Writer Robert Cantwell was born January 31, 1908 in Little Falls (now Vader), Washington and died December 8, 1978 in New York, New York. Cantwell was a novelist, biographer, and essayist; as a journalist he worked on the editorial staffs of Time, Fortune, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, photographs, audiotapes, and maps, which reflect his life and career.
Repository:
University of Oregon Libraries
Special Collections & University Archives
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through
a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical Note
Robert Emmett Cantwell, novelist, biographer, essayist, and editor, was born January 31, 1908 in Little Falls, (now Vader) Washington, and died December 8, 1978, in New York, NY; son of Charles James (an engineer) and Nina Adelia (Hanson) Cantwell; married Mary Elizabeth Chambers (a teacher), February 2, 1931; children: Jean McNiece (Mrs. George Stolz, Jr.), Betsy Ann (Mrs. Walter Pusey III), Mary Elizabeth Emmett (Mrs. Lars-Erik Nelson).
After attending the University of Washington (1924-1925), he spent the next four years working at Harbor Plywood Co., (1925-1929) Hoquiam, Washington as a veneer clipper man. In 1929, after selling a short story to The American Caravan, he moved to New York where he began work on his first novel, Laugh and Lie Down (1931). After finishing the novel, Cantwell continued his freelance writing and published articles in The New Republic and The Nation, among others. During the period between 1930 and 1935 he wrote a second proletarian novel, The Land of Plenty (1934) and began work on a biography of Boston merchant E.A. Filene in collaboration with Lincoln Steffens, which was never completed.
In the next ten years, Cantwell worked on the editorial staffs of Time (1935-1936) and Fortune (1937), then became associate editor of Time (1938-1945). During the 1930’s he came to know a number of literary personalities that included John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, and Whittaker Chambers (who Cantwell eventually helped get a job at Time). During Cantwell’s employment at Time, he also became well acquainted with Henry Luce. Cantwell spent the next three years researching and writing the biography, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American Years (1948). From 1949 to 1954 he worked as the literary editor of Newsweek and
then took up freelancing again until 1956 when he began an association with Sports Illustrated that lasted the rest of his life. He worked on scores of articles, three of which became books: Alexander Wilson: Naturalist and Pioneer (1961), The Real McCoy (1971), and The Hidden Northwest (1972). Subjects of his articles include chess, ornithology, sports in the movies and literary figures in sports.
Content Description
The Robert Cantwell Papers contain eleven series, which include general correspondence, diaries and notebooks, monographs, articles and subject files, financial matter, oversize, sheet music, miscellaneous, photographs, audiotapes, maps and forty-nine books. The General Correspondence Series is arranged chronologically from 1926 to 1978. The major correspondents are listed in a Selected Name Index at the end of the inventory. They include Ernest Hemingway, James T. Ferrell, John Dos Passos, Van Wyck Brooks, Whittaker Chambers, Erskine Caldwell, Malcolm Cowley, Henry Luce, Clare Luce Booth, Marianne Moore, T.S. Matthews, James Jones, Edmund Wilson, and other literary figures. A large portion of the correspondence, however, is of a family nature. Eight boxes of correspondence and diaries have been sealed until after the death of Mrs. Eva Stoltz Cantwell.
The Diaries and Notebooks Series contain Cantwell’s holograph (sometimes difficult to read) notes and diary entries. The entries are of a personal nature as well as work and research on various manuscripts.
The Monographs Series covers Cantwell’s fiction and nonfiction efforts. The manuscripts to his books Laugh and Lie Down, Alexander Wilson: Naturalist and Pioneer and The Hidden Northwest are included. Also among the monographs are unfinished works such as the biography of E.A. Filene that was a collaboration with Lincoln Steffens in 1934; the autobiography of James B. McNamara, a convicted labor dynamiter; Small Boston, a projected novel from the early 1970’s; and a project dealing with the FBI, privacy and Cantwell’s involvement with politics and Whittaker Chambers. Also in the collection is a series of articles, correspondence and research called Four Novelists, which was to include Cantwell’s work on William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, James T. Ferrell and Erskine Caldwell. Included in this section is a manuscript page of William Faulkner’s Light in August.
The Articles and Subject Files Series has been so named because Cantwell often wrote more than one article on a subject, or the working title was not the same as the published title. In these cases the material is filed under the subject; otherwise the title of the article is used. Types of material that can be found in this series are manuscripts, tearsheets, notes, correspondence, and printed research material. The majority covers Cantwell’s work at Sports Illustrated where he was senior editor. There are also sections on his Time magazine work, manuscripts, and tear sheets of his book reviews for Newsweek, reviewing such authors as Richard Aldington, Whittaker Chambers, and J.D. Salinger; tear sheets of his freelance work for New Republic, The Freeman and other periodicals; and various introductions to others works. The series is arranged alphabetically and includes such topics as ornithology, the environment, chess and other sports.
The Financial Matter Series covers Cantwell’s royalty statements, accounting of income, book contracts and expense accounts, including correspondence relating to New York State Department of Taxation from 1943 to 1965.
The Oversize Series contains Subseries A: Illustrations; Subseries B: Sheet Music; Subseries C: Maps; Subseries D: Plate Making Negatives; and Subseries E: Photographs.
The Sheet Music Series contains a collection of over 100 pieces of piano sheet music. Most of the sheet music is from the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s, with a few pieces from the late 1800’s. One holograph piece is signed by Betsy Cantwell.
