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Louis Kronenberger Papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
C1406
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
  • 6 boxes
  • 2.4 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Louis Kronenberger Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1939-1980 (inclusive) and 2011 June 17
Creator:
Kronenberger, Louis, 1904-1980
Form:
Personal papers -- 20th century.
Abstract:
Louis Kronenberger was an American literary critic, novelist, and biographer. Contains correspondence with notable literary figures as well as editorial requests and drafts of Kronenberger's writings.

Kronenberger, Louis

Louis Kronenberger was an American critic, novelist, and biographer. Born in 1909, he attended the University of Cincinnati, and subsequently went on to work for the New York Times in 1924, Boni and Liveright in 1926, and Alfred Knopf from 1933-1938. Following his position at Knopf, he served as the drama critic for Time magazine from 1938-1961 and then for PM from 1940–48. Kronenberger was published widely in the fields of literary and historical criticism, as well as the author of several works of fiction and creative writing including The Cutting Edge: A Collection of Witty Insults and Wicked Retorts, of Polished Snubs and Homicidal Repartee (1970). He married Emily L. Plaut in 1940, with whom which he had two chilren, and he died on April 30, 1980.

This collection contains personal correspondence with literary figures as well as editorial correspondence and drafts of Kronenberger's writings. The collection is especially notable for Kronenberger's extensive correspondence with important literary figures, including, among others, W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Bernard Malamud, Marianne Moore, V. S. Pritchett, Stephen Spender, Eudora Welty, and Edmund Wilson. Also included are business letters and editorial correspondence sent to Kronenberger from 1954 to 1977. In addition, the collection contains drafts of Kronenberger's own writings from 1958 to 1974, including Company Manners, Animal, Vegetable Mineral, Oscar Wilde and The Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes.

The arrangement of materials at the time of their acquisition has been retained.

Formerly part of the James S. Copley Library, this collection was purchased at auction at Sotheby's, New York, 2011 June 17 (AM2011-111).

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This collection was processed by Regine Heberlein in 2011. Finding aid written by Regine Heberlein in 2011.

No materials were separated during 2011 processing.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Author
Regine Heberlein
Finding Aid Date
2011
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

Scope and Contents

The correspondence series consists of correspondence received by Louis Kronenberger. Occasional outgoing letters are interfiled. The series is especially noteworthy for including correspondence with major literary figures, including W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Bernard Malamud, Marianne Moore, V. S. Pritchett, Stephen Spender, Eudora Welty, and Edmund Wilson.

Physical Description

2 boxes

Abramovitz, Anne, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Acheson, Dean, 1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Adams, Leonie, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Allen, Walter, 1961-1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Alvarez, A, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Amis, Kingsley, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Archibald, Douglas N, 1975. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Arvin, Newton, 1950-1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS and 3 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Athenaeum, 1971. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TL

Physical Description

1 folder

Auchincloss, Louis, 1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Auden, W.H., 1951-1972. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

10 ALsS and 3 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Baker, Sheridan, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Barthelme, Donald, 1959. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Barzun, Jacques, 1953-1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Basso, Hamilton, 1939. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Bate, W.J., 1958-1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS and 2 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Behrman, S.N., 1964-1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Bellow, Saul, 1967-1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Bentley, Eric, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

5 TLsS and 1 TCS

Physical Description

1 folder

Bergonzi, Bernard, 1971. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Blazer, S.E., 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Boatwright, James, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Bowen, Elizabeth, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS and 1 TC

Physical Description

1 folder

Boyle, Kay, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Brewer, Paul, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1954-1958. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS and 1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Burke, Kenneth, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS and 1 TCS

Physical Description

1 folder

Bush, Douglas, 1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Capote, Truman, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Cheever, John, 1964-1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

9 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Christensen, Francis, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Cleland, T.M., 1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Cogswell, Margaret, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Cole, Barry G, 1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Cole, William, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Cory, John Mackenzie, 1964-1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Cowley, Malcolm, 1964-1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

