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Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, 1999 June 1.Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Steven Mandeville-Gamble.Finding aid is written in English.Guide to the Bernard Augustine De Voto Papers, 1885-1974Collection number: M0242Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CaliforniaContact InformationDepartment of Special CollectionsGreen LibraryStanford University LibrariesStanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.eduURL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/Special Collections staff1974 Feb.

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Descriptive SummaryBernard Augustine De Voto Papers, 1885-1974Special Collections M0242De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-19556 linear ft.Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.Administrative InformationAccess Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

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.

Provenance

Gift of Wallace Stegner, 1973.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Bernard Augustine De Voto Papers, M0242, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical Note

Bernard Augustine DeVoto, born in Ogden, Utah in 1897, received his early education in Utah and graduated from Harvard in 1920. He taught English and creative writing at Northwestern and Harvard Universities. DeVoto was a novelist, historian, critic, editor, and a vigorous exponent of government conservation of natural resources. He died in 1955.

Scope and Contents

Collection includes: 1)correspondence to and from Bernard DeVoto and to and from Avis DeVoto and other miscellaneous correspondents including Wallace Stegner and Carl Brandt, 2) financial papers such as cash account books, tax returns, receipts, 3) legal agreements, contracts and other documentations, 4) newsclippings, magazine articles and magazines, 5) photographs and 6) xeroxes of correspondence, newsclippings, magazine articles.

