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Komroff Manuel 1890shyPapers 1897-1979 23 linear ft (ca 1900 items in 46 boxes amp 1 drawer)

Biography Novelist amp author died in 1974

Summary Correspondence manuscripts photographs and printed materials There are manuscripts for his books short stories articles and other writings The printed materials include books written edited and translated by Komroff as well as his contributions to anthologies and periodicals There are also a number of books by other authors inscribed to him Most of the photographs are portraits ofliterary figures the majority of which were taken by Komroff

1986 ADDITION Letters and photographs from the literary arti~c and musical worlds including numerous letters from Ernest Bacon Cyril Clemens RM Kallen and Carl Zigfbsser as well as one or two from Cecil B deMille Lady Gregory Edward Kennedy Robert Kennedy Georg2Moore and Georgia OKeefe The subjects of the photos are a similar group including many of the same people

Organization Selected materials cataloged remainder arranged Boxes 1-1A Cataloged correspondence Box 2 Cataloged manuscripts amp cataloged photographs Box 2A Boxes 3-23 Komroffs manuscripts Boxes 24-24B Photographs amp negatives Boxes 25-41 Printed material

Finding aids Contents list 39p

Donors Gift of Manuel Komroff 1953 amp 1956 Gift of Mrs Manuel Komroff 1979 1980 1985 amp 1986 Gift of Mrs Louis Henry Cohn Gift of Victor E Krantz 1998

Restrictions on use Available for faculty students and researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects

Komroffs manuscript A story tellers world [autobiography] (Box 20A amp 20B) is closed to all use indefinitely as per letter from Mrs Komroff 81995 Komroffs manuscript A story tellers world [autobiography] (Box 20A amp 20B) has been copyrighted under

the title Encounters Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and

Manuscripts

1 Bacon Ernest 1898-2 Clemens Cyril 1902- 3 Gregory Lady 1852-19324 Kallen Horace Meyer 1882-19745 Kennedy Edward Moore 1932- 6 Moore George 1852-1933 7 Zigrosser Carl 1891shy8 American literature--20th century 9 Authors--United States 10 Novelists--United States 11 Articles 12 Autobiographies 13 Fiction 14 Galley proofs 15 Journals 16 Manuscripts (for publication) 17 Memoirs 18 Notebooks 19 Notes 20 Photographs 21 Photonegatives 22 Poems 23 Scrapbooks 24 Scores 25 Scripts 26 Authors 27 Novelists

ID NYCR90-A118

656 HR - 778 BRC - 479 HR - 1080 HR - 985 JL-W - 1286 HR - 396 HR - 1200

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Catalogued correspondence

Abbott Wilbur Cortez Kemp Harry Hibbard Anderson Sherwood Kennedy Edward M[Antheil George Kennedy Robert Francis Archer William Kohler Wolfgang Atkinson Brooks Komroff Manuel Bacon Ernst Liveright Horace Bernays Edward L MacCracken Henry Noble Boni Albert Mac Veagh Lincoln Bosschere Jean de Marsh Reginald Bruce Edward Masters Edgar Lee Cabell James Branch Mearns Hughes Caldwell Erskine Mencken Henry Louis Chute Marchette Moore George Clemens Cyril Morris Ira V Commins Dorothy B (Mrs Saxe) OBrien Edward Joseph Harrington Cournps John OKeeffe Georgia Crawford Jack Randall ONeill Carlotta Monteray Crowley Aleister oNeill Eugene Croy Homer Pach Walter del-fille Cecil B Pound Ezra

~ Dreiser Theodore t Ray Man gtlt Durant Will amp Ariel Ross Charles Griffith ~ Edmunds John ~ Russell Bertrand

Ferriss Hugh XI Santayana George

I Sheaffer Louis Schonberg Harold Frank Waldo David Giles Herbert A Simon Richard Leo Gingrich Arnold I Smith Lillian Gogarty Oliver st John Steegmuller Francis Goodspeed Edgar Johnson I Stein Leo

Gregory Augusta Persse (Lady) Stieglitz Alfred Hellman Lillian Van Loon Hendrick Willem Henri Robert Weeks Edward Augustus Jr Horan James D Wilder Thornton Johnson Nelson Trusler Woodward WilliamE Joyce James Wright Frank Lloyd Kallen Horace Meyer Zigrosser Carl Kantor MacKinlay Zorach William

C~taloged manuscripts

- Archer William Lidia aross 85p amptmss 79p Bacon Ernst A Christmas canonamss lp (musical score) Brant Henry Decision amss 9p (musical score) French Joseph Lewis Books by Joseph Lewis French tms 2p Kfoiienberger Louis Gambler in publishing Horace Liveright Galley proofs l5p

--- - Iiiveright Horace [Autobiography] tms 207p CJ 0 Ngell Eugene Strange interlude Galley proofs 99pa WildeiOscar The unpublished parts of De Profundis tms 2 1 70p jQ

~t~graphs ( ca talogued)

Durant Will ampAriel np nd Photograph inscribed and signed Durant Will amp Ariel (LosAngeles] l97l Photograph inscribed and signed

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Uncatalogued correspondence and manuscripts

A Applequist Arnold Atkinson Brooks Authors Guild Avrich Paul

B Baskin Alex Beatty Warren Belsky Bel Bina Clarence A Birenbaum William Mmiddot Black Janeth Blacker Robert Blotner Joseph Boch Alfred Boni Nell Book Bank USA Boston University Buckler Ernest Burack A S Burg Norman Nils

C Cerf Bennett ChubbThomas Caldecott Clemens Cyril Cohen Herman Cohen Lester Columbia University Consumers Reports Consumers Union Cook Fred J Cooper Arthur Bryan Cooper Lou

Circle of Confusion

D Daniel Cliiton naIiilov Stephen Joseph Donaghy Jack T duPont de Nemours amp Co

Dudgeon Mollie

E Eaton Paper Co ElliS Donna

F FarmerDavid FoulkeEmerson

Fontana Paperbaclts Ford Hugh Fortas Abe

Feder U A (Abe)

G Gaede Jean Gatner Elliott Gordon Morris Grand Union Cpmpany

(G) Greene William M Gubelin Inc

H Hartley Wesley S Harvey Ruby M Hayden Julie H Hershey Burnet Hoffman Bud Honeywell Inc

I Ingber Maury

J Jackson Martha Jones Danny W Jones Mrs Toni

K Kallen Rachel (Mrs Horace Meyer) Kallen Horace Meyer Katz Matthew A Kaye Marjorie Kemp Harry Kennedy Edward Kertesz Andre Klopfer Donald S Koss Mrs Fay Kover Joseph Lafayette Electronics

L Landesman Ruth Lawrence Joseph A Locke Charles Look

Lee Wei-Kooc Lester Henry M

M McClellan John Martel Electronics Massey L R Merrifield Gail Michailovsky Boyd Michailovsky Eugene Mielke Thelma Minkofpound George Robert Montgomery James A Morris Edeta amp Ivan Mowrer badley (Mrs Paul Scott) Mowrer Paul Scott

Marek Hannelore amp Mrs H

N New York Times

o OverseaS Press Club rshy

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(uncatalogued correspondence) P Padaver Saul K T Tavuchis Dr S C

Parker Robert Allerton Tobin MOnicaH Philadelphia Museum of Art Tisch William ampDana Philips Sidney Poli Kenneth

