Title: Dalton Trumbo Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1905-1962

Creator:

• Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976

Call Number: U.S. Mss 24AN; Micro 2008; Audio 283A-290A; Audio 702A; Audio 1229A; Disc 7A; Disc 19A; Lot A94; Lot B11

Quantity: 17.8 c.f. (45 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 2 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 8 tape recordings, 133 dictabelts, 13 disc recordings, and photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Contact Information

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Abstract:

Papers of Dalton Trumbo, an author and writer of motion picture scripts who, as one of the Hollywood Ten, was imprisoned following 1947 hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The collection offers remarkably complete documentation of his work and the blacklisting to which he was subjected until 1960. It includes correspondence, writings, financial records, recordings, and subject files on HUAC and the Hollywood Ten. Correspondence, 1925-1962, includes letters to his wife and family concerning his experiences as a correspondent during World War II, his prison experiences in 1950 and 1951, as well as many letters to and from agents, playwrights, producers, and other members of the Ten. Numerous letters relate to the Congressional hearings, his work as a black market writer under assumed names during the 1950s, and his attitudes toward blacklisting. Among his correspondents are Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, E.Y. Harburg, John Huston, Gordon Kahn, Garson Kanin, Murray Kempton, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Carey McWilliams, Albert Maltz, David Merrick, Dore Schary, Herman Shumlin, and Sam Zimbalist. Some correspondence is present only in dictated form.

Language: English

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One year after Dalton Trumbo's birth in Montrose, Colorado in 1905 his family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where they lived until he graduated from high school. The years in Colorado had a profound influence on the writer, for Colorado names, places, and settings figure in many of his novels and stories, and his first published novel, Eclipse (1934) was based on Grand Junction life and characters.

In 1940 Trumbo recalled the next phase of his life in an article for the Daily Worker:

After my graduation from high school my mother and father completed the westward trek which the family had begun two hundred years before, and moved to Los Angeles. I attended the University of Colorado in the year of 1924-1925, joining them on the coast in the summer of 1925. My father died the following year. I went to work as a night bread wrapper in the largest bakery in Los Angeles. I started this work in 1925 at a salary of $4.00 a week, and when I quit, nine and one-half years later, I was earning $18.00. During this time I wrote eighty-eight short stories and six novels, all rejected. I attended the University of Southern California for almost two years,...repossessed motorcycles, reviewed pictures for a motion picture trade magazine, and did various other jobs, all the time remaining at the bakery.

In 1934 Trumbo's fortunes began to change rapidly. He left his bakery job to become editor of the Hollywood Spectator. His short story, “Darling Bill--,” was a prize-winning Saturday Evening Post selection, and other stories appeared in Liberty, McCall's, The Forum, Vanity Fair, North American Review, and other magazines. Before the end of the decade, three novels - Eclipse (1934), Washington Jitters (1936, adapted as a Theatre Guild play in 1938), and Johnny Got His Gun (1939)--were published, the last of these winning the American Booksellers' Award as the most original book of the year.

The mid-1930s also marked the beginning of Trumbo's screenwriting career, which flourished until 1947 and which included such credits as A Man to Remember (voted one of the ten best films of 1938); Kitty Foyle (Academy Award nomination); A Guy Named Joe (Boxoffice Magazine Award); Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Boxoffice Magazine Award); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Boxoffice Magazine Award), Tender Comrade, Five Came Back, and a film adaptation of his own novel, The Remarkable Andrew.

During the period between 1934 and 1945, Trumbo was a founding editor of The Screen Writer, the official publication of the Screen Writers' Guild; served as chairman of Writers for Roosevelt; and worked as a war correspondent in the Pacific during 1945.

In the fall of 1947 nineteen Hollywood notables, including Trumbo, were summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Trumbo was one of the witnesses who refused to state whether they were members of the Communist Party and who came to be known as the Hollywood Ten. For refusing to testify Trumbo was cited for contempt of congress and subsequently blacklisted from employment in the film industry. After numerous attempts at appeal, the Hollywood Ten were imprisoned, Trumbo serving nine months during 1950 and 1951 in the Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky.

Even before his term began, however, Trumbo began to write for the Hollywood Black Market, selling scripts for over thirteen years either under an assumed name or that of a colleague. Immediately after the completion of his prison sentence, Trumbo, his wife Cleo, and their three children, moved to Mexico. Because he was too far removed from the center of the film industry to find lucrative work, Trumbo and his family returned to Hollywood in 1953. Although it was rumored Trumbo wrote hundreds of scripts, he actually wrote some thirty original scripts or adaptations and advised on or did rewrites for many others. In 1955 Trumbo received an Academy Award for the best original screenplay for The Brave One, which he had written under the name Robert Rich. Trumbo did not admit that he was Rich until 1959.

In 1960 producer Otto Preminger announced that Trumbo would write the screenplay for Exodus. Almost simultaneously it became known that he had adapted Howard Fast's novel, Spartacus, for the screen. Trumbo's name appeared on both of these films, although the incident was not without controversy. Later he also adapted the highly-acclaimed Lonely Are the Brave (1960) and was involved with James Michener's Hawaii (1966) and Papillon (1973) and with bringing his own novel Johnny Got His Gun to the screen in 1971.

Trumbo died September 11, 1976.

The papers are arranged as Correspondence and Biographical Miscellany, Writings, Financial and Legal Records, Blacklist Files, and World War II Files. Because the collection was donated in 1962 there is no documentation concerning the last fourteen years of Dalton Trumbo's life.

CORRESPONDENCE AND BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL includes general correspondence (paper), dictated correspondence and other materials covering the period 1961 to 1962, microfilmed scrapbooks, memorabilia, and photographs. The general correspondence is arranged in chronological order, and it combines letters touching on personal, literary, and political topics. For the early years the correspondence consists largely of incoming letters, but later in his career Trumbo began consistently retaining copies of his outgoing letters. A portion of this correspondence has been edited by Helen Manful in Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962.

