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U.S. Mss 117AF	Series: Part 1: Original Collection, 1938-1974 Scope and Content Note Part 1 of the Richard Critchfield Papers contains general biographical information; correspondence; scrapbooks and diaries from his Nagpur and Nepal experiences; newspaper clippings and drafts of his articles; drafts, final copies, and resource and other materials from his published books; other fiction and non-fiction writings; and a large number of notebooks kept while covering the war in Vietnam. These records document both his personal life and professional career, particularly his preparations for writing The Long Charade and The Golden Bowl Be Broken. One of the most informative parts of the collection is the correspondence series. It consists mainly of incoming letters but also contains carbons of Critchfield's letters to his newspaper and book editors and many manuscript letters he wrote his mother, giving information of a more personal nature. Included here are about fifty long memos written to Washington Star editors Burt Hoffman and Crosby Noyes about Critchfield's unfolding suspicions in Vietnam; for instance, a particularly interesting December 9, 1966 letter to Noyes reviews Critchfield's Dai Viet suspicions and comments on the role of the U.S. press in influencing events in Vietnam. Notes and letters from many well-known members of the U.S. government are filed in this series as are a June 26, 1969 letter from Tran Van Huong, prime minister of South Vietnam, and interview notes in letter form dated March 16, 1969, bearing pencilled corrections by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. Several of Critchfield's letters to his mother refer to the “pariah” effect inflicted on his career by publication of The Long Charade. Some of the most significant items in the collection are found in various “miscellaneous” folders. For instance, the miscellaneous materials from The Long Charade (Box 8) include exchanges between the State Department and Senators Bourke B. Hickenlooper and George S. McGovern, with information supplied by Critchfield, concerning U.S. knowledge of the Dai Viet influence in Vietnam. The miscellany from The Golden Bowl Be Broken (Box 12) includes notes from interviews with Robert S. McNamara, then of the World Bank, and the governor of Djakarta, Indonesia. And in the “Notes” series, the miscellaneous materials (Box 13) include interviews with U.S. Ambassadors to India John Kenneth Galbraith and Chester Bowles; Indira Gandhi, October 1962; South Vietnamese Brigadier General Nguyen-duc-Thang; and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, 1972. The Vietnam notebooks contain a wealth of similar information; though the notes were hurriedly handwritten and are often somewhat cryptic, Critchfield's list of the contents (Box 13) helps guide the researcher in their use. One other portion of the collection which merits comment is the resource material from The Long Charade. Filed by Critchfield under subject headings, this material now comprises mainly undated dispatches plus occasional other items. Dated dispatches and clipped articles by Critchfield originally found in these files were interfiled in the Articles series; clipped articles by other reporters were discarded with Critchfield's permission. The “Miscellaneous Resource Materials” include what Critchfield referred to as “100 major documents of the Vietnam War.” The pages from the Saigon Post, a Ky-controlled newspaper, were preserved by Critchfield as evidence of how the Dai Viets attempted to control and shape press coverage in South Vietnam. The major value to researchers of this part of the collection lies probably in two areas: in the information on Vietnam from a well-informed person on the scene who came to adopt opinions not widely held or publicized in the United States; and in the perspectives provided on various aspects of journalism, particularly its own politics.
