TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Correspondence, 1929-2001
Subseries 1: General, 1929-1975
Subseries 2: Family, 1931-2001
 |
Inventory of the John Lardner Papers, ca. 1900-2001, bulk 1930-1960
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2009. ©2009. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
|
| Creator | Lardner, John, 1912-1960 |
| Title | John Lardner Papers |
| Dates | ca. 1900-2001 |
| Dates | bulk 1930-1960 |
| Extent | 8.4 linear feet (16 boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 bound volume) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, works, personal materials, photographs, and artwork of sportswriter, humorist, reporter, and critic John Lardner. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Lardner J |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 43 8 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
John Lardner Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift, Susan Lardner, 2008.
Processed by
Lisa Janssen, 2009.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access
The John Lardner Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The John Lardner Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
Return to the Table of Contents
Biography of John Lardner
Sportswriter, humorist, reporter, and critic
John Lardner was born on May 4, 1912 on the South Side of Chicago, the eldest son of Ring and Ellis Lardner. At the time, his father Ring was an established and popular sports writer then employed by the Chicago Examiner. The Lardners lived in the Chicago area until 1919 when Ring Larder signed on with the Bell Syndicate to write a weekly column. The family moved to the East Coast, first in Greenwich, Connecticut, then in Great Neck, Long Island, and finally East Hampton. Larder and his three brothers, James, Ring, Jr., and David all took to writing to some degree, but none enjoyed the success that John would achieve.
In 1926, Lardner attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where he was on the editorial board of the Phillipian. Following graduation from Andover, Lardner spent one year at Harvard, and another year at the Sorbonne. In 1931 while still in France, Lardner worked briefly at the Paris branch of the Herald Tribune. Upon returning to New York in 1931, at the young age of 19, Lardner was hired by the New York Herald Tribune where he worked under city editor Stanley Walker. Walker was by all accounts a demanding editor, but greatly admired Lardner, saying that, “Lardner is one sportswriter who can write. He has taste, judgement, knowledge, and style.” While at the Herald, Lardner was a regular at the infamous Bleecks, a bar patronized by artists and writers such as friend Walt Kelly and novelist John O’Hara. Lardner was infamous in his mastery of the “match game,” a drinking game in which opponents verbally outwitted each other.
In 1933 Lardner left the Herald and signed to John Wheeler’s North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) to write a daily syndicated sports column. The column, which he wrote until 1948, ran locally in the New York Post and nationally in dozens of other papers. In addition, he wrote a weekly sports column, “Sport Week” (later “Lardner’s Week”) for Newsweek from 1939 to 1960. During World War II, Lardner travelled as a war correspondent to Europe, Australia, and Africa sending back dispatches for NANA and Newsweek, and writing longer articles on the war for The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker. During the late 1940s and 1950s Larder wrote features and columns for several other magazines including Look, Sport, True, the New York Times Magazine, and even Women’s Home Companion. His journalism was collected in several books. Southwest Passage: The Yanks in the Pacific, gathered his World War II pieces from the Saturday Evening Post, his sports columns were collected in the volumes It Beats Working, White Hopes and Other Tigers, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women, and The World of John Lardner. He collaborated on a film treatment, "Riley Grannan," with his brother Ring Lardner, Jr., and at the time of his death, was working on a historical work called "Drinking in America," which was never completed.
Lardner married Hazel Hairston, a secretary at NANA in 1938. They had three children, Susan, Mary Jane, and John Nicholas. Tragically, Lardner died young, having contracted tuberculosis (like his father Ring Lardner) and a heart condition early on. He succumbed to a heart attack at his home in New York City in 1960.
