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Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Braude, Michael, 1909-1986
Title: Michael Braude papers
Dates: 1928-1989 (inclusive)
19281989
Quantity: 11.25 cubic ft. (25 document boxes)
Collection Number: 02252
Summary: The Michael Braude papers include manuscripts of verse, drama, and prose. Also included are correspondence, periodicals, and published works related to his literary career. Most of the material is concerned with Jewish liberal themes, much of which is satirical or humorous in nature.
Repository: American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions: Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
Languages: English
Sponsor: The creation of the EAD-version of this finding aid was made possible through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Michael Braude (1909-1986) was a successful businessman. He emigrated to the United States from Lithuania when he was 11. After World War II, he founded the Emkemkey car leasing company which became one the country’s largest fleet leasors. In 1959 he founded Quadrangle Books in Chicago and sold it to New York Times in 1969. His wealth allowed him to become principal benefactor of the University of Chicago’s Cort Theatre and the Hebrew University’s drama center in Jerusalem. He also sponsored poetry readings at his East Hampton, Long Island home.

Despite his entreprenuerial success Braude always regarded himself as a writer. He wrote five books of verse: Question of Identity; Who’s Zoo; Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker; Village Vignettes; and My 187th Birthday. He wrote a television screenplay, Gettysburg, for public television as well as an autobiography, The First 30 Odd Years, which was published in 1976. The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters gave the first Michael Braude Award for light verse in 1989.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Michael Braude collection includes manuscripts of verse, drama, and prose, including a number of short stories. It also includes correspondence, periodicals, and published works which relate to Mr. Braude’s literary career. Most of the manuscripts were written from the 1930s when he ran a car dealership until after his retirement in the 1980s. Much of the material is concerned with Jewish liberal themes. A great deal of this is satirical or humorous in nature.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989, Collection Number 02252, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Related Materials

There are no other known archival collections created by Michael Braude at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Lillian Braude gave her husband’s papers to the American Heritage Center in one installment in 1990. The papers were in good condition.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was processed by John Hanks in January 2002.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I.: Biographical, 1928-1989Return to Top

0.30 cubic ft. (2/3 document box)

Obituaries and correspondence arranged chronologically.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Biographical – Obituaries, Clippings	1986-1987
1	2	Literary, Personal Correspondence	1930-1989
1	3	Michael Braude, Bill Braude (Brother), Family Letters	1928
1	4	Rejection Letters	1971-1985

