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    <title>Harper's magazine records, 1847-1983 (bulk 1940-1983)</title>
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    <title>Harper's magazine</title>
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  <abstract>Records of Harper's Magazine include writings on subjects such as American cultural life, geography, history, humor, literary criticism, literature, news, political debate, science, social commentary, and social and economic problems.  Collection also documents the history of publishing.</abstract>
  <abstract>Part I consists of a chronological file of editorial and reader correspondence, drafts of articles, and other records.  Includes editor Henry Mills Alden's letterbook and other papers.</abstract>
  <abstract>Part II consists of an editors' file including the records of editors-in-chief John Fischer, Willie Morris, and Robert Shnayerson and their managing and assistant editors; office file containing general correspondence, reports on letters to the editor, letters to the editor, and business and personnel records; and a production file of drafts, galleys, and other records.  Additional business records and miscellaneous documents are included in the office file.</abstract>
  <abstract>Individuals represented by correspondence, writings, and other records include Dean Acheson, Kingsley Amis, Maya Angelou, John Ashbery, W.H. Auden, Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Kay Boyle, Albert Camus, John Cheever, G.K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, Roald Dahl, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, E.L. Doctorow, John Dos Passos, Peter F. Drucker, Anthony Eden, William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, John Fowles, R. Buckminster Fuller, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, David Halberstam, Seymour M. Hersh, Irving Howe, William Dean Howells, James Jones, Alfred Kazin, Maxine Kumin, Walter Lippmann, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Mansfield, W. Somerset Maugham, Mary McCarthy, George S. McGovern, Larry McMurtry, Arthur Miller, Jessica Mitford, Bill D. Moyers, Daniel P. Moynihan, Joyce Carol Oates, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Walker Percy, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Fletcher Pratt, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Adrienne Rich, Philip Roth, Bertrand Russell, Bayard Rustin, J.D. Salinger, William Saroyan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Anne Sexton, Bernard Shaw, Neil Sheehan, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, John Steinbeck, Mark Strand, Igor Stravinsky, William Styron, Paul Theroux, James Thurber, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, E.B. White, Thornton Wilder, Garry Wills, and Tom Wolfe.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Magazine founded in 1850 by Harper &amp; Brothers (later Harper &amp; Row, Publishers) as a compendium of periodical articles and serialized fiction; purchased by Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, 1965; sold to John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Atlantic Richfield Foundation to be run as a non-profit enterprise, 1980; Harper's Magazine Foundation established, 1982.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010321">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010321</note>
  <note>Index to Harper's magazine in containers 209 and 210 for assistance in the chronological approach to the records.</note>
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      <namePart type="date">1910 April 27-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)</namePart>
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