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Helen, Ira, and Michael Wolfert papers

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Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 1313
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
33 linear feet (35 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Helen, Ira, and Michael Wolfert papers, 1920-2001, Ms. Coll. 1313, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1920-2001 (inclusive)
Creator:
Wolfert family
Form:
Clippings (information artifacts), Poetry, Family papers, Financial records, Correspondence, Writings (documents), Photographs, Negatives (photographic), Notes, and Drafts (documents)
Abstract:
This collection includes material related to the lives and work of Helen (1901-1985), Ira (1908-1997), and Michael Wolfert (1936-2001). It contains correspondence between the family and others; manuscripts by all three subjects, as well as others; financial documents; personal documents; photos taken by and of the family; newspaper clippings collected by Helen and Ira; and notes and miscellanea from all three subjects.

The Wolfert family, whose lives spanned the 20th century and who engaged with most of the important domestic and international concerns of the day, were a remarkably close-knit family of writers and thinkers who struggled to keep their family relationships intact while also pursuing the elusive goal of long-term literary success. As a war reporter during WWII, embedded with the U.S. Forces in the Pacific, Ira Wolfert's journalism won him widespread acclaim, but in the post-war era his writing fell out of fashion, and he devoted much of his time to well-paying but personally unfulfilling human interest pieces for Reader's Digest. His wife, Helen Wolfert, achieved some success in the pre-war poetry scene, but was frustrated in her post-war attempts to publish an experimental novel, The Birth; and in the decades that followed, she endured increasing amounts of rejection, as well as prolonged mental and physical illness. She turned her energies to a number of side interests, including space travel, extra-sensory perception, and a new translation of The Song of Songs, while also encouraging her son Michael's writing career, both emotionally and financially, as he pursued a bohemian life in Africa and Europe, attempting to produce a massive autobiographical novel which was never published. Finally, after several divorces and a stint of magazine work in New York in the same vein as his father, the trauma of his mother's death brought Michael back to the family home in Woodstock, NY, where he cared for his father in his final days.

Ira Wolfert was an American journalist and novelist. Born in New York, NY in 1908, Wolfert was a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, and worked for the North American Newspaper Alliance during the 1930s and 40s. He married Helen Herschdorfer in 1928, with whom he had two children, Ruth (1933-2001) and Michael (1936-2001). In 1943, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Battle of Guadalcanal. After the war, his novel Tucker's People (1943) became a bestseller, and was made into a movie, Force of Evil (1948). Until his retirement, Wolfert worked as a staff writer for Reader's Digest. He was the author of One Man Air Force (1944, with Don Gentile), An Act of Love (two versions: 1949, 1954), and Married Men (1953). He died in Margaretville, NY, in 1997.

Helen X. Herschdorfer Wolfert was an American poet and essayist. Born in New York, NY in 1901, she graduated from Hunter College and taught in New York City schools for ten years. She married Ira Wolfert in 1928, with whom she had two children, Ruth and Michael. During her career she published poems and articles in magazines such as Poetry, Harper's Bazaar, The New Republic and The Nation, and her books include Nothing is a Wonderful Thing (1946), The Music (1965), and Landlady and Tenant (1979). She died in Woodstock, NY in 1985.

Michael Wolfert was an American writer and the son of Ira and Helen Wolfert. Born in New York, NY in 1936, he graduated from Harvard College in 1957 and worked briefly as a reporter for The Boston Globe and The New York Post before moving to Tangier and then to Paris, where he served in the Secretariat of UNESCO. After leaving UNESCO with a writing fellowship, he lived in Sweden for many years before returning to America in the 1980s, where he worked as a staff writer for Womens World. He was a co-writer of the English translation of Miodrag Bulatovic's The War Was Better (1971). His first wife, Paula Wolfert, is a well-known writer of cookbooks and culinary articles. He died in Lake Hill, NY in 2001.

This collection includes material related to the lives and work of Helen, Ira, and Michael Wolfert. It contains correspondence between the family and others; manuscripts by all three subjects, as well as a smaller amount by colleagues and acquaintances; financial documents; personal documents; photos taken by and of the family; newspaper clippings collected by the family; and notes and miscellanea.

The correspondence concerns the personal and professional lives of the Wolferts. Notable correspondents include Muriel Rukeyser, Denise Levertov, and other notable twentieth century editors and poets. The wartime correspondence, in particular, helps illustrate the family's relationships during a time of national crisis.

The manuscripts, with their somewhat idiosyncratic ordering and continual revision, represent the struggle (especially in regards to Michael and Helen) of each writer to produce meaningful work in the post-war years, as cohesive literary material is slowly superseded by magazine work and diffuse notes; in Helen's case, they document her somewhat eccentric hobbies, such as her fascination with space travel and ESP, as well as her deep interest in the history of The Song of Songs.

The financial material represents Ira and Helen's growing middle-class stability in the post-war years, as well as their struggles to support Michael and Ruth, whose financial situations were more precarious.

The personal material includes official documents like birth, marriage, and death certificates, as well as more intimate material, like Helen's Rorshach test and Ira's wallet and its contents.

The series labelled Photographs contains many pictures of unclear provenance and subject, probably taken by Ira during his WWII-era travels and research trips for Reader's Digest, but also contain portraits of the whole family, including more distant relatives.

The series of newspaper clippings reflect Helen and Ira's interest in international events, particularly the state of the U.S.S.R. and Israel, two countries in which both had a special interest, as Jewish progressives and Marxist sympathizers. The series of notes and miscellanea consists mostly of material culled from the folders of correspondence which could not be identified with any particular subject.

Gift of George D. Wachtel, 2001 May 31

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Sam Allingham
Finding Aid Date
2017 November 7
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Scope and Contents

The correspondence is organized alphabetically by sender. The majority of the correspondence from outside the family was addressed to Ira and Helen, and concerns their personal, professional, and political lives. In addition, there is a significant amount of personal material from Michael, mostly during his time in Tangier, Paris, and Sweden. Any correspondence which concerns manuscripts, published work, or editorial decisions by publishers is located in Series II: Writings.

