This collection was a gift from Carol Gelderman to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia on May 6, 2009.
There are four series. 1. Correspondence, interviews, and research, 2. Manuscripts and photocopies, 3. Reviews and articles, 4. Personal and miscellaneous.
Carol Gelderman is a a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Orleans and author of eight books including Henry Ford, the Wayward Capitalist, Mary McCarthy, A Life, and "Louis Auchincloss A Writer's Life". She also worked for the American Embassy in London for a year, and public television in Chicago, conducting on-air interviews of visiting VIPs for a show called Profile Chicago. She also has a strong interest in politics and government, as reflected in her book All The Presidents' Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency. She has written dozens of articles on topics as varied as theatre, biography, politics, and mutual funds.
Source: http://www.uno.edu/creative-writing-low-residency-mfa/faculty/carol-gelderman.aspx
MSS 14652, Gelderman record files of biography of Louis Auchincloss, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.
Carol Gelderman interview and research notes, reviews, articles, and information about Louis Auchincloss for her biography, "Louis Auchincloss A Writer's Life". She researched and wrote the book from 1989 to 1993. There is also audiovisual material.
Carol Gelderman's interview and research notes for her biography on Louis Auchincloss, "A Writer's Life". She interviewed people that knew Louis Auchincloss in many areas of his life, including as a family member, an attorney, head of the Museum of New York City, a graduate of Groton School, Yale University, and the University of Virginia.
Also includes a manuscript that Auchincloss wrote regarding the time he spent with Amelie Rives Troubetskoy when he was a student at the University of Virginia.(copies)
Correspondents include John O'Hara, Mrs. Darcy Coyle, Paul Windels, Lawrence S. Kubie, John V. Lindsay, [Glemory W.], [Lefty], Carson McCullers, McGeorge Bundy, Granville Hicks, Richard W. B. Lewis, Daniel O' [Cornwell], Arthur MIzener, Anthony Powell, Stanley Loomis, Eleanor R. Belmont, Abraham D. Beame, James M. Hester, Leon Edel, Stewart Alsop, Ruth Jolly, Archibald Macleod, Nina Auchincloss Steers Straight, Calder Willingham, John Cheever, Otto Friedrich, Hortense Calisher, Joseph Papp, Stephen Birmingham, and Jean Stafford.
Correspondents include Gerald Gunther, Kenneth Cavander, Barbara Tuchman, Dr. Farrington Daniels, Shirley Hazzard, Harrison E. Salisbury, Tina Howe, Iris Origo, Francis Steegmuller, Mary McCarthy, John Kenneth Galbraith, Malcolm S. Forbes, Anthony Lewis, Cardinal William Baum, Manya Starr, Joseph Papp, Charles Fuller, Ralph Ellison, Marsha Norman, William Gass, William Gaddis, Brooke Astor, Mario M. Cuomo, Consuelo Balsan, Mrs. John Giltare, Mrs. Reginald Allen (Helen Howe), Robert M. Kaufman, Frederick Buechner, Jean Stafford, Stephen Birmingham, Schuyler G. Chapin, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, Orville PrescottRuth Jolly, and Allan Nevins.
Only contains a list of questions.
Notes about Stridle's memories of Louis Auchincloss on a ship during World War II.
Includes information about John Foster Dulles, and the Sullivan and Cromwell International law firm and their involvement in funding Germany and Hitler before the war.
Includes information about Louis Auchincloss, the law firm Hawkins, Delafield and Woods, Museum of New York,and Donald Robinson who reveals that if that he had accepted the position of White House counsel in the Nixon administration Robinson would have been able to stop Watergate.
Interview notes about the Auchincloss family and Louis Auchincloss at Groton.
Letters (photocopies) with McGeorge Bundy, Oliver LaFarge, and George Rickey about Groton. Also included is an extract from Lafarge's book, "Raw Material".
Photocopies of publications about Yale and writings by Louis Auchincloss.
Photocopies of articles, short stories, and plays written by Louis Auchincloss. Also included is Carol Gelderman manuscript of her biography on Louis Auchincloss, "A Writers Life"
Anne and Gordon Auchincloss make up the company "the write people"
Photocopy from Clifton Waller Barrett collection on Auchincloss MSS 9121-k
photocopy from Clifton Waller Barrett collection on Auchincloss MSS 9121-k
Philip Hone account of the marriage of Charles Handy Russell who is the great grandfather) of Louis Auchincloss.
Reviews and works of Louis Auchincloss. There is also some correspondence here but most correspondence can be found in Series 1. correspondence: Louis Auchincloss correspondence with publishers. Some materials are photocopies from the Clifton Waller Barrett collection MSS 9121-k.
Catol Gelderman defense of Louis Auchincloss as the best writer to illuminate features ofthe American experience to japanese readers. This may have been a talk that Carol Gelderman gave on NHK Televison, an education television company based in Tokyo.
Also includes letters to publishers.
"So Brief a Time" from the Yale Alumni Journal, 1975; "Pater and Wilder: Two Different Solutions to the Nineteenth Century Problem of Aestheticism and Homosexuality, "Gilded Gotham", and an untitled article by Louis Auchincloss describing his own work.
Includes Intoduction to "Yankee From Olympus", and Preface to Woodlawn Remembers"
Information about Louis Auchincloss including grades from school, family genealogy, and places in which he was associated.
Information about awards and dinners honoring Louis Auchincloss including the "Outstanidng Contribution to Cultural Affairs by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, The National Arts Club award for Distinction in Literature, Museum of the City of New York 20th Annual Twenty-Four Dollar award, 151st Anniversary Dinner of the Saint Nicholas Society of New York in honor of Louis Auchincloss, and Governor Mario Cuomo dinner invitation.
Notes, family tree, a foreword to the Members of the Dixon Assoication by Priscilla Stanton Auchincloss, a Memoir of Charles Handy Russell, and articles in Quest magazine Summer 1990, and Architectural Digest, 1985 July.
Family correspondence and school reports from Bovee School and Groton School. (Photocopoies)
Articles, notes, and photocopied memorabilia and pictures of events at the school.
Miscelaneous items including a printed decision of the Appellate Division on the Matter of Richard M. Nixon and the Bar of the City of New York, July 8, 1976 and "Statement Relating to the Wartime Activities of the Firm of Worms & CIE., Paris France, September 20, 1947.