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Theodore Dreiser Papers: TD Writings: Books

Theodore Dreiser Papers
IV. TD Writings: Books (chronological by date of first publication)
Boxes 193 - 255: An American Tragedy through America Is Worth Saving

An American Tragedy	Moods	Dreiser Looks at Russia	A Gallery of Women
My City	Dawn	Tragic America	America Is Worth Saving

An American Tragedy

Box Folders Contents

193 8683-8700 An American Tragedy: original 1920-1921 ms--chaps. IV-XX (2 chap. VI)

193 8701-8710 An American Tragedy: typescript of 1920-1921 ms--chaps. I-XX

194 8711-8744 An American Tragedy: Book I, ms--chaps. I-32 (2 versions each of chaps. 3, 19, 24) [Some contain sections typed from original 1920-1921 ms]

195 8745-8770 An American Tragedy: Book II, ms--chaps. I-20 (2 versions each of chaps. 5, 6, 13, 17, 18; 3 versions for chap. 14)

196 8771-8776 An American Tragedy: Book II, ms--chaps. 21-25 (2 versions of chap. 25)

196 8777-8784 An American Tragedy: Book II, ms--chaps. 27-31 (2 versions each of chaps. 29, 31; chap. 28-1/2 precedes chap. 28)

196 8785-8794 An American Tragedy: Book II, ms--chaps. 33-40 (2 versions each of chaps. 35, 37)

197 8795-8821 An American Tragedy: Book II, ms--chaps. 41-57 (2 versions each of chaps. 46, 49, 50, 51; 3 versions each of chaps. 44, 45, 56)

198 8822-8841 An American Tragedy: Book II, ms--chaps. 58-71 (2 versions each of chaps. 61, 63, 64; 3 versions of chap. 58)

199 8842-8846 An American Tragedy: Book III, ms--chaps. 1-4 (2 versions of chap. 1)

199 8847-8859 An American Tragedy: Book III, ms--chaps. 6-14 (2 versions each of chaps. 7, 14; 3 versions of chap. 10)

200 8860-8874 An American Tragedy: Book III, ms--chaps. 15-24 (2 versions of chap. 19; 3 versions of chap. 18)

201 8875-8894 An American Tragedy: Book III, ms--chaps. 25-35 (2 versions each of chaps. 26, 29)

202 8895-8916 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript A--chaps. I-XXXII (2 versions each of chaps. I, XIV, XXX)
202 8917-8925 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript A--chaps. XXXVII-41 (2 versions each of chaps. XXXVII, 40, 41)

202 8926-8927 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript A--chap. 43 (2 versions)

203 8928 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript B--chaps. XXX-XXXI

203 8929-8950 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript B--chaps. 33-XXXXVI (2 versions each of chaps. 34, 41, 43, 45; 3 versions each of chaps. 40, 44)

203 8951 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript B--chap. XXXXIX

203 8952 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript B--chap. LI

203 8953-8954 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript B--chap. LIV (2 versions)

203 8955 An American Tragedy: Book II, typescript B--fragments [Although chapter numbering is not continuous, events discussed in typescript B follow immediately the events discussed in typescript A in Box 202; some editing of typescript B by Sally Kussell.]

204 8956-8969 An American Tragedy: Book II, revised typescript A [revised by Louise Campbell; few additions by TD]--chaps. I-XXI

205 8970 An American Tragedy: Book III, typescript C--chap. I [some revisions in chaps. in this box by Louise Campbell and ?]

205 8971 An American Tragedy: Book III, typescript C--chap. II

205 8972 An American Tragedy: Book III, revised typescript C--chap. II

205 8973 An American Tragedy: Book III, revised typescript C, with corrections--chap. II and a fragment

205 8974-9005 An American Tragedy: Book III, typescript C--chaps. 3-XXI (2 versions each of chaps. 6, 10, 13, 17-19; 3 versions each of chaps. 12, 16) [some revisions in this version by L. Campbell and ?]

206 9006-9024 An American Tragedy: Book III, typescript C--chaps. XXII-XXXIII (2 versions each of chaps. 23, 29-32; 3 versions of chap. 33)

206 9025 An American Tragedy: Book III, typescript C--chap. XXXV

207 9026 An American Tragedy: Book I, 1st typescript--chaps. I, II

207 9027-9039 An American Tragedy: Book I, final revised typescript(?)--chaps. I-XXIX

208 9040-9075 An American Tragedy: Book II, final revised typescript(?)--chaps. I-XXXXIX [revisions by TD, Louise Campbell, Helen Dreiser, T. R. Smith, and ?]