Pachne~ William U United-Statas Post Office

R Reiss Malcolm W weston Cole Reynolds Charles Weyhe E Co Robuck Michael J Whittemore Reed Rosenstone Robert A Wilder Thornton

Robinson Frank K Witkin LeeD Wright Frank Lloyd

S Samuel C K Schlaefer C J Yoken Melvin B Schloemer C J Simmonds Roy S Z Zanun Alfred V Smith Wendell Sobral Geraldo Letters of condolence to Mrs Komroff Soman Arthur 1974-1975 Sonnentag E() Jr Speicher Eugene Miscellaneousmiddot StevensDorey Cole~ (Mrs Stanford) Strating J J Miscellaneous - about Komroff Strout Richard L Sutton William A

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Miscellaneous correspondence

Manuscripts by Komroff

Abbe Dorets secret An accident Aesop and the oracle of thebes All for love and love for all All in our day Alone the stranger passes Anatomy of a dictator Animals Ants The apple tree saga The arrest of Prince Basil At the feet of Li Po Bakunin - prophet of revolution Barabbas was a robber Baron von Starmer and Beau the Harlem bouncer The beating of the reed Bees ants and war Beethoven Beheading of John the Baptist Behind fortunes throne

Big city little boy By the breath of God Carols career Chapel in the forest Chariot in the sky Chinas one way gate The Christian bite The Christmas surrender Circle of confusion

Come followm~

Contrary Japan Coronet

Creation The cycle of myrrh The dark wanderer David and Goliath A day of pleasure Dear MiRado Death of an outcast The death of Herod The death_ of Judas Dialogues in the desert The diamond ring Dictators die hard A dog from nowhere Don Quixote rides again An Easter in Spain Echo qf ayil

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Manuscripts by Komroff (2)

The end of a long journey Box 7 The end of Lopez Expect and live A famous place Feast of the jesters The five soldiers The flaxen-haired mannequin Flight into Egypt

The fool and death Box 8 For happiness ~ an easy step down From civilian to soldier - the process of transformation in

Americas mass army The garden of Femadia The genial governor of Judea Genot - man of victory George saint of courage The girl who wept tears of real pearl Give them justice The grace of lambs The great tomorrow The greatest belief of all The greatest story in the world Hamlets dagger The happy land without a sky Hara-kiri for Japanese generals The hara-kiri of Baron Kura A herd of swine Hidden message See The love between Che-lin and Black Goose How Christmas came How does it feel to be free How to be a dictator See Dictators die hard

How to write a novel first draft Box 9

first draft corrected Box 10 second draft second draft revised

notes Box 11 I am one of you If you were mymiddotboy If you were my girl In quest of a hearts desire In the land of Egypt In the name of liberty In the years of Our Lord An innocent visitor Invitation to danger Introduction [to SO9-e Chipes hosts by Lafcadio Heaxn] I the tiger

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Jade star

The joy of waiting Jugglers kiss Kiss Cupid and live The lady amp the Titanic The last court The laugh that threatens

Boxes 12 amp 13

Box 14

Lecture notes for novel writing workshop at Collunbia University The lepers in the wilderness A letter to the children at Christmas The life and miracles of St Nicholas Light of the moon

A little bedroom far away Box 15 A little bplusmnt of butter The little black box Little forces of nature The little glass heart See The Christian bite The little master of the sky A little pup from Alaska Live dangerously The Liveright story CLlV~4 tI-ro ifgt~yen~~1

Lost in Jerusalem Box 16 The lost song Lots of luck The love between Che-lin and Black Goose The magic bow a romance The magic of madiless

of Paganini The magic keyboard

Manuel Komroff the gold standard candidate

The march of the hundred Mathew Brady A million franc reward The miracle of miracles Hiss Maupassant Miss Robinson Crusoe A morning in court Mozart

My friend from Tibet Napoleons hat under glass Never misspell a name See The new class A New York tempest No bad news today 0 thunderous drums Out of today s horror See

Box 17

Box 18

The lady amp the Titanic

The saga humane Over seven million transformed - an account of the new mass

army America is building

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Manuscripts by Komrof (41

The package fantasy The packed suitcase The passing of a little unit Prince of the captivity Princess Kashmir Private journal Profit by my experience A publicity stunt

A red coat for night Red days and nights The red giant The refined art of stealing Remember December Requiem Return of the Magi Ride of the tvo thieves Round trip to Japan The saga humane Saint Karl Marx The serpent in Eden The Siamese hands Six men and a boy

r The slave girl from Judea Smile little John0- So you wont talk Something of the sting Somewhere in the Pacific A Spanish episode A star for Bobby The story of Jesus

Ii story teller IS note about story telling ~he story without words

The strange masterpiece The sunday of palms and prophecy Take these things hence The tattooed forehead Telling tales The ten lepers in the wilderness That blowzy goddess fame That bum Reathermore There go the thieves The thousand and first Hollywood night Three strings of pearls Through the terror - and away Thumbs

To~d in the stars Tomorrow Tomorrow Tones

Box 18

Box 19

Box 20

Box 21

story tellers world [autobiography] typescripts notebooks Pllo~ocopis amp printed works

(unpublished ms copyr~ghted Mirch 20 1991 under the Box 20A amp 20B title Encounters)

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Manuscripts by Kamroff (51

Traced in moonlight Box 21 The travels of Marco Polo Troubles in hell

The twenty-nine minutes Box 22 The two Mrs Parringtons Unknown sayings of Jesus The voice of fire Waterloo

Waterloo - notes bull Box 23 We boys of China A wedding feast Where rain cannot enter Where the skoe pinches Who wrote this The whole world is outside Within the arena Within the clockwork The yellow fox Ziggi the clown Untitle8 historical novel of the Revolutionary Period in New York City - notes on cards Scrapbook of clippings book reviews etc

Photographs Box 24 -

Photograpic negatives by Komroff(earlier) i Bpx 24A

Photographic negatives by Komroff (later) Box 24B

FOR LISTS OF PHOTOGRA~ANn PIO~RAPlIIC -NEGATMS SEE PAGE 9 Printed Material - -

Boni and Liveright Catalogs

Books written by Komroff

Books edited by Komroff

Books translated by Komroff

Books amp Periodicals with contributions by Komroff Books about Komroff

Books inscribed to Komroff

Boxes 25 - 28

Boxes 29 - 32

Boxes 33- 35

Box 36

Boxes 37 - 41

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Cramer Florence (box 24A)Photographs Box 24 Cramer Konrad Cummings E E Antheil George Duranty WalterArcher William Frankel PaulIrmitage Melle Fuller BuckminsterAtkinson Brooks Gould JoeBent Silas

aUtterbock Hans GastonBoni lUbert Harvey HaroldBrickell Herschel Kerr stewartBruce Ned Komroff Manuel Burman Ben Lucian Kuniyoshi YasuoBurnett Whit McClelland JohnCeline Louis-Ferdinand Maier HowardCohn Louis Marak KurtCournos John gt-Moss Arthur amp S~e Horris Ira

Cwumings E E o Brien Edward Durant Will Phillips SidneyDuranty Walter Pick RobertFrankl Paul 1 Rascoe BurtonFuller Buckminscer Reiner FritzGordon Withold Resnick NatGreen Andrew Siegel AdrianJagendorf Moritz Smith Thomas R Kerr Stewart Stone EdKomroff Manuel Tisch William

