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Sonia H. and Nathaniel A. Davis papers (MS.2012.003)

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 1. Sonia H. Davis, 1922-1971

Series 1. Subseries. Correspondence, 1938-1971

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 From S. H. Davis
 1944-1970
Box 1, Folder 2 From S. H. Davis
Box 1, Folder 3 To S.H. Davis
 1938-1947
Box 1, Folder 4 To S.H. Davis

 1950-1959
Box 1, Folder 5 To S.H. Davis

 1960-1965
Box 1, Folder 6 To S.H. Davis

 1966-1971
Box 1, Folder 7 To S.H. Davis
Box 1, Folder 8 To S.H. Davis, From Family Members
 1961-1964, undated
Box 1, Folder 9 To S.H. Davis, From Belle. S. Mooney
 1953-1965, undated
Box 1, Folder 10 To S.H. Davis, From N. A. Davis
 1942-1944, undated
Box 1, Folder 11 To/From Others
 1947, 1967

Series 1. Subseries. Personal Materials, 1922-1968

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 12 Burial Arrangements
 1945-1964
Box 1, Folder 12a Business Cards
 undated
Box 1, Folder 13 Certificates, Awards, Pledges
 1952-1965
Box 1, Folder 14 Copyright documents
 1944-1956, undated
Box 1, Folder 15 Financial Records
 1922-1965
Box 1, Folder 16 Last Will and Testament
 1962
Box 1, Folder 17 Medical Records
 1950-1965
Box 1, Folder 18 Naturalization and Citizenship
 1961
Box 1, Folder 19 Pension
 1961, 1964
Box 1, Folder 20 Philanthropic Activities
 1949, 1962-1963
Box 1, Folder 20a Press
 1960 Jul 8, 1968 Mar
Box 1, Folder 21 Professional Business Cards & Badges
 undated
Box 1, Folder 22 Sephardic Jewish Community
 1946-1962

Series 1. Subseries. Writings, 1952-1968

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 22a Alcestis (play)
 circa 1961
Box 9, Folder 1 Autobiographical Writings
 1964 Aug 25, 1968 Oct 8, undated
Box 9, Folder 2 Autobiographical Writings: "I do not quite remember how and exactly when I had met James Ferdinand Morton..."
 undated
Box 9, Folder 3 Autobiographical Writings: "In a small village, Itchno, which is on the outskirts of the town of Konotop..."
 undated
Box 9, Folder 4 Autobiographical Writings: "In a small village, Itchno, which is on the outskirts of the town of Konotop..."
 undated
Box 9, Folder 5 Autobiographical Writings: "In a small village on the outskirts of the town of Konotp (sic)..."
 undated
Box 9, Folder 6 Autobiographical Writings: "In a small village on the outskirts of the town of Konotp (sic)..."
 undated
Box 9, Folder 7 Autobiographical Writings: "Interesting as was the first part of my story..."
 undated
Box 9, Folder 8 Autobiographical Writings: "When I held the very lucrative buyer and managership in N.Y.C...."
Box 1, Folder 23 Biographical Writings on Nathaniel A. Davis
 undated
Box 1, Folder 24 Editorials
 1952-1959, undated
Box 1, Folder 24a European Glimpses
 1932
Box 1, Folder 24b Howard Phillips Lovecraft as His Wife Remembers Him (in Books at Brown (vol. XI, nos. 1-2)
 1949 Feb
Box 1, Folder 25 Poems
 undated
Box 1, Folder 26 Prose: A-D
 undated
Box 1, Folder 27 Prose: E-H
 undated
Box 1, Folder 28 Prose: I-L
 undated
Box 1, Folder 29 Prose: M-R
 undated
Box 1, Folder 30 Prose: S-Z
 undated
Box 1, Folder 30a Prose: Editorials (Newspaper Clippings)
 1959 Jun 19, undated
Box 1, Folder 31 Prose: Fragments
 undated
Box 1, Folder 32 Prose: Scattered Notes
 undated
Box 1, Folder 32a Prose: Writings by Others
 undated

