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Descriptive Summary R. Buckminster Fuller papers ca. 1920-1983 M1090 Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 1200 linear ft. Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. The papers of this 20th century polymath contain his personal archive the Dymaxion Chronofile, manuscripts, drawings and audio-visual materials relating to his career as an architect, mathematician, inventor and social critic. Languages represented in the collection: English Access

Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use.

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Preferred Citation

R. Buckminster Fuller papers, M1090. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Acquisition Information

Purchased, 1999.

Processing Information

The bulk of the collection is currently processed. Currently series 1, 2, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 are fully processed and listed in detail.

Biography / Administrative History

Richard Buckminster Fuller was born July 12, 1895, in Milton, Mass. Fuller was descended from a long line of New England Nonconformists, the most famous being his great-aunt, the Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Fuller's father died when he was a child, and the young Bucky-as he was known throughout his life-grew up in genteel but straightened circumstances. Among his extended family, at Milton Academy, and then at Harvard University, he was a bright but marginal figure. He was suspended from Harvard after his freshman year, then expelled the next year; he never earned a degree. Instead, like his fellow New Englander Herman Melville, a yard-arm-or in Fuller's case, a rescue boat-would be his Harvard and Yale. During World War I, he received a commission in the U.S. Navy, and spent a year in officer candidate school at the Naval Academy. The blend of practical and theoretical knowledge he found at Annapolis, and an officer culture that valued technical skill and hard work, contrasted strongly with the Brahmin decadence he had encountered in Cambridge. Even decades later he still remarked on the difference.

In 1917 Fuller married Anne Hewlett, daughter of James Monroe Hewlett, a well-known architect and muralist. The marriage was one of the defining features of Fuller's life: Anne proved astonishingly flexible during Bucky's difficult years in the 1920s and 1930s, and was equally resourceful as a manager of his busy affairs after World War II. Too little attention has been given to Anne, or to her role in sustaining Fuller's professional life and work. Their marriage ended after sixty-six years, when they died just weeks short of Fuller's eighty-eighth birthday in July 1983.

After World War I Fuller and his father-in-law formed a construction company to build houses from a prefabricated fiber block invented by Hewlett. They were forced out of their company in 1927 after financial difficulties; this failure, and the death of his young daughter Alexandra, nearly pushed Fuller to suicide. Instead, he resolved to devote himself, essentially, to changing the world: to developing a "design science" that would allow mankind to use its resources more efficiently. The first product of this program was the Dymaxion House, a factory-produced, hexagonal house exploiting materials and manufacturing principles from the aircraft industry. He next designed the Dymaxion car, a streamlined, three-wheeled vehicle that looked more like a wingless DC-3 than any contemporary car; three prototypes were built, but investors deserted the project after an accident killed a test driver. While neither project was a commercial success, they brought Fuller to public attention, and established his reputation as an unconventional, stimulating thinker willing to challenge conventional professional standards and routines. He continued working on prefabricated housing and automobile designs in the 1940s: immediately before and after World War II, Fuller developed prototype houses to be manufactured from parts designed for grain silos (in the case of the Dymaxion Dwelling Unit) and aircraft materials (in the case of the Wichita House), and designed an automobile for industrialist Henry Kaiser.

In this same period, Fuller began researching trends in global industrialization and energy use. His first studies, conducted for Fortune magazine, were published in 1938; they also contributed to his invention of the Dymaxion World Map, for which he received a patent in 1942. This work later became the foundation for the World Game, which Fuller developed in the 1960s. During World War II, Fuller served in the Bureau of Economic Warfare, an agency devoted to industrial espionage and acquisition of critical industrial and military resources (both for Allied use, and to keep them from falling into Axis hands). Exactly what Fuller did for the Bureau is a bit of a mystery: biographers describe him as having been head of the mechanical engineering division, but no such group appears on the BEW's organization chart.

Fuller turned fifty a few weeks before V-J Day. However, his career would not wind down after the war: the level of his activity would increase exponentially in the early years of the Cold War, and until his death Fuller would spend several months per year on the road, as a visiting professor, keynote speaker, and participant in international conferences. The main reason for his fame after World War II was his invention of the geodesic dome. Geodesic domes are constructed by assembling struts of various mathematically-defined lengths into triangles; the resulting structures are exceptionally lightweight, strong, and requires no interior supports. Fuller began experimenting with spherical structures in the late 1940s. The geodesic dome first came to prominence in the early 1950s, when they were used as radar shelters in the Distant Early Warning line, and were the subject of experiments by the Marine Corps. From 1956, domes were also used as exhibit pavilions in international trade fairs: in this competitive environment, brightly-lit domes filled with consumer goods became a symbol of American ingenuity and the strength of Cold War capitalism from Kabul (in 1956) to behind the Berlin Wall (Poznan 1957, Moscow 1959) to Montreal in 1967.

