The Newman Levy Papers
DATE SPAN:
Ca. 1914-1960
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Ca. 3 linear feet, 6 boxes
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Original format for most materials.
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FOREWORD
The Newman Levy Papers are a part of the Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing over 170,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel. There are no restrictions on the use of the Fales Manuscripts. All rights are reserved.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
SERIES DESCRIPTION
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
INTRODUCTION
The Newman Levy Papers, comprising 2.5 linear feet of space, were donated to NYU by The Players Club in December 1991.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The collection consists of 7 boxes of manuscript material of articles, book reviews, drama, fiction, verse, and an unpublished biography of Franklin P. Adams, including some letters written to Levy by people who knew Adams.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
The archive is divided into six sections I. Articles, II. Book Reviews,. III. Drama, IV. Fiction, V. Verse, and VI. Biographical materials collected by Franklin P. Adams for his biography of Levy. The folders numbered consecutively.
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
I. Articles
Box 1, Folder:
1. The Affair Aurelio.
2. The American Boy's Handy Book.
3. American Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
4. "And a Good Judge Too--".
5. Are We Getting the Law We Need?
6. The Art of Teaching to Give.
7. Aunt Emma.
8. Be Your Age.
9. The Bill of Rights. 3 copies
10. A Boy Who Made Good.
*The Case of Genevieve Nicodemus. Box 7
*Case of Thomas F. Mulligan. Box 7
11. The Clipping Bureau.
12. Clubs and Trumps.
13. The Constitution.
14. The Contribunion.
15. The Conversation Killer.
*Criminal Procedure in England. Box 7
16. Cuteisms. 2 copies
17. Danger, Men Working!
18. Doctors and Doctors. 4 copies
19. The Elegy.
20. "Everything is Under Control"
21. Excuse it Please.
22. F.P.A.
23. Female Superiority.
*The Frenchy Case. [Box 7]
24. From Poll to Poll.
25. Gallery Gods.
26. Getting Away with Murder.
27. Handbags for Men.
28. Handbags for Men /in/ Woman's Day [May 1953].
29. Happy Days are Here Again.
30. The Happy Ending.
31. The High Imperial Potentate.
32. The House. 2 copies
33. How to Not Read a Book.
34. How to Write Light Verse.
35. I Go Ahead.
36. If Lawyers Talked Like Lawyers /in/ Woman's Day [October 1954].
37. Impressions in a London Court.
38. Jerome Kern.
39. Law and the Sexes.
40. Legal Aid.
41. The Lost Books of Livy.
42. The Mantle of Mr. Gilbert.
43. A Matter of Form /in/ Woman's Day [October 1951].
44. Movie Law.
45. The Musical Comedy Business.
46. My Career as a Photographer.
47. My Memory System.
48. Nature Imitates Art.
49. A Note on Divorce.
50. A Note on Gadgets.
51. Nothing but the Truth.
52. Of Thee I Sing.
53. On the Eight-Twelve.
54. On Reaching Middle Age.
55. On to Nicaragua.
56. Onward and Upward with the Arts
Box 2, Folder:
57. Parties.
58. Pearl.
59. Progressive Educaton.
60. Psycho-Analysis.
61. A Review of the Past Legal Season.
62. "Rimes are so Scarce".
63. Riot at the Opera House.
64. Sam Feldman.
65. The Sartorial Revolution.
66. A Second Chance /by/ Jonah Cunningham, pseud.
67. "Season to Taste".br> 68. Shakespeare as a Humorist.
69. Some Comments on Hospitality.
70. "Sticks and Stones May Break my Bones--".
71. The Strange Case of Gregory Benson.
72. Suggestions for Article on Have the Picturesque Lawyers Disappeared.
73. Table Talk.
74. There Aren't Any Santa Clauses.
75. "They Made Me What I Am Today".
76. A Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan/Notes & Commentary.
77. The War of the Sexes, Jonah Cunningham, pseud.
78. What I Remember.
79. Would You Defend a Man if You Knew He was Guilty?
II. Book Reviews
Box 2, Folder:
80. Brothers in Law /by/ Henry Cecil.
81. Friends at Court /by/ Henry Cecil.
82. The Story of my Life /by/ Clarence Darrow.
83. For the Defense, the Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall.
84. Confessions of an Un-Common Attorney /by/ Reginald L. Hine.
III. Drama
Box 3, Folder:
85. The Happy Hypocrite [operetta].
86. The Happy Hypocrite.
87. The Judiciary Committee [musical].
88. The Lalique Vase: A Television Play.
89. The Lalique Vase.
90. Long Island.
91. Lucky Seven: A Musical Cartoon [musical].
92. "May it Please the Court--" [musical play].
93. "May it Please the Court--" [musical play].
94. "May it Please the Court--" [revised script].
