Descriptive Summary
	Creator:	Brubaker, Howard, 1882-
	Title:	The Howard Brubaker Papers
	Dates:	1907-1957
	Abstract:	Howard Brubaker was an editor (Success and Liberator) and a contributor to many other periodicals from 1918 through the 1950's, including: Collier's, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Saturday Evening Post. Many of his contributions were political in nature and reflected his, at times, left-of-center point of view. The collection includes his manuscripts and copies of journals to which he contributed. Brubaker died in 1957.
	Quantity:	18 linear feet (12 boxes)
	Call Phrase:	The Howard Brubaker Papers

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Historical/Biographical Note:

Howard Brubaker was an editor of Success and Liberator and a contributor to Collier's Weekly, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and many other magazines. He published over 100 short stories and a number of non-fiction pieces on contemporary affairs, especially national politics. He is best known for "Of All Things", a by-liner column that ran weekly in the New Yorker for over twenty-five years. This column was composed of six or eight two sentence paragraphs that offered humorous and satirical comments on contemporary happenings and personages. Many of these brief paragraphs were reprinted in newspapers across the country.

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Scope and Content Note

The Howard Brubaker Papers are a part of the Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing nearly 200,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel.

The papers consist of typescript copies of short stories, press clippings, and correspondence from family, various leftist and liberal organizations, literary agents, editors, publishers and fans.

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series I consists of Brubaker's original short story and newspaper column manuscripts, rough drafts, and story and column ideas and worksheets.

Series II consists of magazines, newspapers, and periodicals in which Brubaker's stories, paragraphs, and bon mots appeared in print.

Series III consists of Brubaker's personal and literary correspondence.

Series IV consists of Brubaker's financial and tax statements.

Series V consists of unprocessed newspaper clippings, mostly clipped by the Roemike clipping service, of Brubaker's appearances in newspapers across the country.

Series VI consists of a single box of oversized materials.

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Arrangement
	Folders are generally arranged alphabetically by subject.
	The files are grouped into six series.

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Related Material at the Fales Library and Special Collections

The Geoffrey T. Hellman Papers; Hellman was another frequent contributor to the New Yorker during the same period.

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Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers. Appointments are necessary for the use of manuscript and archival materials.

Use Restrictions

The collection is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of Fales Library and Special Collections. For more information, contact
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012Phone: (212) 998-2596
Fax: (212) 995-3835
Email: fales.library@nyu.edu

URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm

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Access Points
	Subject Names:
		Benton, William, 1900-1973.
		Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977.
		Brubaker, Howard, 1882-
		McMahon, Brien, 1903-1952.
		Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965
		Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951.
	Subject Organizations:
		American cookery.
		Collier's weekly.
		Country gentleman (Albany, N.Y. : 1898)
		Harper's Monthly.
		Liberator (New York, N.Y. : 1918).
		New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
		New republic (New York, N.Y.).
		PM (New York, N.Y. : Daily ed.)
		Success.
		The American Magazine.
	Subject Topics:
		Cookery--Periodicals.
		Food writing.
		Food--Periodicals.
		Journalists--Biography.
		Journalists--Correspondence.
		Neutrality.
		New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
		Political satire, American.
		Press and politics.
		Socialists--United States.
		United States--Politics and government--1900-1945--Periodicals.
		United States--Politics and government--1919-1933
		United States--Politics and government--1923-1929
	Subject Places:
		New York (State)--New York.
	Document Types:
		Clippings.
		Correspondence.
		Diaries.
		Magazines (periodicals).
		Manuscripts for publication.
		Photographs.

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Administrative Information

Provenance

The Howard Brubaker Papers are comprised of two distinct collections of Brubaker material, one of which was donated directly to the Fales Library and the other, which was transfered to the Fales Library from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in 1993. This collection was donated to the Franklin D. Roosevelt library by Mrs. Howard Brubaker on August 14, 1974. The two collections have been interfiled.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); The Howard Brubaker Papers; MSS 53; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections , New York University Libraries.

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Container List

[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]

