ISABEL M. PATERSON PAPERS, 1857-1998 (bulk, 1910-1965)
10 linear feet, 1 linear inch (23 LGA-S boxes)
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Isabel Mary Bowler was born to Francis and Margaret Bowler on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada on January 22, 1886. In 1910 she married Kenneth Birrell Paterson. Paterson began her journalism career writing editorials for the Inland Herald.
Paterson separated from her husband in 1918 and moved to New York where she worked on the feature page of the New York American and in the editorial department of Hearst’s Magazine. In 1922 she joined the New York Herald-Tribune to write book reviews and pieces for the Sunday Books section. In 1924 she began her column Turns With a Bookworm which combined reviews, literary anecdotes, and her political views.
Paterson began writing novels when she was 28. The first two, The Magpie’s Nest and The Shadow Riders, were westerns about women struggling to achieve independence. Her most famous book was The God in the Machine, an important libertarian work. Major themes in her work include liberty, political freedom, individualism, and entrepreneurship.
Paterson continued to write after her dismissal from the New York Herald in 1949. She refused Social Security benefits and died at the home of Muriel Hall in Montclair, New Jersey on January 10, 1961.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The collection was acquired from Paterson’s estate over three accessions in 1995, 1997, and 1999. The papers are divided into five series:
NAME AND SUBJECT FILES, 1908-1998 (6 boxes). The series contains: correspondence, articles, clippings, copies of photographs, quotes, and poems. It also contains files from scholars working after Paterson’s death. Writers include Will Cuppy, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand. Materials on highly acidic paper have been removed for preservation purposes and replaced with copies. Arranged alphabetically by subject.
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WRITINGS, 1911-1964 (4.6 boxes). Includes article drafts, correspondence about Paterson’s works, notes, and book manuscripts. Includes manuscripts for The Singing Season and a Book Digest version of The God of the Machine. Correspondents include editors John Chamberlain of Freeman and William Buckley, Jr. of The National Review.
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LEGAL PAPERS, 1910-1979 (1 box). Includes documents relating to Paterson’s property, estate settlement, writing contracts, and naturalization as a U.S. citizen in 1928.
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BOOKS, 1908-1998 (8 boxes). The series has been divided into two subgroups. Copies of annotations from books. Arranged alphabetically by title. The second contains books. Any underlining and annotations have been copied and are found in the first subseries. Arranged alphabetically by author.
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NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE FILES, 2000-2004 (boxes 21-23)
The series contains photocopies of Isabel Paterson's work for the New York Herald Tribune. Her weekly column "Turns With a Bookworm" and her book reviews.
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CONTENTS LIST
NAME AND SUBJECT FILES
BOX CONTENTS
1 Correspondence
GROUP A to B, 1927-1949
American Legion Controversy, 1951
Balch, Earl, 1945
Busey, Garreta – Letters from Isabel Paterson, 1936 and undated