209 9076-9099 An American Tragedy: Book III, revised typescript C--chaps. I-XXXIV (2 versions each of chaps. 2, 28; 3 versions of chap. 8) [revisions by TD, Louise Campbell, and Helen Dreiser]

210 9100 An American Tragedy: front matter pages for typesetting

210 9101-9112 An American Tragedy: Book I, typesetting copy--chaps. I-XIX

210 9113-9128 An American Tragedy: Book II, typesetting copy--chaps. I-XXXIV

211 9129-9135 An American Tragedy: Book II, typesetting copy--chaps. XXXV-XLVIII

211 9136-9153 An American Tragedy: Book III, typesetting copy--chaps. I-XXXV [gap in chapter numbering, but nothing missing]
211 9154 An American Tragedy: book jackets and hard cover

211 9155 An American Tragedy: condensed version, published in Bestsellers (Oct. 1946)

212 9156-9180 An American Tragedy: Book II, revised typesetting carbon--chaps. I-XI, XIII-XLV, XLVII-XLIX (2 versions of chap. 40)

213 9181 An American Tragedy: Book I--author's galleys

213 9182 An American Tragedy: Book II--author's galleys
213 9183 An American Tragedy: Book III--author's galleys
214 9184 An American Tragedy: Book I--revised pages
214 9185 An American Tragedy: Book II--1st pages

214 9186 An American Tragedy: Book II--revised pages

214 9187 An American Tragedy: Book III--1st pages

215 9188-9189 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Frederick Thon

215 9190-9205 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Patrick Kearney (3 versions)--cast list, prologue, acts I, II, III, IV

215 9206-9210 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Patrick Kearney (final complete working script)--cast list, prologue, acts I, II, III, IV

215 9211 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Patrick Kearney--programs and advertisements

215 9212-9217 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Georges Jamin and Jean Servais--acts I, II, III (2 copies)

215 9218 An American Tragedy: tabloid version (typescript)

215 9219 An American Tragedy: Dezso D'Antalffy scenario for an opera

216 9220-9231 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Erwin Piscator--cast list, scenes I and II (typescript and carbon)

216 9232-9233 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Erwin Piscator--synopsis by Louise Campbell (typescript and copy); letter

216 9234-9235 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Erwin Piscator--translation by Louise Campbell (typescript)

216 9236-9243 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Erwin Piscator and Lina Goldschmidt (Louise Campbell translation of first German version)--prologue, scenes 1-19 (typescript and carbon)

216 9244-9249 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Erwin Piscator and Lina Goldschmidt--cast list, foreword, prelude, scene II

216 9250 Case of Clyde Griffiths [An American Tragedy]: dramatization by Piscator and Goldschmidt--playbills; cast lists; clippings

216 9251 An American Tragedy: dramatization by Erwin Piscator and Lina Goldschmidt--Hedgrow Theater programs

217 9252-9257 Eine amerikanische Tragödie: dramatization by Erwin Piscator-- foreword, prelude, scenes I and II (typescript)

217 9258-9261 Eine amerikanische Tragödie: dramatization by Erwin Piscator and Lina Goldschmidt (version 1)--cast list, prelude, acts I-IV (ts)

217 9262-9266 [Eine amerikanische Tragödie]: dramatization by E. Piscator and L. Goldschmidt (version 2)--prelude, scenes 1-19 (typescript)

217 9267-9268 The Law of Lycurgus [An American Tradegy]: dramatization by H. Basilewsky (translated by A. A. Boublikoff)--cast list, acts I-III (typescript)

217 9269 De Tragedie van Clyde Griffiths [An American Tragedy]: Dutch-language dramatization (typescript)

218 9270-9278 An American Tragedy: film scenario by S. M. Eisenstein, G. V. Alexandrov, and Ivor Montagu, reels 1-14 (typescript and copy)

218 9279-9283 An American Tragedy: Josef Von Sternberg-Samuel H. Hoffenstein film--1st yellow script, annotated by ?, 30 Jan. 1931; synopsis by Eleanor McGeary; sequences A-Z, AA-HH (typescript)