Ackerman - Auerbach , 1944-1959.
Box 1 Folder 1
Baird-Butler, 1937-1980.
Box 1 Folder 2
Cameron-Crow, 1943-2000.
Box 1 Folder 3
Da Costa-Driscoll, 1944-1971.
Box 1 Folder 4
Edminster-Ewing, 1947-1972.
Box 1 Folder 5
Farrar-Freyderhz, 1943-1992.
Box 1 Folder 6
Galyon-Greenburger, 1943-1964.
Box 1 Folder 7
Halkin-Hughes, 1943-1979.
Box 1 Folder 8
Jaffe-Judith, 1943-1951.
Box 1 Folder 9
Keedick-Kuhn, 1943-1972.
Box 1 Folder 10
La Farge-Laden, 1931-1972.
Box 1 Folder 11
Lamb-Lord, 1936-1974.
Box 1 Folder 12
Mack-Mueller, 1937-1972.
Box 1 Folder 13
Nash-Otis, 1936-1954.
Box 1 Folder 14
Paige-Rukeyser, 1942-1992.
Box 1 Folder 15
Sacks-Sulamith, 1932-1989.
Box 1 Folder 16
Taylor-Volkening, 1936-1976.
Box 1 Folder 17
Wachtel-Wise, 1931-1999.
Box 1 Folder 18
Wolfert, Alton-Wolfert, Arthur, 1943-1979.
Box 1 Folder 19
Wolfert, Bato, after 1974.
Box 1 Folder 20
Wolfert, Helen, 1925.
Box 1 Folder 21
Wolfert, Helen, 1944-1955.
Box 1 Folder 22
Wolfert, Helen, 1956-1983.
Box 1 Folder 23
Wolfert, Ira, 1943.
Box 1 Folder 24
Wolfert, Ira, 1970-1993, undated.
Box 1 Folder 28
Wolfert, Ira, 1944, March-July.
Box 1 Folder 25
Wolfert, Ira, 1944, Aug-1957.
Box 1 Folder 26
Wolfert, Ira, 1960-1969.
Box 1 Folder 27
Wolfert, Leila, 1981-1983.
Box 2 Folder 1
Wolfert, Michael, circa 1943.
Box 2 Folder 2
Wolfert, Michael, 1952-1956.
Box 2 Folder 3
Wolfert, Michael, 1957-1963.
Box 2 Folder 4
Wolfert, Michael, 1963-1969.
Box 2 Folder 5
Wolfert, Michael, 1970-1976.
Box 2 Folder 6
Wolfert, Michael, 1977-1982.
Box 2 Folder 7
Wolfert, Michael, 1989-2001.
Box 2 Folder 8
Wolfert, Paula, 1966-1980.
Box 2 Folder 9
Wolfert, Rafi-Wolfert, Ruth, 1943-1981.
Box 2 Folder 10
Wolfert, Seime, 1972-1984.
Box 2 Folder 11
Wolfert, Vivian-Zilmer, 1941-1977.
Box 2 Folder 12
Unknown sender, 1944-1990.
Box 2 Folder 13
Unknown sender, undated.
Box 2 Folder 14

Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are organized at the subseries level by author. Because all three Wolferts (most notably Helen and Michael) wrote a great deal of material that remained unpublished, and because they continually revised this material over the course of their lifetime, identifying titles and dates can be difficult. Whenever possible, the initial folder titles (written by Helen and sometimes by Michael) have been preserved, dates have been approximated using written clues and relationship to published material, and the folders have been arranged chronologically, using the earliest identifiable date within each folder. In addition, the manuscripts have been separated into "Manuscript" and "Published" material; the latter consists of copies of journals and magazines containing the author's work. Any correspondence concerning manuscripts, published work, or editorial decisions by publishers is also located in this series, within the appropriate author's subseries.