	Subseries: Biographical Information
Box   1 Folder   1	General Biographical Materials, 1953, 1962-1972
Box   1 Folder   2	References by Others to Critchfield's Reports, 1963-1969
	Subseries: General Correspondence	⇧
Box   1 Folder   3	1938-1944
Box   1 Folder   4	1954-1957
Box   1 Folder   5	1958-1959
Box   1 Folder   6	1960-1962
Box   1 Folder   7	1963-1964
Box   1 Folder   8	1965-1966
Box   2 Folder   1	1967
Box   2 Folder   2	1968
Box   2 Folder   3	1969-1970 June
Box   2 Folder   4	1970 July-1971
Box   2 Folder   5	1972-1974
Box   2 Folder   6	undated
	Subseries: Nagpur and Nepal Materials	⇧
	Nagpur Materials, 1960-1962
Box   2 Folder   7	Unbound Clippings, Letters, and Student Work
Box   23	General Scrapbook
Box   23	Scrapbook regarding Cartoon Incident and Subsequent Events
Box   3 Folder   1	Diaries of Himalayan Expeditions, 1961-1962
	Subseries: Articles by Critchfield	⇧
Micro 541	Clipped Newspaper Articles Note: Other articles with the Nagpur Materials above
Reel   1	Scrapbook #1, containing a few cartoons from the University of Washington, and writings for the Cedar Rapids Gazette and the Cedar Valley Daily Times, 1955-1956
Reel   1	Scrapbook #2, containing writings done for the Munroe News Bureau, Washington, D.C., and published in various newspapers, 1957-1958, plus a few items done while at Columbia University, , 1957
Reel   1	Unbound Clippings, 1951-1972
U.S. Mss 117AF	Newspaper Dispatches Note: See also Box 8 and 9
Box   3 Folder   2	1950s-1962
Box   3 Folder   3	1963 January-September
Box   3 Folder   4	1963 October-December
Box   3 Folder   5	1964 January-April
Box   3 Folder   6	1964 May-August
Box   3 Folder   7	1964 September-December
Box   4 Folder   1	1965 January-April
Box   4 Folder   2	1965 May-July
Box   4 Folder   3	1965 August-October
Box   4 Folder   4	1965 November-December
Box   4 Folder   5	1966 January-April
Box   4 Folder   6	1966 May-August
Box   4 Folder   7	1966 September-December
Box   4 Folder   8	1967 January-June
Box   5 Folder   1	1967 July-September
Box   5 Folder   2	1967 October-December
Box   5 Folder   3	1968-1971
Box   5 Folder   4	1972 January-February
Box   5 Folder   5	1972 March-December
Box   5 Folder   6	undated
	Book Reviews, Letters to the Editor, and Magazine Articles
Box   5 Folder   7	1957-1968
Box   5 Folder   8	1969-1972
Box   6 Folder   1	Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches, 1957-1959, 1965, 1968, 1971, undated
	Subseries: Published Books by Critchfield	⇧
	The Tyrolese Grinning Mask (Bannockburn Associates, Nagpur, 1961)
Box   6 Folder   2	Published book
	Lore and Legend of Nepal (Jagat Lall, Kathmandu, 1961) with Kesar Lall
Box   6 Folder   3	Book jacket
	The Indian Reporter's Guide (Allied Pacific Private, Ltd., Bombay, 1962)
Box   6 Folder   4	Book jacket, Introduction draft, and Reviews
	The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War (Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1968)
Box   6 Folder   5	Outlines
Box   6 Folder   6-9	Yellow Paper Draft
Box   7 Folder   1-2	“First Draft”
Box   7 Folder   3	Unidentified Draft
Box   7 Folder   4	Revised Ending, 15 September 1969
Box   7 Folder   5	Publisher's Questions and Miscellaneous Revisions
Box   7 Folder   6	Advance Proofs
Box   7 Folder   6	Published Book
Box   8 Folder   1	Publicity Materials
Box   8 Folder   2	Reviews, 1968-1969
Box   8 Folder   3	Miscellany
	Resource Materials
Box   8 Folder   4	“Pacification”
Box   8 Folder   5	“1965 Toward Defeat”