218 9284-9287 An American Tragedy: Sternberg-Hoffenstein film--white script, 12 Feb. 1931, sequences A-Z, AA-II (typescript)

218 9288-9290 An American Tragedy: Sternberg-Hoffenstein film--form #3, release dialogue script, 27 July 1931, reels 1-10 (typescript)

218 9291-9296 A Place in the Sun [An American Tragedy]: Harry Brown and Michael Wilson film final white filmscript with changes, 30 Sept. 1949, shots 1-291 (typescript)

218 9297 An American Tragedy: miscellaneous notes

Moods

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219 9298-9308 Moods: typesetting copy for 1926 and 1928 editions

219 9309-9311 Moods (1928 ed.): typesetting copy for poems added to this ed.

220 9312 Moods (1928 ed.): galley proofs, with revisions, of poems added to this ed.

220 9313 Moods (1928 ed.): page proofs, with revisions, of poems added to this ed.

221 9314 Moods (1935 ed.): typesetting copy, introduction by Sulamith Ish-Kishor; contents pages

221 9315 Moods (1935 ed.): contents page (early version) (typescript carbon)

221 9316-9332 Moods (1935 ed.): typesetting copy for poems

221 9333 Moods (1935 ed.): poems rejected for this ed. (these poems have never been published)

Dreiser Looks at Russia

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222 9334 Dreiser Looks at Russia: diary kept by TD in Russia, 3 Oct. 1927-15 Jan. 1928, and used in writing this work

223 9335 Dreiser Looks at Russia: contents page; "Russia 1928" (early revised ms)

223 9336 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Russia 1928" (early typescript)

223 9337 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "The Tyranny of Communism" (early ms and typescript)

223 9338-9343 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "The Capital of Communism" (early ms)

223 9344-9345 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Moscow" (early typescript; 2 versions)

223 9346 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Communism--Theory and Practice" (ms fragment)

223 9347 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "The Tyranny of Communism" (typescript fragment)

223 9348 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "A Former Capital of Tyranny" (early ms and typescript)

223 9349 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Some Russian Factories and Industries" (early ms and typescript, some pages missing)

223 9350 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Religion in Russia" (early typescript)

223 9351 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Present Day Art in Russia" (early ts)

223 9352 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Bolshevik Art Literature Music (A)" (early typescript)

223 9353 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Bolshevik Art, Literature, Music (B)" (early ms and typescript)

223 9354 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Three Russian Restaurants" (early ms)

223 9355 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Russian Restaurants--Three" (early ts)

223 9356 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Propaganda Plus" (early ms)

223 9357 Dreiser Looks at Russia: fragment of chap. on propaganda (ts)

223 9358 Dreiser Looks at Russia: fragment of chap. on peasant problem (typescript)

223 9359 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Russian Vignettes" (early ms and ts)

223 9360 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "The Russian versus the American Spirit" (early ms, some pages missing)

223 9361 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "The Russian versus the American Temperament" (early typescript, some pages missing; fragment)

223 9362 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "Random Reflections" (early typescript fragment)

223 9363 Dreiser Looks at Russia: "The Current Soviet Economic Plan" (early typescript fragment)

223 9364-9381 Dreiser Looks at Russia: typesetting copy--chaps. I-XVIII

223 9382 Dreiser Looks at Russia: book jacket and hard cover

224 9383 Dreiser Looks at Russia: revised galley proofs

224 9384 Dreiser Looks at Russia: 2nd revised galley proofs

224 9385 Dreiser Looks at Russia: page proofs

A Gallery of Women

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225 9386 A Gallery of Women: proposed chapters

225 9387-9389 A Gallery of Women: "Mary Pyne" &[quot;Esther Norn"] (ms)

225 9390 A Gallery of Women: "M.T." &[quot;Regina C--"] (ms, incomplete)

225 9391-9393 A Gallery of Women: "Yvonne [Ellen] Adams Wrynn" (ms)

225 9394-9395 A Gallery of Women: "Ida Hauchawout" (ms)

225 9396 A Gallery of Women: "Gloom" (ms) (not used in book)

225 9397 A Gallery of Women: "Lucia" (ms and typescript fragment)

225 9398-9399 A Gallery of Women: "Ernita" (ms)

