The Eternal Triangle." Also includes typed and handwritten (19 leaves) notes, clippings, assorted printed materials, and
a copy of the journal Working Papers for a New Society with an article by McWilliams: "California's Utopias."
box 45, folder 3
1930s (2 of 3)
1940, 1964-1974
General Physical Description note: 28 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes (13 leaves), correspondence (including 2 long letters from Helen H.), transcript of an interview of McWilliams
discussing the La Follette Committee, and a transcript of an interview with Fred Ross. Includes articles by McWilliams: "La
Follette Hearings: Final Sessions," and "Civil Rights in California."
box 45, folder 4
1930s (3 of 3)
1934-1940, 1959-1975
General Physical Description note: 37 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles, newspaper clippings, and photocopies. Includes the following McWilliams's articles: "Franco, Congress and the Pentagon,"
"Civil Rights in California," "The Joads on Strike," and "American Exiles."
box 45, folder 5
1940s
1942-1949, 1969-1976
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed and handwritten (9 leaves) notes, an outline entitled, "Community Action: Race Relations," clippings, and assorted printed
materials. Also contains a report by the Institute of Ethnic Affairs--Division of Spanish Speaking People in the United States.
box 45, folder 6
1950s
1951, 1959-1967, 1974-1975
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes, clippings, a manuscript by McWilliams (Confidential Talk with Stevenson), and a newsletter with an article by
McWilliams (McWilliams on Goslin). Subjects include plastic bag deaths, suicides, the Pasadena School Board, the Cal Tech
Chinese scientist, and McCarthyism.
box 45, folder 7
1950s--The Vile Decade
1951-1962, 1973
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, typed notes, newsletter, leaflets, clippings, the publication What Price Security by Ben H. Bagdikian, and
a copy of the Monthly Review with an article by McWilliams entitled "Liberty in the Warfare State." The main subject is McCarthyism.
box 45, folder 8
Acreage
1977-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, press release, clippings, and assorted printed materials. Subject is primarily farm size and water usage.
box 46, folder 1
Affluence (1 of 2)
1964-1965
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typed notes, press release, newsletter, and article clippings. Includes an untitled report on economic challenges
by Theodore J. Kreps, a paper entitled, "Ethics and the Social Relations of Science" by Barry Commoner, and McWilliams's article,
"Ethics in an Affluent Society."
box 46, folder 2
Affluence (2 of 2)
1962-1965
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include academic cheating, ethics in foreign policy, youth drug usage, and James B. Carey and
the International Union of Electrical Workers.
box 46, folder 3
Aging
1971-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Public Affairs Pamphlet and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 46, folder 4
Agriculture
1976-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Leaflet and clippings (mostly newspaper). Subjects include crops and farm land.
box 46, folder 5
The American Crisis (1 of 2)
1953, 1966-1968
General Physical Description note: 35 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Frank Pickstock, press releases, newsletters, articles, and clippings. Also includes a statement by The
Southern Regional Council entitled "On The National Crisis," and a lecture by J. William Fulbright entitled "The Two Americas."
box 46, folder 6
The American Crisis (2 of 2)
1962-1968
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 46, folder 7
Architecture (1 of 2)
1930, 1945, 1972-1979
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (including a letter mentioning Richard Neutra), photocopies of articles, and clippings. Primary subject is
architecture in California.
box 46, folder 8
Architecture (2 of 2)
1965, 1971-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Primary subject is architecture in California.
box 46, folder 9
Arms
1975-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases (2 items) and newspaper clippings. Subjects include military spending and public policies.
box 46, folder 10
Arts and Crafts
1932, 1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings about California arts and crafts.
box 47, folder 1
The Bicentennial (1 of 3)
1969-1976
General Physical Description note: 36 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (with Jack Greene, Phyllis Belk, and McKinley C. Olson), an untitled manuscript by J.W. Gitt, handwritten and
typed notes and quotations, newsletter, pamphlet, and clippings. Includes McWilliams's article "Thoughts on the Bicentennial"
from
The Nation.
box 47, folder 2
The Bicentennial (2 of 3)
1969-1976
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 47, folder 3
The Bicentennial (3 of 3)
1969-1976
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 47, folder 4
The Blacklist (1 of 3)
1951-1957, 1971-1978
General Physical Description note: 36 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, including letters from Hildreth Graves, Dore Schary, Dudley Nichols, Philip Langner, John Caughey, Joseph
Navarro, and Barbara Beecher. Also includes a typed note, a press release, a copy of the Hollywood Review, and a paper entitled,
"Crossfire: A Dialectical Attack."
box 47, folder 5
The Blacklist (2 of 3)
1948-1957, 1974-1980
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases, a typed note, leaflets, articles, clippings, and assorted printed materials. Includes a photocopy of McWilliams's
Nation article "Hollywood Gray List," as well as an ACLU publication "The Way We Really Were" (for the 183rd anniversary of
the Bill of Rights), and the article "Legal Aspects of 'Political Black Listing' in the Entertainment Industry" by Harold
W. Horowitz.
box 47, folder 6
The Blacklist (3 of 3)
1948-1978
General Physical Description note: ca. 120 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles and the Congressional Record.
box 47, folder 7
Blacks (1 of 4)
1953, 1960-1961, 1974-1979
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters, a manuscript by Bruce Catton about the Civil War, note, press releases, 6 ACLU papers, a speech by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois,
"The Wrongs which Suppress Our Rights," and lectures by Gunnar Myrdal entitled, "An American Dilemma Revisited." Also includes
the pamphlet, "The Negro in American Life" distributed by the United States Information Service.
box 47, folder 8
Blacks (2 of 4)
1965-1978
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles, clippings, a copy of
The Nation that contains an article by McWilliams: "Halfway on the Long Walk." Subjects include race relations and prejudice.
box 48, folder 1
Blacks (3 of 4)
1972-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include civil rights, Eldridge Cleaver, segregation, and unemployment.
box 48, folder 2
Blacks (4 of 4)
1974-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 100 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include integration, discrimination, politics.
box 48, folder 3
Book Material (1 of 5)
1957-1968
General Physical Description note: 52 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten notes, quotations, and poems ("Encounter" by John Wain, "The Crossing," and "Russian Art Club Reverie..."). Also
includes articles, book reviews, clippings, and an address by Leslie A. White entitled, "Man, Culture, and Human Beings."
Topics include writers and literature.
box 48, folder 4
Book Material (2 of 5)
1957-1960
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings and book reviews. Subjects include writers and literature.
box 48, folder 5
Book Material (3 of 5)
1958, 1967-1968
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles, clippings, and book reviews. Subjects include writers and literature.
box 48, folder 6
Book Material (4 of 5)
1963-1969
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
A typed quotation, articles, clippings, and book reviews. Subjects include writers and literature.
box 48, folder 7
Book Material (5 of 5)
1964-1966
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings and book reviews. Subjects include writers and literature.
box 49, folder 1
Book Series for the Centennial
1955-1966
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Stanley Moore, letters from Richard Sundt and Michael Blankfort, and a typewritten note regarding lists
of influential books. Also contains literary reviews.
box 49, folder 2
Books (1 of 2)
1930-1931, 1973, 1977-1979
General Physical Description note: 28 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typed notes on a program of the Southern California Library, a handwritten list of literary titles and prices, 2 letters (including
1 from McWilliams to John Fante), clippings, and a copy of the publication Don Ryan's Magazine.
box 49, folder 3
Books (2 of 2)
1965, 1973-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings and reviews. Subjects include publishing, writers, writing, and book sellers.
box 49, folder 4
Brush Fires
1979
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 49, folder 5
Business and Manufacture
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 press releases, and clippings. Main subject is United States and Mexico economic ties.
box 49, folder 6
California--Churches
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter, and clippings (mostly newspaper). Main subject is religion in California.
box 49, folder 7
California--Exceptionalism (1 of 3)
1959-1980
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
3 letters, handwritten and typed notes, a manuscript (
Has the Pacific Coast an Identifiable Culture by Otis Pease), an address by Jesse E. Hobson entitled,
California Man in the 1980s, a transcript of an oral history interview of M. Larry Lawrence, and a study entitled,
The Challenge of Leisure: A Southern California Case Study.
box 49, folder 8
California--Exceptionalism (2 of 3)
1963-1975
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings and printed publications.
box 49, folder 9
California--Exceptionalism (3 of 3)
1964-1978
General Physical Description note: ca.60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 49, folder 10
California--Growth
1932, 1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 49, folder 11
California--Places
1964-1979
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings.
box 50, folder 1
California--Science and Technology
1963-1979
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings.
box 50, folder 2
California--Sociology
1973-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 50, folder 3
California--The Waning Dream (1 of 2)
1966-1975
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter, 2 typewritten notes, articles, and clippings. Subjects include population shifts and sprawl.
box 50, folder 4
California--The Waning Dream (2 of 2)
1963-1974
General Physical Description note: ca. 80 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include population shifts and sprawl.
box 50, folder 5
Canadians
1979
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 50, folder 6
Cars--Freeways
1932, 1957, 1963, 1978-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press release, article, and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 50, folder 7
Central Intelligence Agency (1 of 2)
1977-1980
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter, typewritten note, press releases, articles, and clippings.
box 50, folder 8
Central Intelligence Agency (2 of 2)
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 50, folder 9
Chicago
1967-1968
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
A publication entitled, "Law & Disorder: The Chicago Convention and its Aftermath," and a report to the citizens of Chicago
on the April 27 Peace Parade entitled, "Dissent and Disorder."
box 50, folder 10
Chicanos
1979
General Physical Description note: ca.40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten notes, and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 50, folder 11
China
1979
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects are ports and trade.
box 50, folder 12
Civil Liberties
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten note, press releases, newspaper clippings,
Arms Control Today newsletter, and pamphlet on the proposed FBI charter.
box 65, folder 1
The Cold War (1 of 2)
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 27 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typed notes and quotations, press releases, and 1 letter. This material was possibly compiled for a chapter
in
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 65, folder 2
The Cold War (2 of 2)
1958-1976
General Physical Description note: 28 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles and clippings. Also includes the published introduction by McWilliams to the reprint edition of
The Education of Carey McWilliams, a photocopy of "The Watergate Putsch" by Seymour Melman, and a photocopy of "The American Left and the Dilemmas of the Cold
War" by Joseph R. Starobin. This material was possibly compiled for a chapter in
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 65, folder 3
Collier's Magazine
1951
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, manuscript entitled "Helpless Drift," and clippings. Main subject is D.F. Fleming's article "Collier's wins
World War III" that appeared in
The Nation. Includes a copy of the article, a letter from Fleming, and a letter from the editors of
Colliers.
box 65, folder 4
Colorado (1 of 5)
1959-1976
General Physical Description note: 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, handwritten and typed notes. Includes letters from Casley Williams, George Killion, John Rolfe Burroughs,
Marcellus M. Murdock, and others.
box 65, folder 5
Colorado (2 of 5)
1922-1927, 1950, 1959, 1967-1976
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles, clippings, and a copy of
The Steamboat Pilot.
box 65, folder 6
Colorado (3 of 5)
1948-1949
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, primarily from the
Rocky Mountain Empire Magazine.
box 65, folder 7
Colorado (4 of 5)
1930-1932, 1959, 1967-1975
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 65, folder 8
Colorado (5 of 5)
1960-1976
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Brochures and leaflets.
box 65, folder 9
Consensus Politics
1965-1967
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper), a copy of the publication
Commentary, and a pamphlet entitled,
Alternative Perspectives on Vietnam.
box 69, folder 1
Conservatism (1 of 3)
1955-1962
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters, typewritten note, press release, text of speech by Raymond Loewy before the Society of Automobile Engineers, and
text of an address by Harold Taylor entitled,
Liberalism and the Modern World.
box 69, folder 2
Conservatism (2 of 3)
1958-1967
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 69, folder 3
Conservatism (3 of 3)
1957-1966
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newsletters, articles, clippings, and the monograph
Utopianism and Politics by J.L. Talmon.
box 69, folder 4
Counter-Culture Culture
1973-1975
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Margaret Levi, David Gold, and Alan Wolfe. Also includes outlines/proposals for a book, and clippings.
box 69, folder 5
Cults
1969, 1976-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases and clippings (mostly newspaper)
box 69, folder 6
Deserts
1971-1980
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press release and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 69, folder 7
Earthquakes
1969-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 69, folder 8
East Coast
1972-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper). Subjects include Hispanic immigrants, Puerto Rico, and illegal aliens in New York.
box 69, folder 9
Eastern Europe
1966-68, 1973
General Physical Description note: 71 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (with George Wheeler, Igor Hajek, and others), handwritten and typed notes and contact information, business
cards, McWilliams's work schedule, and clippings. McWilliams traveled to Eastern Europe in July of 1967.
box 72, folder 1
Ecology
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases and clippings (mostly newspaper). Subjects include urban development, smog, flood control, and acid rain.
box 72, folder 2
Economics
1974-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases, clippings (mostly newspaper), newsletter, pamphlet, and a report. Subjects include Pacific Rim trade, and
industries and housing in Los Angeles.
box 72, folder 3
Education
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subject include bilingual education and Spanish-speakers in the United States.
box 72, folder 4
Ethics
ca. 1969-1971
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press release and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 72, folder 5
Ethnics (1 of 3)
1966-1975
General Physical Description note: 28 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, press releases, articles, clippings, assorted printed materials, and a summary report from The National Consultation
on Ethnic America. Also includes a dialogue discussion paper from the Conference on Ethnicity and Historical Consciousness
or Identity in the Modern World; a paper for the American Educational Research Association by R.J. Havighurst entitled, "Cultural
Pluralism and Education;" and a paper by Nathan Irvin Huggins entitled, "The Afro-American, National Character, and Community:
Toward a new Synthesis."
box 72, folder 6
Ethnics (2 of 3)
1972-1978
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings (mostly newspaper). Subjects include voting, different ethnic groups in the United States, affirmative action, and
minorities.
box 72, folder 7
Ethnics (3 of 3)
1967-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include civil rights, desegregation, racism, and universities and minorities.
box 72, folder 8
Evangelicals (1 of 3)
1965, 1972-1980
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press release, a copy of the Voice, and clippings.
box 72, folder 9
Evangelicals (2 of 3)
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 72, folder 10
Evangelicals (3 of 3)
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 73, folder 1
Federal Bureau of Investigation
1944, 1952-1964, 1975-1980
General Physical Description note: 44 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with R.B. Hood and Paul Harrison. Memoranda and photocopies about the FBI files on the ACLU, including an ACLU
testimony report on charter legislation entitled, "Controlling the FBI." Justice Department Watch newsletters, and assorted
clippings.
box 73, folder 2
Foreign Guest Workers
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press release and newspaper clippings. Also includes Worldwatch Paper 33 "International Migration: The Search for Work" by
Kathleen Newman.
box 73, folder 3
Hispanics (1 of 2)
1966-1970, 1975-1979
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Dr. Jaime Sena-Rivera and Jennifer Hurtsfeld, a letter from Priscilla Falcon, a report by Hurtsfeld entitled,
"Identity, Assimilation and the Social Question: The Mexican Americans in Los Angeles," press releases, clippings, a newsletter,
and a Mexican-American Study Project progress report.
box 73, folder 4
Hispanics (2 of 2)
1961, 1969-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include oil, politics, health, the arts, churches, schools, San Francisco and Los Angeles populations,
and United States/Mexico relations.
box 73, folder 5
Hollywood
1927-1934, 1974-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten note, a copy of
Panorama (with an article, "The Hollywood Gesture," by McWilliams) an image by Wm. Shaw, and clippings.
box 73, folder 6
Hollywood Hussars
1935
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
1 telegraph from Jack Moss, handwritten notes, the Hollywood Hussars' brochure, and newspaper clippings.
box 73, folder 7
Illegal Aliens and Immigration
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press release and clippings (mostly newspaper).
box 73, folder 8
Illegals--1979
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Subjects include United States/Mexico border, the census, and Mexican immigrants.
box 73, folder 9
Immigration and Naturalization Service Raids--Racial Violence
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings.
box 73, folder 10
Innovations
1967-1968, 1976-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letter from Dr. Ira M. Robinson, press releases, clippings (mostly newspaper), and a pamphlet entitled, "Present Value, Constructing
a Sustainable Future" from the State of California's Office of Planning and Research. Subjects include societal trends and
the environment.