Series 2. Nathaniel A. Davis, 1918-1964

Series 2. Subseries. Correspondence, 1931-1948

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 33 From N.A. Davis
 1931-1937
Box 1, Folder 34 From N.A. Davis
 1938-1940
Box 1, Folder 35 From N.A. Davis
 1941-1942
Box 1, Folder 36 From N.A. Davis
 1943-1944
Box 1, Folder 37 From N.A. Davis
Box 1, Folder 38 To N.A. Davis
Contents Note: Folder includes letter from J. Edgar Hoover to N.A.D.
 1930-1939
Box 1, Folder 39 To N.A. Davis
 1940-1941
Box 1, Folder 40 To N.A. Davis
 1942-1948
Box 1, Folder 41 To N.A. Davis
Box 1, Folder 42 To and From Others
 1931-1942, undated

Series 2. Subseries. Personal Materials, 1918-1946

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 42a Biographical writings on N. A. Davis (including press & obituaries)
 1946 Apr 28, undated
Box 1, Folder 42b Business Card
Box 1, Folder 43 Certificate of Naturalization
 1944
Box 1, Folder 44 Certificates, Miscellaneous
 1931, 1940
Box 1, Folder 45 Curricula Vita
 1924
Box 1, Folder 46 Death Certificate
 1945 Apr 16
Box 1, Folder 47 Photo Identification (Frank Waterhouse)
 1918 Oct 3

Series 2. Subseries. Poetry, 1938-1964

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 48 A-B
 undated
Box 1, Folder 49 C-E
 undated
Box 1, Folder 50 F-G
 undated
Box 1, Folder 51 H-I
 undated
Box 1, Folder 52 J-L
 undated
Box 1, Folder 53 M-N
 undated
Box 1, Folder 54 O-R
 undated
Box 2, Folder 1 S
 undated
Box 2, Folder 2 T
 undated
Box 2, Folder 3 U-Z
 undated
Box 2, Folder 4 Faith, Hope, Tradition and Heritage of America (Monograph)
 1949 Jan
Box 7 If God Should Die! (Broadsides)
 1941
Box 7 Our Soldiers Never Die/A Service Man's Prayer (Laminated Copies)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 5 My Mother (Monograph)
 1947
Box 2, Folder 6 Poetry Notebooks - Americanism ... [et al.]
 undated
Box 2, Folder 7 Poetry Notebooks - Book A
 1938, 1942, undated
Box 2, Folder 8 Poetry Notebooks - Book B
 undated
Box 2, Folder 9 Poetry Notebooks - Book C
 undated
Box 2, Folder 10 Poetry Notebooks - Book D
 undated
Box 2, Folder 11 Poetry Notebooks - Book E
 undated
Box 2, Folder 12 Poetry Notebooks - Book F
 undated
Box 2, Folder 13 Poetry Notebooks - Book H
Box 2, Folder 14 Poetry Notebooks - California
 undated
Box 2, Folder 15 Poetry Notebooks - Duplicate Poems
 undated
Box 2, Folder 16 Poetry Notebooks - Recent Patriotic Poems and Material
 undated
Box 2, Folder 17 Poetry Notebooks - Rhythm
 1933
Box 2, Folder 18 Poetry Notebooks - Sight and Visions Poems Written and Read Over the Radio
 undated
Box 2, Folder 19 Poetry Notebooks - Sonia
 1943, undated
Box 2, Folder 20 Poetry Notebooks - Till Then
 undated
Box 2, Folder 21 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (1 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 22 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (2 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 23 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (3 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 24 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (4 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 25 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (5 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 26 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (6 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 27 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (7 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 28 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (8 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 29 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (9 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 30 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (10 of 11)
 undated
Box 2, Folder 31 Poetry Notebooks - Untitled (11 0f 11)
 1938, 1942, undated
Box 2, Folder 32 Poets, Miscellaneous
Contents Note: May have been collected by either S. H. or N. A. Davis
 1964, undated
Box 2, Folder 33 Stars and Stripes For Me, Contract (With Elliot Carpenter, Composer)
Contents Note: Includes a copy of the score.
 undated
Box 2, Folder 34 Stars and Stripes For Me, Lyrics, Press, Program
Contents Note: With annotation by S.H. David about the song
 1940, undated
Box 2, Folder 35 Stars and Stripes For Me, Scores
 undated
Box 2, Folder 36 Swallows of San Juan Capistrano
Contents Note: Includes copy of original broadside, annotations, and other accompanying materials.
 1938-1939, 1942, 1957, undated
Box 7 Swallows of San Juan Capistrano (Broadside)
 1938
Box 7 Swallows of San Juan Capistrano (Broadsides)
 1938
Box 7 To My Sweetheart (Broadside)
 1938
Box 2, Folder 37 Twenty One Nations, Lyrics and Score
 undated
Box 2, Folder 38 Voices
 undated

