Series: 1. Correspondence, 1943-1955

Subseries: A. Freudianism and the Literary Mind, 1942-1955
Scope and Content Note: This subseries relates to the publication of Hoffman's 1945 monograph, and consists of correspondence relating to the book's publication by Louisiana State University Press, responses to research inquiries (Conrad Aiken), and post-publication correspondence (A.A. Brill, Anaïs Nin).

Aiken, Conrad, 1944

Bentley, Eric Russell, 1945

Brill, A.A., 1943

De Vane, William C., 1942-1943

Flores, Angel, 1945

Freedman, Burill, 1945

Heilman, Robert B., 1943

Hoffman, Frederick J., to Frederick A. Pottle, 1945

Hubert, Ruth B., to Frederick J. Hoffman, 1953

Hubert, Ruth B., to Ruth M. Mathewson, 1953

Levin, Harry, 1946

Lindsay, Jack, 1948

Loeb, Robert H., 1945

Lyskin, Herman, 1945

Mason, Ellsworth G., 1948

Mathewson, Ruth M., 1953

Megata, Morikimi, 1955, 19??

Mordell, Albert, 1946

Nin, Anaïs, undated

Pottle, Frederick A., 1945

Simenauer, E., 1950

Smith, A.O., 1947

Wilkerson, M.M., 1943-1946

Wilson, Edmund, 1943

Subseries: B. General Correspondence, 1942-1947
Scope and Content Note: General correspondence is perhaps the most interesting and important part of this collection. These materials consist primarily of responses to Hoffman's research inquiries by various literary figures including Henry Miller, Frieda Lawrence (widow of D.H. Lawrence), Floyd Dell, Thomas Mann, and Ezra Pound. In some cases, Hoffman's letters of inquiry are available as well. The correspondence deals with a variety of topics and lines of research, especially Freudianism and its influence on the responding authors, literature in the 1920s, and sales figures of various books and publishers.

Aiken, Conrad, 1945

Boynton, Henry Percy, 1942

Braymer, Lawrence, 1945

Brill, A.A., 1942

Burke, Kenneth, 1945

Burrow, Trigant, 1942

Chambers, D.L., 1945

Cowley, Malcolm, 1944-1945

Daiches, David, 1942

Darrow, Whitney, 1945

Davis, Robert Gorham, 1945

Dell, Floyd, 1942-1945

Eastman, Max, 1944

Edwards, Robert, undated

Frank, Waldo, 1942-1946

Freeman, Joseph, 1944-1945

Freshman, Shirley, 1945

Geismar, Maxwell, 1947

Gould, Joe, 1945-1946

Hoffman, Frederick J. (Outgoing)

Brill, A.A., 1942

Cowley, Malcolm, 1944

Eastman, Max East, 1944

Edwards, Robert, 1943

Frank, Waldo, 1942

Frank, Waldo, 1945

Freeman, Joseph, 1944

Lawrence, Frieda, 1942

Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1942

Mann, Thomas, 1944

Miller, Henry, 1944

Nin, Anaïs,1944

Wilson, Edmund, 1945

Mencken, H.L., undated

Hull, Harry F., 1945

Jolas, Eugene, 1943

Josephson, Matthew, 1945

Koshland, William A., 1945

Kris, Ernst, 1944

Lawrence, Frieda, 1942

Levin, Harry, 1942

Lewis, Sinclair, 1945

Lippmann, Walter, 1942

Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1942

Mann, Thomas, 1944

Mason, Harold, 1945

McCarthy, Catherine, 1945

Mencken, H.L., 1945

Miller, Henry, 1944

Mumford, Lewis, 1945

Nin, Anaïs, 1944

Pound, Dorothy, 1947

Pound, Ezra, 1946-1947

Sauer, Caroline, 1945

Smith, Priscilla C., 1945

Smollen, A., 1945

Soupault, Phillippe, undated

Stimson, Lucy Grey, undated

Stimson, Lucy Grey (with McKnight Black poems), undated

Taylor, Helen K., 1945

Trilling, Lionel, Malcolm Cowley, and R.P. Blackmur, 1946

Wylie, Philip, 1945

Subseries: C. The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography, 1943-1955
Scope and Content Note: This subseries contains materials relating to the publication of The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography. It consists of correspondence with collaborators Carolyn Ulrich and Charles Allen, and various letters that cover publishing details. This series also contains letters from,and responses to James Laughlin, a publisher who was considerably dissatisfied with the portrayal of his magazine, New Directions, in the first edition of Hoffman's book.

Allen, Charles, 1944-1946

Hoffman, Frederick J. (Outgoing)

Allen, Charles, 1944

Laughlin, James, 1946-1947

MacLachlan, Jean, 1946

Smith, Datus C., 1943-1944

Ulrich, Carolyn F., 1943

Knopf, Alfred A., to Carolyn F. Ulrich, 1943

Laughlin, James

General, 1946-1947

Smith, Datus C., 1946

MacLachlan, Jean, 1946

Smith, Datus C.,1943-1946

Stewart, Paul R., 1955

Ulrich, Carolyn F., 1943-1947

Subseries: D. The Twenties: American Writing in the Post-War Decade, 1943-1954
Scope and Content Note: This subseries relates to the publication of The Twenties: American Writing in the Postwar Decade. This series consists primarily of correspondence with publishers, as well as a few research-related letters. Also in this series are letters relating to the fellowship that the Rockefeller Foundation awarded to Hoffman in 1945.

Davis, Lambert, 1954

Dulles, F. Rhea, undated

Fran, 1945

Hanford, James, 1944

Hoffman, Frederick J. (Outgoing)

Editor of Henry Holt and Company, 1946

Makinsky, Alexander, 1944

Stewart, Helen, 1947-1948

Jennison, Keith, 1946

Lottinville, Savoie, 1947

Marshall, John, 1944

Maxwell, Kay, 1945

Parker, William R., 1944

Pistole, Walter H. Jr., 1945

Rutter, William, 1949

Sloane, William, 1946

Stevens, David H., 1943-1945

Stewart, Helen, 1948-1950

Sutveau, James, May 18, 1945

Taylor, Helen K.,1945-1950

Thompson, Norma S.

Trilling, Lionel