Busey, Garreta – Letters to Isabel Paterson, 1928-1949
Busey, Garreta – Letters to Muriel Hall, 1962-1965
GROUP C to D, undated
Coleman, Alta May, undated
Censorship, 1946
Cox, Stephen, 1988-1998
Cuppy, Will to Isabel Paterson, undated (3 folders)
Edmunds, Everard, 1956
Education in the United States, 1953-1959
Elson, Robert T., 1957
2 Farley, Lillian Fisher, 1927, 1958, 1960
Farley, Lillian (Dina) Fischer, 1924-1960 (2 folders, copies from NYPL)
Field, Rachel, 1930
Gilbert, Rodney, 1957
Glenn, Isa, 1931-1932
Griffith, H. M., 1952
Hall, Ted, undated
Hall, Muriel, 1961, 1979-1992 (2 folders)
Henry, R. S., 1942-1964 (5 folders)
3 Herdman, Ramona, 1950-1959
Hitchcock, Harry, 1929
Hoiles, R. C., 1950-1962
Kirk, Russell, 1964-1965
Knowlton, Marcus and Meredith, 1959
Lane, Rose Wilder, 1932-1945 [31-imp-b03-f06-lane]
Lecomte de Nouy, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre, 1947-1956
LeFevre, Robert, 1960-1964
Luckhart, Grace, 1927-1961 and undated
Manion, Clarence, 1949
McGinnis, Dick, undated
Mitchison, N., undated
Paterson, Isabel to Muriel Hall, 1944-1957 (5 folders)
4 Paterson, Isabel to Muriel Hall, 1958-1960
GROUP R, 1935-1949
Rand, Ayn – From Isabel Paterson, 1943-1948
Rand, Ayn – To Isabel Paterson, 1943-1950
Roberts, Nat, 1929-1935 and undated
Rascoe, Burton, 1945
GROUP S, 1938-1960
Scholars Interested in Isabel Paterson, 1969-1973
Social Security, 1937-1955
Stribling, T. S., undated
Sprague, Ted and Grace, undated
Stone, Grace, undated
GROUP T to Y, 1923-1946
Teale, Edwin Way, 1949-1950
Unidentified, 1908-1916
5 Vogt, Gertrude, 1950-1961
Wall, Mildred, 1952-1961
Welles, Mary and Samuel, 1936-1943 and undated
Welles, Ted, 1949-1985
Wylie, Elinor, undated
Cuppy, Will – Clippings, 1927 and undated
New York Herald Tribune – Obituaries, 1953-1983
Paterson, Isabel
Address Book and Business Cards, 1942 and undated
Articles about Isabel Paterson, 1912-1943
Christmas Cards, undated
Family Correspondence, 1933-1954
Linoleum Block, undated (Paterson portrait?)
Miscellaneous, 1944-1959 and undated
Notebook – Turns With a Bookworm, undated (blank, illustrated cover)
6 Newspaper Clippings, 1916-1960
Photographs, undated (copies)
Quotes, 1958-1960
Tombstone, 1962
Rand, Ayn – Lecture Report by Ed Barthelmes, Feb 18, 1960
Rand, Ayn – The Only Path to Tomorrow, Condensed from The Moral Basis of
Individualism, 1945
Rand, Ayn – An Open Letter to Ayn Rand by John Chamberlain, undated
Thomas, M. J. – Poems, undated
WRITING
Articles
Annotated by Paterson, 1939-1944
The Astonishing Creature – The Baby, May, 1949
Humanitarian with Guillotine, 1955
Learning to Read, 1957 (working title, Reading without Tears, Cows or Chickens)
A Man of Destiny, 1956
Murphy, 1928
Newark Evening News, 1960
New York Herald Tribune, 1924-1938
The Oracles are Dumb, 1956
Sketches for Newspaper Articles, undated
The Southern Breakthrough, 1955
Turns With a Bookworm, 1932-1948
We Were the Cowith-an, undated
What Do They Do All Day?, undated
Written by Other Authors, 1930-1964
7 Correspondence
Ashville Chamber of Commerce, 1924
GROUP B, 1942-1949
Benson, Arthur C., undated
Book Reviews, 1932
Bradley, J. G., 1949
Buckley, William F., Jr., 1954-1962
Buffett, Howard, 1952
GROUP C to D
Cabell, James Branch, 1930-1936
Chamberlain, John, 1953
Colum, Padraic, 1944
Columbia Lecture Bureau, 1949
Crane, Jasper, 1944-1954
GROUP E
Fake, Guy L., 1943-1948
Fuller, Selma and Henry, 1953
Gannett, Frank, 1945
G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1942-1944
Greenewatt, C. H., 1952-1959