Box   8 Folder   6	“Lonely War, 1965”
Box   8 Folder   7	“Annam Revolt”
Box   8 Folder   8	“Elections, 1966”
Box   8 Folder   9	“Elections, 1966, to Manila”
Box   8 Folder   10	“Early 1967”
Box   8 Folder   11	“Election, 1967”
Box   8 Folder   12	“Westmoreland & Military (Mostly 1966)”
Box   8 Folder   13	“Koreans”
Box   8 Folder   14	“Marines”
Box   9 Folder   1	“Blue Sheets - Vietnam”
Box   9 Folder   2	“Daily Data, 1963-68”
Box   9 Folder   3-4	“Biography”
Box   9 Folder   5	Miscellaneous
Box   9a Folder   1-5	Miscellaneous
Box   23	Pages from The Saigon Post, 1967 September-October
	The Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1973)
Box   10 Folder   1	Statement of Purpose and Outlines, 1969-1971
	Notes and Interview Transcripts
Box   10 Folder   2	from Mauritius, 1969
Box   10 Folder   3-5	from the Punjab, 1970
Box   10 Folder   6-7	from Java, 1970
	Alicia Patterson Fund Reports, 1970-1971
Box   10 Folder   8	#1-#4
Box   10 Folder   9	#5-#10
Box   11 Folder   1	#11-#12
Box   11 Folder   2	#13-#18
Box   11 Folder   3-6	Reading Copy
Box   11 Folder   7	Published Book
Box   12 Folder   1	Miscellany
Box   12 Folder   2-4	Resource Materials
	Subseries: Other Writings by Critchfield	⇧
Box   12 Folder   5	“Symbolic Personalities in Editorial Cartoons - A Changing Parade”
Box   12 Folder   6	Master's Thesis: “The Men Behind the Pictures”
Box   12 Folder   7	Miscellaneous School Writings, 1956-1957, 1960
Box   13 Folder   1	A Reporting Handbook - Printed Booklet, 1961
Box   13 Folder   2	Short Stories and Poetry, 1958-1959, 1972
Box   13 Folder   3-4	“Fiercely Naked” (a novel) - Notes and Drafts
Box   13 Folder   5	“Five (Twelve) to Bombay” (a novel) - Notes and Fragmentary Drafts
	Subseries: Notes	⇧
	Miscellaneous notes regarding:
Box   13 Folder   6	Austria and Yugoslavia
Box   13 Folder   7	India, Nepal, and Sikkim
Box   13 Folder   8	Vietnam and Thailand
Box   13 Folder   9	General, 1968, 1972
Box   13 Folder   10	Descriptive List of Notebooks
	Notebooks
Box   13 Folder   11	#1-#5
Box   14 Folder   1	#6-#12
Box   14 Folder   2	#13-#18
Box   14 Folder   3	#19-#24
Box   14 Folder   4	#25-#31
Box   14 Folder   5	#32-#37
Box   15 Folder   1	#38-#45
Box   15 Folder   2	#46-#54
Box   15 Folder   3	#55-#62 (two labeled #55)
Box   15 Folder   4	#63-#69
Box   16 Folder   1	#70-#75
Box   16 Folder   2	#76-#82
Box   16 Folder   3	#83-#87
Box   16 Folder   4	#88-#93
Box   17 Folder   1	#94-#98
Box   17 Folder   2	#99-#106
Box   17 Folder   3	#107-#114
Box   17 Folder   4	#115-#118
Box   17 Folder   5	#119-#123
Box   18 Folder   1	#124-#130
Box   18 Folder   2	#131-#138 (#134 missing and two labelled #131 and two labeled #132)
Box   18 Folder   3	#139-#146
Box   18 Folder   4	#147-#154 (Missing #151)
Box   18 Folder   5	#155-#164
Box   19 Folder   1	#165-#173
Box   19 Folder   2	#174-#181
Box   19 Folder   3	#182-#191 (Missing #190)
Box   19 Folder   4	#192-#199
Box   19 Folder   5	#200-#207
Box   20 Folder   1	#208-#215
Box   20 Folder   2	#216-#223
Box   20 Folder   3	#224-#230
Box   20 Folder   4	#231-#238
Box   20 Folder   5	#239-#247
Box   21 Folder   1	#248-#257 (Missing one of the two labeled #257)
Box   21 Folder   2	#258-#260
Box   21 Folder   3	#261-#266
Box   21 Folder   4	#267-#273
Box   21 Folder   5	#274-#276
Box   22 Folder   1-2	not numbered (5 notebooks) - includes one labeled “Dec. '66, Barry and Navy” and another labeled “Dec. 6, 1972, interview with Marcos.”