The Miscellaneous Series contains Subseries A: Miscellaneous; Subseries B: Tearsheets; Subseries C: Periodicals; Subseries D: Articles & Mss. Fragments; Subseries E: Newspaper Clippings; Subseries F: Biographical Information; and Subseries G: Research & Draft-Proust & The Movies & Sports. In Subseries G, a holograph note was found with a large group of file folders identifying the contents as such.
The Photographs Series constitutes photographs either of a personal nature or have some connection with an article. There are Subseries A: Photographs, Subseries B: Negatives; Subseries C: Microfilm; and Subseries D: Slides. Photographs are stored separately under call number PH138.
The Audiotapes Series contains one audiotape about Patterson’s llamas.
The Maps Series contains maps of Cantwell’s research on various articles and manuscripts.
The books included with the collection are ones that Cantwell wrote or edited as well as those he contributed to or collected. Included in the collection are books by James T. Farrell, William and John Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, and Ernest Hemingway. Many books are signed or inscribed.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
Collection is open to the public.
Collection must be used in Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use :
Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.
Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the
Manuscripts Librarian in Special Collections & University Archives. The
reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation :
[Identification of item], Robert Cantwell Papers, Coll. 020, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Collection is organized into the following series: Series I. General Correspondence; Series II. Diaries and Notebooks; Series III. Monographs; Series IV. Articles and Subject Files; Series V. Financial Matter; Series VI. Oversize; Series VII. Sheet Music; Series VIII. Miscellaneous; Series IX. Photographs; Series X. Audiotapes; Series XI. Maps.
Separated Materials :
Photographs in this collection stored separately under call number PH138.
Acquisition Information :
The collection was a gift of Robert Cantwell in 1965.
Arvin, Newton
Correspondence, Sept. 25, 1933, Correspondence, *November 15, 1933, Correspondence, November 22, 1933, Correspondence, January 8, 1934, Correspondence, *January 14, 1934, Correspondence, January 19, 1934, Correspondence, January 25, 1934, Correspondence, *January 31, 1934, Correspondence, *December 11, 1952, Correspondence, December 22, 1952
Brooks, Van Wyck
Correspondence, November 20, 1938, to G. Macy, Correspondence, *January 5, 1938, Correspondence, October 6, 1944, Correspondence, May 8, 1945, Correspondence, *June 13, 1945, Correspondence, August 20, 1945, Correspondence, January 11, 1952, Correspondence, *February 2, 1956, Correspondence, March 12, 1956, Correspondence, *September 19, 1957, Correspondence, *October 4, 1957
Caldwell, Erskine
Correspondence, 1942, Correspondence, September 2, 1950, Correspondence, December 26, 1950, Correspondence, December 8, 1952, Correspondence, *June 9, 1955, Correspondence, *July 29, 1955, Correspondence, April 18, 1970
Catton, Bruce
Correspondence, July 9, 1956
Chambers, Whittaker
Correspondence, 1938, Correspondence, July 1, 1950, Correspondence, Aug. 18 1950, Correspondence, Aug. 22 1950
Colman, Louis
Correspondence, October 12, 1972, (re Colman), Correspondence, October 29, 1972, (re Colman), Correspondence, December 9, 1972, Correspondence, *February 7, 1973, Correspondence, March 12, 1973, Correspondence, March 21, 1973, Correspondence, July 31, 1973
Cowley, Malcolm
Correspondence, November 7, 1935, Correspondence, July 16, 1963, Correspondence, *July 16, 1963, Correspondence, July 27, 1963
Dos Passos, John
Correspondence, September 9, 1934, Correspondence, ca. September 1934, Correspondence, November 14, 1934, Correspondence, January 25, 1935, Correspondence, May, n.d., Correspondence, November 5, 1935, telegram, Correspondence, June 29, 1936, telegram, Correspondence, July 7, 1936, telegram, Correspondence, September 23, 1942, Correspondence, February 13, 1943, Correspondence, May 19, 1947, Correspondence, June 3, 1947, Correspondence, October 17, 1947, Correspondence, ca. 1947, Correspondence, *June 20, 1964, Correspondence, June 26, 1964
Farrell, James T.