Return to the Table of Contents
Scope and Content of the Collection
Correspondence between professional colleagues, family, and friends; works, including manuscripts and clippings of newspaper and magazine articles, the screen treatment, "Riley Grannan," co-authored by brother Ring Lardner, Jr., and the manuscript for the unfinished book, "Drinking in America"; personal papers including World War II and sports memorabilia, biographical and financial materials; photographs of historical sports figures and portraits of Lardner, and original artwork by Walt Kelly and Willard Mullin.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
Return to the Table of Contents
Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Correspondence, 1929-2001
- Subseries 1: General, 1929-1975
- Subseries 2: Family, 1931-2001
- Series 2: Works, 1923-1961. Box(es) 6-13
- Series 3: Personal, 1929-1961. Box(es) 14
- Series 4: Photographs, ca. 1900-1956. Box(es) 15-16
- Series 5: Artwork, ca. 1951-1959. Box(es) 17
Return to the Table of Contents
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Kelly, Walt
- Mullin, Willard, 1902-1978
- Lardner, John, 1912-1960
- Lardner, Ring, 1915-2000
- North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA)
- Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954
- Skene, Don
Subjects
- Baseball
- Boxing
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950
- Correspondence -- 1951-2000
- Journalists
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Pen-and-wash drawings
- Photographs -- 1901-1950
- Sports betting
- Sports journalism -- Authorship
- Sportswriters
- Syndicates (Journalism) -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War correspondents
Return to the Table of Contents
Container List
Series 1: Correspondence, 1929-2001 |
|||||||||||
| Primarily business correspondence, and letters from readers commenting on Lardner's sports columns. Family correspondence contains letters between Lardner and wife Hazel during the time Lardner spent reporting from Europe, Africa, and Australia during World War II, and a small amount of posthumous correspondence regarding royalties and permissions. | |||||||||||
| Organized in the following two subseries: General, 1929-1975; and Family, 1931-2001. | |||||||||||
Sub-Series 1: General, 1929-1975 |
|||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | '47 - The Magazine of the Year, Nov. 12, 1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Adams, Frank, Sep. 26, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Allen, Lee, Mar. 18, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Allen, Robert Joseph, Jun. 28, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Allen, Steve, 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Alsop, Joseph W. Jr., 1938, 1944, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Atchison, Glen M., Sep. 24, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Atherton, Sarah, 1935-1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 21, 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Attebery, Miriam, Oct. 23, 1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Authors Playhouse, Inc. (includes outgoing), 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Averill, Ed. Jr., 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Bankhead, Tallulah, Sep. 11, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Ballantine Books, Inc., Jan.16, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Barnes, Joseph (Simon & Schuster), Sep. 21, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Barrow, Matthew, 1939-1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Barry, Pat, 1943, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Beck, E. S. (Chicago Tribune), Nov. 13, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Bert Nevins, Inc. (Sol Abrams), Jan. 7, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Bess, W. T., Jun. 5, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Bing & Bing, Inc., Aug. 2, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Bixby, Frances, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Bovard, Alice B., Feb. 16, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Bowen, Ezra, Jul. 21, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Boyer, Phil, 1937-1938 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Brewer, Sam P., Sep. 2, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Brown, Arthur William, Nov. 30, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Bryanston Films Limited, Aug. 5, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Burmester, Bud, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Burnett, Whit, Mar. 16, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Burrow, Charles L., Oct. 28, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Cain, James M., 1931-1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Caldwell, Samuel S., Nov. 25, 1929 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Carrer, Gertrude, Feb. 15, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Caesar, Sid, Dec. 5, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Chandler, Albert B., 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Christiansen, A. (Daily Express), 1946-1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Clark, Margaret, Jul. 10, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Clayton, Cecil E., Oct. 20, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Cleary, Jim M., Jul. 6, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Coburn, Paul, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Cohane, Tim, Oct. 28, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Cohn, Art, Aug. 3, 1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Coles, Mary (includes 1 outgoing letter, photograph, and letters to Ring Lardner, Jr., ) ca. 1930-1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Collier's, Nov. 22, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Corridon, Frances, Jun. 17, 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Cromwell, Thomas B., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Crosby, John (The Players), 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | Crosby, Mary, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | Crusinberry, Jane, Jul. 10, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | Cumming, Parke, Oct. 17, 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | Dasdimer, John F., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | Davis, Elmer, Dec. 31, 1934 | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | De Seversky, Alexander P., Jul. 10, 1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | Digges, Sam Cook, Dec. 20, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | Dobson, Meade C., Jan. 30, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | Doyle, Jack, 1938-1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | Drewry, John E., Nov. 23, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, Inc., Jul. 6, 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | Dunn, Tom, May 16, 1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 61 | Dupre, Flint O., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | Dutch, Andrew K., Jan. 24, 1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | Dye, John H., 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | Edgren, Bob Jr., Nov. 4, 1935 | |||||||||
| 1 | 65 | Einstein, Albert (form letter), Feb. 10, 1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 66 | Elder, Donald, 196, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 67 | Ellison, Jerome, 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 68 | Enami, Sueo, Aug. 30, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 69 | Feldman, Gusti, 1935-1938, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 70 | Ferber, Edna (signature only), n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 71 | Finney, Frederic N., Oct. 9, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 72 | Fitch, J. Earling, Jun. 16, 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 73 | Fitzgerald Advertising Agency, May 6., 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 74 | Forbes, Stanley D. Jr., Jan. 1, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 75 | Formerly Club (various correspondents and minutes), 1948-1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 76 | Frankel, Hal, Jun. 30, 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 77 | Freeman, Donald, Jun. 10, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 78 | Friliger, Henry J. (includes 2 letters to Friliger from Trixie Davis), 1934, 1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 79 | Fuess, Claude M., Apr. 4, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 80 | Fuller, Betty, Aug. 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 81 | Gaughn, Jackie, 1956-1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 82 | George Abbott (agents), Oct. 11, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 83 | Gibson, Richard F., Jun. 9, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 84 | Gingell, Basil, Sep. 24, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 85 | Goldman, Richard P., 1956-1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 86 | Goshen Mile Track Association, Jul. 27, 1938 | |||||||||
| 1 | 87 | Grolier Society, Inc., Aug. 20, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 88 | Greenbaum, Wolff, & Ernst, 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 89 | Greenville Touchdown Club, Aug. 9, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 90 | Griffin, Marcus, 1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 91 | Griffith, Calrk, Aug. 16, 1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 92 | Grombach, John V., Sep. 7, 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 93 | Habe, Hans, Jan. 28, 1953 | |||||||||
| 2 | 94 | Hale, Col. J. Tracy Jr., Aug. 6, 1943 | |||||||||
| 2 | 95 | Hall Syndicate, Inc., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 96 | Hall, Michael Jay, Oct. 30, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 97 | Hannagan, Steve, Jul. 13, 1937 | |||||||||
