Charles Holmes Papers
Research for The Clocks of Columbus
A Guide and Inventory
SPEC.RARE.CMS.384

Guide Compiled by Gabriella Mangino

INTRODUCTION

Charles Shiveley Holmes was a professor of English at Pomona College in California and authored a literary study of James Thurber entitled The Clocks of Columbus (1973). Research for the book involved a lengthy systematic investigation of numerous Thurber articles, works, and other materials. Included in this archive are notes, photocopied resources, and drafts of The Clocks of Columbus. At the time of his death in 1976, Holmes was working on a study of twentieth century humorists. The papers were acquired from the estate of Charles Holmes in 1981.

Article descriptions below contain all available bibliographic information.

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Overview of the Collection:

Repository:	Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Identification:	SPEC.RARE.CMS.384
Creator:	Charles Holmes
Title:	Charles Holmes Papers, Research for The Clocks of Columbus
Dates:	1913-1972
Quantity:	3 boxes
Description:	primarily photocopies of research sources and notes

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Box and Folder Listing:

Box 1

Charles Holmes’ notes for The Clocks of Columbus

Folders 1-12:

1. Notes on Thurber’s early life
2. Notes related to Herman Miller and Elliot Nugent
   • Holmes’s notes on reviewing and the Thurber Fables
   • Reviews of The Beast in Me, The Thurber Carnival, Credos + Curios, The Thurber Album, The Clocks of Columbus.
   • Elliot Nugett’s “Notes on James Thurber, the Man or Men” NY Times, March 3, 1940
   • Review of his “A Thurber Carnival” as produced in London, 1962.
3. Holmes’ typed schedule of New Yorker talks pieces 1927-1937
   • Holmes's Reviews of A Thurber Carnival, The Beast in Me, Christabel, etc.
4. Notes on Thurber’s works
5. Notes on 13 Clocks, Years with Ross, and The White Dear (including a copy of the transcript for corresponding chapter)
6. Notes on Thurber in the 1940’s and early 1950’s
7. Notes on the Male Animal and Thurber Carnival
8. Holmes’ drafts and notes for The Clocks of Columbus including:
   • Photocopies of James Thurber’s “To Scottie and Rex”
   • Photocopy of written drafts of “The Cribber”
   • Photocopy of “Voyage to the Cantharides,” Peter De Vries from Unknown, July 24, 1954.
9. Holmes’ drafts and assorted notes for The Clocks of Columbus
   • Photocopy of Washington Post review of The Clocks of Columbus by John Seelye, October 22, 1972.
10. Holmes’ Collection of Critical Essays, typescript and photocopy form
11. Helen Thurber’s bibliographic list for Holmes
12. Holmes’ list of articles and periodicals and other resources

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Box 2

Holmes’ collection of photocopied Thurber works and biographical information for The Clocks of Columbus

Folders 13-25:

13. Information about Thurber at OSU including
    • Photocopies of Makio 1916, Phi Kappa Psi photos; Makio 1917, Phi Kappa Psi photos; Makio 1918, Strollers listing, Phi Kappa Psi photos; Makio 1919 Phi Kappa Psi listing, Stroller Dramatic Society listing; Makio 1920 Scarlet Mask club photo, Strollers listing, Phi Kappa Psi photos.
    • Photocopies of Makio 1918 Strollers photo; Makio 1920 Scarlet Mask excerpt; Makio 1921 Strollers excerpt; Makio 1922 Scarlet Mask
    • Photocopies of “Strollers Christmas Plays” The Ohio State University Monthly. January 1923, p 10-11.
    • Magazine clipping. Robert Cantwell, “Say It Isn’t So, Woody, ” Sports Illustrated, September 11, 1967, 100-118.
    • Photocopy Charme Seeds, “Using the Whimsical Humor that Marked his Sun Dial Days Jim Thurber, w’19, Created a Best Seller in the Riotous Book: Is Sex Necessary?” Unknown, April 1930, p. 317, 323.
    • Photocopied page, The Sun Dial 1917-1918 vol.7
    • Photocopied issue, The Sun Dial, November 1917, Vol. VII, no. 2
    • “An Incident,” The Sun Dial, December 1917, p.6, 12.
    • The Scarlet Mask, “Oh, My Omar!” program
    • The Scarlet Mask, “A Twin Fix” program
    • Herman A. Miller, “Scarlet Mask Show Great Success at First Columbus Performance,” Ohio State University Journal, February 5, 1924.
    • The Scarlet Mask, “Tell Me Not” program
    • “Denney Hall Dedicated” The Ohio State University Monthly, May 1960, p.5-7.
    • Photocopied pages of The Sun Dial including a typed schedule of issues
    • Photocopy “It’s Homecoming,” Unknown, October 28, 1933.
    • Photocopies of Ohio State University Monthly articles about “Oh My Omar!”( January 1921) Phi Kappa Psi, (February 1921), and The Strollers (March 1923).
14. Additional OSU related information and early Thurber articles
    • Photocopies of excerpts of James Pollard’s paper on Thurber (already held by Rare Books)
    • Poor photocopy Dr. John W. Wilce, “My 16 Years at Ohio State,” Unknown, November 14, 1954.
    • Photocopy “Mayor Thomas Closes Desk as aides Laud His Work,” Ohio State Journal, January 1, 1932.
    • Photocopy Columbus Evening Dispatch, March 26, 1913.
    • Photocopy “Numerous Republican Roles,” about Charles L. Thurber, Unknown.
    • Poor Photocopy James Thurber, “Memoirs of a Fairly Old Timer,” Columbus Dispatch, October 28, 1945.
15. Photocopied script for Thurber’s play, Nightingale
16. Assorted “Credos and Curios” for the Columbus Dispatch (poor quality)
17. Assorted “Where are they now?” columns for the New Yorker
18. Various unidentified photocopied comic strips
19. Photocopies of “If You Ask Me” Thurber column in PM Newspaper
    • September 17, 19, 24, 26, 1940.
    • October 1, 3, 10, 15, 24, 1940.
    • January 27, 1941.
    • February 3, 9, 17, 24, 1941
    • March 3, 10, 17, 30, 1941
    • April 6, 13, 1941.
    • May 11,18, 25, 1941.
    • June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 1941.
    • July 6, 13, 20, 1941.
20. Photocopies of “Letters to the States” and other works for The Bermudian including
    • July 1950, “My Friend the Poodle”
    • December 1950, “Confederates in the West”
    • January 1951, “The Old Year”
    • January 1952, “The Third Hour”
    • March 1952, “Cops and Writers”
    • Unknown, “Untitled”
    • Unknown, “Winter Thoughts”
    • Unknown, “Untitled”
21. Photocopy of “Untitled Poem/What was it that happened to Frances la Doulce?” by Thurber
22. Biographical articles about Thurber
    • Photocopy James Thurber, “‘Afternoon of the Big Run’ Is History Now for Thurber,” Unknown, July 31, 1933. Also O.O. McIntyre “An Ohioan in New York—Just Strolling,” Unknown; “Mrs. Thurber To Visit Son in New York,” Unknown, July 28, 1933.
    • Photocopy Joseph Mitchell, “James Grover Thurber…” World-Telegram, 193[?].
    • Photocopy “Wife of James Thurber (Artist, Playwright) Brings Order to Chaos in House and Mind,” Unknown.
    • Photocopy Lewis Gannett, “James Thurber: ‘Pre-Intentionalist,” New York Herald Tribune, November 12, 1961.
    • Photocopy Francis Downing, “Thurber,” The Commonwealth, March 9, 1945.
    • Photocopy John Davenport, “The Seriousness of James Thurber,” Unknown, 194[8].
    • Photocopy Elliot Nugent, “Notes on James Thurber the Man or Men,” New York Times, March 3, 1940.
    • Photocopy John Updike, “Writer I Have Met,” New York Times Book Review.
    • Photocopy Harvey Breit, “Mr. Thurber Observes a Serene Birthday,” New York Times Magazine, December, 1949.
    • Newspaper clipping “What’s with the National Funnybone? That Girl in Galway,” New York Post, March 29, 1959.
    • Magazine clipping “An Old Hand at Humor with Two Hits on Hand: Thurber,” Unknown, p.103-108.
    • Magazine issue Greater Columbus: The Magazine for Executives and Visitors including “‘A Thurber Carnival’ Premiers Here, but world renowned Humorist still not honored by Ohio State University, his Alma Mater,” January 1960, p. 4-5.
    • Photocopy “Celebrities on Parade: James Thurber,” The Sunday Referee, July 11, 1937, includes rare drawings.
    • Photocopy “James Thurber on the Perplexities of Educating a Daughter,” Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, May 26, 1963
    • Photocopy Maurice Dolbier, “A Sunday Afternoon with Thurber,” New York Herald Tribune, 1957.
    • Photocopy Eddy Gilmore, “Call me Jim. Thurber Speaking,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch, August 3, 1958.
    • Photocopy Virginia Haufe, “Thurber Gives Advice to American Women, Says Girls and Boys Start too Early to Become Housewives and Househusbands,” Ohiana: of Ohio and Ohioana, 1959.
    • Photocopy Eddy Gilmore, “Blind at 67, Thurber Still Cracks the Wit,” Sunday Toledo Blade, May 7, 1961.
23. Thurber Obituaries
    • Photocopy “A Hamlet who sometimes played the fool,” The Guardian (Manchester),“November, 1961. Also “There was a Laugh in Every Dog,” The Daily Mail, November 2, 1961,
    • Hamish Hamilton, “Thurber as I knew Him,” Unknown, November 1961.
    • T.S. Matthews, “Salute to Thurber,” Sunday Times London, November 5, 1961.
    • Paul Jennings, “Thurber: Man Against Monster,” The Observer (London), November 5, 1961.
    • “Mr. James Thurber,” Times London, November 3, 1961.
    • Red Smith, “Jim Thurber.” Unknown, November 1961. Also “James Thurber—Out of Darkness, Light,” New York Herald Tribune, November 5, 1961.
    • “Home Town Mourns Thurber,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch Editorial, November 5, 1961. Also “Loss of Laughter,” Anderson, Indiana Bulletin, November 14, 1961; “Laughter Doesn’t Die,” Columbus City Journal, November 4, 1961.
    • Paul Jennings, “Thurber: Man Against the Monster,” The Observer (London), November 11, 1961.
    • Mary McGarey, “Thurber Kin Gather at Final Rites,” Columbus Dispatch, November 9, 1961.
    • James Gannett, “James Thurber: ‘Pre-Intentionalist,’” New York Herald Tribune (Book Section), November 12, 1961.
    • Norman Nadel, “Thank You Thurber,” New York World-Telegram and Sun, November 16, 1961. Also “Ohio’s Mark Twain,” Cleveland Press, November 4, 1961.
    • Peter Holman, “My Life with Thurber—by his Widow,” Brighton and Hove Gazette, March 30, 1962.
24. Photocopied/typed transcripts of assorted broadcasts and conversations about/with Thurber
    • Henry Brandon, “The Tulle and Taffeta Rut: a conversation with James Thurber,” from As We Are, 1961.
    • James Thurber, “Good Deed done F. Sullivan,” undated.
    • Peggy Barker (producer), “The Critics,” June 1961.
    • Robert Pocock (producer), “The World of Books: The Private Life of James Thurber,” December 1961.
    • Osbert Lancaster, BBC broadcast, November 3, 1961.
    • “James Thurber: A Profile in Sound,” (script draft #3)
    • Unknown transcript
    • Elliot Nugent, Manuscript of Columbus speech at Alumni gathering, May 26, 1967.
    • “Notes for Frances Glennan”
    • Various letters related to Holmes’ work
    • Photocopied unaddressed letter concerning “A Thurber Item,” signed T.S.E. (T.S. Elliot)
    • Photocopied Library of Congress letter addressed to Mr. Staub, signed William Lichtenwanger, Head reference section
    • Photocopied letters to the editor (Hobson) from Thurber, Unknown, 1952.
    • Photocopies sent from Mrs. Herman Miller
    • Photocopied letter to Charles Holmes from Lewis Branscomb (OSU)