) Kuniyoshi Yasuo Varese Edgar- Linscott Robert Weinberger Harry

McClellan John Withold GordonMattei Toni Moss Arthur Photographic negatives Box 24BOBrien Edward J (lNeill EUi~(IlC Cohn LouisParker Robert Allerton Berman Ben LucionRamsey Terry Bock Alfred Reiner Fritz Bruce Ned Smi th lhomas R Burnet Withold Rascoe Burton Gordon Withold Stein Leo Green Andrewmiddot Varese Edgar Harvey Harold Weeks Edw3rd Moss Arnold Weinberger Harry Parker Robert AllertonNature photographs taken by Manuel Komroff Stein Leo

Tietz E Photographic negatives Box 24A Weeks Ted

Antile George (boxes 24A-24B are 1986 gift)Armitage Merle Atkinson Brooks Bent Silas Boni Albert i~lttlPCiS e Celine Louis Ferdinand

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T K E M A N U E L k C K K O F F

P A P E R S

Descriptive information for some of tke Komroff manuscripts listedin the preceding pages

MANUSCRIPTSOF BOOKS

JUGGLERS KISS A first novel publishedin 1927 Nineteen signatures (8^x11) ofhandwritten text 380 pp plus 1 sig-nature of condensed story which servedas outline 1 page marked Motives andlist of names used in novel and also notesA special edition on large paper boundin boards was printed containing the follow-ing notation This edition of JugglersKiss is limited to 25 numbered and signedcopies none of which is for sale Thisis No In slip-case with ms isincluded a copy of book jacket of the 3rdedition with blurbs from Sherwood AndersonTheodore Dreiser Ferschel Brickell BrooksAtkinson and Eugene ONeill Also quotesfrom NY Times NY YJorld The NationBrooklyn Eagle Time Magazine and others

CORONET A second novel published in 1930Handwritten manuscript contains 45 signatures900 pp One signature of notes indexedThemes and their recurrence Notes Char-acters VJords and Names Also one largepaper which served as overall blueprint forthe entire novel After studying this blue-print the publisher contracted for this200000 word book before a single word waswritten The plan for the novel has beenreproduced in Komroffs book on Novel V7ritingCoronet had wide circulation It was orig-inally printed in two volumes and boxedAlso 50 copies were bound in one single fatvolume distributed to booksellers to promotethe book Then the Literary Guild printedan edition for their subscribers and thepublisher printed an edition one volume onthinner paper There was also an English

edition and one printed in Italy The ArmedServices paper edition contained the informa-tion that this novel had had a millionreaders A copy of the boxed two-volumeedition as well as copies of the rare fatCoronet and the Italian edition are includedin the carton of books that are part of theManuel Komroff Papers

h N E W Y Q R K TEMPEST published in 1932 contains25 handwritten signatures making 500 pp Thecomplete ms is contained in slip-case 3

WATERLOO This novel was published in 1936The complete ms is contained in 26 signa-tures or 520 handwritten pages

WATERLOO NOTES Slip-case 5 contains thenotes used in the writing of this historicalnovel These are in Manila folders togetherwith three printed accounts Captain Mait-lands Narrative of the Surrender of Bona-parte A Myth of Waterloo by Archibald Forbesand a copy of The Century Magazine for April1906 containing Lady DeLanceys RemarkableNarrative of The Week Succeeding The Battleof Waterloo

THE MARCH OF THE HUNDRED published in 1939 andalso printed in Spanish in Argentina in 1942(Copy of this Spanish edition is included inbook carton as part of Komroff Papers)This novel fills 28 signatures 560 hand-written pages Slip-case also contains afull signature of notes used in the writingof this novel

NOTE about SIGNATURES The signatures of theearly novels were all amph x 11 inches But

The March of the Hundred and in the booksthat follow the size is reduced to 7x93$ Thereason for this was that Komroff found thatthe smaller page was less fatiguing when onewrote many hours in pen and ink The signa-tures were made up for Komroff by a printerusing bond paper The 20 leaves are wire-stitched allowing for 20 handwritten pagesThe blank page opposite the written page isoften used for an additional sentence or evena paragraph Sometimes this blank page con-tains three or more additions to the texteach carefully numbered to show where theyshould go

THE MAGIC B O V A Romance of Paganini Thisnovel fills 43 signatures and contains 860handwri t ten p^ge z Puh - rT - i 19 40 Aprinted in Spanish in Pcnc bullbull Srez Argentxd1942 and in Portuguese in uio de JaneiroBrazil 1944 Both volumes are included incarton of books as part of the Manuel Komroffpapers)

FEAST OF THE JESTERSlished in the Fall of 1947

This novel was pub-A note on the

first page of ms shows that it was begun onOct 21 1946 and finished May 2 1947 Itfills 28 signatures and 560 handwritten pagesTto this is added a full signature of notesfor this novel dealing with The Congress ofVienna The notes are indexed 1815 HistoryLines Themes and People

ECHO OF EVIL published in the Fall of 1948Page one of this novel shows that the writingwas begun on Nov 1 1947 The text is con-tained in 19 signatures or 330 handwrittenpages But to this a hundred or more pagesmarked Additional pages torn from blankbooks during writing Also a full signa-ture of notes indexed as follows Names

People cud Traits StComputations of Scene

Events

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO This volume pub-lished in so many editions has through theyears become the standard text of Marco PoloThe work was first published in 1928 Thetext was edited revised and expanded fromthe century old Marsdens translation printedin Everymans Library with the addition ofmaterial contained in Sir Henry Yules textThe Marsden was done 100 years ago from anobsolete Latin version and the Yule versionfrom an old French manuscript The Komroffros contains the Marsden pages each pagemounted on 8 x 11 paper to make room forchanges and notes of which there are a num-ber in almost each page The additionaltyped pages are additions either from SirHenry Yules large two-volume work or othersources The total number of pages is 441The research and revising of this work con-sumed the greater part of a year For thefirst time the old dusty text was made read-able

The book was well received and for a timeeven made the best seller list which is un-usual for an edited work Following theoriginal edition which was published in TheBlack and Gold Library founded by Komroff alarge paper illustrated edition called TheKublai Khan Edition was printed in 1930 byGarden City Publishing Co The illustrationswere done by the French illustrator WitholdGordon Some time later in 1933 the well-known artist and typographer W A Dwigginsmade many black and white illustrations andbrought out a most beautiful edition Ayear later the Limited Editions Club broughtout a two-volume edition boxed illustratedby a Russian artist Nikolai FyodorbvitchLapshin These illustrations in full colorhad won a prize in an international contest

This edition differs slightly from othereditions for it contains no footnotes Afootnote Komroff feels is often like a badboy who rings your doorbell and when you havecome downstairs to answer the door find the

boy has run away Any additional notationsor explanations required Komroff has in-cluded very briefly in square brackets withinthe text This keeps the reader from goingdownstairs In the long introduction Kom-roff has also made a few minor changes forthis special edition

During VZorld War II an Armed ServicesEdition was published by the US Governmentand had wide circulation among the armedforces The edition in England was publishedby Johnathan Cape in his Travelers Library

INTRODUCTION TO MARCO POLO This long intro-duction which runs to 85 handwritten pagesis contained in a bound volume with marblepaper boards Pages 8 x 11 The fourbull blank pages at the end of this volume werefilled with cartoons of Komroff made by hisartist friend V7illiam Gropper