Processor's Notes on the Correspondence

1925-1938

Communications from agent Elsie McKeogh, family letters, publishing correspondence

1939-1944

Letters concerning Johnny Got His Gun

1945

Letters to family while a war correspondent in the Pacific

1946

Correspondence with Gordon Kahn, George Pepper, and various professional and political organizations

1947

Correspondence with Earl Felton, Dore Schary, Sam Sillen

1948

Correspondence with Herman Shumlin and Lee Sabinson on The Biggest Thief in Town, also regarding the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisting

1949

Letters from other members of the Hollywood Ten and about The Biggest Thief in Town

1950

Prison letters between Trumbo and Cleo Trumbo, also exchanges with John Huston, Garson Kanin and others

1951

Prison letters

1952

Mexican correspondence

1953

Correspondence with Paul Jerrico, George Willner, Mike Wilson, Joseph Losey, and others

1954

Correspondence with Alvah Bessie and Hugo Butler, several letters on the black market

1955

Correspondence on the Robert Rich Academy Award, with Ian Hunter, and information on the black market

1956

Correspondence with David Merrick and Guy Endore

1957

Correspondence with Endore, Carey McWilliams, Oscar Serline, and Murray Kempton

1958

Correspondence with family, Ingo Preminger, Paul Trivers, and Alvah Bessie

1959

Correspondence with family, Stephen Fritchman, John Bright, Aubrey Finn, Kenneth Tynan, and B.B. Kahane

1960

Correspondence with Ingo Preminger, also letters regarding Exodus

1961

Correspondence with John Wexley, Alan D. Williams, Leo Kerz, Bud Westmoreland, and Nelson Algren

In addition, letters from Herbert Biberman, Hugo Butler, Angus Cameron, E.Y. Harburg, Ian McLellan Hunter, Gordon Kahn, Maury and Frank King, Hy Kraft, John Howard Lawson, Ring Lardner Jr., Elsie McKeogh, Albert Maltz, George Pepper, William Pomerance, Samuel Sillen, George Willner, and Sam Zimbalist appear throughout the papers.

Some of Trumbo's general correspondence from 1961 and 1962 is documented only in recorded form. Also recorded only on dictabelts is correspondence relating to Morgana and fragmentary material relating to the scripting of Hawaii, Mr. Adams, and The Other Side of the Coin. In 1991 the dictabelts were found to be physically deteriorated, and this material was partially copied onto reel-to-reel tapes, although much of the information was already lost. The mastering was halted, however, because of the breakdown of the dictabelt equipment and the navailability of replacements. The few transcriptions in the papers that could be matched to the dictabelts were refiled with the papers in separate folders.

Trumbo's biographical scrapbooks and clippings are available only on microfilm. The scrapbooks were largely comprised of reviews and biographical newspaper and magazine clippings. Of special note are pages from Welford Beaton's Hollywood Spectator that Trumbo wrote or edited. After filming the scrapbooks were dismantled and the original photographs contained therein were removed to the WCFTR Name File. The clipping pages were then destroyed except that all memorabilia was returned to the Trumbo family.

Photographs in the collection, now stored as part of the WCFTR name file, include portraits, snapshots of family life, and some publicity stills. Separately catalogued are photographs documenting Trumbo's work as a correspondent during World War II. Other memorabilia includes copies of autographed photographs and a baby book.

WRITINGS, which cover the period from about 1920 to 1962, are arranged by genre and include motion pictures, non-fiction articles and pamphlets, novels, plays, poetry, short stories, speeches and interviews, and miscellaneous writings. In addition, Memorial Library holds published copies of Johnny Got His Gun,The Remarkable Andrew, as well as the posthumously-published Night of the Aurochs.

Motion picture screenplays are the largest portion of the series (approximately eight cubic feet). Here are filed produced and unproduced titles, some of which credited him as writer and others written under an assumed name. In addition during the Blacklist era, Trumbo worked many productions as a consultant helping with rewrites. Before this collection was sent to the Society he made numerous notes and annotations on the scripts which provide some insights into his personality and the artistic evolution of the works. In some cases these comments may be the only documentation of Trumbo's connection to the finished script.

This section is arranged alphabetically by title and contains treatments, notes, and mimeographed and typed scripts, many of which are annotated. (Because Trumbo frequently revised his work using a cut-and-paste technique and because of the physical deterioration of the originals, many of the scripts have been photocopied to preserve their informational content. When necessary all layers of revisions have been carefully lifted and copied.) Some productions are also documented by correspondence and agreements. In general, the scripts of the period of the Blacklist are most thoroughly documented (although there are single scripts for such early successes as A Guy Named Joe, Kitty Foyle, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo), and of these blacklisted works Spartacus is most complete. This film is documented by many re-writes, notes, memos, and variant drafts of the full script, as well as the long report Trumbo wrote upon viewing the film's first screening. Also heavily documented are The Brave One (originally The Boy and the Bull), for which Trumbo won an Academy Award under the name of Robert Rich; Bunny Lake Is Missing and Exodus, both directed by Otto Preminger; Lonely Are the Brave;Mister Adam;The Day of the Gun; and The Young Philadelphians.

Non-fiction writings are arranged chronologically and consist of magazine articles and pamphlets. Topics covered include the film industry, blacklisting, treatment of minorities by Hollywood, and the Academy Award selection process. The Devil in the Book, a pamphlet written by Trumbo on blacklisting and the Smith Act of California, is the title best documented in this section, with notes, research materials, draft manuscripts and the published pamphlet. Some research materials for a pamphlet on Morton Sobell are represented. The collection includes a copy of his well-known pamphlet The Time of the Toad, with a few background materials for it. Also arranged here are miscellaneous memoranda regarding his editorship of The Screen Writer during the mid 1940s.