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Box 3

Articles, Reviews, and other writings about Thurber’s works collected for The Clocks of Columbus

Folders 26-34:

26. Photocopied articles and book chapters about/related to Thurber
    • Coyle. Ohio Authors and Their Books, 1962, p. 632-637.
    • Robert Elias, Reappraisals: James Thurber: the Primitive, the Innocent, and the Individual, p. 355-363
    • James Thurber’s Little Man and Liberal Citizen, p. 275-285 with reference notes.
    • Walter Blair, The Urbanization of Humor, p. 54-65.
    • Otto Frederich, James Thurber: a Critical Study, p. 158-193.
    • Excerpts of“James Thurber’s “Four Pieces,” in The Battle and the Books, p.162-187.
    • Henry James, The Ambassadors: James Thurber, Mark Van Doren, Lyman Bryson, p. 364-371.
    • Excerpts of “Some Humorists on Humor,” in The Enjoyment of Laughter, p. 341-343.
    • “James Thurber”, in Writers at Work, 1955, p. 85-99.
27. Photocopied articles and book chapters about/related to Thurber
    • “Interwar Humor,” in The Rise and Fall of American Humor, p. 208-283.
    • “The Art of James Thurber,” in Incongruity: Romances for Adults, p. 121-137.
    • E.B. White, “A Note on the Drawings in this Book,” from Is Sex Necessary?, p. 135-137.
    • Charles A. Brady, Our Man in the Moon: What Thurber Saw, in The Commonwealth December 8, 1961, p. 274-276.
    • “The Male Animal and the Political Animal,” in James Thurber, p. 136-149.
    • James Thurber: The Comic Prufrock, p. 304-313.
    • James Thurber in Eight Humorists, p. 107-125.
    • Peter De Vries, The Introduction, p. xv-xviii.
    • Dorothy Parker, Introduction, September 1932.
    • Kenneth MacLean, James Thurber: A Portrait of the Dog-Artist, p.5-9
28. Assorted photocopied Thurber reviews (good quality)
    • Thomas Sugrue, “James Thurber—Man, Myth, and Malcontent: a Mixture of Laughing Gas and Nightshade, New York Herald Tribune, February 4, 1945.
    • Paul Jennings, “Eminent Contemporaries: Thurber,” Punch, January 27, ?.
    • Fred Schwed Jr., “Artistic Fabulist,” Saturday Review, November 23, 1940.
    • William Rose Benet, “Carnival with Spectres,” Saturday Review of Literature, February 3, 1945.
    • Edmund Wilson, “Books (on White Deer),” The New Yorker, October 27, 1945, p. 88-94.
    • “The Reeves and The Grotches,” Time, February 12, 1945.
    • Dan S. Norton, “Mr. Thurber’s Merry-Go-Round,” New York Times, February 4, 1945.
    • “On the Thurber trail,” London Times Literary Supplement, November 3, 1945, p. 520.
    • “Thurber Characters,” London Times Literary Supplement, October 10, 1952, p. 658.
    • Gibbs, “Review of Three by Thurber,” Nyer, March 19, 1955.
    • Charles Morton, “He Still Brews Good,” The New York Times Book Review (newspaper clipping), November 17, 1957.
    • “Words, Words, Words,” London Times Literary Supplement, December 1, 1961.
    • Julian Moynihan, “No Nonsense,” New Statesman, December 14, 1962.
    • John Mortimer, “Insomniac’s Companion,” New Statesman (newspaper clipping and photocopy), January 10, 1964.
    • “‘Thurber Carnival’ at the Royal. This Humor is just as funny on the stage,” Brighton and Hove Gazette, March 30, 1962.
    • Arthur Mizener, “The Voice is Quiet, The Eye is Sharp: With Its Stories, The New Yorker Offers Notes and Comment on Our Urban Culture,” The New York Times Book Review, December 18, 1960.
    • Honor Tracy, “The Claw of the Sea-Puss: Honor Tracy on the work of James Thurber,” The Listener, May 10, 1951.
    • Robert M. Coates, “James Thurber,” Authors Guild Bulletin, December 1961.
    • David Garnett, “Current Literature: Books in General,” Unknown, October 1937.
    • John Updike, “Indignations of a Senior Citizen,” New York Sunday Times, November 25, 1962.
    • “James Thurber,” New Yorker, November 11, 1961.
    • W.J. Weatherby, “Antic Disposition,” The Guardian (London) (newspaper clipping), February 2, 1961.
    • Gerald Weales, “The World in Thurber’s Fables,” The Commonweal, January 18, 1957.
    • Malcolm Cowley, “Lions and Lemmings, Toads and Tigers,” The Reporter, December 13, 1956.
    • Leslie Fiedler, “Some Footnotes on the Fiction of ’56,” The Reporter, December 13, 1956.
    • Kenneth MacLean, “The Imagination of James Thurber,” The Canadian Forum, December 15, 1953.
    • Malcolm Cowley, “James Thurber’s Dream Book,” New Republic, March 12, 1945, p. 362-363.
    • W.H. Auden, “The Icon and the Portrait,” The Nation, January 13. 1940.
    • H. Hamilton, “A Humorist,” The Manchester Guardian, December 2, 1935.
    • Cyril Connolly, “New Fiction: American & English Humour,” Daily Telegraph, November 26, 1935.
    • George Stevens, “Expert Casuals,” Saturday Review of Literature, September 11, 1937.