| 2 | 98 | Harkins, John, 1950, 1952, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 99 | Harrington, R., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 100 | Harris, Eleanor, Nov. 7, 1944 | |||||||||
| 2 | 101 | Harvey, Kathleen, Apr. 19, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 102 | Henderson, Robert, Jul. 30, 1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 103 | Hoe, Hallie A., Jan. 4, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 104 | Hoffman, Irving, Aug. 1942 | |||||||||
| 2 | 105 | Holiday, Dec. 3, 1953 | |||||||||
| 2 | 106 | Hubbell, Philip W., Feb. 25, 1945 | |||||||||
| 2 | 107 | Imperial War Museum, Aug. 30, 1943 | |||||||||
| 2 | 108 | Ingram, Admiral Jones (letter of introduction), Feb. 28, 1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 109 | International News Service, Apr. 30, 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 110 | Isaac, Ted, May 7, 1957 | |||||||||
| 2 | 111 | Jackson, Charles J., Mar. 9, 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 112 | Jacobs, Mike (seasons greetings), ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 2 | 113 | J. B. Lippincott Company (includes outgoing), 1953 | |||||||||
| 2 | 114 | Jenkins, Lew, Sep. 22, 1941 | |||||||||
| 2 | 115 | Jenkins, Ressa, Sep. 5, 1942 | |||||||||
| 2 | 116 | Jenks, Almet, Dec. 3, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 117 | Jones, Baleb, Jan. 3, 1941 | |||||||||
| 2 | 118 | Jones, Vic, Dec. 6, 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 119 | Kantrowitz, Louis W. / Kantrowitz Yellow Jackets, Oct. 25, 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 120 | Keate, Stuart, Aug. 18, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 121 | Kefauver, Estes, 1950, 1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 122 | Keyes, Langley C. (Harvard College), Oct. 16, 1929 | |||||||||
| 2 | 123 | Kober, Arthur, Dec. 6, 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 124 | Lange, William A. "Big Bill," Aug. 8, 1939 | |||||||||
| 2 | 125 | Lee, Thomas B., 1941, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 126 | Leonard, Bill, Jan. 20, 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 127 | Little, Lou, Sep. 29, 1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 128 | Lipsius, Morris "Kayo," 1952-1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 129 | Lodge, Henry Cabot, Apr. 28, 1949 | |||||||||
| 2 | 130 | Lindstrom, Andy (son of Fred), Jan. 30, 1958 | |||||||||
| 2 | 131 | Look, Jun. 8, 1944 | |||||||||
| 2 | 132 | Loomis, Alfred F., Aug. 2, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 133 | Linkin, Richard, Jun., 20, 1958 | |||||||||
| 2 | 134 | MacArthur, General Douglas (includes outgoing), 1945, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 135 | MacColl, Rene, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 136 | MacDonald, Arthur R., Jul. 26, 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 137 | MacDougall, Michael, Sep. 5, 1945 | |||||||||
| 2 | 138 | MacPhail, Norman, Feb. 17, 1940 | |||||||||
| 2 | 139 | Madden, Joe, 1937, 1945, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 140 | Maloney, Tom, Oct. 24, 1936 | |||||||||
| 2 | 141 | Maney, Richard, 1952, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 142 | Mankiewicz, Herman J., Sep. 5, 1947 | |||||||||
| 2 | 143 | Manning, Gordon, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 144 | Martin, Deac, Aug. 4, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 145 | Mauri Grashin Agency, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 146 | McCabe, Gibson, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 147 | McCarthy, John, Jan. 6, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 148 | McConnell, Jane, 1931 | |||||||||
| 2 | 149 | McDavitt, Clarence G., Mar. 24, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 150 | McNulty, John, 1949-1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 151 | McQueen, Red, Aug. 20, 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 152 | Morrissey, Jim, Oct. 14, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 153 | Moser, Mike, Jul. 21, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 154 | Moses, Robert, May 22, 1951 | |||||||||
| 2 | 155 | Moorehead, Blanche Woods, 1955-1957 | |||||||||
| 2 | 156 | Mueller, Red, Dec. 30, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 157 | Mueller, Theodore F., May 21, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 158 | Muir, Malcolm, 1940-1941 | |||||||||
