Gertz, Elmer 1906-2000 creator mixed material monographic eng 168,725 484 4 1 193 Personal, family, and professional correspondence; memoranda, opinions, orders, briefs, writs, motions, petitions, exhibits, transcripts, and other legal papers; speeches, writings, and research material; and subject files, family papers, printed matter, and mss. collected by Gertz. The bulk of the collection (1926-1988) relates to Gertz's career as a lawyer in cases involving censorship, housing, libel, obscenity, capital punishment, copyright issues, and the death penalty and as the author of Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931), Odyssey of a Barbarian: the Biography of George Sylvester Viereck (1979), and other works. Represented in the papers are clients Nathan Freudenthal Leopold in his suit against Meyer Levin, Henry Miller, and Jack Ruby and the case Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. Also reflected is Gertz's involvement with the Illinois constitutional convention (1969-1970), Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Chicago Citizens Commission to Study the Disorders of Convention Week (1968 Democratic national convention), the Blind Service Association, Caxton Club, and Decalogue Society of Lawyers. Gertz's interest in such literary and historical figures as James Baldwin, Clarence Darrow, Frank Harris, John F. Kennedy, Henry Miller, Carl Sandburg, Bernard Shaw, and Harry S. Truman is also documented. Correspondents include Louis Adamic, George Anastaplo, Allen Crandall, Paul Crump, Richard J. Daley, Richard M. Daley, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, Paul Howard Douglas, Albert Einstein, Otto Eisenschiml, Eli E. Fink, Sigmund Freud, Theodore G. Gertz, Wayne B. Giampietro, Arthur J. Goldberg, Frank Harris, Margery A. Hechtman, Samuel G. Herman, John F. Kennedy, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Gene Lovitz, Carey McWilliams, Russ Meyer, Henry Miller, Hesketh Pearson, Muriel Peters, Peter Pollack, Leo Calvin Rosten, Jack Ruby, William F. Ryan, Carl Sandburg, Edward P. Schwartz, Upton Sinclair, Kate Stephens, A. I. Tobin, George Sylvester Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, and William W. Witherspoon. Open to research. Microfilm only of Sigmund Freud's letters to George Sylvester Viereck, no. 13,575. Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University. Location of original Freud-Viereck letters is unknown. Motion picture films and sound and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Some photographs and drawings transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Lawyer, author, and manuscript collector. Died 2000. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997015 Adamic, Louis 1899-1951 Correspondence Anastaplo, George 1925- Correspondence Baldwin, James 1924-1987 Crandall, Allen 1896-1973 Correspondence Crump, Paul Correspondence Daley, Richard J 1902-1976 Correspondence Daley, Richard M. (Richard Michael) 1942- Correspondence Darrow, Clarence 1857-1938 Lord Douglas, Alfred Bruce 1870-1945 Correspondence Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard) 1892-1976 Correspondence Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 Correspondence Eisenschiml, Otto 1880-1963 Correspondence Fink, Eli E 1907-1979 Correspondence Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 Correspondence Gertz, Theodore G Correspondence Giampietro, Wayne B. (Wayne Bruce) 1942- Correspondence Goldberg, Arthur J Correspondence Harris, Frank 1856-1931 Harris, Frank 1856-1931 Correspondence Hechtman, Margery A Correspondence Herman, Samuel G Correspondence Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Correspondence Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal 1904-1971 Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal 1904-1971 Correspondence Levin, Meyer 1905-1981 Lovitz, Gene Correspondence McWilliams, Carey 1905-1980 Correspondence Meyer, Russ 1922- Correspondence Miller, Henry 1891-1980 Correspondence Pearson, Hesketh 1887-1964 Correspondence Peters, Muriel Correspondence Pollack, Peter 1909-1978 Correspondence Rosten, Leo 1908-1997 Correspondence Ruby, Jack Ruby, Jack Correspondence Ryan, William F 1922-1972 Correspondence Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967 Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967 Correspondence Schwartz, Edward P Correspondence Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 Sinclair, Upton 1878-1968 Correspondence Stephens, Kate 1853-1938 Correspondence Tobin, A. I Correspondence Truman, Harry S 1884-1972 Viereck, George Sylvester 1884-1962 Correspondence Viereck, Peter 1916-2006 Correspondence Witherspoon, William W Correspondence Blind Service Association. Caxton Club. Chicago Bar Association. Chicago Citizens Commission to Study the Disorders of Convention Week. Decalogue Society of Lawyers. Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Illinois. Constitutional Convention (1969-1970) Robert Welch, Inc. Trials, litigation, etc Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.) American literature 20th century Capital punishment Censorship Copyright Housing Libel and slander Obscenity (Law) Practice of law Illinois Chicago Authors Lawyers Gertz, Elmer, 1906-2000 Gertz, Elmer, 1906-2000 mm 82022665 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms997015 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms997015.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997015 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997015.3 Open to research. DLC 821109 20260227111713.0 mm 82022665