Trumbo's novels are represented by drafts and notes for published and unpublished works and are arranged alphabetically by title. This arrangement plan is not exact, however, because many of the drafts were not completed and because themes and drafted fragments were often carried from one novel to another. The “Bakery Novel” is the most thoroughly documented, containing earlier drafts entitled “American Sonata” and later versions entitled “Bleak Street.” While some of the drafts are mere revisions, others suggest the intention of a sequel or a different storyline with many of the same characters. Also significant are the notes and typed drafts for his first published novel Eclipse. Other titles documented here include Genius from Kingsley, Girl from Hollywood, and Ma Finley. Noticeably absent is similar documentation for the award-winning Johnny Got His Gun,Washington Jitters, and The Remarkable Andrew. Published copies of these three books are available, however, in the University of Wisconsin Library.

The section of Trumbo's stage plays contains scripts and related materials arranged alphabetically by title. The documentation is primarily for The Biggest Thief in Town (earlier “Aching Rivers” and “The Emerald Staircase”), consisting largely of notes, treatments, many drafts, typed scripts, actors' scripts, and miscellaneous financial materials. Also documented are Morgana and Orpheus.

Poetry is a small section within the WRITINGS. Only a few of the titles have variant versions, and most are not annotated. The poem entitled “The Chief” takes a sarcastic look at MGM's management at the time of L.B. Mayer's death in 1957. For “Confessional” the collection includes a recorded reading.

Short stories are represented by manuscript writings and published clippings arranged chronologically. The majority of these date from the 1930s. Titles include “Darlin' Bill” and its sequel “Trouble on Horsefly,” “Bootlegging for Junior” (his first sale of any account), and “Double in Diamonds” and “Caprice,” which were purchased by Columbia and MGM respectively. Of special interest is the correspondence and manuscript/drafts for “The Child Beater,” which he sold to McCall's during the blacklist period under the name of Cleo Fincher.

Speeches and interviews, which are also arranged chronologically, include references to screenwriting and screenwriters, blacklisting and the Hollywood Ten, fascism, immigration and discrimination/racism, and the Motion Picture Alliance. Some speeches and statements, primarily those documenting Trumbo's appearance before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee or his reaction to the Hollywood blacklist, are available in recorded form. Many of the written speeches are undated and unidentified. Also filed in this section are drafts and a recording of the speech he prepared for Edward Stettinius in 1945 about the United Nations, miscellaneous writings as a high school and college student, research notes, and ideas.

FINANCIAL AND LEGAL RECORDS includes correspondence of this type from the period 1940 to 1961, monthly statements of Equitable Investment Corporation, material for a 1959 IRS audit, household inventories, wills, and financial ledgers for 1941 and 1943. The Equitable Investment material provides a detailed view of Trumbo's financial difficulties during and immediately following his imprisonment. The IRS file consists of a substantial amount of material Trumbo gathered to reconstruct his income and financial status during the period he wrote under an assumed name.

Information in the BLACKLIST FILES is complemented by material throughout the collection, especially the sections containing correspondence and the recorded speeches and interviews. Filed here are materials relating to the HUAC hearing, subsequent appeals, and the defense of the Ten. (Printed court documents, appeals, and amicus curiae briefs are in the Kenny-Morris Papers.) For the House Committee hearing the collection includes a transcript and recording of proceedings; notes; material used in preparation of the defense; and publicity issued in support by the Screen Writers Guild, National Lawyers League, and the Hollywood Ten Defense Committee. Also here is a recording of a satire of the proceedings produced by NCASP.

The WORLD WAR II FILES include notebooks, memorabilia, material gathered during the period, and an unpublished recollection of wartime experiences.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Dalton Trumbo, Los Angeles, California, October 24, 1962. Accession Number: MCHC62-071

Processing Information

Processed by F. Gerald Ham, 1963; portions reprocessed and prepared for microfilming by Brenda Spychalla, 1991.