BIG CITY LITTLE BOY- -These recollectionsof early New York and the Catskill Mountainswere published in 1953 The manuscript con-tained in case 12 is in two sections Thefirst revised draft consists of 17 signa-tures or 340 handwritten pages plus 50loose pages which were unused The finaldraft consists of 15 signatures or 300 hand-written pages and to this is added a fullsignature of notes The entire ms wouldtherefore run about 660 handwritten pagesAn edition published by Avon Book DivisionmdashThe Hearst Corporation was at one time issuedfor 10 cents The cover states that Thislearn by reading1 edition is for readers forwhom English is a second language It canbe read by anyone who has learned 2000words of English The text of the originaledition was adjusted to meet this 2000 vo-cabulary Three other editions of this bookwere published by the U S I A for circula-tion in the Orient They are printed inKorean Burmese and Telugu the last publishedin Madras India These four odd soft cover

editions are included in the book cartonwhich is part of the KozurOifif Papers

THS STORY OF JESUS First Osefit and FinalDraft Noted on cover pacjess First draftbegun Aug 10 1952 acd friiisiisiasd Sept 231952 Final draft fijnisBiaS EampPC 1952First draft contains M signatures 290 ppFinal draft 11 signafaaxes 230 pp Thisbook also was printed An a soft cover edi-tion

MOZART -bull BSETHOVEN The manuscripts ofthese two short books are bath contained inpamphlet box no 14 The Mozart ms consistsof 16 signatures 320 pages The Beethovenms is somewhat longer and fills 21 signa-tures 420 handwritten pages The Mozartbook won a prize at the Salzburg Mozart

-Festival in December 1956

RED DAYS AND NIGHTS Sn latimate EyewitnessAccount of the October Revolution Thiscarton contains only sosniss-cript notes andpages which fill 4 scSiool notebooks as wellas seyeral hundred loose pages Severaltrial chapters are t jaed axxcS corrected Thepapers also contain Esafcess and background

material All are copyGsstsittreii in the largepamphlet box no 15

ALL IN OUR DAY This is a volume of 30 se-lected short stories pampMLsfced by Harper ampBrothers in 1942 Ttee csswasc-ript is nothandwritten These fc^ei psces were madefrom tear sheets from the svaricKis magazinesin which the stories were first printedThe handwritten manuscripts of most of thesestories will be found in tfuz 4 boxes of Short

Stories listed below This box no 16 con-tains the printers copy with correctionsof the 30 selected stories that were used inthis book

THE FOOL A 7D DEATH A long short story of32 handwritten pages Also a typed copy ofthe same as well as a printed copy of thissmall book bearing the inscription Seventy-five copies of this story have been printedfor friends of the author Seven copieswere printed on vellum and lettered A to GThe copy included is No F The little bookis bound in black boards and fitted in alinen slip-case Regarding this book Sher-wood Anderson wrote Komroff The stirringstory of the Fool was sent to my farm Thereis no one there now but the farm dog Thesnow in the mountains is two feet deep How-ever a neighbor came out of the hills bring-ing the book and I sat here by the print shopstove and read it with delight You are do-ing good work man You always are I envyyou Incidentally I like you My best toyou Sherwood Anderson The original ofthis letter will be found in the black albumof private letters included in the KomroffPapers

MANUSCRIPTS OF SHORTSTORIES AND ARTICLES

SHORT STORIES 1

MISS MAUPASSANT A play in One Act - TwoScenes This story was first written inbrief scenario form for Marlene Dietrich andwas to follow the film Komroff wrote for herin 1933 But it was never produced Theplay was written using the basic idea of thescenario in order to obtain a copyright fromLibrary of Congress A story or novel can-not be copyrighted unless it is publishedbut a typescript play can be copyrighted

Therefore Miss Maupassant was copyrighted asa play The manuscript fills 14 pp ofsmall handwriting

DON QUIXOTE RIDES AGAIN Satire published inEsquire Jan 1939 This story has appearedin one of Komroffs books of short storiesAbout 42 handwritten pages There is also aplay version listed below

TOMORROW TOMORROW Published in EsquireMarch 194X) This powerful tale dealing witha Nazi concentration camp has been reprinteda number of times and is included in severalstory collections About 35 pp

THE SERPENT IN EDEN was printed in Esquire inSept 1938 32pp

h LITTLE BEDROOM FAR AWAY This story waswritten as a tribute to the artist VincentVan Gogh Printed in Esquire July 1942 24 pp

THg HARA-KIRI OF BARON KURA Written in Jan1938 and printed in Esquire June 1938 20 pp

THE LAST COURT Story of a VThitc Russian andtenement children About 26 handwrittenpages Printed in Esquire May 1936

ADICTATOR Manuscript fills 19pages Published Coronet

WITHIN THE CLOCKWORK A war story on theRussian Front Printed in Esquire 35 hand-written pages

THE LITTLE BLACK BOX Article about the amazinggrowth of photography written at the requestof Atlantic Monthly 12pp

DON QUIXOTE RIDES AGAIN Play made from the

short story This manuscript consists oflines clipped from the printed story pastedon pages with stage directions etc writtenin

TAKE THESE THINGS HENCfcEsquire May 1940

Story 23pp

DICTATORS DIE HARDCoronet May 1940

Article published in

SAINT KARL MARX Nonfiction piece on theprocess of making Marx into a fresh Russianicon 20 pp Published in Esquire Febuary1940

BAKUNIN - PROPHST OF REVOLUTION Firstdraft12 pp of article1939

Published in Coronet July

THE GIRL V7HO V75PT TEARS OF REAL PEARL Satirefills one signature 20 pp Published inEsquire June 1940

THE SIAMESE HANDS Horror story First draftwritten March 29 1935 Published in EsquireJuly 1935

BOW CHRISTMAS CAME The Story of St Nicholasand His Miracles This is one of the manyChristmas stories Komroff did for EsquirePublished in December issue 1941

PPJIMCS OE THE CAPTIVITY First 3raft of anarticle on the medieval kings of the JewsAbout 16 handwritten pages Never published

KISS CUPID AND LIVE This story fills 31 pagersbut was abandoned and never submitted forpublication

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bull ZIGGI THE CLOWN Fills 47 handwritten pages) Was never submitted for publication

I AM ONE OF YOU A tale of the supernaturalA Christ-like figure leads the Jews througha British blockage during the early days ofIsrael Never submitted for publication

THE FLAXEN-HAIRED MANNEQUIN 27 handwrittenpages This story has proven very popularhaving been reprinted in a number of anthol-ogies and produced on TV several times

PEATH OF AN OUTCAST 27 handwritten pagesStory of a Bowery derelict This story wasmade into a one-act play and printed in oneof the play anthologies

bull DEATH OF AN OUTCAST Same as above only writ-ten as a one-act play Fills about 38 pp

NOTE THE ABOVE 25 STORIES AND PIECES ARE CON-TAINED IN CASE LABELED SHORT STORIES I11 AND THEBOX IS NUMBERED 18

U SHORT STORIES 3

THE PACKAGE FANTASY 19 handwritten pagesSatire published in Esquire March 1939

THAT BUM WEATHER-MORE Printed in Esquire Feb1936 19 pp

LITTLE FORCES OF NATURE 40 pp EsquireSept 1939

fffflE LAUGH THAT THREATENS Article on HitlersWar Published in Coronet Feb 1939

THE HAPPY LAND WITHOUT A SKY Satire 20handwritten pages Esquire Oct 1939

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TROUBLES IN HELL Satire 20 handwritten~ pages Esquire Aug 19219