"The Faraway Princess", 1923.
Box 3 Folder 1
"Early poems", after 1928.
Box 3 Folder 2
Articles and poems in NYC newspapers, 1930-1945.
Box 3 Folder 3
Extra copies of poems, circa 1930-1963, undated.
Box 3 Folder 4
Drawings, 1931, 1949, undated.
Box 3 Folder 5
Early poems, 1931.
Box 26 Folder 1
Ruth's baby book, 1933.
Box 3 Folder 6
Various poems, 1940-1947.
Box 3 Folder 7
Early poems , before 1942.
Box 26 Folder 2-3
"Poems for occasions", 1944-1972.
Box 3 Folder 8
Birthday greetings / cards, 1945-1981.
Box 3 Folder 9
Nothing is a Wonderful Thing manuscript, circa 1946.
Box 3 Folder 10
Nothing is a Wonderful Thing proofs, circa 1946.
Box 26 Folder 4-5
Person to Person manuscript, 1946.
Box 3 Folder 11
Writing in response to editorial in the New York Times, 1946 January.
Box 3 Folder 12
"The Meeting", before 1947.
Box 3 Folder 13
To Canyon, unpublished novel, notes and scenes, circa 1947.
Box 26 Folder 6
Writing about reviews, 1947-1950.
Box 3 Folder 14
"Up from Poetry", 1948.
Box 26 Folder 7
The Birth, early handwritten version, circa 1949.
Box 26 Folder 8-11
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Mother", circa 1949.
Box 3 Folder 15
"I Came Down Flying with a Pencil in My Hand", before 1950.
Box 3 Folder 16
Manuscripts rejected by Translations magazine, before 1950.
Box 3 Folder 17
Transcripts of conversations, circa 1950.
Box 3 Folder 18
The Adventures of Showerpuss and Wallop, circa 1950.
Box 3 Folder 19-21
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Mother" and other poems, circa 1950.
Box 3 Folder 22-24
Notes on ESP, 1954.
Box 3 Folder 25
Ideas for products submitted to companies, 1954-1958.
Box 3 Folder 26
The Birth, full typescript copy with front matter, circa 1955.
Box 4 Folder 1-3
The Birth typescript, circa 1955.
Box 26 Folder 12-13
The Birth, copy submitted to Harpers and Company, circa 1955.
Box 4 Folder 4-6
The Birth, partial copy, circa 1955.
Box 4 Folder 7-8
The Birth, full typescript copy, circa 1955.
Box 4 Folder 9-14
The Birth, handwritten copy, circa 1955.
Box 4 Folder 15
The Birth, handwritten copy, circa 1955.
Box 26 Folder 14
Helen's journal of a trip to Russia, 1955.
Box 4 Folder 16
"An Hour in the Sun", circa 1956.
Box 4 Folder 17
Notes and writing from trip to Israel, 1956-1957.
Box 26 Folder 15-16
Story written for a friend to gain acceptance to Hunter College, 1957.
Box 4 Folder 18
Notes on art, circa 1958.
Box 4 Folder 19
Travel writing, 1960-1970.
Box 4 Folder 20
Religious and cultural writing, 1962.
Box 4 Folder 21
The Music of the Tell, version sent to typist, 1962.
Box 26 Folder 17
Poems from The Dream, circa 1963.
Box 4 Folder 22
Notes for readings/lectures, circa 1963.
Box 4 Folder 23-24
"New Poems", after 1963.
Box 4 Folder 25
Poems written in the hospital, 1963 November-1964 January.
Box 5 Folder 1
Notebooks of translation of Song of Songs, 1963-1972.
Box 5 Folder 2
Autobiographical writing, after 1964.
Box 5 Folder 3
Writings on Israel/Judaism, after 1964.
Box 5 Folder 4
uncorrected typescript of The Song of Songs, circa 1965.
Box 5 Folder 6
Typescript of The Music with editorial comments and proofs, 1965.
Box 26 Folder 18
The Song of Songs, 1965.
Box 5 Folder 5
Handwritten poems, 1965 September 11.
Box 5 Folder 7
Autobiographical notes, 1965-1975.
Box 5 Folder 8
Poems arranged for project with Jane Bromberg, circa 1966.
Box 5 Folder 9
History of the interpretation of The Song of Songs, circa 1967.
Box 5 Folder 10
The Music, 1965.
Box 5 Folder 11
Notes on The Song of Songs, 1967-1969.
Box 5 Folder 12
Manuscript of intro for the Song of Songs, circa 1969.
Box 5 Folder 13
The Adventures of Bato and Leila, Book II, 1969.
Box 5 Folder 14
"You're All My Children", circa 1969.
Box 5 Folder 15
Manuscript pages of the Song of Songs, circa 1971.
Box 26 Folder 19-22
Poems begun in Sarasota, circa 1972.
Box 5 Folder 16
Notes, circa 1972.
Box 5 Folder 17
Autobiographical poems, circa 1973.
Box 5 Folder 18
Poems sent to the Sheeps Meadow Press, 1973.
Box 5 Folder 19
"Letter to a Publisher", 1974.
Box 5 Folder 20
Christmas poems, 1975, undated.
Box 5 Folder 21
Prologue to the translation of the Song of Songs, circa 1975.
Box 5 Folder 22
Notes related to Poetry Society of America, 1975-1977.
Box 5 Folder 23
List of poems sent out for publication, circa 1976.
Box 5 Folder 24
Various poems, circa 1977.
Box 26 Folder 23
Proofs of Landlady and Tenant, 1979.
Box 5 Folder 25
Various poems , circa 1979.
Box 5 Folder 26
Dust jacket for Landlady and Tenant, 1979.
Box 5 Folder 27
Manuscript of Landlady and Tenant and other unpublished poems, circa 1980.
Box 5 Folder 28
Doubtful Poems, circa 1980.
Box 6 Folder 1
Articles/letters published in newspapers from Woodstock, New York, 1980-1981.
Box 6 Folder 2
Testimonal for Muriel Rukeyser, circa 1980.
Box 26 Folder 24
"Portrait of Muriel" (about Muriel Rukeyser), circa 1980.
Box 6 Folder 3
Poems collected in an issue of the New Yorker, 1981.
Box 6 Folder 4
"What are Birds?", 1982.
Box 6 Folder 5
"Sounds into Words", circa 1985.
Box 6 Folder 6
"Sounds Drifting into Words", circa 1985.
Box 6 Folder 7
Poems rejected by Sheeps Meadow Press, 1985.
Box 6 Folder 8
Unfinished poems, undated.
Box 6 Folder 9
"Many Lives", undated.
Box 6 Folder 10
Limericks, undated.
Box 6 Folder 11
Unfinished poems from Poems of the Gongs, undated.
Box 6 Folder 12
Various poems, undated.
Box 6 Folder 13
"New Poems", undated.
Box 6 Folder 14
"Poems of My Life", undated.
Box 6 Folder 15
"Autobiographical Poems", undated.
Box 6 Folder 16
Songs, undated.
Box 6 Folder 17
Early versions of poems, undated.
Box 6 Folder 18
"Notes on Bees and Other Notes", undated.
Box 6 Folder 19
Poems to be sent to magazines, undated.
Box 6 Folder 20
"The Evolution Series", undated.
Box 6 Folder 21
Unfinished autobiographical poems and others, undated.
Box 6 Folder 22
Rediscovered beginnings of poems, undated.
Box 6 Folder 23
"An Hour in the Sun", undated.
Box 6 Folder 24
"The Dream that Would Not Go Away", undated.
Box 6 Folder 25
"Autumn Landscape", undated.
Box 6 Folder 26
"The Mesmerist", undated.
Box 6 Folder 27
Notes on the Song of Songs, undated.
Box 27 Folder 1-4
Typed poems from "An Hour in the Sun", undated.
Box 27 Folder 5-6
Unidentified poems, undated.
Box 27 Folder 7
Poems and stories for children, undated.
Box 27 Folder 8
Research material for the Song of Songs, undated.
Box 27 Folder 9
Notes on prelude to the Song of Songs, undated.
Box 27 Folder 10-11
Carbons of poems, undated.
Box 27 Folder 12
"Untitled Poems", undated.
Box 27 Folder 13
"Poems Finished or Being Worked On", undated.
Box 27 Folder 14
"Last Poems", undated.