2C. General correspondence
1923-1980
General Physical Description note: 6 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains McWilliams's main body of personal and professional correspondence that was not originally filed by
him in folders under the names of individual people or topics. Additional correspondence may be found throughout the collection,
particularly in the files on people (see Subseries 2A), his publisher correspondence (see Subseries 2D), his lecture files
(see Series 5), his
The Nation files (see Series 7, box 86), and within his papers relating to the publication of major monographs (see Subseries 6E). McWilliams
kept his original correspondence files in an approximate chronological fashion. To preserve the integrity of the original
order of these materials, this subseries was arranged chronologically. The names of important or interesting correspondents
are given at the folder level.
box 25, folder 1
Correspondence
undated
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from F. Scott Fitzgerald (photocopies), Gwen Cash, V.F. Calverton, E.A. von Westphalen, and others.
box 25, folder 2
Correspondence
1923-1924
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of letters concerning McWilliams's suspension from the University of Southern California and subsequent reinstatement.
box 25, folder 3
Correspondence
1925-1927
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Eda W. Blackmer (photocopy), Mrs. VanWyck Brooks, Floyd Dell, Lillian Friend Marcus, and S. Swall.
box 25, folder 4
Correspondence
1928-1929
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Gertrude Atherton (photocopies), and Wilbur Macey Stone. Also includes clippings.
box 25, folder 5
Correspondence
1930
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Harold D. Carew, T. H. Bell, and Harry A. Potamkin.
box 25, folder 6
Correspondence
1931
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from P. D. Perkins, Charmian London, the University of Southern California, Lella Clough, and Althea Warren. Also
contains a four-page letter by McWilliams that he calls a "footnote" to John T. Flynn's article, "Graft in Business."
box 25, folder 7
Correspondence
1932-1934
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from John Jay Chapman, Harry Carlisle, Henry E. "Pat" Stubbs, Henry Smith, and Hamilton Stark. Also includes a clipping.
box 25, folder 8
Correspondence
1935
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters. Also contains a manuscript by T. H. Bell.
box 25, folder 9
Correspondence
1936
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from William Soskin, Edwin Buckalew, James Farrell, and others. Also contains letters related to the Progressive State
Committee Supporting Roosevelt for President.
box 25, folder 10
Correspondence
1937
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from David Anderson, G.R. MacMinn, and others. Also contains letters related to the American League Against War and
Fascism.
box 25, folder 11
Correspondence
1938
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Julia Coolidge Altrocchi, Jackson Barber, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Elizabeth Forman, and the Lawyers Committee
on American Relations with Spain. Also contains the Preliminary Report of The Committee on Labor Education, and correspondence
with Herbert Resner discussing the possibility of McWilliams's being appointed Chief of the Division of Immigration and Housing.
box 25, folder 12
Correspondence
1939
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Leonard Austin, Milton Abernethy, and others. Many congratulate McWilliams on his being appointed Chief of the
Division of Immigration and Housing Commission. Also contains a 12-page open letter To All Active Supporters of Democracy
and Peace, a statement of recommendation for Loren Miller, and a letter protesting Charles Kramer's appointment to the United
States District Court in Los Angeles.
box 25, folder 13
Correspondence
1940-1941
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, mostly from people referring to hearing McWilliams speak on the radio program America's Town Meeting of the Air.
Also contains one from the U.S. Department of Labor congratulating McWilliams for receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship.
box 25, folder 14
Correspondence
1941-1943
General Physical Description note: 62 items.
Scope and Contents note
Mostly letters from people referring to hearing McWilliams speak on the radio program America's Town Meeting of the Air. Also
includes a letter from Jessica McManus Paul.
box 25, folder 15
Correspondence
1942-1943
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Primarily letters from people referring to
Brothers Under the Skin or to hearing McWilliams speak on the radio program
America's Town Meeting of the Air.
box 25, folder 16
Correspondence
1944
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from James Pope, and others, including some related to McWilliams's lecture appearances.
box 25, folder 17
Correspondence
1945
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, including some pertaining to
Prejudice.
box 25, folder 18
Correspondence
1946
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Phil Townsend Hanna, Will Rogers, Jr., Helen Louise Johnston, and others.
box 25, folder 19
Correspondence
1947
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Robert K. Carr, George H. Dunne, Saul Alinsky, and others. Includes a manuscript by Joseph Kinsey Howard, and
a signed agreement.
box 25, folder 20
Correspondence
1948
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters related to McWilliams's lecture appearances and congratulations on
A Mask for Privilege.
box 25, folder 21
Correspondence
1948-1951
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence relating to McWilliams's being accused of communist leanings. Includes letters from Robert Kenny.
box 25, folder 22
Correspondence
1949
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
Contains letters related to McWilliams's honors, lecture appearances, and
North from Mexico (including one from Edna Ferber).
box 26, folder 1
Correspondence
1950
General Physical Description note: 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Thomas Mann, Rose L. Rashmir, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Chas. H. Thompson, Will Maslow, Anton Smole, and Edward
R. Roybal. Some letters refer to Cecil Palmer.
box 26, folder 2
Correspondence
1951 January-May
General Physical Description note: 42 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Carl F. Stover, William Wyler, Porter Sargent, Harry Barnard, John Valleau, Leon Henkin, Mark Graubard, and others.
Some letters refer to
The Nation article, "Knights in Shining Buicks."
box 26, folder 3
Correspondence
1951 June-December
General Physical Description note: 27 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Clifford J. Durr, Ella Winter, Grace McDonald, Irmgard Lenel, Vernette Landers, Will Rogers, Jr., John B. Thompson,
and others.
box 26, folder 4
Correspondence
1952 January-July
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Geraldine Stern, H. Arthur Klein, Dudley Nichols, Porter Sargent, and others. Also includes a typewritten statement
concerning Sidney Buchman and HUAC.
box 26, folder 5
Correspondence
1952 August-December
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Clyde T. Ellis, Angus Cameron, Richard W. Petherbridge, John M. Pickering, George E. Bodle, J. M. Domenach, and
others. Also includes a report by Graeme C. Moodie.
box 26, folder 6
Correspondence
1952-1953
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence relating to McWilliams's being accused of communist leanings.
box 26, folder 7
Correspondence
1953 January-September
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Howard H. Quint, Charles D. Hornig, Alex Blumstein, Elizabeth Partridge, Dorothy Sterling, and others. Also includes
a manuscript by Maury Maverick.
box 26, folder 8
Correspondence
1953 October-December
General Physical Description note: 35 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Joseph W. Aidlin, Howard H. Quint, Maury Maverick, Mary Grooms, and others.
box 26, folder 9
Correspondence
1954
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Albert Einstein, William Wyler, Robert Leonetti, Richard Morgan, and others.
box 27, folder 1
Correspondence
1955-1956
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters from Robert W. Kenny, Guy Endore, and others.
box 27, folder 2
Correspondence
1957-1974
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence relating to McWilliams's exemption for jury duty.
box 27, folder 3
Correspondence
1958-1959
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence relating to McWilliams's being accused of communist leanings.
box 27, folder 4
Correspondence
1959
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Andre Schiffrin, Bob Eckhardt, Jay S. Goldenberg, Bosley Crowther, Maury Maverick, and others.
box 27, folder 5
Correspondence
1960
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Wright Mills and others. Also includes and a letter from McWilliams to Eleanor Roosevelt.
box 27, folder 6
Correspondence
1961-1962
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Friedrich Pollock, James S. Pope, Joe Dolan, Harry Girvetz, and others. Includes letters written by McWilliams
in response to charges of communist leanings.
box 27, folder 7
Correspondence
1963
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Harry Simmons, and others.
box 27, folder 8
Correspondence
1964
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Hubert H. Humphrey, Kenneth B. Keating, Irving Bernstein, and others.
box 27, folder 9
Correspondence
1964-1966
General Physical Description note: 35 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence relating to McWilliams's being accused of communist leanings.
box 27, folder 10
Correspondence
1965
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Lois Phillips Hudson, Russell Nixon, Norman Mailer, and others.
box 27, folder 11
Correspondence
1966
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from David B. Lord, Drew Pearson, Edward M. Kennedy, Bernard Reich, and J.F. Powers, Herb Frank, and others.
box 27, folder 12
Correspondence
1967
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from H. Arthur Klein, Leslie R. Colitt, Maxwell Geismar, Robert E. Kellar, D.B. Luten, Edward W. Lewis, Ray Southworth,
Alan Lawson, Alan Hensher, and others.
box 27, folder 13
Correspondence
1968
General Physical Description note: 47 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from H.H. Wilson, William Appleman Williams, Eugene J. McCarthy, Adlai E. Stevenson, Patrick J. Buchanan, Edward W.
Lewis, James Aronson, Tristram Coffin, and others.
box 27, folder 14
Correspondence
1969
General Physical Description note: 36 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Carl Cohen, George Core, Margaret Maxwell, Steve Murdock, Alice B. Hoskins, Ethyle M. Hawk, Brenda (Goldie) Weisberg
Meckler, Jerome Cavanagh, and others. Also includes a letter to Carolyn Caddes in which McWilliams's discusses the Tenney
Committee.
box 27, folder 15
Correspondence
1970
General Physical Description note: 42 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from John D. Rockefeller IV, Charles A. Graham, Chanler A. Chapman, Melvin B. Yoken, Peter de Lissovoy, Leo P. Ribuffo,
Jack D. Rittenhouse, and others.
box 28, folder 1
Correspondence
1971
General Physical Description note: 28 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Eugene J. McCarthy, Edward W. Lewis, C.P. Larrowe, Carl Cohen, Jackson J. Benson, Dwayne E. Walls, Richard O.
Boyer, Sam J. Ervin, Richard Kluger, and others.
box 28, folder 2
Correspondence
1972
General Physical Description note: 43 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Steve Murdock, Brenda (Goldie) Weisberg Meckler, Irving Louis Horowitz, John R. Dunbar, Gerard Piel, Barbara
Probst Solomon, J.K. Obatala, Guy T. Nunn, Harold Rubin, Hannah Josephson, Andrew Levison, Clay Steinman, Dan Hammack, Howard
Costigan, and others.
box 28, folder 3
Correspondence
1972-1979
General Physical Description note: 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, primarily concerning McWilliams's mugging. Includes letters from Corliss Lamont, Maxim Lieber, Edward W. Lewis,
Hannah Josephson, Arthur Miller, Stanley Mosk, Art Seidenbaum, Phil Kerby, and others.
box 28, folder 4
Correspondence
1973
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Stanley Mosk, Harry G. Mendelson, Kenneth Millar, Joe Goulden, Virginia E. Wilson, Helen Gahagan Douglas, and
others.
box 28, folder 5
Correspondence
1974
General Physical Description note: 42 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Kevin Starr, John Platts Mills, Mary Inman, James Aronson, W.H. Ferry, and others.
box 28, folder 6
Correspondence
1974
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters, handwritten and typed notes, and an invoice concerning Iris McWilliams's mugging on June 10, 1974.
box 28, folder 7
Correspondence
1975 January-July
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Joel Rothschild, Frances Putnam Fritchman, Suzanne Hunsucker, Sam J. Ervin, Rose Altman, Edward W. Lewis, J.K.
