Scope and Contents
The William F. Buckley, Jr. Papers consist of more than five hundred linear feet of material. Papers relating to the publication of God and Man at Yale, files from Buckley's 1965 campaign for mayor of New York City, and his 1950 "Alumni Day Address" are open for research. All other material is closed to research.
The Mayoralty Campaign, 1965 (boxes 293-326) is composed of material used in or collected for Buckley's campaign for mayor of New York City in 1965. Buckley ran unsuccessfully on the Conservative Party ticket against John Lindsay. There are several boxes of correspondence mainly composed of letters of advice and criticism and letters from campaign contributors. The section also contains news releases, newspapers clippings, and a large number of miscellaneous subject and research files relevant to issues in the campaign.
Boxes 410-414 contain letters and scrapbooks concerning Buckley's God and Man at Yale (New York, Henry Regnery and Co., 1951). In this book, Buckley charged that Yale taught collectivism and Keynesian economics and that the overall atmosphere at Yale encouraged agnosticism. The correspondence consists of approximately 450 letters, largely dated between 1951 and 1954, from the public, and exchanges between Buckley and his publisher. A list of correspondents is included in this register. The files also contain scrapbooks of articles about the book.
Dates
- 1951-2008
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The following collection materials are open without restriction: Mayoralty campaign, 1965 (Part II, Series II, boxes 293-326) and God and Man at Yale (Part II, Series III, boxes 410-414).
Access to the rest of the papers requires the written permission of Christopher T. Buckley during his lifetime, after which access is unrestricted. Send an email to beinecke.library@yale.edu to request information on contacting Mr. Buckley.
Original computer files may not be accessed due to their fragility. Researchers must consult access copies.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by William F. Buckley was transferred to Yale University in 2013. These materials may be used for non-commercial purposes without seeking permission from Yale University as the copyright holder. For other uses of these materials, please contact beinecke.library@yale.edu.
Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Christopher T. Buckley, 2009, 2012, and 2017. Purchased from Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc., 2013.
Extent
682.23 Linear Feet (988 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The unrestricted papers consist of correspondence, news releases, clippings, and subject files from William F. Buckley's 1965 campaign for mayor of New York; and letters and scrapbooks concerning God and Man at Yale and his 1950 "Alumni Day Address."
Biographical / Historical
William F. Buckley, Jr. was born in 1925 and graduated from Yale University in 1950. In 1955 he founded the magazine The National Review. He also wrote a nationally syndicated column and hosted the weekly television show Firing Line from 1966 through 1999. In 1965 Buckley ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative Party candidate for mayor of New York City. From 1969 to 1972 he served on the Advisory Commission on Information of the United States Information Agency. He wrote numerous books including God and Man at Yale, espionage novels, and a trilogy based on his sailing expeditions. Buckley is considered one of the founders of the modern Conservative movement. Buckley died on February 27, 2008, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut.
Custodial History
Deposited by William F. Buckley, Jr., 1964-2003.
List of Correspondents
God and Man at Yale: List of Correspondents
- Adams, Fred H.
- Affleck, Rosamond H.
- Agnew, Cornelius R.
- Alexander, Jerome
- Allen, Charles R.
- Allen, Elizabeth P.
- Andelson, Robert
- Andersonz Henry H.
- Apel, H.
- Ashburn, Frank
- Auchincloss, R.L.
- Bailey, Frank
- Baker, Frances
- Baker, Owen C.
- Barnes,. W.B.
- Barry, James B.
- Bartlett, Valentine C.
- Bassett, Francis J.
- Bean, F.A.
- Beckman, F. Woods
- Bedingfield, Eileen
- Benedict, James
- Benson, George S.
- Bereribert, David P.
- Bernhard, Richard
- Beta, George J.
- Black, William C.
- Blaney, M.A.
- Bonbrake, M.N.
- Bozell, (Mrs.) Brent
- Brandt, Karl E.
