SPEC.CMS.89
Guide and Inventory
Introduction:
Jessica Mitford, a.k.a. Decca, was a writer and one of the famous Mitford sisters, daughters of the 2nd Baron Redesdale. Her books include two autobiographies: Daughters and Rebels and A Fine Old Conflict.. Her many investigative works include: The American Way of Death, The Trial of Dr. Spock, Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business, Poison Penmanship, and The American Way of Birth.
The collection consists of notes, drafts, typescripts, proofs, galleys for her works, correspondence, photographs, video and audio tapes, reviews, clippings and articles by and about Jessica and the Mitford family, interviews, lectures, and other archival materials; 281 archival boxes, and 2 oversize boxes.
-- Most folders include various materials related to the subject.
JM, Jessica, Decca = Jessica Mitford
Abbreviations Used:
H&R = Hons & Rebels (includes American version Daughters &Rebels)
AWOD = The American Way of Death
TODS = The Trial of Dr. Spock
KAUP = Kind and Unusual Punishment (includes British version The American Prison
Business)
FOC =A Fine Old Conflict
PP = Poison Penmanship - The Gentle Art of Muckrakinq(includes British versionThe
Making of a Muckraker)
FOP = Faces of Philip,
GD = Grace Had An English Heart
AWOB = The American Way of Birth
FWS = "Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers"
DP = "My Short and Happy Life as a Distinguished Professor"
THR = "The Honourable Rebel"
Miscellaneous/Oversized material:
FOC repros
Forest Lawn souvenir plate and napkin holder
Forest Lawn map and pictorial tour
Video Tapes #113-114
Portrait of "The Queen in her bridal dress"
"Is an innocent man convicted?" - James Dean Walker case clippings (2 copies)
Promotional posters from AWOB
Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from SmithCollege
Box of "Don't Quit Your-Day Job!" Records business cards
Nick Hennill Slides
Picture holder with three photos including one of a young Bob and one of a young Decca
"The Thatcher Legacy" - collection of articles from The Guardian
The Berkeley Monthly - 3/81 - article about Bob and Decca on pg. 25
SF Weekly - 3/22-28/95
Hons Rebels
box- folder-
1 1 Book publicity
1 2 Fan Mail
1 3 Clippings and reviews
1 4 Post H&R/Pre-AWOD clippings
Also in this box: Hons & Rebels uncorrected proof copy
The American Way of Death(some AWOD material at UT-Austin)
(Note - The title "Post-Mortem" is used interchangeably by JM to identify the AWOD update for thepaperback edition (also called AWOD revisited), an article written for McCall’s (titled "The FuneralSalesmen by McCall’s), and the title of her AWOD lectures)
2 5 Clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 1964- 1969
The Communist Way Of Death: An answer to Jessica Mitford's attack on the American way
Legal aspects of The Mitford-Treuhaft Case
Jessica Mitford & The Red Death
Co-ops And The Funeral lndustry
26 Clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 1970-1972
2 7 Clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 1973-1977
2 8 Clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 1978-1981
2 9 Clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 1982-1985
3 10 Clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 1986-1993
3 11 Fan Mail
3 12 Extracts
"Americans don't want fancy funerals" article by JM
3 13 "The Funeral Salesmen" (a.k.a. "Post-Mortem") - correspondence, drafts, notes, etc.
3 14 "The Funeral Salesmen" fan mail
3 15 Correspondence regarding AWOD republication as a paperback
3 16 Daphne Funeral Homes case material
4 17 "Post-Mortem" lecture notes and correspondence
Research concerning "Please Omit Flowers"
Script of "The Great American Funeral" by CBS Reports
4 18 "Post-Mortem" clippings, correspondence, etc.
4 19"Since The American Way Of Death" documentary on PBS-correspondence and script
4 20 Funeral benefits scam
4 21 Bay Area Funeral Society
4 22 Miscellaneous clippings, reviews, etc.
"Can You Afford to Die?" by Roul Tunley Tearsheet 6/17/1961
National Review - contains an article about JM on page 381 11/5/63
National Review - contains an article about JM on page 466 12/3/63
National Review - contains "Merchants of Death" - AWOD Review on page 362 10/22/63
Also in this box: The lmmortalist - playscript by Heathcote Williams
The Hairdresser at the Funeral Home by Noёlla Charest-Papagno
AWOD Fawcett paperback galleys
The American Wav Of Death FTC material
5 23 FTC reports about funeral practices
5 24 1964 Antitrust hearings
525 Draft of article (???)
Correspondence regarding the FTC hearings
5 26 Notes, outlines, and JM1s testimony and U.S. News €4 World Report interview
527Funeral home bills, FTC news, and Bob's notes
5 28 Bob's notes
529 "Comments of the Continental Association of Funeral and Memorial Society, Inc. on
Proposed Trade Regulation Rule ..."