The geodesic dome solidified Fuller's reputation as a visionary yet practical thinker, and provided the focus for his intellectual and entrepreneurial activities. It gained Fuller invitations to leading architecture schools, and through much of the 1950s he traveled a circuit between MIT, Yale, Cornell, Princeton, North Carolina State, and other schools. Much of his research and development work was conducted during these appointments, as they provided him with resources-skilled and enthusiastic students, building materials, connections with the profession and industry-otherwise unavailable to independent inventors. Fuller also founded two companies, Synergetics and Geodesics, to develop domes for government and commercial use in the mid-1950s; a few years later, he formed an architecture partnership with Shoji Sadao (they designed the 1967 Montreal Expo dome). He also began a long collaboration with patent attorney Donald Robertson, who provided Fuller's enterprises with much-needed legal and financial advising.

In the 1960s, domes were embraced by the counterculture, and thousand were built, especially in rural communes. For these dome-builders, domes were symbols of an ecologically friendly, pacifist, and anti-corporate lifestyle (that is, the rejection of precisely those values the dome embodied in the 1950s). Fuller likewise became an idol of the counterculture: the Whole Earth Catalog, its editors declared, was inspired by him. While he continued to work on a few mammoth projects-a proposal to construct a giant dome in East Saint Louis, a design for giant floating tetrahedron cities-Fuller's principal activities after 1967 shifted away from invention and development. (But not entirely: his last two patents were for a novel suspended bookcase design, and a new form of rowing scull.) Instead, he devoted increasing amounts of time to the World Game, a simulation demonstrating how the world's resources could be distributed to create global plenty, and to the exposition of his philosophical and mathematical ideas. This latter project yielded two major books, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), and Critical Path (1981).

Fuller's life spans a remarkable range of inventive activities: he was, at different times, an inventor, engineer, author, teacher, mathematician, futurist, speaker, and cartographer. Probably no other 20th-century figure was Charles Eliot Professor of Poetry at Harvard University (1962), recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize (1970). By any standard his was a remarkable life; and it was documented to a remarkable standard. Fuller began collecting his personal papers, and newspaper and magazine clippings about his work, in the 1920s; his "Chronofile," as he called it, grew to include material about his inventive activities, the business and legal structures that supported his work, correspondence with countless admirers, and family letters. (Letters from Anne were carefully re-filed in their original envelopes.) His archive expanded after World War II to include drawings, blueprints, photographs, slides, models, and eventually audio and video recordings of his talks. With 1,300 linear feet of paper, 2,000 hours of audio and video (imagine yourself recorded at work, 40 hours a week, for a full year; that's 2,000 hours), and thousands of other physical and visual artifacts, Fuller's life is perhaps the most thoroughly documented of any private citizen. Tying all these pieces together are two other sets of material: the Chronofile Index, which represents Fuller's organization of the collection; and his agenda, which details his travels, professional activities, speaking engagements, meetings-even his dinner guests and names of his hosts while traveling-from the 1930s to his death.

Together, these sources make it possible to reconstruct Fuller's activities, communication, and interests on a day-by-day basis, and to uncover the interconnections between Fuller's public, private and professional lives and the evolution of his thought. This variety of this collection is not to be measured simply in terms of its material diversity: different portions of it cover different parts of his life and work. The Chronofile is mainly a record of Fuller's public and entrepreneurial life; the audio tapes record Fuller's teaching, early drafts of manuscripts, and relationship with his public; the film collection includes raw footage of military tests of the geodesic dome; the blueprints and drawings cover Fuller's architectural and cartographic activities. Further, Fuller's circle of friends and acquaintances was remarkably rich: he drew from Greenwich Village bohemians in the 1920s, Black Mountain College colleagues in the late 1940s, Cold Warriors in the 1950s, countercultural thinkers in the 1960s and 1970s. His correspondents included Albert Einstein, Romany Marie, Isamu Noguchi, Martha Graham, Clare Booth Luce, Thornton Wilder, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, the Black Mountain poets and artists, and countless others from all walks of life. The value of the Papers thus extends well beyond the already considerable importance of revealing the context and content of Fuller's own achievements; beyond that, it is a repository of information about the cultural, intellectual, environmental, and material history of the United States throughout nearly the whole of the 20th century. Finally, it is worth nothing that this collection was intended by Fuller to be used as a research tool: he saw his life as a grand experiment, the results of which had to be recorded. Fuller meant for the Chronofile to be used to understand his life and age.

