MUM00079
Finding-Aid for the David L. Cohn Collection (MUM00079)
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: https://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/
Access Restrictions
Use Restriction
Box 1
Folder 1: Atlantic Monthly Correspondence
Folder 2: Articles about David Cohn
Folder 3: Articles not by David Cohn
Folder 4: Correspondence about Cohn articles
Folder 5: Cohn: Alumni News articles
Folder 6: Articles sent to Cohn
Folder 7: Advertisement of Cohn
Folder 8: Biographical material
Folder 9: “The River I Remember”
Folder 10: Curtis Brown Ltd.
Folder 11: Business letters
Folder 12: Calling Cards
Folder 13: Clippings: “War Stops Production”
Folder 14: Articles from Congressional Record
Folder 15: Correspondence: “Combustion on Wheels”
Folder 16: Cohn’s notes: unidentifiable
Folder 17: National Cotton Council
Folder 18: Cohn letters: Lillian
Box 2
Folder 1: Correspondence: “God Shakes Creation”
Folder 2: Empire Trust Letter
Folder 3: Possibility of filming “The Good Old Days”
Folder 4: “Hometown Revisited”
Folder 5: “The Good Old Days”
Folder 6: “Greenville Filibusters Against Father Time” New York Times Magazine
Folder 7: Cohn honored by Society of Amer. Historians
Folder 8: Greenville (misc.)
Folder 9: Correspondence with Paul Flowers
Folder 10: Mississippi Politicians (Coleman, etc.)
Folder 11: Correspondence: Atlantic Monthly
Folder 12: Correspondence with college professors
Folder 13: Correspondence with foreigners Duff Cooper, Halifax, etc.
Folder 14: Correspondence with James & Margaret Silver
Folder 15: Correspondence with Jacob Epstein
Folder 16: Correspondence – Misc.
Folder 17: Correspondence – Ole Miss Collection
Box 3
Folder 1: Houghton Mifflin Company
Folder 2: Miscellaneous Papers
Folder 3: Response to “I’ve Kept My Name”
Folder 4: David Cohn Memorial
Folder 5: Articles and Reviews
Folder 6: Response to “What Can Jews Do”
Folder 7: The Jew
Folder 8: Ideas for articles/books not yet published
Folder 9: Clippings on “Fabulous Democrats”
Folder 10: Correspondence: “How the South Feels About the Race Problem”
Folder 11: Lament for the South That is No More
Folder 12: Correspondence: “Love in America”
Folder 13: Correspondence: Clare Luce
Folder 14: Clippings: “The Fabulous Democrats”
Box 4
Folder 1: Correspondence: Dr. Walter Johnson
Folder 2: Misc. War items
Folder 3: Proclamation No. 1 -Military Govt. – Germany
Folder 4: Clarence Laughlin Pictures Laughlin’s captions and introduction
Folder 5: Newspaper articles about Cohn
Folder 6: Notes for an article on chain stores
Folder 7: Cohn writes about oil
Folder 8: Parchman
Folder 9: Correspondence: “New Orleans and Its Living Past”
Folder 10: Newspaper Articles: Cohn and world travel
Folder 11: Correspondence: Dr. & Mrs. Newton Cohn’s travels as war correspondence
Folder 12: Correspondence: G.T. Pettengill
Folder 13: Cohn’s notes
Folder 14: Newspaper articles
Folder 15: Correspondence: Natalie Newton (Cohn’s sister) to Jim Silver
Folder 16: Notes about Negroes: Stories
Box 5
Folder 1: Pictures – originals housed in collections. Photographs located in Box 1
Folder 2: Correspondence with politicians LBJ, McGovern, Fulbright, etc.
Folder 3: Correspondence with publishers
Folder 4: Correspondence: Sam Rayburn
Folder 5: Radio program about Mississippi River
Folder 6: Reviews: “The Life and Times of King Cotton” 1956
Folder 7: Reviews: “This is the Story”
Folder 8: Reviews: “Love In America”
Folder 9: Reviews
Folder 10: Miscellaneous
Folder 11: Correspondence relating to Sears-Roebuck
Folder 12: Reviews: “Where I Was Born and Raised”
Folder 13: Sears advertisement copy by Cohn
Folder 14: Sears-Roebuck
Folder 15: Correspondence: Adlai Stevenson
Box 6
Folder 1: Correspondence: SRL “The Deep South” edition Includes Eudora Welty
Folder 2: Correspondence: “This Is the Story”
Folder 3: Correspondence relating to Cohn’s speaking tours
Folder 4: Correspondence: Milton Sperling, Morrie Ryskind
Folder 5: Stocks
Folder 6: Simon and Schuster
Folder 7: Speeches: Rayburn, Fulbright, Stevenson
Folder 8: Speeches: cont.