530 Commentary from funeral trade magazines
5 31 Bob's FTC testimony
5 32 Testimony about funeral directors as grief therapists
5 33 Pamphlets regarding funerals
5 34 Clippings, articles regarding FTC regulation
5 35 Miscellaneous legislative correspondence
5 36 Report and analysis by the House Small Business Subcommittee
Interview with JM and Howard Raether
5 37 FTC reports and proposed rule
538FTC Planning Memorandum - 1 of 2
639FTC Planning Memorandum - 2 of 2
6 40 Testimony of witnesses at FTC hearing
641 Service Corporation International consent order
6 42 Correspondence, clippings, articles, etc. regarding the California Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers - 1 of 3
6 43 Correspondence, clippings, articles, etc. regarding the California Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers - 2 of 3
6 44 Correspondence, clippings, articles, etc. regarding the California Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers - 3 of 3
The Neptune Society
7 45-47 John W. Gill deposition
7 48-50Billie Jack Elkin deposition
8 51-54Billie Jack Elkin deposition
8 55 Lucie de Jounge deposition
9 56 Lucie de Jounge deposition
9 57-61 Richard Jongordon deposition
10 62 Richard Jongordon deposition
10 63-66 Lars de Jounge deposition
10 67 Permits, lists, and logs
11 68 Permits, lists, and logs
11 69 Miscellaneous documents
Also in this box: Bound Neptune Society permits, logs, regulations, etc.
Bound Neptune Society training manuals with logs, letters, etc.
12 70 Clippings, correspondence, etc. regarding Telophase and the Neptune Society - includes
notes from JM1s interviews with Telophase and Neptune Society personnel
12 71 JM as expert witness for B.J. Elkin court case
The Trial Of Dr. Spock(most TODS material at UT-Austin)
13 72 Miscellaneous, clippings, articles, and reviews
Fan Mail(in box with TODS)
13 73General Fan mail -1 of 3
13 74 General Fan mail - 2 of 3
1375 General Fan mail - 3 of 3
Kind And Unusual Punishmentand related material (most KAUP material at UT-Austin)
Extracts and fan mail
14 76 Extract - "Kind And Unusual Punishment In California" - copy of article
Extract - "Kind And Unusual Punishment in Californian - typescript with corrections
Extract - "Kind and Unusual Punishment" typescript with corrections
14 77 Extract - "Women In Cages" galleys with corrections
Extract - "Women In Cages” - tearsheets
Extract - "Women In Cages" - copy of article
Extract - "Women In Cages” - typescript
Extract - "Women In Cages" - typescript with notes, corrections, and inserts
Extract - "D.C. Prison" typescript
Extract - "D.C. Prison" typescript
14 78 Extract - "Experiments Behind Bars" - tearsheets
Extract - "Experiments Behind Bars" - copy of article
Extract - "Experiments Behind Bars” - copy of article (extra copy)
Something related to "Experiments Behind Bars" (in German)
Copies of prison photos
1479 Extract - "The Torture Cure"
1480 Extract - "Cheaper Than Chimpanzees" - with inserts, corrections, and notes
Extract - "Cheaper Than Chimpanzees" - draft with corrections
1481Early drafts with notes and corrections 1 of 2
1482 Early drafts with notes and corrections 2 of 2
1483 The Crime of Imprisonment (photocopy) by George Bernard Shaw - with notations
Walls and Bars (photocopy) by Eugene Victor Debs - with notations
1484Clippings and reviews
1585 Fan Mail
Post-KAUP prison material
1586 Miscellaneous clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 1 of 6
1587 Miscellaneous clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 2 of 6
1588 Miscellaneous clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 3 of 6
1589 Miscellaneous clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 4 of 6
1690 Miscellaneous clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 5 of 6
1691 Miscellaneous clippings, articles, correspondence, etc. - 6 of 6
1692 Atmore-Holman Prison material
1693 Sam Teichner correspondence regarding prison censorship
1694 Material from corrections journals
1695 Material regarding a TV film made about the Female High Security Unit in Lexington
1696 "Investigating Prisons: The Inside Story" - an article for Nation adapted from a speech at