Scope and Content of Collection

The entire collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, blueprints, photographs, videotapes, etc.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in 25 series:

1: Family History

2: Dymaxion Chronofile

3: Clippings

4: Dymaxion Index

5: Patents

6: Awards and Honors

7: Biographical

8: Manuscripts

9: Reprints of Writings by Fuller

10: Reprints

11: Office Files

12: R. Buckminster Fuller Photographic Exhibit

13: Photographs (LECO Index)

14: Non-LECO Photographs

15: Slides

16: Blueprints and Drawings

17: Audio Visual

18: Project Files

19: Artifacts

20: Business Files

21: Shoji Sadao Geodesics Files

22: Legal Files

23: Materials Removed for Use in the film

24: Negatives

25: Materials Removed for Use in the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst's exhibit "Your Private Sky" 2002

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Cunningham, Merce. Everson, William, 1912- Noguchi, Isamu, 1904- Sadao, Shoji. Architecture, Modern--20th century--United States Series DescriptionSeries 1. Family History3.5 linear ft.

R. Buckminster Fuller was transfixed by timelines, both historical and personal. He traced his personal epiphany -after which he dedicated his life to the betterment of humankind- to the depression that followed the death of his first born daughter Alexandra in 1927. Upon the birth of his second daughter Allegra in 1939, Fuller compiled and privately published Record of the Direct Parentage of Allegra Fuller.

Interestingly, although Fuller maintained that he was an everyman -Guinea Pig "B"- he was also deeply fascinated his prominent ancestors, particularly the transcendentalist philosopher Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). At the time of his death, Fuller had hired Debrett Ancestry Research to research the life of Lieutenant Thomas Fuller, who emigrated to the United States from England in 1638.

Series 1. Family History consists of three subseries: Subseries 1. Fuller Geneaology, Subseries 2. Allegra Sndyer and Jaime Snyder Drawings, Subseries 3. Margaret Fuller Files. Subseries 1. consists mostly of files on the Davenport, Reeves, Winslow, Larned, Tyng, Stevens and Hewlett families and includes Direct Parentage of Allegra Fuller(1939). Subseries 2. consists of 5 file folders of drawings and copies of drawings by Fuller's daughter Allegra and grandson Jaime. Subseries 3. includes clippings and correspondence with Margaret Fuller scholars, like Perry Miller, Sayre Sheldon and Marie Urbanski. Topics include Miller's controversial speculation that Margaret Fuller may have committed suicide as well as her correspondence with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle.

Subseries 1. Fuller Geneaology

Fuller collected materials relating to his family's history in a separate file box. The Dymaxion Index refers to this subseries as "Filebox of Fuller Geneaology."

11Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Winslow/Larned, Tyng, Stevens, etc.

Contains information on Winslow, Larned, Tyng, and Stevens families. Contains family tree "The Stevens, Stephensons, Stevensons, Brunels, Roeblings, and Hewitts."

12Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Generation of High-backed Chair: Fuller

Contains Fuller sketch "Six Slat, Ladder-back Chair of Abraham Williams." Contains chart of Buckminster, Williams, and Fuller families and Fuller explanatory notes.

13Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Brucia Crane

Contains information on family of Brucia Crane, descendant of Captain Matthew Fuller -- not directly related to Buckminster Fuller and family.

14Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Hewlett - Overall

Contains copies of genealogy chart "Descendents of James Augustus Hewlett and Mary Sanderson Hewlett." Contains pamphlet "Rock Hall, Lawrence, Long Island, Town of Hempstead Museum." Contains old map of southern Hempstead with Hewlett residences marked.

15Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Davenport/Reeves

Contains descendants chart for John Reeves. Contains rough family tree for John Davenport.

16Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Debrett Fuller Ancestry Research [1 of 3]

Contains "The English Originis of Thomas Fuller of Woburn, Massachusetts." Contains map of parishes on Isle of Wight with records for Fullers by parish. Contains binder from Debrett Ancestry Research, "The Fuller Family of Sussex, England" (1982 June).