Container ListCORRESPONDENCE - OUTGOING (FROM DEVOTO) & INCOMING (TO DEVOTO):11Outgoing correspondence: 1919, 1922, 1935-1936, 37 1938, 1940, 1943-1945, 1947-1948, 1951-1953.12Outgoing correspondence - 1954-1955.INCOMING CORRESPONDENTS: 1) Associated American Artists Galleries, 2) Bantam Workshop, 3) Benjamin Franklin Magazine Awards, 4) Carl Brandt, 5) Collier's, 6) Ford Times, 7) Harcourt Brace & Co., 8) Houghton Mifflin Co., 9) House of Whittmore, 10) Internal Revenue Service - Treasury Dept., 11) The Lamp, 12) W. Colston Leigh, 13) Gordon Manning, 14) National Geographic Society, 15) New York Times, 16) Albert R. Perkins.13Incoming correspondence - 1938, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1950 - 1952.14Incoming correspondence - 1953.15Incoming correspondence- 1954.16Incoming correspondence - 1955.CORRESPONDENCE - MISCELLANEOUS:271937, 1940, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1952.281953.291954.2101955.2111956-1961.2121962, 1968, 1969.213197021419712151972-1973 & No date, 1974FINANCIAL PAPERS316Miscellaneous papers re: finances and taxes.317Cash account books: 1945-1948, 1950-1952.318Royalty Statements: 1943-1944, 1946-1948, 1951-1952:Little, Brown & Co.; Houghton Mifflin Co.; Harvard University Press.319Tax returns and related notes: 1932-1935, 1937-1938, 1940-1947, 1950-1952.320Legal documents:1. Decree of Divorce - Dec.28, 1885.Rhoda DeWolf vs. Edward S. De Wolf. DS.2. Agreement between DeVoto and MacMillan Co., April 5, 1935re: Chariot of Fire & The House of Sun-Goes-Down. 3. Agreement between DeVoto and Harcourt Brace & Co., Inc., Jan. 12, 1950.DS.4. Agreement by the Curtis Publishing Co. re: the book Shall We Let the Dam-Builders Ruin Our National Parks, May 31, 1950.5. Agreement between DeVoto and Houghton Mifflin Co. re: Lewis & Clark Journals, July 7, 1952.6. Will and testament - Avis M. DeVoto.7. Will and testament - Bernard DeVoto(two copies).8. Affidavit and claim for additional travel pay, June 14, 1918.9. Certificate appointing DeVoto to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant of Infrantry, Aug. 26, 1918.DS.10. Certificate of Baptism - Bernard DeVoto - March 7, 1940.DS.11. Certificate - Central Officers' Training School, Camp Lee, Virginia - Bernard DeVoto. DS.12. Certificate of Death - Bernard DeVoto - Jan. 16, 1956.13. Certificate of Marriage - Florian B. DeVoto & Rhoda D. DeWolf. Oct. 6, 1895.DS.321Photographs - see also 1/180/14 and 1/182/3322Miscellaneous: the items listed below are only those which are of special interest.1. “Bernard A. DeVoto - Recollection and Appreciation” by Darrell J. Greenwell.4pp.2. Review of The Crooked Mile in the New York Times Book Review, Oct. 5, 1924.Typescript.2pp. (two copies).3. “Donner Pass” by Bernard DeVoto.2pp.4. “Proposal for an Article on the White Mountain National Forest, in New Hampshire.”2pp. (two copies).5. Biographical information re: DeVoto by W.E.H. Higman.17pp.323Tape recordings (10)323aThe Syllabus - Northwestern University Yearbook.424Magazine clippings: clippings of articles by DeVoto.425Newsclippings426Newsclippings and magazine clippings re: The Year of Decision. 427Newsclippings re: “Mark Twain.”428Newsclippings - Chicago reviews mainly from Evanston News429Books & reports:1. Reports by Lawrence S. Kubie: a) A Doctorate in Psychotherapy..., b) The Fallacious Use of Quantitative Concepts in Dynamic Psychology, c) The Forgotten Man of Education, d) The Fundamental Nature of the Distinction Between Normality and Neurosis, e) The Half-Failure of the Full-Time System as an Instrument of Medical Education, f) The Repetitive Core of Neurosis, g) Social Forces and the Neurotic Process.2. Kubie, Lawrence S. Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process, The Noonday Press, 1958.3. School Yearbook: Souvenir Edition - Classicum, Ogden High School, 1914 -Ogden, Utah.430Magazines:1) Current Opinion Vol. LXXV, No. 4, Oct. 1923,2) Dialogue, reprint from Vol. VI, No. 3 & 4, Autumn and Winter, 1971,3) Harper's Magazine, reprint from Dec. 1949,4) Ford Times, Vol. 48, No. 5, May 1956(two copies),5) Ford Times, Vol. 48, No. 6, June 1956,6) The Griffin, Vol. 5, No. 2, Feb. 1956,(signed cover note from Arthur Schlesinger Jr.),7) Harper's Magazine, Vol. 209, No. 1241, Aug. 1954.431Magazines:1) Lincoln and Mercury Times Vol. 8, No. 2, March - April 1956,2) “The Louisiana Purchase” by DeVoto, reprint from Collier's Magazine, 3) Nature Magazine, Vol. 49, No.4, April 1956,4) New England Journeys, Number 2, Ford Times special edition, 1954.5) Nieman Reports, Vol. X, No. 1, Jan. 1956,6) The Progressive, Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan. 19567) New York Times Book Review, Feb. 10, 1974432Theme papers - typed: written by Sarah Boyden (Brown) for DeVoto's class - English D-6, some of the papers contain lengthy comments by DeVoto.XEROX COPIES533Correspondence: 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921534Correspondence: 1922, 1923, 1925 - 1929535Correspondence: 1930 - 1938536Correspondence: 1940 - 1945537Correspondence: 1946 - 1947 Jan.538Correspondence: Feb. 1947 - Mar. 1947539Correspondence: April 1947 - May 1947640Correspondence: June 1947 - Aug. 1947641Correspondence: Sept. 1947 - Nov. 1947642Correspondence: Dec. 1947 - Jan. 1948643Correspondence: Feb. 1948 - March 1948644Correspondence: April 1948 - May 1948745Correspondence: June 1948746Correspondence: July 1948 - Aug. 1948747Correspondence: Sept. 1948 - Oct. 1948748Correspondence: Nov. 1948 - Dec. 1948749Correspondence: Jan. 1949 - Mar. 1949750Correspondence: April 1949 - June 1949751Correspondence: July 1949 - Oct. 1949852Correspondence: Nov. 1949 - Jan. 1950853Correspondence: Feb. 1950 - April 1950854Correspondence: May 1950 - May 1951855Correspondence: Aug. 1951 - April 1953(no correspondence for June & July of 1951)856Correspondence: May 1953 - Dec. 1954857Correspondence: Jan. 1955 - Nov. 1955858Correspondence: 1956, 1961 - 1963, 1969 - 1970 & No Date959Correspondence: “A Closed Door: Letters from Bernard Augustine DeVoto to Katharine Becker - March 1919 - December 1920.”960Correspondence: between DeVoto & Nethercot & Stegner.961Correspondence: between Frost, Robert & DeVoto962Correspondence: between Higman, W.E. and Stegner, Wallace963Correspondence: between Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and DeVoto964Magazine articles: 1924 - 1928965Magazine articles: 1929 - 1933966Magazine articles: 1934 - 19371067Magazine articles: 1938 - 19401068Magazine articles: 1941 - 19431069Magazine articles: 1944 - 19461070Magazine articles: 1947 - 19491071Magazine articles: 1950 - 19521072Magazine articles: 1953 - 1954

May 1955 - DeVoto Near England

1073Magazine articles: 1955 - 1956, 1965

1955 Lewis & Clark expedition pamphlet by DeVoto

1174Reviews of DeVoto's books.1175The Crumb -- Breadloaf Writers' Conference, 1932 - 19361176The Crumb -- Breadloaf Writers' Conference, 1937 - 19391177The Crumb -- Breadloaf Writers' Conference, 1941, 1947 - [UNK]1178Middlebury College Bulletin re: Breadloaf Writers' Conference.1179“Bernard DeVoto and the Mormon Tradition” by Leland Fetzer.1180List of the Hiller Photograph Albums I, II, III, IV, & V of the Powell Survey.1181Bibliography index re: DeVoto1182Miscellaneous12correspondence re: DeVoto's medical history. Correspondence is mostly between DeVoto and Dr. I. Herbert Scheinberg re: DeVoto's Medical problems. This section also includes autopsy reports and news-clippings.

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