Georgia Review, 1948-1949
GROUP H, 1934-1958
Harper Brothers, 1915
Hicks, Hamilton, undated
GROUP J, 1951
Josenhans, M. Alma, undated
GROUP L to M, 1931-1948 (2 folders)
Marsh, Margaret Mitchell, 1947 (author of Gone with the Wind)
Mitchison, Maomi, undated
New York Herald Tribune, 1949-1952
Opitz, Edmund, A., 1959
GROUP P to R, 1944-1956
Palmer, Paul, 1945-1947
Read, Thomas, 1935, 1964
Rejection of Manuscripts, 1914-1915
Ridenour, Louis N., 1946
GROUP S, 1922-1959
Saturday Evening Post, 1957-1959 (Frederick Nelson)
Stout, Wesley W., 1939-1944
GROUP T to Y, 1949-1957
Unidentified, 1950-1956
Van Doren, Irita, 1940
Wall, Mildred, 1958-1959
Wilder, Thornton, 1927
8 Natural Law, 1951-1954
Never Ask the End, 1933-1949
Rejection Letters, 1942
Theory of Equilibrium, 1951-1955
Vogt, Gertrude, 1950-1961
Miscellaneous Copies, 1911-1964 and undated (4 folders)
Draft Notes, undated
Draft Notes – How Can I Get Past the (Deleted) Conservatives?, undated
Draft Notes – Law and Liberty, undated
Draft Notes – Republican Party, 1954
Draft Notes – States Rights Proposal, 1951-1952
9 Manuscripts
Did I Ask to Be Born? by Thomas Maeder, undated (Will Cuppy biography)
Fragments from Novels, undated
God of the Machine – Summary for Book Digest, 1943
God of the Machine – Correspondence, 1945
God of the Machine – Notes by Ted and Muriel Hall, undated
God of the Machine – Notes of Paterson, undated
Joyous Gard, 1958 – Annotated copy (2 folders)
Joyous Gard, 1958 – Clear Copy, Chapters 1-13
10 Joyous Gard, 1958 – Clear Copy, Chapters 14-25
Joyous Gard, 1958 – Early Copy, Pages 14-191 (2 folders)
Joyous Gard, 1958 – Attempts to Get Published, 1951-1958
Fragments – Chapters 1 and 2
Fragments – Chapter 1
Fragments – Burned Copy, Chapters 15-25 (2 folders)
The Singing Season – Chapters 1-30 (2 folders)
The Singing Season – Correspondence, 1923
Reviews of Paterson Books, 1916 and undated
LEGAL PAPERS
11 Banking, 1925, 1956-1959
Disposition of Papers, 1961-1979
General, 1910-1957
Immigration Papers, 1920-1928
Real Estate – Connecticut Property, 1933-1949, 1952-1960 (2 folders)
Real Estate – New Jersey Property, 1942-1960
Royalties, 1933-1949
Taxes, 1926-1964
Will and Death Certificate, 1961
Writing Contracts, 1915-1942
BOOK COLLECTION
12 Annotated Material
A Bookman’s Daybook by Burton Rascoe, 1929
Dryden by G. Saintsbury, 1902
Einstein by P. Frank
Elizabeth by M. Waldman
Forty-Two Years in the White House by Irwin Hood (Ike) Hoover, 1934
Founding Fathers by K. Umbrett
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson
A Great Peacemaker: The Diary of James Gallatin Secretary to Albert Gallatin
1813-1827, 1914
Grey Eminence by A. Huxley
High Stakes and Hair Trigger by R. W. Winston
A History of the Church. Volume three – The Revolt against the Church: Aquinas
to Luther, 1947
Kilvert’s Diary by W. Plomer
Letters of Madame by G. S. Stevenson
The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by G. O. Trevelyan
The Life of Samuel Johnson by J. Boswell
The Man versus the State by Herbert Spencer, 1940
The Novels of Jane Austin by R. W. Chapman
Out of the Earth by L. Bromfield
Pensees by Pascal
The Pentateuch by J. W. Colenso
Phases of American Culture by the Jesuit Philosophical Association of the Eastern
States, 1942
Portrait of Pascal by M. Duclaux
The Road to Xanadu by J. L. Lowes
Russia Under the Tzars by Stepniak
Sahara: The Great Desert by E. F. Gautier, 1935
Science and Christian Tradition by T. H. Huxley
The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy by E. Gilson
