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Collection of John F. Kennedy materials (Ms.78.16)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series I. John F. Kennedy

Subseries A. Correspondence

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Correspondence
 1945-1947
Tinker, Harold Lauren to Kennedy, John. F.
Contents Note: Copy of letter from H.L. Tinker which prompted Kennedy to write.
 1945 January 18
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Kennedy writes about death of older brother, Joseph, and his intention of compiling a memorial book to him and comments on senselessness of war.
 1945 February 9
Forrestal, James (Secretary of the Navy)
Contents Note: Copy of Navy commendation for Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Kennedy gives brief sketch of Joseph's career.
 1946 February 20
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Letter from John F. Kennedy to H. L. Tinker thanking him for the congratulations and apologizing for not getting a chance to speak to him in greater length on the weekend.
 1947 February 7
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Invitation cards and newsclipping about launching of Navy vessel named for Joseph.
 circa 1945-1947
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Letter thanking H. L. Tinker.
 1947 October 31
Box 1, Folder 2 Correspondence
 1953-1963
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Invitation (personal and formal cards) to Kennedy's wedding.
 1953 September 23
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Letter thanking H.L. Tinker for painting sent when in the hospital.
 1955 January
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Brief note thanking H.L. Tinker for Christmas card.
 1957 January 12
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Thanking H. L. Tinker for the congratulations on election to presidency.
 1960 December 2
Kennedy, John F. to Tinker, Harold Lauren
Contents Note: Thanking H. L. Tinker for sympathy note.
 1963 August

Subseries B. Printed Materials

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 3 "Liberty is in your hands"
Contents Note: The Boston Transcript
 1946 Jun
Box 1, Folder 3 "New England and the south"
Contents Note: The Atlantic
 1954 Jan
Box 1, Folder 3 "The Candidates and the Arts" ( Response to Saturday Review's questionnaire )
Contents Note: Saturday Review
 1960 Oct 29
Box 1, Folder 3 "An address by John F. Kennedy delivered before the Massachusetts Legislature"
 1961 Jan 09
Box 1, Folder 3 "World Peace"
Contents Note: Speech delivered at American University.
 1963 Jun 10

Series II. Correspondence by others

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 4 Billings, Le Moyne and Griswold, Mary
Contents Note: BIllings writes of his friendship with John Kennedy at Choate and later; Griswold: personal to Tinker.
 1967, 1971
Box 1, Folder 5 Kennedy, Joseph P. and Rose
Contents Note: Printed card for sympathy on J.F.K.'s death;: Three letters dealing with Tinker's memorial speech for Kennedy at Choate School; also Mrs. Kennedy's request for and receipt of copies of Kennedy's letters to Tinker.
 1967 May -1967 Jun
Box 1, Folder 6 Leinbach, Earl G.; St. John, Seymour; Wuerth, Gustave C.
Contents Note: Leinbach: congratulates Tinker on Choate School speech for Kennedy; St John: comments on Kennedy's death and funeral; gives some Kennedy quotes; Wuerth: personal to Tinker.
 1961, 1963, 1967

Series III. Miscellaneous materials

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 7 Dedication service at Choate School
Contents Note: A limited edition copy of H.L. Tinker's memorial speech on Kennedy; Mrs Rose Kennedy's response (typescript); 2 copies of program dedicating Robert Berks' sculpture of Kennedy.
Box 1, Folder 8 Miscellaneous ephemera
Contents Note: Facsimile of part of Kennedy speech; Broadside: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (supplement to American Heritage (1963 December); In Memory, John F. Kennedy: pamphlet prepared by Choate School; John Fitzgerald Kennedy: National Historic Site brochure; The John F. Kennedy Library Exhibit: pamphlet; Christmas card with reproduction of Kennedy's signature in Choate School Register; copy of Christmas card reproducing a painting by Mrs. John F. Kennedy.
Photographs
Contents Note: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (from Boston Sunday Herald: 1963 December 8) Launching of U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.

