Collection ID: 4079207 MS#0979

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Parsons, Geoffrey, 1879-1956
Extent:
4 linear feet and 8 boxes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Geoffrey Parsons papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Background

Scope and Content:

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, notebooks, memorabilia, a tape cassette, photographs, and printed materials. The collection is primarily correspondence files, both personal and professional, along with book reviews, awards and diplomas, letters of condolence on his death, clippings, and correspondence, manuscripts and printed materials relating to THE STREAM OF HISTORY. The correspondence relates specifically to the third edition. The manuscripts are typed and holograph inserts for the third edition and possibly for the second edition as well. Among the manuscripts are twenty-two notebooks containing holograph notes and drafts of chapters. The printed material consists of one copy of THE STREAM OF HISTORY, 1934 edition.

Biographical / Historical:

Journalist and author. Parsons was chief editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune from 1924 until 1952, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Earlier he had been an editorial writer for The Sun from 1901 until 1913 when he joined the Herald Tribune.

Acquisition information:

Source of acquisition--Mrs. John C. Long. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/07/88. Accession number--M-88-07-12.

Letters of Lawrence Gilman et al: Source of acquisition--Long, Mary P. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--03/29/93. Accession number--M-93-03-29.

Custodial history:

Gift of Mrs. John C. Long, 1988, 1990, 1991& 1993.

Processing information:

Processed 08/22/89.

Letters of Lawrence Gilman et al Cataloged HR 01/11/94.

Arrangement:

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

Accruals:

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed Terms

Subjects:
World history
Civilization -- History
Evolution
History -- Philosophy
Journalism
Authors, American -- 20th century
Journalists -- United States -- 20th century
Editorials
Articles
Audiocassettes
Awards
Bills (financial)
Certificates
Correspondence
Drafts (documents)
Essays
Interviews
Invitations
Manuscripts (documents)
Memorabilia
Notebooks
Obituaries
Photographs
Poems
Reviews (documents)
Names:
Adams, Franklin P (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960
Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012
Beebe, Lucius, 1902-1966
Bonnet, Henri, 1888-1978
Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969
Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Cleland, T. M (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Curie, Eve, 1904-2007
Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950
Davis, Elmer, 1890-1958
Dewey, Thomas E (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971
Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969
Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959
Duranty, Walter, 1884-1957
Finkelstein, Louis, 1895-1991
Folks, Homer, 1867-1963
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965
Galantiè€re, Lewis, 1895-1977
Gallup, George, 1901-1984
Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
Gunther, John, 1901-1970
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966
Hough, Henry Beetle, 1896-1985
Hu, Shi, 1891-1962
Ickes, Harold L (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952
Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986
Kennedy, Joseph P (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969
La Guardia, Fiorello H (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947
Landon, Alfred M (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987
Lehman, Herbert H (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963
Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
Marquis, Don, 1878-1937
Michener, James A (James Albert), 1907-1997
Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936
Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
O'Hara, John, 1905-1970
Perkins, Maxwell E (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947
Rockefeller, John D., Jr (John Davison), 1874-1960
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951
Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-1978
Shirer, William L (William Lawrence), 1904-1993
Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965
Stassen, Harold E (Harold Edward), 1907-2001
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941
Vandenberg, Arthur H (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951
Ward, Barbara, 1914-1981
Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961
White, E. B (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985
White, William Allen, 1868-1944
Willkie, Wendell L (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Geoffrey Parsons papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027, United States
CONTACT:
(212) 854-5590
rbml@library.columbia.edu