4 TLsS and 2 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Curtis, John, 1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Davison, Peter, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Denis, Nigel, 1963-1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS and 1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Dudley, Margaret W, 1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Eberhart, Richard, 1968-1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Elliott, George, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Edel, Leon, 1954-1972. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Eisenstadt, A.S., 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Ep, Barbara, 1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Evans, Walker, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Factor, Donald, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Fadiman, Clifton, 1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Farrell, James T, 1978. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Field, Marshall, 1943. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Fitzgerald, Robert, 1965-1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS and 2 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Forster, E.M., 1952. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Freundlich, Lawrence S, 1972. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Fulton, Richard, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Godine, David R, 1970-1973. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Gollob, Herman, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Greene, Graham, 1957. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Gregor, Arthur, 1975. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Gressley, Gene, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Gross, Mason W, 1963-1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Gutterman, Leon, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS and 1 TL

Physical Description

1 folder

Guy, David, 1980. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Hardwick, Elizabeth, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Hart, James D, 1965-1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Hartley, Anthony, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Heller, Joseph, 1964-1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Hellman, Lillian, 1943-1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLs, 9 TLsS, 4 ACsS, and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Hersey, John, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Hill, Charles J, 1955. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Horgan, Paul, 1964-1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TL

Physical Description

1 folder

Howe, Irving, 1959-1980. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

19 TLsS and 1 TCS

Physical Description

1 folder

Hunt, John, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Jacobson, Dan, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS and 2 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Jarrell, Randall, 1956. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Jennison, Peter S, 1965-1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TL and 1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Johnson, Nunnally, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Jones, Everett L, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Jones, Howard M, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Joseph, Alexander H, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Josephson, Matthew, 1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kaiser, Walter, 1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Katz, Herbert M, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kazin, Alfred, 1963-1972. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

6 TLsS and 1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Keast, William R, 1957. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Keezer, Dexter M, 1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kelly, George, 1953. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kermode, Frank J, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kerr, Clark, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kerr, Jean, 1977. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kerr, Walter, 1964-1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Kluger, Richard, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Knopf, Alfred A, 1964-1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

8 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Knopf, Alfred Jr, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Lamson, Roy, 1971. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Lasky, Melvin J, 1954-1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS and 2 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Lawrence, Seymour, 1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

"Leslie", 1976. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Levin, Harry, 1954-1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Levin, Meyer, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Lilienthal, David, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Livingstone, William, 1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Lowry, W. McNeil, 1963-1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Mabon, John Scott, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

MacDonald, Dwight, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

MacLeish, Archibald, 1958-1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Maddocks, Melvin, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Malamud, Bernard, 1958-1981. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

9 TLsS, 7 ALsS, and 1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Mannes, Marya, 1954. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Marcus, Steven, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Mason, James H, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Mason, Jerry, 1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Mathias, James F, 1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Mathis, Carl B, 1976. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

McCarthy, Mary, 1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Meredith, William, 1959. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Mielziner, Jo, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Moore, Marianne, 1952-1958. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

6 ALsS, 2 TLsS, and 2 ACsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Morton, Frederic, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Mumford, Lewis, 1965-1975. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS and 1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Nash, Ogden, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Nemerov, Howard, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Niebuhr, Reinhold, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Oenslager, Donald, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Panitt, Merrill, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Podhoretz, Norman, 1963-1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Poirier, Richard, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Pritchett, V.S., 1965-1971. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

6 ALsS, 2 TLsS, and 1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Pryce-Jones, Alan, 1954. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Pusey, Nathan M, 1966-1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

3 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Redding, Saunders, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Reisman, David, 1954. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Rockefeller III, John D, 1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Rosenberg, Harold, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Rowe, Harry P, 1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Schorer, Mark, 1968-1971. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

7 TLsS and 2 TLs

Physical Description

1 folder

Schuman, William, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Seldes, Gilbert, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Sharpe, H.H., 1971. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Simmons, Charles, 1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Spender, Stephen, 1968-1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

5 ALsS and 1 TL

Physical Description

1 folder

Spitzer, Doreen, 1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Steegmuller, Francis, 1950-1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

6 ALsS and 2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Stegner, Wallace, 1971-1972. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Strouse, Norman H, 1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Sykes, Gerald, 1976. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Symington, Donald, 1977. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Thomson, Virgil, 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Thorndike, Joseph J, 1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Trilling, Lionel, 1963-1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