Series IV. Magazines and magazine articles from Time or Newsweek.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 10-12 Magazines and magazine articles
Contents Note: Articles on Kennedy from Presidential campaign through memorial tributes after assassination.
 1960 July 25 - 1963 Dec 07
Box 2, Folder 1-5 Magazines and magazine articles
Contents Note: Includes memorial booklets on Kennedy; one on Mrs. John F. Kennedy; also material dealing with Edward Kennedy and the Mary Jo Kopechne incident.
 1964-1974

Series V. Magazines and magazines articles from Life or Look

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1X Magazines and magazine articles
 1957-1961
Box 2, Folder 2X Magazines and magazine articles
 1963
Box 2, Folder 3X Magazines and magazine articles
Contents Note: Memorial editions from Life or Look.
Box 2, Folder 4X Magazines and magazine articles
 1964
Box 2, Folder 5X Magazines and magazine articles
Contents Note: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. on Kennedy.
 1965
Box 2, Folder 6X Magazines and magazine articles
Contents Note: Theodore C. Sorensen, Adlai E. Stevenson, and Theodore H. White.
Box 2, Folder 7X Magazines and magazine articles
Contents Note: Warren Report
 1966
Box 2, Folder 8X-9X Magazines and magazine articles
Contents Note: William Manchester: The Death of a President: Look.
 1967
Box 2, Folder 10X-11X Magazines and magazine articles
 1968-1969