Obatala, Lee Lowenfish, Joseph Wershba, and others.
box 28, folder 8
Correspondence
1975 August-December
General Physical Description note: 36 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Roberta Perry, Cora Weiss, Bill Whitehead, James Weinstein, Marvin E. Frankel, James Bassett, J.S. Holliday,
and others. Also includes a signed agreement.
box 28, folder 9
Correspondence
1975-1978
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence concerning McWilliams's oral history interview as part of the University of California, Los Angeles's Oral
History Program. Also contains oral history guidelines, a contract, an outline, and queries.
box 28, folder 10
Correspondence
1976 January-July
General Physical Description note: 41 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Lawrence E. Larson, J.S. Holliday, Alan Reitman, Helen Mears, David Cort, and others.
box 29, folder 1
Correspondence
1976 August-December
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from H. Arthur Klein, M. Margaret Anderson, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Grace Schulman, Mary Matheson Wills, Clay Steinman,
Janet Stevenson, Landon Morris, James Bassett, and others.
box 29, folder 2
Correspondence
1977 January-May
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Samantha Connell O'Neill, Wayne Warga, Elinor Langer, Albert S. Broussard, Pete Wilson, Alvah Bessie, Raymond
Rector, Nora Sayre, and others. Also includes signed agreements.
box 29, folder 3
Correspondence
1977 June-August
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from J.S. Holliday, Janet Stevenson, Stephen H. Fritchman, Harry Bridges, John R. Crowe, David J. Thompson, Robert
R. Alonzo, Mrs. H.H. Wilson, and others. Includes the galleys for McWilliams's article entitled, "George Sanchez: Teacher,
Scholar, Activist."
box 29, folder 4
Correspondence
1977 September-December
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from E. Harburg, Joseph G. Jorgensen, J. Edward Schamberger, Philip M. Stern, and others. Also includes 4 pages of
typed notes.
box 29, folder 5
Correspondence
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence primarily concerning McWilliams's being a Regents Lecturer at the University of California Riverside. Also
includes a few newspaper clippings.
box 29, folder 6
Correspondence
1978 January-April
General Physical Description note: 39 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Celeste MacLeod, Philip M. Stern, J. Edward Schamberger, William Wingfield, Mrs. Malcolm Cowley, John Breasted,
H. Arthur Klein, Sybil H. May, Mary Ellen Leary, Clay Steinman, John A. Britton, and others.
box 29, folder 7
Correspondence
1978 May-September
General Physical Description note: 49 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Theodore Brown, Casley McWilliams, Maureen McCutcheon, Craig Scharlin, Lilia Villanueva, James Aronson, David
J. Thompson, Bruce Henstell, Howard Costigan, and others.
box 29, folder 8
Correspondence
1978 October-December
General Physical Description note: 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Sandy Close, Tom Gaddis, P.C Morantte, Tristram Coffin, Lester Cole, Thomas Sanchez, R. Freeman Butts, Donald
Paneth, Harry Bridges, and others.
box 29, folder 9
Correspondence
1978
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters relating to the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award bestowed upon McWilliams by the ACLU Foundation of Northern California
at their Bill of Rights Day Celebration. Also includes a program, and a clipping.
box 29, folder 10
Correspondence
1978-1980
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence concerning McWilliams's appointment as Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California,
Los Angeles. Also includes some materials on the Chicano Studies Center.
box 30, folder 1
Correspondence
1978-1980
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Primarily letters of congratulations for
The Education of Carey McWilliams and/or denunciations of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s review of it. Includes letters from Harry Barnard, Abram Eisenman, Emery
Nanasy, Clay Steinman, James Storrow, and others.
box 30, folder 2
Correspondence
1979 January-February
General Physical Description note: 37 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Jeffrey W. Limerick, Landon Morris, David J. Thompson, Margo McBane, Bruce Henstell, Thomas P. Carter, Vernette
Landers, J. Edward Schamberger, Simon Bourgin, Bruce Jackson, and others.
box 30, folder 3
Correspondence
1979 March-May
General Physical Description note: 27 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Mae Galarza, Abram Eisenman, Peter Gessner, Don Gold, Emery Nanasy, Stanislaw Ehrlich, T. M. Pearce, Susan Nall
Bales, P.C. Morantte, and others.
box 30, folder 4
Correspondence
1979 June-August
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from J. Edward Schamberger, Howard Lachtman, Gordon DeMarco, Dusty Sklar, Gary May, Patrick Griffin, Janet Stevenson,
David Cort, Cedric Belfrage, M. Stephen Schwartz, and others.
box 30, folder 5
Correspondence
1979 September-December
General Physical Description note: 37 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Leonard Leader, Frederick Valentine, Dan C.A. Smith, Rex Wilcox, Henry Geiger, Pam Whalen, Brenda (Goldie) Weisberg
Meckler, Howard Lachtman, Mary Cleveland, Maurice Dunbar, Melvin H. Bernstein, and others.
box 30, folder 6
Correspondence
1980 January
General Physical Description note: 39 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Celeste MacLeod, Dennis Laurence Cuddy, Howard Lachtman, Henry Geiger, Frank A. Rowe, Herbert Shapiro, and others.
box 30, folder 7
Correspondence
1980 February-March
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Celeste MacLeod, Stanislaw Ehrlich, Linda B. Hall, Frederick Valentine, Philip Stern, Richard Louv, Sondra Blake,
Louis E. Wolfson, and others.
box 30, folder 8
Correspondence
1980 April-June
General Physical Description note: 35 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Dennis Laurence Cuddy, Stanislaw Ehrlich, Don Gold, Louis E. Wolfson, W.H. Ferry, and others.
2D. Publisher correspondence
1942-1980
General Physical Description note: 1 box
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains letters and correspondence with McWilliams's major publishers. Materials include legal and financial
documents, such as contracts. For additional publisher correspondence related to the publication of specific titles, see the
monograph files (Subseries 6E). Items are arranged alphabetically by publisher, then chronologically.
box 31, folder 1
Greenwood Press (1 of 4)
1967-1976
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
box 31, folder 2
Greenwood Press (2 of 4)
1967-1969
General Physical Description note: 27 items.
Scope and Contents note
Primarily concerning
North from Mexico.
box 31, folder 3
Greenwood Press (3 of 4)
1970-1972
General Physical Description note: 45 items.
Scope and Contents note
Much of which mentions
North from Mexico. Also includes 1 item of correspondence between McWilliams and The Author's League of America, Inc.
box 31, folder 4
Greenwood Press (4 of 4)
1973-1980
General Physical Description note: 29 items.
Scope and Contents note
Much of which mentions
North from Mexico.
box 31, folder 5
Grossman Publishers, Inc.
1966-1978
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters, a signed agreement, and royalty statements for
The California Revolution.
box 31, folder 6
Hart Publishing Company, Inc.
1971-1975
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Also includes a typewritten manuscript by McWilliams entitled, "Strikes: A New Perspective," and clippings.
box 31, folder 7
Little, Brown and Company (1 of 5)
1942
General Physical Description note: 52 items.
Scope and Contents note
Much of which mentions
Ill Fares the Land.
box 31, folder 8
Little, Brown and Company (2 of 5)
1950-1954
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Primarily concerning
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 31, folder 9
Little, Brown and Company (3 of 5)
1963-1974
General Physical Description note: 39 items.
Scope and Contents note
Also includes a typewritten manuscript of McWilliams's introduction to the 1964 edition of
Brothers Under the Skin.
box 31, folder 10
Little, Brown and Company (4 of 5)
1942-1980
General Physical Description note: 46 items.
Scope and Contents note
Royalty statements. Also includes one from Faber & Faber Ltd.
box 31, folder 11
Little, Brown and Company (5 of 5)
1942, 1950-1951
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Signed agreements.
box 31, folder 12
Peregrine Press (1 of 4)
1970-1971
General Physical Description note: 47 items.
Scope and Contents note
Much of which mentions
Factories in the Field. Includes a letter from Cesar Chavez.
box 31, folder 13
Peregrine Press (2 of 4)
1972-1974
General Physical Description note: 44 items.
Scope and Contents note
Much of which mentions Southern California. Includes a quote from Cesar Chavez about
Factories in the Field.
box 31, folder 14
Peregrine Press (3 of 4)
1975-1979
General Physical Description note: 46 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes a letter from Morrow Mayo.
box 31, folder 15
Peregrine Press (4 of 4)
1971-1979
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Royalty statements, signed agreements, and a catalog.
box 31, folder 16
Simon & Schuster, Inc. (1 of 2)
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
Scope and Contents note
Concerning
The Education of Carey McWilliams. Includes typewritten notes, an outline, endnotes, and a selected bibliography.
box 31, folder 17
Simon & Schuster, Inc. (2 of 2)
1977-1979
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Royalty statements for
The Aspirin Age.
box 31, folder 18
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
1968-1979
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 letters, and royalty statements for
Indians in America by John Collier.
3. Division of Immigration and Housing
1939-1964
General Physical Description note: 1 box
Scope and Contents note
This series contains papers, reports and manuscripts relating to McWilliams's tenure as Chief of the Division. Other DIH materials
may be found in his notebooks (Subseries 1C, box 17, folder 3), the scrapbooks (Subseries 1D), the monograph files (Subseries
6E, box 82, folders 5-11), and within the general correspondence files (Subseries 2C, box 25, folders 11 and 12). Files are
in chronological order, with the exception of undated materials, which are filed alphabetically at the beginning of the series.
box 34, folder 1
Essay. "Current housing problems in California"
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript by McWilliams.
box 34, folder 2
Essay. "Manpower crisis: Mexican immigration, a proposed solution"
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript by McWilliams.
box 34, folder 3
Essay. [Rural housing in California]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript by McWilliams.
box 34, folder 4
Notes on the Division of Immigration and Housing
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten notes on the history of the division.
box 34, folder 5
Press release. "Housing shortage in Los Angeles County"
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 34, folder 6
Publicity
1939-1941
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press release, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding McWilliams in his role at the Division of Immigration and Housing.
box 34, folder 7
Report. "Memorandum on housing conditions among migratory workers in California"
1939 March 20
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Report prepared by McWilliams.
box 34, folder 8
Address. [The campaign against aliens in America]
1939 April 28
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Text of an address by McWilliams, as Chief of the DIH, before the First National Congress of the Mexican and Spanish American
Peoples in the United States, Los Angeles, CA.
box 34, folder 9
Report. [Cotton chopping in Madera County]
1939 May 12
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Report prepared by McWilliams, in the form of a letter, to the Hon. Culbert L. Olson regarding a hearing in Madera, CA, on
May 9, 1939.
box 34, folder 10
Address. "Housing and camps for migrants"
1939 May 18
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Text of an address by McWilliams, as Chief of the DIH, before the California State Conference of Social Work.
box 34, folder 11
Report for the Division of Immigration and Housing
1939 August 20
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
General report by McWilliams for the period of January 1, 1939 to July 1, 1939.
box 34, folder 12
Report for the Division of Immigration and Housing
1939 September
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
General report by McWilliams.
box 34, folder 13
Address. "What are we doing for the interstate migrant"
1939 October 27
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Text of an address by McWilliams, as Chief of the DIH, to the Western Conference on Governmental Problems, San Francisco,
CA.
box 34, folder 14
Bibliography on immigration and housing issues
1940-1944
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
One letter to C. Read on the compilation of the bibliography, which consists of theses and dissertations accepted by USC from
1910-1939 related to immigration and housing. 38 pages of handwritten notes and typed bibliography.
box 34, folder 15
Remarks. [The problem of migratory farm labor in California...]
1940 March 21
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Text of remarks by McWilliams, as Chief of the DIH, before the Migrant Mass Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
box 34, folder 16
Address. "Economics of rural dependency"
1940 May 27
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Text of an address by McWilliams, as Chief of the DIH, before The National Conference of Social Workers in Grand Rapids, MI.
box 34, folder 17
Address. "Rural dependency in California"
1940 May 30
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Text of an address by McWilliams, as Chief of the DIH, before The National Conference of Social Work in Grand Rapids, MI.
box 34, folder 18
Essay. "Migration and resettlement of the people"
1940 July 8-11
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Text of a paper by McWilliams, as Chief of the DIH, presented at The National Conference on Planning, San Francisco, CA.
box 34, folder 19
Testimony before the Tolan Committee
1940 September 24
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Transcript of McWilliams's testimony regarding migrant housing in San Francisco, CA.
box 34, folder 20
Assembly bills
1941 January 25
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 34, folder 21
Testimony before the Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration, House of Representatives
1942 March 7
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Transcript of McWilliams's testimony.
box 34, folder 22
Report. "Importation of Negro labor to California"
1942 August 10
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten report prepared by McWilliams.
box 34, folder 23
Alien registration reports
1942 October 3
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Preliminary reports from 1941 from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
box 34, folder 24
Testimony before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury
1942 October 8
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Transcript of McWilliams's testimony.
box 34, folder 25
Address. "The Department of Industrial Relations"
1942 October 29
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Text of an address by McWilliams, as Chief of the DIH, to the Department of Social Welfare Graduate Students at Berkeley,
CA.
box 34, folder 26
Miscellaneous letters
1940-1964
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letter from Grace McDonald; letters from W.D. Phillips and Mattie Richards Butler regarding McWilliams's tenure at the DIH;
one telegram regarding Ray Barry's retirement and McWilliams's response.
4. Federal Bureau of Investigation
1940-1980
General Physical Description note: 1 box
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of one folder of correspondence related to McWilliams's Freedom of Information Act requests for information
from his CIA and FBI files, and eight folders of photocopied documents from McWilliams's FBI file, arranged in chronological
order. The files include reports, transcripts by informants, clippings, and statements of fact related to McWilliams's activities.
McWilliams's own research file on the FBI may be found in the general subject files (Subseries 2B, box 73, folder 1).
box 21, folder 1
Correspondence
1976-1980
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters to and by Carey McWilliams from Martin Solow (regarding his FBI file), the Department of Justice, the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), the Naval Investigative Service, and the FBI regarding McWilliams's Freedom of Information Act requests for
documents from his FBI and CIA files.
box 21, folder 2
File no. 100-2638 (1 of 5)
1940-1944
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 21, folder 3
File no. 100-2638 (2 of 5)
1944-1946
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 21, folder 4
File no. 100-2638 (3 of 5)
1947-1950
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 21, folder 5
File no. 100-2638 (4 of 5)
1951
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 21, folder 6
File no. 100-2638 (5 of 5)
1951-1955
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 21, folder 7
File no. 100-98442 (1 of 2)
1956-1963
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 21, folder 8
File no. 100-98442 (2 of 2)
1964-1972
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 21, folder 9
Memoranda
1958-1961
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Copies of two documents from McWilliams's FBI files regarding the distribution of Leftist literature to his address.
5. Lecture files
1939-1980
General Physical Description note: 2 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This series contains correspondence, publicity materials, receipts, and agency files related to McWilliams's lecture appearances.