Taft and Roosevelt by A. Butt
They Told Barron by C. W. Barron
13 Travels in France and Italy by A. Young
The Unity of Philosophical Experience by E. Gilson
Voltaire by Brandes
The Wealth of Nation by A. Smith
Inscriptions to Paterson – National Review, Aug-Sep, 1960, Jan-Feb, 1970
Inscriptions to Paterson – The Freeman, 1950-1952
14 Book Collection
Adlington, Richard, The Duke: A Life of Wellington, 1943
Brandes, George, Voltaire, 1930 (2 vols)
Bromfield, Louis, Out of the Earth, 1950
Catlin, George, North American Indians, Volume 1, 1857
Chamberlain, Pressey Walters, Living, Reading, and Thinking, 1948
Fitzgerald, Edward, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyan
15 Chesnut, Mary Boykin, A Diary From Dixie, 1949
Duclaux, Mary, Portrait of Pascal, 1927
Du Nouy, Lecomte, Human Destiny, 1947
Du Nouy, Mary, The Road to Human Destiny, 1955
Ford, Ford Madox, The Last Post, 1928 (two copies)
Frank Philipp, Einstein, 1947
16 Gilson, Etienne – The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy, 1940
Gilson, Etienne – The Unity of Philosophical Experience, 1947
Hughes, Philip, A History of the Church, Volume 3, 1947
Hughes, Richard, A High Wind in Jamaica, 1932
Huxley, T.H., Science and Christian Tradition, 1895
O”Neill, Moira, Songs of the Glens of Antrim, 1916
Plomer, Ed., Kilvert’s Diary, 1947
Potter, George Richard, Sir Thomas More, 1925
Pound, Arthur, Ed., They Told Barron, 1930
17 Pascal, Blaise, Pensees, 1941
Paterson, Isabel – The Fourth Queen, 1926
Paterson, Isabel – God of the Machine, 1943 (2 Copies)
Paterson, Isabel – God of the Machine, 1964 (reprint)
Paterson, Isabel – If It Prove Fair Weather, 1940 (2 Copies)
18 Paterson, Isabel – Golden Vanity, 1934
Paterson, Isabel – The Magpies Nest, 1917
Paterson, Isabel – Mai Domander La Fine, 1933
Paterson, Isabel – Never Ask the End, 1930
Paterson, Isabel – The Road of the Gods, 1930
Paterson, Isabel – The Shadow Riders, 1916
Tate, Allen, Jefferson Davis, 1929
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1954
19 Roscoe, Burton, Titans of Literature, 1932
Spencer Herbert, The Man Versus the State, 1940
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Poems, 1905 (4 Volumes)
Wylie, Elinor, Collected Prose, 1933
20 Original Removed for Preservation
Paterson-Hall Correspondence, 1944-1955 (4 folders)
Paterson Correspondence, 1957-1958 (2 folders)
Manuscript Fragments, undated
Novel Fragments, undated
Will Cuppy to Paterson, undated
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE FILES
21 Book Reviews, 1924-1949 (14 folders, copies)
22 Turns With A Bookworm, 1924-1938 (14 folders, copies)
23 Turns With A Bookworm, 1939-1949 (10 folders, copies)
24 Photographs
Bowler, Carl and Wife with Zelda Good, Sep 1959 (1 item, siblings)
Camping, Horses, undated (19 items)
Children, undated (4 items, friends)
Fanley, Frank and Lillian, undated (2 items, wedding party)
From K. B. Patterson, undated (8 items, Native American, winter, women, horses,
hunting anthracite)
From Muriel Hall, undated (6 items)
From Patsy Orrico, undated (12 items, swimsuits, colorized)
Locations, 1889 and undated (22 items, Calgary, trees, houses, canoe)
Men, undated (10 items)
Paterson, Isabel, 1916 and undated (22 prints and 2 negs) [31-imp-b24-f10]
Paterson, Isabel – Groups, 1916, 1945 and undated (16 items, bicycle, dog, car,
horses, swimsuits, cyanotype, living room fire)
Paterson, Isabel – Portraits, 1908 and undated (7 items) [31-imp-b24-f12]
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