Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)Gilbert A Harrison papers, 1902-1978
Personal name
Main title
- Gilbert A. Harrison papers, 1902-1978 (bulk 1960-1975).
Links
Links
- Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010212
- Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010212.3
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Description
- 4,200 items.
- 12 containers.
- 4.8 linear feet.
Access advisory
- Open to research.
Finding aids
- Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010212
Local shelving no.
- 0519M
Biography/History note
- Editor and publisher. Full name: Gilbert Avery Harrison. Born 1915. Died 2008.
Organized/Arranged
- Arranged in two series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1937-1978; and Series 2: Subject File, 1902-1978.
Summary
- Correspondence, subject files, clippings, pamphlets, articles, and other papers relating principally to Harrison's position as editor and publisher of the New Republic and as president of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Persons and topics represented include Dean Acheson, Joseph Alsop, American Civil Liberties Union, American Veterans Committee, Roger N. Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Anita McCormick Blaine, Jimmy Carter, Frank Church, Malcolm Cowley, Felix Frankfurter, J. William Fulbright, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ernest Gruening, Francis Hackett, Lillian Hellman, Irving Howe, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Edward M. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Anthony Lewis, Walter Lippmann, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, William Saroyan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Gertrude Stein, Adlai E. Stevenson, and Morris K. Udall. Also includes correspondence and other papers of Harrison's wife, Anne "Nancy" Blaine Harrison, relating in part to her activities as an organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America in North Carolina in the 1940's and to Washington, D.C., social life.
LC Subjects
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971.
- Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989.
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981.
- Bellow, Saul.
- Blaine, Anita McCormick.
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
- Church, Frank.
- Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989.
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.
- Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995.
- Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
- Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974.
- Hackett, Francis, 1883-1962.
- Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984.
- Howe, Irving.
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009.
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Lewis, Anthony, 1927-2013.
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.
- Saroyan, William, 1908-1981.
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.
- Udall, Morris K.
- American Civil Liberties Union.
- American Veterans Committee.
- Liveright Publishing Corporation.
- Textile Workers Union of America.
- New republic.
- American periodicals.
- Periodicals--Publishing.
- Labor unions--North Carolina.
- Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
- Editors.
- Publishers.
Notes
- Sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
- Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
- Collection material in English.
Acquisition source
- Gift, Gilbert Harrison, 1979.
Constituent unit
LCCN
- mm 81075932
Other standard no.
- MSS75932
Repository
- Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
Type of material
- Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
