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Group Research Inc. records, 1955-1996
215 linear feetWesley McCune founded Group Research Inc. in 1962 after a successful career as a journalist for such magazines as "Newsweek", "Time", "Life", and "Changing Times. Group Research Inc. was based in Washington DC until ceasing operations in the mid-1990s. The organization collected materials that focus on the right-wing and span four decades. The archive includes information about and by right-wing organizations and activists in the form of publications, correspondence, pamphlets, reports, the newspaper "Congressional Record," and magazine clippings and other ephemera. McCune and his small staff also published an initially bi-monthly but in later years monthly newsletter Group Research Report which kept its subscribers abreast of the latest views and actions of right-wingers.
Gay-Otis family papers, 1740-1900
33 linear feetPersonal, business, and legal letters; manuscripts including prose, poetry, and diaries; and documents including deeds, receipts, invoices, and account books. The 18th century materials focus on the personal and business correspondence of Calvin, Jotham, and Martin Gay, sons of Ebenezer Gay who were engaged in shipping between New England and the Maritime Provinces. There are occasional letters of Jotham and Martin referring to the American Revolution. The Otis family correspondence of the 18th century, likewise, is of a purely routine and personal nature. There are only four letters of Col. James Otis, and only two of his son, James. Gay and Otis family interests intertwine during the 19th century with the marriage of Mary Allyne Otis to Ebenezer Gay, who are among the chief correspondents of this century, along with their children including Sidney Howard Gay and Winckworth Allan Gay. The Otis correspondence centers around business, real estate, and personal interests of Mary A. Otis Gay's brothers John, Joseph, and William Otis.
Marshall Berman papers, 1940-2013
47.5 linear feetThe collection includes drafts of his work, professional and personal correspondence, emails (both digital and in hard copy), notebooks, dream journals, heavily annotated books, lecture notes, teaching materials, photographs and ephemera. Several RBML collections already contain correspondence with Berman. For scholars, this collection will provide important new insights into the thought and work of a leading late-20th-century New York City intellectual. An important segment of the Marshall Berman papers consists of digital materials connected with his more recent work as a writer, scholar, and teacher. The files are currently stored on his home computer.
Annotated Books, 1958-1980 Box 28
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- , ed. Peter Gay; John Locke, Treatise of Civil Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (inscribed
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Rousseau's Political Writings, ed. Frederick Watkins; Ronald Grimsley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Study in Self-Awareness (inscribed, Nov. 1966); Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Genesis (inscribed, Toronto, March 1964); Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (incscribed 1967, and includes pages of handwritten notes); Hobbes, The Citizen (inscribed 1958); Rousseau, Letter to d'Alembert on the Theatre; Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation; Vol. II: The Science of Freedom (inscribed 1969); Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism (inscribed 1966); The Portable Machiavelli; Hobbes, Leviathan; Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx: His Life and Environment; Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd (inscribed, New York, April 1964, and includes clipping of Susan Sontag, "On Paul Goodman," in 9/21/72 New York Review of Books); Ernst Cassirer, Rousseau, Kant, and Goethe (inscribed, Oxford, May 1963); G.A. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (includes a personal note from the author, 1980, and a clipping of an review of Cohen's book in May 1987 Saturday Night); Herodotus, The Persian Wars; Alfred Cobban, In Search of Humanity: The Role of the Enlightenment in Modern History (inscribed, New York, Sept. 1964); Locke's Second Treatise of Government; John Locke on Education, ed. Peter Gay; John Locke, Treatise of Civil Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (inscribed Harvard, Feb. 1964); G.P. Gooch, English Democratic Ideas in the 17th Century; C.B. MacPherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (inscribed 1964); Michael Walzer, The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics; Hobbes' Leviathan, ed. Michael Oakeshott (inscribed, 1959); Sir Thomas More, Utopia (3 versions); Political Theory, Vol. 4, No. 1, Feb. 1976 (includes printed copies of other scholarly articles about Marxism and Communism, 1964-1979)