5 TLsS, 1 ALS, 1 ACS

Physical Description

1 folder

Turner, John, 1980. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Tynan, Kenneth, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Updike, John, 1976. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Van Doren, Mark, 1950-1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS and 1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Van Vechten, Carl, 1955-1961. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

4 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Wallace, Thomas C, 1964. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Warren, Robert Penn, 1962. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Watson, Julian, 1977. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Weinstock, Herbert, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Welty, Eudora, 1951-1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

5 TLsS and 4 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Westcott, Glenway, 1950. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 ALS

Physical Description

1 folder

Whitney, David C, 1965. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Williams, J.R., 1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Wilson, Edmund, 1947-1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

7 ALsS and 2 TLsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Winnifrith, Tom, 1973-1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

2 ALsS

Physical Description

1 folder

Wolfe, Peter, 1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Young, Phyllis B, 1963. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Young, Stark, 1952. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

6 ALsS and 1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Zabel, Morton, 1957. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1 TLS

Physical Description

1 folder

Arrangement

The order of the files at the time of their transfer has been retained.

Scope and Contents

This series consists of papers concerning Kronenberger's activities as an editor and writer. It includes contract and production files, biographical information, committee minutes and rosters, permission files, and reading lists.

Physical Description

2 boxes

American Heritage Dictionary Panel on Current Usage, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Trade Editorial Report, The Atlantic Book of Brief Lives by Modern Writers, 1965. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

National Book Committee, Nominating Comittee Minutes of Meeting, 1966. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Little, Brown and Company: Draft Agreement, The Atlantic Book of Great Lives in Letters and the Arts, 1966. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Guggenheim Fellowship, Xerox of Biographical Sketch, 1964. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited, Agreement for Essay on Auden in The World of Auden: A Tribute, 1974. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Contemporary Journalists Biography of Kronenberger and List of Published Books by Kronenberger, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Handwritten List of Kronenberger Writings and a Reading List, 1971. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Sample Cover for Oscar Wilde, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Reading List Regarding Oscar Wilde Biography, Carbon Copy, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

List of Permissions for Oscar Wilde Biography, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

List of Quotations, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Arrangement

This series is arranged chronologically by Kronenberger's works.

Scope and Contents

The Lectures and Writings series consists of Kronenbergers lectures at Brandeis as well as drafts, proofs and galleys for his publications, including The Polished Surface, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Oscar Wilde, The Last Word, and The Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes.

Physical Description

4 boxes

Company Manners Typescript, 1958. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Reading List (Brandeis), 1963 Winter. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Introductory Lecture, 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Essay/Lecture on T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party, 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Essay/Lecture, "The Place of Art in American Life Today", 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Essay/Lecture on Radio and Television, 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Essay/Lecture on Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma, 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Essay/Lecture on William Congreve, The Way of the World & Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Essay/Lecture on William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Humanities 305 Essay/Lecture on Horace Walpole and Henry Adams, 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Pre-polished Surface Stuff", 1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Lecture and Bicentennial Piece

Physical Description

1 folder

The Polished Surface, 1969. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Earlier lecture stage.

Physical Description

1 folder

The Cutting Edge, 1970. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript

Physical Description

1 folder

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, 1971. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript

Physical Description

1 folder

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, 1971-1973. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Readers Galleys

Physical Description

1 folder

Rejects or Duplicates of Modern Comedy Lectures, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notes on a Book About Lord Byron, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Essay on Time Magazine, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Oscar Wilde, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Carbon Copy of the Author's Note and Xerox Copy of the Introduction.

Physical Description

1 folder

Kronenberger, Oscar Wilde pp. 2-108, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript

Physical Description

1 folder

Kronenberger, Oscar Wilde pp. 133-147, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript

Physical Description

1 folder

Notes for Oscar Wilde, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Kronenberger, Oscar Wilde, 1972. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript

Physical Description

1 folder

Kronenberger, Oscar Wilde, 1973. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript

Physical Description

1 folder

Kronenberger, The Last Word, 1973. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript

Physical Description

1 folder

Kronenberger, The Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes, 1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript Part 1

Physical Description

1 folder

Kronenberger, The Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes, 1974. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typescript Part 2

Physical Description

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Kronenberger, The Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes, 1973. 1 folder.
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Kronenberger, The Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes, 1974. 1 folder.
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