    • Iris Barry, “A Thurber Miracle,” New York Herald Tribune, December 10, 1939.
    • “Thurber,” New Statesman, December 23, 1939.
    • W.H. Auden, “The Icon and the Portrait,” The Nation, January 13, 1940.
    • Otis Ferguson, “The Seal in the Bedroom,” The New Republic, September 30, 1940.
    • “…Up With the Chuckle, Down With the Yuk,” Newsweek, February 4, 1957.
    • “James Thurber: Aphorist for an Anxious Age,” Time, November 10, 1961.
    • “James Thurber—Out of Darkness, Light,” New York Herald Tribune, November 4, 1961.
    • Malcolm Cowley, “A Job to Do;” St. Clair McKelway, “Shoes in the Hallway;” Peter De Vries, “Universal Daydream,” Saturday Review “Salute to Thurber,” November 25, 1961.
    • Paul Nash, “American Humorous Draughtsmen,” The Week-end Review, August 8, 1931.
    • “The Writer Observed,” New York Times Book Review, June 29, 1952.
29. Photocopied articles related to the Male Animal
    Jim Thurber, “‘Jumpy Co-Author of the Male Animal’ Reminisces,” Columbus Dispatch, 1941.
    • “She’ll See Son’s Play at Hartman This Week,”Columbus Dispatch, January 5, 1941.
    • Johnny Jones, “About Jim Thurber and That Columbus-Made Movie,” Unknown.
    • James Thurber, “Thurber Steamed up over Laguna Criticism: He Doesn’t Like Review of his Play,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1954.
    • James Thurber, “Thurber Unmasked, Confesses his Plot,” New York Herald Tribune, July 18, 1954.
    • Brooks Atkinson, “The Male Animal by Thurber and Nugent at the City Center,” New York Times, May 1952. Also Sam Zolotow, “The Male Animal to Arrive Tonight,” New York Times, April 30, 1952.
    • Arthur Pollock, “Theater Time: The Male Animal—Season’s Freshest, Most Genuine Comedy,” New York Compass, May 1, 1952. Also Richard Jr. Watts, “The Return of an Engaging Comedy,” New York Post, May 1, 1952.
    • Joseph Wood Krutch, “Lucid Interval,” New Republic, 1940.
    • Rosamond Gilder, “Brain and Brawn: Broadway in Review,” Unknown, p. 158, 161-162.
    • Brooks Atkinson, “James Thurber and Elliott Nugent See the Comic Side of Civilized Matrimony,” New York Times, February 11, 1940.
    • Thè Rialtan, “The Male Animal Scores Comedy ‘Hit’ at Mayan, Unknown, October 24, 1952. Also Virginia Wright, “A New Play in Town,” Los Angeles Evening News, October 24, 1952.
    • Advertisement for the Male Animal at Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.
    • Nelson H Budd, “Thurber—Nugent Comedy Will Open Tuesday in New York,” Unknown.
    • James Thurber, “Roaming in the Gloaming,” New York Times, January 7, 1940.
    • Brooks Atkinson, “The Play,” New York Times, January 10, 195?. Also Wilella Waldorf, “Male Animal Stars New Year Cheerfully at the Cort,” Unknown.
    • Robert Coleman, “Thurber—Nugent Opus ‘The Male Animal’ Hilarious Fun,” New York Post, 1951. Also Dixie Tighe, “The Male Animal Far From Doghouse,” New York Post, 1951.
    • “The Theatre,” Time, 1940. Also “‘The Male Animal’ Is Hit Show, Unknown, January 27, 1940; News Clip, Hanover (PA) Sun, February 3, 1940; Burns Mantle, ““The Male Animal” Hailed with Cheers,” Unknown, 1940.
    • “The Male and Allied Animals,” New Yorker, [1940]. Also John Mason Brown, “Mr. Thurber’s Drawings And “The Male Animal,”” New York Post, January 1940.
    • Jack Stinnett, “He Found [….] On Garage Roof,” Unknown.
    • “‘Love of the Theater Was in His Blood,’ Says Mother of Columbus’ James Thurber,” Columbus Dispatch, January 5 19[?].
    • Samuel T. Wilson, “Mr. and Mrs. Nugent Patiently Delay Eating Until Extensive Interviews Are Ended,” Columbus Dispatch, January 1941. Also Johnny Jones, “About Jim Thurber and That Columbus-Made Movie,” Columbus Dispatch.
    • Ashton Stevens, “May be a Bit of Pewter in This Farce, but Acting is Silver,” Chicago News, September 10, 1940.
30. Photocopied articles related to the Years with Ross
    • Russell Lynes, “The Man Who Made the New Yorker,” The New York Times Book Review, May 31, 1959.
    • “Thurber Doing Play on Ross And Writing It In His Head,” New York Herald Tribune Sunday, April 24, 1960.
    • Dale Kramer, “Ross and the New Yorker,” p.50-51, 60-67,74-75, 82-83, 108-111, 114-121, 140-153, 160-163, 178-179, 188-191, 194-197, 200-201, 204-205, 216-217, 222-227, 248-255.
    • “The New Yorker,” Time, August 6, 1934.
    • Stanley Walker, “Harold Ross,” New York Herald Tribune Book Section, May 13, 1959.
    • Mark Schorer, “A Thurber ‘Casual’ of an Enigmatic New Yorker,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 1959.
    • Mary McGrory, “Thurber’s Portrait of Ross Is Pure Gold,” Unknown.
    • Clip, New York Times, June 7, 1959; Also Clip, New York Herald Tribune, May 29, 1959.