the California State Bar Convention
1697 Miscellaneous, clippings, articles, and reviews
17Shared Decision-Making As A Treatment Technique In Prison Management
The Status Of Biomedical ExperimentationIn California's State Prisons
Corrections Magazine - 9/77
A Fine Old Conflict
Notes and drafts
18 98 Notes - 1 of 8
18 99 Notes - 2 of 8
18 100Notes - 3 of 8
18 101 Notes-4of8
19 102Notes - 5 of 8
19 103 Notes-6of8
19 104 Notes-7of8
19 105 Notes - 8 of 8
20 106 Dead matter
20 107Early draft
20 108 Dead drafts - 1 of 2
20 109 Dead drafts - 2 of 2
21 110 Draft with outline - separated by chapter - 1 of 2
21 11 1 Draft with outline - separated by chapter - 2 of 2
21 112 Draft with corrections
21 113 Draft with notes and corrections
22 114 Late draft - 1 of 2
22 115 Late draft - 2 of 2
22 116 Bob Gottlieb's final draft - 1 of 2
22 117 Bob Gottlieb's final draft - 2 of 2
23 118 Typescript - Michael Barnes copy - 1 of 2
23 119 Typescript - Michael Barnes copy - 2 of 2
23 120 Typescript - 1 of 2
23 121 Typescript - 2 of 2
24 122 Preliminary galleys with inserts
24 123Galleys-1of3
24 124Galleys-2of3
24 125 Galleys-3of3
25 126 Blueprints with publisher's notes
25 127 Corrections and index
25 128 Correspondence regarding FOC extract in New York Times Magazine
Introduction and corrections for extract
Photocopy of extract with corrections
25 129 Fanmail-1of2
25 130 Fan mail - 2 of 2
25 131 Reviews and mentions
26 132 Lists of people to get advance copies of FOC
List of people invited to FOC publication party
Miscellaneous correspondence
26 133 U.S. promotional material - schedules, itineraries, etc.
Correspondence regarding promotions
26 134 Acceptances and refusals to FOC publication party
British promotional material - schedules, itineraries, etc.
26 135 FOC book jackets
Photocopies of pictures used in FOC
26 136 Correspondence and material from Michael Joseph Ltd. (FOC publisher)
26 137 Miscellaneous correspondence from friends
Permissions to use people's names and identities in the book
Correspondence regarding FOC legal matters (libel, slander, etc.)
Also in this box - Bound, uncorrected proof copy
Bound copy with notes and corrections
Research material
27 138 Review of Hungarian Legislation - translated by Robert Treuhaft
27 139 The Story of the Oakland City Elections of 1947 - by Martin Melia (Robert Treuhaft was
interviewed for this paper)
27 140 Wilbur Gary clippings
27 141 Police brutality hearings material
27 142 Office of Price Administration (OPA) material
27 143 'Bebe' Rebozo articles
27 144 Jerry Newson case material
27 145 Civil Rights Congress (CRC) notebooks
27 146 Willie McGee clippings from Daily People's World (articles by Decca Treuhaft are on top)
27 147 Willie McGee clippings from Jackson Daily News
27 148 Miscellaneous McGee case material
27 149 House Committee On Un-American Activities (HUAC) material
27 150 HUAC Velde Committee Hearing Transcripts
27 151 HUAC Burns Committee clippings
27 152 Material regarding JM's trip to Europe in 1956 (includes a few articles by Decca)
27 153 "The Daily Peoples World and the Current Discussions" - by Bob and Decca Treuhaft and
Doris Marasse {Dobby Walker}
The Honourable Rebel- BBC film about JM made in 1977
28 154 FTC hearing regarding funerals - Pre-trial interview transcripts
28 155 BBC scripts with notes and corrections
28 156 Interview transcripts - 1 of 2
28 157 Interview transcripts - 2 of 2
28 158 Filming material and notes
28 159 Gary family and Buddy Greene interview transcripts
29 160Dinner Party interview transcript
29 161 Photo - Esmond and Decca
Photo - Esmond and Decca (extra copy)
Photo - Decca reading Out Of Bounds
Photo - Decca at Swinbrook
Photo - Decca at Swinbrook (extra copy)
Photo - Decca at Swinbrook
Photo - Decca during Willie McGee campaign
Photo - Complete Mitford family - children grown
Photo - Complete Mitford family - children grown (extra copy)
Photo - Mitford children
Photo - Mitford children (extra copy)
Photo - Decca before family coat of arms
Photo - Complete Mitford family - children young
Photo - Complete Mitford family children young (extra copy)
Photo - Complete Mitford family - children young