*"May it Please the Court" [music score]. Box 7
95. A Modern Rip Van Winkle.
96. Off the Record.
97. Poor Richard.
98. Skin Deep, a Television Play.
99. They Will Do It [musical comedy].
100. Untitled Play - Incomplete.
IV. Fiction
Box 4, Folder:
101. Adventures of Alice.
102. An Afternoon of a Judge [also titled Judge Beasely Takes a Plunge].
103. The Age of Specialization.
104. Alice at the News Stand.
105. All Work and No Play.
106. Amanda.
107. At Home with a Celebrated Lawyer.
108. At Home with a Famous Doctor.
109. The Battle of the South.
110. A Bed Time Story.
111. Billings Buys a Button.
112. Billings Discusses Broadcasting.
113. Billings Discusses Murder.
114. Billings Goes Whimsical.
115. Billings Has Another Idea.
116. Billings Writes a Hit.
117. Brooms are Obsolete Now.
118. Burglary a la Mode.
119. The Case of Ben Grogan.
120. The Consultation.
121. Death and Taxes.
122. Fame.
123. "A Famous Lawyer at Home".
124. Football Game.
125. Gertie and Tom.
126. Good Morning, Judge.
127. The Godfus Mystery.
128. Graham Gilbert (?) [Prison story]
129. The Hall of Fame.
130. The Hepworth Vase.
131. His Mother's Husband.
132. Hitler Goes to Heaven.
133. Horace and the Talking Frog.
134. Incompetent and Immaterial.
135. Interview with an Ectoplasm.
136. An Interview wit a Prominent Author.
137. Isabella's Jewels.
138. It Struck Me as Extremely Odd.
139. John Sexton.
140. The Joke Business / with TLS to & from The Stage.
141. Jury Duty.
142. Lindergarten.
143. King Lear (up to date).
144. The Life of the Party.
145. The Little Fellow.
146. Love on Forty-Ninth Street.
147. Macbeth (As Eugene O'Neill Might Have Written It).
148. The Magpie.
149. The Man Who Read the Ads.
150. The Man Who Read the Ads.
151. Mavoureen.
152. The Merchant of Venice (As Shakespeare Might Have Written it To-Day).
153. The Modern Drama.
154. Moman Pruiett.
155. The Most Beautiful Princess in the World Woman's Day [Dec. 1949].
156. Mournful Numbers.
157. Mr. Leeming's Law Suit.
158. Mr. Shakespeare Goes to Town.
159. Mr. Twickham's Birthday.
160. Mrs. Epman's Elopement.
161. The Mudington Pearl Mystery.
162. Murder by Imagination.
163. My Favorite Race.
164. A New Christmas Carol.
165. The New Education.
166. Nigel Armstrong.
167. No Child is Cute After the First Half Hour Woman's Day [Feb. 1957].
168. Nor Iron Bars a Cage.
Box V, Folder:
169. The Old Man Lay Dying.
170. Old Man Baker /by/ Louisa Craig Peabody.
171. On the Air.
172. One of the Finest.
173. Operation Waffle Iron.
174. Othello (In the Manner of Bernard Shaw).
175. The Other Side of the Moon.
176. Pistols for Two.
177. Paul Revere.
178. Peters Versus the Interborough.
179. The Prince's Christening.
180. Red Hot Daddy.
181. Romeo and Juliet (In the Manner of Booth Tarkington).
182. Salesmanship.
183. The Shins of his Father.
184. Skin Deep is Plenty.
185. A Spot of Paris.
186. A Stitch in Time is Worth Two in the Bush.
187. Stuffed Shirt.
188. The Summing Up.
189. System.
190. The Trial of Queen Caroline.
191. Voodoo in Connecticut.
192. Untitled (partial).
V. Verse
Box V, Folder:
193. Abroad Thoughts from Home.
194. All God's Chillun Got a Code.
195. A Ballad of Lampedusa.
196. Bills.
197. The Laws Delays.
198. Local Pride.
199. Poems.
*Poems. Box 7
200. Song of a Tired Liberal.
VI. Biography of Franklin P. Adams
Box 6, Folder:
201. Notebooks
202. Tms. Biography of Franklin Pierce Adams, pp. 1-116.
203. Tms. Biography ... pp. 117-217.
204 Tms. Biography ... pp. 218-304.
Tms. Biography ... revisions & notes. Box 7
205. Correspondence from FPA to:
Davis, Mrs. [1931]
Wise, Florence. [1914]
206. Correspondence from FPA to:
Izard, Forrest. [1941-1949]
207. Correspondence about FPA from:
Aarons - Kiernan
208. Correspondence about FPA from:
Lawrence - Walker
209. The Conning Tower - Dinner & Program.
210. Keep Your Rabbits Rabbi, We Have Rabbits of Our Own [music].
211. Newspaper clippings by or about FPA.
212. Pictorial.
213. The Players Programs.
214. Tear Sheets from The Conning Tower Book.
215. Untermeyer, Louis [in The Conning Tower, 1936]: "Ballade of the Prime ecessity" "Ballade of Contention"
Box 7, Folder [LEGAL--Listed above by Subject and marked with *]:
216. The Case of Genevieve Nicodemus [article].
217. Case of Thomas F. Mulligan [article].
218. Criminal Procedure in England [article].
219. The Frenchy Case [article]
220. Poems [verse].
221. "May it Please the Court" [music].
222. Biography of Franklin P. Adams [revisions & notes].
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