Box 27 Folder 15
"The Meeting", undated.
Box 27 Folder 16
Notes and poems, undated.
Box 27 Folder 17
1923-1964.
Box 6 Folder 28
1923-1964.
Box 27 Folder 18-19
1965-1977.
Box 6 Folder 29
Correspondence with magazines, 1932-1934.
Box 6 Folder 30
Correspondence re: Nothing is a Wonderful Thing, 1943-1950.
Box 27 Folder 20
Correspondence regarding "Woman Against the Moon", 1945-1950.
Box 6 Folder 31
Correspondence regarding manuscripts, 1945-1950.
Box 6 Folder 32
Correspondence with agents and editors, 1958-1959 October.
Box 6 Folder 33
Correspondence with agents and editors, 1959 Nov - 1962 Oct.
Box 6 Folder 34
Correspondence with agents and editors, 1962 Oct-1965.
Box 7 Folder 1
Correspondence re: the Music.
Box 27 Folder 21
Notes on Helen's poems from an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence, 1966.
Box 7 Folder 2
Correspondence regarding the copyright for The Music, 1967.
Box 7 Folder 3
Correspondence regarding poetry submissions, 1967 June-1971 July.
Box 7 Folder 4
Correspondence regarding accepted poems, 1968.
Box 7 Folder 5
Correspondence regarding poetry submissions, 1971 July-1974 October.
Box 7 Folder 6
Correspondence re: poetry submissions, 1972-1980.
Box 27 Folder 22
Correspondence with agents and editors, 1975 July-1976 June.
Box 7 Folder 7
Rejection letters , circa 1980.
Box 7 Folder 8
Correspondence regarding poetry submissions, undated.
Box 7 Folder 9
"In the Black Morning", 1939.
Box 27 Folder 23-24
"New Work", circa 1939.
Box 27 Folder 25
"A Little Masculine", 1942.
Box 27 Folder 26
War writing, 1943.
Box 7 Folder 10
Tucker's People, typescript, circa 1943.
Box 7 Folder 11-14
Tucker's People, typescript, circa 1943.
Box 28 Folder 1-3
Tucker's People, typescript, agency copy, circa 1943.
Box 7 Folder 15-17
An Act of Love, early notebooks, circa 1943.
Box 28 Folder 4
The Cave, early version of an Act of Love, 1943.
Box 27 Folder 5-7
"The Resistance Story", after 1943.
Box 7 Folder 18
An Act of Love, circa 1944.
Box 28 Folder 8-17
Wartime articles, 1944.
Box 7 Folder 19
PR and clippings for One Man Air Force, 1944.
Box 8 Folder 1
War writings, circa 1944.
Box 8 Folder 2
Wartime notes, 1944 .
Box 8 Folder 3
War writings, 1944 March-October.
Box 8 Folder 4
War writings, 1944-1945.
Box 8 Folder 5
Articles in "Cross Section", 1944-1945.
Box 8 Folder 6
Interview regarding Buchenwald, general notes, 1945.
Box 8 Folder 7
Interview regarding Buchenwald, research, circa 1945.
Box 8 Folder 8
Interview regarding Buchenwald, 1945.
Box 8 Folder 9-11
History Island (early version of American Geurrila), 1945.
Box 29 Folder 1
Proofs of an American Geurrila, circa 1945.
Box 29 Folder 2
"Pilot, Man Your Plane", circa 1947.
Box 29 Folder 3
Book reviews, circa 1947.
Box 8 Folder 12
Tucker's People, screenplay, 1948.
Box 8 Folder 13
"Scandal in Grand Rapids", 1949.
Box 29 Folder 4-5
Joy Boy, play, circa 1950.
Box 8 Folder 14
Joy Boy: a comedy, play, 1950.
Box 8 Folder 15
Joy Boy, play, 2nd revised draft, 1950.
Box 8 Folder 16
"Mr. Vorpe's Romance", 1951.
Box 29 Folder 6
"Dangerous Thoughts", 1951.
Box 29 Folder 7
"Elegy of Youth", 1951.
Box 29 Folder 8
"Danger: Man in Love", 1951.
Box 29 Folder 9
Speech given at Middlebury College against the Red Scare, 1951.
Box 8 Folder 17
Articles for the Nation, 1953.
Box 29 Folder 10
Married Men, final original version, circa 1953.
Box 9 Folder 1-8
Married Men, second draft, circa 1953.
Box 9 Folder 9-14
Married Men, play, first draft, after 1953.
Box 10 Folder 1
Married Men, play, second draft, after 1953.
Box 10 Folder 2
Married Men, play, unknown draft, after 1953.
Box 10 Folder 3
An Act of Love, "retold" version, 1954.
Box 10 Folder 4-7
Articles on road paving, circa 1954.
Box 10 Folder 8
Research materials for articles on road paving, circa 1954.
Box 10 Folder 9
Readers Digest articles, 1954.
Box 29 Folder 11
An Act of Love typescript with manuscript corrections, 1954.
Box 10 Folder 10-12
Research for dewatering article, 1955.
Box 10 Folder 13
Readers Digest articles , 1956.
Box 10 Folder 14
Readers Digest articles , 1957.
Box 10 Folder 15
Readers Digest articles , 1958-1959.
Box 11 Folder 1
Married Men, play, 1959.
Box 29 Folder 12-14
Readers Digest articles , 1960.
Box 11 Folder 2
Readers Digest articles , 1961.
Box 11 Folder 3
Journal, 1961.
Box 11 Folder 4
Readers Digest articles , 1962.
Box 11 Folder 5
"On the Doorstep of the Future", circa 1962.
Box 11 Folder 6
Readers Digest articles , 1963.
Box 11 Folder 7
Readers Digest articles , 1964.
Box 11 Folder 8
Readers Digest articles , 1965.
Box 11 Folder 9
Banty, a play, circa 1966.
Box 29 Folder 15-18
Readers Digest articles , 1966.
Box 11 Folder 10
Readers Digest articles , 1967.
Box 11 Folder 11
Readers Digest articles , 1968.
Box 11 Folder 12
"Sea Lab Report", 1968.
Box 11 Folder 13
Readers Digest research, 1968-1969.
Box 11 Folder 14
Readers Digest articles , 1969.
Box 11 Folder 15
Readers Digest ideas, 1969.
Box 11 Folder 16
Readers Digest articles , 1970.
Box 11 Folder 17
Readers Digest articles , 1971.
Box 11 Folder 18
Orgler and the Divorced Widow, circa 1980.
Box 11 Folder 19-21
Orgler, assorted pages, circa 1980.
Box 12 Folder 1
Orgler, first chapters sent to "Mr. Douglas", circa 1980.
Box 12 Folder 2-3
Orgler and the Divorced Widow, parts one and two, circa 1980.
Box 12 Folder 4-5
Orgler, typescript with handwritten edits, circa 1980.
Box 12 Folder 6-8
Orgler's Wife, circa 1980.
Box 12 Folder 9-14
Orgler, typescript with handwritten corrections, circa 1980.
Box 12 Folder 15-16
"It's Only Reflexes" , undated.
Box 29 Folder 19
"Danger: Man in Love", undated.
Box 29 Folder 20
Untitles short story, undated.
Box 29 Folder 21
"The Winners", undated.
Box 29 Folder 22-23
"The Victory", undated.
Box 29 Folder 24
Untitled manuscript, undated.
Box 29 Folder 25
Unidentified manuscript pages, undated.
Box 30 Folder 1-3
"In Right," Harpers Magazine, 1936 September.
Box 13 Folder 1
"Doctor Ford's Strange Palimpsest," Ken, 1938 August 11.
Box 25 Folder 1
"The Way the Luck Runs," Harpers Magazine, 1938 November.
Box 13 Folder 2
"Off the Highway," Esquire, 1937 October.
Box 13 Folder 3
"Finally Harriet," Harpers Magazine, 1938 October.
Box 13 Folder 4
"Brother Joe," Swank, 1941 October.
Box 13 Folder 5
Readers Digest articles, 1943-1960.
Box 13 Folder 6
"The Winners," Colliers, 1943 July 10.
Box 25 Folder 2
"Through Man Travelling," Tomorrow, 1950.
Box 30 Folder 4
"The Strange Case of Alger Hiss," Esquire, 1953 December.
Box 13 Folder 7
"The Indomitable Blue," Esquire, 1953 December.
Box 25 Folder 3
Book reviews, 1954.
Box 30 Folder 5
Russian translation of a short story, Cmeha, 1956.