	Series: General Correspondence and Biographical Miscellany
U.S. Mss 24AN	Subseries: Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	Inventory sheets prepared by Nikola Trumbo
	General
Box   1 Folder   2-10	1920, 1925-1946
Box   2	1947-1949 May
Box   3	1949 June-1950 June
Box   4	1950 December-1953
Box   5	1954-1958 May
Box   6	1958 May (continued)-1961 June
Box   7 Folder   1-3	1961 August-1962 August, undated
Audio 1229A	Subseries: Dictated correspondence, 1961-1962, undated	⇧
Dictabelt   1-4	Correspondence, 1961 August Note: Carbons in correspondence.
Dictabelt   5-7	Letter to Emil Freed, 1961 November 13
Dictabelt   8	Letters to Lelia Alexander, Paul Trivers, Bob Campbell, E.J. Baldwin, Howard Taubman, 1961 November 14
Dictabelt   9	Letter to Ian Hunter, notes, 1961 November 27
Dictabelt   10	Notes Sakurai Serum, 1962 July 25
Dictabelt   11	Letter to Chris, 1962 May 20
Dictabelt   12	Letters to Andrew J. Sato, Mark J. Satter, 1962 June 17
Dictabelt   13	Letters to Linda Carlson, Jay Ferguson, 1961 December 6
Dictabelt   14	Letter (draft) to Fred Zinnemann and Walter Mirisch, 1962 July 30
Dictabelt   33-35	Letters to: Rudolph Rocholl*, Eugene Frenke*, Timothy Hunter, Samuel Goldwyn, Burton Wohl, Sharon Nadine Lober, Murray Schumach*, Philip Scheuer, Howard Thompson, George Raborn, David Slavitt, Mary Clarke*, Hunter Finch*, Arthur Knight, Mark Keats, 1962 August 6 Note: *Transcipts not in correspondence
Dictabelt   36	Letters to Eugene Frenke, Morrie Davis, Edward Muhl, Richard Bernstein, 1962 August 21
Dictabelt   37	Possible play or musical comedy, 1962 September 17
Dictabelt   38-39	Letters to Edwina Pomerance, Wendell Phillips, Simon Bessie, David LeVine, Earl Felton, Richard Bernstein, Ralph Peterson, Paula Angle, Sanford Greenburger. Note to Cleo, 1962 September 19
Dictabelt   40	Letter to Marjorie Bair, Mr. Fedman. Notes on Hawaii, undated
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   7 Folder   4	Partial transcription of dictated correspondence, 1962
	Subseries: Biographical material	⇧
Micro 2008	Scrapbooks
Reel   1	1921-1924
Reel   1	1924-1926
Reel   1	1920- (1931-1939) Scope and Content Note: Includes Hollywood Spectator.
Reel   1	1939, 1945
	Loose clippings
Reel   1	1935-1947
Reel   2	1948-1962, undated
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   8 Folder   3	Biographical notes for novel, undated
Box   8 Folder   4	Biographical miscellany and memorabilia, undated
Box   46	Oversized miscellany
	Memorabilia
Box   8 Folder   5	Artists for Action cartoons
Box   8 Folder   1	Autographed photographs Note: Originals in WCFTR Name File
Box   8 Folder   2	Baby book, 1905-1915
	Subseries: Photographs and drawings	⇧
Box   8 Folder   6	Drawings of Trumbo
WCFTR Name File	Photographic portraits of Trumbo, family, and general career activities
Lot A94/WCFTR	Trumbo during World War II
	Series: Writings	⇧
U.S. Mss 24AN	Subseries: Motion pictures
Box   9 Folder   1	An American Story
	Mimeo script, undated
Box   9 Folder   2	And Now Goodbye
	Mimeo “Estimating” script, 1945 January 15
Box   9 Folder   3	Bill of Divorcement
	Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1939 December 5
Box   9 Folder   4	Birthday of a Stooge
	Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1938 June 17
Box   9 Folder   5	Black Cat Patrol
	Mimeo script by Alan LeMay, undated
Box   9 Folder   6	The Boss
	Mimeo script by Ben L. Perry, 1956 March 19
	The Brave One
Box   10 Folder   1	Correspondence and contracts, 1952-1962
Box   10 Folder   2	“The Boy and the Bull” typed script by Arthur J. Henley, undated Note: Annotated
Box   10 Folder   3	Typed script, undated
Box   10 Folder   4	Typed script, undated
Box   10 Folder   5	Typed script, undated
Box   10 Folder   6	Mimeo script by Merrill G. White and Harry S. Franklin, based on story by Robert L. Rich, 1954 December 16
Box   10 Folder   7	Mimeo script, 1955 March 1
Box   10 Folder   8	Notes regarding the book, Les Clameurs se sont Tues, undated
	Britain's Two-Headed Spy
Box   11 Folder   1	Treatment, undated
Box   11 Folder   2	Typed script by James O'Donnell, 1953 April 15
	Bunny Lake Is Missing
Box   11 Folder   3	Notes, 1961, undated
Box   11 Folder   4-5	Re-writes, undated
Box   11 Folder   6	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   11 Folder   7	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   12 Folder   1	Re-writes, undated
Box   12 Folder   2	Typed script, undated
Box   12 Folder   3	Mimeo script, 1961 April 24
Box   12 Folder   4	Miscellany, circa 1957
Box   12 Folder   5	The Butcher Bird
	Treatment, circa 1950
Box   12 Folder   6	Career
	Mimeo script by Trumbo and Bert Granet, 1939 May 16
Box   12 Folder   7	Carnival
	Mimeo script by Hans Jacoby and Kurt Neumann, 1953 April 15
Box   12 Folder   8	Cast the First Stone
	Partial typed script, 1958
Box   12 Folder   9	Conquest
	Mimeo script, 1956 October 25
	Conspiracy of Hearts
Box   13 Folder   1	Typed script (for teleplay?) by Dale Pitt, undated
Box   13 Folder   2	Typed script by Robert Presnell Jr., 1957 April 8
Box   13 Folder   3	Miscellany, 1956, undated
	Cry of the Unborn
Box   13 Folder   4	Research material, 1941-1956
Audio 283A	Recorded interviews with Kefauver, Mitler, case workers, mothers, police, and others
