Philip Van Doren Stern papers, 1909-1973 PDF

Overview of the Collection

Creator

Stern, Philip Van Doren, 1900-1984

Title

Philip Van Doren Stern papers

Dates

1909-1973 (inclusive)
bulk (bulk)

Quantity

22.5 linear feet, (15 containers)

Collection Number

Ax 803

Summary

Philip Van Doren Stern was a historian, author and editor of over forty works. The collection contains book manuscripts, short story and other short works, printed material, correspondence, and personal files.

Repository

University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives.
UO Libraries--SPC, 1299
University of Oregon
Eugene OR
97403-1299
Telephone: 541-346-3068
Fax: 541-346-3485
spcarref@uoregon.edu

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to the public.

Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room.

Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time

Additional Reference Guides

Paper finding aid with additional information is available in Special Collections and University Archives upon request.

Languages

English

Sponsor

Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Overview of the Collection
Historical Note
Content Description
Use of the Collection
- Restrictions on Use
- Preferred Citation
Administrative Information
Detailed Description of the Collection
Names and Subjects

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Philip Van Doren Stern was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. Stern grew up in Brooklyn, New York and New Jersey, and graduated from Rutgers University. He was an author of over forty books, an editor known for his books on the Civil War, and a historian. He also wrote a short story titled, "The Greatest Gift," which was made into the movie "It's a Wonderful Life."

Source: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Van_Doren_Stern

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection contains book manuscripts, short story and other short works, printed material, correspondence, personal files.

The initial donation of 1968 contains book manuscripts, short story and other short works, printed material, correspondence, personal files, miscellaneous files.

Manuscripts (books length and short pieces) are alphabetically arranged by title and each title may include notes, drafts, research files, galley proofs, revisions, reviews, and publisher correspondence.

Periodicals and correspondence are arranged alphabetically and the personal and miscellaneous files include, book designs, fellowship papers, diaries, school and family papers, personal correspondence and photographs.

The 1973 Addenda contains outgoing professional correspondence organized by date (1937-1972), and incoming professional correspondence (1936-1972) alphabetically arranged by name of sender. The personal correspondence section includes outgoing letters (1939-1963) arranged by date, and incoming letters (1939-1965) alphabetically arranged by sender. Also included is a file of fan letters.

Manuscripts are arranged by title and each title may include notes, drafts, research files, galley proofs, revisions, reviews, and publisher correspondence. Also included are pamphlets and magazine articles by Stern arranged alphabetically, and books by Stern.

The June 1974 Addenda consists of outgoing correspondence (1935-1973) and incoming professional and personal correspondence alphabetically arranged by sender's name, and includes fan letters.

The manuscript section includes book length, article length, short stories, plays, radio scripts, and speeches and is arranged by title. Each title may include notes, drafts, research files, galley proofs, revisions, reviews, and publisher correspondence.

Also included is biographical material, drawings and scores, tearsheets of Stern's published articles, pamphlets edited by Stern, book jacket designs, books, thesis on Henry David Thoreau, and lists of books published for the Armed Forces Overseas.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Philip Van Doren Stern papers, Ax 803, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is organized into three series:

Series 1. 1968 May aquisition, 1909-1968 Series 2. 1973 October accrual, 1912-1972 Series 3. 1974 June accrual, 1921-1973

Series 1. 1968 May aquisition is arranged in four sub-series:

Sub-series 1.1. Book manuscripts and related material, 1935-1968 Sub-series 1.2. Magazine articles and short works, 1940-1964 Sub-series 1.3. Correspondence, 1934-1957 Sub-series 1.4. Personal materials, 1909-1959

Series 2. 1973 October accrual is arranged in six sub-series:

Sub-series 2.1. Book manuscripts and related materials, 1934-1972 Sub-series 2.2. Published books, 1937-1971 Sub-series 2.3. Magazine articles and short works, 1939-1967 Sub-series 2.4. Professional correspondence, 1930-1972 Sub-series 2.5. Personal correspondence, 1939-1965 Sub-series 2.6. Personal materials, 1912-1971

Series 3. 1974 accrual is arranged in six sub-series:

Sub-series 3.1. Book manuscripts and related material, 1934-1974 Sub-series 3.2. Published book designs, 1934-1942 Sub-series 3.3. Magazine articles and short works, 1921 - 1973 Sub-series 3.4. Professional correspondence, 1935-1973 Sub-series 3.5. Personal correspondence, 1939-1972 Sub-series 3.6. Personal materials, 1923-1971

Materials within this collection are arranged first by initial accession(s) that were processed together as a whole and then by subsequent accession(s). This organization reflects the fact that the collection had been processed at one point in time and then more materials were acquired in increments over time. This organization is also based on the decision not to merge the various accessions and organize them into a whole at this point in time, given the fact that future accruals are anticipated and/or that this organization is deemed sufficient for access.

Researchers should note that materials within a series or accession may overlap and/or relate to materials found in other accessions or initially processed materials. For example, correspondence may be found in all or only some groupings. In order to locate all relevant material within this collection, researchers may need to consult each accession.