Fuller, Thomas Kuromiya, Kiyoshi Peskett, Hugh Debrett Ancestry Research, Ltd 17Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Debrett Fuller Ancestry Research [2 of 3]

Contains "Pedigree of the family of Fuller of Newport in the Isle of Wight and County of Southampton." Contains "Pedigree of Fuller of Heathfield co. Sussex," summary to show male line descents only. Contains map of parishes on Isle of Wight with records for Fullers by parish. Contains binder from Debrett Ancestry Research, "The Ancestry of Thomas Fuller" (1983 May).

Peskett, Hugh Fuller, Thomas Debrett Ancestry Research, Ltd 18Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Debrett Fuller Ancestry Research [3 of 3]

Contains binder from Debrett Ancestry Research, "The Fuller Family of England" (1981 May).

Fuller, Thomas Debrett Ancestry Research, Ltd 19Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Wolcott/Andrews [1 of 4]

Contains handwritten family tree of Marjorie King Ross and Dan Ross. Contains family tree of Martin Andrews and Caroline Matilda Wolcott. Contains family tree of Lucy Wolcott and Rockwell King. Contains materials from Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott.

Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott 110Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Wolcott/Andrews [2 of 4]

Contains Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott Report of Seventy-Fifth Annual Reunion (1979 Aug. 3 - 1979 Aug. 5). Contains copies of handwritten letters from 19th century.

Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott 111Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Wolcott/Andrews [3 of 4]

Contains copies of handwritten letters (1874 Oct. 15 - 1881 Dec. 12).

21Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Wolcott/Andrews [4 of 4]

Contains copies of handwritten letters (1865 June 8 - 1875 Mar. 12). Contains Genealogy of Wolcott and Andrews Families. Contains family tree of Lucy Andrews and Rockwell King.

22Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Desc. of Timothy Fuller/Fuller overall [1 of 5]

Contains sheet "Earliest Colonization in New England, America." Contains clippings on Buckminster Fuller. Contains "What It Was Like To Grow Up in the Boston Area," by Fuller (1979 May 1). Contains map of Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. Contains information on cemetery lots of Richard F. Fuller, Margaret Fuller, and Arthur B. Fuller. Contains genealogical information on Generations 3-18, with numbering following that of "The Direct Parentage of Allegra Fuller." Contains sheet "The Margare Fuller Portrait," with rough family tree connecting Margaret Fuller and Buckminster Fuller.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 23Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Desc. of Timothy Fuller/Fuller overall [2 of 5]

Contains genealogical chart of Fuller, Borland, and Larned families. Contains descendants charts of Christopher and Joan Buckminster, Godfrey and Joan Buckminster, and Rev. Timothy and Sarah Fuller. Contains genealogical chart of Joseph Buckminster and Martha Sharp. Contains family tree of Rev. Abraham Williams. Contains "Genealogy of Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli." Contains family trees for Rev. Timothy Fuller. Contains "Memorial to Richard Eugene Fuller, 1897-1976" by Julian D. Barksdale. Contains genealogical information by generation of Buckminster, Fuller, and Williams families, on posterboard.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Appel, Richard Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, Inc. Mt. Auburn Cemetery 24Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Desc. of Timothy Fuller/Fuller overall [3 of 5]

Contains letter of transmittance from Naomi Wallace for "material collected by Richard Apple [sic] on Fuller family" (1969 Apr. 22). Contains clippings on Margaret Fuller and Arthur Buckminster Fuller. Contains genealogical chart of Fuller, Borland, and Larned families. Contains Fuller description of family Bible (1975 Nov. 14). Contains copies of family Bible pages with genealogical information. Contains folder "Genealogy of Fuller Family: 02.01.01." Contains Fuller coat of arms.

Sadao, Shoji Appel, Richard Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Fuller, Arthur B. 25Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Desc. of Timothy Fuller/Fuller overall [4 of 5]

Contains copies of photos of Margaret Fuller seminary and family home. Contains Map of Old Cambridge in the vicinity of Harvard University. Contains information on descendants of Arthur Ossoli Fuller. Contains "News About the Ossoli Family," collected by L.A. Calabrini (1960 Spring). Contains notes titled "BF Relates Genealogy" (1974 Aug. 8). Contains booklist titled "Fuller Family," including historical books about Fuller family as well as contemporary material by members of the family.