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A LITTLE BIT OF BUTTER Abnufc 28 handwrittenpages Published in Esquire July 1938

BEHIND FORTUNES THRONE Fantasy Publishedunder the title Fortune is Only a Goddess35 handwritten pages Esqniire Dec 1937

THE TATTOOED FOREHEAD r it ten par -Esquilre June 1842

THE THOUSAND AND FIRST HOLLYWOODNIGHT 36handwritten pages Esquire July 1939

THE GARDEN OF FEMADIA Satire 24 handwrittenpages Esquire June 1939

GENOT MAN OF VICTORY Fantasy Only 15 hand-written pages Published in the first andonly issue of Ken magazine

LOTS OF LUCK 26 handwritten pages Esquire1937

THE DARK WANDERER 41 handwritten pagesChristmas story for Esquire Dec 1938

PUBLICITY STUNT Story sba^oned 40 hand-written pages Never submitited for publica-tion

THE LOVE BETWEEN CHE-LIN AND EL^CK G005S 18handwritten pages published raider the titledegf Hidden Message in Tniz 7Tetfc issue for Feb22 1942 also in The Star Taeefcly TorontoCanada Aug 7 1942 Sfoory also included inKomroffs selected stories pound11 In Our Day

EASTER IN SPAIN War story 31 handwrittenpages Esquire 1939 Also published incollected stories of Komroff

HERD OF SWINE 4th draft This ms is nothandwritten but made of typed cuttings fromthe previous 3 drafts with the addition ofmany changes in pen and inlc Published inHarpers Bazaar Nov 1935 About 16 pp

BOYS OF CHINA War story 36 handwrittenpages Esquire 1939 and also included involume of collected stories

THE REFINED ART OF STEALING Article 13handwritten pages Never submitted for pub-lication

WHERE RAIN CANNOT ENTER 27 handwritten pagesStory abandoned and never submitted for pub-lication

CAROLraquoS CAREER 36 handwritten pages Thisstory also abandoned and never submitted forpublication

h D Q G FROM NOWHERE Story of the Supernatural35 handwritten pages Esquire Oct 1938Also included in collection of Komroff stories

AN ACCIDSNT Very short story which appearedin Esquire June 1936

THE WHOLE WORLD IS OUTSIDE Fills one signa-ture 20 handwritten pages Published inEsquire 1931 and is lead story for latestKomroff book of selected stories entitled TheWhole World Is Outside

NOTE THE ABOVE 25 STORIES ARE CONTAINED IN CASELABELED SHORT STORIES 211 BOX NO 19

SHORT STORIES 3

THE CHRISTMAS SURRENDER A Christmas storywritten for Esquire and published in Jan1943 30 handwritten pages

SPANISH EPISODE War story 17 pen and inkpages Coronet Jan 1939

THE NEW CLASS War story Published underthe title The New Class at Ryden Because oftheir wide page Esquire liked a longer titleAbout 21 handwritten paces Esquire June1943

HARA-KIRI FOR JAPANESE GENERALS ArticlePublished in The New Leader Feb 6 1943

LESSONS OF INVASION Article 12 pages abouthalf handwritten and the remainder made upof typed sections from previous draftsPublication (No record)

THE LIFE AND MIRACLES OF ST NICHOLAS His-torical Legend about 36 handwritten pagesUnpublished

CONTRARY JAPAN Article Unpublished

TOHBRE THE SHOE PINCHES Story 30 handwrittenpages Published in Esquire Jan 1944

EXPECT AND LIVE Article Only 6 handwrittenpages 8 x 11 Published Good Housekeeping ()1942

THE PASSING OF A LITTLE UNIT War story 28handwritten pages Published (No record)

CHAPEL IN THE FOREST Long short story about48 handwritten pages Unpublished Abandon

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SMILE LITTLE JOHN Short story 35 hand-written pages Never submitted for publica-tion Abandoned

TOE MAGIC OF MADNESS Essay on Don Quixote6 handwritten pages Unpublished

GEORGE - SAINT OF COURAGE 2 drafts First13 handwritten and the 2nd 14 pages Unpub-lished

MY FRIEND FROM TIBET First draft and finaldraft written for Readers Digest as one ofMy Most Unforgettable Characters also re-printed in volume- on selected pieces fromReaders Digest The two drafts fill twofull signatures or about 40 pp

MISS ROBINSON CRUSOE Short story about 36handwritten pages Put aside to be recastand rewritten Finally abandoned

SZ Hit BREATH OF GOD Short story 32 hand-written pages written in July 1942 Unpub-lished and abandoned

THE END OF LOPEZ Short story about 20 hand-written pages and a second draft 15 ppPublished in Playboy under the title RequiemAlso reprinted in Komroffs last story col-lection

IN QUEST OF A HEARTS DESIRE 28 handwrittenpages Story put aside to be recast andfinally abandoned Written at the end ofSept 1945

FOR HAPPINESS - AN EASY STF^ Ttradetrade 35 hand-written pages Article rev bullvh a tfecof happiness Unpublished

PRPEET Bpound ffi I^SRXENOF TWO drafts of an ar-tide First draft of 8 pages and second of

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attempted a form between fiction and non-fiction Also 19 pp typed copy with correc-tions Unpublished

A MILLION FRANC REWARD This War story ap-peared in Esquire Nov 1943 Manuscript is26 pages The first 8 pages are missing

Either they were lost or chewed up in makingthe final revision Some complete manuscripts

sometimes chew themselves away and only shreds remain

BARON VON STARMER AND BEAU THE HARLEM BOUNCERFragment of a story 15 handwritten pagesThe first part missing This was an attemptto picture a confrontation of a good Naziwith a tough Negro from Harlem The attemptfailed and the text was put aside and for-gotten Unpublished Also five typed andcorrected pages on yellow paper of a firstdraft giving the beginning of this story

NOTE THE ABOVE 24 KANUSC bull 7 I - CCNTAINEC CASE LABELED SHORT STCim lr IHii BOX ISNUMBERED 20

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THE PACKED SUITCASE Very short story of 9handwritten pages (939 words) which waspointed ofi ofie single pounda$e of Good Housekeep-ing in December 1942 Was popular andseveral times reprinted

ABBE DORETS SECRET War story published inCosmopolitan Feb 1942 20 pp

THE STORY WITHOUT WORDS War story publishedin Cosmopolitan July 1942 20 pp

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A STORY TELLERS NOTE ABOUT STORY TELLINGArticle which served as introduction toKomroffs book All In Our Day published byHarper amp Bros 12 pp

THE JOY OF WAITINGEsquire Nov 1942

War story published in52 handwritten pages

A LETTER TO THE CHILDRENhandwritten pages ncvttion

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LIGHT OF THE MOON 26 handwritten pagesPublished in This Week Magazine

THE DIAMOND RING Several different versionsof this tory which was never submitted forpublication and finally abandoned A totalof 79 pages most of them handwritten and onlya few typed and corrected

DAVID AND GOLIATH A television scenario writ-ten for producer Monte- Wilheit 31 hand-written pages Produced only once

222 MRS PARRINGTONS Short story 29handwritten pages Never published and finallyabandoned

THE SAGA HUMANE Article written for The NewYork Times Book Review Nine pages withseveral typed fragments pasted in from pre-vious version

THE LOST SONG Story 43 handwritten pagesStory put aside to be rewritten and finallyabandoned for a better plot Written inJan-Feb 1943

SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC Ten handwrittenpages of a story idea which was never developed and finally abandoned

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BEES ANTS AND V7AR Seven pages half hand-written and the other half pasted in typedlines from a trial version Story abandoned

WROTE THIS Article dictated and typedpages corrected Three long pages on yellowpaper Publication

h FAMOUS PLACE Short story Half writtenand half typed and corrected 21 long pageslegal size paper Written Dec 1942Published

NAPOLEON1S HAT UNDER GLASS Final draftcontains typed parts of previous deafts andhandwritten sections between Printed inStory Magazine March 1932 and reprinted ina number of anthologies as well as in- trans-lations 6 pp

LIVE DANGEROUSLY Story written by invitationfor the issue of Esquire which began asquarterly Fall 1933 18 pp

PRINCESS KASHMIR Published in Harpers BazaaiNov 1934 About 22 handwritten pages

THROUGH THE TERROR - AND AWAY Story of theFrench Revolution Published Esquire Nov1938 About 40 handwritten pages

THE ARREST OF PRINCE BASIL 18 handwrittenpages Published in Colliers Oct 4 1930

CREATION North American Indian Legend on theOrigin of the VJorld Only five 83j x 11 hand-written pages Never published

NOTE SHORT STORIES 4 CASE CONTAINS 22 MANU-SCRIPTS

THREE EARLY STORIES IN A BOUND VOLUME

THE CHRISTIAN BITE An early story writtenin 1925 and published in Atlantic MonthlyMarch 1926

THE APPLE TREE SAGE This story also writtenabout 1925 and published in McClures Maga-zine

THE LITTLE GLASS HEART Early story alsowritten about 1925 and never published V7asput aside to revise and rewrite and thenabandoned

The above three early stories are written in abound dark-green notebook and fill 81 ppThis item is numbered 22

NOTE TOTAL NUMBER ON MANUSCRIPTS IN THE FOURSHORT STORY CASES PLUS THOSE IN ABOVlt2 BOUNDVOLUME NUMBER EXACTLY 100

PRINTED STORIES Tear sheets of 131 printedstories and articles from periodicals Allcontained in case no 23

THE LIVERIGKT STORY Adventures of the famouspublisher Horace B Liveright in the roar-ing 1920s Reviewing a recent book byLillian Hellman the New York Times (June 301968) says She left college after threeyears and went to work in the 1920s for thepublishing house of Horace Liveright at atime when the flamboyant Liveright was pre-siding over the grandest wildest and mostexciting literary scenes of American pub-lishing Komroff joined Liveright in 1920as editor of The Modern Library and when this

library was sold to Bennett Cerf in 1927 hestarted The Black and Gold Library A fewselect letters from Liveright are containedin the Black letter album which is part ofthe Komroff papers The manuscript of TheLiveright Story consists of 14 signaturesOf these about 12 are handwritten and twomade of pasted-in typed scripts plus 81typed pages with many corrections and pasted-in additions The entire manuscript wouldconsist of about 361 pages In case No 24

LIVERIGHT PAPERS This case no 25 containsLiveright1s unfinished and unpublished mem-oirs These run to about 200 typed pagesThis is the only copy in existence The casealso contains notes by Albert Eoni Live-rights first partner telling about how theymet how they founded the publishing housein 1917 their early books and how they quar-reled and parted Also there are accountsby T R Smith Liverights chief editorabout the court trials of several of Live-right s books which were banned by censorsThe case also corrtarins a number of the oldbook catalogues issued by the firm and a de-tailed accountants report giving the particu-lars concerning each book published copiessold money spent in advertising profits andlosses This would include the early booksof five Nobel Prize winners Besides allthis the case includes many pages of notesmade by Komroff for his book on LiverightAlmost alone Liveright changed the temper ofbook publishing in America

PRIVATE JOURNAL Bound vol 8 x 12 Blackpaper sides with vellum backbone on which ishand lettered My Paper Kingdom Note in-side says These pages torn out were not partof this Journal But I had used this book atone time for accounts and they grew very de-pressing11 The Journal cc L bull page cobservations on perscru ci res a re cora conversation with Sherwood Anderson on bull OIA and in another entry how he was greatlyinfluenced by the work of Checkov If not forhim I would never have written a short story

Journal contains a two-page account of Kom-roff s problems in writing an introductionto the Lafcadio Hearn book in The Modern Li-brary (March 1928) and some morbid notes onHearn which he did not include in his intro-duction The Journal also contains quotationsfrom books and a long account of an EasterProcession in Moscow at the time of BorisGodunov by Sir Anthony Sherley Queen Eliza-beths ambassador These two pages typed andpasted in with some parts handwritten Jour-nal also has copy of a letter from G B Shawto Mrs Frank Harris on the death of Harrisas well as numerous notes and original aphor-isms entered for possible future use Only23 pages of this Journal filled the remain-ing pages are blank

HISTORY OF THECIRCLE OF CONFUSION Manu-script of book ahout the distinguished photo-graphic society which Komroff helped tofound in 1931 Handwritten manuscript fillsover 200 pp Several folders of letters frommembers giving biographical sketches as wellas pages from professional journals and Xeroxcopies of other materielI

SCRAP BOOK Large bound volume 8 x 12 Filiewith clippings of reviews from newspapersand advertisements of Komroff books as wellas catalogues of his exhibitions of paintingsand photography as well as other related Kom-roff material

MISCELLANEOUS Packet of notes on 4 x 6 cardsfor a historical novel of the RevolutionaryPeriod located in New York City About 75cards covered with very small handwriting andindexed Themes Names Customs Places Things

A second package of notes on U S Historydealing with Freedom Revolts Mobs etc fora Novel to be called O^ Thunderous DrumsAbout 70 4 x 6 cards in small writing IndexedConditions Historic Figures Revolt SouthPittsburg

Manila folder containing 12 8 x 10 photosof the London film production of KomroffsThe Mag-io Bow - fiomance of

Twelve original Mathew Brady 8 x 10 photo-graphs of Civil War scenes and heroesPrinted from the plates in the possession ofthe Ansco Company just ^r^c- thoy were tu^--over to Katicucil Arch c tht-cephotographs were used to iluLrate Korarof =juvenile book on Mathew Brady Also in sameManila folder notes and odd papers related tothis volume

Copy of The American Spectator Vol 1No 1 A short-lived literary newspaperedited by George Jean Nathan Ernest BoydTheodore Dreiser James Branch Cabell andEugene ONeill This first issue November1932 contains original articles by Have-lock Ellis Frank Swinnerton Clarence Dar-row Eugene ONeill Ring Lardner Van WyckBrooks Lincoln Steffens Dreiser LiamO1 Flaherty Ring Lardner Joseph Wood Krutchand Louis Untermeyer Pages yellow with ageand crumbly Should be Xeroxed to prepoundervetext

CONTEMPO A literary Journal published inChapel Hill North Carolina in 1932-1933Thirteen issues good paper and in fine con-dition These issues -contain original con-tributions by William Faulkner Ezra Pound

