Box 21

• Subject files, General (16 disks)
• Assorted files (6 disks)
• Subject files (29 disks)
• Bleiler's literary works (7 disks)
• Personal files (4 disks)
• Science-Fiction: The Early Years, files (10 disks)
• Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, files (14 disks)
• Guide to Supernatural Fiction (New), files (21 disks)

Box 1

• Correspondence, 1922; 1937-1938
• Correspondence, 1949-1951
• Correspondence, 1952
• Correspondence, 1953
• Correspondence, 1954
• Correspondence, 1955-1969
• Correspondence, 1970-1971
• Correspondence, 1972-1973
• Correspondence, 1974-1975
• Correspondence, 1976
• Correspondence, 1977
• Correspondence, 1978
• Correspondence, 1979
• Correspondence, 1980
• Correspondence, 1981
• Correspondence, January - April 1982
• Correspondence, May - September 1982
• Correspondence, October - December 1982; Undated
• Correspondence, January - February 1983
• Correspondence, March - April 1983
• Correspondence, May - July 1983
• Correspondence, August - October 1983
• Correspondence, November - December 1983; Undated
• Correspondence, January - March 1984
• Correspondence, April - June 1984
• Correspondence, July - September 1984
• Correspondence, October - December 1984
• Correspondence, January - April 1985
• Correspondence, May - September 1985
• Correspondence, October - December 1985; Undated
• Correspondence, January - May 1986

Box 2

• Correspondence, June - September 1986
• Correspondence, October - December 1986; Undated
• Correspondence, January - June 1987
• Correspondence, July - December 1987; Undated
• Correspondence, January - April 1988
• Correspondence, May - December 1988; Undated
• Correspondence, January - June 1989
• Correspondence, July - December 1989
• Correspondence, January - June 1990
• Correspondence, July - December 1990; Undated
• Correspondence, January - May 1991
• Correspondence, June - July 1991
• Correspondence, August - December 1991; Undated
• Correspondence, January - May 1992
• Correspondence, June - July 1992
• Correspondence, August - December 1992; Undated
• Correspondence, January - April 1993
• Correspondence, May - August 1993
• Correspondence, September - December 1993; Undated
• Correspondence, January - June 1994
• Correspondence, July - December 1994; Undated
• Correspondence, January - April 1995
• Correspondence, May - August 1995
• Correspondence, September - December 1995; Undated
• Correspondence, January - May 1996
• Correspondence, June - September 1996
• Correspondence, October - December 1996; Undated
• Correspondence, January - March 1997
• Correspondence, April - August 1997
• Correspondence, September - December 1997; Undated
• Correspondence, January - May 1998
• Correspondence, June - September 1998
• Correspondence, October - December 1998; Undated
• Correspondence, January - March 1999

Box 3

• Correspondence, April - July 1999
• Correspondence, August - December 1999; Undated
• Correspondence, January - March 2000
• Correspondence, May - June 2000
• Correspondence, July - December 2000; Undated
• Correspondence, 2001
• Correspondence, 2002
• Correspondence, 2003
• Correspondence, 2004
• Correspondence, 2005
• Correspondence, January - April 2006
• Correspondence, May - December 2006; Undated
• Correspondence, 2007

Box 4

• Correspondence, 2008-2009
• Correspondence, Undated
• Correspondence and documentation relating to Science Fiction Writers (1982), 1979-1981; Undated

This collection consists of documentation relating to the life and editorial/bibliographical career of Everett Franklin Bleiler (1920-2010), including correspondence, subject files, notebooks, files documenting Bleiler's editorial reviews of works for Dover Publications, and other materials.

All materials dating before 1938 are photocopies of originals.

Series I: Correspondence, includes letters exchanged between Bleiler and such literary luminaries as Jacques Barzun, Anthony Boucher, Jack Chalker, August Derleth, L. Sprague De Camp, Philip Jose Farmer, James Gunn, A. Langley Searles, and Colin Wilson. There are also numerous letters to and from Bleiler's friend Martin Gardner.