Correspondence, February 7, 1934, Correspondence, *February 17, 1934, Correspondence, April 30, 1934, Correspondence, *June 12, 1934, Correspondence, June 20, 1934, Correspondence, January 29, 1936, Correspondence, *February 3, 1936, Correspondence, *April 11, 1969, Correspondence, *April 14, 1969, from Wm. Reuben, Correspondence, June 24, 1969, Correspondence, October 15, 1976, Correspondence, December 1, 1976, Correspondence, *December 1, 1976, Correspondence, December 7, 1976, Correspondence, January 7, 1977
Faulkner, William
Correspondence, *November 30, 1950
Fearing, Kenneth
Correspondence, ca. 1934, Correspondence, *March 14, 1952, Correspondence, March 21, 1952, Correspondence, October 13, 1952, Correspondence, November 21, 1952
Fixx, Calvin
Correspondence, November 6, 1926, Correspondence, ca. 1926, 2 letters, Correspondence, March 3, 1927, Correspondence, April 11, 1927, Correspondence, June 7, 1927, Correspondence, August 31, 1927, Correspondence, October 21, 1927, Correspondence, November 9, 1927, Correspondence, ca. 1927, fragment, Correspondence, 1928 file, 24 letters, Correspondence, 1929 file, 25 letters, Correspondence, February 9, 1934, Correspondence, March 15, 1934, Correspondence, April 11, 1934, Correspondence, May 1, 1934, Correspondence, November 4, 1934, Correspondence, October 5, 1935, Correspondence, January 4, 1937, Correspondence, January 16, 1937, Correspondence, February 2, 1937, Correspondence, February 21, 1937, Correspondence, March 12, 1937, Correspondence, March 28, 1937, Correspondence, October 21, 1943, Correspondence, January 2, 1944, Correspondence, March 24, 1944, Correspondence, December 1947
Francis, Dick
Correspondence, *November 29, 1967, Correspondence, January 3, 1968, Correspondence, *January 9, 1968, Correspondence, January 11, 1968, Correspondence, *March 18, 1968, Correspondence, March 24, 1968, Correspondence, *February 13, 1969, Correspondence, February 17, 1969, Correspondence, December 11, 1969, Correspondence, *December 15, 1969, Correspondence, January 13, 1970, Correspondence, *January 15, 1970, Correspondence, *January 23, 1970, Correspondence, *March 5, 1970, Correspondence, March 22, 1970, Correspondence, *April 13, 1970, Correspondence, April 21, 1970, Correspondence, *April 25, 1970, Correspondence, *June 14, 1970, Correspondence, June 23, 1970, Correspondence, November 29, 1970, Correspondence, December 3, 1970, Correspondence, January 7, 1971, Correspondence, June 22, 1971, Correspondence, *December 4, 1971, Correspondence, April 19, 1972
Ginsberg, Allen
Correspondence, June 30, 1952
Groening, Homer
Correspondence, July 10, 1967, Correspondence, July 21, 1967, Correspondence, *August 3, 1967, Correspondence, *August 14, 1967, Correspondence, *September 22, 1967, Correspondence, October 10, 1967, Correspondence, October 11, 1967, Correspondence, January 30, 1968, Correspondence, February 12, 1968, Correspondence, *February 16, 1968, Correspondence, *March 22, 1968, Correspondence, December 2, 1968, three letters, Correspondence, December 5, 1968, Correspondence, May 13, 1969, Correspondence, August 19, 1969, Correspondence, August 20, 1969, Correspondence, January 19, 1972, Correspondence, January 28, 1972, Correspondence, *February 14, 1976, Correspondence, April 6, 1976, Correspondence, February 16, 1978
Hemingway, Ernest
Correspondence, August 25, 1950, Correspondence, *October 21, 1950, Correspondence, September 5, 1952, Correspondence, *October 3, 1952, Correspondence, October 9, 1952
Jones, James
Correspondence, November 23, 1953, Correspondence, *August 5, 1954, Correspondence, May 7, 1955, Correspondence, *May 23, 1955, Correspondence, September 3, 1955, Correspondence, June 22, 1957
Kelly, Clarence M.
Correspondence, *April 19, 1977, Correspondence, May 18, 1977, Correspondence, *August 28, 1977, Correspondence, *November 12, 1977, Correspondence, December 2, 1977, Correspondence, December 16, 1977
Kroner, Tom
Correspondence, September 1, 1936, Correspondence, *September 21, 1936, Correspondence, October 9, 1936, Correspondence, October 21, 1936, Correspondence, *October 23, 1936, Correspondence, May 19, 1937
Larsen, Roy
Correspondence, December 20, 1940, Correspondence, April 6, 1944, Correspondence, January 10, 1949, Correspondence, *March 20*, 1950, Correspondence, March 1950, Correspondence, *August 19, 1956, Correspondence, August 29, 1956, Correspondence, *October 12, 1956, Correspondence, October 13, 1972
Luce, Clare Booth
Correspondence, October 18, 1942, Correspondence, November 5, 1942, Correspondence, October 21, 1943, Correspondence, November 2, 1943, Correspondence, November 18, 1943, Correspondence, *October 31, 1945
Luce, Henry R.
Correspondence, May 26, 1939, Correspondence, December 18, 1941, Correspondence, January 16, 1942, Correspondence, *ca. January 1942, Correspondence, *December 25, 1945, Correspondence, February 6, 1945, Correspondence, February 9, 1945, Correspondence, March 1, 1945, Correspondence, March 6, 1944, Correspondence, December 6, 1948, Correspondence, December 14, 1948, Correspondence, August 18, 1949, Correspondence, February 20, 1950, Correspondence, April 27, 1954, Correspondence, May 4, 1954, Correspondence, *May 5, 1954
Lumpkin, Grace
Correspondence, August 26, 1937, Correspondence, *August 26, 1937, Correspondence, ca. August 1937, Correspondence, undated, 1938, two letters
McCombs, Holland
Correspondence, 1937-1978, 125 letters
McCrimmon, Edward
Correspondence, 1927-1928, 6 letters, Correspondence, ca. 1934
MacLeish, Archibald
Correspondence, *May 13, 1945, Correspondence, May 19, 1945
Matthews, T.S.