| 2 | 159 | Nash, Odgen, Dec. 13, 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 160 | The Nation, may 6, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 161 | Nealey, R. W., Aug. 11, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 162 | Newman, Zipp, Jul. 21, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 163 | Newsweek (various correspondents), 1944-1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 164 | New Yorker (various correspondents), 1931-1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 165 | North American Newspaper Alliance / John N. Wheller (includes outgoing), 1932-1955, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 166 | O'Brien, Jack, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 2 | 167 | O'Hara, John, 1953, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 168 | Orr, Jack, Sep. 17, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 169 | Orteig, Raymond, Oct. 18, 1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 170 | Page One, Jan. 21, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 171 | Partridge, Eric, 1951-1953, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 172 | Pattison, Fred, May 19, 1938 | |||||||||
| 2 | 173 | Pattison, Jean (sister of Don Skene), 1936-1938 | |||||||||
| 2 | 174 | Pekar, John Lou (includes sketches), May 26, 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 175 | Phi Lambda Delta, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 176 | Piper, Henry Dan, Nov. 11, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 177 | Playboy / Hugh Hefner (to A. C. Spectorsky), Sep. 14, 1956 | |||||||||
| 2 | 178 | Polymusic Records, Aug. 5, 1952 | |||||||||
| 2 | 179 | Publications Research, Inc., Mar. 9, 1940 | |||||||||
| 2 | 180 | Rascoe, Burton, 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 181 | Rawson, Mitchell, Aug. 30, 1939 | |||||||||
| 2 | 182 | Redbook Magazine, Aug. 4, 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 183 | Reese, Carl, Oct. 17, 1954 | |||||||||
| 2 | 184 | Resner, Larry, 1948, 1955 | |||||||||
| 2 | 185 | Reynolds, Ted, 1937-1942 | |||||||||
| 3 | 186 | Rice, Grantland, 1932-1952, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 187 | Rimmer, Capt. C. B., May 28, 1944 | |||||||||
| 3 | 188 | Robin Line - Seas Shipping Co., Aug. 1, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 189 | Robinson, Hubbell Jr., May 10, 1957 | |||||||||
| 3 | 190 | Ross, Harold W. (New Yorker), 1947-1951, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 191 | Rothschild, Louis S., Aug. 16, 1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 192 | Rozelle, Pete, 1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 193 | Runyon, Damon, Nov. 19, 1944 | |||||||||
| 3 | 194 | Sandburg, Carl, Jan. 13, 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 195 | San Francisco Chronicle, 1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 196 | Saturday Evening Post (see also Martin Sommers), 1936-1955 | |||||||||
| 3 | 197 | Scafe, Lincoln R., Apr. 28, 1955 | |||||||||
| 3 | 198 | Scarne, John, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 199 | Schatz, Eva H., Sep. 21, 1955 | |||||||||
| 3 | 200 | Schriftgiesser, Karl, May 4, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 201 | Scott, Foresman, and Company, Sep. 15, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 202 | Scriven, Michael, Oct. 10, 1958 | |||||||||
| 3 | 203 | Seeley, Evelyn, Jan. 3, 1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 204 | Sharkey, Jack, Aug. 26, 1954 | |||||||||
| 3 | 205 | Sherwood, Robert E., Dec. 9, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 206 | Sherrod, Bob, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 207 | Shor, Toots, Nov. 13, 1946 | |||||||||
| 3 | 208 | Simon & Schuster, 1932-1942 | |||||||||
| 3 | 209 | Skene, Don (includes outgoing and personal mementos), 1929-1936, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 210 | Skufakiss, James, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 211 | Slavin, Buck, Jul. 20, 1939 | |||||||||
| 3 | 212 | Sommers, Martin, 1953-1954 | |||||||||
| 3 | 213 | Spengler, Otto / Argus Press Clipping Bureau, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 214 | Sports Illustrated, Dec. 31, 1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 215 | Sprichtig, Lina, Jul. 22, 1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 216 | Springer, E. W., Dec. 14, 1954 | |||||||||
| 3 | 217 | Massey, Stanley (includes outgoing), 1955-1959, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 218 | Stark, Sam, Feb. 4, 1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 219 | Stong, Phil, 1947, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 220 | Stott, Frederic A., Aug. 18, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 221 | Stucky, Bill, Oct. 27, 1954 | |||||||||
| 3 | 222 | Sturdivant, B. Victor, May 22, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 223 | Sullivan, Frank, 1938-1952, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 224 | Sullivan, James B., 1952-1956S | |||||||||
| 3 | 225 | Swiderski, Paul, 1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 226 | Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1938 | |||||||||
| 3 | 227 | Thurber, James (includes outgoing), 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 228 | Tolonen, Jacob A., 1954, 1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 229 | True (magazine), 1955-1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 230 | Tunney, Gene, Sep. 25, 1951 | |||||||||