Box 13 Folder 8
"The Economy, What Goes on Here?" Ameryka, circa 1962.
Box 25 Folder 4
"What It's Like in Outer Space," Readers Digest, undated.
Box 13 Folder 9
Correspondence regarding Tucker's People, 1939-1972.
Box 13 Folder 10
Correspondence regarding a co-operative publishing concern, 1945.
Box 13 Folder 11
Correspondence regarding An Act of Love, 1949.
Box 30 Folder 6-7
Correspondence regarding An Act of Love, second version, 1953-1954.
Box 30 Folder 8
Correspondence regarding Married Men, 1951-1954.
Box 13 Folder 12
Correspondence regarding Married Men, 1956.
Box 30 Folder 9
Correspondence regarding an engineering article for Readers Digest, 1954-1956.
Box 13 Folder 13
Correspondence regarding reissues of Tucker's People, 1956-1986.
Box 13 Folder 14
Correspondence regarding paperback edition of American Guerrila, 1974.
Box 30 Folder 10
Early work, 1940-1952.
Box 13 Folder 15
Early work, 1952-1955.
Box 13 Folder 16
Early work, circa 1959.
Box 13 Folder 17
Travel articles, short stories, circa 1971.
Box 13 Folder 18
Article on Swedish welfare state, 1974.
Box 13 Folder 19
Story Ideas for Women's World, 1980-1991.
Box 13 Folder 20
Life Beggars, novel, circa 1984.
Box 13 Folder 21
Journal entries, 1984 June-August.
Box 13 Folder 22
Journal entries, 1984 September-October.
Box 13 Folder 23
Journal entries, 1984 November-1985 Jan.
Box 14 Folder 1
Story idea for "Proud to be an American", 1985.
Box 14 Folder 2
Journal entries, 1985 January-June.
Box 14 Folder 3
Journal entries, 1985 July-October.
Box 14 Folder 4
Story ideas for Women's World, 1985 November-1987 March.
Box 14 Folder 5
Journal entries, 1985-1986.
Box 14 Folder 6
"Sexy Health", circa 1986.
Box 14 Folder 7
"Single Moms Beware", 1986.
Box 14 Folder 8
Journal entries, 1986 February-April.
Box 14 Folder 9
Journal entries, 1986 May-July.
Box 14 Folder 10
Journal entries, 1986 August-December.
Box 14 Folder 11
Journal of success, 1987.
Box 14 Folder 12
"Your Child's Choice of Friends", 1987.
Box 14 Folder 13
Meditation journal entries, 1987 January-February.
Box 14 Folder 14
Journal entries, 1987 January-April.
Box 14 Folder 15
Proposals for Star Magazine, 1987 February-March.
Box 14 Folder 16
Story ideas for Women's World, 1987 March 14.
Box 30 Folder 11
Meditation journal entries, 1987 March-April.
Box 14 Folder 17
Story ideas for Women's World, 1987, July 24 - 1988, February 14.
Box 30 Folder 12
Meditation journal entries, 1987 May-August.
Box 14 Folder 18
Journal entries, 1987 May-June.
Box 14 Folder 19
Story ideas for Women's World , 1987 April.
Box 14 Folder 20
Story ideas for Women's World, 1987 July.
Box 14 Folder 21-23
Story ideas for Women's World, 1987 July.
Box 15 Folder 1
Journal entries, 1987 September-1988 January.
Box 15 Folder 2
Story idea, "Autistic Child Cured", 1987-1988.
Box 15 Folder 3
Story ideas for Women's World, 1988 February-September.
Box 15 Folder 4
Story ideas for Women's World, 1988 March-September.
Box 30 Folder 13
Story ideas for Women's World, 1988 June 21-September 21.
Box 30 Folder 15
Story idea for USA Today, 1988 April 8-June 15.
Box 30 Folder 14
Journal entries, 1988 February-March.
Box 15 Folder 5
Journal entries, 1988 April-July.
Box 15 Folder 6
Journal entries , 1988 August-October.
Box 15 Folder 7
Story ideas for Women's World, 1988, October 6.
Box 15 Folder 8
Story ideas for Women's World, 1988 October 20.
Box 15 Folder 9
Story ideas for Women's World, 1988 November 3-16.
Box 15 Folder 10
Story ideas for Women's World, 1988 November 17-December 1.
Box 15 Folder 11
Dream journal entries, 1988 October-December.
Box 15 Folder 12
Journal entries, 1988 December-1989 March.
Box 15 Folder 13
Outline of "Desire", 1989.
Box 15 Folder 14
Journal entries, 1989 March-May.
Box 15 Folder 15
Journal entries, 1989 May-June.
Box 15 Folder 16
Journal entries, 1989 June-July.
Box 15 Folder 17
Journal entries, 1989 July-August.
Box 15 Folder 18
Journal entries, 1989 August-December.
Box 15 Folder 19
"Begging for Life", circa 1990.
Box 16 Folder 1
Journal entries, 1990 January-February.
Box 16 Folder 2
"Begging for Life", circa 1991.
Box 16 Folder 3
"An American Life", 1991.
Box 16 Folder 4
Assignments for Women's World, circa 1991.
Box 16 Folder 5
Tangier, novel, circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 6
Marrakesh, circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 7-8
Notes on rewrite for "Dawn", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 9
Notes on a novel about Tangier, circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 10
"Lot's House", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 11
Autobiographical novel, chapter 10-13, circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 12
Autobiographical novel, chapter 14-15, circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 13
Autobiographical novel, chapter 16-19, circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 14
"The Golden Hours", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 15
"Eva", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 16
"Dad", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 17
"Sis", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 18
Notes on "Arrival", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 19
Notes on "Hospital", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 20
Notes for rewrite of "Lib", circa 1997.
Box 16 Folder 21
"Look Again", circa 1997.
Box 17 Folder 1
Cuts from "Child", circa 1997.
Box 17 Folder 2
"Boom Doom", circa 1997.
Box 17 Folder 3
"Bliz", circa 1997.
Box 17 Folder 4
Notes for rewrite of "Lib", 2000.
Box 17 Folder 5
"Barnts", 2000.
Box 17 Folder 6
"April", circa 2000.
Box 17 Folder 7
"Hosp", circa 2000.
Box 17 Folder 8
Poems, undated.
Box 17 Folder 9
Notes on Paul Ricouer, undated.
Box 17 Folder 10
Research notes, undated.
Box 17 Folder 11
Anti-communist manifesto, circa 1952.
Box 30 Folder 16
Manuscripts from Muriel Rukeyser, 1967.
Box 30 Folder 18
Manuscripts from Muriel Rukeyser, 1972.
Box 17 Folder 12
Leila Wolfert, "An Oriental Dream", 1974.
Box 17 Folder 13
Paula Wolfert, circa 1994.
Box 17 Folder 14
Early work by Ruth Wolfert, 1937-1961.
Box 17 Folder 15
Manuscript by Ruth Wolfert, "The Railroad Industry: the New York Central", undated.
Box 17 Folder 16
Manuscripts by others, 1948-1980.
Box 17 Folder 17
Meir Lask's translation of the Song of Songs, undated.
Box 30 Folder 18
Adrienne Wolfert, undated.
Box 30 Folder 19
Miscellaneous writings by others , undated.
Box 30 Folder 20
Kroeber-Meyer, 1953-1967.
Box 31 Folder 1
Stone-Wolfskehl, 1946-1947.
Box 31 Folder 2