Correspondence, May 7, 1934, Correspondence, August 3, 1934, Correspondence, October 1, 1934, Correspondence, undated, 1934, 3 letters, Correspondence, April 23, 1935, Correspondence, July 1, 1935, Correspondence, July 24, 1935, Correspondence, July 25, 1935, Correspondence, September 10, 1935, Correspondence, September 11, 1935, Correspondence, *October 2, 1935, Correspondence, October 7, 1935, Correspondence, October 10, 1935, Correspondence, December 3, 1935, Correspondence, undated, 1935, 2 letters, Correspondence, January 5, 1936, Correspondence, *February 3, 1936, Correspondence, March 14, 1936, Correspondence, June 12, 1936, Correspondence, July 23, 1936, Correspondence, *July 26, 1936, Correspondence, July 28, 1936, Correspondence, August 9, 1936, Correspondence, October 21, 1936, re T.S. Matthews, Correspondence, December 2, 1936, Correspondence, undated, 1936, two letters, Correspondence, January 25, 1937, Correspondence, January 31, 1937, Correspondence, February 13, 1937, Correspondence, March 18, 1937, Correspondence, January 16, 1940, Correspondence, September 5, 1941, Correspondence, August 28, 1942, Correspondence, September 18, 1942, Correspondence, March 1, 1945, Correspondence, September 3, 1945, Correspondence, June 2, 1947, Correspondence, September 21, 1947, Correspondence, October 9, 1947, Correspondence, October 18, 1947, Correspondence, January 12, 1948, Correspondence, September 27, 1948, Correspondence, October 3, 1948, Correspondence, November 9, 1948, Correspondence, November 28, 1948, Correspondence, January 13, ca. 1949-1950, Correspondence, January 16, 1950, Correspondence, *April 24, 1950, Correspondence, *April 25, 1950, Correspondence, October 22, 1955, Correspondence, October 11, 1969, Correspondence, February 9, 1973, Correspondence, *February 16, 1973, Correspondence, July 3, 1973, Correspondence, September 19, 1973, Correspondence, October 27, 1973, Correspondence, November 27, 1973, Correspondence, January 28, 1974, Correspondence, *February 18, 1974, Correspondence, March 5, 1974, Correspondence, *April 9, 1974, Correspondence, April 19, 1974, Correspondence, May 25, 1975, Correspondence, July 16, 1975, Correspondence, July 30, 1975, Correspondence, August 12, 1975, Correspondence, *September 16, 1975, Correspondence, September 20, 1975, Correspondence, March 2, 1976, Correspondence, *March 21, 1976, Correspondence, April 18, 1976, Correspondence, November 30, 1976, Correspondence, December 29, 1976, Correspondence, *January 3, 1977, Correspondence, February 26, 1977, from T. Reed, Correspondence, *March 25, 1977, 2 letters, Correspondence, *November 20, 1977, Correspondence, November 28, 1977, Correspondence, December 1, 1977, Correspondence, December 21, 1977, Correspondence, March 16, 1978
Moore, Marianne
Correspondence, *December 8, 1948, Correspondence, *December 20, 1951, Correspondence, December 28, 1951, Correspondence, *December 31, 1951, Correspondence, January 8, 1952, Correspondence, *November 4, 1952, Correspondence, *November 20, 1952, Correspondence, February 20, 1960, from brother John, Correspondence, *April 6, 1960, Correspondence, April 14, 1960, Correspondence, *April 18, 1960, Correspondence, April 26, 1960, Correspondence, *August 15, 1960, Correspondence, August 18, 1960, Correspondence, *August 21, 1961
Mumford, Lewis
Correspondence, May 2, 1931
Perkins, Maxwell
Correspondence, March 8, 1930, Correspondence, August 11, 1931, Correspondence, June 24, 1938, Correspondence, August 24, 1938
Correspondence, September 5, 1960, Correspondence, September 18, 1960, Correspondence, December 15, 1961, Correspondence, November 7, 1969, Correspondence, August 14, 1972, Correspondence, *August 19, 1972, Correspondence, December 6, 1972, Correspondence, November 22, 1975, Correspondence, January 31, 1976, Correspondence, February 24, 1976, Correspondence, *March 11, 1976, Correspondence, March 17, 1976, Correspondence, June 27, 1976, Correspondence, September 8, 1976, Correspondence, January 11, 1977, Correspondence, *January 21, 1977
Shapiro, Karl
Correspondence, *November 4, 1952, Correspondence, November 17, 1952
Sinclair, Upton
Correspondence, October 1950, Correspondence, *November 24, 1950
Sloan, Alfred P., Jr.
Correspondence, *April 3, 1956, from John L. Lewis, Correspondence, August 13, 1956, Correspondence, *August 15, 1956, Correspondence, August 21, 1956, Correspondence, November 2, 1956
Sullivan, John
Correspondence, Feb. 8, 1964, Correspondence, Feb. 17, 1964, Correspondence, *Apr. 16, 1964, Correspondence, Apr. 18, 1964, Correspondence, Apr. 21, 1964, Correspondence, May 10, 1964, Correspondence, May 31, 1964, Correspondence, August 16, 1964, Correspondence, October 24, 1964, Correspondence, January 17, 1965, Correspondence, *January 22, 1965, Correspondence, February 6, 1965, Correspondence, *February 10, 1965, Correspondence, February 12, 1965, Correspondence, February 14, 1965, Correspondence, February 16, 1965, Correspondence, Mar. 22, 1965, Correspondence, Apr. 4, 1965, Correspondence, Apr. 11, 1965, Correspondence, *Apr. 15, 1965, Correspondence, Apr. 20, 1965, two letters, Correspondence, May 13, 1965, Correspondence, May 15, 1965, Correspondence, June 19, 1965, Correspondence, July 27, 1965, Correspondence, Aug. 5, 1965, Correspondence, Oct. 21, 1965, Correspondence, Oct. 26, 1965, Correspondence, *Nov. 26, 1965, Correspondence, Nov. 29, 1965, Correspondence, Dec. 19, 1965, Correspondence, Jan. 16, 1966, Correspondence, Feb. 1, 1966, Correspondence, Mar. 8, 1966, Correspondence, May 21, 1966, Correspondence, June 17, 1966, Correspondence, Sept. 2, 1966, Correspondence, *Sept. 10, 1966, Correspondence, Sept. 17, 1966, Correspondence, *Oct. 2, 1966, Correspondence, Oct. 23, 1966, Correspondence, Dec. 1, 1966, Correspondence, Mar. 6, 1967, Correspondence, Mar. 19, 1967, Correspondence, *Mar. 23, 1967, Correspondence, Apr. 3, 1967, Correspondence, *Apr. 6, 1967, Correspondence, Apr. 9, 1967, Correspondence, *Apr. 24, 1967, Correspondence, Apr. 25, 1967, Correspondence, Apr. 27, 1967, Correspondence, May 13, 1967, Correspondence, May 14, 1967, Correspondence, *May 19, 1967, Correspondence, May 24, 1967, Correspondence, May 26, 1967, Correspondence, June 10, 1967, Correspondence, July 6, 1967, Correspondence, July 7, 1967, Correspondence, Oct. 18, 1967, Correspondence, Oct. 25, 1967, Correspondence, Feb. 28, 1968, Correspondence, Aug. 30, 1968, Correspondence, Nov. 21, 1968, Correspondence, July 30, 1969, Correspondence, Nov. 11, 1971, Correspondence, Feb. 19, 1972, Correspondence, Mar. 8, 1972, Correspondence, Feb. 27, 1977, Correspondence, Apr. 19, 1977, Correspondence, Apr. 26, 1977, Correspondence, Apr. 29, 1977, Correspondence, Apr. 30, 1977, Correspondence, May 7, 1977, Correspondence, May 10, 1977
Appendix--list of subscribers, typed manuscript, 4 states, none as complete as published state, 8 pp.