    • John K. Hutchens, “The Years with Ross,” New York Herald Tribune, May 25, 1959.
    • Russell Lynes, “The Man who Made the New Yorker,” New York Times Book Review, May 31, 1959.
    • Ernest Cady, “A Masterful Memoir, Acid but Affectionate,” Columbus Dispatch, May 31, 1959.
    • “Ross the Editor,” Life, November 4, 1957.
    • “The Years Without Ross,” Time, May 16, 1960.
31. Assorted photocopied articles from 1930-1949
    News clipping, New York Times Magazine, December 17, 1939.
    • Otis Ferguson, “The Seal in the Bedroom,” The New Republic, September 30, 1940.
    • Advertisement for Fables for Our Time, Unknown, September 22, 1940; Also Beatrice Sherman, “Mr. Thurber Points a Few Morals,” Unknown.
    • “Two Institutions,” London Times Literary Supplement, April 9, 1949; Also John Russell, “Collectors’ Pieces,” London Sunday Times.
    • Joseph Taggart, “Mr. Thurber’s Beasts Bite,” Unknown, March 4, 1949.
    • William Rose Benet, “With the Greatest of Ease!” Unknown, November 23, 1935.
    • “The Magic Box,” Columbus Citizen’s Journal, 1930.
    • Incomplete advertisement for Is Sex Necessary? Unknown.
    • George Britt, “Behind the Backs of Books and Authors,” Unknown, 1931; Also James Thurber, “The Owl in the Attic and other perplexities,” New York Times, March 1, 1931.
    • C.G. Poore, “Mr. Thurber’s Manias Are Loose Again,” New York Times, November 24, 1935.
    • Bergen Evans, “Touché,” Unknown; Also “Notes on the Margin,” Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1949.
    • “Art: Low and Thurber,” Unknown, May 30, 1937.
    • Edward LaRocque Tinker, “The Intelligent Fun of Mr. Thurber,” New York Times, September 12, 1937. (Includes drawings)
    • “…Names Make News,” Daily Express.
    • L.G. “…In Text and Picture,” Unknown. Also Alton Cook, “Jim Thurber Hurls a Scare,” World Telegram; Boston, Mass. Transcript, April 17, 1934.
    • Unknown
    • “News and Gossip Gathered on the Rialto,” New York Times, August 20, 1949. Also Robert Ruark, “How to Get Real Mileage Out of an Old Goose Quill,” Minnesota [?] September 1939.
    • Osbert Lancaster, “A Lear of the Steppes,” London Observer, March 13, 1949. Also “A Thurber Collection,” Manchester Guardian, March 11, 1949.
    • “Recollections of Henry James,” Unknown (poor quality), June 17, 1933.
    • “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty…” New Yorker, August 16, 1947. Also Irene Thiree, “‘Walter Mitty’ All O-Kaye on the Screen at the Astor,” New York Evening Post, August 15, 1947.
    • Unknown, November 4, 1945.
    • E.B. White, “‘Thurber Carnival captures his whole broad canvas,” Unknown.
    • “The Reeves and Grotches,” Time, February 12, 1945.
    • “The Thurber Carnival,” Unknown.
    • Fanny Butcher, “The Literary Spotlight,” Unknown, 1944. Also Howard Vincent O’Brien, “All Things Considered,” Unknown, April 13, 1944.
    • Phil Stong, “…As Seen by Thurber,” Chicago Tribune, December 6, 1942; Also Harry Goldgar, “Thurber Goes Into A New Phase,” Unknown.
    • Meyer Berger, “The Haunter World of Thurber,” New York Times Book Review, November 1, 1942.
    • William S. Schlamm, “A Misanthropic Quixote, Versus the Human Race,” Unknown.
    • Lisle Bell, “Men, Women, and Mr. Thurber,” Unknown.
    • “Thurber Returns to Old Haunts,” Columbus Dispatch, November 5, 1938. Also partial article “Jim Thurber Comes….”
    • Sara Boynoff, “The Life and Hard Times of J. Thurber in Hollywood,” Los Angeles News, 1939. Also partial article “New Dogs In Old Verse,” July 30, 1934.
    • “Unappreciated,” Hollywood(?), August 7 193[?].
    • “Sinclair Lewis’s Utopia—2939…” Unknown, 1939.”
    • James Thurber, Humorist, Lets Drawing Inspire Wisecracks That Make World Laugh,” Waterbury Republican, January 193[?].
    • Thurber drawing on the cover of April 2[?] 1939 New Yorker.
32. Assorted photocopied articles from 1950-1954 including
    • James Thurber, Reprint “When Chic Harley Got Away,” Columbus Dispatch, November 5, 1953.
    • “Ohioans and Ohiana,” Ohio State Journal, October 22, 1953. Also Mary McGarey, “Thurber Calls for Revival of Rugged American Humor,” [Columbus Dispatch],
    • John Ferris, “Thurber Has His Own Brand of Humor,” Columbus Citizen, November 8, 1953.
    • “An Hilarious Guide,” Unknown. Also “FORD FOUNDATION IS…” TWIC, (December 1953); “Television Takes Shine to James Thurber,” Columbus Dispatch, December 13, 1953.
    • Columbus Dispatch. (articles continued from ?)
    • Photograph of Thurber and wife, Columbus Dispatch, August 26, 1953. Also Meyers Berger, “Thurber’s “Seeing-Eye” Wife Faces Emergency Surgery to Save Sight,” New York Times, August 26, 1953; “Wife of Author Thurber Stricken by Eye Ailment,” Columbus Citizen, August 25, 1953; “Thurber is Happy: Wife to Keep Sight,” New York Times, August 27, 1953.