225 9400-9404 A Gallery of Women: "Albertine" (ms and typescript)

225 9405-9406 A Gallery of Women: "Albertine" (variant ms, incomplete)

225 9407 A Gallery of Women: "Albertine" (ms fragments)

225 9408 A Gallery of Women: "Dinan"--notes for an essay (ms) (not used in book)

226 9409-9412 A Gallery of Women: "M.J.C." &[quot;Emanuela"] (ms)

226 9413-9416 A Gallery of Women: "Mrs. Hevessy" &[quot;Bridget Mullanphy"] (ms)

227 9417-9427 A Gallery of Women: "A Daughter of the Puritans" (ms) (not used in book; see also "This Madness: The Story of Elizabeth," in TD Writings: Essays)

228 9428 A Gallery of Women: "Ernestine" (revised typescript)

228 9429 A Gallery of Women: "Ernestine" (2nd revised typescript)

228 9430 A Gallery of Women: "Ernestine" (typesetting copy)

228 9431 A Gallery of Women: "Mary Pyne" &[quot;Esther Norn"] (typescript)

228 9432 A Gallery of Women: "Esther Norn" (typesetting copy)

228 9433-9434 A Gallery of Women: "Rella" (revised typescript)

228 9435 A Gallery of Women: "Rella" (2nd[?] revised typescript)

228 9436-9437 A Gallery of Women: "Rella" (3rd[?] revised typescript)

228 9438 A Gallery of Women: "Rella" (typesetting copy)

228 9439 A Gallery of Women: "Reina" (revised typescript)

228 9440 A Gallery of Women: "Reina" (typesetting copy, p. 22 missing)

228 9441 A Gallery of Women: "Regina C--" (typescript)

228 9442 A Gallery of Women: "Regina C--" (typesetting copy)

228 9443 A Gallery of Women: "Yvonne [Ellen] Adams Wrynn" (typescript)

228 9444 A Gallery of Women: "Yvonne [Ellen] Adams Wrynn" (1st revised typescript)

228 9445-9446 A Gallery of Women: "Yvonne [Ellen] Adams Wrynn" (2nd revised typescript, incomplete)

228 9447 A Gallery of Women: "Yvonne [Ellen] Adams Wrynn" (3rd revised typescript, incomplete)

228 9448 A Gallery of Women: "Ellen Adams Wrynn" (typesetting copy)

229 9449-9450 A Gallery of Women: "A Daughter of the Puritans" (revised typescript) (not used in book)

229 9451-9453 A Gallery of Women: "A Daughter of the Puritans" (2nd revised typescript carbon and a fragment)

229 9454 A Gallery of Women: "Spaff" &[quot;Giff"] (revised typescript)

229 9455 A Gallery of Women: "Spaff" &[quot;Giff"] (2nd[?] revised typescript)

229 9456 A Gallery of Women: "Spaff" &[quot;Giff"] (2nd[?] or 3rd[?] revised typescript)

229 9457-9458 A Gallery of Women: "Spaff" &[quot;Giff"] (2 incomplete revised typescripts)

229 9459 A Gallery of Women: "Giff" (typesetting copy)

229 9460-9461 A Gallery of Women: "Out of the City of the Prophet" &[quot;Olive Brand"] (2 revised typescripts)

229 9462-9463 A Gallery of Women: "Olive Brand" (2nd revised typescript)

229 9464 A Gallery of Women: "Olive Brand" (typesetting copy)

229 9465-9466 A Gallery of Women: "Lolita" (typescript and carbon with revisions; fragment) (not used in book)

229 9467 A Gallery of Women: "Ida Hauchawout" (revised typescript)

229 9468 A Gallery of Women: "Ida Hauchawout" (typesetting copy)

229 9469 A Gallery of Women: "Gloom" (revised typescript, incomplete) (not used in book)

230 9470-9472 A Gallery of Women: "Loretta" (revised ts, not used in book)

230 9473-9474 A Gallery of Women: "Loretta" (2nd revised ts and carbon)

230 9475 A Gallery of Women: "Loretta" (typescript fragment)

230 9476 A Gallery of Women: notes on psychology of women, parts of which were used in "Loretta" (typescript)

230 9477-9478 A Gallery of Women: "Lucia" (typesetting copy)