2
16
Appendix--list of subscribers, typed manuscript, 4 states, none as complete as published state, 8 pp.
3
1-2
Fragments of manuscript: (different from published version), The Prisoner, TMs (carbon), pp. 103-131, Libel, Extortion and Mystery, TMs, 104-153, Untitled revisions, pp. 17-35
3
3
Corrections for typesetter, 24 pp.
3
4-5
Miscellaneous corrected pages
3
6-9
Working notes (sources, court records, vital statistics, contemporary estimates, letters to Wilson, biographies of friends)
4
1-4
Notes concerning American Ornithology
4
5
Notes on Wilson’s birthplace and American home
Includes 1957 street directory of Paisley and map of Philadelphia with locations marked
4
6-11
Miscellaneous notes, mainly biographies of subscribers
5
1-6
Miscellaneous notes, mainly biographies of subscribers
5
7
Correspondence
1957-1964
5
8-9
Reviews and promotional material, including radio biography of Wilson by Cantwell. Also, “First Artist of the Winged Wild”, by Cantwell, Sports Illustrated, (Dec. 24, 1956)
6
1-6
Notebooks
The Encyclopedia of American Industry, (unpublished proposal to Fortune magazine)
1955
Box
Folder
7
1
Report, TMs (carbon), 41 pp., TLS (carbon), to Roy Larsen
April 22, 1955
7
2-7
Holograph working notes, approx. 250 pp.
FBI/Privacy (unpublished book project, 1970-1978, dealing with the Hiss/Chambers era)
1970-1978
Box
Folder
7
8-9
Journal, (1972-1973) Notebook, “Privacy; How To books,” ca. 1978, notebook ca. 1978, containing notes on other books
1972-1973; 1978
7
10
Loose notes, correspondence with FBI and CIA
See also general correspondence: Clarence Kelly, William A. Reuben, Nov. 4-6, 1968; and Allen Weinstein
1977-1978
8
1-6
FBI file
Under the Freedom of Information Act, Cantwell obtained a portion of the file the FBI kept on him. Some of the file also pertains to Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
8
7
Research material, largely pertaining to Alger Hiss
Four Novelists (A projected study of William Faulkner, Ernest
Hemingway, James T. Farrell, and Erskine Caldwell)
Box
Folder
8
8
Outline and notes, including mention of John Dos Passos and Van Wyck Brooks
William Faulkner
Box
Folder
8
9
Light in August by William Faulkner, Ams (fragment), 1 p., given to Cantwell by Archibald MacLeish
8
9
Recollections of a Gifted Family, By Cantwell, TMs, 32 pp.
8
9
Barn Burning, by Cantwell, AMs, 11 pp.
8
9
Review by Cantwell of The Collected Stories of William Faulkner, TMs (carbon), 9 pp.
8
9
Review by Cantwell of Faulkner’s Soldier’s Pay, two versions: AMs, 7 pp; AMs, 25 pp.
8
9
Introduction by Cantwell to Faulkner’s Sartoris, TMs (carbon), 12 pp.
Interview for Time, 14 pp.; (carbon), 16 pp.; as published, Time
January 23, 1939
Box
Folder
8
10
Faulkner and the Gangsters, typed manuscript, 10 pp.
8
10
William Faulkner: A Heritage of Violence, holograph and typed
manuscript, 26 pp. Notes (holograph) on visit with Faulkner at Oxford, 21 pp.
Correspondence: TLS, (Aug. 25, 1950), from Hemingway to
Cantwell, 3 pp. with holograph revisions and postscript; TL, Oct. 21, 1950, from Cantwell to Hemingway, 3 pp. (carbon) (See also general correspondence)
1950
9
4
Big Two-Hearted River Now, by Cantwell, holograph manuscript, 44 pp. (includes
outline); typed manuscript, 17 pp. (incomplete) “The River that Will Flow Forever”, by Cantwell, Sports Illustrated, (July 17, 1961) concerns
Cantwell’s visit to the Big Two-Hearted River after Hemingway’s
death. Notes, 4 pp., typed.
