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Box 127

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Gaddis coat of arms

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

4 items. "Family Name History" certificate located in Box 127, Folder 7.

Series 11, Sub-series 8: Pfizer

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Pfizer includes medical profiles on various healthcare figures, speeches, and brochures.

Speeches and Articles, 1957-1964

 File — Multiple Containers
Description circa 298 pages. Includes typescript speeches, articles, news releases, background information, clippings, newsletters, etc. Only some speeches indicate Gaddis’ authorship. Also includes medical profiles on Sigmund Freud, Marie Jean Pierre Flourens, and Theodore Schwann; Pfizer activities in international medical research and international medical services; and Gaddis' resume. Speeches and articles include the following: “The Worldview Challenge of the Sixties in the Chemical...

Series 8: Essays and Critical Writings, 1977-1997

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Essays and Critical Writings includes drafts and notes for some of Gaddis' later published articles, including "Erewhon and the Contract with America," "The Rush for Second Place," and "Old Foes with New Faces," the last article having been delivered in an earlier form at "The Writer and Religion" conference held at Washington University in 1994.

Series 12: Personal Papers

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Personal Papers includes address books, organizational materials, artwork, awards and certificates, financial information, biographical and genealogical information, business cards, calendars, contracts, legal information, education information including Harvard and Merricourt Boarding School, FBI file, identifications including passports, journal entries, medical information, note and note fragments, travel information, etc.

Series 11, Sub-series 10: UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) includes source material and drafts of "Unesco World Review." Gaddis wrote short general-interest radio scripts for UNESCO in Paris. See also Series 12. Personal Papers, Contracts.

Radio Scripts, 1949-1950

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

circa 57 pages. Includes radio scripts for UNESCO World Review; Impetus, Volume IV, Numbers 1-2, January-February 1950, which includes “Bridge of Books” by Gaddis; and Courier, Volume III, Number 4, May 1, 1950.

Courier located in Box 127, Folder 4.

The Rush for Second Place, circa 1976-1981

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

290 pages. Includes typescript drafts, cut and paste typescripts, typescript and holograph notes, correspondence, clippings, and photocopy of published article. Also includes two copies of Harper's, Volume 262, Number 1571, April 1981.

Harper's Magazine galley proofs, 7 items, located Box 127, Folder 2.

3 folders

Series 6: Agapē Agape, 1951-1998

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Agapē Agape includes research, notes, and drafts for unrealized player piano project intermingled with research, notes, and drafts for Gaddis' German radio play, a version of which became Agapē Agape.

"Unsorted"

 File — Multiple Containers
Description

circa 49 items. Includes a John Napper Retrospective gallery catalog, clippings, typescripts, and notes related to the player piano and Agapē Agape. Also includes "Whitey Ford pitching in a World Series" newspaper clipping, New York Times, April 3, 1977. Original folder titled "unsorted."

"Whitey Ford pitching in a World Series" located in Box 127, Folder 1.