Series 2. Subseries. Prose, 1932-1941

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 39 Political Essays - A-E
 undated
Box 2, Folder 40 Political Essays - F-K
 1938-1939, 1943, undated
Box 2, Folder 41 Political Essays - M-R
 1937-1938, 1942, undated
Box 2, Folder 42 Political Essays - S
 1941, undated
Box 3, Folder 1 Political Essays - T-Z
 1940, 1942, undated
Box 3, Folder 2 Prose By Others
 1932, undated
Box 3, Folder 3 Prose Fragments
 undated
Box 3, Folder 4 Prose Notebooks - Almonds
 undated
Box 3, Folder 5 Prose Notebooks - Americanism
 undated
Box 3, Folder 6 Prose Notebooks - Color
 undated
Box 3, Folder 7 Prose Notebooks - Delinquency Prevention Project
Box 3, Folder 8 Prose Notebooks - Desert Shall Blossom at the Rose
 undated
Box 3, Folder 9 Prose Notebooks - First Came the Jew
 undated
Box 3, Folder 10 Prose Notebooks - Five Laws of Successful Salesmanship
Box 3, Folder 11 Prose Notebooks - Fourteen Lectures on the Influence of Christ in Art upon Western Civilization
Box 3, Folder 12 Prose Notebooks - Fundamental Everyday American Economics
Box 3, Folder 13 Prose Notebooks - Genesis
 undated
Box 3, Folder 14 Prose Notebooks - Germinal-Seed-Rain (1 of 3)
 undated
Box 3, Folder 15 Prose Notebooks - Germinal-Seed-Rain (2 of 3)
 undated
Box 3, Folder 16 Prose Notebooks - Germinal-Seed-Rain (3 of 3)
 undated
Box 3, Folder 17 Prose Notebooks - The Girl He Left Behind Him
 undated
Box 3, Folder 18 Prose Notebooks - Great Jews of All Times
 undated
Box 3, Folder 19 Prose Notebooks - Harvest
 1933
Box 3, Folder 20 Prose Notebooks - The Jew
 1936
Box 3, Folder 21 Prose Notebooks - Let Us Say It
 1940
Box 3, Folder 22 Prose Notebooks - Liberty
 1934
Box 3, Folder 23 Prose Notebooks - Life
 1933
Box 3, Folder 27 Prose Notebooks - The Problem of Crime
 undated
Box 3, Folder 24 Prose Notebooks - Memory and Other M.S. Material
Contents Note: Includes illustrations, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials,
 undated
Box 3, Folder 25 Prose Notebooks - Payauthur: A Saga of the South Seas
 1941
Box 3, Folder 26 Prose Notebooks - Political [Writing]
 undated
Box 3, Folder 27a Prose Notebooks - Research on Roger Williams
 undated
Box 3, Folder 28 Prose Notebooks - The Survivors
 undated
Box 3, Folder 29 Prose Notebooks - Then Came the Jew
 1936
Box 3, Folder 30 Prose Notebooks - Truth About the Jew (1 of 6)
 undated
Box 4, Folder 1 Prose Notebooks - Truth About the Jew (2 of 6)
 undated
Box 4, Folder 2 Prose Notebooks - Truth About the Jew (3 of 6)
Box 4, Folder 3 Prose Notebooks - Truth About the Jew (4 of 6)
 undated
Box 4, Folder 4 Prose Notebooks - Truth About the Jew (5 of 6)
 undated
Box 4, Folder 4a Prose Notebooks - Truth About the Jew (6 of 6)
 1934
Box 4, Folder 5 Prose Notebooks - Untitled (1 of 6)
Contents Note: Collection of miscellaneous essays.
 undated
Box 4, Folder 6 Prose Notebooks - Untitled (2 of 6)
Contents Note: Collection of miscellaneous essays.
 undated
Box 4, Folder 7 Prose Notebooks - Untitled (3 of 6)
 undated
Box 4, Folder 8 Prose Notebooks - Untitled (4 of 6)
Contents Note: Collection of miscellaneous essays, verse and creedal statements.
 undated
Box 4, Folder 9 Prose Notebooks - Untitled (5 of 6)
 1941, 1943, undated
Box 4, Folder 10 Prose Notebooks - Untitled (6 of 6)
Contents Note: Collection of miscellaneous essays.
 undated
Box 4, Folder 11 Prose Notebooks - Vision
 1933
Box 4, Folder 12 Prose Notebooks - Who Are the Jews
 undated
Box 4, Folder 13 Religious Essays - A-E
 1921, 1934, undated
Box 4, Folder 14 Religious Essays - F-L
 undated
Box 4, Folder 15 Religious Essays - M-R
 1937, 1941,
Box 4, Folder 16 Religious Essays - S-Z
Box 4, Folder 17 Scattered Notes
 undated
Box 4, Folder 18 Social Essays - A-L
 undated
Box 4, Folder 19 Social Essays - M-Z
 1937, 1939, 1943, undated