The correspondence includes lecture offers and letters of thanks. Other materials mentioning McWilliams's lecture appearances
may be found in the publicity and criticism files (Series 9), the general subject files (Subseries 2B, box 40, folder 10),
and in the general correspondence files (Subseries 2C). Typewritten manuscripts and outlines of actual lectures may be found
in the Division of Immigration and Housing files (Series 3), and in the manuscripts subseries for addresses and lectures (Subseries
6A). Files are arranged alphabetically, then chronologically.
box 51, folder 1
Correspondence
1949-1957
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
box 51, folder 2
Correspondence
1960-1962
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 51, folder 3
Correspondence
1963
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
box 51, folder 4
Correspondence
1964
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
box 51, folder 5
Correspondence
1965
General Physical Description note: 35 items.
box 51, folder 6
Correspondence
1966
General Physical Description note: 29 items.
box 51, folder 7
Correspondence
1967
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 51, folder 8
Correspondence
1968
General Physical Description note: 30 items.
box 51, folder 9
Correspondence
1969-1970
General Physical Description note: 29 items.
box 51, folder 10
Correspondence
1971-1972
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 51, folder 11
Correspondence
1975-1977
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
box 51, folder 12
Correspondence--Re appearances at UC Berkeley and California State College at Bakersfield
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 51, folder 13
Publicity--Promotional leaflets from W. Colston Leigh
undated
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 51, folder 14
Publicity--Conference programs, leaflets, and clippings
1939-1951
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 51, folder 15
Publicity--Newspaper clippings
1953-1963
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
box 51, folder 16
Publicity--Assorted printed materials
1956-1963
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
box 51, folder 17
Publicity--Assorted printed materials
1964-1968
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
box 52, folder 1
Publicity--Newspaper clippings
1964-1968
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
box 52, folder 2
Publicity--Assorted printed materials
1969-1976
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
box 52, folder 3
Publicity--Newspaper clippings
1970-1974
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 52, folder 4
Publicity--2 leaflets and an activities calendar
1979
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 52, folder 5
Receipts
1946-1950
General Physical Description note: 41 items.
box 52, folder 6
Receipts and business cards
1976
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 52, folder 7
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Correspondence
1946
General Physical Description note: 44 items.
box 52, folder 8
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Correspondence, agreements, notebook
1947-1952
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
box 52, folder 9
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Correspondence, lecture summaries, a signed agreement, and a leaflet
1958-1959
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 52, folder 10
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Correspondence, lecture summaries, and a leaflet
1960
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 52, folder 11
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Signed contracts
1960-1965
General Physical Description note: ca. 100 items.
box 52, folder 12
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Lecture engagements
1960-1971
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 52, folder 13
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Correspondence and lecture summaries
1962-1963
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
box 52, folder 14
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Correspondence and leaflets
1964-1969
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
box 52, folder 15
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Signed contacts
1966-1971
General Physical Description note: ca. 100 items.
box 52, folder 16
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.--Correspondence and a signed agreement
1970-1971
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 52, folder 17
William B. Feakins, Inc. (1 of 2)--Correspondence and list of engagements
1943-1946
General Physical Description note: 61 items.
box 52, folder 18
William B. Feakins, Inc. (2 of 2)--Correspondence
1945-1946
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
6. Manuscripts
1896-1981
General Physical Description note: 18 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This series contains typewritten manuscript drafts and outlines by McWilliams, along with supporting materials. Arranged in
subseries A-E as follows:
- A. Addresses and lectures, 1937-1979 (7.5 boxes)
- B. Articles and essays, 1927-1981 (5 boxes)
- C. Book reviews, ca. 1941-1978 (.25 box)
- D. Fiction, ca. 1920s-1948 (.25 box)
- E. Monographs, 1896-1980 (5 boxes).
Manuscripts composed for McWilliams's role as Chief of the Division of Immigration and Housing can be found in the DIH files
(Series 3).
6A. Addresses and lectures
1937-1979
General Physical Description note: 7.5 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains drafts and outlines of the many public addresses and lectures given by McWilliams, along with assorted
supporting materials. It also includes acceptance speeches for awards. Arranged alphabetically by title.
box 53, folder 1
[Academic freedom]
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address, and two fragments, to be delivered at an undetermined location.
box 53, folder 2
Academic freedom
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address given in Chicago.
box 53, folder 3
[Address]
ca. 1949
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten address before an unidentified audience, on a variety of topics, including: F.O. Matthiessen, the Hollywood Ten,
the Bridges case, University of California Loyalty Oaths, and
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 53, folder 4
[Address, Brotherhood Week]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an untitled lecture for a Midwest college trip.
box 53, folder 5
[Address, Celebration of the golden anniversary of
The Capital Times]
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on newspapers and their editors and publishers.
box 53, folder 6
[Address, Coalition for a Democratic Alternative]
1967 October 10
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered in a community church, NY.
box 53, folder 7
[Address,
The Nation Associates West Coast Conference]
ca. 1946
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, untitled, of an address delivered before the first western conference of
The Nation Associates.
box 53, folder 8
[Address,
The Nation dinner]
1978 November 29
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, untitled, of an address delivered before a dinner honoring
The Nation and McWilliams's contributions.
box 53, folder 9
[Address, Second Annual Conference on American Studies: "The Revolution Heritage in Popular Culture"]
1976 April-May
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address given at San Diego State University. Also includes related letters, receipts, a newsletter,
and the conference program and schedule.
box 53, folder 10
[The American conversation]
1962 May 7
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 53, folder 11
The American crisis
1967
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 53, folder 12
The American political scene (1 of 2)
1960-1964, 1976
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and manuscript drafts, to be delivered at various locations.
box 53, folder 13
The American political scene (2 of 2)
1968-1970
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline, and various clippings and articles.
box 53, folder 14
[American politics]
1963-1966
General Physical Description note: ca. 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an untitled address to be delivered at the Economics Club, NY, notes, and clippings.
box 53, folder 15
The American scene
ca. 1960
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 53, folder 16
The American scene: 1957
ca. 1957
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 53, folder 17
America's no. 1 problem
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 53, folder 18
America's race problem
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 53, folder 19
Are we heading for fascism?
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and outline fragment.
box 53, folder 20
Aspects of national defense
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address given at an undetermined date and location.
box 53, folder 21
Atoms for peace
1955
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address delivered before
The Nation's 90th anniversary conference in New York, NY.
box 53, folder 22
[Attitudes towards civil liberties]
1969 December 14
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered at an ACLU dinner in Los Angeles, CA.
box 53, folder 23
Automation
1963-1968
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted lecture drafts and outlines from addresses delivered at the College of Marin, Newark State College, and the cities
of Flint, MI, San Bernardino, CA, Toronto, and others. Includes variant titles such as "Automation and its effect on human
resources," "Automation and the new leisure," and "Automation and abundance.
box 53, folder 24
Behind today's
The Education of Carey McWilliams
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 53, folder 25
The Bicentennial and beyond
1975 January 27
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines of an address given at the Cooper Union.
box 53, folder 26
The big city press and big city politics
1959 November 18
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines for an address for the A.D.A.
box 54, folder 1
The Borderlands: let justice make us friends
1975-1976
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript of an address given at the Fronteras 1976 Conference entitled "The International Border"
in San Diego. Also includes related correspondence (with Lucy Killea and Larry Goodwyn), the conference proceedings, and assorted
printed materials.
box 54, folder 2
[C.B. "Beanie" Baldwin]
1975
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address given at Baldwin's memorial, related letters, and an obituary.
box 54, folder 3
Carter: after two years
1979 February 4
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 54, folder 4
Chief for a day
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered before the ACLU, at an undetermined location.
box 54, folder 5
Circumstances, trial, consequences
1968
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 54, folder 6
Citizen response to the disarmament controversy in America
1962 November 24
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript for an address delivered before The National Council for Social Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
box 54, folder 7
Civil liberties in the modern world
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted lecture outlines.
box 54, folder 8
[Civil liberties lecture notes]
1951-1954
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Untitled manuscript and outline fragments, notes, a program, and clippings.
box 54, folder 9
Civil rights: a perspective
1978
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address, and a related article.
box 54, folder 10
Civil rights: sore spot in American democracy
ca. 1957
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 54, folder 11
Commencement address, History Department, UC Berkeley
1979
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of typewritten manuscripts, and related correspondence.
box 54, folder 12
Comments by Carey McWilliams
1966 September 30
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts of an address given in response to Vernon Dibble's paper "The garrison society: powerful state and
the citizen" at the Conference on National Priorities Problem at Columbia University, New York.
box 54, folder 13
[Committee for a Democratic Spain]
1962 December 5
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered before the Committee in New York.
box 54, folder 14
Community action
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten lecture outlines on race relations.
box 54, folder 15
Consensus politics and the press
1965 October 19
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Lecture outlines.
box 54, folder 16
The continuing tradition of reform journalism
1970 May 15
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline and manuscript for an address delivered at Penn State.
box 54, folder 17
Corruption in U.S. society
ca. 1954
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Two letters signed H.H.W. (H.H. Wilson?), from Princeton, regarding edits to the lecture drafts. Typewritten lecture outline.
box 54, folder 18
[The crisis in Vietnam]
1967 August 22
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address for Canadian Broadcasting.
box 54, folder 19
The crisis of American democracy
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 54, folder 20
The crisis of the cities
1968 April 19
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered at Mount Union College.
box 54, folder 21
The critical journal of opinion
1957 October 24
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered at Dartmouth College.
box 54, folder 22
The cross and the circle
1946 December 10
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered in Montreal, Canada.
box 54, folder 23
Current threats to the media
1970-1971
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 54, folder 24
Dare we trust the press?
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 54, folder 25
Democracy and the business system
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address given at an undetermined date and location.
box 54, folder 26
Dissent and politics
1968 March 28
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address delivered at the University of Michigan.
box 54, folder 27
[District 1199]
1976 June 24
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address delivered at District 1199's Retirees Banquet about problems facing New York City. Also
includes an invitation, and a clipping.
box 55, folder 1
Domestic politics in an age of power
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 55, folder 2
[Dr. Harold C. Urey]
1955 February 12
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft an address on Dr. Harold C. Urey, delivered on the occasion of his receiving the Joseph Priestley Award.
box 55, folder 3
[Ethics and new politics]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 55, folder 4
Ethics in an affluent society
1963-1970
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines, drafts, and fragments of addresses delivered at different locations.
box 55, folder 5
The ethics of affluence
1962
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines, and a clipping.
box 55, folder 6
The ethics of power
1968 October 15
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline and draft for an address at N.Y.U. Alternatively titled, "Press power and power pressure."
box 55, folder 7
A frank appraisal
1961 March 23
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address on the American press, delivered before the State Teacher's College, Indiana, PA.
box 55, folder 8
Freedom and cultural expression
1953
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered at the Nassau Forum. Includes an invitation to the event.
box 55, folder 9
[Freedom of association]
ca. 1955
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address delivered at Chicago.
box 55, folder 10
The genesis of California's cultural climate
1963 April 6
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered in Royce Hall, UCLA.
box 55, folder 11
[Geographers and borders]
1971-1978
General Physical Description note: 29 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline fragment of an address given at the Association of American Geographers 72nd Annual Meeting Special Session:
The Mexican American: Papers in Honor of Carey McWilliams, which took place on April 11-14, 1976 in New York, New York. Also
contains related correspondence with Richard L. Norstrand and David Hornbeck, conference papers, typed notes about 3 of the
papers, and assorted printed materials.
box 55, folder 12
[George Polk Award]
1978
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of McWilliams's acceptance speech. Also includes related letters, a leaflet, and a clipping.
box 55, folder 13
The great society
1965-1967
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted typewritten drafts and outlines for addresses delivered at different locations.
box 55, folder 14
Growing up in Steamboat
1975-1978
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopied manuscripts of an address given at the Sun Valley Center for Arts and Humanities' Conference "The Writer and the
West," which took place on July 4-8, 1978 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Also includes related correspondence with Richard Hart, another
address by McWilliams ("That Awesome Space"), leaflets, a program, clippings, and assorted printed materials.
box 55, folder 15
[Heresy]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 55, folder 16
Honoring Charles J. Katz
1979
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address given in tribute to Katz. Also includes 2 letters from Katz, and assorted printed materials.
box 55, folder 17
Horizons for the independent voter
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 55, folder 18
How free is the press in America?
1958-1959
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and clippings.
box 55, folder 19
How stands the
The Education of Carey McWilliams?
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 55, folder 20
Human meaning of change
1966 October 13
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 55, folder 21
[The importance of ideas]
1975-1976
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 55, folder 22
In further quest of relevance
1969-1973
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline, and numerous articles, clippings, and notes on relevance.
box 66, folder 1
In quest of relevance (1 of 2)
1969-1970
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted typewritten lecture outlines and drafts.
box 66, folder 2
In quest of relevance (2 of 2)
1969-1970
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted typewritten lecture outlines and drafts, and assorted printed materials.
box 66, folder 3
Independent voter and the two party system
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 66, folder 4
The individual and organized society
1960-1963
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted lecture drafts, outlines, and manuscripts from addresses delivered at various locations.
box 66, folder 5
Individual rights and world upheaval
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline, possibly incomplete.
box 66, folder 6
Informal three-dimensional education as a journalist
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 66, folder 7
Institutional racism
1975 April 29
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 66, folder 8
Integrating the U.S. into the world
1962 February 26
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and manuscripts for a lecture.
box 66, folder 9
Investigative journalism
1975 April 2
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline for an address delivered at UCLA.
box 66, folder 10
[Jack Tenney]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 66, folder 11
[Journals of ideas]
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines, and a clipping.
box 66, folder 12
Khrushchev's Visit: Good or Bad?