230 9479 A Gallery of Women: "Ernita" (typescript variant)

230 9480 A Gallery of Women: "Ernita" (typesetting copy)

230 9481-9482 A Gallery of Women: "Albertine" (ms and typescript fragments)

230 9483 A Gallery of Women: "Albertine" (typesetting copy)

230 9484-9485 A Gallery of Women: "Emanuela" (revised typescript)

230 9486 A Gallery of Women: "Emanuela" (fragments retyped for revised typescript)

230 9487 A Gallery of Women: "Emanuela" (typesetting copy)

230 9488 A Gallery of Women: "Mrs. Mullanphy" &[quot;Bridget Mullanphy"] (ts)

230 9489 A Gallery of Women: &[quot;Bridget Mullanphy"] (revised ts fragment)

230 9490 A Gallery of Women: "Bridget Mullanphy" (typesetting copy)

231 9491-9493 A Gallery of Women: "Rona Murtha" (1st typescript)

231 9494-9495 A Gallery of Women: "Rona Murtha" (2nd typescript)

231 9496-9498 A Gallery of Women: "Rona Murtha" (2nd revised typescript)

231 9499-9502 A Gallery of Women: "Rona Murtha" (3rd[?] rev. ts & fragments)

231 9503 A Gallery of Women: "Rona Murtha" (typesetting copy)

232 9504 A Gallery of Women: 1st galley proofs with author's corrections

232 9505 A Gallery of Women: 2nd galley proofs

233 9506 A Gallery of Women: Vol. I--1st page proofs

233 9507 A Gallery of Women: Vol. I--2nd page proofs

233 9508 A Gallery of Women: Vol. II--1st page proofs

233 9509 A Gallery of Women: Vol. II--2nd page proofs

234 9510 A Gallery of Women: book jackets

234 9511-9513 A Gallery of Women: hard covers for book

234 9514 A Gallery of Women: preface to the Russian edition by Sergey Dinamov (typescript)

234 9515 "A Gallery of Women": radio adaptation by William Watters (ts)

234 9516 "A Gallery of Women": screen adapt. by Helen Mitchell, 3/17/34

My City

Box Folders Contents

235 9517 My City: clipping and xerox

235 9518 My City: color proofs of etchings by Max Pollak used in book

Dawn

Box Folders Contents

236 9519-9538 Dawn: xerox of ms at Lilly Library (Univ. of Indiana)--chaps. I-XX [editing on ms by TD and Anna Tatum]

237 9539-9558 Dawn: xerox of ms at Lilly Library--chaps. XXI-XL

238 9559-9578 Dawn: xerox of ms at Lilly Library--chaps. XLI-LX

239 9579-9595 Dawn: xerox of ms at Lilly Library--chaps. LXI-LXXVII

239 9596-9597 Dawn: xerox of ms at Lilly Library--chaps. LXXIX-LXXX and note from Helen Dreiser re chap. LXXVIII

240 9598-9614 Dawn: xerox of ms at Lilly Library--chaps. LXXXI-XCVII

241 9615-9623 Dawn: xerox of ms at Lilly Library--chaps. XCVIII-CVI

242 9624 Dawn: xerox of 1st rough emended typescript at Lilly Library--chaps. I-III

242 9625 Dawn: xerox of 1st rough emended typescript at Lilly Library--chap. IV (part of 1st and 2nd typescript, pages missing)

242 9626 Dawn: xerox of 1st rough emended typescript at Lilly Library--chap. V (2 versions)

242 9627-9639 Dawn: xerox of 1st rough emended typescript at Lilly Library--chaps. VI-XXXII

243 9640-9675 Dawn: 1st typescript--chaps. XXX-[XCIII] (2 versions of chap. 54) [The chapters in this box follow consecutively those in Box 242 even though the numbering system does not.]

244 9676-9698 Dawn: 2nd(?) typescript--chaps. I-XXXIV (2 versions of chap. 18)

244 9699 Dawn: note from Kathryn Sayre, 1931(?)