U.S. Mss 117AF	Series: Part 2: 1987 Additions, 1952-1987 Scope and Content Note The additions to the Richard Critchfield Papers (1952-1987) consist of papers relating to Critchfield's work overseas, and to his work on Those Days. Grouped by document type is correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, drafts of his articles, miscellaneous project notes and reports, and notes, drafts and final copies of several of his published books. Filed in a separate section is material on the Critchfield family history manuscript “All The Days,” later to become published as Those Days: An American Album. The most informative section in these additions is the correspondence, including everything from business mail to intimately personal letters written to family and close friends. Among Critchfield's correspondents are Norman E. Borlaug, Peter Bird Martin, R. P. Bosshart, Lester M. Brown, Lisa Redfield Peatie and Daniel P. Moynihan. His correspondence with his family and close friends (located in Box 24, folders 1-4), consisting mostly of carbons of Critchfield's letters, goes into detail about his work, the projects he's involved with, the books he's writing, the people he meets, and also his personal and family situations. His correspondence with Brian Beedham of the Economist (located in Box 25, folder 5) covers Critchfield's views on the political, technological and agricultural issues in the various countries and villages he studied. These letters are quite lengthy and go into great detail about the different situations in these countries and villages at the times the letters were written. The major focus of Critchfield's writings is on the subject of the technological and agricultural advances being made in the Third World countries he studied. The article entitled, “Science and The Villager: The Last Sleeper Wakes” (located in Box 27, folder 1) is a complete summary of Critchfield's village work. Among the miscellaneous project notes and reports in Boxes 31 & 32, are interviews with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos (Critchfield was once said to have been one of the only American journalists to have taken an “objective view” of Marcos). In the folders labeled “Reports for the Alicia Patterson Fund” and “Fieldstaff Reports” are additional summaries of Critchfield's various studies in the Third World. Critchfield called his family history project a “Manuscript on Cultural and Agricultural, Rural-Urban Change in 1880 to 1940 as Seen in the Life of an American Family.” The focus of this manuscript is a direct continuation of his village work, except staged in America and based on the Williams and Critchfield families. The material in the family history project section includes: research notes, photocopied literature, notes from newspapers, chronologies and interviews, and progressive manuscript drafts. The book was later published as Those Days: An American Album.	⇧
	Subseries: Correspondence, 1952-1986
Box   24 Folder   1-2	Family
Box   24 Folder   3-5	Friends
Box   24 Folder   6	Business Managers: Peggy Ann Trimble and Robert W. Alvord Note: All financial papers included here.
Box   24 Folder   7	Agent: Pat Berens - The Sterling Lord Agency, Inc.
Box   25 Folder   1-2	Foundations: Ford; Rockefeller; Inter-American; Alicia Patterson Fund; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Note: Includes correspondence from Sam Bunker and Gerald Freund.
Box   25 Folder   3-4	Publishers: Doubleday; Indiana University Press; Syracuse University Press; American University in Cairo Press; Avon Books
Box   25 Folder   5-6	Newspapers: The Economist (Brian Beedham); Los Angeles Times;The Christian Science Monitor (David Anable); National Wildlife;American University Fieldstaff
Box   26 Folder   1	Newspapers and Magazines, 1968-1985 (including Bill Moyers)
Box   26 Folder   2	Organizations Scope and Content Note: Including correspondence from: Norman E. Borlaug; Lisa Redfield Peatie; Lester M. Brown; Peter Bird Martin; Thomas Niblock; Daniel P. Moynihan; and R.P. Bosshart.
Box   26 Folder   3	Universities, 1976-1985
Box   26 Folder   4-6	Miscellaneous
	Subseries: Newspaper and Magazine Clippings, 1961-1986	⇧
Box   27 Folder   1	General Third World Articles Written by Critchfield
Box   27 Folder   2	Articles written about Indonesia by Critchfield
Box   27 Folder   3	On Egypt by Critchfield
Box   27 Folder   4	On the Philippines by Critchfield
Box   27 Folder   5	Articles written by Critchfield re: Bangladesch; India; Thailand; China; Mexico; Nepal; Africa; etc.