Series II: Subject Files, and Series V: Other Materials, both consist of various subject files. The former were alphabetically organized in boxes into distinct subject files at the time of processing, whereas the latter were distributed throughout the collection in no particular arrangement.

Series III: Potential Publications Files, consists of individual reviews by Bleiler of works being considered for publication (or republication) by Dover Publications, for whom Bleiler worked in various capacities from 1955-1978.

Series V: Other Materials, includes, among other items, issues of the notorious pro-Nazi newspaper The Free American and Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, from the German American Bund. It is unknown when, why and how Bleiler acquired these, although we know he had no connection of any kind to the Bund.

Series VII consists of numerous 3 1/2 ' floppy disks, containing files that were created in various versions of Microsoft Word.

(C000015)

Box 18: Index cards for publications dated 1516-1914

Box 19: Index cards for publications dated 1915-1984

Box 20: Index of publications

Box 15

• Chinese language notes, Undated
• Chinese stories, written by Bleiler, Undated
• Guide to Supernatural Literature bibliography, notebooks #1 - #6
• Guide to Supernatural Literature bibliography, notebooks #7 - #12
• Guide to Supernatural Literature bibliography, notebooks #13 - #15 and unnumbered
• Index of pulp authors, Undated [Folder 1 of 2]

Box 16

• Index of pulp authors, Undated [Folder 2 of 2]
• Lists of pulp contents, Undated
• Miscellaneous index for pulps, Undated
• Rodspieller, Hieronymus, Undated
• Assorted indexes, Undated [2 folders]
• Assorted notebooks, Undated [3 folders]

Box 17

• Admission certificate to Harvard for Bleiler, 1938
• "Alice and the Snark" - Proofs, 2002
• Andreae, Johann, various materials, Undated
• Article - "Datchery and the 'Thorn of Anxiety'" by Bleiler, Undated
• Article - "Dime Novels in Science Fiction" by Bleiler, 1990
• Article - "From the Newark Steam Man to Tom Swift" by Bleiler, 1987
• Article - "A Possible Small Breakthrough on the Voynich Manuscript" by Bleiler, 2000
• Article - "The Problem of Bilocational Birth" (Fantasy Commentator), 2001
• Article - "Science-Fiction Collecting and Dealing in the Early, Early Years" by Bleiler, 1994
• Article - "Vincent Starrett vs. Arthur Machen" by Bleiler, Undated
• Articles and essays on The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Undated
• Articles and essays, miscellaneous, A - H (alphabetical by subject), by Bleiler
• Articles and essays, miscellaneous, I - W (alphabetical by subject), by Bleiler
• Articles and essays, partial, by Bleiler, Undated
• Articles for Joshi and Dziemowicz Encyclopedia, Undated
• Article on Frank Reade by Bleiler, Undated
• Article on John Leonard Riddell by Bleiler, Undated
• Book list for Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Undated
• Business cards, Undated
• The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction advertising material, 1978
• Chinese short stories [by Bleiler], Undated
• Convention recollections by Bleiler, Undated
• Fanzines and other fannish publications, 1947; 1971; 1978; 1983-1985; 1989-1990; 1994; 2001; 2004-2008; Undated
• Hale, Lucretia Peabody ["The Queen of the Red Chessmen"], Undated
• Harvard College final grade report for Bleiler, 1942
• Interview with Bleiler, (Fantasy Commentator), 2000
• Interview with Bleiler, by Brian Shivers, 2005
• Interview with Bleiler, Undated
• Interview with Ray Russell, by Bleiler (Fantasy Commentator), 2001
• Introduction to She (Haggard) by Bleiler, Undated
• Introduction to Trends In Modern Science-Fiction by Melvin Korshak, 1949
• Journal entries by Bleiler, 1951-1954
• Lee, Tanith, summary of works, [1984]
• Matthew Phipps Shiel: The Purple Cloud by Giancarlo Binelli (translated by Bleiler), 1993
• Nostradamus [1557 edition], Undated
• Nostradamus [1649 Rouen reset], Undated
• Notes on grammar, Undated
• Photographs of Bleiler, 1978
• Redonda essay by Paul de Fortis, 1991
• Reviews and summaries, A - G, Undated
• Reviews and summaries, H - R, Undated
• Reviews and summaries, S - T, Undated
• Reviews and summaries, V - W, Undated
• "A Revisionist Account of an Episode in the History of the Heliumetic Royal Family" (John Carter story by Bleiler), 1996
• Sales conference report, 1978
• Science fiction - Ideas and motifs, Undated
• Science-Fiction: The Early Years (1990) advertisement, 1990
• Science-Fiction: The Early Years (1990) statement and documentation, 1985
• Science Fiction Readers Survey from NMAH, Undated
• Scribner's memos and prospecti, 1978-1979; Undated
• The Sermon in the Whalemen's Chapel by Martin Gardner, Undated
• SFRA speech by Bleiler, [1984]
• Thang by Martin Gardner (typescript), Undated
• A Treasury of Victorian Detective Stories book jacket, 1979
• Untitled study of fantastic literature - Appendix, circa 1953
• Untitled study of fantastic literature - Author index, A - K, circa 1953
• Untitled study of fantastic literature - Author index, L - Z, circa 1953
• Untitled study of fantastic literature - Introduction circa 1953
• Untitled study of fantastic literature - Title index, A - K, circa 1953
• Untitled study of fantastic literature - Title index, L - Z, circa 1953
• Writings by Bleiler, including dream descriptions, 1934; 1959; 1987-1988; Undated