Fuller, Arthur Ossoli Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 26Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Desc. of Timothy Fuller/Fuller overall [5 of 5]

Contains large-size family tree of William Henry Fuller and Frances Elizabeth Hastings. Contains family traces of Adeline Reeves and Richard Frederick Fuller. Contains traces of Arthur Buckminster and Emma Lucilla Reeves children. Contains family traces of Ellen Fuller (Channing). Contains correspondence with Eugenia Fuller Atwood. Contains family tree of Martin Andrews and Caroline Matilda Wolcott.

Atwood, Eugenia Fuller 27Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Anecdotes/Info [1 of 2]

Contains clippings on Margaret Fuller. Contains information labelled "Fuller Family History." Contains article "Eugene Fuller, M.D. (1858-1930)," by Eugenia Fuller Atwood, from Urology (1973 Sept.). Contains copies of family bible pages and Fuller essay "Family Bible" (1975 Nov. 14). Contains "Princeton and the Elizabeth Fuller Diary," by Marion Fisher Murphy.

Atwood, Eugenia Fuller Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 28Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Anecdotes/Info [2 of 2]

Contains Historical Notices of Thomas Fuller and His Descendants with a Genealogy of the Fuller Family, by Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1902). Contains clippings on Margaret Fuller.

Fuller, Arthur Buckminster, 1822-1862 Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 29Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, RBF - Immediate Family [1 of 2]

Contains Chronological Index of Published References to Dymaxion, Buckminster Fuller, and Nine Chains to the Moon (1928 May 28 - 1942 Nov.). Contains biographical brochure on Fuller including awards patents, and correspondence and clippings information (1975 Jan.). Contains autobiographical essay "Bucky," with timeline (1895 - 1966).

210Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, RBF - Immediate Family [2 of 2]

Contains curriculum vitae for Allegra Fuller Snyder (1969 May). Contains "Dymaxion House: Buckminster Fuller, Architect" from Shelter (1932 May). Contains Fuller poster "Grand Strategy of World Problem Solving: Demonstrated Technical and Economic Efficacy of Individual Initiative in the Twentieth Century." Contains Fuller Memoranda of Activities (1943 June). Contains map of Bear Island and Maine coast. Contains clippings on Wolcott Fuller.

Snyder, Allegra Fuller Fuller, Wolcott 31Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Family Bible

Contains information on family Bible. Contains typed and handwritten genealogy information.

32Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Buckminster

Contains list of rectors and vicars of Buckminster. Contains notecards depicting St. John the Baptist's Church, Buckminster. Contains ground plan of Buckminster Church. Contains genealogical information on Buckminster family. Contains genealogical chart of Buckminster, Fuller, Borland, and Larned families.

33Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Eugenia Fuller Atwood manuscript

Contains manuscript "Bits and Pieces about Me and Mine," by Eugenia Fuller Atwood (1980 Summer).

Applewhite, E. J. Atwood, Eugenia Fuller 34Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Direct Parentage of Allegra Fuller [1 of 2]

Contains Fuller genealogical charts, Generation 3 to Generation 18. Contains "Record of Direct Parentage of Allegra Fuller" compiled by RBF, special copy with addition (1943 Aug. 28).

35Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Direct Parentage of Allegra Fuller [2 of 2]

Contains master copy of "Record of Direct Parentage of Allegra Fuller" compiled by RBF (1943 Aug. 28).

35Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Judges Picture Notes

Contains notecards depicting St. John the Baptist's Church, Buckminster.

36Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Miscellaneous Materials

Contains Life article "Our New and Vaster Frontier" mentioning Margaret Fuller (1957 Dec. 23). Contains "The Kings and Queens of Great Britain: A genealogical chart showing their descent and relationships."

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 37Family History, File Box of Fuller Genealogy Research, Arthur Buckminster Fuller's Sketchbook1858

Contains clothbound sketch and account book of Arthur Buckminster Fuller, 1858-1860.

Subseries 2. Jaime Snyder and Allegra Fuller Snyder Drawings41Family History, Allegra and Jaime Drawings, [1 of 5]Snyder, Allegra Fuller Snyder, Jaime 42Family History, Allegra and Jaime Drawings, [2 of 5]Snyder, Allegra Fuller Snyder, Jaime 43Family History, Allegra and Jaime Drawings, [3 of 5]Snyder, Allegra Fuller Snyder, Jaime 44Family History, Allegra and Jaime Drawings, [4 of 5]Snyder, Allegra Fuller Snyder, Jaime 45Family History, Allegra and Jaime Drawings, [5 of 5]

Contains Allegra's Drawings (1937 Sept.).