05H1 Conrad Aiken Erskine Caldwell James TFarrell Langston Hughes Louis Golding

Nathaniel West D H Lawrence William CarlosWilliams Hart Crane Barrett H Clark KayBoyle Leon Trotsky (translated by Max East-man) E E Cummings (letter) Bennett CerfHendrik Van Loon Also a long letter fromG B Shaw on Hendersons biography and along letter from Henderson (issue of Aug 311932) a poem by William Faulkner and a longtwo-page (6 col) poem by Louis Aragon TheRed Front translated from the French by EE Cummings and many others Quote fromEditorial in issue of Aug 31 1932 I amsick of all hommes de letters and belles delettres Sinclair Levis Upton Sinclair andDreiser suit me best Honest artists likeBen Hecht Komroff Dos Passos and Faulknerget by without kissing too many editorialspats Many of these contributions havenever been reprinted

SCREEN PLAY made from Komroff s Echo of Evil(113 typed pages) by Don Ettlinger for theEdmund L Dorfrnan Productions Inc Holly-wood Film never made

AESOP AND THE ORACLE OF THEBES A juvenilefantasy about the slave boy Aesop in ancientEgypt and how he learnt the language of thebeasts and birds 154 (8 x 11) handwrittenpages

LECTURES ON NOVEL WRITING Large black-ringedbook with complete lectures as delivered inNovel Writing Workshop at Columbia UniversityLectures recorded quite completely by studentand typed out clearly

All of the above contained in Miscellaneous -case no 29

NOTE IN THE BOOK MANUSCRIPTS THE TOTAL NUMBEROF PAGES ALMOST ALL HANDWRITTEN WOULD BE ABOUT7599 THE SHORT STORY MANUSCRIPTS WOULD CON-TAIN 2556 PAGES MAKING A GK SD TOTAL OF 10155PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT

LETTERS In Black Album

SHERWOOD ANDERSON This letter about TheFool and Death already quoted in item 17

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1931) More thanksthan I can express for your good offices andkind words

THORNTON WILDER 1928 I should have readyou often and saluted you over and overagain for the Juggler1s Kiss which I amhappy to say founded a regular Komroff cultdown here at school And as for me Igot-to learn to tell a story without foolingin the margin

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (Sept I925 |How Does itFeel to be Free1 has won me I shall nowlook forward to your works for what you havedone once you can do many times

gDWARP 01BRIEN (short btory editor) A two-pageletterwritten from Switzerland about thedeath of his wife Romer She honored youfor your courage she feared you a littlefor a bold eagle look in yesaur eyes and shewas fond of you as ssy frienc

WTTLIAM ARCHER 4 letters English dramacritic classmate end friend of Robert LouisStevenson He translated SLTI Ibsen plays andwas responsible for introducing Ibsen playsto the English public Ee also has the dis-tinction of having given G B S his firstjob and encouraged him to write plays Thofour letters from Marcher written 1922-1924are quite intimate- Archer was a cousin ofKomroffs first wife and when in the US

^ stayed with them In one letter^ he mentionshis play The Greess Goddess which was stillrunning in London approaching its 270thperformance Im letter written Oct 1922he speaks of Eugene ONeill But Anna

0 Christie and The First Kan _ are brilliantpieces of workmdashgreat dranias not meresketches They sesna to me fcfee best plays yetwritten in America but I copysa inclined to gofurther than that and call OReill thegreatest dramatist now writing in the Englishlanguage If you are in touch with him andfeel that my opinion would interest M m atall you are quite at liberty to send it on

This was written In 1922 before ONeill haddone a full-length play

ERSKINE CALDWELL 2 letters Letter of July1949 describes his writing Easampits It isdifficult for me too write scything tTaat sat-is fies me and I find myself rewriting a storyfive ten fifteen times laquobullbull

BERTRAND RUSSELL 9 letters dating from 1925to 1930 Some of then deal with the Russellv o l u m e o f h i s p o p u l a r bullbull-bullbullbull mdash --

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made for The Modern Library One letter con-tains the line I wondered that the clergytook my book so calmly and was a little hurtby their neglect Another letter containsthe following I shall look forward to seeingyour review of Skeptical Essays1 in The NewYork Times It is very unlikely that I shallthink it too gushing that is not a naturalreaction for an author On the contrary Ishall feel grateful to you

ROBERT HENRI (2 lecte Ir M22) KC- bullwas at one time a pupil ii the Henri artschool One letter speaks of proportionaldividers that Komroff designed and constructedfor Henri and Bellows The other contains thefollowing My reading in thelast threeyears the three books that have gripped me(in the order of theirgripping) Douglas1

South Wind Caseys Plough end the StarsKornroffs Jugglers Kiss Others I have likedbut these have been the great adventures

REGINALD MARSH (1944) Letter asks opinion ofa book Anatomy Without Words This is a pro-posed anatomy for artists and letter containstwo sample illustrations

HARRY KEMP I am terribly well swim everyday all the year round in the surf

RICHARD SIMONof Simon and Schuster Of courseI understand everything youre the saltof the earth a fact I have known for years I am sorry I blew up a bit myself that morn-ing To explain it would mean going into along family history about my father whom Ilove and revere (This letter will needa long note of explanation)

EZRA POUND (1927)Rapallo Italy

Letter from his home in

WOLFGvNG KOHLER Written from the Departmentof Psychology at Cornell University 1929

Komroff was in Kohlers Gestalt laboratory inBerlin for a short time to go over the workand bring back to the US his book on theGestalt Psychology

JAMES BRANCH CABELL (5 letters and one en-velope 1922-1930) Speaks about his intro-duction to the Queen Pedauque and two ofKomroffbulls books

HENDRICK V7ILLEM VAN LOON (4 lettersmdashnonedatedmdashbut long envelope with water-colorof a whale chasing a rowboat has the post-mark June 1932)

JACK CRAWFORD English Department of YaleKomroff1s instructor in Dramatic

Letter dated JanUniversityLiterature at about 19121930 I have been reading and studyingyour Coronet for Creative Reading a littlemagazine published in Cambridgemdashit asked meto write a teacher1s analytical review

LEWIS JOSEPH FRENCH Alcoholic friend ofKomroff who now and again asked for a dollarOnce he gave Komroff a record of the wretchedearnings from his 43 published books Thispathetic record is included with the letters

WALDO FRANK (No date but written about 1928)Brief note about Jugglers Kiss I mustthank you for the profound aesthetic joy itgave me bull bull bullbull

LILLIAN SMITH (1949) I have read yourbeautiful letter to my brothers and sisterswho were as deeply moved by it as was I1

EDWARD BRUCE (1928) The artist Edward Erucewas a friend of Roosevelt and was later ap-pointed by him to head the artists muralprojects during the days of the VJPA

JEAN DE BOSSCHERE (1928) French illustrator

HORACE B LIVERIGHT Publisher (1925) togetherwith letter from Edward L Bernays Bothletters refer to an edition of Alice in Wonder-land which Komroff had produced for Liveright

LIVERIGHT 2 additional letters 1929-1930Komroff had previously been Liverights editorof The Modern Library

HOMER CROY (1941) Odd note written on sta-tionery of Jeff Smiths mdash Parlor SkagvayAlaska Three illustrations of this salon-gambling joint Envelope on stationery ofKansas City Horse- and Mule Commission Co

WILL DURANT 5 letters (1929-1969) Will andAriel Durant have been Komroffs friends forover 50 years

ARNOLD GINGRICH Editor of Esquire Of thehundred or more letters written to Komroffby Gingrich this long letter is the only oneKomroff cared to save It is most compli-mentary and proposes that Komroff do a specialseries This would help us a lot I am surein many places where advertisers have turneda deaf ear to Esquire It would also helpI am sure in restraining the fury of thosepressure-group activists (This letterwould need a note of explanation) It shouldbe said that at this period Esquire had every distinguished list of contributorsDreiser Sherwood Anderson Hemingway F ScottFitzgerald Dos Passos Faulkner etc etc