245 9700 Dawn: sample pages, typeset

245 9701 Dawn: book jacket and 2 book dummies

245 9702 Dawn: 1st bound copy

245 9703-9705 Dawn: French translation--chaps. 17-23 and 3 unnumbered chaps. (last one incomplete) (typescript)

245 9706-9710 Dawn: French translation--unnumbered chaps. (typescript)

245 9711-9721 Dawn: new French translation (1935)--chaps. I-XXIX (typescript)

Tragic America

Box Folders Contents

246 9722 Tragic America: plan(s) of book and partial outline of topics to be covered (typescript)

246 9723 Tragic America: "Preface" [intended for book?] (typescript)

246 9724 Tragic America: "As America Looks Now" &[quot;The American Scene"] (early typescript)

246 9725 Tragic America: "I Visit an Actual Mill Town" [part of "Present Day Living Conditions for Many"] (early typescript, 2 versions)

246 9726 Tragic America: "Exploitation--Rule by Force" &[quot;Exploitation--the American Rule by Force"] (early typescript)

246 9727-9728 Tragic America: "Our Banks and Corporations as Government (A)," version 1 (early typescript, revised and unrevised)

246 9729-9730 Tragic America: "Our Banks and Corporations as Government (A)," versions 2 and 3 (early typescript)

246 9731 Tragic America: "Our Banks and Corporations as Government (B)" (early typescript)

246 9732 Tragic America: "The Profits of Our American Railways from Their Inertia (A)" &[quot;Our American Railways--Their Profits and Greed"] (early typescript)

246 9733 Tragic America: "The Profits of Our American Railway from Their Inertia (B)" &[quot;Our American Railways--Their Profits and Greed"] (early typescript)

246 9734 Tragic America: "Government Operation of the Express Companies for Private Profit" (early typescript)

246 9735 Tragic America: "The Supreme Court as a Corporation Service Station" &[quot;The Supreme Court as a Corporation-Minded Institution"] (early typescript)
246 9736 Tragic America: "The Constitution as a Scrap of Paper" (early typescript)

246 9737 Tragic America: "The Position of Labor" (early typescript)

246 9738 Tragic America: "The Growth of Police Power" (early typescript)

246 9739-9740 Tragic America: "Abuse to the Individual" &[quot;The Abuse of the Individual"], version 1 (early revised and unrevised tss, inc.)

246 9741 Tragic America: "Abuse to the Individual" &[quot;The Abuse of the Individual"], version 2 (early typescript)

246 9742 Tragic America: "Charity and Wealth in America," version 1 (early typescript)

246 9743-9744 Tragic America: "Charity and Wealth in America," version 2 (early typescript, 2 copies, one with p. 1 missing)

246 9745 Tragic America: "Crime and Why" (early typescript)

246 9746 Tragic America: "Why the Ballot?" (early typescript)

246 9747 Tragic America: "Why Government Ownership?" (early typescript)

246 9748-9749 Tragic America: "Analysis of Statecraft for the Future" &[quot;Suggestions toward a New Statecraft"], 2 versions (early typescript)

246 9750 Tragic America: "What the Meaning of Education Should Be," early version of chap. XIX (typescript)

246 9751 Tragic America: correspondence re "A Sample Trust" (extra chap. meant for 2nd edition of Tragic America)

246 9752 Tragic America: "A Sample Trust," chap. not used in book, written by Kathryn Sayre (ms)

246 9753-9754 Tragic America: "A Sample Trust," chap. not used in book, written by Kathryn Sayre (typescript, 2 copies)

246 9755 Tragic America: "A Sample Trust," by Kathryn Sayre, edited by Anna Tatum (typescript); xerox of Tatum letter

246 9756 Tragic America: "A Sample Trust," by Kathryn Sayre, 11 Jan. 1933, with comments by Evelyn Light (typescript)

247 9757-9781 Tragic America: typesetting copy

247 9782 Tragic America: translator's note comparing American wages with American living costs, 2 copies (ms and typescript)

247 9783 Tragic America: corrections to be made in future printings (typescript)

247 9784 Tragic America: corrections sent to TD by Kathryn Sayre (ms)

247 9785 Tragic America: book jackets

247 9786 Tragic America: miscellaneous [see also Box 484, folder 14681, for excerpts of Tragic America in Italian in Ottobre]

247 9787 Tragic America: translation into French of chap. 20 &[quot;Who Owns America?"] and chap. 21 &[quot;Is America Dominant?"], published in Europe (Paris: 1933) (printed version)

248 9788-9808 Tragic America: carbon of typesetting copy (chaps. 1 and 22 missing), some chaps. with additions

249 9809 Tragic America: 1st galley proofs, revised

249 9810 Tragic America: 1st galley proofs with corrections (not master set)

249 9811 Tragic America: 2nd galley proofs

249 9812 Tragic America: 2nd galley proofs with corrections (not master)

250 9813 Tragic America: page proofs

America Is Worth Saving

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251 9814 America Is Worth Saving: letter and notes from Oskar Piest; plan of book and copies of Piest's notes as revised by TD

251 9815 America Is Worth Saving: "Are the Masses Worth While" [possible chap. for book?], 2 copies (typescript)

251 9816-9832 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "Will American Democracy Endure?"