Box 22

• Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter and The Free American, October 5, 1939 - December 7, 1939
• The Free American and Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, December 14, 1939 - April 11, 1940

Box 10

• 1962-1976
  • A - Aj
  • Ak - Al
  • Am - Ap
  • Ar - Ax
  • B - Bak
  • Bal - Baz
  • Bb - Beh
  • Bei - Ber
  • Bes - Bl
  • Bo
  • Bra - Bri
  • Bro - Bry
  • Buc - Burg
  • Burk - By
  • C - Carr
  • Cars - Cha
  • Che - Clap
  • Clar - Cn
  • Co - Con
  • Coo - Cox
  • Cra - Cu
  • D - Da
  • De - Deh
  • Di - Do
  • Dr - Dy
  • E - Ek
  • El - Ew
  • F - Fe
  • Fi - Fle
  • Fli - Fo
  • Fr - Fre
  • Fri - Fy
  • G - Ge
  • Gh - Gl
  • Gm - Gra
  • Gre - Gy

Box 11

• 1962-1976
  • H- Harm
  • Harn - Haz
  • He
  • Hi - Hl
  • Ho - Hop
  • Hor - Hum
  • Hun - Iz
  • J - Je
  • Jo - Ju
  • K - Kh
  • Ki - Kn
  • Ko - Ky
  • La
  • Le
  • Li - Loc
  • Lod - Ly
  • M - Man
  • Mar - Maz
  • Mc - Mez
  • Mi - Mon
  • Moo - My
  • N - Ne
  • Ni - Ny
  • O
  • P - Pep
  • Per - Pl
  • Po - Pre
  • Pri - Py

Box 12

• 1962-1976
  • Q - Ra
  • Re - Rie
  • Rif - Rol
  • Rom - Ry
  • S - Schi
  • Schm - See
  • Sea -Shn
  • Sho - Si
  • Sk - Sn
  • So- Stej
  • Stel- Str
  • Stu - Sz
  • T - Ti
  • Ti - Ty
  • U - U.S.D.A.
  • U.S. C. - Uv
  • V - Van
  • Var - Vo
  • W - Was
  • Wat - Wey
  • Wha - Willia
  • Willis - Wyz
  • Y - Z
• 1977
  • A - H
  • J - O
  • P - W
• Undated
  • A - Ba
  • Be - By
  • C - Co
  • Cr - D