Series I: Original manuscripts and drafts
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	1	"Appointments and Disappointments"	undated
1	2	"April! April!"	undated
1	3	"Aunt Mary, Preferred"	undated
1	4	"A Bachelor Saga"	undated
1	5	"A Bad Actor"	undated
1	6	"The Ballyhoover"	undated
1	7	"Barbarous Barbara"	undated
1	8	"The Battle of Frogtown Harbor"	undated
1	9	"The Battle of 1928"	1928
1	10	"A Bird of Passage"	undated
1	11	"Boy-About-Town"	undated
1	12	"Boy Finance"	undated
1	13	"The Boy of Destiny"	undated
1	14	"Boy Power"	undated
1	15	"The Boy Spout"	undated
1	16	"Bud Marries a Drab"	undated
1	17	"Cabbages and Queens"	undated
1	18	"The Chaimberlain Method"	undated
1	19	"Class Conscious Karen"	undated
1	20	"Clay Feet"	undated
1	21	"The Comic Stripling"	undated
1	22	"Con Game"	undated
1	23	"The Conquering Connie Comes"	undated
1	24	"Constant Reader"	undated
1	25	"The Country Preacher" (miscellaneous drafts)	undated
1	26	"The Country Preacher (The Run-Aways)"	undated
1	27	"The Cruise of the Cleopatra"	undated
1	28	"The Cruise of the Fearless Four"	undated
1	29	"Daguerreos of Memory (Experiments in Falsehood)" (Charles Herbert Bass)	undated
1	30	"Daredevil Dayton"	undated
1	31	"Daughter Knows Best"	undated
1	32	"Dawn Family - 100,000 B.C. (Little Kim - Cave Child Prodigy)"	undated
1	33	"Dear Dead Days"	undated
1	34	"Decline and Fall"	undated
1	35	"The Double Doublecross"	undated
1	36	"The Dream of a Constant Reader"	undated
1	37	"Enemy Wanted"	undated
1	38	"The Evils of Intemperance"	undated
1	39	"Fairy Way and Other Child's Verses by Charles Herbert Bass"	undated
1	40	"Fast and Loose"	undated
1	41	"Flickering Shadows"	undated
1	42	"A Fugitive From Injustice"	undated
1	43	"Gas"	undated
1	44	"The G-Boy"	undated
1	45	"Generally Speaking: A Thirty-Minute Program by Lee A. Cavalier"	undated
1	46	"Gold Is Where You Find It"	undated
1	47	"The Gold-Digger Twins"	undated
1	48	"The Golden Haze"	undated
1	49	"Goodbye To All That"	undated
1	50	"A Grandpa Story for David on his Sixth Birthday"	undated
1	51	"Greeks Bearing Gifts"	undated
1	52	"Guest Artist"	undated
1	53	"Hand Made"	undated
1	54	"A Hank Town Comedy"	undated
1	55	"He Knew His Onions"	undated
1	56	"Helpful Herman"	undated
1	57	"His Good Name"	undated
1	58	"The Holy War"	undated
1	59	"Hope's Diamond"	undated
1	60	"Horizontal Prophets"	undated
1	61	"Hot Numbers"	undated
1	62	"The House of Livingstone"	undated
1	63	"How It All Began"	undated
1	64	"Including Lola"	undated
1	65	"Indirect Action"	undated
1	66	"Jerry-Go-Round"	undated
1	67	"A Journey into Journalism"	undated
1	68	"Junior Partners"	undated
1	69	"Just a Big, Happy Family"	undated
1	70	"Laughing With the News"	undated
1	71	"Lead Pencil Profits"	undated
1	72	"Life is Just a Bowl of Raspberries"	undated
1	73	"The Lion Tamers"	undated
1	74	"Listen, Lester!"	undated
1	75	"Little Big Sisters"	undated
1	76	"Little Bright Eyes"	undated
1	77	"Little Friends of All the Arts"	undated
1	78	"Little Junior Monologues and Other Rhymed Child-Whimseys" (Charles Herbert Bass)	undated
1	79	"Local Girl Makes Good"	undated
1	80	"The Malady Lingers On"	undated