CHARLES G ROSS secretary to President TrumanLetter from the White House Jan 1946

WILLIAM ZORACH Sculptor June 1949

WALTER PACH Art critic June 1947

OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY (Dec 1932) 2 lette

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Post card March 1956 an-nouncing that he is working on Andersonville11 Incidently I never pass the Arc d1 Trioiapheor the Invalides without thinking of you andthat magnificent Coronet

NOTE BLACK ALBUM ITEM NO 30 CONTAINS 60LETTERS

LETTERS In Red Album

WALTER PACH Art critic

EDWARD J OBRIEN Editor of Short Storyanthologies 8 letters and engraved weddingannouncement

LINCOLN MCVEIGHGreece

Roosevelts ambassador to

GEORGE ANTHEIL Composerbull Post card

JOHN EDMUNDS Composer

ERNEST BACON Composer 3 letters

EDWARD WEEKS Editor Atlantic rr

WILLIAM ZORACH Sculptor Post card

H L MENCKEN 3 letters

EDGAR JA GOODSPEED Greek scholar and Bibleauthority

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LOUIS SHEAFFER Eugene O N e i l l s biographer

IRA V MORRIS Novelist

HUGHES MEARNS Prof of Education and authorof poem The L i t t l e Man VJho Wasnt There

JOHN COURNOS7 letters

Novelist and Russian translator

HORACE M KALLEN Prof of Philosophy andformerly as-sistant to William Jamas andSantayana at Harvard 14 letters and 2 postcards

CARL ZIGROSSSR Muticur

CYRIL CLEMENS Nephew of Mark Twain 2 lettersone with Xerox of letter of Mark Twain tohis sister who was Cyril Clemens1 mother

MRS SAXE COMMINSis Eugene- ONsill

The Gene in this letter

MARCHETTE CHUTE Memo

ALESTER CROWLEYPost card

Notorious bad boy of Europe

HENRY N MCCRACKEN President Vassar College2 letters

NELSON JOHNSON Ambassador to China I countContemporaries of Marco Polo among theprizes in my ratlier small shelf of books

WILBUR C ABBOTT Prof of history at HarvardFormerly Komroffs teacher at Yale

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HUGH FERRIS Architect

WILLIAM E WOODWARD Historian From Cali-fornia We see the Sinclairs now and then also Dorothy Peterson and Theodore Dreiser Dreiser is I think about seventy-four buthe seems to be ninety

NOTE RED ALBUM (ITEM NO 31) CONTAINS 60LETTERS

Checklist of Manuel Komroff Collection

to 26 Handwritten mi of 24 short stories of ChristAlso typed ms of all these stories with a few changes made for volumepublished toy Harper amp Bros entitled In the Years of our LordAlto ms of Postscript printed in above volume

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Complete book ms of How to write a Novel1 First draft handwritten

M typed and correctedSecond draft typed and handwritten in parts revised typed and sent to printer

Bundle of notes and typed pages material discarded and some usedand some not used

gt tgtraquo Bundle of notes and material some used and some not used in seconddraftNotes This shows all the stages of a single book and the amount

of labor that goraquos into a book

Book ms of Jade Star a Chinese novel1 Handwritten ms

bullQ -rr 2 Notes memos of ideas revised pages chapters omitted and oharts ofcharacter appearances

Book ms of Jhe Voioe of Fire HandwrittenCopy of book Thlaquo Voioe of Fire published in Paris 1927Book The case of Mr Crump by Ludwig Lewisohn Limited editionpublished in Paris First copy off press inscribed by author and publisherBook My book of Hours a novel in woodblocks by Frana Majfeel One ofthree oopies the other 597 oopies were destroyedBook The Dream pound Life of Balso Snell by Nathanael West

One of 500 oopiesBook The Liberty of the Press by Harry Weinberger Limited ed InscribedBook Rococo by Ralph Cheever Bunning Inscribed with note about

Dunning which I wrote and attachedBook Roan Stallion by Robinson Jeffers One of 12 copies InscribedWith note I added to explain why George Moore1s signature appears inpaper watermarkms The fool and death handwrittenBook The fool and Death One of 100 copies printed for friendsVisiting card With thanks from James Joyce with note of explanationOriginal photo of Guy de MaupassantPamphlet in slipoase The Russian Problem and its solution by ManuelKonroff Shanghai China September 1918This is my first piece of writing to see covers I brought back about adoxen oopies for friends but this is lone known survivorThe Fashionable Tragedian by William Aroher In slipoase1 Letter from William Aroher re pamphlet attacking Henry Irving

Copy of original pamphletCopy of second edition of same with added postscript possibly by IrvingPhoto of William ArcherPressolipping of work on Archer

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6 Clipping mentioning above pamphlet in article by Gordon Craig

Book The Great Analysis by William Archer with an introduction byGilbert Murray First published anonymously then reprinted after Archerdeath Inscription on the flyleaf CA are the initials of Archer1s 1

Lidia A play by William Archer1 Handwritten ms in penoil2 Typesoript of same

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Abbott Wilbur Cortez Kemp Harry Hibbard Anderson Sherwood Kennedy Edward M[Antheil George Kennedy Robert Francis Archer William Kohler Wolfgang Atkinson Brooks Komroff Manuel Bacon Ernst Liveright Horace Bernays Edward L MacCracken Henry Noble Boni Albert Mac Veagh Lincoln Bosschere Jean de Marsh Reginald Bruce Edward Masters Edgar Lee Cabell James Branch Mearns Hughes Caldwell Erskine Mencken Henry Louis Chute Marchette Moore George Clemens Cyril Morris Ira V Commins Dorothy B (Mrs Saxe) OBrien Edward Joseph Harrington Cournps John OKeeffe Georgia Crawford Jack Randall ONeill Carlotta Monteray Crowley Aleister oNeill Eugene Croy Homer Pach Walter del-fille Cecil B Pound Ezra

~ Dreiser Theodore t Ray Man gtlt Durant Will amp Ariel Ross Charles Griffith ~ Edmunds John ~ Russell Bertrand

Ferriss Hugh XI Santayana George

I Sheaffer Louis Schonberg Harold Frank Waldo David Giles Herbert A Simon Richard Leo Gingrich Arnold I Smith Lillian Gogarty Oliver st John Steegmuller Francis Goodspeed Edgar Johnson I Stein Leo

Gregory Augusta Persse (Lady) Stieglitz Alfred Hellman Lillian Van Loon Hendrick Willem Henri Robert Weeks Edward Augustus Jr Horan James D Wilder Thornton Johnson Nelson Trusler Woodward WilliamE Joyce James Wright Frank Lloyd Kallen Horace Meyer Zigrosser Carl Kantor MacKinlay Zorach William

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- Archer William Lidia aross 85p amptmss 79p Bacon Ernst A Christmas canonamss lp (musical score) Brant Henry Decision amss 9p (musical score) French Joseph Lewis Books by Joseph Lewis French tms 2p Kfoiienberger Louis Gambler in publishing Horace Liveright Galley proofs l5p

--- - Iiiveright Horace [Autobiography] tms 207p CJ 0 Ngell Eugene Strange interlude Galley proofs 99pa WildeiOscar The unpublished parts of De Profundis tms 2 1 70p jQ

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