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   13 Folder   5	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   13 Folder   6	Typed script by Crane Wilbur, 1957 February
Box   13 Folder   7	Mimeo script, undated
Box   13 Folder   8	Miscellany, 1957 May, undated
Box   13 Folder   9	Curtain Call
	Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1940 January 18
Box   14 Folder   1	The Doctor's Husband
	Treatment, undated
Box   14 Folder   2	Down Payment
	Mimeo script by Philip Yordan, 1957 April 16 Note: Annotated
Box   14 Folder   3	Everybody Cheer
	Typed script, 1936 March 31
	Exodus
Box   14 Folder   4-6	Notes, 1959-1960
Box   14 Folder   7	Typed script, circa 1960 January Note: Annotated
Box   14 Folder   8	Rewrites, 1960 January-March
Box   15 Folder   1	Rewrites, 1960 January-March (continued)
Box   15 Folder   2	Mimeo script, 1960 January 26 Note: Annotated
Box   15 Folder   3-4	Mimeo script, 1960 February 1 Note: Annotated
Box   15 Folder   5-6	Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1960 March 10 Note: Annotated
Box   16 Folder   1	Souvenir program, 1960
Box   16 Folder   1A	Location photography sheets
Lot B11/WCFTR	Original photographs removed from sheets Note: Also contains photocopied sheets with caption information.
Audio 290A	Music, undated
U.S. Mss 24AN	Fair Young Maiden (later Love Maniac)
Box   16 Folder   2	Correspondence and notes, 1951-1953
Box   16 Folder   3	Correspondence to James Murphy, 1953
Box   16 Folder   4	Treatment by Ray Murphy, undated
	The Fishermen of Beaudrais
Box   16 Folder   5	Typed script, undated
Box   16 Folder   6	Mimeo script by Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., undated
Box   16 Folder   7	Five Came Back
	Mimeo script by Jerry Cady with revisions by Trumbo, 1939 April 3
Box   16 Folder   8	Flight to Portabella
	Treatment by Hugo Butler, circa 1948
Box   16 Folder   9	The Flowers of Hiroshima
	Notes, circa 1962
Box   16 Folder   10	The Flying Irishman
	Mimeo script by Ernest Pagano and Trumbo, 1939 November 23
	Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Box   17 Folder   2	Notes, circa 1946-1947
Box   17 Folder   3	MGM case regarding Angel's Flight and House Above the River, 1945-1947
Box   17 Folder   4-5	“House Above the River” typed script, undated
Box   17 Folder   6	“Fate of Richard Mahony: Part II” Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1946 November 12
Box   17 Folder   7	Furia
	Mimeo script by Eugene Daniell and Anna Sten, undated
	The Greatest Gift
Box   18 Folder   1	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   18 Folder   2	Typed script, undated
Box   18 Folder   3	Typed script, undated
	The Green-Eyed Blonde
Box   18 Folder   4	“Green Eyes” mimeo script (Estimating) by Sally Stubblefield, 1956 May 25
Box   18 Folder   5	Mimeo script, undated
	A Guy Named Joe
Box   18 Folder   6	Mimeo script by Dalton Trumbo, 1943 January 30
Box   18 Folder   7	Award
	Hawaii
Audio 1229A	Dictated notes and script pages, 1961-1962, undated Note: Portions mastered.
Dictabelt   15-19	Notes, 1961 October 3
Dictabelt   20-21	Notes on Hawaii and Morgana, 1961 November 3
Dictabelt   22	Notes, 1961 November 12
Dictabelt   23	Notes, 1961 December 5
Dictabelt   24-26	Malama-Abner dialog notes, 1961 December 6
Dictabelt   27	Notes, 1962 May 3
Dictabelt   28	Notes, Step Outline, 1962 July 5, 1983-1998
Dictabelt   29-32	Script, Japanese sequence, 1962 July 5
Dictabelt   41-45	Japanese sequence, 1962 July 6
Dictabelt   46	Our Islands and Their People, 1962 July 7
Dictabelt   47	Notes on Hawaii and Other Side of the Coin, 1962 July 23
Dictabelt   48	Notes, 1962 August 3
Dictabelt   49-54	Notes, pages 22-41, 1962 August 24
Dictabelt   55-56	Script, 1962 August 30
Dictabelt   57-58	Notes, 1962 September 5
Dictabelt   59-60	Script, 1962 September 6
Dictabelt   61-66	Notes, Scripts and letter to Lelia Alexander, 1962 September 10
Dictabelt   67	Script, 1962 September 12
Dictabelt   68-75	Script, 1962 September 13
Dictabelt   76-79	Script, 1962 September 14
Dictabelt   80-84	Notes at Random, undated
U.S. Mss 24AN	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Box   19 Folder   1	Notes; treatment by Eugene Franke, 1956 May 4
Box   19 Folder   1	Typed script fragments, undated
Box   19 Folder   2	Typed script by John Lee Mahin, 1956 February 1
Box   19 Folder   3	Mimeo script, 1956 August 21
Box   19 Folder   4	Heaven With a Barbed-Wire Fence
	Typed script by Trumbo, undated
	If You Remember Me
Box   19 Folder   5	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   19 Folder   6	Typed script, undated
	Kitty Foyle
Box   26 Folder   7	Award, 1941
Box   26 Folder   8	Typed script by Trumbo, 1940 August 20
	Last Sunset
Box   27 Folder   9	Notes, memoranda, correspondence and annotated volume, Sundown at Crazy Horse, 1959-1960
Box   28 Folder   1	Mimeo script, circa 1959 October
Box   28 Folder   2	Typed script, 1959 October 5 Note: Annotated
Box   28 Folder   3-4	Mimeo script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   28 Folder   5	“Day of the Gun” mimeo script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   28 Folder   6	Rewrites, 1959-1960
Box   28 Folder   7	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   28 Folder   8	Mimeo script, 1960 May 10
Box   29 Folder   1	Mimeo script, 1960 March 25 Note: Annotated