Series II.: Manuscripts,, 1933-1934, undatedReturn to Top

Humorous intellectual and historical material arranged alphabetically.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Sub-series 1.: Drama, 1.95 cubic ft. (4 1/3 document boxes)	undated
Box	Folders
1	5-6	All Under One Roof	undated
	Folder
2	1	Body Count	undated
	Folders
2	2-4	The Coming Second Coming	undated
	Folder
2	5	The Cruise (Comedy)	undated
2	6	Death and Resurrection on Flight #17	undated
2	7	The Eye Glasses	undated
2	8	The Four Sons	undated
	Folders
3	1-2	The Four Sons	undated
3	3-6	The Game That Has No Name	undated
	Folder
4	1	Gettysburg (Proof)	undated
4	2	The Maid’s Role	undated
4	3	On the Quay	undated
4	4	The Perpetual No Motion Machine	undated
4	5	A Postcript to the Hagadah	undated
4	6	Preface to an Unwritten Play	undated
4	7	Religious Whirl - Temple Group	undated
4	8	The Same Room	undated
4	9	Three Plays	undated
	Folders
5	1-2	Various	undated
		Sub-series 2.: Prose, 4.05 cubic ft. (9 document boxes)	1933-1934, undated
Box	Folder
5	3	Add-a-Letter	undated
5	4	Art Exhibit with Ethyl Olenikow in Paris	1933
5	5	Autobiography – The Sequel, My Business Debut	undated
	Folders
6	1-3	Conversations in a Faculty Club	undated
	Folder
6	4	The Doctor’s Afternoon	undated
6	5	East Hampton, N.Y. – Art Colony	undated
6	6	Frederick Royston	1934
6	7	The French Impressionists	undated
6	8	Germany and England between the Wars	undated
6	9	I Knew Him Well – Autobiography	undated
	Folders
7	1-4	I Knew Him Well	undated
7	5-6	A Keyhole Glimpse into the Future…	undated
8	1-6	A Keyhole Glimpse into the Future…	undated
9	1-6	A Keyhole Glimpse into the Future…	undated
10	1-5	A Keyhole Glimpse into the Future…	undated
	Folder
11	1	On the Sidelines – Biography of Michael Braude	undated
11	2	Overheard in the Faculty Dining Room	undated
	Folders
11	3-4	A Slight Matter of Unfinished Business	undated
	Folder
11	5	The Subway Ride	undated
11	6	Sweets and Sours	undated
	Folders
12	1-5	Tales Out of School	undated
	Folder
12	6	Vonn Manstein	undated
	Folders
13	1-3	With Malice Toward All	undated
13	4-5	Various	undated
14	1-5	Various	undated
	Folder
15	1	Various - Partial	undated
		Sub-series 3.: Short Stories, 1.35 cubic ft. (3 document boxes)	undated
Box	Folder
15	2	Alias, Showcase	undated
15	3	And Everyone Believeth	undated
15	4	The Apotheosis that Misfired	undated
15	5	Belated Second Thoughts	undated
15	6	Bentzel	undated
15	7	Children of Darkness	undated
15	8	Come the Revolution or Echoes of a Distant Past	undated
15	9	Diet-Rite Paleontology	undated
15	10	Emancipation of the Male Sex	undated
15	11	The Environment	undated
15	12	The Facts of Death	undated
15	13	The Family after Ratification of E.R.A.	undated
15	14	Family Secrets	undated
15	15	A Footnote to Gulag	undated
15	16	The Forebear, The Maranno Forebear	undated
15	17	The Founder	undated
15	18	The Gaon of Vilna and My Family	undated
15	19	The Glorious End of Cynthia Montague	undated
15	20	The Golden Age of Unproductivity	undated
15	21	Good and Evil	undated
15	22	The Grandson or The Fourth Act	undated
15	23	Hamlet Rewritten	undated
16	1	Hezekiah P. Denham	undated
16	2	Hillel and Shamai – Unidentical Twins	undated
16	3	How I Became a Grass Orphan	undated
16	4	In the Wake of the Golden Age	undated
16	5	Inside the Oval Office	undated
16	6	Mice, Men, and City Planners	undated
16	7	My Grandmother	undated
16	8	New Auschwitz, Kansas	undated
16	9	The Nobel Prize	undated
16	10	The Reconciliation	undated
16	11	Statecraft	undated
16	12	Three Jewish People	undated
16	13	A Tryptych of Fables	undated
16	14	The Unbitten Bullet	undated
16	15	Untouchable or Statecraft in India	undated
16	16	Utopia – Its Decline and Fall	undated
16	17	Viva – La France	undated
16	18	1917 And All That	undated
17	1	1918 And All That	undated
17	2	Untitled	undated
	Folders
17	3-4	Various	undated
		Sub-series 4.: Verse, 3 cubic ft. (6.5 document boxes)	undated
Box	Folder
17	5	A Bestiary	undated
17	6	A Bestiary (Copies of Illustrations)	undated
17	7	A Fishtiary	undated
17	8	All Things Considered, A Matter of Identity, Places	undated
17	9	Apocrypha	undated
18	1	Apocrypha	undated
18	2	Around No Corner	undated
	Folders
18	3-6	Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker	undated
19	1-3	Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker	undated
	Folder
19	4	Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker (Correspondence)	undated
19	5	Death	undated
19	6	Early Verse	undated
19	7	Eastern Long Island	undated
19	8	Footnotes to Karl Marx	undated
	Folders
20	1-2	Ford, Ford, Ford and Others-A Random Who’s Who	undated
	Folder
20	3	Ford Maddox Ford and Others	undated
20	4	Inter Alia-A Random Who’s Who	undated
20	5	The Little Ones	undated
20	6	My 187th Birthday Party or Paradise Twice Lost	undated
20	7	Noah’s Ark	undated
	Folders
21	1-2	Not to Grim a Reaper	undated
	Folder
21	3	Notes	undated
21	4	Resolve	undated
21	5	The Syntax of Vision	undated
	Folders
21	6-7	A Touch of Irreverence	undated
	Folder
22	1	Variations on Two Themes	undated
22	2	Variations on Three Themes	undated
22	3	Village Briefs	undated
	Folders
22	4-5	With a Grandson at the Zoo	undated
22	6-7	The Zoo-Illogical Garden	undated
	Folder
23	1	The Zoo-Illogical World	undated
	Folders
23	2-4	Various	undated

Series III.: Periodicals,, 1946-1984Return to Top

0.45 cubic ft. (1 document box)

Contains verse by Michael Braude. Arranged alphabetically.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
23	5	Bird Effort, Chicago Review, Chicago Today	1967-1978
24	1	Christian Century, Commentary, Jewish Frontier, The Hamptons, Harpers, Liberal Judaism	1947-1982
	Folders
24	2-3	Midstream	1977-1979, 1982-1984
	Folder
24	4	Partisan Review #4, Reconstructionist, Saturday Review, Shenandoah	1974-1981

Series IV.: Books,, 1963-1987Return to Top

0.30 cubic ft. (2/3 document box)

Arranged alphabetically.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
25	1	Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker	1984
25	2	The First 30 Odd Years	1976
25	3	My 187th Birthday Party	1987
25	4	A Question of Identity	1976
25	5	Who’s Zoo	1963

Series V.: Subject Files,, 1968-1987Return to Top

0.15 cubic ft. (1/3 document box)

The Braude Award, Quadrangle Books, and reviews are arranged alphabetically.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
25	6	Braud Award – Light Verse Award	1987
25	7	Quadrangle Books	1987
25	8	Reviews and Publicity	1968-1985

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Literature and humor.
Motion picture authorship.

Corporate Names

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Occupations

Authors.
Screenwriters.

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Table of Contents

Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989

Overview of the Collection

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Related Materials

Acquisition Information

Processing Note

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I.: Biographical, 1928-1989Return to Top

Series II.: Manuscripts,, 1933-1934, undatedReturn to Top

Series III.: Periodicals,, 1946-1984Return to Top

Series IV.: Books,, 1963-1987Return to Top

Series V.: Subject Files,, 1968-1987Return to Top

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Corporate Names

Occupations

Processed by John Hanks
2006

Archives West Finding Aid

Table of Contents

Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989

Overview of the Collection

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Related Materials

Acquisition Information

Processing Note

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I.: Biographical, 1928-1989Return to Top

Series II.: Manuscripts,, 1933-1934, undatedReturn to Top

Series III.: Periodicals,, 1946-1984Return to Top

Series IV.: Books,, 1963-1987Return to Top

Series V.: Subject Files,, 1968-1987Return to Top

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Corporate Names

Occupations

Processed by John Hanks2006

Processed by John Hanks
2006