9
5-6
Hemingway’s Journalism, review of Charles Fenton’s The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway, typed manuscript (carbon), 8 pp. Also 2pp.
notes. Notes, loose and one spiral notebook. Research material, News clippings.
James T. Farrell
Box
Folder
9
7
Correspondence, 4 letters from Farrell, 3 letters from
Cantwell to Farrell. Notes.
1934-1936
Erskine Caldwell
Box
Folder
9
8
Correspondence, includes 2 letters from Caldwell: TLS, Dec. 26, 1950, 1p. (See also general correspondence)
1950-1954
9
9-10
Notes, typed and holograph, approx. 80 pp. News clippings of reviews of The Humorous Side of Erskine Caldwell, edited by Cantwell
1934-1936
The Hidden Northwest (Lippincott, 1972)
1972
Box
Folder
9
11-12
Manuscript, holograph and typed, with numerous page numbers on the same page. Pages 1-183 (225 pp.)
10
1-2
Manuscript, holograph and typed, with numerous page numbers on the same page. Pages 1-183 (225 pp.)
10
3
Chapter one, TMs (carbon) pp. 1-73
10
4
Chapter one, TMs (carbon) pp. 1-86
10
5-6
Chapter three, AMs with typed pages interspersed, pp. 154-304 or pp. 1-121
10
7-9
Chapter three, TMs, pp. 154-305
10
10
Chapter six, TMs (carbon), pp. 1-96
11
1-2
Chapter seven, TMs, pp. 1-96
11
3
Chapter eight, AMs, pp. 1-62
11
4
Appendix and bibliography
11
5-7
“In the summer of 1983….” (Chapter four?), AMs, pp. 1-332, approx. 150 pp.
11
8-10
“Meares sailed from Bengal…” (Chapter one?), TMs, pp. 10-270
12
1
“Meares sailed from Bengal…” (Chapter one?), TMs, pp. 10-270
12
2-11
Incomplete manuscript, TMs (carbon) with some holograph pages, pp. 1-726, approx. 400 pp.
13
1
Incomplete manuscript, TMs (carbon) with some holograph pages, pp. 1-726, approx. 400 pp.
13
2-3
Miscellaneous pages, approx. 35 pp., unnumbered pages, approx. 85 pp.
13
4
Chapter one, holograph notes, approx. 55 pp.
13
5
Chapter one, research material
13
6
Chapter One, map material The Hidden Northwest
13
7
Chapter two, typed notes, 37 pp.
13
8
Chapter two, holograph notes, 75 pp. largely concerning
the Columbia River and David Thompson
13
9-10
Chapter two, notes and research material
13
11
Chapter 2, map material The Hidden Northwest, Article: The Columbia: A
Gem of a River (pages missing)
14
1-2
Chapter three, notes, 29 pp. typed, 45 pp. holograph
14
3-4
Chapter three notepads
14
5
Chapter three, research correspondence
1967
14
6-8
Chapter three, research material including Simmons/Troutman Genealogy
1967
14
9
Chapter Three, map material The Hidden Northwest
14
10
Chapter four, research including two manuscripts: The
Mountain that Was God, TMs, 5 pp.; First ascent of a Ghostly Peak,
TMs (carbon), 17 pp. Also typescripts of Hazard Stevens
notes, 11 pp.
14
11-12
Chapter four, holograph notes dealing with T. Winthrop and
Mt. Rainier
14
13
Chapter Four, map material The Hidden Northwest
15
1-6
Chapter four, bound notes, research material
15
7
Chapter five, research material including two manuscripts: The
Miracle on the Horsefly, TMs, (Xerox), 13 pp.; The Salmon on the
Horsefly River, TMs, 15 pp. Also includes “The Melodrama of
The Horsefly River,” Sports Illustrated
October 23, 1961
15
8
Chapter six, “The Shy Tycoon Who Owns 1/640th of the U.S.,”
Sports Illustrated, (Aug. 18, 1969). Also includes TMs of the story,
Fragment, 12 pp. and other typed notes, 9 pp.
August 18, 1969
15
9-10
Chapter six, holograph notes, 80 pp.
15
11-12
Chapter six, notepads, dispatches, query sheets
16
1
Chapter six, notepads, dispatches, query sheets
16
2-4
Chapter six, research materials from Weyerhauser
16
5-6
Chapter seven, “The Columbia: A Gem of a River,” Sports Illustrated, n.d.
also includes notes and bibliography cards
16
7-8
Chapter seven, notepads
16
9-11
Chapter seven, research material
17
1-4
Chapter eight, notes
17
5-6
Chapter eight, research material
17
7
Bibliography notes, 20 pp.
17
8-9
Notebook
18
1-3
Notebook
18
4-5
Research material
18
6
Notebook
18
7
Pg. 1-52, chapter unknown
18
8
Research material
19
1
Bibliography cards, desk calendars
1970-1971
Laugh and Lie Down (Farrar & Rinehart, 1931)
1972
Box
Folder
20
1-7
TMs, 435 pp., printer’s copy
20
8-11
TMs, 355 pp., early version, different from published version
21
1
TMs, 355 pp., early version, different from published version
21
2-6
TMs (carbon), 329 pp., early version
James B. McNamara Autobiography
Unpublished autobiography of convicted labor dynamiter and brother of John J. McNamara.
Sealed
Box
Folder
21
7-8
Manuscript, typed and holograph pages interspersed, 90 pp.
incomplete
Unpublished. Intended as a collaboration with Lincoln Steffens, who
suffered a stroke before the work commenced. The biography was
commissioned by Filene, but never finished.