Box   29 Folder   2	Mimeo script, 1960 April 29 Note: Annotated
Box   19 Folder   9	Last Train From Laredo
	Mimeo script by James Poe and Edmund North, 1958 March 20 Note: Annotated
Box   19 Folder   10	Leap High My Love
	Typed script by Philip Ansell Roll, circa 1953 Note: Annotated
	Lonely Are the Brave
Box   20 Folder   1	Annotated volume, The Brave Cowboy, undated
Box   20 Folder   2	Rejected pages, undated
Box   20 Folder   3	“The Brave Cowboy” typed script by Trumbo, 1960 August 30
Box   20 Folder   4	“The Last Hero” typed script, 1961 February 20
Box   20 Folder   5	Mimeo script, 1961 March 23 Note: Annotated
Box   20 Folder   6	Mimeo script, 1961 June 13 Note: Annotated
	Love Begins at 20
Box   21 Folder   1	Mimeo script by Trumbo and Tom Reed, 1936 March 11
Box   21 Folder   2	Miss Nobody
	Mimeo script, 1936 January 28
	Mister Adam
Box   21 Folder   3	Typed script by Reginald duPlessie and C.F. Demaine, 1957 February 29
Box   21 Folder   4	Notes, 1957-1958
Audio 1229A	Dictated notes, 1962 Note: Unmastered
Dictabelt   85	Note on Christmas cards and Mr. Adam, undated
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   21 Folder   5	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   21 Folder   6	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   21 Folder   7	Typed script by James E. Bonham and Curtis Bernhardt, 1958 January 2
Box   21 Folder   8	Rewrites, undated
Box   21 Folder   9	Mimeo script, undated
Box   21 Folder   10	Mimeo script, 1958 March 15
Audio 288A	“Missouri Mule,” music by Jerry Fielding, lyrics by Trumbo, circa 1957
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   22 Folder   1	Montezuma
	Contract, undated
Box   22 Folder   2	Murderess
	Treatment by Robert L. Rich, undated
	Night of the Yeti
Box   22 Folder   3	Research
Box   22 Folder   3	Treatment by Sally Stubblefield, 1957 April 7
Box   22 Folder   3	Miscellany
Box   22 Folder   4	One Minute Alone
	Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1937 September 1
Box   22 Folder   5	Ordeal of Dr. Perez
	Treatment by Robert L. Rich, undated
	Other Side of the Coin
Box   22 Folder   6	Contract, 1959
Audio 1229A	Dictated correspondence, notes, and script pages, 1962 Note: Unmastered
Dictabelt   86-89	Letter to Otto Preminger, 1962 July 6
Dictabelt   90-92	Notes to Otto Preminger, 1962 July 10
Dictabelt   93-94	Notes to Preminger, 1962 July 11
Dictabelt   95-97	Notes, 1962 July 11
Dictabelt   98	Notes, 1962 July 18
Dictabelt   99-100	Notes, 1962 August 2
Dictabelt   101	Notes, 1962 August 13
Dictabelt   102	Notes, 1962 August 14
Dictabelt   103-104	Notes and letters to Isabel Cunningham, Jack Axelrod, James Selig, Mark Keats, 1962 August 15
Dictabelt   105-107	Script, pages 111-119, 1962 August 21
Dictabelt   108-110	Outline for Act III, 1962 August 22
Dictabelt   111-114	Notes, 1962 August 24
Dictabelt   115	Notes, undated
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   17 Folder   1	Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
	“For Our Vines Have Tender Grapes” mimeo script, 1944 December 23 Note: Annotated
	The Philadelphian (later The Young Philadelphians)
Box   22 Folder   7-9	Notes and fragments, 1957
Box   22 Folder   10	Typed treatment by Ben Perry, 1957 September 6
Box   22 Folder   11	Outline and notes, 1957 November
Box   22 Folder   12	Typed script, 1957 December 3 Note: Script is incomplete
Box   22 Folder   13	Typed script by Ben Perry, 1957 December 11
Box   22 Folder   14	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   23 Folder   1	Rewrites, undated
Box   23 Folder   2	Mimeo script, 1958 July 10
Box   23 Folder   3	Professor and the Genie
	Treatment by Robert L. Rich, undated
Box   23 Folder   4	The Remarkable Andrew
	Typed script by Trumbo, 1941 June 5 Note: Annotated
Box   23 Folder   5	Remember, O Remember
	Typed treatment by Emmett Doyle, undated
Box   23 Folder   6	Short Weekend
	Mimeo script by James W. Tinicum, circa 1958 May
	Showdown at Gunhill
Box   23 Folder   7	Correspondence, 1957-1958
Box   23 Folder   8	Typed script by James Poe, 1958 April 8
Box   23 Folder   9	Small Town Girl
	Typed treatment by Robert L. Rich, undated
Box   23 Folder   10	Something for Nothing
	Mimeo script
Box   24 Folder   1	Sorority House
	Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1939 February 14
	Spartacus
Box   24 Folder   2	Contract, 1959 November
Box   24 Folder   3	Treatment by Howard Fast, undated
Box   24 Folder   4	Treatment by Trumbo, undated
Box   24 Folder   5-7	Rewrites and partial scripts, undated
Box   24 Folder   8	Notes, undated
Box   25 Folder   1-4	Rewrites, undated
Box   25 Folder   5	Typed script by Howard Fast, undated
Box   25 Folder   6	“Retakes for Spain,” undated
Box   25 Folder   7	Draft letter to Picasso, undated
Box   26 Folder   1	“Last retakes,” 1960 January
Box   26 Folder   2	Typed script, undated
Box   26 Folder   3	Mimeo script by Howard Fast and Edward Lewis, 1958 August 6
Box   26 Folder   4	Mimeo script, 1958 September 22 Note: Annotated
Box   26 Folder   5	Mimeo script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   26 Folder   6	Mimeo script, 1959 February 3
Box   27 Folder   1	Typed script, undated
Box   27 Folder   2	Mimeo script, 1959 February 5 Note: Annotated
Box   27 Folder   3	Mimeo script, 1959 March 27 Note: Annotated