    • Minna Littmann, “Superwoman Will Force Men to End Wars, Says Humorist James Thurber on Vineyard,” Massachusetts Standard-Times, July 25, 1953.
    • “Thurber Yarn Turned into Prize Opera,” Columbus Dispatch, June 28, 1953. Also “Thurber to Get Special Medal from Ohiana,” Columbus Dispatch, July 2, 1953; Louis Calta, “Thuberish Revue Planned for Stage,” New York Herald-Tribune, July 2, 1953.
    • John Ferris, “Thurber Has His Own Brand of Humor,” Columbus Citizen, November 8, 1953.
    • “Thurber Hits New High In Album,” Columbus Citizen, June 22, 1952.
    • “‘Thurber Album’ Is Portrait of Columbus,” Columbus Citizen, May 26, 1952. Also Ernest Cady (editor), “Thurber’s Latest Rings the Bell,” Columbus Dispatch, June 1, 1952.
    • Dan Flavin, ““Thurber Album” Tells Of Special Folk Here,” O.S. Journal, May 26, 1952. Also Photograph of Mrs. Thurber, Columbus Citizen.
    • Beverly Smith, “Slow Down After 85? Not If Mary Has Her Way,” Columbus Citizen Magazine Section, June 1, 1953.
    • James Thurber, “Dark Suspicions: Contemporary Writers Are Handicapped By Current Atmosphere of Distrust,” Unknown, July 27, 1952.
    • Orville Prescott, “Book of the Times,” New York Times, May 28, 1952.
    • Lewis Gannett, “Books and Things”, New York Herald-Tribune, May 28, 1952; Also advertisement for “The Male Animal” New York Times, June, 1952.
    • “Lively People and Mournful Dogs James Thurber Used to Know,” Unknown.
    • Gerald W. Johnson, “The Thurber Album Reviewed,” Unknown.
    • Earl Wilson, “Nugent Grows Younger As Jim Thurber Ages,” [Columbus Dispatch].
    • David McCord, “Djinn Rummy”, “SAI Review,” June 7, 1952.
    • “Thurber on the Telephone”, Pub. Weekly, August 9, 1952.
    • J.P. Shanley, “Nugent the Nonchalant,” Unknown, November 16, 1952.
    • “Gen. Clay, Thurber and Lovett Among 8 Honored by Williams,” The Berkshire Evening Eagle, June 8, 1951.
    • “Midget Story Given New Twist by Veeck,” Unknown, August 29, 1951.
    • A.H. Weiler, “James Thurber’s…” New York Times (Sunday), November 12, 1950.
    • James Thurber, “Letter from the States,” The Bermudian, January 1950.
    • C.M., “More Celebrities,” O.S. Journal, June 14, 1950; Also “Editor, Thurber Given Degrees by Kenyon College,” Columbus Dispatch, June 15, 1950.
    • “…James Thurber Says It Keeps Him From Being Distracted,” Unknown, 1950.
    • Partial Article, New York Times, 1950.
    • “Thurber Foresees Women’s Era,” Unknown, January 16, 1950.
    • Advertisement “Read Thurber on F. Scott Fitzgerald,” New Yorker, April 1951; Also “Red Lewis” The Bermudian, April 1951.
    • “Thurber Views: Cartoon and Live Action Feature Will Treat of Men, Women, and Dogs,” New York Times (Sunday), March 25, 1951; Also The Bermudian, May 1951.
    • “Letter from the States,” The Bermudian; Also J.P. Shanley, “Thurber and Nugent to Collaborate on Comedy about Magazines—Items,” New York Times, January 21, 1951; Charles B, Driscoll, “Day by Day,” Lafayette Courier (Indiana), January 8, 1950.
    • “Thurber Awarded Honorary Degree” Columbus Dispatch. (Sheet is very damaged)
    • “James Thurber (Book Review),” New York Herald Tribune, October 8, 1950.
    • “If you read James Thurber’s new fairy tale…”, Harper’s Bazaar, 1950.
    • “News and Gossip Gathered on the Rialto: James Thurber Making One Play Out of Two—Ticket Probe Continues,” New York Times (Sunday), August 20, 1949; Also “Rose Mary Thurber…” Columbus Citizen, September 27, 1949; Robert Ruark, “How to Get Real Mileage Out of an Old Goose Quill” Minnesota, September 1949.
    • “Thurber Play Nearly Ready,” Unknown, March 16, 1949; Also Osbert Lancaster, “A Lear of the Steppes,” London Observer, March 13, 1949; “A Thurber Collection,” Manchester Guardian, March 11, 1949; ‘Thurber Essays,” […..] Post.
33. Assorted photocopied articles from 1954-1959
    • Photo, New York Times (Sunday), December 27, 1959; Also “Mail Order Sale Starts for ‘Thurber,’” Unknown; “Stage Crew Arriving First at the Hartman,” Columbus Dispatch, December 31, 1959; “Sellout Expected for Thurber Show,” Columbus Dispatch, December 21,1959.
    • Robert Vincent, “Returns for Honors: Thurber Still Dreams of Reportorial Days,” Columbus Dispatch, November 1959; Also “11 Headliner’s Night Sponsors Are Named,” Columbus Dispatch, November 1959.
    • “Press Club Will Honor 11 Saturday,” Columbus Dispatch, November 8, 1959; Also “Press Club Will Honor Thurber,” Columbus Dispatch (Sunday).
    • Clip, Unknown, August 30, 1959; Also Sam Wilson, “New Thurber Stage Show To World Premiere Here,” Columbus Dispatch,; “Carney Specials Buy Six Shows,” Columbus Dispatch (Sunday), September 6, 1959; James Thurber graphic and “from Bacon To Thurber,” New York Times (Sunday), October 11, 1959.
