Manuscript Register
PAPERS OF
THOMAS YOSELOFF
Collection Dates: 1946 and undated
2 ft.
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Posted to Internet: April 2003
Acquisition Note:
Thomas Yoseloff donated these papers to the University of Iowa Libraries
beginning in 1946.
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Biographical Note
Thomas Yoseloff
was born on September 8, 1913, in Sioux City, Iowa, and traveled gradually
eastward, reaching Spirit Lake, Iowa, at the age of seven, Mason City, Iowa,
at the age of twelve, and becoming a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at the
University of Iowa at the age of twenty. In Iowa City he was managing editor
of The Daily Iowan while he pursued his graduate studies. He did
not finish, however, and in April 1935 he resumed his eastward migration before
receiving his advanced degree, leaving with a brace of undergraduate prizes
in journalism and debating.
He wrote articles
for various newspapers, including the New York Times and the Omaha
World Herald, and gathered news for two small Florida dailies, the Fort
Lauderdale Daily News and the Daytona Sun Beach Record. Returning
to New York, he began a career in book publishing, and became president of the
publishing firm of Bernard Ackerman, Inc. He is the co-author of a children's
version of The Merry Adventures of Til Eulenspiegel, and he edited
a symposium entitled Seven Poets in Search of an Answer. He also published
an autobiographical work, The Time of My Life.
In 1954 he acquired The Golden Cockerel Press. He was also founder of Associated University Presses.
Thomas Yoseloff died on December 24, 2007.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of various
drafts of two manuscripts, A Fellow of Infinite Jest and The
Time of My Life. In 2008, an addendum more than doubled the size of this collection. This addendum consists of notebooks of columns and articles written by Yoseloff, mostly for the Daily Iowan, but there are some from unidentified newspapers. Also included are issues of The Pulse (the Mason City High School newspaper); some editions of The Masonian (Mason City High yearbook); two issues of Campus Crax, from Mason City Junior College; other writings by Yoseloff, and miscellaneous other items, including a series of photographs from the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Speakers at the University of Iowa.
Related Materials
Special Collections at Bucknell University has the Thomas Yoseloff Golden Cockerel Press Collection.
See the vertical file for The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Speakers at University Clubs and Organizations
See the vertical file in the Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs for The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Speakers
The 1935 Hawkeye Annual has several photographs of Yoseloff.
Inventory
Box 1
A Fellow of Infinite
Jest (published in 1945)
Correspondence, 1946
Original draft (2 folders)
Printer's copy. Typescript with revisions
(2 folders)
The Time of My Life (published
in 1979)
Typescript with corrections and revisions
First galley proof. In Oversized Box 1
Complete blues and camera copy. In packet on Oversized shelf
2008 Addendum
Series I: Writings
Newspaper articles and columns
These are articles clipped from the newspaper and arranged in scrapbooks presumably assembled by Mr. Yoseloff. They are roughly chronological with some overlap in dates.
Daily Iowan
October 14, 1932-March 12, 1933
May 30, 1933-July 6, 1933
July 1933-August 1933
August 18, 1933-September 22, 1933
September 23, 1933-December 26, 1933
November 28, 1933-February 15, 1934
March 13, 1933-November 23, 1934
May 1 [1934?]-June 30, 1934
July 1, 1934-August 17, 1934
August 18, 1934-October 31, 1934
November 1934-Jaunary 1935
February 1, 1935-April 13, 1935
no year
Fort Lauderdale Daily News
March 1934-June 1934
Box 2
Unidentified newspapers
September 20, 1933-February 28, 1934
June 1933-December 18, 1934
May 1934-May 1935
1933-1935
Typescript articles, both about Grant Wood
"Art is Born in Overalls" and "The Metamorphosis of a Radical"
Letter to the dramatic editor of the New York Times
Novels?
A Confidential Story
The Day the World Ended. Tentative plan for a book
Reviews
Book of the Air Club Reviews
Miscellaneous reviews
Box 3
Series II: Subject files
Campus Crax
Diplomas and certificates
Frivol (The University of Iowa)
Vol. XVI: No.3 (November 1934); Vol. XVI:No.6 (February 1935); and Vol. XVI:No.7 (March 1935)
Iowa Prairie Chronicles in Pictures. Map with images in Map Case 1, drawer 15
Life Magazine. Contains some photographs from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Speakers. In Oversized Box 1
The Masonian
1929, 1930, 1931
Mementos and memorabilia
Miscellaneous newspapers. In Oversized Box 1
Phi Beta Kappa
Photographs
Plaque. Membership plaque for the University of Iowa Presidents' Club
The Pulse (Mason City High School newspaper)
Volumes VI, VIII, IX
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Speakers (see also the photographs for photos of speakers)