Box   27 Folder   4	Mimeo script, 1959 March 30 Note: Annotated
Box   27 Folder   5	Mimeo script, 1959 June 4
Box   27 Folder   6	Report by Trumbo after seeing film, 1959 November 20
Audio 289A	Score by Alex North Note: All main themes developed, circa 1959
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   27 Folder   7	Spring and Summer
	Mimeo script by Franklin James, circa 1956
Box   27 Folder   8	The Sun King
	Contract, 1951
Box   29 Folder   3	Sword of Baristan
	Mimeo script by Samuel West, 1961 July 11
Box   29 Folder   4	Target
	Mimeo script by Richard R. Bosley, undated
Box   29 Folder   5	Ten Days to Tulara
	Mimeo script by Laurence Mascott, undated
Box   29 Folder   6	Tender Comrade
	Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1943 September 4
	Terrified (or Terror)
Box   29 Folder   7	Typed script, undated
Box   30 Folder   1	Mimeo script by Richard Bernstein, undated
	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Box   30 Folder   2	Award, 1945
Box   30 Folder   3	Mimeo script by Trumbo, 1944 September 8
Box   30 Folder   4	Miscellany, undated
Box   30 Folder   5	Three Men in the Snow
	Mimeo script by William S. McNutt and Trumbo, 1937 February 24
Box   30 Folder   8	Town Without Pity
	Typed script, undated Note: Incomplete and annotated
Box   30 Folder   9	Typee
	Mimeo script, undated
Box   31 Folder   1	Vinegaroon
	Mimeo script, undated
	Viva Gringo!
Box   31 Folder   2	Typed script by Borden Chase, undated
Box   31 Folder   3	Mimeo script, 1958 April 29
Box   31 Folder   4	Typed script, 1958 July 14
	We Who Are Young
Box   30 Folder   6	“To Own the World” mimeo script by Trumbo, 1940 January 3
Box   30 Folder   7	Mimeo script, 1940 March 8
	West From London
Box   31 Folder   5	Typed script by C.F. DeMaine, undated Note: Script is incomplete
Box   31 Folder   6	Mimeo script, undated
Box   32 Folder   1	“Air France” mimeo script, undated
	The Widow Wouldn't Weep
Box   32 Folder   2	Mimeo treatment by Trumbo, circa 1942 December
Audio 289A	Music by Alex North, circa 1959
U.S. Mss 24AN	Subseries: Non-fiction Articles and pamphlets	⇧
Box   32 Folder   3	Hollywood articles, 1931-1933, undated
Box   32 Folder   4	“On Publishing a Book,” 1941
Box   32 Folder   5	An Open Letter to the American People, circa 1942
Box   32 Folder   6	“Our Cover Boy,” 1946
Box   32 Folder   6A	Time of the Toad, 1949
Box   32 Folder   7	“The Graven Image,” 1950
Box   32 Folder   8	“Collier's Wins World War III,” 1951
	The Devil in the Book, circa 1955
Box   32 Folder   9	Research material
Box   32 Folder   10	Typed drafts
Box   32 Folder   11	Typesetter's draft and published copy
	Morton Sobell
Box   32 Folder   12	Notes and correspondence, circa 1956
Box   32 Folder   13	“Image of an Artist,” 1956
Box   33 Folder   1	“Blacklist Equals Black Market,” 1957
Box   33 Folder   2	“Some Seasonal Advice,” 1959
Box   33 Folder   3	Television scandals, 1959
Box   33 Folder   4	“The Oscar Syndrome,” 1960
Box   33 Folder   5	“The Secret of Freedom,” 1960
Box   33 Folder   5A	“Honor Bright and All That Jazz,” 1965
Box   33 Folder   6	“The Day They Bombed Berlin,” undated
Box   33 Folder   7	Miscellaneous material regarding articles for Screen Writer
	Subseries: Novels	⇧
Box   33 Folder   8-9	American Sonata, 1929
Box   33 Folder   10	Bleak Street draft, undated
Box   34 Folder   1-3	1930 draft
Box   34 Folder   4	Partial draft, undated
Box   34 Folder   5-7	Partial revised manuscript, undated
Box   35 Folder   1	Possible second draft and rewrites, undated
Box   35 Folder   2	Bakery Novel I, 1931 April 7
Box   35 Folder   3	Miscellaneous fragments, undated
Box   35 Folder   4	Aurochs, typescript, undated
Box   35 Folder   5	Babylon Descendent, undated
Box   35 Folder   6	Bind the Unicorn, incomplete drafts and notes, undated
	Eclipse
Box   35 Folder   7	Notes and partial draft, circa 1936
Box   35 Folder   8	Early draft, undated
Box   36 Folder   1	Final draft, circa 1936
Box   36 Folder   2	Contract, 1946
Box   36 Folder   3-4	Genius from Kingsley by Anthony Bonham, circa 1930s
Box   36 Folder   5	Girl From Hollywood by Robert L. Rich, undated
	Johnny Got His Gun
Box   36 Folder   6	Miscellany, 1939-1959
Box   46	Advertising poster
Box   36 Folder   7	Ma Finley, incomplete draft and notes, undated
Box   36 Folder   8	Remarkable Andrew, Miscellany, undated
	Swords in the Sun
Box   36 Folder   9	“Virgin of the Sun” incomplete typescript, undated
Box   46	Illustrations by Mary Louise Finley
Box   37 Folder   1	Three (German novel), incomplete draft, undated
Box   37 Folder   2	The Quest of David Bonham, 1927
	Subseries: Plays	⇧
	Biggest Thief in Town
Box   45 Folder   7	Author's inscription on flyleaf
	“Aching Rivers”
Box   37 Folder   3	Treatment and notes, undated
Box   37 Folder   4	Typed script, undated Note: Annotated
Box   37 Folder   5	“Emerald Staircase” typed script, undated
Box   37 Folder   6	Typed script, undated
Box   37 Folder   7-8	“Road script,” undated
Box   37 Folder   9	“Toward final version” script, circa 1949
Box   37 Folder   10	Award, 1949
Box   38 Folder   1	Actors' scripts, undated
Box   38 Folder   2	Financial miscellany, 1948-1957
Box   45 Folder   8-9	Correspondence to Elsie McKeogh regarding foreign productions, 1951-1956
