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    <title>American Scholar records, 1926-2006 (bulk 1944-2005)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, business and editorial records, original manuscripts and edited drafts of works published in the magazine, and other records of the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly magazine, American Scholar.  Daily publication activities are documented in correspondence between editors and staff relating to advertising, distribution, and printing; correspondence between editors and members of the editorial board; financial reports; and other records.  Also consists of correspondence with authors of articles submitted for publication and of material relating to book reviews and readers' responses to various articles.</abstract>
  <abstract>Much of the correspondence is between editors and editorial board members.  Editors include Joseph Epstein (1973-), Hiram Collins Haydn (1944-1973), Marjorie Hope Nicholson (acting editor, 1943-1944), and William A. Shimer (1932-1943).  Board members include John Edwin Bakeless, Jacques Barzun, Marston Bates, Ruth Benedict, Crane Brinton, Van Wyck Brooks, Harry Woodburn Chase, Henry Steele Commager, Ada Louise Comstock, Elmer Holmes Davis, Paul H. Douglas, R.L. Duffus, Irwin Edman, John Erskine, John H. Finley, Guy Stanton Ford, Jerome Frank, Christian Frederick Gauss, Walter Gellhorn, Alan Gregg, Walton H. Hamilton, Henry Hazlitt, Richard Hofstadter, Will David Howe, Randall Jarrell, Alvin Saunders Johnson, Adam Leroy Jones, Louis Kronenberger, Joseph Wood Krutch, James McCauley Landis, Max Lerner, Burton E. Livingston, Alain LeRoy Locke, Archibald MacLeish, Dumas Malone, Margaret Mead, Perry Miller, Henry Allen Moe, Felix Morley, John W. Nason, William Allan Neilson, Reinhold Niebuhr, H.A. Overstreet, John Herman Randall, Jr., J. Saunders Redding, David Riesman, Paul Robeson, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Paul Bigelow Sears, Harlow Shapley, Mary K. Simkhovitch, Donald A. Stauffer, Irita Taylor Van Doren, Sumner Welles, George Frisbie Whicher, and Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Quarterly magazine of culture, history, literature, public affairs, and science published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.</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.ms011151">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011151</note>
  <note>List of American Scholar editorial staff and board members and selected indexes of  correspondents in the General Editorial File and Author File of Part I, Accession No. 13,595 are  available for use in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.</note>
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      <namePart>Bakeless, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1978</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Barzun, Jacques</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1907-2012</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bates, Marston</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1974</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Benedict, Ruth</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brinton, Crane</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1898-1968</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brooks, Van Wyck</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase, Harry Woodburn</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1955</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Commager, Henry Steele</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1998</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Comstock, Ada Louise</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, Elmer Holmes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1958</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1976</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Duffus, R. L. (Robert Luther)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Edman, Irwin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1896-1954</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Epstein, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1937-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Erskine, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1951</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Finley, John H. (John Huston)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1940</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ford, Guy Stanton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1962</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Frank, Jerome</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1957</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Haydn, Hiram Collins</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1907-1973</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Gauss, Christian Frederick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1951</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gellhorn, Walter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gregg, Alan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1957</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hamilton, Walton Hale</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1958</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hazlitt, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1993</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hofstadter, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1916-1970</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Howe, Will David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jarrell, Randall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1914-1965</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Alvin Saunders</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jones, Adam Leroy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1934</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart>Kronenberger, Louis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1980</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Krutch, Joseph Wood</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1970</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Landis, James McCauley</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1964</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lerner, Max</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1992</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Livingston, Burton E. (Burton Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1948</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Locke, Alain</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1954</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>MacLeish, Archibald</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1982</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Malone, Dumas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1986</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mead, Margaret</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1978</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Miller, Perry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1905-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moe, Henry Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1975</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morley, Felix</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nason, John W</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Neilson, William Allan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1946</namePart>
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      <namePart>Nicholson, Marjorie Hope</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Niebuhr, Reinhold</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1971</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Overstreet, H. A. (Harry Allen)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1970</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Randall, John Herman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1980</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Redding, J. Saunders (Jay Saunders)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1988</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Riesman, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-2002</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robeson, Paul</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1898-1976</namePart>
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      <namePart>Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-2007</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sears, Paul B. (Paul Bigelow)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1990</namePart>
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      <namePart>Shapley, Harlow</namePart>
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      <namePart>Shimer, William A. (William Allison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Simkhovitch, Mary K. (Mary Kingsbury)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1951</namePart>
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      <namePart>Stauffer, Donald A. (Donald Alfred)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1952</namePart>
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      <namePart>Van Doren, Irita Taylor</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1966</namePart>
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      <namePart>Welles, Sumner</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1961</namePart>
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      <namePart>Whicher, George Frisbie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1954</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1940</namePart>
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    <topic>Periodicals</topic>
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    <topic>Periodicals</topic>
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    <topic>Periodicals</topic>
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