Photo - Decca and Unity at Asthall
Photo - Decca and Unity at Asthall (2 extra copies)
Photo - Decca at Swinbrook
Photo - Rows of houses
Photo - Complete Mitford family with pasted headlines - children young
Photo - Decca during Willie McGee campaign
Photo - Decca during Willie McGee campaign (2 extra copies)
Photo - Decca at 6
Photo - Decca and realtor looking at window broken at realtor's office during Gary ordeal
Photo negatives
Photos - D.A. Frank Coakley and Jerry Newsom
Photo - Decca and Unity at Asthall
Photo - Decca before family coat of arms
Photo - Decca before family coat of arms (3 extra copies)
Photo - Entrance of War Relocation Authority for evacuees of Japanese ancestry
Photo - Complete Mitford family - children grown
Photo - Decca reading Out Of Bounds
Photos - Jerry Newsom
Photos - D.A. Frank Coakley
Photo - Window broken at realtor's office during Gary family ordeal
Photo - Window broken at realtor's office during Gary family ordeal
Photo - Decca at Gary family house
Photo - Mob outside Gary house
Photo - Wilbur Gary and wife looking at brick thrown through window
Photo - Wilbur Gary and wife looking at brick thrown through window (extra copy)
Photo - People protecting Gary house
Photo - Wilbur Gary
Photo - Police outside Gary house
Photo - Mob outside Gary house
Photo - Mob outside Gary house
Photo - Mob outside Gary house (extra copy)
Photo - Buddy Greene outside Gary house
Photo . Buddy Greene outside Gary house (extra copy)
Photo - Wilbur Gary and wife
29 162 Correspondence with Michael & Clare Barnes
29 163 Tracings
29 164 Scripts, notes, and interview transcripts
30 165Outlines, notes, correspondence, filming schedule, etc. - 1 of 2
30 166 Outlines, notes, correspondence, filming schedule, etc. - 2 of 2
30 167 Post production miscellaneous - correspondence, notes, etc.
30 168 Clippings mentioning THR
Also in this box: BBC notebooks
Michael Barnes clipping book
Poison Penmanship
31 169 Proposals and outlines
Correspondence with ScottMeredithAgency
31 170 Notes
31 171 Drafts - 1 of 5
31 172 Drafts - 2 of 5
31 173 Drafts - 3 of 5
31 174 Drafts - 4 of 5
32 175 Drafts - 5 of 5
32 176Draft typescript
32 177 Page proofs
32 178 Galleys - 1 of 2
32 179 Galleys - 2 of 2
33 180 Publicity appearances, interviews, etc.
33 181 Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
33 182 Clippings and reviews
33 183 Fan Mail
Copies of articles used in compilation
33 184 "Trial By Headline"
"St. Peter, Don't You Call Me"
"Proceed With Caution"
"Whut They're Thanking Down There" (a.k.a. "You-all, Non-you-all")
"Americans don't want fancy funerals"
"My way of life since 'The American Way of Death"' - incomplete
"Something To Offend Everyone"
"The Disease That Dr. Kildare Couldn't Cure" (a.k.a. "Don't Call It Syphilis")
"The American Way of Aging" (a.k.a. "Maine Chance Diary")
"pretty, lascivious, undignified" (a.k.a. "The Individuality of Women")
"Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers"
"A Talk With George Jackson" (a.k.a. "Interview with George Jackson")
"The Best of Frenemies"
"Checks And Balances At The Sign Of The Dove"
"My Short And Happy Life As A Distinguished Professor"
"How Big- Name Lawyers Got Stung" (a.k.a. "Waiting for O’Hara")
Comments for the articles
33 185 "You-all, Non-you-all"
33 186 "In Darkest New York"
33 187 "Egyptomania"
33 188 "The Dove Strikes Back ..."
33 189 "The Best of Frenemies"
33 190 "The Individuality of Women" and "Maine Chance Diary"
33191"St. Peter, Don't You Call Me"
33192"Proceed with Caution"
33193Post-AWOD funeral articles
"The Case for Cremation"
"Cremation Is Barbaric" - by Kate Holliday with JM's notes
33194"The American Way of Success"
33195"Don't Call It Syphilis"
33196"Interview with George Jackson"
33197"Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers"
JM's Temporary Drivers License and Organ Donor card
33198"Waiting for O'Hara"
33199"My Short and Happy Life as a Distinguished Professor"
33200"Trial By Headline"
Faces Of Philip
34201Table of Contents
34 202 Correspondence with publishers
34 203 Correspondence with Knopf
FOP book jackets and advertisements
34 204 Correspondence with editor David Godwin of William Heinemann, Ltd.
