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Box 1
- Prothalamium. Complete manuscript, in pencil, on the back of pages torn from Henry Holt's Gallows Grange (Tauchnitz, 1933).
- The World is Round. One manuscript page, in pencil, on title page torn from Philip McDonald's The Link: A Detective Story (London: Crime Club, n.d.), with typed note from GS.
- Paris, France. One manuscript page, in pencil.
- Mrs. Reynolds. One manuscript page, in pencil, dated February 1941.
- Bibliography of Gertrude Stein. Robert Haas. 22 typescript pages with manuscript corrections by GS.
- "Bibliography Questions." Robert Haas. Three pages of questions with manuscript responses by GS, dated February 1939.
- Ida. One manuscript page, in pencil, on page torn from Desmond's Daughter (1937).
- Mailing envelope addressed by GS to Robert Haas in Chicago, with manuscript note by GS.
- Autograph letter signed by GS to publisher James Laughlin, 2 p. [1936].
Box 2
Contains publishing archive for What are Masterpieces? (Los Angeles: Conference Press, 1940).
- Autograph letter signed (2 p.) from GS to publisher Hal Levy, 17 December 1940.
- Typescript for What are Masterpieces? prepared in part by Alice B. Toklas.
- Galley proofs, preliminary setting.
- Galley proofs with GS's alterations (3 leaves).
- Page proofs.
- Partial set of page proofs marked "Stein revised 8/23/40" (42 leaves).
- Typed letter signed by Alice Toklas to William Okie, 6 January 1937.
- Designer Ward Ritchie's sketches and layouts for book (40 leaves).
- Artwork, copy, and preliminary material for advertising (60 leaves).
- Production estimates and costs from Ritchie (20 leaves).
- Manuscript of publisher's agreement on yellow legal pad sheets (4 leaves).
- Ad-Craft printers' estimates (4 leaves).
- Press clippings.
- "Two Books Make a Catalog," Publishers' Weekly, 7 September 1940.
- "Notes on New Books," The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1941.
Box 3
- Conference Press correspondence, 1936-October 1940.
- Correspondence relating to the publication and sale of William Saroyan's Three Times Three and Gertrude Stein's What Are Masterpieces?; as well as general correspondence with prospective authors and customers.
- Includes letters from:
- Tamara Andreeva
- Natalie Bunce
- June Cleveland
- Janet Flanner (typed note,signed)
- Bernard Molohon
- Robert Penn Warren (typed note, signed)
- Jack Woodford
- Rita Young
Box 3a
- Conference Press correspondence, October 1940-1946
- Correspondence relating to publicity and orders for What Are Masterpieces?; miscellaneous correspondence with prospective authors and others.
- Includes correspondence from:
- Peter Gray Wolf
- Robert Bartlett Haas
- Harry Kirby McClintock
Box 4
- "Normal Motor Automatism" by GS and Leon Solomons. In Psychological Review III : 5 (September 1896). Photostatic copy.
- "Cultivated Motor Automatism" by GS. In Psychological Review III, (May 1898). Photocopy.
- Yes is for a Very Young Man. Program for a performance by The Interplayers, San Francisco, c1947. Printed by Adrian Wilson.
- Yes is for a Very Young Man. Pasadena Playhouse program, March 13, 1946. Includes preface by GS and portrait on cover.
- Four Saints in Three Acts. Forty-fourth Streeet Theatre program, 1934 (first performance). Portrait of GS on cover.
- Four Saints in Three Acts. Empire Theatre program, 1934 (second performance).
- Fisk University Festival of Music & Art program. Nashville, Tenn. April 1947. Virgil Thomson bio, mention of Four Saints in Three Acts.
- The Banquet Years: Paris: 1885-1925. Brochure for UCLA Extension program, includes announcement of performance of Four Saints in Three Acts.
- The Mother of Us All. Program for Columbia University production of opera by GS and Virgil Thomson, 1947. Signed by Thomson.
- The Mother of Us All. Program and flyer for UCLA Opera Workshop, 1965. With note about the opera by Robert Haas, laid in.
- The World is Round and How It Happened. Publisher's prospectus, with illustrations by Clement Hurd.
- Mailing label used by Alice B. Toklas, 29 January 1947.
- "Excerpts from Gertrude Stein's Writings". Mimeographed sheets, used for Robert Haas's seminar "The Paris of Picasso and Gertrude Stein." UCLA Extension Summer at Lake Arrowhead, 1964.
- Grolier Club Gertrude Stein centennial tribute, 1974. Exhibition poster, invitation, news release.
- Black Sparrow Press prospectus for A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein, edited by Robert Haas.
- Phoenix Bookshop catalog of GS items.
- Photographs: GS (1), Alice B. Toklas in later life (3), group photo with Gertrude and Leo Stein (1). Photos described in Phoenix catalog, nos. 286, 325-327, 330.
- Los Angeles Daily News advertising broadside, with caricature of GS, May 1935.
- Dust jacket for Four in America.
- Miscellaneous notes.
- Valentine to Sherwood Anderson. Music for voice and piano by GS and William Flanagan.
Box 5
Review clippings:
- Four Saints in Three Acts
- The Geographical History of America
- Narration
- Portraits and Prayers
- Paris France
- Selected Writings, ed. by Carl Van Vechten
- Tender Buttons
- Useful Knowledge
- A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein, ed. by Robert Haas
- Miscellaneous reviews.
Tearsheets:
- "Money" series, by GS. In The Saturday Evening Post, June-August 1936.
- "I Came and Here I Am", by GS. In Cosmopolitan,February 1935.
- "Gertrude, Alas, Alas," by Eliot Paul. In Esquire, July 1946.
- MS list of articles appearing in Vanity Fair.
Box 6
Conference Press purchase orders and correspondence, in accordian file.
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