Folder 9: Fulbright speech, other material
Folder 10: Speeches: Cohn
Folder 11: Cohn in society
Folder 12: Correspondence with Cohn’s teachers, includes Taft
Box 7
Folder 1: Correspondence, misc. relating to travel “This Is the Story”
Folder 2: Thesis on Wm. A. Percy by Hester S. Ware
Folder 3: Correspondence: “Where I Was Born and Raised”
Folder 4: Correspondence not dated
Folder 5: Miscellaneous
Folder 6: Galley: “Picking America’s Pockets
Folder 7: Correspondence: James Silver
Folder 8: Correspondence: Misc. includes Diego Rivera, 1891-1943
Folder 9: Correspondence: Misc. 1944-1961
Folder 10: Misc. Clippings
Box 8
Folder 1: About the Death of Joe Bell
essay/article
Folder 2: Advertising Greets the Homecoming Heroes…
essay/article
Folder 3: Advice to the Lovelorn
essay/article
Folder 4: All our Yesterdays
essay/article
Folder 5: America to England
essay/article
Folder 6: American Attitude Toward the Bed
essay/article
Folder 7: American Literature
essay/article
Folder 8: Applying Fashion to Family Living
essay/article
Folder 9: Are Americans Polygamous?
essay/article
Folder 10: Are We Suckers for Communist Trickery?
essay/article
Folder 11: Atlanta: The Gone With the Wind City
essay/article
Folder 12: The Battle of Macassar Straits
essay/article
Folder 13: Battle Street
essay/article
Folder 14: The Big Danger Is Apathy to Corruption
essay/article
Folder 15: Black Troubador
essay/article
Folder 16: On Clare Booth
essay/article
Folder 17: Roark Bradford
essay/article
Folder 18: Roark Bradford’s Revenge
essay/article
Folder 19: The Business of Politics is Your Business
essay/article
Folder 20: A Business Under Every Bed
essay/article
Folder 21: …But I Wouldn’t Want to Live There
essay/article
Folder 22: But, Monsieur, I Do Not Understand
essay/article
Folder 23: Can Israel Help the Arabs?
essay/article
Folder 24: The Case for the Democrats, Sam Rayburn
essay/article
Folder 25: Charity and Reform…
essay/article
Folder 26: Chippendale and Gumbo Creole
essay/article
Folder 27: The Communist Approach to Burma
essay/article
Folder 28: The Conversion of Ed Brennan
essay/article
Folder 29: Coca-Cola
essay/article
Folder 30: Cotton
article
Folder 31: Cotton
lecture
Folder 32: The Country Doctor Buys a Car
essay/article
Folder 33: Deep South (Saturday Review)
Folder 34: The Defense of Freedom
essay/article
Folder 35: Degrees to Wives
essay/article
Folder 36: Dexter Fellows Rides Again
essay/article
Folder 37: Dirge for the Drummer
essay/article
Folder 38: Distinction with a Difference
essay/article
Folder 39: Don’t Call Me For Bad News
Box 9
Folder 1: Editors and Other Social Misfits
essay/article
Folder 2: Eliauh Elath
essay/article
Folder 3: Engagement at Calais- Old Style
Folder 4: Jacob Epstein
essay/article
Folder 5: Europe and You
essay/article
Folder 6: Extreme Unction and a Boiled Chicken
essay/article
Folder 7: Farmers of the South, Midwest Urged to Unite…
essay/article
Folder 8: Fireside Chat in the Persian Gulf
essay/article
Folder 9: Firm Is Their Freedom
essay/article
Folder 10: Fishing in Rampur
essay/article
Folder 11: Foreign Trade Policy
essay/article
Folder 12: Forth of July in Hiroshima
essay/article
Folder 13: Fragments of a Paris Diary
essay/article
Folder 14: From an America’s Notebook
essay/article
Folder 15: From Here to Oblivion
essay/article
Folder 16: From My Notebooks
essay/article
Folder 17: A Game for the kiddies
essay/article
Folder 18: Gentleman from Alabama (Lister Hill)
essay/article
Folder 19: Gentlemen, These Are the Facts
essay/article
Folder 20: Germany, WW II, Persecution of the Jews
essay/article
Folder 21: The Gift of Understanding
essay/article
Folder 22: Goddesses – Or Old Bird Dogs?
essay/article
Folder 23: Good Husbands Make Unhappy Wives
essay/article
Folder 24: The Good Old Days
essay/article
Folder 25: The Grave at Henri Chapelle
essay/article
Folder 26: The Great Conspiracy Against the U.S.