21
12
“On the morning of December 31, 1933,” TMs, 242 pp.
22
1-3
“On the morning of December 31, 1933,” TMs, 242 pp.
22
4
Early recollections I, TMs (carbon), 26 pp.
22
5
Early recollections II, TMs and Ams, 31 pp.
22
6
A Liberal Education, TMs, (carbon), pp. 65-70, Chapter VIII, TMs
(carbon), pp. 362-381, fragment TMs (carbon) pp. 27-59
22
7-8
Fragment, TMs (carbon) , pp. 309-430. Part biography and part
Cantwell’s account of his experience while writing it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American Years (Rinehart, 1948)
1948
Box
Folder
22
9
Notes, typed
22
10
Notes, typed and holograph. Correspondence (see also
general correspondence for these years)
1945-1950
20
11
Notebook
Permanent Peace, by Tom Slick (Prentice Hall, 1958)
In 1953-1954, Cantwell
assisted Tom Slick in the preparation of manuscript entitled
Blueprint for Permanent Peace. While different from the published
version, it contains the same ideas.
1958
Box
Folder
20
12
TMs (carbon), 248 pp.
23
1
TMs (carbon), 248 pp.
23
2
Blueprint for Permanent Peace, TMs, 11 pp., Blueprint for Permanent
Peace, index and introduction, TMs, (carbon), 5 pp., introduction and
author’s foreword, TMs, 21 pp., foreword, TMs (carbon), 7 pp.,
foreword, second draft, TMs, 14 pp.
23
3-4
Pattern for Peace, TMs, 2 pp., chapter one, TMs (carbon), pp. 8-22,
part three: The Plan, includes bibliography and index, TMs (carbon)
pp. 86-198.
23
5
Synopsis of Plan, 2 TMs (carbon), 4 pp., 2 pp. “No matter how sound”
(to go with Selling of the Plan Chapter) TMs, 5 pp., Progressive
Disarmament (to go at end of section of The Plan), TMs, 5 pp.,
Alternative plans, TMs, 14 pp.
23
6
A note on sources, typed and holograph, 30 pp.
23
7-8
Manuscript fragments, typed
23
9
Biographical sketch of Tom Slick, comments on the manuscript by
Holland McCombs and Cantwell
23
10-12
Notes, holograph and typed, approx. 150 pp.
24
1-2
Notes, holograph, approx. 60 pp.
24
3
Charts
24
4-5
Correspondence
January 1954-May 1954
24
6
Correspondence (See also general correspondence)
June 1954-December 1954
The Powers of Darkness (novelette)
ca. 1934-1935
Box
Folder
24
7-8
TMs, 92 pp.
The Real McCoy: The Life and Times of Norman Selby (Auerbach, 1971)
1971
Box
Folder
24
9
“The Real McCoy,” Sports Illustrated, (June 1, 1970) (Book evolved out
of this article). Also 2 TMs (carbon), 17 pp. and 20 pp.
24
10-13
Manuscript fragments of book, typed and holograph, approx.
300 pp.
24
14
Notes, typed and holograph, approx. 400 pp.
25
1-8
Notes, typed and holograph, approx. 400 pp.
25
9-11
Bound notes
26
1-2
Correspondence (see also general correspondence)
1970-1972
26
3-4
Research material, reviews
Small Boston (unfinished novel)
ca. 1970-1973
Box
Folder
26
5
Title page and introductory note, 5 pp., outline, 3 notepad pages
Chapter I, AMs, 9 pp., “The woods were as quiet….” TMs
(carbon), 13 pp.
26
6
“On one ride…” AMs and TMs, 24 pp., “Meriwether walked
through….,” AMs, pp. 12-34, miscellaneous manuscript
fragments, 13 pp.
26
7-9
Notebook containing narrative
The Steve Gowin Adventure (unpublished)
ca. 1963
Box
Folder
27
1-4
TMs, 158 pp.
27
5-6
Notes, correspondence (see also general
correspondence)
Correspondence, notes, mostly holograph, approx. 100 pp.
1964
Abandoned railroad/roadbeds
Box
Folder
1
4
Tearsheet, “Oh Can’t You Hear the Whistle Blowing?”, tearsheet,
“A Mighty Long Run from Cornwall to Oswego”, Sports Illustrated,
(Nov. 26, 1966), tearsheet, “The Old Cannonball,” Colgate
University Publication, Vol. 1, no. 10, Feb., 1967. Abandoned
Railways, TMs (carbon), 14 pp., Abandoned Railways, wire copy
mss., 9 pp., Fisherman’s Railroad, TMs, 24 pp.
1
5-6
Notes, approx. 100 pp.
1
7
Correspondence, mostly with Waldo J. Nielsen
1966-1976
1
8-12
Research material
2
1
Research material
Abercrombie & Fitch
Box
Folder
2
2
TMs (carbon), 14 pp., wire copy mss., 12 pp.
2
3-4
Miscellaneous
Adams, Frank Ramsey
Box
Folder
2
5
Dispatch, 2 pp., memos, research material
Box
Folder
2
6
Addresses
2
7
Allergies to Insect Bites
2
8
American War, The, AMs, 9 pp.
ca. 1940
2
8
Ann Arbor beautification Tearsheet, “Footloose,” dispatch, 9 pp.
November 15, 1965
2
8
Arabian Racehorses, TMs, 16 pp.