Researchers should also note that similar materials can be arranged differently in each accession, depending on how the material is organized upon receipt or during initial processing. For instance, correspondence is one accession may be arranged alphabetically, while correspondence in another accession is arranged chronologically.

Processing Note

Collection processed by staff, 1968-1974. Revisions completed by Tanya Parlet in 2011, and by Alexandra M. Bisio in 2018.

This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1.: 1968 May acquisition, 1909-1968Return to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Sub-series 1.1.: Book manuscripts and related material	1935-1968
Box	Folder
1	1	Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin	1962-1964
1	2	The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln	1953-1954, 1964
2	1-27	Beyond Paris	1964-1968
3	1-11	Beyond Paris	1964-1968
1	3	Breathless Moment	1934-1935
1	4	The Confederate Navy: A Pictorial History	1959-1963
1	5-6	Drums of Morning	1940-1942
1	7-8	An End to Valor	1958
1	9	Holiday Reader	1946-1948
1	10	Lola	1946-1951
1	11-16	The Man Who Killed Lincoln	1937-1955
1	17	Midnight Reader	1941-1942
1	18	Moonlight Traveler	1942-1943
1	19	Pictorial History of the Automobile	1953
3	12	The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe	1959
3	13	The Selected Writings of Thomas De Qunicey	1937
3	14	Strange Beasts and Unnatural Monsters	1968
3	15	They Were There	1959
3	16	The Thing in the Brook	1935-1937
3	17	Tin Lizzie	1955
3	18	Wearing of the Gray	1959
3	19-26	When the Guns Roared	1961-1965
		Sub-series 1.2.: Magazine articles and short works	1940-1964
Box	Folder
4	1	"Abraham Lincoln's Last Christmas"	1942
4	2	Book reviews	1940-1951
4	3	"Lincoln's Visit to Richmond"	1956
4	4-6	Newspaper Enterprise Association	1961-1964
4	9	Printed short stories	1942-1963
4	7	"The Unknown Conspirator"	1957
4	8	"The World's First Automobile Race"	undated
Box	Folder
4	10	Sub-series 1.3.: Correspondence	1934-1957
		Sub-series 1.4.: Personal materials	1909-1959
Box	Folder
4	11	Book designs	1934-1936
4	12	Guggenheim Fellowship	1958-1959
4	13-18	Juvenilia and family papers	1909-1919

Series 2.: 1973 October accrual, 1912-1972Return to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Sub-series 2.1.: Book manuscripts and related material	1934-1972
Box	Folder
6	10-16	The Annotated Walden	1971
7	1-5	The Annotated Walden	1971
7	6	The Bedside Book of the Supernatural	1966
7	7-15	The Beginnings of Art	1970-1972
7	16	The Bible Designed to be Read as Living Literature	1936
9	9	A Breathless Moment	1934-1935
9	3	Britannica Short Story Anthology	1960
7	17-19	Confederate Raider	1958-1959
9	10	Dust jackets and notes	1962
7	20-24	Edger Allan Poe	1973
6	8-9	An End to Valor	1958-1962
8	1	Forever Now or Never	1946-1947, 1961
8	2-4	The Greatest Gift - A Christmas Tale	1944
8	5	Getting Published: A Guide for Authors from Manuscript to Printed Book	undated
8	6	The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln	1940
8	7	The Handbook of War	1934-1937
8	8-11	Love is the One with Wings	1949-1951
8	12	The Man Who Couldn't Talk	undated
8	13	The Man Who Killed Lincoln	1961-1964
8	14	The Other Side of the Clock	1968-1969
8	16-19	The Portable Poe	1945, 1967
8	20-24	Prehistoric Europe	1969
12		Prehistoric Europe	1969
	Folder
9	1	Prologue to Sumter	1961
9	2	Robert E. Lee: The Man and the Soldier...a Pictorial Biography	1963
9	3	Secret Missions of the Civil War	1959
9	5	Strange Beasts and Unnatural Monsters	1968
9	6	Tales of Haunting, Tales of Horror	undated
9	7	Travelers in Time	1947
9	8	A Treasury of Modern Literature	undated
Box
10		Sub-series 2.2.: Published books	1937-1971
		Sub-series 2.3.: Magazine articles and short works	1939-1967
Box	Folder
9	34	"Abraham Lincoln's Last Christmas"	1942
9	34	"The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley"	1941
9	36	Pamphlets	1939-1967
9	37	Proposed magazine articles	1954-1967
9	35	"Reintroduction to the Model T"	1953
9	34	"The Strange Death of Edgar Allen Poe"	1949
9	38-39	Untitled plays	1940-1958
		Sub-series 2.4.: Professional correspondence	1930-1972
Box	Folder
4	19	A	1946-1964
4	20	B	1946-1967
4	21	C	1942-1969
4	22-24	Collier, Shirley	1943-1965
4	25	D	1940-1958
4	26	Doubleday and Co. Inc.	1940-1964
4	27	Durant, Will	1935-1954
4	28	E-F	1941-1973
4	33	Fawcett Publications, Inc.	1961
4	29	Fawcett World Library	1960-1965
4	30	Frank, Janet	1954-1956
4	31	G	1940-1965
4	31	H	1937-1969
5	1	I, J, K	1939-1969
5	2	Knopf, Alfred Incorporated	1943-1965
5	3	L	1941-1969
5	4	Lincoln College	1956-1958
5	5	M	1945-1970
5	6	McGraw Hill	1949-1964
5	7	McNamara, William G.	1956-1960
5	8	N	1936-1969
5	9	O, P, Q	1942-1971
5	10	Pocketbooks, Inc.	1942-1950, 1960
5	11	Potter, Clarkson	1969-1971
5	12	R	1937-1969
5	13	Random House	1938-1965
5	14	Rodell, Marie	1955-1970
5	15	Rutgers University Press	1937-1965
5	16	S	1939-1968
5	17	Saturday Review	1940-1954
5	18	Simon and Shuster	1935-1956
5	19	T	1961-1971
5	20	U	1941-1969
5	21	V	1940-1971
5	22	Van Nostrand Rheinhold Company	1945-1971
5	23	Virginia Quarterly Review	1940-1941
5	24	W	1930-1964
5	25	Washington and Lee University	1959-1962
6	6	Williams, Frances Leigh	1960-1961
5	26	X, Y, Z	1943-1972
5	27	Fan letters	1940-1963
5	28-31	Outgoing professional correspondence	1937-1972
		Sub-series 2.5.: Personal correspondence	1939-1965
Box	Folder
5	32	A-W general correspondence	1939-1963
5	33	Berman, Harold and Bea	1944-1965
5	34	De Angulo, Ximena	1945-1947
5	35	Farr, Henrietta	1940-1965
5	36	Fowler, Katherine	1946-1965
5	37-39	Klein, Susan and Frits	1939-1959
6	1-2	Snow, William and Amy	1951-1965
6	3	Stern, Lillian	1940-1965
6	4	Stern, Marguerite	1944-1960
6	5	Stern, Miriam Rose	1939-1965
6	7	Outgoing personal correspondence	1939-1963
		Sub-series 2.6.: Personal materials	1912-1971
Box	Folder
9	12-31	Appointment books	1940-1969
9	11	Layout designs	1932-1971
9	29	Passports and personal ephemera	1945-1963
9	30	Professional portraits and family pictures	1912-1970