Box 13: Files, Various Dates

• Undated
  • E - Fi
  • G
  • H - Hi
  • Ho - J
  • K - Le
  • Li - Ma
  • Mc - Mu
  • V - Weg
  • Wei - Z
• 1978-1981; Undated
  • A - C
  • D - G
  • H - L
  • M - Q

Box 14

• Files, 1965-1979; Undated
  • B - W
• Outside Reading Reports
  • 1960-1962
  • 1963-1970
  • 1971-1975; Undated

Box 5

• Acrostics, Undated
• Advertising for Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction, 1978
• "Alice and The Snark" article, 2002
• Archaeology - Africa, 1940; Undated
• Archaeology - Central America, 1946; Undated
• Archaeology - Central America, (Maya), 1940; Undated
• Archaeology - Mohenjo Daro, Undated
• Archaeology- South America, 1941
• Archaeology - South America (Inca), 1946; Undated
• Archaeology - Various notes, Undated
• Articles, 1980-1996; Undated
• Attestupan (The Abyss), by Jan Ekstrom, translation, Undated
• Autobiographical sketch, Undated
• Baker, Frank, 1983; Undated
• Barzun, Jacques, 1978-1980; Undated
• Beale, C. W., 1969-1971; Undated
• Beresford, J. D./Household, Geoffrey, Undated
• Blackwood, Algernon, 1972; Undated
• Bleiler entries in British Fantasy and science fiction Writers Before World War I (Arnold, Edwin, Beresford, John), [1997]
• Brand, Max - Bibliography, Undated
• Bulwer-Lytton, Undated
• Campbell, James L., Sr. - Victorian novels project, Undated
• Carroll, Lewis, 2002; Undated
• Chambers, Robert W., 1914; 1974; Undated
• Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction materials, [1978]
• Children's books, 1974; Undated
• Chinese characters, Undated
• Chinese detective story text, Undated
• Chinese notes, Undated
• Class notes - Arabic and Jewish Philosophy, 1949; Undated
• Class notes - Archaeology - North America, Undated
• Class notes - Chinese Religion, Undated
• Class notes - Classical Religions, Undated
• Class notes - Comparative Religion, 1949-1951; Undated
• Class notes - Cultural History, 1949; Undated
• Class notes - English Literature: Topical Studies and Interperiod Materials, Undated
• Class notes - English Romantic Poetry, 1949; Undated
• Class notes - German Romanticism, Undated
• Class notes - Goethe, 1949; Undated
• Class notes - The Gothic Novel, [1949]
• Class notes - Hellenistic Culture, 1950; Undated
• Class notes - Hinduism, 1950; Undated
• Class notes - Hinduism, Undated
• Class notes - History of Religion, Undated
• Class notes - Methods of English Literature, 1949; Undated
• Class notes - New Testament, 1950; Undated
• Class notes - Psychoanalysis and Religion, Undated
• Class notes - Religion, 1950
• Class notes - Sociology of Religion, 1950
• Class notes - Theories of History, Undated
• Collins, Wilkie, Undated
• Contemporary Authors biography of Bleiler, 1998
• Contracts with Dover, 1966-1978; Undated
• Convention materials, 1977-1984
• Copyright statements, 1962-1979; Undated
• Copyrights, 1948-1950; 1976; 1979
• Count of Monte Cristo vs. Dracula, Undated
• Criticism, Undated