    • “Thurber’s “Young Man From…”” Denver Post (Magazine Section), May 24, 1959.
    • “Reading for Pleasure…Tribute to a Paradox,” Wall St. Journal, June 3, 1959; Also other articles incomplete
    • Charles Poore, “Book of the Times,” New York Times, May 28, 1959.
    • John Barkham, “Harold Ross founded…” Unknown (Saturday Review); “The social life of the world…” New York Times, June 7, 1959; “Years of Ross And Thurber,” New York Herald Tribune (Editorial), May 29, 1959; “#1 Hit of the Year,” New Yorker, July 11, 1959; “Attention Dogs!” New Yorker, June 20, 1959.
    • Earl Wilson, “Ohioan on Broadway, Thurber Appalled to Think Most Girls Don’t Know Their History,” [Columbus Dispatch], June 14, 1959.
    • “James Thurber’s Christabel,” TV Guide, June 8, 1959; Also “James Thurber…” Columbus City Journal, June 8, 1959; “Best of the Big Ones:” TV Guide, June 1959; “Interpretations,” TV Guide, June 1959; Earl Wilson, “It Happened Last Night,” [Columbus Dispatch], June 3, 1959.
    • “James Thurber’s Christabel,” TV Guide, June 8, 1959; Columbus City Journal, TV Guide (same clips as previous sheet); “Humorist James Thurber…” Look Magazine, May 26, 1959.
    • Lewis Nichols, “In and Out of Books,” New York Times (Sunday), May 31, 1959; Also “Bright Talk…” Ohio State Journal, June 2, 1959.
    • Patricia McGuckin, “Jim Thurber’s Latin Teacher Amused by Language Argument,” Columbus Dispatch, April 17, 1959.
    • “House-Hunting with Thurber: A Correspondence,” Washington Star.
    • “Thurber Joins Praise of His Home Town,” Ohio State Journal, February 14, 1959;Also James Thurber, “Department of Correction (Letter to the Editors),” New Yorker, February 7, 1959; Advertisement for “The Male Animal,” TV Guide, May 10, 1959.
    • Bennett Cerf, “Let’s Have a Pulitzer Prize for Humor!” This Week Magazine, October 195[8?].
    • D.K. Column, Ohio State Journal, May 9, 1958; Also F. Sharp Column, Ohio State. Journal, July 21, 1958; Cyril Aynsley, “Thurber In England: Blind Author Discusses Eyes,” Columbus Citizen Journal, June 23, 1958; Advertisement for the Algonquim, New Yorker; “James Thurber’s Many Moons,” New Yorker, November 22, 1958; Clip, Time, July 7, 1958.
    • “Columbus’ Gift to World of Humor, Now in London, Doesn’t Think He’s So Funny,” Columbus Citizen Journal; “Elliot Nugent Features James Thurber’s Works,” Columbus Dispatch, October 12, 1958.
    • “Cannon Cracker,” Ohio State Journal, July, 1957.
    • New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 16, 23, 30, 1957; Also advertisement for “The Male Animal” at the Stadium Theater, June 25-29, 1957; “Well, It Was This Way, Says Thurber--” Columbus Dispatch Magazine Section, June 16, 1957; Best Sellers List, Columbus Dispatch, August 18, 1957.
    • “The Wonderful O,” New Yorker, June 1, 1957.
    • “Writer Unrecognized: Famous Carl Sandburg Walks Alone in City,” Columbus Dispatch, March 9, 1957; Also article on Chas. Van Doren, Time, February 11, 1957; “Broad and High Can Still Inspire Thurber,” Columbus Dispatch, April 28, 1957.
    • Advertisement for WBNS-TV “Someone is squeezing Mrs. Mitty’s waist,” New Yorker, April 6, 1957.
    • “Ross The Editor,”Life, November 4, 1957.
    • Advertisement for Thurber Books, New Yorker, December 7, 1957.
    • “He Still Brews Good,” New York Times, November 16, 1957.
    • Lewis Nichols, “Hw It Wuld Be Withut It,” New York Times, May 26, 1957.
    • Review of “The Wonderful O,” New Yorker, June 1, 1957.
    • Marian Robb, “James Thurber: His imagination won him award,” Bermuda Mid-Ocean News, April 26, 1957.
    • Bill Arter, “Thurbertown, Ohio,” Columbus Dispatch Magazine Section, April 14, 1957.
    • Samuel T. Williamson, “Said One Wise Weaver to Another,” New York Times, November 4, 1956.
    • Lewis Gannett, “Thurber’s “Fables”: Enduring Wisdom in Artful Words,” New York Herald Tribune, November 4, 1956.
    • "Thurber Tales on TV,” Columbus Dispatch; Also “Thurber Stories Brought to Life by Montogomery,” Cleveland Plain Dealer; Charles Morton, “Born on the Cramped Page of a Memo Pad,” Unknown.
    • “…boys and the other five girls,” Unknown; J.J., “Remembers Chemistry,” Columbus Dispatch, July, 195[6].
    • John O’Hara, “Ah, yes. Work and play…” Collier’s, July 8, 1955.
    • Brooks Atkinson, “Theatre: Thurberisms,” The New York Times, March 9, 1955; Also advertisement for “Three by Thurber” (opening March 7, 1955); “Off-Broadway,” The New York Times, March 6, 1955; Earl Wilson, “Tony’s, The Most Famous…” Columbus Dispatch, February 24, 1955; Wolcott Gibbs, “In a Glass Darkly,” The Theatre.