Series 3.: 1974 June accrual, 1921-1973Return to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Sub-series 3.1.: Book manuscripts and related material	1934-1974
Box	Folder
13	22	The Annotated Walden	1971
15	1-2	The Annotated Walden	1971
13	23	Beyond Paris	1968
13	23	The Beginnings of Art	1972
13	30	The Dark Horizon	1936
13	24-25	Dreams and Creativity	1973
13	23	Ghost Stories	1942
13	23	Henry David Thoreau: Writer and Rebel	1972
13	23	Pocket Book of America	1974
13	26	Prehistoric Europe	1934, 1969
15	3-35	Prehistoric Europe	1934, 1969
	Box
13	23	Secret Missions of the Civil War	1959
	Folder
13	27-29	Thoreau's Short Prose	1970-1974
Box
11		Sub-series 3.2.: Published book designs	1934-1942
		Sub-series 3.3.: Magazine articles and short works	1921-1973
Box	Folder
14	1	Articles	circa 1934
14	11	Pamphlets	1953, 1955
14	2-3	Plays, radio scripts, book reviews, and speeches	1921-1969
14	4	Proposals and outlines	1932-1973
14	5-10	Short stories	1924-1947
		Sub-series 3.4.: Professional correspondence	1935-1973
Box	Folder
13	1	A-Y general correspondence	1937-1973
13	3	Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Inc.	1968-1973
13	2	Collier, Shirley	1946-1972
13	4	Four Winds Press	1970-1973
13	5	Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery	1960-1971
13	6	Nevins, Allen and Mary	1940-1971
13	7	W.W. Norton and Company	1966-1969
13	8	Rodell, Marie	1967-1972
13	9	Society of American Historians	1967-1971
13	21	Fan letters	1968-1972
9	40	Outgoing professional correspondence	1935-1973
		Sub-series 3.5.: Personal correspondence	1939-1972
Box	Folder
13	10	B-U general correspondence	1939-1972
13	11	Berman, Hal and Be	1966-1972
13	12	Conrad, Earl	1967-1973
13	13	Farr, Henrietta	1966-1972
13	14	Fowler, Katherine	1966-1971
13	15	Nurnberg, Rose and Mac	1966-1972
13	16	Seif, Estelle	1966-1971
13	17	Smith, Bernard	1966-1972
13	18	Snow, William	1965-1972
13	19	Steinberg, I.N. and Polly	1966-1971
13	20	Stern, Rose Miriam	1967-1972
		Sub-series 3.6.: Personal material	1923-1971
Box	Folder
14	12-13, 15	Clippings and tear sheets	1941-1963
14		Reviews	1971
	Folder
14	17-19	Royalty records	1935-1969
14	16	Score and drawings	1923-1951

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms :
American literature--Authorship
Authors, American--20th century
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence
Editors--United States
Editors--United States--Correspondence
Historians--United States
Historians--United States--Correspondence

Form or Genre Terms :
Correspondence
Manuscripts for publication

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