Snyder, Allegra Fuller Subseries 3. Margaret Fuller Files51Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Portraits

Contains copies of Margaret Fuller portraits. Contains release agreement for reproduction of portrait from Bettmann Archive, Inc. Contains Margaret Fuller family photos. Contains RBF letter on family photos (1976 May 10). Contains "threadgraphic" portrait of Margaret Fuller.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 The Bettmann Archive, Inc. 52Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Annotated Bibliography

Contains material from Margaret Fuller, An Annotated Secondary Bibliography, by Joel Myerson (1977). Contains information on references to Margaret Fuller in letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Contains catalog "Margaret Fuller: An Exhibition from the Collection of Joel Myerson" (1973).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Myerson, Joel Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 53Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Margaret Fuller Miscellany

Contains information on "The Peabody Sisters of Salem," by Louise Hale Tharp, with references to Margaret Fuller. Contains Women's Political Caucus stamps depicting Margaret Fuller. Contains selection from Century of Struggle, by Eleanor Flexnor, with references to Margaret Fuller. Contains clippings on Margaret Fuller.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Flexnor, Eleanor, 1908- 54Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Ellen Burstyn

Contains correspondence on Margaret Fuller film spearheaded by Ellen Burstyn (1976 Sept. 3 - 1976 Dec. 10).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Gabel, Medard Burstyn, Ellen, 1932- 55Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Margaret Fuller Papers

Contains manuscript "Margaret Fuller and the Roman Revolution 1848-49)," by Lloyd Dodd. Contains Thoreau Journal Quarterly with article ""The Ambivalence of Ralph Waldo Emerson Towards Margaret Fuller," by Marie Urbanski (1978 July). Contains "Margaret Fuller and the Disavowal of Fiction" from The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Olesen 56Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Margaret Fuller Foundation

Contains fyi, journal of Harvard Graduate School of Education, with article on Margaret Fuller. Contains lists of purposes, officers, offices, and charter members of the Margaret Fuller Foundation. Contains materials on one-woman play about Margaret Fuller, titled "Still Beat Noble Hearts" and starring Laurie James, performed on Margaret Fuller Day at Harvard University (19 July 1979). Contains materials on Margaret Fuller Day.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Margaret Fuller Foundation 57Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Margaret Fuller House

Contains photograph of Margaret Fuller House.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House 58Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Misc. Articles -- Newspaper & Magazine [1 of 3]

Contains copies of review of The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller by Joseph Jay Deiss. Contains "Margaret Fuller and The Dial," by Madeleine B. Stern (1941 Jan.). Contains "Documents: Margaret Fuller's Roman Diary," by Leona Rostenberg (1940 June). Contains "Margaret Fuller's Stay in Providence, 1837-1838," by Madeleine B. Stern (1940 July). Contains "A Life of Angels. Margaret Fuller's World," by Lynn Flood, from The Ladder (1972 June - 1972 July). Contains review of Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to Revolution from The American Historical Review (1979 June).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Deiss, Joseph Jay 59Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Misc. Articles -- Newspaper & Magazine [2 of 3]

Contains American Heritage article "I find no intellect comparable to my own," by Perry Miller (1957 Feb.). Contains American Heritage article "Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller," by Joseph Jay Deiss (1972 Aug.). Contains Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society with article "The Long Arm of Censorship: Mythmaking in Margaret Fuller's Time and Our Own" by Bell Gale Chevigny (1976 Winter). Contains review of Margaret Fuller: Whetstone of Genius from New York Herald Tribune (1940 Apr. 7).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Deiss, Joseph Jay Chevigny, Bell Gale 510Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Misc. Articles -- Newspaper & Magazine [3 of 3]

Contains manuscript "Margaret Fuller: Her Frustrations and Fulfillment," by Anzie Andrews. Contains The Blue Flower, a one-woman play on Margaret Fuller by Mark Finley. Contains "Three May-Day Sonnets to Margaret Fuller: Unpublished Tributes by James Freeman Clarke," by J. Wesley Thomas (1948 Mar. 13). Contains poem "Margaret's Choice," by John Holmes.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Holmes, John, 1904- 511Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Ideas & Integrities

Contains chapter "Margaret Fuller's Prophecy," from longer work.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 512Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Margaret Fuller -- An American Romantic -- Perry Miller (excerpt)

Contains excerpt from Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic by Perry Miller.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 61Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Sayre Sheldon Play [1 of 4]