essay/article
Folder 27: The Great Turning Point
essay/article
Folder 28: Green Pastures for “Brad”
essay/article
Folder 29: Harrison Rex
essay/article
Folder 30: The Haunted Turkey
essay/article
Folder 31: He Ain’t No Gentleman; He’s an Editor
essay/article
Folder 32: High Fever
essay/article
Folder 33: History out of a Cantaloupe
essay/article
Folder 34: Household Hints for Hoarders
essay/article
Folder 35: How can Palestine’s Jews Help
essay/article
Folder 36: How the South feels About the Race Problem
essay/article
Folder 37: How to Eat Your Cake and Have a Bellyache Too
essay/article
Folder 38: How to Make the Same Mistake Twice
essay/article
Folder 39: How to Woo and Win a Strong Woman
essay/article
Box 10
Folder 1: I Am an Enemy of Society
essay/article
Folder 2: I Hear Australians Singing
essay/article
Folder 3: The Idea of the Soldier
essay/article
Folder 4: Illiterate, Insane, and Invincible
essay/article
Folder 5: I’m a Literacy Sharecropper
essay/article
Folder 6: I’m Bringing Up My Daughter to Live Alone
essay/article
Folder 7: I’m One of the Warner Brothers
essay/article
Folder 8: In Defense of the Questionnaire
essay/article
Folder 9: Integration Order of the Federal Court
essay/article
Folder 10: Inventory of America
essay/article
Folder 11: Isaiah Wilson Talks to the Lord
essay/article
Folder 12: Isolation
essay/article
Folder 13: Isolation: The Dode
essay/article
Folder 14. It’s Enterprise But Is It Free?
essay/article
Folder 15: I’ve Been Reading Hansend
essay/article
Folder 16: I’ve Kept My Name
essay/article
Folder 17: The Junior Senator from Alabama (Lister Hill)
essay/article
Folder 18: Lace Cakes and Quill
essay/article
Folder 19: Lessons from Sales
essay/article
Folder 20: Literary Stereoscope
essay/article
Folder 21: Lots of Debts But No Money Troubles
essay/article
Folder 22: Love Laughs at Longitude
essay/article
Folder 23: Ma Was Laid Out Beautiful
essay/article
Folder 24: The Maharajah’s band Played Dixie
essay/article
Folder 25: Man Against Kingdom
essay/article
Folder 26: Marriage – Our Monumental Failure
essay/article
Folder 27: About the Marshall Plan and France
essay/article
Folder 28: Maturity, Stay Away From My Door
essay/article
Folder 29: Matthew Fontaine Maury
essay/article
Folder 30: Julian Meade: An Appreciation
essay/article
Folder 31: A Meeting of St. James’s Vestry
essay/article
Folder 32: A Might Fine Woman
essay/article
Folder 33: Mr. Hoover and Isolationism
essay/article
Folder 34: Mr. Speaker (Sam Rayburn)
essay/article
Folder 35: Mistuh Royce
essay/article
Folder 36: Mom is a Jerk
essay/article
Folder 37: My Dear Elsiveta Andrievna
essay/article
Folder 38: Natchez Was a Lady
essay/article
Folder 39: Negro Advances On the Economic Front
essay/article
Folder 40: Negro Cabins/ An Old Home
essay/article
Folder 41: Neutrality
essay/article
Folder 42: New Orleans
essay/article
Folder 43: New York
essay/article
Folder 44: Nothing To Do
essay/article
Box 11
Folder 1: Old Depletion Allowance
essay/article
Folder 2: Old Kentucky in Naples
essay/article
Folder 3: The Old South
essay/article
Folder 4: On Being Mr. Cohn
essay/article
Folder 5: On Combining Business and Pleasure
essay/article
Folder 6: Open Confusion Openly Arrived At
essay/article
Folder 7: Our Congressmen
essay/article
Folder 8: Part Merlin, Part Mitsui
essay/article
Folder 9: Penthouse of Donald Sanford Middleton
essay/article
Folder 10: Playtoy of the Rich
essay/article
Folder 12: The Pragmatic Penman, or, How to Write a Book
essay/article
Folder 13: Proteins for Bromfield
essay/article
Folder 14: The Rare, the Rather Awful Visit of Uncle Sam
essay/article
Folder 15: Reflections of Monopoly
essay/article
Folder 16: Reverend Clem Williamson
essay/article
Folder 17: Revolution of the Society Page
essay/article
Folder 18: The Road Not Taken
essay/article
Folder 19: Carlos P. Romule…Philippine Dynamo in Amer.