251 9833 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "What Should Be the Objectives of the American People?"

251 9834-9835 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "Has America a `Save the World' Complex?"

251 9836-9837 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "What Are the Defects of American Democracy?"

252 9838 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "What Is Democracy?"

252 9839 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "Scarcity and Plenty"

252 9840 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "Europe and Its Entanglements"

252 9841 America Is Worth Saving: notes for "English Critics of English Imperialism"

252 9842 America Is Worth Saving: notes for "Can the British Endure?"

252 9843 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "Has England Democratized the Peoples of Its Empire?"

252 9844 America Is Worth Saving: "Have English and American Finance Cooperated with Hitler to Destroy Democracy?" (typescript)

252 9845 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "Does England Love Us as We Love England?"

252 9846 America Is Worth Saving: notes for "How Democratic Is England?"

252 9847-9857 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for chapters on England

252 9858-9860 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for Russia

252 9861-9864 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "The Lesson of France"

253 9865-9873 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "Practical Reasons for Keeping Out of War"

253 9874 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for "A Few Kind Words for Your Uncle Samuel"

253 9875-9885 America Is Worth Saving: notes and clippings for chaps. on America

253 9886 America Is Worth Saving: clippings on Tom Mooney case

254 9887 America Is Worth Saving: foreword (typescript)

254 9888 America Is Worth Saving: contents and chap. 1, "Does the World Move?" (revised typescript)

254 9889 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 2, "Scarcity and Plenty" (revised typescript)

254 9890 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 3, "Europe and Its Entanglements" (revised typescript)

254 9891 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 4, "Has America a `Save the World' Complex?" (revised typescript [pp. 9, 10, 13 missing] with notes)

254 9892 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 5, "Practical Reasons for Keeping Out [of War]," 2 copies (revised typescript with notes)

254 9893 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 6, "Does England Love Us as We Love England?" (revised typescript and fragment)

254 9894 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 7, "How Democratic Is England?" (revised typescript)

254 9895 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 8, "Has England Democratized the Peoples of Its Empire?" (revised typescript)

254 9896 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 9, "English Critics on [of] English Imperialism" (revised typescript)

254 9897 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 10, "Has England Done More for Its People Than Nazism [Fascism] or Communism [Socialism]?" (revised typescript)

254 9898 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 11, "What Is Democracy?" (revised typescript)

254 9899 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 12, "What Are the Defects of American Democracy?", 2 copies (revised typescript)

254 9900 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 13, "What Are the Objectives of American Finance?" (revised typescript)

254 9901 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 14, "Have English and American Finance Cooperated with Hitler to Destroy Democracy?" (revised typescript)

254 9902 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 15, "Can The British Empire Endure?" &[quot;Can the British Endure?"] (revised typescript)

254 9903 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 16, "Will American Democracy Endure?" (revised typescript)

254 9904 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 17, "The Lesson of France" (revised typescript)

254 9905 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 18 [19], "What Should Be the Objectives of the American People?" (revised ts and a telegram)

254 9906 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 16 [18], "A Few Kind Words for Your Uncle Samuel" (early typescript)

254 9907 America Is Worth Saving: chap. 19 [18], "A Few Kind Words for Your Uncle Samuel, 2 copies (revised typescript)

254 9908-9926 America Is Worth Saving: typesetting copy of book (revisions by TD, Helen Dreiser, William Lengel, and ?)

254 9927 America Is Worth Saving: discarded typescript fragments

254 9928 America Is Worth Saving: lawyer's list of potentially libelous statements and TD's responses

255 9929 America Is Worth Saving: 1st unrevised galley proofs containing material later omitted

255 9930 America Is Worth Saving: 1st page proofs

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