1959
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of the opening statement in a debate at Morristown, N.J. with William Rusher.
box 66, folder 13
Labor and civil liberties
ca. 1956
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 66, folder 14
Labor and the development of the West
1948 December 31
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered at the 23rd conference of the Pacific Coast Economic Association. Includes
program.
box 66, folder 15
A liberal's plea for conservatism (1 of 3)
1961-1962
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines of an address delivered at various locations.
box 66, folder 16
A liberal's plea for conservatism (2 of 3)
1966-1967
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines of an address delivered at various locations, and numerous clippings.
box 66, folder 17
A liberal's plea for conservatism (3 of 3)
1963-1972
General Physical Description note: ca. 60 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines, lecture drafts, and notes, including an essay on Henry S. Kariel. Includes letters, clippings on American
politics, and articles.
box 66, folder 18
Liberalism today
1973 January 15
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 66, folder 19
The liberals in a period of war crisis
1941 May 6
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts for an address delivered before the "Social Work Today" luncheon at Long Beach, CA.
box 67, folder 1
Liberty in the Warfare State
1961 December 15
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered at the Hotel Commodore.
box 67, folder 2
A look at national politics
1979 November-December
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline for an address delivered at UCLA, and a later version.
box 67, folder 3
Make way for tomorrow
1960 January 10
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 67, folder 4
Mass media and race
1969 April 11
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline for an address in Atlanta, GA.
box 67, folder 5
The matter of oaths
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and lecture notes.
box 67, folder 6
[The McCarran Act]
ca. 1952
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address sponsored by the Arts, Sciences, and Professions Council, Southern California Chapter,
for a meeting against the McCarran Act. Includes event flier.
box 67, folder 7
The meaning of the '68 election
ca. 1968
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 67, folder 8
Migrants and migratory labor in California
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address before the Washington State Conference of Social Workers, April 24.
box 67, folder 9
Migrants and the rural poor
1940, 1977
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address given at The Rural Poor Unseen by Policy Makers Conference on March 24-25, 1977 in Phoenix,
Arizona. Also contains related correspondence, a program, 2 papers (including one by McWilliams: "Migration and resettlement
of the people"), typewritten outlines, and clippings.
box 67, folder 10
Minorities and the press
1973 February 26
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 67, folder 11
[Monopolies in the North and East and regional development]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 67, folder 12
The Nation's editorials
1971 March 25
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten copies of an outline for an address delivered at the University of Illinois. Includes correspondence and a schedule
for the lecture series.
box 67, folder 13
The Nation's problem
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 67, folder 14
The National Citizens Political Action Committee: what it stands for, how it functions, what it means
1946 April 9
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Copies of an address given at dinner in honor of Henry A. Wallace in Beverly Hills, CA.
box 67, folder 15
National defense and human values
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 67, folder 16
The need for dissent
1961-1968
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted lecture outlines and drafts.
box 67, folder 17
The need for dissent in American society
1960-1967
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted lecture drafts and outlines.
box 67, folder 18
The new constituencies
1967 February 25
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and outline of an address given at
The Nation's conference on American foreign policy. (See also box 88, folder 1)
box 67, folder 19
New forms of political action
1977 March 14
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address delivered at Cooper Union.
box 67, folder 20
The new McCarthyism
ca. 1954-1961
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted lecture outlines and drafts, including a fragment entitled, "The McCarthy era."
box 67, folder 21
The new politics
1968
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 67, folder 22
News management
1970-1971
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted typewritten lecture drafts to be read at various locations.
box 67, folder 23
News management: a threat to a free press
1966-1967
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted typewritten lecture drafts to be read at various locations.
box 67, folder 24
News management: threat to democracy
1968 March 11
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 1
The 1956 election
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 2
The 1964 election
ca. 1963-1964
General Physical Description note: 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and notes, press releases, and clippings.
box 68, folder 3
The 1966 election
1966 November
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of commentary for CBS Television, and a letter.
box 68, folder 4
The 1974 election
1974 November 3
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 5
[Notes on UCLA course procedures]
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten notes serving as the introduction to, and procedural explanation for, a course McWilliams's taught at UCLA. Contains
reference to his teaching philosophy and attitudes towards formal education. Includes letters from Robert Towne, David Brodsly,
and Lou Cannon.
box 68, folder 6
November election: issues and prospects
ca. 1960
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 7
On understanding America
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Graduation speech lecture notes and manuscript, typewritten.
box 68, folder 8
Our freedom is our security
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address, and notes.
box 68, folder 9
Outlook on civil liberties
1953 October 31
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts of an address delivered before the United Packinghouse Workers of America's Anti-Discrimination Conference,
Chicago, IL. Also entitled, "Outlook on civil rights."
box 68, folder 10
Organized racism: a threat to democracy
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 11
The paradox of racism
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 12
Perspective on race relations
1967-1968
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and manuscripts, to be read at various locations.
box 68, folder 13
Perspective '77
1977 September 10
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 14
Political trials
1971-1975
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline, one letter, and assorted notes, articles, and clippings.
box 68, folder 15
[Politics lecture notes]
ca. 1950-1959
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted untitled manuscript fragments, notes, outlines, and clipping on various aspects of American politics.
box 68, folder 16
Politics: 1976
ca. 1976
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and notes.
box 68, folder 17
The politics of drift
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 18
The politics of the 1960s
1960-1961
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and manuscripts, to be read at various locations. Includes outlines entitled, "The issues in 1960."
box 68, folder 19
A practical approach to America's race problem
1961 July 12
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 68, folder 20
[The present state of the
The Education of Carey McWilliams]
1963 March 27
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 68, folder 21
The presidency
1968 November 5
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten lecture outline and notes.
box 68, folder 22
[The presidency and constitutional freedoms]
1976
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten lecture outline, leaflets, clippings, and a copy of
The Civil Liberties Review.
box 68, folder 23
The prevalence of witches
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten lecture outlines, to be delivered at an undetermined location.
box 70, folder 1
The prospects for disarmament
1963
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 70, folder 2
[Race relations]
1945-1949, 1964
General Physical Description note: 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Untitled fragments of lecture drafts, notes, and clippings.
box 70, folder 3
Race relations in a post-war world
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 70, folder 4
Race relations in the USA
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Incomplete typewritten outline.
box 70, folder 5
Race relations: the new myths
1967 February 23
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 70, folder 6
The radical Right
1962-1963
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline for an address given at N.Y. State College and in Hamden, CT.
box 70, folder 7
The rape of Owens Valley
1978 July
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten outline for an address in Sun Valley.
box 70, folder 8
Reflections on the Hiss case
1978 May 26
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 70, folder 9
Remembering Louise Berman
1977 November 14
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address.
box 70, folder 10
Remembering the 1930s
1975 May 7
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered at Yale University.
box 70, folder 11
The role of the journal of critical opinion in American journalism
1956 November 9
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered before the Associated Collegiate Press Conference in Cleveland, OH.
box 70, folder 12
Role of the media
1970 October 19
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 70, folder 13
Scorecard on the American press
1936 April 28
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline for an address given in New York.
box 70, folder 14
Scorecard on the [American] press
1961-1967
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted typewritten lecture outlines and drafts, to be read at various locations.
box 70, folder 15
A sensible foreign policy
1962 October 22
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 70, folder 16
Six points about H.L. Mencken
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten outline.
box 70, folder 17
[Social ethics]
1969 March 8
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline for an address given at the Cambridge Institute in Boston, MA.
box 70, folder 18
Some thoughts on the Bicentennial
1976 May 1
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and notes for an address given at San Diego State.
box 70, folder 19
Sore Spots in the American Democracy
1956 October 19
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered in St. Louis before the Missouri Association for Social Welfare. Includes the
Association's conference program.
box 70, folder 20
The Spanish-speaking: a special case
1978 December 13
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address given at California State Sacramento.
box 70, folder 21
Starr King and the problem of leadership
1950 October 15
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten copies of an address delivered before the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles.
box 70, folder 22
Student protest movements
1967-1969
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Lecture outlines and notes for addresses given at various locations, including Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia on
November 16, 1967. Also contains related letters, 1 black and white photograph, a press release, and newspaper clippings.
box 70, folder 23
The student revolt
1966 March 28
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 70, folder 24
[Thanks]
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of a thank-you speech pertaining to
The Nation.
box 70, folder 25
That awesome space
1978 July
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopied outline of an address for the Sun Valley Center for Arts and Humanities' Conference "The Writer and the West"
box 70, folder 26
Thoughts on the Bicentennial
1975
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of an address given in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and a clipping of the published article that appeared
in
The Nation.
box 70, folder 27
Time for a new politics
1962 November 4
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines.
box 70, folder 28
Time to think
1940 April 6
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Copy of an address delivered at the Peace Conference, Knight of Columbus Hall, in San Francisco, CA.
box 70, folder 29
To defend these freedoms: by suppression or liberty
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten lecture.
box 70, folder 30
The two-party system
1966
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines. Includes a fragment entitled, "Ghouls, ghosts, and the GOP."
box 71, folder 1
[University of Southern California Distinguished Achievement Award in Journalism]
1976
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline of McWilliams's acceptance speech. Also includes related letters, the awards' program, and a clipping.
box 71, folder 2
Utah's ecclesiastical politics
1945 December 12
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered in Salt Lake City, UT.
box 71, folder 3
The vile decade
1960 June 24
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten lecture outlines and the draft of a paper presented for the ACLU in San Francisco.
box 71, folder 4
Voice of America
ca. 1939-1945
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address given at an undetermined date and location.
box 71, folder 5
The warfare state
1960-1963
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline, notes, clippings, and articles.
box 71, folder 6
What is liberalism?
undated
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten lecture outline and notes.
box 71, folder 7
What price civilization?
1967 October 16
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted typewritten drafts for an address delivered at Cooper Union.
box 71, folder 8
What's wrong with our politics
1966-1968, 1975-1976
General Physical Description note: 17 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline and notes for an address delivered at the Merced College Talk, and earlier drafts. Includes letters and
a brochure from the event.
box 71, folder 9
Where are the liberals
ca. 1954
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and notes.
box 71, folder 10
Why a labor movement?
1937 June
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address delivered at the University Club.
box 71, folder 11
Why dissent in American society?
1962 May 8
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 71, folder 12
Witchhunting and the struggle for power
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 71, folder 13
Writers and the war
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address given at an undetermined date and location.
box 71, folder 14
Year of the snake
ca. 1953
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, heavily annotated, on McCarthyism.
6B. Articles and essays
1927 -1981
General Physical Description note: 5 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains manuscript drafts and outlines of articles and essays by McWilliams, along with assorted supporting
materials. The manuscripts include editorials, memoranda, letters to the editor, forewords to books, a "Dossier" (which summarizes
his education, professional activities, and political attitudes), and an annotated copy of his last article, "Los Angeles:
a very special city." Arranged alphabetically by title.
box 71, folder 15
[Alger Hiss]
undated
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Three typewritten manuscripts on Alger Hiss, entitled "The Hiss case controversy" and "That mysterious Woodcock typewriter."
box 71, folder 16
The American burden
1961-1962
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, copy of the published version, and related letters.
box 71, folder 17
The American of the Far West
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 71, folder 18
The American political vacuum
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 71, folder 19
American Tolstoyans
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts.
box 71, folder 20
American writing and the social sciences
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, with annotations.
box 71, folder 21
Application of Carey McWilliams
ca. 1940
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of a statement for a fellowship (Guggenheim?) to study agricultural labor in Hawaii.
box 71, folder 22
[Arthur Samish]
1971
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of a quotation from a McWilliams's article to be used in the book The Secret Boss of California by
Samish and Bob Thomas. Also includes related letters.
box 71, folder 23
Aspects of national defense
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts.
box 71, folder 24
Aspects of post-war planning
1942 October
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 71, folder 25
The big fix
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript about a scandal in the Los Angeles Police Department and Mickey Cohen, occurring sometime during Mayor
Fletch Bowron's fourth term in office.
box 71, folder 26
[Bilingual education]
1979 January 11
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 71, folder 27
Blue versus gray
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 71, folder 28
[The Bridges case]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, heavily annotated.
box 71, folder 29
The British presence
1972, 1978
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, letter, typed notes, and clippings.
box 74, folder 1
Bronowski: man of many gifts
ca. 1958-1974
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts, including an untitled piece of Jacob Bronowski, and a memorandum about a series on trends in modern
thought.
box 74, folder 2
But who's to fix the little house?
1936 July 13
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript for
Pacific Weekly.
box 74, folder 3
California and the Japanese
1942 February 10
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the status of Japanese Americans following Pearl Harbor.
box 74, folder 4
The California derby
ca. 1946
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the senatorial race of Will Rogers, Jr. and California politics.
box 74, folder 5
The California explosion
1976
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the upsurge of population in California, written for the publication
Westways. Also includes a related letter from Frances Ring.
box 74, folder 6
[Central Intelligence Agency]
ca. 1977
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 7
Citizen response to the disarmament controversy in America
1962 November 24
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of a paper prepared for The National Council for Social Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
box 74, folder 8
Civil rights: civil liberties
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline and notes regarding calling a meeting on the decline of civil liberties.
box 74, folder 9
A climate for ideas
1973
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript regarding The Cooper Union Forum, a clipping of the published article, a related letter, and a brochure.
box 74, folder 10
Co-existence has a chance
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline on the Cold War.
box 74, folder 11
Communism in America: fact and fantasy
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 12
Confidential: talk with Stevenson
ca. 1952
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
Copies of a typewritten manuscript regarding an off-the-record conversation between McWilliams and Adlai E. Stevenson. Includes
a copy of
The Nation.
box 74, folder 13
[The conflict over racial segregation in the schools]
1956
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 14
Constitution-conscious
1935
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, and a clipping of the published article in
Pacific Weekly.
box 74, folder 15
The counter culture
ca. 1975
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript describing a possible book proposal.
box 74, folder 16
Culture and society in Southern California
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 17
Depression post-mortem
ca. 1935
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts and clipping.
box 74, folder 18
The dilemma of liberalism
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 19
[Disaffection with President Carter]
1979 January 11
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 20
Discovering California
1975
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, a related letter, and a clipping.
box 74, folder 21
Don't blame Orange County
1973
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript; handwritten annotation across top reads, "N.Y. Times, 1973." Related letter from Stanley Mosk.
box 74, folder 22
Dossier
ca. 1950
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten summaries of McWilliams's education, professional activities, and political attitudes, in a full outline format.