Box   27 Folder   6	Articles written by Critchfield Not about the Third World
Box   27 Folder   7	Articles written About Critchfield
Box   27 Folder   8	Articles written by Others who mention Critchfield
Box   27 Folder   9	Miscellaneous Articles
PH 3729	Photographs of Critchfield's family, and of Critchfield at work overseas
U.S. Mss 117AF	Subseries: Drafts of Articles, 1965-1985	⇧
	General Third World
Box   28 Folder   1	1973-1976
Box   28 Folder   2	1977-1979
Box   28 Folder   3	1980-1981
Box   28 Folder   4	1982-1985
Box   29 Folder   1-2	Philippines
Box   29 Folder   3	Pakistan
Box   29 Folder   4	Indonesia
Box   29 Folder   5	India
Box   29 Folder   6	Egypt
Box   30 Folder   1	Thailand
Box   30 Folder   2	Sudan
Box   30 Folder   3	Bangladesh
Box   30 Folder   4	Nepal
Box   30 Folder   5	Brazil
Box   30 Folder   6	Iran
Box   30 Folder   7	Mexico
Box   30 Folder   8	China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam
Box   30 Folder   9	Miscellaneous countries
	Subseries: Miscellaneous Stories, Project Notes and Reports, 1969-1985	⇧
Box   31 Folder   1-2	Newspaper Dispatches - various dates
Box   31 Folder   3	Record of Village Project - , 1969-1981
Box   31 Folder   4	Project Notes regarding miscellaneous countries
Box   31 Folder   5	Philippine Notes
Box   31 Folder   6	Sudan Notes
Box   32 Folder   1	Notes regarding Guapira Village, Bahiya, Brazil
Box   32 Folder   2	Reports and Evaluations
Box   32 Folder   3	Talks, Seminars and Interviews
Box   32 Folder   4	Reports to the Alicia Patterson Fund
Box   32 Folder   5	Fieldstaff Reports
Box   32 Folder   6	Reports about Critchfield
Box   32 Folder   7	Miscellaneous regarding Villages
Box   32 Folder   8	Schedule Notes
Box   32 Folder   9	Miscellaneous
	Subseries: Manuscripts and Published Books by Critchfield	⇧
Box   33 Folder   1	Lore and Legend of Nepal - Jagat Lall, Kathmandu, 1961, with Kesar Lall
Box   33 Folder   2	The Indian Reporter's Guide - Allied Pacific Private, Ltd., Bombay, 1962
Box   33 Folder   3	Manuscript: The Four of Us (later to become Golden Bowl)
Box   34 Folder   1	Notes, Drafts and finished Copy of Shahhat - An Egyptian - Syracuse University Press - 1978
Box   35 Folder   1	Manuscript and finished Copy of Villages - Anchor Press/Doubleday , 1981
1183A/1	Interview of Critchfield by Dick Hinchliffe of WHA in 1982 regarding Villages
U.S. Mss 117AF	Subseries: Family History Project, 1982 September-1983 November	⇧
Box   36 Folder   1	1928-1931
Box   36 Folder   2	Hunter Sequence
Box   36 Folder   3	Fessenden
Box   36 Folder   4	Critchfields in Ohio
Box   36 Folder   5	Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919
Box   36 Folder   6	LeClaire, Iowa (The Hadwen Williams Family)
Box   36 Folder   7	D.L. Moody
Box   36 Folder   8	The Chautaugua
Box   36 Folder   9	Alcoholism
Box   37 Folder   1	Rural Life and Literature
Box   37 Folder   2	Miscellaneous
Box   37 Folder   3	Critchfield: Preliminary and Revised Chronology
Box   37 Folder   4	Maddock
Box   37 Folder   5	Three Stories comprised of: Interviews with Critchfield family and Jessie and Hadwen Williams
Box   37 Folder   6	Iowa Notes
Box   37 Folder   7	Harry Critchfield; Jim Critchfield; Nursing Home Scene with Mom, Bill, Peggy, and Pat
Box   37 Folder   8	Author's Notes; Fay Collins; Helen Collins; Irene Rock and Don Rock; Barbara Dunn; Mac Solberg; Helen Kotchian; Jim Parsons; Rees Price; Jess Oser; Elsie Engbrecht Kieper; Mary Olslager Carter
Box   37 Folder   9	Interviews with: Irving Clark; Helen Litke Mush; Fred Mietz; Chester Zumpf; Alvin Mohr; Mabel Swanson; Myrtle Legreid Olson; Edwin Anderson; Kay Critchfield Edwards; Harry Rasmussen and wife; Agneta Nielsen Bergsgardt; Emil Moen; Merland Carr; Rose Winistofer Rasmussen; Kathryn Garrett Hunter; Bill Battagler; Helen Hope
	Family History Manuscript:
Box   38 Folder   1	First Draft
	Second Draft
Box   38 Folder   2	Part One: A Mid-Western Family; , 1880-1940
Box   38 Folder   3	Part Two: North Dakota Boy (Hunter, Maddock)
Box   38 Folder   4	Part Two: North Dakota Boy (Fessenden) and Part Three: Five Little Peppers: How They Grew
Box   38 Folder   5	Photocopied Photo Samples
	Third Draft
Box   39 Folder   1	Part I: Preacher's Daughter
Box   39 Folder   2-3	Part II: North Dakota Boy
Box   39 Folder   4	Part III: Five Little Peppers; and Acknowledgements
Box   39 Folder   5	Finished Copy of Those Days - Anchor Press/Doubleday; Garden City, New York, 1986
1183A/2	Interview of Critchfield by Steve Paulson of WHA in April 1986 regarding Those Days