The Art Buchwald Papers primarily reflect his writing career, and are comprised of correspondence, book manuscripts, and column drafts.
Prior to 1962, the year of Buchwald's return to the United States, the CORRESPONDENCE is quite sparse and generally from individuals who were more than just fans. The celebrity mail has been segregated in a separate folder and includes such correspondents as Bernard Baruch, Jack Benny, Irving Berlin, Al Capp, Maurice Chevalier, D. Douglas Dillon, Rube Goldberg, Princess Grace of Monaco, Helen Hayes, George S. Kaufman, Walter Lippmann, Clare Booth Luce, Groucho Marx, W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Moses, Edward R. Murrow, James Reston, William Saroyan, and Joseph N. Welch. Correspondence of interest chiefly for its autograph value may be found from Faith Baldwin, Noel Coward, Joan Crawford, Anita Loos, and Abigail Van Buren.
The post-1962 correspondence, which is totally incoming, is primarily from Buchwald's readers. This portion of the correspondence has been randomly sampled leaving 1/10th of the fan mail Buchwald received each month. The researcher may be assisted in knowing that 10 cubic feet of fan mail were returned to the donor.
The collection contains MANUSCRIPTS for four of Buchwald's books: Don't Forget to Write (1960), How Much Is That in Dollars? (1961), Is It Safe to Drink the Water? (1962), and I Chose Capitol Punishment (1963). One cubic foot of galleys and page proofs were returned to the donor.
The collection also includes carbons of Buchwald's syndicated NEWSPAPER COLUMNS from 1962 to 1969. These exhibit evidence of occasional editing by the author.