These refute communist accusations (red-baiting) against him.
box 74, folder 23
Dual citizenship
1942 October 31
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the citizenship status of Japanese-Americans.
box 74, folder 24
Editor
The Times
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of a letter to the editor in which McWilliams discusses the Equal Rights Amendment.
box 74, folder 25
Editorial memo
1956 September 3
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the idea of a "new epoch."
box 74, folder 26
The education of Earl Warren
1974
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, and published version.
box 74, folder 27
The emergence of the Hispanic minority
ca. 1979
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and outline.
box 74, folder 28
Employment problems of the Spanish-speaking groups
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 29
The enemy in Pasadena
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on threats against public education.
box 74, folder 30
[The environment]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Untitled essay outline on the environment.
box 74, folder 31
Ethics in an affluent society
1966
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines, drafts, and fragments. Clipping of published version.
box 74, folder 32
Evacuation has begun
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the Tolan Committee and the status of Japanese-Americans.
box 74, folder 33
The family farm today
ca. 1955
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 34
The Fascist follies
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 74, folder 35
The figurehead presidency
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript on Ronald Reagan.
box 74, folder 36
The folklore of earthquakes
1933 June
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript for
The American Mercury.
box 74, folder 37
[Foreword to
From Indians to Chicanos, by Diego Vigil]
1980
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and a related letter.
box 74, folder 38
[Foreword to
The History of the University of Southern California]
1968-1969
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, and related correspondence.
box 74, folder 39
[Foreword to
The Jubilant Pilgrim, by Reuben W. Borough]
1964
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten foreword draft and related correspondence.
box 77, folder 1
[Foreword to
Saturday's Child, by Ronald Taylor]
1972
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and a related letter.
box 77, folder 2
[Foreword to
Spiders in the House, by Ernesto Galarza]
1969
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten foreword draft and related correspondence.
box 77, folder 3
The forgotten Mexican
1951
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, a condensation of a chapter from
Brothers Under the Skin, for publication in the
Journal of Negro Education Yearbook.
box 77, folder 4
Front-page jurists
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts on Los Angeles judges.
box 77, folder 5
Furniture: the great Southern California mystery
1951, 1981
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts and related letters, including one from Frances Ring.
box 77, folder 6
[George Sanchez]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript honoring George Sanchez.
box 77, folder 7
Gilt edge stuff, or, Upset to Fairyland
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 8
The Gold Rush decade
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 9
Good neighbors--good friends
1959
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten version of a paper presented at a conference, and a related letter.
box 77, folder 10
The great exception
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 11
Growing up in Steamboat
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline, notes, and a clipping.
box 77, folder 12
The growth of fear in America
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline. Includes sentence about the UCLA loyalty oath.
box 77, folder 13
H. H. Wilson
1977
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript, and clippings.
box 77, folder 14
History as Theater
1979
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline and manuscript about the emergence of the Spanish-speaking minority in the Southwest. Also includes a
clipping.
box 77, folder 15
The Hollywood hussars
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 16
The impact of population growth and change on planning in Southern California
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 17
The importance of ideas
1975-1976
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and related letters.
box 77, folder 18
An interesting bookman
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Signed, typewritten manuscript on Herr Fredrick Friedfertig.
box 77, folder 19
[Introduction to Filipinos in America]
1935, 1973
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a manuscript entitled "Introduction," on Filipinos in America. Assorted notes, fragments, research materials,
and clippings. Includes an article from
The Nation by McWilliams entitled, "Exit the Filipino."
box 77, folder 20
Jake
1927, 1967
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on Jake Zeitlin, for publication in his festschrift. Includes a clipping and a related letter.
box 77, folder 21
Jewish fascism
1935 August 19
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript for
Pacific Weekly.
box 77, folder 22
The Kennedy legend
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 23
The Kersten Committee: what's it up to?
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 24
Kleig lights
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 25
Knights in shining Buicks
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, with reference to Christopher Daniels.
box 77, folder 26
Korea, corny politics and communism
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 27
A land of authors
1930
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on California writers.
box 77, folder 28
The land of Mu
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 29
The latest attempt to induce Congress to smear its clean record for the outlawing of wiretapping
1960 March 22
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 30
The latest ism is McCarthyism
ca. 1950
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 31
[Leadership in mass-market society]
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript in the form of a memorandum regarding the development of McWilliams's ideas on mass-market society.
box 77, folder 32
[Letter to the editor of
The Times]
1932 September 20
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten, signed letter to
The Times regarding Abraham Lincoln's position on prohibition.
box 77, folder 33
Los Angeles: a very special city
1980
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript (annotated) and correspondence with Dolli Carrol.
box 77, folder 34
The Los Angeles aqueduct
ca. 1935
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 35
The luck of Harry Bridges
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 36
McAdoo and the native sons
ca. 1934
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 37
McCarthyism and American policy
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 77, folder 38
Memo for Freda re introduction to supplement
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, regarding
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 77, folder 39
The Mexican problem in Southern California
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, annotated.
box 78, folder 1
Migration
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 78, folder 2
Minneapolis: the curious twin
1946, 1966, 1975-1976
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript about anti-Semitism in Minneapolis. Also contains related letters, clippings, and printed materials.
box 78, folder 3
Miriam
1967 June 22
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on Miriam Ittelson, possibly read as her eulogy.
box 78, folder 4
Missouri Mortmain
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 78, folder 5
More California dynamite
1937 March 7
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on a union strike and trial under Standard Oil Company. Signed in ink, "C. McW. to E.L.B.M."
box 78, folder 6
MRA: the overarching ideology
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on Dr. Frank N.D. Buchman's Moral Rearmament movement.
box 78, folder 7
Muckraking then and now
ca. 1977
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 78, folder 8
N.Y. feuds with L.A.
ca. 1979
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript for publication on the cultural rivalry between New York and Los Angeles. Includes a letter from Jake Zeitlin and
a copy of a Zeitlin speech on the cultural flowering of Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s.
box 78, folder 9
The new West
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 78, folder 10
The New York shakeup
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript about New York's Democratic primary.
box 78, folder 11
News-West: a prospectus
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript outlining the concept for a monthly Los Angeles newsletter.
box 78, folder 12
North American common market: a radical proposal
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript. Incomplete.
box 78, folder 13
Notes on farm labor
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 78, folder 14
On being mugged
1972 August-September
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts. Includes a letter, published copies, and clippings about the incident.
box 78, folder 15
On utopian politics
1965 November 18
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, one copy labeled, "Forward."
box 78, folder 16
[The open-shop fight in Los Angeles]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, possibly for
Pacific Weekly.
box 78, folder 17
Outline
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of a book proposal on New York City.
box 78, folder 18
The Outlook for civil liberties
ca. 1953-1955
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines and notes, and related clippings.
box 78, folder 19
Perilous remedies for present evils: social protest in California, 1934-1939
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on social protest movements from the 1930s, including Upton Sinclair's End Poverty movement.
box 78, folder 20
A personal reminiscence of Walter Packard
1969
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of typewritten manuscript.
box 78, folder 21
Perspectives on politics
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 78, folder 22
[Political labels of "liberal" and "conservative"]
1976 June
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript for Commentary. Includes discussion of the Cold War and a related letter.
box 78, folder 23
Prayer and Politics
ca. 1935
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the Utopian Society and Upton Sinclair's
End Poverty League.
box 78, folder 24
Problems of academic freedom
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 78, folder 25
The Puerto Rican connection
1979
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript, letters, and
The Nation's proof of a similar piece.
box 78, folder 26
Race relations: a personal perspective
1968 May
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the civil rights movement.
box 78, folder 27
Race relations on the West coast
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 78, folder 28
Race tensions: second phase
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, with annotations.
box 78, folder 29
The race that refuses to vanish
1942 June 8
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on Native American Indians.
box 78, folder 30
The rebirth of heresy
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the loyalty oaths at the University of California.
box 78, folder 31
Record of Attorney General Earl Warren
ca. 1940
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts and notes. Materials address the Central Valley Project and Warren's record on labor, FEPC, child
care, and other issues. Also includes a comparison of Warren and Robert Kenny on race relations.
box 78, folder 32
Reflections on Skokie
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on Nazi demonstrations and the militarization of politics.
box 78, folder 33
The registration of heretics
ca. 1950
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 78, folder 34
[Relationship between the two parties]
ca. 1960
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 78, folder 35
Report for the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
1954 December 16
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 78, folder 36
[Response to David Thomson]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on contemporary political thought and action.
box 78, folder 37
Revivalism
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 79, folder 1
The revolt of the blind
ca. 1950
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on discrimination against the blind, and Jacobus Tenbroek.
box 79, folder 2
The Rise of the Sects
1979
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, and
The Nation's proof and published version of a similar piece.
box 79, folder 3
Rogers and Roosevelt
ca. 1946
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on Will Rogers, Jr. and James Roosevelt.
box 79, folder 4
The round-up
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the increasing race-consciousness of Americans, as seen in print culture.
box 79, folder 5
The schools' responsibility for improving intergroup education
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 79, folder 6
Second thoughts--[On Jerry Brown]
1979
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, one letter from Carey McWilliams to Jerry Brown, and handwritten notes.
box 79, folder 7
Second thoughts--[On L. Ron Hubbard and investigative reporting]
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, and
The Nation's proof.
box 79, folder 8
Second thoughts--[On Mark Lane and public distrust]
1979
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript, and newspaper clippings.
box 79, folder 9
Second thoughts--[On Morrison and Walker's article on military spending]
1978
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and clippings.
box 79, folder 10
Second thoughts--[On the 1980 presidential candidates]
1979
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript, letters from Lawrence W. Goldberg, a press release, and clippings.
box 79, folder 11
Second thoughts--[On presidential primaries]
1980
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript. Includes clippings.
box 79, folder 12
Seed time
1944-1946
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Incomplete typewritten manuscript on the post-civil war period. Includes quotations and clippings.
box 79, folder 13
Senator Humphrey's 1954 sedition law
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 79, folder 14
Seven perspectives...
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Three typewritten outlines entitled, "Seven perspectives..." on racial tensions, social action, and civil liberties.
box 79, folder 15
The silent liberals
1976 May
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, and one letter from McWilliams.
box 79, folder 16
[Sleepy Lagoon statement for Guy Endore pamphlet]
1944
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of text that appeared in a pamphlet for Guy Endore.
box 79, folder 17
[Sleepy Lagoon and "sore spots" in society]
ca. 1943
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 79, folder 18
The small magazines
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten and photocopied manuscripts.
box 79, folder 19
The social sciences and the struggle for peace
1948 June
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 79, folder 20
Some random notes on Edmund Wilson
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts.
box 79, folder 21
Spanish-speaking America
1978
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts and related letters.
box 79, folder 22
The Spanish-speaking minority
ca. 1979
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts, outline, and notes.
box 79, folder 23
The Spanish-speaking presence, or, Meet the Spanish-speaking
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 79, folder 24
The spectrum of segregation
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 79, folder 25
Statement in re Leslie Claypool's letter of November 7th
1950
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and related letters.
box 79, folder 26
Steamboat Springs
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts.
box 79, folder 27
Steinbeck and the 1930s in California
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts.
box 79, folder 28
The strange case of Dr. Tsien
1950
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts on the seizure of a Chinese Cal Tech professor's property. Heavily annotated, with clippings.
box 79, folder 29
The strike at Di Giorgio's
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript regarding a farm strike by the Kern County Farm Labor Local no. 218, affiliated with The National Farm
Labor Union of the AFL.
box 79, folder 30
Strikes: a new perspective
1971
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript draft written for the book,
The Strike: For and Against, published by Hart Publishing Company, Inc.
box 79, folder 31
That man Saint-Clair
ca. 1934
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on Upton Sinclair's anticipated Democratic nomination of Governor on August 28, 1934.
box 79, folder 32
They still keep coming
1941-1942
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on interstate migration to California.
box 79, folder 33
Those illegal aliens
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 79, folder 34
Tyranny has no permanent address
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outline.
box 79, folder 35
The unhappy biographic brotherhood
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 79, folder 36
Upset to Fairyland
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 79, folder 37
[Utopia]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on political utopias.
box 80, folder 1
The Vangelical bloc or the Evangelical constituency
1976
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and clippings of published articles by McWilliams on similar topics, entitled "The emerging 'born again'
bloc" and "The new fundamentalists."
box 80, folder 2
Wanted: a few conservatives
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and outline.
box 80, folder 3
Warren of California
1943-1948
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Signed, typewritten manuscripts and copies of the published version (one entitled, "Earl Warren: a likely dark horse).
box 80, folder 4
[Water conservation]
ca. 1979
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten manuscript, and handwritten notes.
box 80, folder 5
The West coast: our racial frontier
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 80, folder 6
What is Young America made of?
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 80, folder 7
What's back of it all?
ca. 1945
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript about the rise of fascism in the United States.
box 80, folder 8
[Where will American journalism be in the year 2000?]
1979
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript written for the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi 70th Anniversary Convention Committee.
Also includes related letters, and a clipping.
box 80, folder 9
Why oil companies scare people
1978-1979
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts and related letters from Nancy Boyarsky.
box 80, folder 10
[William May Garland carrying the Olympic flag at the Berlin games]
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, possibly for
Pacific Weekly.
box 80, folder 11
The wrong horse gambit
1979
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript and related letter.
box 80, folder 12
The year of the three-eyed sloth
ca. 1951
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript on the subject of West coast politics.
box 80, folder 13
Untitled fragments
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Untitled typewritten manuscripts fragments.
6C. Book reviews
ca. 1941-1978
General Physical Description note: .25 box
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains typewritten drafts of book reviews by McWilliams, along with assorted supporting materials. Arranged
alphabetically by the surname of the author being reviewed.
box 80, folder 14
Bell, Jack.
The Compleat Politician
1965
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review, including a review of David Cushman Coyle's
Breakthrough to the Great Society.
box 80, folder 15
Briggs, Vernon M. Jr., Walter Fogel, and Fred H. Schmidt.
Chicano Worker
1977
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review.
box 80, folder 16
Collins, Henry Hill, Jr.
America's Own Refugees: Our 4,000,000 Homeless Migrants
ca. 1941
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review.
box 80, folder 17
Daniel, Pete.
The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South
1972
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review, and one letter to Sigmund Diamond.
box 80, folder 18
Davis, Rebecca Harding and Tillie Olsen.
Life in the Iron Mills
1973-1974
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of seven reviews entitled, "Booknotes." Also includes correspondence with Olsen and a clipping.
box 80, folder 19
Freidel, Frank.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Launching the New Deal
ca. 1952
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review.
box 80, folder 20
Greenstone, J. David.
Labor in American Politics
1969
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review, and notes.
box 80, folder 21
Lippman, Theo.
The Squire of Warm Springs. FDR in Georgia; Roosevelt, Elliott and James Brough. Mother R. Eleanor Roosevelt's Untold Story
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of a typewritten draft of a review entitled, "Familiar materials: fresh insights," and a related letter.
box 80, folder 22
Martin, James J.
American Liberalism and World Politics 1931-1941
1965
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review, related letter, and a clipping.
box 80, folder 23
Robinson, W.W.
Los Angeles: A Profile
1968
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review, and one letter from Norris Hundley.
box 80, folder 24
Roosevelt, Elliott and James Brough.
A Rendezvous with Destiny
1973-1975
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review, and a related letter.
box 80, folder 25
Scharlin, Craig and Lilia Villanueva. Wen, Manong; Morante, P.C.
His Heart Affair with America
1977-1978
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review entitled, "Reader's Report," and related letters.
box 80, folder 26
Starr, Kevin.