Series 2. Subseries. Drama, 1938-1939

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 20 America Speaks
 1939
Box 4, Folder 21 Columbus Play
 circa 1938
Box 4, Folder 22 Miscellaneous Scripts
 undated
Box 4, Folder 23 Thunder Before Dawn
 undated

Series 3. Planetaryan, 1922-1948

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 24 Administrative Materials - Constitution, Manifestos, Creeds
 undated
Box 4, Folder 25 Administrative Materials - Forms, Form Letters, Stationary
 undated
Box 4, Folder 26 Administrative Materials - Committees - American Committee to Aid Korean Refugees
 1941, 1942, undated
Box 4, Folder 27 Administrative Materials - Committees - American Defense Society
 undated
Box 4, Folder 28 Administrative Materials - Organizational Structure, Programs, Rituals, Activities
 undated
Box 4, Folder 29 Administrative Materials - Petitions, Pledges
 undated
Box 4, Folder 30 Articles and Editorials for Publication, Distribution (1 of 2)
 1938, 1941, 1948, undated
Box 4, Folder 31 Articles and Editorials for Publication, Distribution (2 of 2)
 1937, 1938, undated
Box 4, Folder 32 Notebooks - 1940 report
 1940-1941
Box 4, Folder 33 Notebooks - Ben and His Whistle
 1927, undated
Box 4, Folder 34 Notebooks - Exchange Students
 circa 1924
Box 4, Folder 35 Notebooks - Flag Manual
 1940, undated
Box 4, Folder 36 Notebooks - Form Letters
 1930, 1931, undated
Box 4, Folder 37 Notebooks -The Great Appeal
 undated
Box 5, Folder 1 Notebooks - Important Torch Copy
 1922, 1938,
Box 5, Folder 2 Notebooks - Jews are People
 1936
Box 5, Folder 3 Notebooks - Let America Sing
 1940
Box 5, Folder 4 Notebooks - Look in Here First
 undated
Box 5, Folder 5 Notebooks - The New Competition
 undated
Box 5, Folder 6 Notebooks - Palestine Petition
 undated
Box 5, Folder 7 Notebooks - Planetaryan Key Notes
 undated
Box 5, Folder 8 Notebooks - Planetaryan Library of Human Science
 undated
Box 5, Folder 9 Notebooks - Planetaryan Program
 1934, 1937-1940, undated
Box 5, Folder 10 Notebooks - Planetaryan Song Book
 undated
Box 5, Folder 11 Notebooks - Planetaryan Songs and Credos
 undated
Box 5, Folder 12 Notebooks - Rise on Wings of Understanding
 undated
Box 5, Folder 13 Notebooks - Understanding Our World
 1931