1	81	"The Man Next Door"	undated
1	82	"The Man Who Hated Baseball"	undated
1	83	"The Man Without a Country Club"	undated
1	84	"Maizie Ought to Know"	undated
1	85	"A Midsummer Nightmare"	undated
1	86	"The Milk Pitcher"	undated
1	87	"Mixed Doubles"	undated
1	88	"Much Ado About Nutty"	undated
1	89	"Neighbor Trouble"	undated
1	90	"A Needle in a Haystack"	undated
1	91	"Neighbor Union"	undated
1	92	"New Occasions"	undated
1	93	"The Official Lyre"	undated
1	94	"One Pinned on Jim Smiley"	undated
1	95	"Opened by Mistake"	undated
1	96	"Operation Sister"	undated
1	97	"Over the Bounding Main"	undated
1	98	"The Parable of the Asters"	undated
1	99	"Party Lines"	undated
1	100	"Pen in Hand"	undated
1	101	"Poems" (Charles Herbert Bass)	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	1	"Politcal Stories According to 'Elmer'" by Felix Ray (pseud.)	undated
2	2	"The Power of the Press"	undated
2	3	"A Problem Man"	undated
2	4	"The Professor Looks at Barbara"	undated
2	5	"Progress Toward Peace"	undated
2	6	"Rainbows"	undated
2	7	"Ranny and the Higher Life"	undated
2	8	"Rough Company"	undated
2	9	"A Round Trip to Crime"	undated
2	10	"Ruby Common"	undated
2	11	"Ruby Crosses the Rubicon"	undated
2	12	"A Rugged Individual"	undated
2	13	"Salvage"	undated
2	14	"Second Fiddle"	undated
2	15	"A Short Wife and a Gay One"	undated
2	16	"Silent Sally"	undated
2	17	"Silver Lining"	undated
2	18	"Soiled Wings"	undated
2	19	"Sparta"	undated
2	20	"The Spirit of Thirty-Six"	undated
2	21	"Spring Practice"	undated
2	22	"Springtime for Herbert"	undated
2	23	"Stardust"	undated
2	24	"Stick-in-the-Mud"	undated
2	25	"Surprise in the "Ead'nin'"	undated
2	26	"Sweet Spirits of Arcadia" (tentative title)	undated
2	27	"Take It To Tink"	undated
2	28	"A Tame Hero"	undated
2	29	"A Tangled Web"	undated
2	30	"A Tank Town Drama"	undated
2	31	"Think Tank Town"	undated
2	32	"Thoughts on Pedestrians"	undated
2	33	"Three Hardboiled Eggs"	undated
2	34	"Tight Rope"	undated
2	35	"Tinkering With Tink"	undated
2	36	"To the Aid of the Party"	undated
2	37	"Trying It On the Dog"	undated
2	38	"Two Birds"	undated
2	39	"Uncivil Government"	undated
2	40	"Unfinished Business"	undated
2	41	"Unfinished Jew Story (The Jews Are Like That)"	undated
2	42	"The Unmarried Miss Brazelton"	undated
2	43	"Unprepared As I Am Tonight..."	undated
2	44	"Votes For Babies"	undated
2	45	"The Wagon and the Star"	undated
2	46	"The Way of the Reformer"	undated
2	47	"The World Conqueror"	undated
2	48	"The Writing on the Wallpaper"	undated
2	49	"Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Future"	undated
2	50	"Young Man River"	undated
2	51	"Youth Ache"	undated
2	52	Miscellaneous Drafts - Prose (Charles Herbert Bass)	undated
2	53	Miscellaneous Drafts	undated
2	54	Miscellaneous Drafts	undated
2	55	Typescripts, Originals and Notes for Brubaker's columns	undated
2	56	Typescripts, Originals and Notes for Brukeker's columns	undated
2	57	Photocopies of Newspaper Clippings of "Brubaker Says!"	undated
2	58	Photocopies of Miscellaneous Clippings	undated
2	59	Miscellaneous Story Ideas	undated
2	60	Miscellaneous Photos and Cartoons	undated