essay/article
Folder 20: The Sage of Buck Longhorne
essay/article
Folder 21: Sex Is On Its Way Out
essay/article
Folder 22: Sex: The All-American Obsession
essay/article
Folder 23: Share-Cropping in the Delta
essay/article
Folder 24: She Raised Her Husband’s Salary
essay/article
Folder 25: She’s an Independent Woman
essay/article
Folder 26: A Short Story
essay/article
Folder 27: Should Flying Men Think?
essay/article
Folder 28: Should Ladies Be Gentlemen?
essay/article
Folder 29: Sing No Blues For Memphis
essay/article
Folder 30: Social Help for Our Diplomats
essay/article
Folder 31: The Society Column
essay/article
Folder 32: The South, Miscellaneous Happenings About…
essay/article
Folder 33: Abe Spiegel
essay/article
Folder 34: Straight to Heaven
essay/article
Folder 35: Styles of a Nation Glorying in Victory
essay/article
Folder 36: The Sun Never Sets on Coca-Cola
essay/article
Box 12
Folder 1: Take Two Thousand Cucumbers
essay/article
Folder 2: Tariffs and Stockpiling
essay/article
Folder 3: They Call It Entertainment
essay/article
Folder 4: They Want the Entr饠Before the Hors D’ Ouevre
essay/article
Folder 5: This Is America
essay/article
Folder 6: Those Fellows in Washington
essay/article
Folder 7: Timothy
essay/article
Folder 8: Tissues of Southern Culture
essay/article
Folder 9: Topics About American Men and Women
essay/article
Folder 10: Town Among Plantations
essay/article
Folder 11: Travel Broadens a Man – Or Does It?
essay/article
Folder 12: Trial and Error
essay/article
Folder 13: The Trials and Tribulations of a Congressman
essay/article
Folder 14: The United States Embassy in London
essay/article
Folder 15: Vanishing Mules and Men
essay/article
Folder 16: Warsaw in Poland is a Thousand Miles Away
essay/article
Folder 17: Washday in Washington
essay/article
Folder 18: Washington Social Life
essay/article
Folder 19: Washington the Blest
essay/article
Folder 20: We Jave Asserted a Great Principal
essay/article
Folder 21: Chaim Weizmann: Zionist Statesman
essay/article
Folder 22: We’re Always Going to the Dogs
essay/article
Folder 23: What Can the Jew Do?
essay/article
Folder 24: What Did We Get Out of the World War?
essay/article
Folder 25: What Makes Other People Boring?
essay/article
Folder 26: What Are We Fighting For, Ahem?
essay/article
Folder 27: What Women’s Magazine D’Ya Read?
essay/article
Folder 28: White Folks Are Easy to Please
essay/article
Folder 29: White Shadow Over Dixie: Too Much Cotton
essay/article
Folder 30: Who Will Do the Dirty Work
essay/article
Folder 31: Why the South is More…to fight Hitler
essay/article
Folder 32: The Wild Missouri
essay/article
Folder 33: World Affairs ( folder 1 )
essay/article
Folder 34: World Affairs ( folder 2 )
essay/article
Folder 35: The World’s Most Famous Address
essay/article
Folder 36: You Can’t Eat Democracy
essay/article
Folder 37: You Meet the Most Interesting People in Wash.
essay/article
Folder 38: You, Too, Can Be A Lout
essay/article
Box 13
Folder 1: “Birth of a Colossus”
carbon typescript
Folder 2: “The Horseless Carriage”, “In the Beginning”
TMs
Folder 3: Combustion on Wheels: chapters 1-3
TMs
Folder 4: Combustion on Wheels: chapters 7-8
TMs
Folder 5: Combustion on Wheels: chapter 9
TMs
Folder 6: Combustion on Wheels
Galleys
Folder 7: Combustion on Wheels
Clippings
Folder 8: Combustion on Wheels
Galleys
Folder 9: Combustion on Wheels: Misc.