Series 4. Printed Materials, 1908-1972

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 14 American Cinematographer
 1928 Apr
Box 5, Folder 15 'Bama Writer
 1963 Oct
Box 5, Folder 16 Barrett, Wesley M. The Barrett Harmonic System for Perfect Eyesight Without Glasses. Part Seven.
General Note: It appears that N. A. Davis was the ghost writer of the work. See marginalia from Sonia H. Davis on cover of work. Also see letter from librarian to Sonia H. Davis in
 1927
Box 5, Folder 17 Beverly Hills Zionist
 1961 Mar
Box 5, Folder 18 Bulletin of the Southern California Society for Mental Hygiene
 1949 Apr
Box 5, Folder 19 California Welfare Journal
Contents Note: Edited by N. A. Davis. Also includes editorial piece and article by N. A. Davis.
 1938 Apr
Box 5, Folder 20 The Chicago Jewish Forum: A National Quarterly Magazine
 1951 Spring
Box 5, Folder 21 Child Security: Official Publication of Child Security, Inc.
Contents Note: Vol. 5, No. 3 includes article by S. H. Davis.
 1958 Spring, 1960 Autumn-Winter
Box 5, Folder 22 The Communist Party of the United States of America: a Handbook
 1956
Box 5, Folder 23 The Co-Operative Paper
 1964 Dec
Box 5, Folder 24 De Lorenzo, Leonardo. To the Nine Muses.
Contents Note: Inscribed by the author to S. H. Davis.
 1957
Box 5, Folder 25 Ellisonian Echoes from the Manse of the Muses
 1964 Aug
Box 5, Folder 26 Examiner
 1951 Jun 22
Box 5, Folder 26a The Guide to Reading (edited by Lyman Abbott, Asa Dickinson and Others)
 1924
Box 5, Folder 27 Let's Go
 1928 May 2
Box 5, Folder 28 Mercury: A Journal of Esoterism and the Higher Masonry
 1925 Jun, 1925 Sep
Box 5, Folder 28a Messenger of Inspiration
 1964-1965
Box 5, Folder 28b The Metrolight Flash
 1964-1965
Box 5, Folder 28c Miscellaneous Small Press Publications
 1958, 1961, 1963-1965, undated
Box 5, Folder 29 Mizrachi Women's Cultural Guide
 1949 Jan
Box 5, Folder 30 New Age Expositor
 1962
Box 5, Folder 31 New Horizons
Contents Note: Letter from S. H. Davis on p. 3.
 1963 Apr
Box 5, Folder 31a Noah's Ark, Incorporated
Contents Note: This represents a business venture that N.A. Davis was involved in.
 1912
Box 5, Folder 31b North Lawrence News
 1959
Box 5, Folder 32 The Occult Digest
 1927 Nov
Box 5, Folder 33 Our Daily Bread
 1972 Apr
Box 5, Folder 34 Outdoor Life and Health Association
 1940 Jul
Box 5, Folder 35 Paton, J. M. The Adopted Break Silence
 1954
Box 5, Folder 36 Planetaryan Materials - Fliers, brochures, invitation
 1932 Mar 11, undated
Box 5, Folder 37 Planetaryan Materials - One Nation
Contents Note: Multiple copies of first (and only published) issue, most annotated by S. H. Davis.
 1944 June
Box 5, Folder 38 Planetaryan Materials - Planetaryan Educational Weekly
 1935
Box 5, Folder 38a Planetaryan Materials - The Torch
Box 5, Folder 38b Planetaryan Materials - Why Crawl? Learn to Fly.
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 39 Pointers for Thinkers and How to Employ the Idle
 undated
Box 5, Folder 39a Reason (Quarterly)
 1922 Aug-Sep
Box 5, Folder 40 Rosh Hashanah Edition
 1960 Oct
Box 5, Folder 40a Scenes and Episodes
 1957 Jan
Box 5, Folder 40b Seattle Amateur
Contents Note: With annotations by S.H. Davis regarding race.
 1964-1965
Box 5, Folder 41 Sephardic Jewish Community and Brotherhood (Los Angeles, Calif.), Publications
 1964, Sept., undated
Box 5, Folder 42 Smith, Flora Warren. A New Year Preachment
 1908 Jan
Box 5, Folder 43 Soglasiye
 1964 Oct
Box 5, Folder 44 Tifereth Israel Bulletin
 1946
Box 5, Folder 45 United Israel Bulletin
Contents Note: Scattered issues
 1948-1970
Box 5, Folder 45a Utopian News
 1934 Jul 9
Box 5, Folder 46 The Voice of Deliverance
 1970 Aug
Box 5, Folder 47 World Trade
 1922 Mar 27