| 3 | 231 | Universal Cycling Corp., Feb. 9, 1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 232 | Vackner, Charlie, Dec. 17, 1957 | |||||||||
| 3 | 233 | Van Doren, Carl, 1942, 1947 | |||||||||
| 3 | 234 | Veeck, Bill, 1951, 1953 | |||||||||
| 3 | 235 | Vessels, Jay, Jan. 6, 1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 236 | Villanova, Angel, Dec. 1, 1943 | |||||||||
| 3 | 237 | WAAC / Women's Army Auxiliary Corps., 1943 | |||||||||
| 3 | 238 | Walker, Stanley, 1950, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 239 | War Department Services of Supply, Oct. 8, 1942 | |||||||||
| 3 | 240 | Washington Star / Denman Thompson, Jun. 5, 1937 | |||||||||
| 3 | 241 | Watson, Emmett, 1958-1959, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 242 | WCBS-TV / Camera Three, Mar. 6, 1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 243 | Webb, Harold W. Jr., Feb. 6, 1960 | |||||||||
| 3 | 244 | Welch, Joseph N., 1959 | |||||||||
| 3 | 245 | Willis Kingsley Wing - Authors' Representative, Nov. 27, 1950 | |||||||||
| 3 | 246 | Winchell, Walter, 1946, 1952 | |||||||||
| 3 | 247 | Wodehouse, P. G., May 20, 1948 | |||||||||
| 3 | 248 | Wollcott, Alexander, 1934, 1936 | |||||||||
| 3 | 249 | Wurzburg, Lou, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 250 | Wylie, Max, Sep. 7, 1954 | |||||||||
| 4 | 251 | Outgoing - miscellaneous, 1954-1960, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 252 | Unidentified, 1933-1952, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 253 | Wedding congratulations, 1938 | |||||||||
| 4 | 254-261 | Readers' letters, 1932-1959 | |||||||||
Sub-Series 2: Family, 1931-2001 |
|||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 5 | 262 | Lardner, David, 1937, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 263 | Lardner, Ellis (includes outgoing), 1938-1942, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 264-268 | Lardner, Hazel to John Lardner, 1935-1945 | |||||||||
| 5 | 269 | Lardner, Hazel - letter of condolence, ca. 1960 | |||||||||
| 5 | 270-276 | Lardner, John to Hazel Lardner, 1939-1958 | |||||||||
| 5 | 277 | Lardner, John to children Susan, Mary Jane, and John, 1942-1945, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 278 | Lardner, John to Susan Lardner, 1953-1960, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 279 | Lardner, Ring Jr. "Bill," 1931-1975 | |||||||||
| 5 | 280 | Lardner, Susan - incoming re: John Lardner's royalties and permissions, 1971-2001 | |||||||||
| 5 | 281 | Tobin, Richard Lardner, 1937, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 282 | Miscellaneous family (includes outgoing from John Lardner), 1931-1934 | |||||||||
Series 2: Works, 1923-1961 |
|||||||||||
| Published articles, clipppings, and manucripts of Lardner's magazine pieces, newspaper columns and book projects. Of note are the unedited World War II dispatches from Europe, Africa, and Austrailia, and the film treatment for Riley Grannan, co-written by Lardner's brother Ring Lardner, Jr. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 6 | 283 | The American Magazine - articles, 1951, 1953 | |||||||||
| 6 | 284 | Anti-Social Fun & the Riddle of Flatbush - published in Sports Illustrated, Feb. 1949 | |||||||||
| 6 | 285 | Argosy - articles, 1950-1951 | |||||||||
| 6 | 286 | Bane of the Babe - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 287 | Baseball - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 288 | Baseball on the Road - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 289 | Baseball Reminiscences - published in Andover Exeter, Jun. 9, 1934 | |||||||||
| 6 | 290 | Boxing - notes, ca. 1940s-1950s | |||||||||
| 6 | 291 | Clippings - miscellaneous, 1932-1947 | |||||||||
| 6 | 292 | Come Out Fighting - Episode 1 - scripts, 1950 | |||||||||
| 6 | 293 | Crowning of Technocracy - book manuscript, ca. 1933 | |||||||||
| 6 | 294 | Doyle, John T. - manuscripts about, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 295 | Drinking in America - notes, outline, ca. 1960 | |||||||||
| 6 | 296 | Drinking in America - original manuscript (fragile), ca. 1960 | |||||||||
| 6 | 297 | Drinking in America - use copy, ca. 1960 | |||||||||
| 6 | 298 | Early and school writing, 1923-1930, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 299 | Fire Islander - columns, 1954 | |||||||||
| 7 | 300 | Firpo - manuscript, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 7 | 301 | The Great Baseball Bamboozle - published in Liberty, Jun. 29, 1946 | |||||||||
| 7 | 302 | The Purse of Paris (Jack Johnson) - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 303 | The Honor of Fishjaw - story outline, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 304 | How Ghost Writing Began - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 305 | I Gave them Waxey Gordon - manscript by Lardner and Morris Lipsius, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 306 | It Beats Working preface - manuscript, ca. 1947 | |||||||||