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Series II: Magazines, Newspapers and Miscellaneous Periodicals
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1		American Cookery / Boston Cooking School Magazine (incomplete run from 1900-1932)	1900-1932
1		Year Book for the Dutch Treat Club, MCMXXIII (1923)	1923
1		The Players (membership book), 1914	1914
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	1	Liberator, August, 1918	1918
2	2	Liberator, October, 1918	1918
2	3	Liberator, January, 1919	1919
2	4	Liberator, February, 1919	1919
2	5	Liberator, May, 1919	1919
2	6	Liberator, August, 1919	1919
2	7	Liberator, September, 1919	1919
2	8	Liberator, December, 1919	1919
2	9	Liberator, February, 1920	1920
2	10	Liberator, March, 1920	1920
2	11	Liberator, April, 1920	1920
2	12	Liberator, July, 1920	1920
2	13	Liberator, September, 1920	1920
2	14	Liberator, October, 1920	1920
2	15	Liberator, November, 1920	1920
2	16	Liberator, December, 1920	1920
2	17	Liberator, January, 1921	1921
2	18	Liberator, February, 1921	1921
2	19	Liberator, March, 1921	1921
2	20	Liberator, April, 1921	1921
2	21	Liberator, May, 1921	1921
2	22	Liberator, June, 1921	1921
2	23	Liberator, July, 1921	1921
2	24	Liberator, August, 1921	1921
2	25	Liberator, September, 1921	1921
2	26	Liberator, October, 1921	1921
2	27	Liberator, November, 1921	1921
2	28	Liberator, December, 1921	1921
2	29	Liberator, January, 1922	1922
2	30	Liberator, February, 1922	1922
2	31	Liberator, March, 1922	1922
2	32	Liberator, April, 1922	1922
2	33	Liberator, May, 1922	1922
2	34	Liberator, June, 1922	1922
2	35	Liberator, July, 1922	1922
2	36	Liberator, August, 1922	1922
2	37	Liberator, September, 1922	1922
2	38	Clipping from The New-England Weekly Journal; Apr. 8, 1728	undated
2	39	The Tiger (Warsaw IN, Warsaw High School, Yearbook), 1917	1917
2	40	War - What For, 1932	1932
2	41	Good Morning; Jan. 1, Jan. 15, Feb. 1, Mar. 1-15, Apr. 1, May 1-15, Jun. 15 - Jul. 1	undated
2	42	Everybody's; Mar., 1926, Aug. 1926	1926
2	43	The Masses, March, 1917	1917
2	44	Correct Eating, January, 1925	1925
2	45	Nature Magazine, January, 1925	1925
2	46	College Humor; Nov. 1936, Dec. 1936, Jul. 1937, Aug. 1937, Dec. 1937	1936-1937
2	47	Life, July, 1934	1934
2	48	Life, October, 1934	1934
2	49	Life, November, 1934	1934
2	50	Life, December, 1934	1934
2	51	Life, January, 1935	1935
2	52	Life, February, 1935	1935
2	53	Life, April, 1935	1935
2	54	Life, May, 1935	1935
2	55	Life, June, 1935	1935
2	56	Life, July, 1935	1935
2	57	Life, August, 1935	1935
2	58	Life, October, 1935	1935
2	59	Life, January, 1936	1936
2	60	Life, May, 1936	1936
2	61	Life; Aug. 1936, Sept. 1936	1936
2	62	Life, October, 1936	1936
2	63	Life, November, 1936	1936
2	64	Redbook, January, 1925	1925
2	65	Redbook, February, 1925	1925
2	66	Redbook, March, 1925	1925
2	67	Gourmet, March, 1941	1941
2	68	Gourmet, December, 1941	1941
2	69	Gourmet, April, 1942	1942
2	70	Gourmet, July, 1942	1942
2	71	Gourmet, August, 1942	1942
2	72	Gourmet, October, 1942	1942
2	73	Gourmet, May, 1949	1949
2	74	Good Housekeeping, March, 1921	1921
2	75	Women's City Club of New York Quarterly, June, 1930	1930
2	76	Women's City Club of New York Quarterly, October, 1930	1930
2	77	Liberty, December 21, 1940	1940
2	78	The Gregg Writer; Sept. 1940, Oct. 1940, Nov. 1940, Dec. 1940	1940
2	79	The New Yorker, February 16, 1957	1957
2	80	The Epicure, Spring & Summer 1949	1949
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3		Harper's Monthly Magazine: February, 1914 March, 1914 April, 1914 July, 1914 September, 1914 October, 1914 November, 1914 December, 1914 July, 1915 August, 1915 September, 1915 October, 1915 November, 1915 July, 1916 August, 1916 September, 1916 November, 1916 January, 1918 March, 1919 July, 1920 April, 1921 May, 1921	1914-1921
3		The American Magazine: March, 1931 February, 1932 August, 1932 March, 1933 April, 1934 June, 1934 November, 1934 February, 1935 May, 1935 November, 1935 May, 1936 May, 1937 September, 1937 May, 1938	1931-1938
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4		Country Gentleman: December 22, 1917 July 18, 1925 August 15, 1925 September, 1925 December, 1925 May, 1926 July, 1926 October, 1926 January, 1927 April, 1927 March, 1928 February, 1929 June, 1929 October, 1929 March, 1930 August, 1930 April, 1931 August, 1932 March, 1934 September, 1934 October, 1935	1917-1935
4		PM: June 14, 1940 June 18, 1940 June 19, 1940 June 20, 1940 June 23, 1940 June 24, 1940 June 25, 1940 June 26, 1940 June 27, 1940 June 28, 1940 June 30, 1940 July 1, 1940 July 2, 1940 July 3, 1940 July 4, 1940 July 5, 1940 July 7, 1940 July 8, 1940 July 9, 1940 July 10, 1940 July 11, 1940 July 12, 1940 July 14, 1940 July 15, 1940 July 16, 1940 July 17, 1940 July 18, 1940 July 19, 1940 July 21, 1940 July 22, 1940 July 23, 1940 July 24, 1940 July 31, 1940 August 16, 1940 September 11, 1940	1940
4		The Saturday Evening Post: August 20, 1921 February 2, 1924	1921-1924
4		Life: August 29, 1938	1938
4		Stage: April, 1937 November, 1937	1937
4		Woman's Home Companion: April, 1925	1925
4		The American Home: September, 1960	1960
4		Collier's: March 30, 1918 June 28, 1919 October 16, 1920 March 26, 1921 May 21, 1921 June 7, 1930	1918-1930
4		Delineator: September, 1930	1930