TMs
Folder 19: Love in America
TMs
Folder 10: Love In America
TMs
Folder 11: Love In America
TMs
Folder 12: Love In America
TMs
Box 14
Folder 1: Love In America
TMs
Folder 2: Love In America
TMs
Folder 3: Love In America
TMs
Folder 4: Love In America
TMs
Folder 5: Love In America
TMs
Folder 6: Love In America
Dups, unused pages
Folder 7: Love In America
TMs, carbons
Folder 8: Love In America
TMs, carbons
Folder 9: Love In America
TMs, carbons
Folder 10: Love In America
TMs, carbons
Box 15
Folder 1: Love In America
TMs
Folder 2: Love In America
TMs
Folder 3: New Orleans
TMs
Folder 4: Life and Times of King Cotton
TMs
Folder 5: Life and Times of King Cotton
TMs
Folder 6: Life and Times of King Cotton
TMs
Folder 7: Life and Times of King Cotton
TMs
Folder 8: Life and Times of King Cotton
TMs
Folder 9: Life and Times of King Cotton
TMs
Folder 10: Life and Times of King Cotton
Galley/TMs
Folder 11: Life and Times of King Cotton
Galley
Folder 12: Life and Times of King Cotton
Galley
Folder 13: Life and Times of King Cotton
Galley
Folder 14: Life and Times of King Cotton
Galley
Box 16
Folder 1: Life and Times of King Cotton
TMs/Galley
Folder 2: Life and Times of King Cotton
TMs/Galley
Folder 3: The Romantic Troublemaker – An Informal Hist…
TMs
Folder 4: The Romantic Troublemaker…
TMs
Folder 5: The Romantic Troublemaker…
TMs
Folder 6: The Romantic Troublemaker…
TMs
Folder 7: Cotton Manuscript
TMs
Folder 8: Cotton Manuscript
TMs
Box 17
Folder 1: Where Was I Born and Raised
Galley
Folder 2: Information about General Covell
Folder 3: Misc.
TMs
Folder 4: Misc.
TMs
Folder 5: Misc.
TMs
Folder 6: Misc.
TMs
Folder 7: Misc.
TMs
Folder 8: Misc.
TMs
Box 18
Atlantic Monthly Nov. 1937
Vol.160, No. 5
Atlantic Monthly July 1938
Vol. 162, No. 1
Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1930
Vol. 163, No. 2
2 copies
Atlantic Monthly Dec. 1939
Vol. 164, No. 6
Atlantic Monthly March 1940
Vol. 165, No. 3
Atlantic Monthly April 1940
Vol. 165, No. 4
Atlantic Monthly May 1940
Vol. 165, No. 5
Atlantic Monthly Oct. 1940
Vol. 166, No. 4
Atlantic Monthly March 1941
Vol. 167, No. 3
Box 19
Atlantic Monthly April 1941
Vol. 167, No. 4
Atlantic Monthly April 1942
Vol. 169, No. 4
Atlantic Monthly Oct. 1942
Vol. 170, No. 4
Atlantic Monthly Feb. 1943
Vol. 171, No. 2
Atlantic Monthly April 1943
Vol. 171, No. 4
Atlantic Monthly Jan 1944
Vol. 173, No. 1
Atlantic Monthly May 1944
Vol. 173, No. 5
Atlantic Monthly June 1944
Vol. 173, No. 5
2 copies
Atlantic Monthly Nov. 1944
Vol. 174, No. 5
2 copies
Atlantic Monthly April 1945
Vol. 175, No. 4
2 copies
Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1945
Vol. 176, No. 2
Box 20
Atlantic Monthly May 1946
Vol. 177, No. 5
Atlantic Monthly June 1946
Vol. 177, No. 6
Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1946
Vol. 178, No. 2
Atlantic Monthly March 1947
Vol. 179, No. 3
2 copies
Atlantic Monthly May 1947
Vol. 179, No. 5
Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1947
Vol. 180, No. 2
Atlantic Monthly April 1948
Vol. 181, No. 4
Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1948
Vol. 182, No. 2
Atlantic Monthly Jan. 1949
Vol. 183, No. 1
Atlantic Monthly May 1949
Vol. 183, No. 5
Atlantic Monthly April 1950
Vol. 185, No. 4
Atlantic Monthly Sept. 1951
Vol. 188, No. 3
2 copies
Atlantic Monthly Dec. 1951
Vol. 188, No. 6
2 copies
Atlantic Monthly Jan. 1952
Vol. 189, No. 2
Atlantic Monthly June 1959
Vol. 203, No. 6
Box 21
Folder 1: Combustion on Wheels
TMs
Folder 2: Combustion on Wheels
TMs
Folder 3: Combustion on Wheels
TMs
Folder 4: Combustion on Wheels
TMs
Folder 5: Reconstruction in the South
TMs
Folder 6: Reconstruction in the South
TMs
Folder 7: This Is the Story
notes
Folder 8: Photographs (includes Epstein)
Folder 9: Cassette Tape, Stanley Sherman interviews Leon Koury 00-77
Atlantic Monthly typescripts and proofs of articles written by Cohn, 1940’s,
50′
Folder 10: More AM typescripts and proofs 00-77
Folder 11: More AM typescripts and proofs 00-77