| 7 | 307 | It Could Turn Baseball Upside Down - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 308 | King of the Alley Fighters - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 309 | King of the Bronc-Twisters - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 310 | The Lives and Loves of the Real McCoy - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 311 | Lindbergh - untitled manuscript and notes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 312 | Look magazine - tear sheets and one manuscript, 1952, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 313 | Madamoiselle - articles, 1949, 1951 | |||||||||
| 7 | 314 | The Millionaire Bruiser - Life & Times of John Morrissey - manuscript, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 7 | 315 | Miscellaneous short magazine pieces - published, 1947-1952, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 316 | Miscellaneous unidentified and fragments, ca. 1940s-1950s | |||||||||
| 7 | 317 | My Favorite Bars - published in Esquire, Jul. 1960 | |||||||||
| 7 | 318 | Mysterious Montague - published in Golf Magazine, and manuscript, Jul. 1959 | |||||||||
| 7 | 319 | Newsweek - Sport Week columns - tear sheets, 1939-1941 | |||||||||
| 7 | 320 | Newsweek - Sport Week & Lardner Goes to the Wars columns - tear sheets, 1942-1945 | |||||||||
| 7 | 321 | Newsweek - Sport Week columns - tear sheets, 1945-1953 | |||||||||
| 8 | 322 | Newsweek - Lardner's Week columns - tear sheets, 1954-1960 | |||||||||
| 8 | 323 | Newsweek - Sport Week - manscripts, 1940s-1950s. | |||||||||
| 8 | 324 | New York Herald Tribune - clippings, 1931-1932, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 325 | New York Times Magazine - clippings, 1954-1957 | |||||||||
| 8 | 326-327 | Notebooks - miscellaneous, ca. 1940s-1950s | |||||||||
| 8 | 328 | Notebooks - Notes-Ideas, ca. 1950s-1960 | |||||||||
| 8 | 329 | Notebooks - Talk - Notes, Etc., ca. 1940s-1950s | |||||||||
| 8 | 330-332 | Notebooks - TV, radio, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 9 | 333 | Notebooks - TV, radio - miscellaneous, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 9 | 334 | Notebooks - "Wizard" (sports betting), ca. 1940s-1950s | |||||||||
| 9 | 335 | Notebooks - WWII, 1943-ca. 1945 | |||||||||
| 9 | 336-337 | Notes - miscellaneous, ca. 1940s-1950s | |||||||||
| 9 | 338 | Occasional Poetry - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 339 | Once Over Lightly - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 340 | One Man's Santa Claus - A Very Short Play, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 341 | Page One - columns, 1945-1946 | |||||||||
| 9 | 342 | The Perfect Crime - mansucript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 343 | Poetry - miscellaneous, 1932, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 344 | Poole, Bill - untitled manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 345 | The Professional - mansucript, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 9 | 346 | Pro New York - manuscript, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 10 | 347 | Reporter/Jury - manuscript, 1947 | |||||||||
| 10 | 348 | Riley Grannan - film treatment (includes correspondence), 1954-1955 | |||||||||
| 10 | 349 | Saturday Evening Post - articles, 1938-1942 | |||||||||
| 10 | 350 | Slippery Rock - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 10 | 351 | Southwest Passage - book manuscript (fragile), ca. 1943 | |||||||||
| 10 | 352-353 | Southwest Passage - use copy, ca. 1943 | |||||||||
| 10 | 354 | Sport magazine - articles, 1948-1956 | |||||||||
| 10 | 355 | Sports: They're in the Big Leages Again - published in Salute, Jun. 1946 | |||||||||
| 10 | 356 | Stuyvesant Bugle, 1933 | |||||||||
| 11 | 357-360 | Syndicated columns (NANA) - clippings, 1934-1937 | |||||||||
| 11 | 361-368 | Syndicated columns (NANA) - wire copy, 1944-1948 | |||||||||
| 12 | 369 | Syndicated columns (NANA) - wire copy, n.d. | |||||||||
| 12 | 370 | Tallulah Goes to the Ballgame - published in Woman's Home Companion, Sep. 1951 | |||||||||
| 12 | 371 | Television - manuscript, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 12 | 372 | Titantic Thompson - published in Diners' Club Magazine, Oct. 1961 | |||||||||
| 12 | 373 | To the Crew - reminiscences from the military ship the Polaris, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 12 | 374 | Touchdown by Slide Rule - published in Nation's Business, Oct. 1950 | |||||||||
| 12 | 375 | True - articles, 1950-1961 | |||||||||
| 12 | 376 | True - It Happened in Sports - columns - tear sheets, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 12 | 377 | True - It Happened in Sports - columns - manuscripts (fragile), ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 12 | 378 | True - It Happened in Sports - columns - manuscripts - use copy ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 12 | 379 | U. S. Crime - articles, 1951-1952 | |||||||||
| 12 | 380 | U.S.S. Skinafore - operetta, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 12 | 381 | Walker - manuscript, n.d. | |||||||||
| 12 | 382 | Williams Likes Williams - published in the Elks Magazine, May 1946 | |||||||||