Scope and Contents

The financial documents are organized chronologically, with no subseries delineations, as the Wolferts' finances were deeply intertwined, especially after Michael came to live with his parents in Woodstock, NY. It contains tax, investment, bank, royalty, and insurance information, as well as medical bills and late-life care for Helen and Ira.

Correspondence regarding transfer of securities, 1933-1973.
Box 17 Folder 18
Receipts and Bills, 1936-1943.
Box 17 Folder 19
Leases, 1936-1949.
Box 17 Folder 20
Life insurance, 1940-1979.
Box 17 Folder 21
Contract and invoices for Ira's speaking engagements, 1943.
Box 17 Folder 22
Utility bills and info, 1944-1989.
Box 17 Folder 23
Deeds, 1945-1968.
Box 17 Folder 24
Plans for the Wolferts' Woodstock home, 1946.
Box 17 Folder 25
Commercial correspondence about insurance bills, 1950-1956.
Box 17 Folder 26
Royalties for An Act of Love, 1954.
Box 31 Folder 3
Car insurance, 1956-1991.
Box 17 Folder 27
County taxes, 1957-1992.
Box 18 Folder 1
Fire insurance, 1958-1995.
Box 18 Folder 2
Photos of car crash for insurance documentation, 1962.
Box 18 Folder 3
Receipts, 1963-1975.
Box 18 Folder 4
Receipts, 1963-1975.
Box 31 Folder 4
Health insurance, 1963-1990.
Box 18 Folder 5
Royalties for Tucker's People, 1955-1970.
Box 18 Folder 6
Utility receipts, 1966-1977.
Box 18 Folder 7
Transactions by Sheriff Securities Company, 1966-1978.
Box 18 Folder 8
Bank account info, 1967.
Box 18 Folder 10
Royalty statements for Helen Wolfert's The Music, 1967-1980.
Box 31 Folder 5
Social Security, 1968-1985.
Box 18 Folder 9
Income tax, 1970-1991.
Box 18 Folder 11
Stock trades, 1971.
Box 18 Folder 12
Stock trades, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 13
Royalties from Rising Tides, 20th Century Women Poets, 1973.
Box 18 Folder 14
Stock trades, 1974.
Box 18 Folder 15
Proof of stakeholder claim, 1974.
Box 18 Folder 16
Stock trades, 1975-1976.
Box 18 Folder 17
Stock trades, 1976-1978.
Box 18 Folder 18
Contract for Helen Wolfert's New and Selected Poems, 1978.
Box 18 Folder 19
Stock transaction statements, 1980-1982.
Box 18 Folder 20
Transactions by Sheriff Securities Company, 1980-1990.
Box 18 Folder 21
Royalty statements for Helen Wolfert's The Music, 1981.
Box 18 Folder 22
Stock transaction statements, 1982-1984.
Box 18 Folder 23
Tax info, 1984-1986.
Box 19 Folder 1
Bank statements, 1984-1990.
Box 19 Folder 2
Income tax statements, 1986-1989.
Box 19 Folder 3
Stock trades, 1986-1989.
Box 19 Folder 4
Tax info, 1987-1996.
Box 19 Folder 5
Veterinary bills, 1989-1999.
Box 19 Folder 6
Stock transaction statements, 1989-1990.
Box 19 Folder 7
Medical bills, 1989-1991.
Box 19 Folder 8
Income tax statements, 1990-1991.
Box 19 Folder 9
Stock trades, 1990-1991.
Box 19 Folder 10
Auto insurance, 1990-1994.
Box 19 Folder 11
Stock transaction statements, 1990-1994.
Box 19 Folder 12
Stock transaction statements, Michael and Ruth, 1991-1992.
Box 19 Folder 13
Bank statements, 1991-1993.
Box 19 Folder 14
Correspondence with Fidelity investments, 1992-1997.
Box 19 Folder 15
Financial information for Ira's social security application, 1993-1997.
Box 19 Folder 16
Financial records for Michael's work with the Screen Actors' Guild, 1994.
Box 19 Folder 17
Ira's checks, 1994-1995.
Box 19 Folder 18
Bank statements, Michael, 1994-1998.
Box 19 Folder 19
Michael's checks, 1994-1999.
Box 19 Folder 20
Bank statements, Ira, 1995.
Box 19 Folder 21
Materials related to Michael's purchase of Ira's house, 1995.
Box 19 Folder 22
Stock transaction statements, 1995.
Box 20 Folder 1
Credit card statements, 1995-1996.
Box 20 Folder 2
Financial info for Medicaid application, 1995-1997.
Box 20 Folder 3
Stock transaction statements, 1996.
Box 20 Folder 4
Deals concerning Ira's reissues, 1996-1999.
Box 20 Folder 5
Documents regarding Ira's late life care, 1997.
Box 20 Folder 6
Stock transaction statements, 1997.
Box 20 Folder 7
Credit card statements, 1997-1999.
Box 20 Folder 8
Stock transaction statements, 1998.
Box 20 Folder 9