Box   45 Folder   10	Dictabelt that could not be recopied in 1991
	Morgana
Box   38 Folder   3	Agreement, 1961
Box   38 Folder   4	Clippings, 1962
Box   38 Folder   5	Publicity and related correspondence, 1961-1962
Audio 1229A	Dictated notes and script pages, 1962 Note: Unmastered
Dictabelt   116-117	Notes, 1962 April 25
Dictabelt   118	Notes, and Act II, through page 9, 1962 April 26
Dictabelt   119	Notes, and Act II, through page 12, 1962 April 26
Dictabelt   120	Notes, and Act II, through page 13, 1962 April 26
Dictabelt   121	Notes, and Act II, through page 19-22, 1962 April 30
Dictabelt   122	Notes, and Act II, through page 22-25, 1962 May 1
Dictabelt   123-124	Corrections for Act III, pages 1-4, 1962 May 14
Dictabelt   125	Letter to Joe Manchester, Notes on Morgana: Ingo Preminger, 1962 May 28
Dictabelt   126	Notes, Ilse Lahn, 1962 May 29
Dictabelt   127	Errands for Nicki, notes on Morgana, 1962 June 4
Dictabelt   128-131	Notes, Ned and Frances Young; D.T., 1962 June 4
Dictabelt   132	Letter from Cleo to Joe Manchester, 1962 July 24
Dictabelt   133	Notes and letter to Jim Selig, undated
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   38 Folder   5A	Transcription of dictated correspondence
Box   38 Folder   6	Orpheus
	Two early typed scripts by Ben Hecht and E.Y. Harburg, annotated by Trumbo, 1957, undated
Box   38 Folder   7	Washington Jitters
	Financial miscellany, 1936-1938
	Subseries: Poetry	⇧
Disc 10A	1946, “Confessional,” a poem for Mainstream Magazine, recorded by Trumbo (Audio 288A)
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   38 Folder   8	1956-1957, undated
	Subseries: Short Stories	⇧
Box   39 Folder   1-7	Draft and printed copies of stories, circa 1930s
Box   39 Folder   8	Drafts of stories written in prison, circa 1950
Box   39 Folder   9	“The Child-Beater,” 1953
	Subseries: Speeches and interviews	⇧
	Stettinius United Nations speech, 1945
Box   40 Folder   1-2	Drafts and notes
Disc 7A-9A	Recorded speech
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   40 Folder   3	“Real Facts Behind the Motion Picture Lockout,” 1945
Box   40 Folder   4	“Treatment of Minorities in Film,” 1947
Box   40 Folder   5	Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, 1956
Box   40 Folder   6	“Who is Robert Rich?” , 1957 September 20 Scope and Content Note: Includes published copy in Rights pamphlet, 1957.
Disc 11A-12A	Brief speech by Larry Parks and Trumbo on the HUAC hearings broadcast over WQQW, 1947 October 19 Note: User copy on Audio 702A
Disc 13A-14A	Speech for Larry Parks by Trumbo concerning HUAC and freedom broadcast by WWDC, 1947 October 21 Note: User copy on Audio 702A
Disc 15A-16A	Trumbo's complete testimony to HUAC, 1947 October 29 Note: User copy on Audio 702A
Audio 284A	Trumbo interviewed about the Blacklist on television program Night Beat, 1957 September 19
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   40 Folder   8	Miscellaneous radio interview material, 1958
Audio 285A	Trumbo interviewed on the Blacklist by Dan Lundberg, 1959?
Disc 19A	Speech by Trumbo on receiving the Teachers' Union Award of New York, 1960 April 9 Note: User copy on Audio 702A
Audio 286A	Trumbo-James Jones debate sent to Trumbo by Paul Jerrico, 1960
Audio 287A	Telephone interview of Trumbo on film writing, especially Spartacus and Exodus, 1962 August 3
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   40 Folder   7	Speeches, undated
	Subseries: Miscellaneous writings	⇧
Box   41 Folder   1	High school writings
Box   41 Folder   2	College writings
Box   41 Folder   3	Miscellaneous notes
	Subseries: Research and notes	⇧
Box   40 Folder   9	Blacklisting, undated
Box   40 Folder   10	Hollywood strike, 1945-1947
Box   40 Folder   11	Line squall, undated
Box   40 Folder   12	Modern history notes, undated
Box   40 Folder   13	Political notes, undated
Box   40 Folder   14	Notes and ideas, circa 1945-1950
Box   40 Folder   15	Notes and ideas, undated
Box   40 Folder   16	Unidentified notes
	Series: Financial and Legal Records	⇧
	Correspondence and miscellaneous papers
Box   41 Folder   4-8	1940-1951
Box   42 Folder   1-3	1952-1959
Box   42 Folder   4-6	Equitable Investment Corporation, monthly statements, 1948-1952
Box   42 Folder   7-8	Internal Revenue audit, 1959-1961
Box   42 Folder   9	Inventories, 1941-1946
Box   43 Folder   1-2	Ledgers, 1941, 1943
Box   43 Folder   3	Mexican account monthly statements, undated
Box   43 Folder   4	Real estate, 1938-1943
Box   43 Folder   5	Wills and legal miscellany, 1940-1951
	Series: Blacklist Files	⇧
	HUAC
Box   43 Folder   6	Hearing transcript and statements
Box   43 Folder   7	Notes
Box   43 Folder   8	Preparation
Box   43 Folder   9	Publicity of Screen Writers Guild and National Lawyers League, 1947-1949, undated
Box   44 Folder   1	Hollywood Ten support material, 1947-1951, undated
Disc 17A-18A	“It Happened in Hollywood” dramatic satire produced by NCASP about HUAC hearings, circa 1948-1949 Note: User copy on Audio 702A
U.S. Mss 24AN Box   44 Folder   2	Blacklist notes, undated
Box   44 Folder   3	Pauling et al. atomic energy suit, 1962
	Series: World War II Files	⇧
Box   45 Folder   1-3	Notebooks, notes, and memorabilia
Box   45 Folder   4	Recollections, undated
Box   45 Folder   5	Writing fragments
Box   45 Folder   6	Military public relations material