Series 5. Photographs, 1893-1968

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 48 Sonia H. Davis
 1906-1972
Box 5, Folder 49 Nathaniel A. Davis
 1893-1938
Box 8 Nathaniel A. Davis - Chinese Free Masons Group Portrait

 1923 Feb 20
Box 5, Folder 50 Family, Friends, Associates, Other Subjects
 circa 1900-1970

Series 6. Ephemera, 1879-1971

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 51 Astrology Charts and Other Related Materials
 1879, Jan 27, 1933 Oct 30, undated
Box 5, Folder 52 Greeting Cards (Blank)
 1939, undated
Box 5, Folder 53 Invitations, Programs, Brochures, Fliers
 1936-1971, undated
Box 5, Folder 54 Miscellaneous Ephemera
 1932, 1942, 1954, 1961, 1964, undated
Box 5, Folder 55 Newspaper Clippings
 1931, 1952, 1964, 1966, 1969, undated

Series 7. Artifacts, 1938-1949

Container Description Date
Box 8 Flag (United Sates of America)
 undated
Box 5, Folder 56 Greeting Cards, Handmade by N. A. Davis
 1939, 1942 Mar 16
Box 8 Medallion, Planetaryan
 undated
Box 8 Monogram for N. A. Davis (Cloth)
 undated
Box 5, Folder 57 Portrait (Pencil)
Contents Note: Artist & subject unidentified
 undated
Box 8 Printing Blocks for The Swallows of San Juan Capistrano
 1938
Box 8 Printing Plates for Stars and Stripes For Me
 undated
Box 5, Folder 58 Printing Proofs for I am a Planetaryan
 undated
Box 8 Prints (Socrates Takes Hemlock and Christ on the Cross)
 undated
Box 8 Scrapbook: A Book of Patriotic Songs (by N.A. Davis and Elliot Carpenter)
 1949
Box 6, Folder 1 Scrapbook: Color and Its Uses
 undated
Box 6, Folder 2 Scrapbook: Color as a Factor in Life
 undated
Box 6, Folder 3 Scrapbook: Nathaniel A. Davis
Contents Note: Includes photos of N. A. Davis, business cards, membership cards, articles poetry written by N.A. Davis, and correspondence,
 undated
Box 6, Folder 4 Scrapbook: Personals - To and About NAD
 undated
Box 6, Folder 5 Scattered pages from Miscellaneous Scrapbooks
 undated