    • Dick Otte, “In the Press Box: Fate of Pirates ‘Godfather’ Is Relayed by Former Dispatcher,” Columbus Dispatch, March 29, 1955; Also “In a Glass Darkly” (continued).
    • John Crosby, “Thurber Fairy Story Enchanting Over TV,” The Miami Herald, January 7, 1954; “Thurber’s 13 Clocks—and High Time,” Life.
    • “Never Again Will the Heart Leap So High,” Columbus Dispatch Sunday Sports Section, September 12, 1954; Also “Columbus is There,” F.S. Columbus, November 19, 1954; Photograph, New York Herald Tribune Magazine Section, December 5, 195[4].
    • Johnny Jones, “Huge Trees in Yard of Old Blind School Are Missed,” Unknown; Also Dean A. Myers, “On the Air: The Remarkable Case of Thurber’s Works,” Columbus Dispatch Sunday, January 17, 1954.
34. Assorted photocopied articles from 1960-1965
    • Brooks Atkinson, “There’s No Fun in It,” New York Times Book Review, December 12, 1965.
    • “The Private World of Thurber,” London Times, April 12, 1962; Also drawing, Punch, April 18, 1962; Daily Mail, December 4, 1962.
    • “…It Proves how wrong Thurber Could be,” Daily Express, April 12, 1962; Also “Thurber Carnival at the Savoy,” The Guardian, December 2, 1962; “Andy Williams…” Columbus Citizen-Journal, July 13, 1962.
    • “Trapping Thurber’s ‘Beast’ with Music,” New York Times, Sunday May 12, 1963.
    • Howard Taubman, “Theater: ‘Beast in Me,’” Unknown; Also William Glover, “Thurber Humor Received Well on Broadway,” Unknown.
    • “Reading for Pleasure: A Man of Letters,” Journal, May 7, 1960; Also “Rethurberations,” Unknown.
    • Charles Morton, “Thurber Miscellany,” “L&L.”
    • James Thurber, “The Thurber Method of Acting,” New York Times (Sunday Magazine), October 30, 1960.
    • Bernard Gavzer, “James Thurber in ‘Carnival,’” Columbus Dispatch, September 14, 1960; Also “Thurber Makes Debut on Broadway, Not Nervous,” Unknown; Untitled, Time, September 26, 1960; E.W. “Princess Margaret…” Columbus Dispatch, September 29, 1960; E.W., “I was congratulating…” Columbus Dispatch, September 1960.
    • Norman Nadel, “‘Thurber Carnival’ Never Became Big, Popular Show,” Columbus City Journal, June 25, 1960; Also Sam Wilson, “‘A Thurber Carnival’ Positively Is Reopening on Broadway,” Columbus Dispatch, July 7, 1960.
    • “Thurber Saved as Blaze Traps Him in Building,” Columbus Dispatch (Sunday), May 24, 1960; Also “Thurber Is Rescued From Smoky Blaze in Apartment Here,” New York Times, May 30, 1960; “James Thurber Escapes Fire in Apartment,” Columbus City Journal, May 30, 1960; “Fireman Rescues Humorist,” Unknown, May 30 , 1960.
    • “Trip to Columbus with…” Columbus Dispatch (Sunday), May 8, 1960; Earl Wilson, “A Happy Man—Jim Thurber,” Unknown.
    • “Sellers Market,” Time (Cinema), May 2, 1960.
    • A.H. Weiler, “Screen: Thurber Tale,” New York Times, April 1[?], 1960.
    • Robert Vincent, “Thurber Declares Prof. Denney Cast Light of Learning,” Columbus Dispatch, April 1, 1960.
    • Henry Hewes, “At Long Last,” New York Times (Sunday), March 13, 1960; Also “Broadway Postscript (Sat. Review Continued),” Unknown.
    • “Thurber Returning to Honor Former Teacher,” Unknown; Also “New Revue on Broadway,” Unknown, March, 1960; “Double Respite,” Morning Wall St. Journal, February 29, 1960.
    • Walter Kerr, “First Night Report: ‘Thurber Carnival,’” New York Herald Tribune, February 27, 1960; Also Danton Walker, Columbus Herald Tribune, February 29, 1960; “NY Critics Agreed on ‘Carnival,’” Columbus City Journal, March 1, 1960; “‘Thurber’ A B.O. Smash,” New York News, February 29, 1960.
    • Earl Wilson, “Thurber Readying Play About Publisher,” Columbus Dispatch, March 3, 1960; Also “In the sphere of comedy…” New Yorker, March 5, 1960.
    • Myles Standish, “‘Thurber Carnival’ Opens at American,” Columbus Dispatch, February 2, 1960; Sam Wilson, “‘Thurber Carnival’ Is Still Promising Show,” Columbus Dispatch, February 7, 1960.
    • Bernard Gavzer, “…‘Carnival’ Is Acclaimed…Most Humorous Show,” Columbus Dispatch, February 27, 1960; Also Brooks Atkinson, “Theatre: Thurber Fete,” New York Times, February 27, 1960.
    • E.B. Radcliffe, “A (Thurber) Dog’s Life,” Cincinnati Enquirer, February 10, 1960.
    • Stan Anderson, “Hanna’s ‘A Thurber Carnival’ is Mixture of Good and So-So,” Cleveland Press, January 26, 1960; Also Earl Wilson, “Thurber Blossoms Out as Gagman,” Columbus Dispatch, February 1960
    • Dr. Clyde Williams, “‘A Thurber Carnival’ Premiers Here,” Columbus Magazine, January 1960.
    • “First Nights: Thurber on Stage,” Newsweek, January 18, 1960.
    • Sam Wilson, “ ‘A Thurber Carnival’ Promises To Become Gourmet Theater-Fare,” Columbus Dispatch, January 8, 1960.
    
    
    

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