Title

V.F. Calverton papers, 1923-1941.

Author

Calverton, V. F. (Victor Francis), 1900-1940.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Details

Additional Authors

• Eastman, Max, 1883-1969.
• Foster, William Z., 1881-1961.
• Melville, Nina.
• Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967.
• Nearing, Scott, 1883-
• Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
• Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
• Wolfe, Bertram D. (Bertram David), 1896-1977.

Description

31 linear feet (61 boxes, 25 v.)

Uniform Title

Modern quarterly (New York, N.Y. : 1938)

Subjects

• Radicals
• Authors
• Journalists
• Scrapbooks
• Photographic prints
• United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
• United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932
• Labor literature > United States
• Radicalism > United States
• Journalism > United States
• Working class > United States > Periodicals
• Working class > United States > Political activity
• Communism > United States
• Calverton, V. F (Victor Francis), 1900-1940

Genre/Form

• Photographic prints.
• Scrapbooks.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Victor Francis Calverton (born George Goetz) (1900-1940), radical reformer and author, was founder and editor of Modern Quarterly, an independent Marxist journal.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository and on internet. Correspondent list available only in repository.

Call Number

MssCol 459

Author

Calverton, V. F. (Victor Francis), 1900-1940.

Title

V.F. Calverton papers, 1923-1941.

Summary

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, business records, photographs, and printed matter. Calverton's correspondence as editor of Modern Quarterly is with many of America's left-wing literary figures of the 1920s and 1930s, including William Z. Foster, Bertram Wolfe, Scott Nearing, Edmund Wilson, Max Eastman, and A.J. Muste. Included is correspondence with Leon Trotsky in which Trotsky and Calverton discuss the nature of proletarian literature. Personal correspondence consists mainly of Calverton's love letters, 1928-1940, to Nina Melville, his second wife. Also, manuscripts of articles, books, book reviews, debates, and lectures; business records of Modern Quarterly; scrapbooks containing reviews of Calverton's writings; and photographs of Melville and Calverton.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Victor Francis Calverton (born George Goetz) (1900-1940), radical reformer and author, was founder and editor of Modern Quarterly, an independent Marxist journal.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository and on internet. Correspondent list available only in repository.

Connect to:

Finding Aid

Occupation

Journalists.

Authors.

Radicals.

Added Author

Foster, William Z., 1881-1961.

Melville, Nina.

Nearing, Scott, 1883-

Wolfe, Bertram D. (Bertram David), 1896-1977.

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Eastman, Max, 1883-1969.

Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967.

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.

Added Title

Modern quarterly (New York, N.Y. : 1938)

LCCN

ms 68001112

Research Call Number

MssCol 459