Box 6

• Contracts with Dover, 1966-1978; Undated
• Convention materials, 1977-1984
• Copyright statements, 1962-1979; Undated
• Copyrights, 1948-1950; 1976; 1979
• Count of Monte Cristo vs. Dracula, Undated
• Criticism, Undated
• Detective fiction, Course on, Undated
• Detective stories, 1968; 1972-1973; 1978-1979; Undated
• Detective story notes, Undated
• Detective story notes, including Bleiler's articles on Poe, Undated
• Dime novels, 1868; 1892-1893; 1902; 1907; 1917; Undated
• Dime novels, 1935; 1972-1978; Undated
• Dime novels (old version), Undated
• Direct marketing [publishing] program, Undated
• Donnelly, Ignatius and Atlantis, Undated
• Donovan, Dick, Undated
• Dover Publications company newsletters, Undated
• Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1979; Undated
• Dream descriptions [Bleiler's?], Undated
• Drood, Edwin, Undated
• Eccentric material, 1960-1964
• English literature, early, Undated
• English literature, Victorian plus, Undated
• English literature, Undated
• Essays and reviews by Bleiler, various, Undated
• Ewers, Hanns Heinz, 1916; 1977; Undated
• Fortune, Dion, 1976
• Futrelle, Jacques, 1973; Undated
• Futrelle and Freeman, Undated
• Future wars, Undated
• Fantasy, Undated
• Fantasy classifications, 1946; Undated
• Fate (essay by Bleiler), Undated
• Feval, Paul, Undated
• Freeman, R. Austin, Undated
• Gaboriau, Emile, 1884; 1946; 1961-1962; Undated
• Garland Publishing, 1978-1979; Undated
• Garland Publishing, Undated
• Garland Publishing - catalogs, 1978-1979
• Garland Publishing - contracts, 1978
• Gernsback, Hugo, 1926; 1928; 1940; 1997-1998; Undated
• Ghost stories, Undated
• Gothic and detective novel research sources, notes (Garland Publishing), Undated
• Guide to Supernatural Fiction publishers agreement, 1982
• Guide miscellany, [1945]-1952; Undated
• Hammett, Dashiell, Undated
• Hieroglyphic, Undated
• Hitchcock, Ethan Allen/Hermetic philosophy, 1863; Undated
• Hodgson, William Hope, 1973; Undated
• Hughes, Rhys, 1995; 2002; Undated
• Interviews, Undated
• Introduction to Best, Undated
• Introductions, various, Undated
• James, M. R., Undated
• Japanese chess, Undated
• Judaism, Undated
• Jung, Undated
• Kanji, Undated
• Kantor, MacKinley on Starrett Baird, 2000 (1963)
• Linguistic, Undated
• Loft, W. O. G., 1966-1978; Undated
• Lovecraft, H. P., Undated
• MA thesis on G. H. Schubert (by Bleiler), Undated
• MacDonald, George, [1961]
• Magic, Undated (3 folders)
• Marmaduke Multiply, 1971; 1978; Undated
• Maturin, Charles, Undated
• Meinhold, Wilhelm, Undated
• Meyrink, Gustav, Undated

