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Reminiscences of Professor Allan Nevins at the Henry E. Huntington Library
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Reminiscences of Allan Nevins
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On this 1/4-inch audio tape, American historians John Niven, Hal Bridges, and Leonard W. Levy reminisce about Allan Nevins; taped 1971 February 2. The conversation was facilitated by Mort Reis Lewis, historian and friend of Allan Nevins.
HIA 2017.03.09
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Allan Nevins paper written on Collis P. Huntington with his notes and clippings
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The notes were taken in 1939 for a paper on Collis P. Huntington that was written and read to a Huntington Library audience by Alan Nevins. Some information in the notes were gained from an old time associate of Collis Huntington who was discovered according to Nevins at a large hotel on the Arroyo that was taken over and used by the government, probably the Vista del Arroyo Hotel.
mssHM 30949
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Interviews with Irving Stone and Lilian Bean on Allan Nevins
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These five items include transcripts of interviews by Mort Reis Lewis dealing with the historian Allan Nevins. Lewis interviewed Irving Stone, his wife Jean, and Lillian Bean, Nevins' private secretary. Also included is a self-taped interview by Lewis regarding his memories of Allan Nevins. The interviews discuss Nevins' life, work, his research, his time as senior research associate at the Huntington Library and fellow historians Ray Billington and Bruce Catton.
mssHM 48574-48578
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Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-. "Allan Nevins – Historian: A Personal Reminiscence:" [preface] [1975]. Preface to Allan Nevins on History by Ray Allen Billington, 1903-. Photocopy. 1 item
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The entire collection deals with Allan Nevins, his work and Mort Reis Lewis' efforts after Nevins' death to keep his legacy alive. The manuscripts include various drafts, most of which deal with Allan Nevins. These include copies of Ray Allen Billington's eulogy for Allan Nevins, his article "Allan Nevins - Historian: A Personal Reminiscences," and a copy of a speech by Billington regarding Nevins, which he gave at the Huntington Library. This series also includes drafts of manuscripts by Mort Reis Lewis such as "A Country Boy at the Huntington Library" and "A Different Profile in Courage: The Triumph of Will." There are also copies of the following scripts by Lewis: "A Pair of Boots" and "Stroke of Fate." Also included are transcripts of interviews, press releases and miscellaneous notes all dealing with Allan Nevins. The correspondence chiefly consists of letters by and to Mort Reis Lewis about Allan Nevins. The letters discuss Nevins' career as an American historian and the senior research associate at the Huntington Library. This series also deals with Lewis and other historians publishing about Nevins and Lewis' effort to get Nevins' image on a stamp. The correspondence also covers American society and politics during the 1960s and 1970s. Allan Nevins is the author of 36 letters, most of which are written to Lewis. There is also much correspondence between Lewis and Allan Nevins' wife, Mary, and his daughters, Anne Nevins Loftis and Meredith Nevins Mayer. The ephemera, which chiefly deals with Allan Nevins, includes newspaper clippings, obituaries, brochures, programs and audiocassettes. The ephemera also touches upon Mort Reis Lewis and Ray Billington and their work. There are four audiocassettes which contain interviews with James Thorpe, Ray Billington and E. B. Long and audio from the Allan Nevins Seminar at Claremont College, May 30, 1969.
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Thorpe, James Ernest, 1915-. Press release re: Allan Nevins exhibit at Huntington Library [c.1976]. 1 item
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The entire collection deals with Allan Nevins, his work and Mort Reis Lewis' efforts after Nevins' death to keep his legacy alive. The manuscripts include various drafts, most of which deal with Allan Nevins. These include copies of Ray Allen Billington's eulogy for Allan Nevins, his article "Allan Nevins - Historian: A Personal Reminiscences," and a copy of a speech by Billington regarding Nevins, which he gave at the Huntington Library. This series also includes drafts of manuscripts by Mort Reis Lewis such as "A Country Boy at the Huntington Library" and "A Different Profile in Courage: The Triumph of Will." There are also copies of the following scripts by Lewis: "A Pair of Boots" and "Stroke of Fate." Also included are transcripts of interviews, press releases and miscellaneous notes all dealing with Allan Nevins. The correspondence chiefly consists of letters by and to Mort Reis Lewis about Allan Nevins. The letters discuss Nevins' career as an American historian and the senior research associate at the Huntington Library. This series also deals with Lewis and other historians publishing about Nevins and Lewis' effort to get Nevins' image on a stamp. The correspondence also covers American society and politics during the 1960s and 1970s. Allan Nevins is the author of 36 letters, most of which are written to Lewis. There is also much correspondence between Lewis and Allan Nevins' wife, Mary, and his daughters, Anne Nevins Loftis and Meredith Nevins Mayer. The ephemera, which chiefly deals with Allan Nevins, includes newspaper clippings, obituaries, brochures, programs and audiocassettes. The ephemera also touches upon Mort Reis Lewis and Ray Billington and their work. There are four audiocassettes which contain interviews with James Thorpe, Ray Billington and E. B. Long and audio from the Allan Nevins Seminar at Claremont College, May 30, 1969.
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Allan Nevins papers
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Research papers and correspondence of Allan Nevins, chiefly those pertaining to his work at the Huntington Library. Included are research papers on the Civil War, drafts to the third and fourth volumes of the Ordeal of the Union, lectures, and shorthand books kept by his secretary at the Huntington, Lillian K. Bean. The correspondence deals chiefly with the publication of the last two volumes in the Ordeal of the Union and was conducted by Lillian Bean. Also included is correspondence between Allan Nevins and his wife Mary, and Lillian Bean. Significant correspondents represented in this collection are: James Truslow Adams; John Edwin Bakeless; Grayson Louis Kirk; Alfred A. Knopf; Archibald MacLeish; Fred Delbert Schwengel; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Charles Scribner's Sons; Adlai Ewing Stevenson; Irving Stone; and Arnold Toynbee.
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