Manuscripts

1934-1954

Description: Letters addressed to Allan Nevins during the period between 1934 and 1955, while he was the DeWitt Clinton Chair in American History at Columbia University.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1934-1955.
Call number: mssNevinsc
Creator: Nevins, Allan (1890-1971)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Marian McKenna, April 1988.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

1954-1955

Manuscripts

Letters addressed to Allan Nevins during the period between 1934 and 1955, while he was the DeWitt Clinton Chair in American History at Columbia University.

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Allan Nevins correspondence

Manuscripts

Letters addressed to Allan Nevins during the period between 1934 and 1955, while he was the DeWitt Clinton Chair in American History at Columbia University.

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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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Historical speeches, etc

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The Organized War, Volume 3, chapter 13

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1934-1954

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