2
8
Arabs, TMs (fragment), 3 pp. for Events and Discoveries column, Nov. 23 issue, notes, research material
2
9
Angler’s Club
2
10
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Colonel Thomas W. Higginson, reviewed by Cantwell, TMs, 33 pp., another version entitled Out of Print, TMs, 11 pp., AMs, 12 pp., AMs, 5 pp., notes
2
11
Art of Angling, The: A Deepening Mystery (1954), TMs, 17 pp., notes, correspondence
2
12-13
Atlantic City Gambling. Wire copy mss., 11 pp. notes
2
14
Authors Guild, Inc., letter to book publishers, bulletin
3
1-2
Bad Day at Black Canyon (about dams on Gunnison River)
TMs, 21 pp., notes, research material
1963
Baseball and Broadway
Box
Folder
3
3
Baseball and Broadway, TMs, 16 pp.
3
3
Baseball vs. Dramatic Art, TMs, (carbon), 49 pp.
3
4
Broadway Baseball, wire copy mss., 22 pp.
3
4
Philosopher, Baseball and Vaudeville, TMs, 38 pp.
3
4
Sidebar to Broadway Baseball, TMs, 11 pp., Sports Illustrated
3
4
Son of Broadway (Baseball), wire copy, Mss., 21 pp. [1st copy]
3
5
Son of Broadway (Baseball), wire copy, Mss., 21 pp. [2nd copy]
3
6
Broadway Baseball, wire copy mss., 22 pp. [1 of 2]
3
6
Philosopher, Baseball and Vaudeville, TMs, manuscript fragments
3
7
Broadway Baseball, wire copy mss., 22 pp. [2 of 2]
3
7
Notebook
3
8
Manuscript fragments, research material, holograph
notes, correspondence
3
9
Baseball, Music, holograph notes, research material, TMs (carbon), correspondence
Baseball Poetry of Kenneth Koch
Box
Folder
3
10
Spring Training in Poetry, two versions: TMs, 8 pp., TMs (carbon), 14
pp., notes
Baseball and Television
Box
Folder
3
11
Research, typed and holograph
Basketball, College
Box
Folder
3
12
Sports Illustrated magazine
December 1, 1969
3
13-14
Bears and Other Commuters, wire copy mss., 25 pp., Belfast, notes,
Bicentennial, tearsheet, “America is Formed for Happiness”, notes,
research material
3
15
Bicentennial research material
4
1
Bendetsen, (File folder marked) Article by Ives Neely about Japanese
Americans during WWII, The Quill
April 1976
4
2
Bhosh, Chundar, TMs, Punch and Sports, Sports Illustrated, 14 pp.
4
3
Bikeways & Footpaths, Oregon Progress Report, April 1975
April 1975
4
4
Bikeways, Oregon Progress Report
February 1973
4
5
Bikeways/Bicycles, Bikeway Design Booklet, and research material
correspondence
1974
Bird Songs
Box
Folder
4
6
Bird Songs, TMs, 15 pp.
4
6
Birds and Musicians, TMs, 14 pp.
4
7-8
Mocking Birds and Other Plagarists, three versions, TMs, 6 pp.
TMs, 38 pp., TMs, 22 pp.,Our Ornithological Musicians, TMs, 12 pp.
4
9-10
Manuscript fragments, notes
4
11-13
Bibliography cards, research material
Book collecting
Box
Folder
4
14
Collector’s Items, TMs, (carbon), 5 pp.
4
14
Industry: Paperbound Originals, TMs, (carbon), 3 pp.
4
14
Robert Cantwell’s Out of Print or Hard to Get Americana, TMs, 4 pp., AMs, 5 pp., notes
5
1
Book reviews, Booktalk fragments, 10 pp., Sports Illustrated, Article about
James Agee, The Journals Ernest Thompson Seton
5
2
Book review, Lincoln Steffens, A biography by Justin Kaplan, photocopy
Brandywine Creek Museum
Box
Folder
5
3
Brandywine Creek, two versions: TMs, 16 pp., TMs, 18 pp.
5
3
Brandywine Creek: The World’s Greatest Industrial Museum, two
versions, TMs (carbon), 15 pp., TMs (carbon), 14 pp.
5
4
Brandywine Creek, correspondence concerning article published,
Saturday Evening Post, 1958, manuscript fragments, holograph notes
5
5
Brandywine Creek, holograph notes, correspondence, research material
British Travelers in 18th Century America
Box
Folder
5
6
British Travelers, TMs, TMs (carbon), 68 pp.
5
7-8
British Travelers, TMs, (carbon), 24 pp., manuscript fragments, approx.
60 pp.
5
9
Notes, typed, approx. 70 pp.
5
10
Notes, holograph, approx. 65 pp.
5
11
Research material
Brooks Range (Alaska)
Box
Folder
5
12-13
Tearsheet, “The Ultimate Confrontation,” Sports Illustrated, (March 24,
1969). Also as published in the Congressional Record, Oct. 27, 1971 and A Home Called Earth (Time Inc., 1970), notes, typed approx. 45 pp.
1969-1971
5
14
Research material, correspondence, manuscript fragments
Royalty statements from Farrar & Rinehart (19),
Accounting of income for 1932, 5 note pp.
1932-1943
1
2-5
Miscellaneous Income Derived from Free Lance Writing
(prepared for Income Tax Returns)
1959-1964; 1968
1
6-9
Book contracts and expense accounts
1
10-11
Summary of dealings with the New York State Department of Taxation
and Finance with reference to the collection of taxes for 1943, 1944 and
1945, 4 versions, typed and holograph
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