34 205 Publicity - advertisements, engagements, etc.
34 206 Correspondence with David Godwin and Sally Gough regarding corrections
34 207 Correspondence regarding the Garchik's FOP publicity party
34 208 Clippings'and reviews
34 209 Index
34 210 Miscellaneous correspondence and clippings involving Esmond, Decca, and Philip
34 21 1 JM's 'Toyn bee Interviews' notebook
Radio Times with "Hon and rebel" article about JM by Philip Toynbee
Draft of "Hon and rebel"
34 212 Photocopies of Philip's diary
35 213 Interviews with Toynbee
Various Toyn bee biographies
Toynbee obituaries
Reviews of Toynbee's work
35 214 Photocopy of The Savane Davs by Philip Toynbee
35 215 Miscellaneous correspondence
35 21 6 Notes and miscellaneous correspondence
35 217 Decca's correspondence with Philip
35 218 Annotated Toynbee letters
35 219 Reviews written by Philip Toynbee
35 220 Original Toynbee correspondence, articles, etc.
35 221 Fan Mail
Correspondence
35 222 David Astor
35 223 John Bury
35 224 Andrew, Duke of Devonshire
35 225 Patrick Leigh (Paddy) Fermor
36 226 Ann Horne
36 227 Ann Horne and Philip Toynbee - 1 of 2
36 228 Ann Horne and Philip Toynbee - 2 of 2
36 229 Robert Kee
36 230 Terry and Joanna Kilmartin
36231 Ivan Moffat
36232 Stephen Spender
36233 Toynbee children - Clara, Lucy, Jason, and Josephine
36234 Polly Toynbee
36235 SallyToynbeeandAnneWollheim
Toynbee/Ann Horne correspondence
37236 From Ann to Philip #1-36 and introductory material for Four Year Friendship
37237 From Ann to Philip #37-74
37238 From Ann to Philip #75-108
37239 From Philip to Ann #1-32
37240 From Philip to Ann #33-68
37241 From Philip to Ann #1-68 – originals
Drafts
38242 April 1983 draft - 1 of 2
38243 April 1983 draft - 2 of 2
38244 FinalDrafts-1of2
38245 Final Drafts - 2 of 2
39246 Home copy drafts
39247 Unsorted drafts - 1 of 3
39248 Unsorted drafts - 2 of 3
39249 Unsorted drafts - 3 of 3
40250 September 1983 drafts
40251 Uncorrected proofs
Grace Had An English Heart
41 252 Book proposals
41 253 Advertisement requesting information about the Grace Darling League
List of newspapers advertisement was sent to
Responses to advertisement and material sent by respondents
41 254 Bamburgh tourist information
41 255 Kit Milner's (researcher) notes, correspondence, and expenses
41 256 Ida Lewis
41 257 Reviews of Constance Smedley's and Richard Armstrong's Grace Darling books
41 258 Grace Darling magazine articles
41 259 History of crime reporting book excerpts
41 260 Grace Darling book excerpts
41 261 Correspondence with Robin Gard at the Northumberland Record Office
41 262 Grace Darling poetry
41 263 Royal National Lifeboat Institution correspondence
42 264Invitation to a party held for the Duke of Kent
42 265 Correspondence with family and friends
42 266 Miscellaneous correspondence
42 267 Correspondence with publishers and agents
42 268 Lists of people to be invited to publication party and to receive complimentary copies
42 269Publicity - itineraries, list of reviewers, publication party material, etc.
42 270 Grace Darling's journal photocopies
42 271 GraceDarlingMuseum material
42 272 Magazines and book photocopies
42 273 Photocopy of Grace Darling: Her True Story
43 274 Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
43 275 Wallington guide book
43 276 1838 newspaper photocopies regarding Grace Darling
432771838-1839 newspaper photocopies regarding Grace Darling
43278Newspaper photocopies regarding Grace Darling
43279Notes from 1838 articles
43280Notebooks
43281Photocopies of Grace Darling memorabilia pictures from the GraceDarlingMuseum
44282Photos taken by Bob regarding Grace Darling
44283Drafts and, notes