Scope and Contents

The personal documents are organized chronologically, with no subseries delineations. This series contains marriage licenses, birth records, last will and testament, travel documents, the family rolodex, Ira's wallet, and other information.

Invitation to Ira's brother's bar mitzvah, 1920, October 21.
Box 20 Folder 10
Marriage license for Helen and Ira, 1928.
Box 20 Folder 11
Birth certificate for Ruth Wolfert, 1933.
Box 20 Folder 12
Bank book for Manuel Herschdorfer (Helen's relative), 1942.
Box 24 Folder 17
Ira's will and testament, several versions, 1942-1995.
Box 20 Folder 13
Documents from Ira's war correspondence (press permissions, fleet information), 1943-1944.
Box 20 Folder 14
Camp Woodland festival program, 1944.
Box 20 Folder 15
Cards from Ruth and Michael, circa 1945.
Box 20 Folder 16
Documents regarding Helen's care of her parents' graves, 1946.
Box 20 Folder 17
Documents regarding Ruth's education, 1946-1957.
Box 20 Folder 18
Documents regarding Michael's education, 1947-1953.
Box 20 Folder 19
Periodicals with Helen's annotations, 1947-1976.
Box 20 Folder 20
Information on Palestine, 1948.
Box 20 Folder 21
Invitation to Michael's Bar Mitzvah, 1949.
Box 20 Folder 22
Family insurance cards, 1950.
Box 20 Folder 23
Helen's social security materials, 1951-1963.
Box 20 Folder 24
Helen's Rorshach test, circa 1952.
Box 20 Folder 25
Ira's info from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1955-1956.
Box 31 Folder 6
Helen and Ira's passports, 1955-1979.
Box 20 Folder 26
Documents regarding the death of Ira's parents, 1962-1965.
Box 20 Folder 27
Insurance documents, 1968.
Box 31 Folder 7
Press passes for Ira and Helen to Apollo 8 mission, circa 1968.
Box 35 Folder 8
Optometrist's appointment card for Ira, 1968.
Box 20 Folder 28
Travel documents, 1968-1972.
Box 21 Folder 1
Michael's resumes, 1969-2000.
Box 21 Folder 2
Helen's medical records, 1970-1972.
Box 31 Folder 8
Renewal of Helen's copyright for Nothing is a Wonderful Thing, 1974.
Box 31 Folder 9
Automotive information, 1984-1988.
Box 21 Folder 3
Register of Helen's death, 1985.
Box 21 Folder 4
Ira's wallet (includes identification, social security card, membership cards), circa 1994.
Box 21 Folder 5
Medical info for Ira's late life care and death, 1996-1997.
Box 21 Folder 6
Information for Helen/Ira memorial, 1998-1999.
Box 21 Folder 7
Ira's diary of a trip to the Library of Congress, undated.
Box 21 Folder 8
Keys to Subaru, undated.
Box 21 Folder 9
Rolodex entries , undated.
Box 24 Folder 13-16

Scope and Contents

The photos are organized alphabetically by subject. Most are of uncertain provenance and date; some seem to have been taken during Ira's journalistic assignments for Readers Digest; some are of Michael and Ruth and other children; others are of landscapes and street scenes, possibly taken by Ira. In addition there are many publicity photos of Ira.