| 12 | 383 | The World of John Lardner - collected articles, notes, ca. 1960s | |||||||||
| 12 | 384 | World War II dispatches (NANA) - Australia, Mar.-Jun. 1942 | |||||||||
| 12 | 385 | World War II dispatches (NANA, Newsweek) - North Africa, Feb.-Mar. 1943 | |||||||||
| 13 | 386-387 | World War II dispatches World War II dispatches (NANA, Newsweek) - North Africa, Apr.-Oct. 1943 | |||||||||
| 13 | 388 | World War II dispatches (NANA, Newsweek) - Italy, Algiers, Nov.-Dec. 1943 | |||||||||
| 13 | 389 | World War II dispatches (NANA, Newsweek) - Italy, Jan.-Feb. 1944 | |||||||||
| 13 | 390 | World War II dispatches (NANA, Newsweek) - Europe, Mar.-Apr. 1944 | |||||||||
| 13 | 391 | World War II dispatches (NANA), Jan.-May 1945 | |||||||||
| 13 | 392 | World War II dispatches (Newsweek), 1945 | |||||||||
| 13 | 393 | World War II dispatches (New Yorker), 1945 | |||||||||
| 13 | 394 | World War II - miscellaneous writing, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 13 | 395 | World War II - New York Herald Tribune articles, 1943 | |||||||||
| 13 | 396 | World Series - manuscript, ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 13 | 397 | You Know Me Al - introduction - manuscript, 1959 | |||||||||
Series 3: Personal, 1929-1961 |
|||||||||||
| Various personal mementos and souveniers including biographical clippings, reviews of Lardner's books, financial materials, sports and World War II items. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 14 | 398 | Biographical clippings, 1938-1963 | |||||||||
| 14 | 399 | Book reviews, 1943-1961 | |||||||||
| 14 | 400 | Death - obituaries, death certificate, 1960 | |||||||||
| 14 | 401 | Diary - fragment, 1934 | |||||||||
| 14 | 402 | Financial - receipts, etc., 1939-1957, n.d. | |||||||||
| 14 | 403 | Havard report card and i.d., 1930 | |||||||||
| 14 | 404 | Health - personal notes on heart condition, 1952-1959 | |||||||||
| 14 | 405 | Miscellaneous memorabilia, 1933-1960, n.d. | |||||||||
| 14 | 406 | Passport, membership, i.d.s, 1930-1933, n.d. | |||||||||
| 14 | 407 | Phillips Academy (see also oversize bound volume of The Phillipian) 1929-1931 | |||||||||
| 14 | 408 | Publicity - Newsweek biography, Bell Syndicate pamphlet, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 14 | 409 | Royalty statements, book contract, 1933-1960 | |||||||||
| 14 | 410 | Sports memorabilia, tickets, stats, 1938-1951, n.d. | |||||||||
| 14 | 411 | World War II - clippings, souvenirs, miscellaneous, 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 14 | 412 | World War II - official documents (see also oversize folder for Navy and War Department commendations), 1942-1946 | |||||||||
Series 4: Photographs, ca. 1900-1956 |
|||||||||||
| Portraits of John Lardner from childhood to adulthood, professional, historial, and souvenir photos of various sports and news figures, and two photographs taken in Bleecks, a bar frequented by Lardner and several of his journalist colleages from the New York Herald Tribune. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 15 | 413 | Baseball (box includees 16 mounted photos), ca. 1900-1910 | |||||||||
| 16 | 414 | Bleecks - group shots featuring Lardner, Howard Baines, Mitch Rawson, Hugh Beech, Stanley Walker, Ann Honeycutt, Walt Kelly, Morrie Werner, and George Wells, 1935, ca. 1930s | |||||||||
| 16 | 415 | Boxers and boxing, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 16 | 416 | Johnson, Jack, ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 16 | 417 | Lardner, John - childhood and family (includes Ring Lardner), 1912-1926 | |||||||||
| 16 | 418 | Lardner, John - portraits - childhood and youth, ca. 1915-1930 | |||||||||
| 16 | 419 | Lardner, John - portraits - adult, ca. 1930-1950 | |||||||||
| 16 | 420 | Lardner, John - various group shots, 1931, ca. 1930s | |||||||||
| 16 | 421 | Lardner, John - World War II, ca. 1942-1945 | |||||||||
| 16 | 422 | Lardner, Ring, ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 16 | 423-428 | Chicago American news photo scrapbook (includes photos from the Chicago American featuring John Dillinger, Gertrude Stein, Jackie Cooper, and others), ca. 1930s | |||||||||
| 16 | 429 | Miscellaneous and unidentified, ca. 1930s | |||||||||
| 16 | 430 | Olympics trip, 1956 | |||||||||
Series 5: Artwork, ca. 1951-1959 |
|||||||||||
| Original pen and ink illustrations by Walt Kelly for Lardner's book Strong Cigars and Lovely Women, and orginal pen and ink illustrations for "It Happened in Sports," the column Lardner wrote for True magazine. Also one original drawing and two promotional sheets for Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strip. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 17 | 431-434 | Kelly, Walt - original pen and ink drawings for Strong Cigars and Lovely Women, ca. 1951 | |||||||||
| 17 | 435 | Kelly, Walt - Pogo comic strip - one original drawing and two promotional sheets, 1959 | |||||||||
| 17 | 436-437 | Mullin, Willard - color separation transparencies, 1950s | |||||||||
| 17 | 438-447 | Mullin, Willard - original pen and ink drawings for It Happened in Sports columns, 1950s | |||||||||