Americans and the California Dream
1973
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review, and one letter from Emily E. Johnson.
box 80, folder 27
Taft, Philip.
Labor Politics American Style
1968
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a review.
6D. Fiction
ca. 1920-1948
General Physical Description note: .25 box
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains typewritten drafts of fictional works by McWilliams. It includes two works co-written by John Fante.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
box 80, folder 28
The ambassador
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a fictional work.
box 80, folder 29
Home is of the hunter
ca. 1942
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript by McWilliams and John Fante.
box 80, folder 30
In Pasadena
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 80, folder 31
The little lady
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft of a fictional work.
box 80, folder 32
One May morning...
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 80, folder 33
Overture to a modern theme...Office building
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts.
box 80, folder 34
Paragraph from a novel...
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 80, folder 35
Pioneers! Oh pioneers!
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten drafts of a fictional work, alternatively titled, "Corona."
box 80, folder 36
St. Anthony's Forty Blondes or
St. Anthony's Forty Wards
1948
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts by John Fante and McWilliams.
box 80, folder 37
Untitled fragments
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted typewritten manuscripts, untitled, apparently in the fiction genre.
6E. Monographs
1896-1980
General Physical Description note: 5 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains manuscripts, correspondence (from critics, fans, and publishers), research materials, reviews, and
legal and financial documents related to the writing and publication of McWilliams's books. Additional reviews of his monographs
may be found in the publicity and criticism files (Series 9) and in his scrapbooks (Subseries 1D). Additional correspondence
related to his books may be found in the correspondence files (Subseries 2C and 2D). For research materials possibly compiled
for
The Education of Carey McWilliams, see the general subject files (Subseries 2B, box 65, folders 1 and 2) and
The Nation files (Series 7, box 87, folders 2-5). Arranged alphabetically by title.
box 81, folder 1
Ambrose Bierce--Agreement for the sale of the Bierce portrait and papers from Helen Bierce to Milton Gatz
1928-1929
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
Scope and Contents note
Contract for the sale of Bierce's papers, including a clause for unlimited access to the materials for Helen Bierce Isgrigg
and Carey McWilliams (acting as her attorney) for the purposes of writing a biography. Dealer is Jake Zeitlin. Includes records
of payment, legal documents, and correspondence related to the sale.
box 81, folder 2
Ambrose Bierce--Albert and Charles Boni, Inc.
1929-1935, 1938
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Contracts and correspondence between Carey McWilliams, Helen Bierce Iggsgrig, and Albert and Charles Boni, Inc.
regarding publication and copyright of Bierce-related works.
box 81, folder 3
Ambrose Bierce--
The American Mercury
1928-1932
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters and payment invoice for an article on Bierce.
box 81, folder 4
Ambrose Bierce--Archon Books
1966-1976
General Physical Description note: 46 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, royalty statements, signed agreement, and book jacket for the 1967 edition of the biography.
box 81, folder 5
Ambrose Bierce--Berkove, Lawrence
1962-1980
General Physical Description note: 61 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence between Berkove and McWilliams, typed notes on Bierce, manuscripts by Berkove, a catalog, and clippings.
box 81, folder 6
Ambrose Bierce--Copyright with the Neale Publishing Company and Hearst
1908, 1924-1925
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters and contracts regarding the copyright of Bierce's major works with the Neale Publishing company and Hearst, including
a signed statement by William Randolph Hearst.
box 81, folder 7
Ambrose Bierce--Correspondence (1 of 2)
1929-1940
General Physical Description note: 32 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence in chronological order related to the research and publication of the biography. Includes letters from Theresa
E. McCarthy, Napier Wilt, Helen Bierce, Albert Boni and Wilson Follett.
box 81, folder 8
Ambrose Bierce--Correspondence (2 of 2)
1951-1976
General Physical Description note: 88 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence in chronological order related to the research and publication of the second edition of the biography and other
writings on Bierce. Includes letters to and/or from Edmund Wilson, M.E. Grenander, George Knepper, Paul Fatout, and Maggie
Maxwell.
box 81, folder 9
Ambrose Bierce--Helen Bierce Iggsgrig legal file
1931-1940
General Physical Description note: 36 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted documents relating to McWilliams's legal representation of Iggsgrig in various court appearances and contract agreements.
box 81, folder 10
Ambrose Bierce--Little Blue Books
1909-1912
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Little Blue Books publication numbers 1056,
The Devil's Dictionary; 1081,
Fantastic Debunking Fables; 1098,
Extraordinary Opinions on Commonplace Subjects; and 1099,
A Cynic Looks at Life.
box 81, folder 11
Ambrose Bierce--Manuscript. "Bierce to the Rescue"
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten draft and clippings.
box 81, folder 12
Ambrose Bierce--Manuscript. "Introduction"
1967-1968
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of the 1967 introduction for the second edition, and one letter.
box 81, folder 13
Ambrose Bierce--Manuscript. "A man of our time" (review of Ambrose Bierce by Richard O'Connor)
1967
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten review manuscript, one letter, and a clipping of the published review.
box 81, folder 14
Ambrose Bierce--Manuscript. "A Rivouac of the Dead"
ca. 1960
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an outline for a proposed collection of Bierce's Civil War writings.
box 81, folder 15
Ambrose Bierce--Manuscript [Untitled]
1957 June
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Untitled typewritten manuscript on Bierce by McWilliams.
box 81, folder 16
Ambrose Bierce--Manuscript [Untitled lecture draft]
1937 April
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of an address given at the Writer's Congress.
box 82, folder 1
Ambrose Bierce--Research file
1896, 1925-1942, 1951-1976
General Physical Description note: 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten notes, reviews, articles, clippings, and photocopies on Bierce and his work. Includes clippings
of articles by McWilliams, and reviews of the biography.
box 82, folder 2
Ambrose Bierce--Reviews
1923, 1929-1931
General Physical Description note: 51 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings and reviews of the first edition, mounted on paper.
box 82, folder 3
Brothers Under the Skin--Forward and introduction
1963-1964
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts of the forward and introduction for the 1964 edition.
box 82, folder 4
California: the Great Exception
1967-1973
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with publishers Hill and Wang, reprint requests, and letters from the Greenwood Press.
box 82, folder 5
Factories in the Field--Correspondence (1 of 5)
1938
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
Scope and Contents note
Two letters from publishers rejecting the manuscript. Also contains undated correspondence, and (mostly positive) reviews.
box 82, folder 6
Factories in the Field--Correspondence (2 of 5)
1939 June-August
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies. Includes
a manuscript draft of Louis Adamic's review of
Factories.
box 82, folder 7
Factories in the Field--Correspondence (3 of 5)
1939 September-December
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies. Includes
an acknowledgement from the White House that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt has read the book.
box 82, folder 8
Factories in the Field--Correspondence (4 of 5)
1940-1941
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies. Includes
an invitation to speak before the New York Committee to Aid Agricultural Workers.
box 82, folder 9
Factories in the Field--Correspondence (5 of 5)
1951-1972
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
General letters regarding the re-issue of the text, and copies of McWilliams's replies.
box 82, folder 10
Factories in the Field--Notes and outline
ca. 1950-1951, 1967
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten notes and an outline manuscript.
box 82, folder 11
Factories in the Field--Notes, reviews and clippings
1939-1941, 1968-1972
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typed notes, clippings of reviews of the text, and clippings that mention Factories or touch on farm labor.
box 82, folder 12
Factories in the Field--Requests for permission to quote
1951, 1962-1974
General Physical Description note: 23 items.
box 83, folder 1
Ill Fares the Land--Correspondence (1 of 3)
1941-1942
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies.
box 83, folder 2
Ill Fares the Land--Correspondence (2 of 3)
1951-1953, 1965-1967
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies.
box 83, folder 3
Ill Fares the Land--Correspondence (3 of 3)
1970-1976
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Publisher correspondence.
box 83, folder 4
Ill Fares the Land--Reprint. "The Joads at Home."
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 83, folder 5
Ill Fares the Land--Royalty statements and agreements
1967-1979
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
box 83, folder 6
Louis Adamic and Shadow-America--Correspondence regarding Adamic (1 of 2)
1951-1952
General Physical Description note: 36 items.
box 83, folder 7
Louis Adamic and Shadow-America--Correspondence regarding Adamic (2 of 2)
1966-1980
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
box 83, folder 8
Louis Adamic and Shadow-America--Correspondence with Adamic
1931-1939, 1949-1951
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters between Adamic and McWilliams.
box 83, folder 9
Louis Adamic and Shadow-America--Manuscript
1934-1935
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
69 pages of typewritten manuscript; publisher's prospectus.
box 83, folder 10
Louis Adamic and Shadow-America--Miscellaneous research file
1930-1951, 1977-1978
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten notes, 3 black and white photographs of Adamic, 4 manuscripts by Adamic (chapters XII-XV, ca.
1949), clippings, and assorted printed materials.
box 83, folder 11
Louis Adamic and Shadow-America--Printed materials
1929-1935, 1949-1951, 1973-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Published writings, either by Adamic or about him, including a Nation article by McWilliams, reviews, and newspaper clippings
regarding Adamic's death.
box 83, folder 12
A Mask for Privilege--Clippings and reviews
1948
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes the critique from the Anti-Defamation League and McWilliams's response.
box 83, folder 13
A Mask for Privilege--Miscellaneous research file
1978
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, clippings, and extensive typed notes and quotations from published works.
box 83, folder 14
The Mexicans in America
1966-1970
General Physical Description note: 55 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript for
The Mexicans in America: A Students' Guide to Localized History. Includes editor and publisher correspondence, royally statements, contracts, and a bibliography.
box 84, folder 1
North from Mexico--Assorted printed materials
1949, 1959, 1966-1979
General Physical Description note: 38 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten notes, a press release, a manuscript (
Borderland by Robert Joseph and Edward Cahn), financial statements, reviews, copy of
El Grito with letter, leaflets, newsletters, catalogs, and clippings.
box 84, folder 2
North from Mexico--Bibliography
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Contains 92 pages of typed notes and quotations from published works.
box 84, folder 3
North from Mexico--Correspondence (1 of 4)
1949-1961
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies.
box 84, folder 4
North from Mexico--Correspondence (2 of 4)
1966-1968
General Physical Description note: 36 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies.
box 84, folder 5
North from Mexico--Correspondence (3 of 4)
1969
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies.
box 84, folder 6
North from Mexico--Correspondence (4 of 4)
1970
General Physical Description note: 39 items.
box 84, folder 7
North from Mexico--Film adaptation
1970-1972, 1976
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, promotional materials, script treatment, newsletter, and bibliography.
box 84, folder 8
North from Mexico--General subject file
1967-1972,1979-1980
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
Articles and clippings do not discuss book, but touch on its subjects. Also contains a letter, and a paper entitled "The land
question in New Mexico" (author unknown).
box 84, folder 9
North from Mexico--Manuscript. "Introduction"
1968 January 2
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts for the 1968 introduction.
box 84, folder 10
North from Mexico--Manuscript. "The Mexicans in America"
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 84, folder 11
North from Mexico--Manuscript. "Once a well-kept secret"
1973
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript, and a published reprint.
box 84, folder 12
North from Mexico--Manuscript. Untitled fragment
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript.
box 84, folder 13
North from Mexico--Notebook
undated
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten notes and quotations from published works.
box 84, folder 14
North from Mexico--Permission requests and correspondence
1969-1980
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
box 84, folder 15
North from Mexico--Siglo Veintiuno Editores
1968-1979
General Physical Description note: 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, royalty statements, and clippings
box 85, folder 1
Prejudice--Articles, clippings, and reviews
1944-1945, 1965-1966, 1970
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 85, folder 2
Prejudice--Correspondence (1 of 2)
1951-1952, 1966-1972
General Physical Description note: 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence, mostly regarding permission to quote requests, and copies of McWilliams's replies.
box 85, folder 3
Prejudice--Correspondence (2 of 2)
1974-1978
General Physical Description note: 28 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence, mostly regarding permission to quote requests, and copies of McWilliams's replies.
Includes a draft of a paper by Stuart L. Deutsch entitled, "The California legal profession and Japanese exclusion."
box 85, folder 4
[Religion]
1943-1949
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines, chapters, and drafts for an untitled book on religion. Includes a letter from Maxim Lieber, author's
agent.
box 85, folder 5
Southern California Country--Correspondence (1 of 2)
1943-1970
General Physical Description note: 51 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies. Includes
lecture invitations.
box 85, folder 6
Southern California Country--Correspondence (2 of 2)
1971-1979
General Physical Description note: 73 items.
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence from critics, fans, and publishers, and copies of McWilliams's replies. Includes
lecture invitations.
box 85, folder 7
Southern California Country--Introduction
1972
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript for the 1973 version.
box 85, folder 8
Southern California Country--Miscellaneous
1944-1951, 1968-1979
General Physical Description note: 45 items.
Scope and Contents note
Chronology, reviews, publisher catalogs, royalty statements, signed agreements, affidavit regarding Katherine Tingley, clippings,
and assorted printed materials.
box 85, folder 9
The Education of Carey McWilliams--Lecture draft. "McCarthyism and American policy
ca. 1960
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten outlines, notes, and letters related to
The Education of Carey McWilliams, the Cold War and McCarthyism.
box 85, folder 10
The Education of Carey McWilliams--Manuscript. "Introduction"
1974-1977
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript of the 1974 introduction and photocopy of the published version.
box 85, folder 11
The Education of Carey McWilliams--Manuscript. "The Education of Carey McWilliams : an interim report"
ca. 1960
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts and an outline.
box 85, folder 12
The Education of Carey McWilliams--Miscellaneous
1923, 1974
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, signed contract, and printed material.
7.
The Nation
1894-1980
General Physical Description note: 3 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This series contains correspondence, clippings, general subject files, and assorted printed materials that were originally
labeled by McWilliams as files specifically relating to
The Nation. Other materials related to
The Nation are found throughout the collection, especially in the correspondence and research files (Subseries 2A, 2B, 2C), and in the
manuscript files (Subseries 6A, 6B, 6C). Arranged alphabetically, then chronologically.
box 86, folder 1
Correspondence
1951-1957
General Physical Description note: 24 items.
