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Descriptive Summary Title: Bernhard Joseph Stern papers Inclusive Dates: 1926-1943 Collection Number: mssstern Collector: Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 Extent: 3 boxes Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Fax: (626) 449-5720 Email: reference@huntington.org URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: The Bernhard Joseph Stern correspondence and papers reflects his work on the biography of Lewis Henry Morgan. Language of Material: The records are in English and Russian. Access Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, please go to following web site. Publication Rights The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation Bernhard Joseph Stern papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Acquisition Information Gift of Mrs. Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1968 and 1977. Biography Bernhard Joseph Stern (1894-1956) was an American born sociologist, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia. As a professor, author, and lecturer, his interests were many faceted with special emphasis on anthropology. He became so absorbed in Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881 - the first social evolutionist in the United States to gain an international reputation) that he wrote the book, Lewis Henry Morgan: Social Evolutionist. It was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1931. In 1936 Dr. Stern entered into an agreement with the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. He was authorized to be the American member of the editorial committee for the publication of the complete works of Lewis Henry Morgan. Scope and Content This collection includes subject matter related to Stern s book about Lewis Henry Morgan and also his contract with the Soviet Union in 1936. There are over 100 letters during the period 1926-1938 addressed to the University of Rochester Library where so much Morgan material was deposited. In response, there are over 70 letters from the Rochester librarians. There are several letters to publishers requesting them to consider his manuscript. Corresponding to this group are over 40 letters from various American publishers in which they express reaction to his letters from various American publishers in which they express reaction to his projected volume. Letters to persons who had known Morgan are included. There are copies of over 140 Morgan letters and/or excerpts of them addressed to Joseph Henry (over 100 letters to him) and others during the period 1862-1881. There are approximately 100 pieces including miscellaneous notes, drafts of articles, and outlines that were working material for the volume. There are 20 printed reviews of the Morgan volume, three of which, appeared in the Soviet Union. During the period 1931-1940 there are over 50 Stern letters to various Soviet scholars and over 20 letters written by the Soviets to him. These letters (some in Russian with an accompanying translation) are concerned with the mutual interest in Morgan and the 1936 contract, which was not trouble free. Bernhard Joseph Stern papers mssstern 2
Significant persons represented are: Robert Henrich Lowie (4 letters addressed to Stern, 1928-1929); and the Soviet scholars: A.A. Busigin, J. Winnikow, I.I. Meshchaninov, I.P. Alcor-Koshkin, and M. Kosven. Box 1 consists of letters addressed to Stern arranged alphabetically by author. Box 2 consists of letters (copies) written by Stern to various persons arranged alphabetically by addressee; Stern s notes and drafts; printed reviews of his book Lewis Henry Morgan: Social Evolutionist. Box 3 consists of letters and/or excerpts (all copies) written by Morgan to various persons arranged alphabetically by addressee. Other related material includes printed ephemera and photographs. Personal Names Kosven, M. O. (Mark Osipovich), 1885- Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 -- Correspondence Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Archives Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Lewis Henry Morgan : social evolutionist Corporate Names Institut antropologii i eṫnografii (Akademii a nauk SSSR) -- Correspondence University of Chicago -- Press -- Correspondence University of Rochester -- Library -- Department of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives --Correspondence Subjects Anthropologists -- Soviet Union -- Correspondence Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence Biographers -- United States -- Archives Sociologists -- United States -- Archives Geographic Areas Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- Sources United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Sources Genre Letters (correspondence) -- Soviet Union Letters (correspondence)-- United States Professional papers -- United States Personal papers -- United States Box 1 Correspondence Folder 1 A letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928) Folder 2 American Anthropologist letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1927-1929) Folder 3 B letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936) Folder 4 Brown University Library letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956,, (1930, Oct. 29) Folder 5 C letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929-1936) Folder 6 Century Company letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929, Jan. 23) Folder 7 Columbia University Press letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1929) Folder 8 D letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928) Folder 9 D. Appleton & Co. letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928) Bernhard Joseph Stern papers mssstern 3
Folder 10 Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005 letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1936-1938) Folder 11 H letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, [1930] Folder 12 Harcourt, Brace and Company letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928) Folder 13 Harper & Brothers letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928) Folder 14 Houghton Mifflin Company letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956 Folder 15 Johnson, Alvin letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929, Dec. 10) Folder 16 Kenyon, Alfred S. (Alfred Stephen), 1867-1943 letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1930, Oct. 27) Folder 17 Knopp, Alfred A., Inc. letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1931) 2 Folder 18 Liverwright, Horace, Inc. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929, Jan. 22) Folder 19 Longmans, Green & Co. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929, Jan. 23) Folder 20 Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1929) Folder 21 M letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936) Folder 22 MacIver, R.M. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Feb. 17) Folder 23 MacMillan & Co. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928, Jan. 2) Folder 24 Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931) Folder 25 Minnesota University letters to be Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931) Folder 26 Myer, John H. letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Apr. 18) Folder 27 N letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936) Folder 28 New York State Library letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1936, Feb. 14) Folder 29 New York University letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1936) Folder 30 North Carolina University letters to Bernhard Josteph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1932) Folder 31 P letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928, July 26) Folder 32 President's Research Committee on Social Trends letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Jan. 12) Folder 33 Putnam, G.P. letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929-1936) Folder 34 R letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, ( Folder 35 Rochester Historical Society (Rochester, N.Y.) letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928) Bernhard Joseph Stern papers mssstern 4
Folder 36 Russian review of Lewis Henry Morgan, Social Evolutionist, (1932) Folder 37 S letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1949) Folder 38 Scientific Monthly letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1927, June 12) Folder 39 Scribner, Charles, Sons letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1937, Feb. 5) Folder 40 Sociliast Labor Party letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1936-1937) Folder 41 T letter to Bernard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Mar. 21) Folder 42 Union College letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1945) Folder 43 Union Soviet Socialist Republics letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931-1940) Folder 44 University of Chicago Press letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1940) Folder 45 University of Rochester letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1927-1938) 7 Folder 46 University of Washington. Libraries letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1931) Folder 47 University of Wisconsin letter to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931, Mar. 14) Folder 48 V letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931-1936) Folder 49 Viking Press letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1929) Folder 50 Wells College letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936) Folder 51 White, Leslie A., 1900-1975 letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1931) Folder 52 Yale University letters to Bernhard Joseph Stern, 1894-1956, (1928-1936) Box 2 Correspondence, manuscripts, and notes Folder 1 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to A-C, (1928-1936) Folder 2 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to D-L, (1928-1945) Folder 3 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to M-P, (1927-1938 Folder 4 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to S-Y, (1928-1949) Folder 5 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to U.S.S.R., (1931-1936) Various academies and scholars Folder 6 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to U.S.S.R., (1937-1938) Various academies and scholars Folder 7 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to University of Chicago Press, (1929-1943) Folder 8 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to University of Rochester, (1926-1935) Folder 9 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1937 letters to University of Rochester, (1935-1937) Folder 10 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 letters to Union College, (1928-1936) Bernhard Joseph Stern papers mssstern 5
Folder 11 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Lecture notes Folder 12 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Lewis Henry Morgan - American Ethnologist, (1928) Folder 13 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Lewis Henry Morgan Today, An Appraisal of his Scientific Contributions, (1945) Folder 14 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- "The man Lewis H. Morgan...", [1940] Folder 15 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- "The Life of Lewis Henry Morgan..." [outlines (documents)] Folder 16 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Miscellaneous notes, [1940] Folder 17 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Miscellaneous notes and drafts, (1931-1935) Folder 18 Stern, Bernhard Joseph, 1894-1956 -- Printed reviews of Lewis Henry Morgan, Social Evolutionist, (1931-1941) 17 items Included: Other works and bibliography Box 3 Correspondence, notes, printed ephemera, and photographs Folder 1 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1823-1887, (1865-1881) Folder 2 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letter to Asa Gray, (1877, Mar. 14) Folder 3 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to Joseph Henry, 1797-1878, (1862-1868) Folder 4 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to Joseph Henry, 1797-1878, (1868-1872) Folder 5 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to Joseph Henry, 1797-1878, (1873-1881) Folder 6 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to A.H. (Albert Harrison) Mixer, 1822-1908, (1870-1871) Folder 7 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to John Wesley Powell, 1837-1902, (1870-1880) Folder 8 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letters to W.I. Rheese, (1871) Folder 9 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letter to W.F. Warner, (1873, Oct. 16) Folder 10 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 letter to "Mr. Editor", (1866, Oct. 3) Folder 11 American Antiquity -- Lewis H. Morgan's Journal of a Trip to Southwestern Colorado and New Mexico, June 21 to August 7, 1878, (1942) Reprinted Folder 12 Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907 excerpts to Lewis Henry Morgan, 1818-1881, (1876-1880) Folder 13 Industrial Unionist, vol. 2, no. 7, vol. 2, no. 8, and vol. 3, no. 7, (1933-1934) Folder 14 Kocbeh, Marc O. -- Printed articles, (1946) Folder 15 Miscellaneous notes, [1938] Xerox copies Folder 16 Miscellaneous letters (correspondence) to and from various persons, (1866-1937) Bernhard Joseph Stern papers mssstern 6
Folder 17 Miscellaneous notes, (1841-1936) Folder 18 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 -- Photographs, (1945) Folder 19 Union College -- Union Worthies Number One Lewis Henry Morgan, (1945) Folder 20 Receipts and sales slips, (1930-1936) Folder 21 Rochester History, vol. 3, no. 4, (1946) Folder 22 "Weekly People," (1938, Nov. 26) Extremely brittle Bernhard Joseph Stern papers mssstern 7