Contains manuscript Zenobia: A Life of Margaret Fuller, play by Agnes Butcher and Sayre Sheldon (1981 Sept.). Contains correspondence regarding manuscript.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Butcher, Agnes, 1914- Sheldon, Sayre P., 1926- 62Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Sayre Sheldon Play [2 of 4]

Contains manuscript Zenobia: A Life of Margaret Fuller, play by Agnes Butcher and Sayre Sheldon (1981 Sept.).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Butcher, Agnes, 1914- Sheldon, Sayre P., 1926- 63Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Sayre Sheldon Play [3 of 4]

Contains manuscript Zenobia: A Life of Margaret Fuller, play by Agnes Butcher and Sayre Sheldon (1981 Sept.).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Butcher, Agnes, 1914- Sheldon, Sayre P., 1926- 64Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Sayre Sheldon Play [4 of 4]

Contains manuscript Zenobia: A Life of Margaret Fuller, play by Agnes Butcher and Sayre Sheldon (1981 Sept.).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Butcher, Agnes, 1914- Sheldon, Sayre P., 1926- 65Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, The Fuller Mind & the Cosmic Vision -- Kathleen Guerin

Contains copies of "The Fuller Mind and the Cosmic Vision, An Interdisciplinary Non-fiction Article in the FIeld of American Studies," by Kathleen Guerin.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 66Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Urbanski [1 of 2]

Contains copies of "The Ambivalence of Ralph Waldo Emerson Towards Margaret Fuller," by Marie Urbanski. Contains Fuller letter to Marie Urbanski (1980 Oct. 9). Contains Harvard Magazine with article "Vita: Margaret Fuller," by Marie Urbanski (1979 May - 1979 June).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Olesen 67Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Urbanski [2 of 2]

Contains copies of "The Ambivalence of Ralph Waldo Emerson Towards Margaret Fuller," by Marie Urbanski.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Olesen 68Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Eleanor Coleman

Contains script and other materials for play Margaret Fuller -- From Reporter to Revolutionary, by Eleanor Coleman (1981 July 2). Contains Harvard Magazine article "Vita: Margaret Fuller," by Marie Urbanski (1979 May - 1979 June).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Olesen Burstyn, Ellen, 1932- 69Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Emerson/Carlyle Letters [1 of 4]

Contains excerpts from The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, edited by Joseph Slater (1964). Contains "The Ambivalence of Ralph Waldo Emerson Towards Margaret Fuller," by Marie Urbanski.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Olesen Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 71Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Emerson/Carlyle Letters [2 of 4]

Contains excerpts from The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, edited by Joseph Slater (1964).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 72Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Emerson/Carlyle Letters [3 of 4]

Contains excerpts from The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, edited by Joseph Slater (1964).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Olesen 73Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Emerson/Carlyle Letters [4 of 4]

Contains excerpts from The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, edited by Joseph Slater (1964). Contains American Heritage article "Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller," by Joseph Jay Deiss (1972 Aug.). Contains review of The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller from Saturday Review (1969 Dec. 20).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 Deiss, Joseph Jay Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Olesen 74Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Margaret Fuller by Agnes Butcher and Sayre Sheldon

Contains manuscript of play Zenobia: A Life of Margaret Fuller, by Agnes Butcher and Sayre Sheldon (1981).

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Butcher, Agnes, 1914- Sheldon, Sayre P., 1926- 75Family History, Margaret Fuller Files, Coleman Manuscript [1 of 1]

Contains typed manuscript of play In Search of Margaret Eleanor Audrey Coleman (1982) (121 pps.)

Series 2. Dymaxion Chronofile ca. 270 linear ft.

Letters played an instrumental role in the development and documentation of Fuller's thinking. His first book, 4D Timelock, which contains the seeds of a great deal of his later work and was written, illustrated, typed, and published by Fuller in 1927, was originally organized as a series of letters to friends.

Fuller first sorted his thoughts into different manila envelopes with the name of the friend whom he thought would be interested in that particular nuance of his thinking. After all the thoughts had been sorted according to which friend he wished to tell the particular thought to, Fuller proceeded to write the letter. These letters, with the "Dear Joe"'s and "Affectionately Yours" removed, became the chapters of 4D Timelock.

The Chronofile is the nucleus of the Fuller Papers. Primarily a collection of letters (incoming and outgoing correspondence is retained), it is the oldest and most complete section within the papers. Whereas some other sections of the papers detail rather specialized concerns of Fuller's career, the Chronofile is comprehensive and touches upon nearly every interest and initiative of Buckminster Fuller. Within it can be found the raw history which will clarify, and in some cases certify, various details of Fuller's projects, thinking, personal association, and other matters.

