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BROWNE MSS.

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Inventory

I. Correspondence

Consult Manuscripts Index for dates of letters of individual correspondents.

Box 1

• 1878 - 1948. Arranged chronologically (39 folders)
• undated. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent (4 folders)

II. Diaries

Box 2

• 1910, Apr.
• 1914
• 1921
• 1922, Jan. 1-Apr. 1
• 1926, May 22-Nov. 8. European trip
• 1929
• 1932-1933. Trip to Hawaii-Japan
• 1934
• 1935
• 1935. Russian trip
• 1935. Mediterranean trip
• 1936
• 1937
• 1939
• 1941
• 1941, Nov. Lecture tour with Sinclair Lewis
• 1942 (2 diaries)
• 1943
• 1945
• 1946
• undated. Notes on Far East

III. Writings

Arranged alphabetically by title. One folder per title unless otherwise indicated.

Box 3

• All Things Are Possible (31 folders; one bound volume)

Box 4

• Blessed Spinoza (13 folders)
• Bolton Scragg (2 folders)
• The Devil is Wiser (19 folders)
• Godly Mischief (2 folders)
• Golus (7 folders)

Box 5

• Golus (5 folders)
• The Graphic Bible (6 folders)
• How Odd of God (8 folders)
• Oh, Say Can You See (13 folders)

Box 6

• Oh, Say Can You see (3 folders)
• The Road to Nowadays (2 folders)
• See What I Mean? (19 folders)
• The Gilded Ghetto. 1923, July (Bound volume)
• Godly Mischief. 1922-1923 (Bound volume)

Box 7

• See What I Mean? (8 folders)
• Since Calvary (22 folders)

Box 8

• Since Calvary (12 folders)
• Something Went Wrong (12 folders)
• Stranger Than Fiction (11 folders)

Box 9

• That Man Heine (9 folders)
• This Believing World (7 folders)
• Wild Tongues (3 folders)
• Wisdom of Israel (15 folders)

IV. Articles

Arranged alphabetically by title. One folder per title unless otherwise indicated.

Box 10

• Around the World
• Around the World with a Portable
• Autobiography
• Beware of the Brawn-trusters
• The Case of Miss Hope O'Keefe
• By Jingo
• Chapters from the Life of Elijah Elman
• Charles Garland's Experiment
• A Conversation
• Cross Winds
• The Devotee of Democracy
• Even in Tahiti
• Excerpts from a Rabbi's Diary
• Experiments in Russia
• Hot Shots from Rowanis
• If Jesus Were Here Today
• It's a Small World After All
• The Jew
• The Jew Goes to Russia
• Jonah
• The Making of a Radical Rabbi
• The Mother of "Boh-boh" Mike
• Must We Wipe Out the German?
• Old Sarah
• On the Contrary
• On American Judaism
• The Plight of the Liberal Synagogue
• A Primer for Moderns
• The Rabbi
• Rotary of the Booster's Club
• Soldiers can Forget to Cough
• Teitelbaums of Tahiti
• Those Hot-aryans
• The Tresca Case
• Twelve Great Jews of Tomorrow
• The Undying Book
• What Can the Jews Do About It
• What is the Heritage of the Jews?
• What's Wrong with the Jew?
• Why are the Jews Like That?
• You Think Jews are Clever

V. Illustrations

One folder per subject unless otherwise indicated.

Box 12

• Character Sketches
• Notebooks
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Sketches
• Maps (3 folders)
• Sketches
• This Believing World

VI. Miscellaneous

One folder per subject unless otherwise indicated.

Box 10

• Der Eintritt Amerika's in den Krieg
• Tapley, R. Review of Browne's All Things Are Possible
• Photograph of Lewis Browne and Myna Eisner
• (Lissner) Browne
• Book Reviews by Browne
• Mrs. Leon Trotsky
• Notes
• Radio Broadcasts
• Speeches
• Trotsky notes. undated
• Ginzburg, A. Review of Browne's Stranger Than⬦
• Jackson, Frederick J.F. Review of Browne's Stranger Than Fiction
• Lore, Ludwig. That Trotsky Legend. undated
• Lore, Ludwig. When Trotsky Lived in New York. undated
• Maloney, Gertrude. A letter to Jane
• Rosenwald, Doris. Lewis Browne on Heinrich, Heine
• Sinclair, Upton Beall. A Lost Leader. undated
• Trotskii, Lev. Photograph and Hen Drawing. undated
• Trotskii, Natalia Ivanova(Sedova). Notes for
• Biography undated
• Browne, Lewis (3 folders)
• Browne, Lewis. Teaching Materials (9 folders)

Box 11

• Notebooks (3 folders)

Box 14

• Notes (2 boxes of index cards)

VII. Printed Materials

One folder per subject unless otherwise indicated.

Box 11

• Newspaper Clippings (3 folders)
• Newspaper Clippings. Stranger Than Fiction (2 folders)
• Newspaper Clippings
• Printed Material (5 folders)
• Newspaper Clippings
• Printed Material (4 folders)

Box 13

• Printed Galley Proofs
• Oh, Say Can You See!
• See What I Mean?
• Stranger Than Fiction
• That Man Heine (2 folders)
• Wisdom of Israel (2 folders)
• The World's Greatest Scriptures

Box 14

• Printed Galley Proofs
• All Things Possible
• How Odd of God
• Blessed Spinoza
• See What I Mean (2 folders)
• Something Went Wrong