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1918-1955 (inclusive), 1944-1951 (bulk)
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Title: Bernard Augustine De Voto Papers,
Identifier/Call Number: M0001
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
63.0 Linear feet
Date: 1918-1955 (inclusive), 1944-1951 (bulk)
Abstract: Correspondence, typescripts and galley proofs of 19 major works, 166 articles, 25 short fiction and non-fiction papers, broadcasts,
speeches, lectures, and other papers. The correspondence (1948-55) with Harper's magazine relates to DeVoto's column The Easy
Chair, and includes letters from Harper's magazine to senders of letters of condolence, and letters concerning DeVoto. Includes
research material used in DeVoto's literary writings and in his work relating to politics, conservation and reclamation, free
speech, national parks, and Western Americana. Correspondents include many of the leading persons in contemporary literature,
politics, education, and the arts.
creator:
De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955
| 1897 | Born, January 11, Ogden, Utah. |
| 1902 | Began schooling at Sacred Heart Academy, Ogden. |
| 1910 | Entered Ogden High School. |
| 1914 | Graduated Ogden H.S.; entered University of Utah. |
| 1915 | Entered Harvard College as a sophomore. |
| 1917 | Enlisted U.S. Army, to 1919. |
| 1920 | Harvard graduation; return to Ogden. |
| 1922 | Appointed as Instructor, Northwestern University. |
| 1923 | Married Helen Avis MacVicar. |
| 1924 | The Crooked Mile. |
| 1925 | "Ogden: The Underwriting of Salvation." |
| 1926 | The Chariot of Fire. |
| 1927 | Writer's Handbook, A Manual of English Composition. |
| Moved to Lincoln, Mass. | |
| 1928 | The House of Sun-Goes-Down. |
| 1929 | Began part-time teaching at Harvard; instructor and tutor, 1929-1934; lecturer, 1934-36. |
| 1930 | Americana Deserta |
| Editor of Harvard Graduate's Magazine, 1930-32. | |
| Birth of a son, Gordon King. | |
| 1932 | Mark Twain's America. |
| 1934 | We Accept With Pleasure. |
| 1935 | Harper's Magazine. |
| 1936 | The Saturday Review of Literature; </emph>moved to New York City. <emph render="italic">Forays and Rebuttals. |
| 1937 | Awarded honorary Litt. D. by Middlebury College. |
| 1938 | The Saturday Review of Literature; |
| 1939 | Troubled Star. |
| 1940 | Birth of a son, Mark |
| Mark Twain in Eruption | |
| Minority Report. | |
| Rain Before Seven. | |
| 1942 | Year of Decision: 1846. |
| New England Quarterly | |
| Awarded honorary Litt. D. by Kenyon College. | |
| Advance Agent. | |
| Mark Twain at Work. | |
| 1944 | Strange Fruit |
| The Woman in the Picture. | |
| The Literary Fallacy. | |
| 1946 | Trip West in summer led to conservation work. |
| The Portable Mark Twain | |
| 1947 | Editor in chief of the History Book Club. |
| Mountain Time. | |
| Across the Wide Missouri. | |
| 1948 | Across the Wide Missouri. |
| 1950 | The World of Fiction. |
| 1951 | The Hour. |
| 1952 | Attacked by Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
| The Course of Empire. | |
| 1953 | Journals of Lewis and Clark |
| Won National Book Award for best non-fiction of 1952. | |
| 1955 | The Easy Chair. |
| 1956 | Women and Children First. |
For additional material see the following:
Material in Box labeled "Biographical", including various genealogies, journals, a play concerning his life from 1920 to 1922,
and the "Kent Potter" story.
Dissertation by Robert Edson Lee. (Includes a checklist of DeVoto's works).
Letters to DeVoto from Avis DeVoto and Marian M. Condliss.
Letters from DeVoto to Melville Smith, 1920-25;
Letters from DeVoto to Robert Forsythe, 1927;
Letters from DeVoto to Adrienne Burke, 3/27/44;
Letters from DeVoto to Natl. Inst. of Arts and Letters, 12/22/47;
Letters from DeVoto to Kate Sterne (safe) dated 10/6/27.