Series VI. Newspapers and news clippings

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1XX N.Y. Journal- American
 1961 Jan 19
Box 2, Folder 1XX The New York Times
 1961 Jan 21
Box 2, Folder 1XX The New York Times
 1961 Jan 22
Box 2, Folder 2XX The Boston Globe
 1963 Nov 23
Box 2, Folder 2XX The New York Times
 1963 Nov 23
Box 2, Folder 2XX Boston Sunday Herald
 1963 Nov 24
Box 2, Folder 2XX The New York Times
 1963 Nov 24
Box 2, Folder 2XX The Boston Herald
 1963 Nov 25
Box 2, Folder 2XX The New York Times
 1963 Nov 25
Box 2, Folder 3XX The Boston Herald
 1963 Nov 26
Box 2, Folder 3XX The New York Times
 1963 Nov 26
Box 2, Folder 3XX The Boston Herald
 1963 Nov 27
Box 2, Folder 4XX Miscellaneous pages
 1964
Box 2, Folder 5XX Miscellaneous newspaper clippings
Adler, Bill
Contents Note: The Kennedy Wit New York, The Citadel Press.
 1965
Barnes, Clare, Jr.
Contents Note: John F. Kennedy, Scrimshaw Collector. Boston & Toronto, Little, Brown & Co.
 1969
Blair, Joan & Clay, Jr.
Contents Note: The Search for J.F.K. New York, Berkeley Publ. Corp.
 1976
Blair, Joan & Clay, Jr.
Contents Note: Book of the Month Club News. n.p, Book-of-the-Month-Club-Inc.
 1967 Apr
Bourjaily, Vance
Contents Note: The Man Who Knew Kennedy. N.Y. The Dial Press.
 1967
Bradlee, Benjamin
Contents Note: That Special Grace. Philadelphia & New York, J.B.Lippincott Co.
 1964
Bradlee, Benjamin
Contents Note: The Brief. Volume XXXVI. Wallingford, Conn., THe Choate School.
 1935
Burns, James MacGregor
Contents Note: John Kennedy. A Political profile by... New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co.,
 1960
Connelly, Marc
Contents Note: The Green Pastures. New York, Farrar & Rinehart.
 1929
Cutler, John Henry
Contents Note: "Honey Fitz" Three Steps to the White House. The Life and the Times John F. ( Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald. Indianapolis & New York, Bobbs- Merrill
 1962
Dinneen, Joseph F.
Contents Note: The Kennedy Family. Boston & Toronto, Little Brown & Co.
 1959
Epstein, Edward Jay
Contents Note: Irquest. The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. New York, Viking Press.
 1966
Frost, Robert
Contents Note: Dedication. The Gift Outright. - Kennedy, John F.
Frost, Robert
Contents Note: The Inaugural Address. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.
 1961
Kennedy, John F.
Contents Note: The Inaugural Address. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc,
 1961
Hoopes, Roy
Contents Note: A Memorial Edition of What the President Does All Day. NY Dell Publ.Co.
 1964
Joesten, Joachim
Contents Note: The Dark Side of Lyndon Haines Johnson. London, Peter Dawnay Ltd..
 1968
Kennedy, John F., Editor
Contents Note: As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, Mass., University Press.
 1945
Kennedy, John F.
Contents Note: Profile in Courage. New York, Harper & Bros.
 1956
Kennedy, John F.
Contents Note: Cambridge, Mass., University Press.
 1956
Kennedy, John F.
Contents Note: The Strategy of Peace- Edited by Allan Nevins. New York, Harper & Bros.
 1960
Kennedy, John F.
Contents Note: Why England Slept. New York, Wilfred Funk Inc.
 1940
Lane, Mark
Contents Note: Rush to Judgement. A Critique fo the Warren Commission's... Lee Harvey Oswald. New York, Chicago & San Francisco, Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
 1966
Laski, Harold J.
Contents Note: The American Presidency, An Interpretation. New York & London, Harper Row.
 1940
Lasky, Victor
Contents Note: J.F.K. The Man and the Myth.. New York, Macmillan Co.
 1963
Lee, Bruce
Contents Note: J.F.K: Boyhood to White House. Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications.
 1964
Lieberson, Goddard, Editor & Producer.
Contents Note: John Fitzgerald Kennedy... As We Remember Him. New York, Atheneum Press
 1965
Lincoln, Everlyn
Contents Note: My Twelve Years With John F. Kennedy. New York, David McKay Co. New York, David McKay Co.
Lisagor, Peter and Higgins, Marguerite
Contents Note: Overtime in Heaven: Adventures in the Foreign Service. Garden City, NY., Doubleday & Co.
 1964
Lowe, Jacques
Contents Note: The Emergence of Johnn F. Kennedy Portrait. New York, Bramhall House.
 1961
Manchester, William
Contents Note: The Death of A President. New York, Evanston & London, Harper & Row.
 1963 Nov 20 -1963 Nov 25
O'Donnell, Kenneth P. and Powers, David F. with Joe McCarthy.
Contents Note: "Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye." Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Boston and Toronto, Little, Brown & Co.
Salinger, Pierre
Contents Note: With Kennedy. New York, Doubleday & Co.
 1966
Sauvage, Leo
Contents Note: The Oswald Affair. An Examination of the Contradictions and Omissions of the Warren Report. Cleveland & New York, World Publ. Co.
 1966
Setley, Ruth Ericsen
Contents Note: New York, Countrywide Publications.
 1974
Shaw, Mark
Contents Note: The John F. Kennedys. Toronto, Ambassador Books Ltd: New York, Sanders Printing Corp.
 1964
Shaw Mark
Contents Note: The John F. Kennedys. Toronto Ambassador Books Ltd; New York, Sanders Printing Corp.
 1964
Sidey, Hugh
Contents Note: John F. Kennedy, President
 1964
Sorensen, Theodore C.
Contents Note: Kennedy. New York, Harper & Row
 1965
Strouse, Flora
Contents Note: John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Man of Courage. New York, Signet Key Books.
 1965
Tregaskis, Richard
Contents Note: John F. Kennedy and PT-109. New York, Random House.
 1962
White, Theodore H.
Contents Note: The Making of the President. New York, Atheneum Publ. 1961
 1960
Periodicals and Newspapers relating to John F. Kennedy
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Contents Note: Broadsides
Periodicals and Newspapers relating to John F. Kennedy
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Contents Note: Periodicals, Magazines and Excerpts from Magazines.
Periodicals and Newspapers relating to John F. Kennedy
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Contents Note: Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings and Letters; Periodicals from Choate School
Periodicals and Newspapers relating to John F. Kennedy
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Contents Note: Complete Newspapers