Box 7

• Miscellaneous - scholarship, Undated
• Miscellaneous - science fiction, 1984; 1990
• Mixed, 1927-1996; Undated
• More, Thomas, Undated
• Morrison, Arthur, Undated
• Multiply, Undated
• Mysticism, European, Undated
• Newark Steam Man, 1868; 1910; 1917; 1987; Undated
• Nicholls, Peter - Encyclopedia of Fantasy, 1979; Undated
• Nostradamus extras, Undated
• Nostradamus - Last useful notes, Undated
• Nostradamus - Miscellany, 1980; Undated
• Nostradamus (nutty), Undated
• Novel summaries, Undated
• Old manuscripts, 1949; Undated
• Old science fiction, Undated
• Orczy, Baroness, Undated
• Outside reading reports, 1977
• Pao-Kunga translation - Chinese detective stories, Undated
• Papers written by Bleiler in college, Undated
• Penny bloods, Undated
• Periodical listings, Undated
• Pilgrim Award/Levin Award, 1984; 1995
• Plagiarism, 1915; 1929
• Plans and projects, Undated
• Poe, Edgar Allan, Undated
• Prest, Thomas Peckett, 1912; 1973; 1978
• Promised Land Productions, 1983-1986; Undated
• Prospectus on reference book on writing systems, Undated
• Prospectus on Writers of Crime Fiction, 1978
• Publishers Weekly interview with Bleiler, 1978
• Pulps, 1933; 1999-2000; Undated
• Reade, Frank, 1978; Undated
• Reference letters, 1981-1982
• Reilly, John - 20th Century Crime and Mystery Writers, 1977-1978; 1984; Undated
• Remembrances of military life by Bleiler, Undated
• Reviews, 1964-1965; 1979-1985; 1998-2000; Undated
• Reviews of Bleiler's works, 1991; 1998-1999; Undated
• Reynolds, George W. M., 1839; 1912; 1973; 1976; Undated
• Riddell, Mrs. J. H., Undated
• Richmond, or Scenes of the Life of a Bow Street Officer (1827), 1973; Undated
• Robillard, Douglas, Undated
• Rousselle, Erwin (papers on Taoism), Undated
• Rymer, James Malcolm, 1972-1973; Undated
• Sacco and Vanzetti, Undated
• Schlobin, Roger C., 1982; Undated
• Schubert, Gotthilf E., Undated
• Science Fiction: The Early Years reviews, 1983-1984; 1991; 1995; 1997
• Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years research, 1933-1997
• Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years research notes, Undated
• Science Fiction and Fiction, Undated
• Science fiction for libraries, Undated
• The Science-Fiction Phenomenon by Bleiler, Undated
• Scoops copy, 1934
• Scribner's - Contracts, 1980; 1982; Undated
• Scribner's - Mystery Story Project, 1979
• Scribner's - Supernatural and Science Fiction, 1975-1983
• Scribner's - Supernatural and Science Fiction, Undated
• Science fiction, early, miscellaneous, Undated
• Science fiction Gernsback, miscellaneous, 1933-1997
• Science fiction Gernsback, miscellaneous, 1997; Undated
• Science fiction Gernsback, miscellaneous, 1949-1961; Undated
• Science fiction writers, Undated

Box 8

• Shasta Publishers materials, 1948; 1954; 1986
• Shasta Publishers, reminiscences, Undated
• Shiel, M. P. - Article by John D. Squires, 1980
• Short stories by Bleiler, Undated
• "Silent Night", Undated
• Smith, Curtis and 20th Century Science Fiction Writers, 1978
• Smithsonian lecture on "The Detective Story" by Bleiler, 1982
• Soundview Books, 1978-1979; Undated
• Steam Man, 1868; 1892
• Stribling, T. S., 1913; 1974-1975; Undated
• Supernatural Fiction - Piracy, 2002
• Supernatural fiction and science fiction, 1912-2003; Undated
• Supernatural Fiction Guide, Undated
• Swedish detective stories, 1978
• This Science-Fiction Phenomenon - Outline for a suggested book, [1950 or 1951]
• Thomson, Basil, Undated
• Thomson, Henry Douglas, Undated
• Tracy, Louis, 2004
• Translations, Undated
• Turpin, Dick, Undated
• Utopias, Undated (2 folders)
• Verne, Jules, Undated

Box 9

• Vickers, Roy, 1953; 1977; Undated
• Victorian detective stories, 1976; Undated
• Victorian fiction, Undated
• Vinson, James - 20th Century Romance and Gothic Writers, 1981
• Wall, Mervyn, 1983
• Washington Star interview with Bleiler, 1975
• Wells, H. G./"The Man Who Could Work Miracles", by Don G. Smith, 2002
• Westphal article - not used, Undated
• "What We Don't Know About The Detective Story", Undated
• Wood, H. F., 1977; Undated
• Wood, Mrs. Henry, Undated
• Wright, S. Fowler, Undated