Pseudonyms: Cady Hewes; C.H.; John August; J.A.; Frank Gilbert; Richard Dye; Fairley Blake.
The DeVoto Papers contain Bernard DeVoto's correspondence date from 1918 until his death in November 1955. The bulk of the
correspondence was written between 1944 and 1951. The collection also includes manuscript, typescript and galley proof copies
of nineteen major works, 166 articles, 25 short fiction and non-fiction items, and about 44 broadcasts, speeches and lectures.
Of primary interest is DeVoto's research material used in his literary output and in his life-long work in many fields, including
politics, conservation and reclamation, free speech, the national park systems and Western Americana.
Correspondents include many of the leading figures in contemporary literature, politics, education and the arts. A partial
list of the correspondents is included in the Optional Section of this register.
Purchased from the estate of Bernard DeVoto, 1956; supplemented by gifts from various sources.
[Identification of item] Bernard Augustine De Voto Papers, M0001, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Collection is open for research with the exception of the boxes originally numbered 175,176, and 177, which are closed to
researchers. Please page materials at least 24 hours in advance of intended use.
The family notes located in 1/22/466 are not to be photocopied although they may be read.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
Alsop, Joseph, 1910-
Balch, E.
Barrett, Frank.
Beebe, Lucius.
Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977
Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 1897-
Brandt, Carl.
Briggs, L. B. R.
Brinton, Clarence Crane, 1898-1968.
Brooks, Paul, 1909-
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.
Bruner, Jerome Seymour.
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Buley, R.
Bundy, McGeorge.
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961.
Carhart, Arthur Hawthorne, 1892-
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Catton, Bruce, 1899-
Chamberlain, T. G.
Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.
Church, Frank
Collins, Carvel Emerson, 1912-
Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932
Davis, Elmer.
De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955
Dobie, J. Frank, (James Frank). 1888-1964.
Douglas, Paul Howard, 1892-
Edmonds, Walter Dumaux, 1903-
Edsall, John Tileston, 1902-
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Fischer, John, 1910 Apr. 27-
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
Hicks, Granville, 1901-
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Hillyer, Robert Silliman, 1895-
Holbrook, Stewart Hall, 1893-1964.
Hoover, J. Edgar, (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
Howard, Joseph Kinsey, 1906-1951.
Hurlbut, B.
Hutchinson, W.
Huxley, Aldous , 1894-1963
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold Le Clair), 1874-1952.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945.
King, G.
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-
Kubie, Lawrence Schlesinger, 1896-
Lark, C. T.
Lattimore, Owen, 1900-
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931.
Little, Brown and Company.
Lodge, Henry Cabbot, 1850-1924.
Mansfield, Mike, 1903-
Marx, Groucho, 1891-1977.
Mattingly, Garrett, 1900-1962.
McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-
Mein, F.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
Merk, Frederick, 1887-
Mirrielees, Edith R. (Edith Ronald), 1878-1962
Morgan, Dale Lowell, 1914-1971.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.
Morrison, Theodore, 1901-
Moss, Frank E., 1911-
Murdock, Kenneth Ballard, 1895-1975.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937.
Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947
Porter, C.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956.
Pulitzer, Joseph, 1847-1911.
Rhodes, Eugene Manlove, 1869-1934.
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, 1917-
Spillane, Mickey, 1918.
Stassen, Harold Edward, 1907-
Stearns, Harold T. (Harold Thornton), 1900-
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-1993
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965
Stout, Rex, 1886-1975
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972.
Wecter, Dixon, 1906-1950.
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.
Wylie, Philip, 1902-1971.
Articles.
Authors.
Conservation of natural resources.
Educators.
Galley proofs.
Historians.
Indians of North America.
Italy--Civilization--476-1268.
Lectures.
Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Liberty.
Manuscripts (literary)
Maps.
Mormons--Utah--History.
National parks and reserves--United States.
Natural resources.
North Africa.
Photoprints
Speeches.
United States--History--1849-1877.
United States--History--1865-1921.
United States--Politics and government--1929-1933.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
West (U.S.)--History.