Scope and Contents note
With Freda Kirchwey, C. Wright Mills, Helen Alfred, and others. Also includes memoranda (one listing articles appearing in
The Nation that were not "soft on communism"), 3 letters from John F. Kennedy, a letter from William Wyler, and a statement in Spanish
from Diego Rivera giving
The Nation permission to use his mural, "Gloriosa Victoria."
box 86, folder 2
Correspondence
1958
General Physical Description note: 37 items.
Scope and Contents note
With B. J. Widick, Arnold H. Maremont, and others. Also includes memoranda and clippings.
box 86, folder 3
Correspondence
1959-1961
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
With Arnold H. Maremont. Also includes memoranda, a clipping, a letter from Saul Bass, and a letter from George Kirstein concerning
limited partners.
box 86, folder 4
Correspondence
1962
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
With William H. Fitzpatrick, Jacques Calmy, Everett Mendelsohn, and Cyril J. Bath. Also includes letters, memoranda, and clippings.
box 86, folder 5
Correspondence
1963
General Physical Description note: 16 items.
Scope and Contents note
Also includes memoranda and clippings.
box 86, folder 6
Correspondence
1965-1967
General Physical Description note: 14 items.
Scope and Contents note
With Karl M. Ruppenthal. Also contains letters (including one to Ralph Ingersoll in which McWilliams explains
The Nation's "specialness"), and memoranda (including one on editorial policy, and 2 to James Storrow).
box 86, folder 7
Correspondence
1968
General Physical Description note: 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
With James Storrow, Vic Bernstein, Willie D. Jacobs, and David B. Lord. Also contains memoranda, and letters (including recommendations
from Lawrence Clark Powell and John J. Clopine).
box 86, folder 8
Correspondence
1969-1973
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
Scope and Contents note
With George Salzman, and Rita Lawrence. Also includes letters, and McWilliams's memorandum on "night thoughts" about
The Nation (9 pgs.).
box 86, folder 9
Correspondence
1975-1976
General Physical Description note: 29 items.
Scope and Contents note
With Peter Miller, James Storrow, Blair Clark, James Dembin, Richard D. Hongisto, and Kingsley Widmer. Also includes letters
and memoranda.
box 86, folder 10
Correspondence
1977-1980
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
With Hamilton Fish, James and Linda Storrow, and between Milton Viorst and Storrow. Also includes letters (1 from Blair Clark
to Cesar Chavez), and a statement of editorial content by Viorst.
box 86, folder 11
Correspondence--Resignation
1975 September
General Physical Description note: 49 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters from Jake Zeitlin, and Studs Terkel.
box 86, folder 12
Correspondence--Resignation
1975 October
General Physical Description note: 39 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters from Stanley Mosk, Lillie Shultz, and Bernard Nossiter.
box 86, folder 13
Correspondence--Resignation
1975 November
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 86, folder 14
Correspondence--Resignation
1975 December
General Physical Description note: 21 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters from Theodore Roszak, and James M. Cain.
box 86, folder 15
Correspondence--Resignation
1976
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 87, folder 1
Journals of Opinion
1956-1971
General Physical Description note: 38 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence with Charles Frankel concerning a possible international conference to be sponsored by
The Nation for the editors of critical opinion journals. Also includes 2 letters, a typewritten outline, a press release, 3 leaflets
(2 concerning
The Nation's 100th birthday and the other a Nation anthology), articles (3 by McWilliams: "
The Nation and the
Magazine of Opinion," "Who Says So?" and "One Hundred Years of
The Nation"), and clippings mostly referring to
The Nation.
box 87, folder 2
The Kirchwey Years
1941-1977
General Physical Description note: 47 items.
Scope and Contents note
Letters (primarily concerning the federal indictments of Harvey Matusow, R. Lawrence Siegel, Hadassah R. Shapiro, and Martin
Solow), a memo from McWilliams to M.R. Werner about censorship in the publishing industry, handwritten and typed notes, an
annotated manuscript draft fragment, clippings, and assorted printed materials concerning a 1952 dinner forum of
The Nation Associates on Arab-Israel Peace (including an untitled manuscript). Also contains McWilliams's articles: "Goldwaterism: The
New Ideology," "High Noon in the Cow Palace," "The Last Optimist," and "The Freda Kirchwey I Knew." This material was possibly
compiled for a chapter in
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 87, folder 3
The Kirstein Years (1 of 3)
1950-1977
General Physical Description note: 74 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (with Samuel Shapiro and Norman Birnbaum, and Mrs. Walter H. Hatch), letters, a list of labor articles, a pamphlet,
leaflets, extensive handwritten and typed notes, and articles. Includes 2 letters and a typewritten poem from John Ciardi.
This material was possibly compiled for a chapter in
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 87, folder 4
The Kirstein Years (2 of 3)
1964-1976
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
Scope and Contents note
2 pamphlets ("Alternative Perspectives on Vietnam" and "Hughes for Senate"), a paper by Dr. Frederick Schuman entitled, "The
Neuroses of The Nations," and newspaper clippings. This material was possibly compiled for a chapter in
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 87, folder 5
The Kirstein Years (3 of 3)
1952-1978
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
A press release, and clippings. Includes a McWilliams's review of a book on the Rosenbergs. This material was possibly compiled
for a chapter in
The Education of Carey McWilliams.
box 87, folder 6
McWilliams's writings, clippings (1 of 6)
1932-1935
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 87, folder 7
McWilliams's writings, clippings (2 of 6)
1941-1948
General Physical Description note: 48 items.
box 87, folder 8
McWilliams's writings, clippings (3 of 6)
1949-1951
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
box 87, folder 9
McWilliams's writings, clippings (4 of 6)
1962-1968
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 87, folder 10
McWilliams's writings, clippings (5 of 6)
1973-1977
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
box 87, folder 11
McWilliams's writings, clippings (6 of 6)
1978-1980
General Physical Description note: 41 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes the Second Thoughts column.
box 87, folder 12
The Nation Associates' Conference on The Challenge of the Post-War World to the Liberal Movement
1946 September-October
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
An invitation to the dinner forum, and clippings.
box 88, folder 1
The Nation Institute Conference on American Foreign Policy
1967 January-March
General Physical Description note: 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence (with Rita Lawrence, George McGovern, Eliot Macy, and Nancy Reeves), letters of thanks from McWilliams to those
who participated in the conference, a copy of the speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr., a typewritten manuscript of Malcolm
W. Browne's remarks, as well as a copy of Eugene J. McCarthy's remarks entitled, "Moral Aspects of the War in Vietnam." Also
includes McWilliams's typewritten outline for the preliminary meeting and a copy of his address "The New Constituencies."
This conference took place on February 25, 1967. (See also box 67, folder 18)
box 88, folder 2
The Nation Report
1958, 1965-1966
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
Scope and Contents note
The report is for the period from August 1, 1965 to August 1 1966. Also includes a 1958 memorandum from McWilliams.
box 88, folder 3
Parochial Schools and Public Leadership
1960-1960
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
Scope and Contents note
An address by Myron Lieberman, which mentions
The Nation, delivered to the Diocesan Superintendents Section of the National Catholic Education Association. Also contains correspondence
with George Kirstein and a letter to Lieberman.
box 88, folder 4
Prospectus
1977 April
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Scope and Contents note
By Hamilton Fish, concerning his goals for
The Nation.
box 88, folder 5
Publicity (1 of 2)
1894, 1950-1978
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Press releases, WCBS-TV program transcripts, leaflets, and articles about or mentioning
The Nation. Includes the photocopy of a letter from Theodore Roosevelt, and 2 articles by McWilliams: "100 Years of
The Nation" and "A Frank Appraisal of the Press."
box 88, folder 6
Publicity (2 of 2)
1959-1980
General Physical Description note: 26 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, about or mentioning
The Nation.
box 88, folder 7
Special Issues (1 of 2)
1946, 1951-1953, 1956, 1976
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
Scope and Contents note
Copies of
The Nation, reprints, a photocopy, and a clipping. Includes articles by McWilliams: "
The Education of Carey McWilliams and Civil Rights," "Enforce the Constitution," and "Triumph of Moderation."
box 88, folder 8
Special Issues (2 of 2)
1959-1966
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Copies of
The Nation and a clipping.
box 88, folder 9
Typewritten notes and lists
1955-1974
General Physical Description note: 28 items.
Scope and Contents note
Lists of limited partners, contacts, awards, pieces on conservation, references to Red China, and signed articles dealing
with Vietnam. Also includes quotations, bibliographies, a memo on editorial policy, and McWilliams's European work schedules.
box 88, folder 10
Writings, clippings (1 of 2)
1946-1950
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
box 88, folder 11
Writings, clippings (2 of 2)
1948, 1957-1979
General Physical Description note: 41 items.
8. Printed materials
1925-1980
General Physical Description note: 1 box
Scope and Contents note
This series primarily consists of clippings of articles, reviews and reprints written by McWilliams that appeared in a variety
of publications. Some pamphlets are included. Additional published writings by McWilliams may be found in the scrapbooks (Subseries
1D), his files on people (Subseries 2A), his general subject files (Subseries 2B), and
The Nation files (Series 7). Arranged in chronological order, with undated materials at the beginning of the series.
box 89, folder 1
Clippings from assorted publications
undated
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes
Haldeman-Julius Monthly and
The Antioch Review.
box 89, folder 2
Clippings from assorted publications
1925-1929
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 89, folder 3
Clippings from assorted publications
1930-1938
General Physical Description note: 25 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes a copy of
Panorama, the
Bar Bulletin, and 2 pamphlets: "It Can Happen Here: Active Anti-Semitism in Los Angeles" and "The Kramer Bill and Charles Kramer."
box 89, folder 4
Clippings from assorted publications
1931-1937
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes
News of the World.
box 89, folder 5
Clippings of the
Westways columns "
California Curiosa" and "
Tides West"
1933-1939
General Physical Description note: ca. 70 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes 1 letter from 1976 that mentions a possible book compilation.
box 89, folder 6
Clippings from
Pacific Weekly
1935-1937
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 89, folder 7
Clippings from assorted publications
1940-1948
General Physical Description note: 18 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes 1 letter, 2 newsletters, a copy of
Town Meeting, and the pamphlet, "Oklahoma Story-1940."
box 89, folder 8
Clippings, newsletter and the pamphlet, "The Enemy in Pasadena"
1950-1952
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 89, folder 9
Clippings from assorted publications
1961-1969
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes a copy of
The Current.
box 89, folder 10
Clippings from assorted publications
1970-1979
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters and a copy of
The Washington Spectator.
box 89, folder 11
Clippings from assorted newspapers
1972-1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
box 89, folder 12
Clippings and photocopies from
Pacific News Service
1976-1980
General Physical Description note: 33 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes 2 letters and press releases.
box 89, folder 13
Clippings from assorted newspapers
1980
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
9. Publicity and criticism
1929-1980
General Physical Description note: 1.5 boxes
Scope and Contents note
This series contains assorted printed materials (such as clippings, leaflets, and press releases) that are about, or mention,
McWilliams and/or his work. It also contains materials related to honors and recognitions he received, and, contrastingly,
accusations of communist leanings or protests over his appearances. Other publicity and criticism materials may be found in
the lecture files (Series 5),
The Nation files (Series 7, box 88, folders 5 and 6), the Division of Immigration and Housing files (Series 3, folder 6), the monograph
files (Subseries 6E), and the scrapbooks (Subseries 1D). Files are in chronological order, with undated materials at the beginning
of the series.
box 90, folder 1
Typed quotation, leaflets, and clippings
undated
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 90, folder 2
Assorted publicity materials
1929-1948
General Physical Description note: 22 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings, a personal memorandum, a leaflet, an invitation, and a typewritten manuscript of a review of
Brothers Under the Skin. Also contains copies of
The Chronicle,
The Book Find News, and
Fortnight.
box 90, folder 3
Newspaper clippings, including reviews of
Brothers Under the Skin,
Prejudice, and
A Mask for Privilege
1931-1948
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
box 90, folder 4
Clippings and printed materials re: protests over McWilliams's appearance in Portland
1948-1950
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes a copy of the
Oregon Democrat, leaflets, and newspaper clippings.
box 90, folder 5
Reviews of
California: the Great Exception
1949-1950
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
box 90, folder 6
Miscellaneous clippings
1951
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 90, folder 7
Newsletters, 2 conference registration forms and a program
1952-1954
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 90, folder 8
Newspaper clippings on McWilliams's "leftist" or "communist" leanings
1952-1954
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Subjects include the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
box 90, folder 9
Miscellaneous clippings
1957
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 90, folder 10
Newspaper clippings on protests to McWilliams's lecture appearances
1960-1965
General Physical Description note: ca. 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes a leaflet purporting McWilliams's communist ties.
box 90, folder 11
Assorted publicity materials
1963-1969
General Physical Description note: 19 items.
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings, a press release, a newsletter, and reviews of
North from Mexico.
box 90, folder 12
Reviews of
The California Revolution
1968-1969
General Physical Description note: 35 items.
box 90, folder 13
Assorted publicity materials
1970-1975
General Physical Description note: 43 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted printed materials, including clippings, letters, promotional leaflets for his books, and the handbook of production
information for the film
Chinatown. Subjects include McWilliams's retirement from
The Nation.
box 90, folder 14
Newspaper clippings
1970-1975
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Subjects include McWilliams's retirement.
box 91, folder 1
Publicity materials relating to the USC Honorary Degree
1974
General Physical Description note: 50 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted printed materials relating to the University of Southern California Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree McWilliams received
on June 8th, 1974. Includes correspondence, twenty-two 8 x 10 black and white photographs, six 3.5 x 5 color photographs,
seven color slides, three black and white negatives, the commencement program, leaflets, and clippings.
box 91, folder 2
Assorted publicity materials
1976-1978
General Physical Description note: 34 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted printed materials, including clippings, letters, programs, newsletters, and McWilliams's resume. Many of these materials
refer to his lecture appearances and honors.
box 91, folder 3
Miscellaneous clippings
1976-1978
General Physical Description note: ca. 30 items.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings. Also includes copies of the publications
California Historical Courier and
ACLU News.
box 91, folder 4
Reviews of
The Education of Carey McWilliams
1979
General Physical Description note: ca. 40 items.
Scope and Contents note
Clippings and photocopies of reviews.
box 91, folder 5
Assorted publicity materials
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: 31 items.
Scope and Contents note
Assorted printed materials, including clippings, letters, leaflets, and copies of
Quill and
Somos. Many of these materials refer to his lecture appearances and honors.
box 91, folder 6
Newspaper clippings
1979-1980
General Physical Description note: ca. 20 items.