Animals, undated.
Box 21 Folder 18
Cats, undated.
Box 21 Folder 19
Cats, undated.
Box 31 Folder 10
Children (subject unknown), undated.
Box 21 Folder 20
Children, Ruth and Michael Wolfert, circa 1938-1945.
Box 21 Folder 21-22
Children, Ruth and Michael Wolfert, undated.
Box 31 Folder 12
Cityscapes, undated.
Box 22 Folder 1-5
Cityscapes, undated.
Box 31 Folder 13
Crowd scenes, undated.
Box 22 Folder 6-7
Family portraits (extended Wolfert family), undated.
Box 22 Folder 8-9
Helen Wolfert, 1931-1933, undated.
Box 22 Folder 10-13
Helen Wolfert, undated.
Box 31 Folder 14
Ira Wolfert, circa 1935-1971.
Box 22 Folder 14-17
Ira Wolfert, circa 1935-1986.
Box 23 Folder 1
Ira Wolfert, 1969.
Box 25 Folder unknown container
Ira Wolfert, undated.
Box 31 Folder 15
Landscapes, undated.
Box 23 Folder 2-5
Landscapes, undated.
Box 31 Folder 16-18
Michael Wolfert, circa 1976.
Box 23 Folder 6
Portraits, subject unknown, undated.
Box 23 Folder 7
Portraits, subject unknown, undated.
Box 31 Folder 19-20
Research sites, undated.
Box 23 Folder 8
Ruth Wolfert, undated.
Box 23 Folder 9
Ruth Wolfert, undated.
Box 31 Folder 20-23
Toy soldiers, undated.
Box 23 Folder 10
Tintypes, circa 1900.
Box 23 Folder 11
Vintage cabinet cards, circa 1890.
Box 23 Folder 12
Wolfert family, undated.
Box 31 Folder 24
Negatives - various, circa 1953.
Box 23 Folder 14
Negatives - portraits of Ira Wolfert, undated.
Box 23 Folder 13
Trees, 1933.
Box 32 Folder 1
Unidentified, 1933.
Box 32 Folder 2
Beatrice and Charlie, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 3
Flowers, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 4
Kallman, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 5-6
Landscapes, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 7-8
McCloy, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 9
New York, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 10-11
Ships, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 12
Ruth, baby, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 13-15
Ruth's doll, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 16
Unidentified, 1934.
Box 32 Folder 17
Helen, 1935.
Box 32 Folder 18-19
Herschdorfers, 1935.
Box 32 Folder 20
Ira, 1935.
Box 32 Folder 21
Ish Kushner, 1935.
Box 32 Folder 22
Kahlmans, 1935.
Box 32 Folder 23
Landscapes, 1935.
Box 32 Folder 24-25
Poritskeys, 1935.
Box 32 Folder 26
Ruth, baby, 1935.
Box 32 Folder 27-33
Snow, 1935.
Box 33 Folder 1
Unidentified, 1935.
Box 33 Folder 2-4
Gordons, 1936.
Box 33 Folder 5
Helen, 1936.
Box 33 Folder 6
New York, 1936.
Box 33 Folder 7-8
Niagra Falls, 1936.
Box 33 Folder 9
Ruth, child, 1936.
Box 33 Folder 10-12
Trees, 1936.
Box 33 Folder 14-15
Unidentified, 1936.
Box 33 Folder 16
Coogan's Bluff, 1937.
Box 33 Folder 17
Bahsts, 1937.
Box 33 Folder 18
Kallman, 1937.
Box 33 Folder 19
Landscapes, 1937.
Box 33 Folder 20
Michael, baby, 1937.
Box 33 Folder 21
Ruth, child, 1937.
Box 33 Folder 22-25
Seagulls, 1937.
Box 33 Folder 26
Unidentified, 1938.
Box 33 Folder 27-32
Ruth, child, 1938.
Box 33 Folder 33
Ruth, child, 1939.
Box 33 Folder 37
Unidentified, 1939.
Box 33 Folder 38-39
Unidentified, 1940.
Box 33 Folder 40
Unidentified, 1941.
Box 33 Folder 41
Ruth, child, 1942.
Box 33 Folder 42
Unidentified, 1942.
Box 33 Folder 43
Unidentified, 1945.
Box 33 Folder 44-45
Helen, 1946.
Box 33 Folder 46
Unidentified, 1946.
Box 33 Folder 47-48
Unidentified, 1947.
Box 33 Folder 49-50
Unidentified, 1948.
Box 33 Folder 51
Animals, undated.
Box 33 Folder 52
Flowers, undated.
Box 33 Folder 53
Groups, undated.
Box 33 Folder 54
Helen, undated.
Box 33 Folder 55
Joan, undated.
Box 33 Folder 56
Misc. subjects, A-K, undated.
Box 34 Folder 1
Misc. subjects, L-N, undated.
Box 34 Folder 2
Misc. subjects, S-W, undated.
Box 34 Folder 3
New York, undated.
Box 34 Folder 4-5
Ruth and Michael, undated.
Box 34 Folder 6
Wolfert family, undated.
Box 34 Folder 7
Zilmers, undated.
Box 34 Folder 8
Unidentified, undated.
Box 34 Folder 9-15
Helen, 1934.
Box 34 Folder 16-17
Herschdorfers, 1934.
Box 34 Folder 18
Ira, 1934.
Box 34 Folder 19
Julius, 1934.
Box 34 Folder 20
Unidentified, 1934.
Box 34 Folder 21
Dirigible, undated.
Box 34 Folder 22
Helen, undated.
Box 34 Folder 23
Unidentified, undated.
Box 34 Folder 24

Scope and Contents

The newspaper clippings are divided into subseries based on the subject/primary collector, separated by subject, and organized chronologically by date of publication. Clippings listed under Ira were either collected from folders bearing his name or feature his work. Clippings listed under Helen were either collected from folders with her own organizational titles or feature her work.

Clippings of Helen's articles, 1930-1977.
Box 23 Folder 15
Articles on poetry, 1943-1956.
Box 23 Folder 16
Reviews of Nothing is a Wonderful Thing, circa 1947.
Box 35 Folder 1
Articles on literature, 1947-1953.
Box 23 Folder 17
Articles on science, 1947-1961.
Box 23 Folder 18
Articles on the Middle East, 1947-1974.
Box 23 Folder 19
Articles on Russia, 1947-1953.
Box 23 Folder 20
Articles on the Red Scare, 1951.
Box 23 Folder 21
Articles on Judaism and anti-Semitism, 1951-1961.
Box 23 Folder 22
Articles on ancient civilizations, 1954-1961.
Box 23 Folder 23
Articles on Israel, 1956-1961.
Box 24 Folder 1-2
Articles on Israel, 1956-1957.
Box 35 Folder 2
Articles on law and politics, 1959-1961.
Box 24 Folder 3
Articles on international politics, 1959-1962.
Box 24 Folder 4
Articles on domestic politics, 1960-1961.
Box 24 Folder 5
Articles on race in America, 1961-1962.
Box 24 Folder 6
Clippings of Ira's war writings, 1929-1943.
Box 24 Folder 7
Reviews by Ira Wolfert, 1943-1949.
Box 24 Folder 8
Articles for New York Star by Ira, 1948-1949.
Box 24 Folder 9
Clippings regarding Ira's Pulitzer Prize, 1943.
Box 24 Folder 10
Clippings regarding Tucker's People, 1944.
Box 24 Folder 11
Reviews of an Act of Love, 1949.
Box 35 Folder 3
Reviews of Married Men, undated.
Box 35 Folder 4
Reviews of an Act of Love, second version, 1953.
Box 35 Folder 5

Scope and Contents

This series contains otherwise unclassifiable notes, receipts, and otherwise unidentified documents, most of which were found within folders that contained correspondence, but which could not be identified with particular authors or correspondents. In addition, the series contains artwork of unknown provenance and bound material without clear connection to any of the Wolferts, including brochures and calendars.

Documents and notes included in correspondence, 1943-1963.
Box 21 Folder 10
Documents and notes included in correspondence, 1964-1983.
Box 21 Folder 11
Loose material included in correspondence, 1958-1983.
Box 21 Folder 12
Empty envelopes from correspondence, 1932-1983.
Box 21 Folder 13
Miscellaneous notes and receipts, 1936-1987.
Box 21 Folder 14
Miscellaneous notes , undated.
Box 21 Folder 15
Miscellaneous notes, undates.
Box 35 Folder 6
Notes found in Ruth's correspondence, circa 1943-1970.
Box 21 Folder 16
Artwork, undated.
Box 21 Folder 17
Artwork, undated.
Box 35 Folder 7
Miscellaneous bound material, 1924-1966.
Box 24 Folder 12

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