The Chronofile is arranged essentially in a chronological order. Fuller filed correspondence by the date that a response was received from a correspondent, rather than necessarily when he initiated a dialogue. As a result, in some instances, the chronological order can at times be inconsistent, so the researcher is advised to pay attention to any additional detail given as to the date range of the specific bound volume or folder from the Chronofile. On occasion, the date range of the Dymaxion Chronofile volume may be inconsistent with the content. Similarly, doodles, sketches, drawings, and undated materials were left in the Chronofile volumes where Fuller had placed them, regardless of the date that might appear on the document itself.

Subseries 1. Volumes 11Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. I, 1895 - 19151 v. : bound 12Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. II, 1915 - 19161 v. : bound 23Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. III, 19161 v. : bound 24Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. IV, 19161 v. : bound 35Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. V, 19171 v. : bound 36Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. VI, 19171 v. : bound 47Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. VII, 19171 v. : bound 48Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. VIII, 19171 v. : bound 59Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. IX, 19171 v. : bound 510Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. X, 19171 v. : bound 611Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XI, 19171 v. : bound 612Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XII, 19171 v. : bound 713Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XIII, 19181 v. : bound Note: mold damaged 714Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XIV, 19181 v. : bound 815Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XV, 19191 v. : bound 816Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XVI, 19191 v. : bound 917Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XVII, 19201 v. : bound 918Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XVIII, 19211 v. : bound 1019Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XIX, 19211 v. : bound 1020Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XX, 19211 v. : bound 1121Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXI, 19221 v. : bound 1122Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXII, 19221 v. : bound 1223Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXIII, 19221 v. : bound 1324Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXIV, 1923 - 19241 v. : bound Note: boards separating, end cap loose, significant decay of paper 1425Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXV, 1925 - 19261 v. : bound 1426Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXVI, 19261 v. : bound 1527Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXVII, 19261 v. : bound 1528Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXVIII, 1926 - 19271 v. : bound 1629Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXIX, 19271 v. : bound 1630Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXX, 19271 v. : bound 1731Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXI, 19271 v. : bound 1732Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXII, 19271 v. : bound 1833Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXIII, 19281 v. : bound 1934Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXIV, 19281 v. : bound Note: boards loose, end cap loose, significant decay of binding 2035Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXV, 19281 v. : bound 2136Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXVI, 19291 v. : bound 2237Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXVII, 19301 v. : bound 2338Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXVIII, 19311 v. : bound 2439Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XXXIX, 19311 v. : bound 2440Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XL, 19311 v. : bound 2541Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLI, 19321 v. : bound 2642Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLII, 19321 v. : bound 2644Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLIV, 19331 v. : bound 2743Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLIII, 19321 v. : bound 2845Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLV, 19331 v. : bound 291Xeroxes of material from Vol. 7219391 packet, copied by William Marlin on 2/4/1984 2946Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLVI, 19391 v. : bound 3047Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLVII, 19331 v. : bound 3048Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLVIII, 19331 v. : bound 3149Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. XLIX, 19341 v. : bound 3150Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. L, 19341 v. : bound 3251Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LI, 19341 v. : bound 33C3Cost of Dymaxion1933 33C5Cost of Dymaxion1934 3352Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LII, 19341 v. : bound 3453Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LIII, 19341 v. : bound 3554Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LIV, 19371 v. : bound 3655Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LV, 19351 v. : bound 3756Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LVI, 19361 v. : bound 3757Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LVII, 1936 - 19371 v. : bound 3858Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LVIII, 1 v. Note: missing 3859Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LIX, 19381 v. : bound 3860Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LX, 19381 v. Note : missing 3861Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LXI, 19381 v. : bound 3962Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LXII, 19381 v. : bound. Note: end cap loose 3963Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LXIII, 19391 v. : bound 4064Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LXIV, 19391 v. : bound 4165Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LXV : Publications, 1913 - 19321 v. : bound

Milton Academy Orange & Blue, 1913 -- Harvard Lampoon, 1915 -- Anchor Watch U.S. Naval Academy, 1918 -- The Convoy, 1919 (RBF, editor) -- Shelter, Vol. 2, no. 1-5 (1932) (RBF, editor)

4266Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. LXVI, 1938 - 19391 v. : bound

shirtboard clippings all. 9 chains to the Moon reviews and typed synopsis of all

431Dymaxion Chronofile, Vol. 67 [1 of 11],1902 Mar. 12 - 1916