- Bratcher, E. M.
- Bredin, Lewis Leonard
- Brennan, Jay
- Brentano's, Inc.
- Brewster, Owen (Hon)
- Bridgman, David G.
- Brogley, Margaret
- Brown, Milton W.
- Buck, (Mrs.) Gordon M.
- Buckley, Claude H.
- Buckley, William F., Sr.
- Buckley, William F., Jr.
- Bunker, Laurence E.
- Bullington, Orville
- Byrne, John M.
- Campaigne, Jameson G.
- Canty, Helen M.
- Carleton, Mrs. Guy E.
- Carlin, William J.C.
- Carruthers, John
- Carter, Mary Lynn
- Cartwright, A.Y., Jr.
- Carvelis, Miss
- Cassell, James H., Jr.
- Cassidy, Richard E.
- Castle, W.R.
- Cates, Fred
- Cervantes, Lou
- Chamberlain, John
- Chamberlain, R.R.
- Chase, John A.
- Chisolm, R.W.
- Chatard, Alice W.
- Charles, J. Burdette
- Child Family Digest
- Chodorov, Frank
- Christian Century
- Christian Freedom Foundation
- Church of the Good Shepherd
- Clark, John
- Clark, William R.
- Clement, W.R.
- Codman, John S.
- Coe, W.R.
- Coleman, Frances
- Coltonl Rev. Bradford
- Connell, George S.
- Conway, Margaret Devereaux
- Corbett, Mary Gleason
- Corbett, Mrs. J.M.
- Copey, Ernest L., M.D.
- Corrigan, Kevin
- Cowles, Elizabeth S.
- Craven, Joseph A.
- Creighton, Thomas E.
- Cullen, Andrew J.
- Daly, Rev. John K.
- Dally, Margaret P.
- Dana, Richard
- Dargan, Father
- Davenport, John
- Dawes, Mrs., Herbert N.
- Day, George Parmley (to)
- Dedman, Julien
- DeGolyer, E.
- Dennis, Lawrence
- Devanne, T.J.
- DeYoe, Willard L.
- Dick, Carl P.
- Dickson, Arthur G.
- Digna, Sister Mary
- Dillon, William G.
- Donahue, Francis M.
- Donaldson, Mabel
- Donner, Robert
- Dumm, Benjamin Alfred
- Dunlap, Boyce
- Dunnington, Miles
- Dwyer, Mary Ellen
- Dykes, E.W.
- Ellis, Edward W.
- Emerson, Ralph H.
- Enest, S.E.
- Epler, P.H.
- Erdman, Harold B.
- Estill, Joe Garner
- Everett, Mark Allen, M.D.
- Evans, S.E.B.
- Farmer, James W.
- Farrel, Franklin, Jr.
- Feeley, Charles
- Feelers, Bonnie
- Fenniman, William C.
- Ferry, Horace Farwell
- Fisher, Henry
- Fitzgerald, Donald E.
- Fitzgerald, William
- Flaherty, M.G., S.J.
- Flick, John J.
- Flemer, William,
- Fleming, W.C.
- Fletcher, Sir Angus
- Ford, Rosemary
- Franke, Gax. H.
- Free, William
- Francis, Dale
- Frisbie, E.W.
- Fry, L.
- Fuchs, Mrs. Peter F.
- Fullman, Christopher E., O.S.B.
- Gardner, H.L.
- Garrity, Devin Adair
- Geoghegan, George P., Jr.
- Gibbons, Lee
- Gibbs, Mrs. Rufus M.
- Gill, John
- Gillen, C.F.
- Gillis, James M. Cap.
- Gilmartin, Mrs. John
- Gipson, J. H.
- Gordon, Ernest
- Grace, Charity
- Graydon, Helen
- Greaves, Percy L., Jr.
- Green, Glenn A.
- Greene, George S., Jr.
- Griffis, Bertrum W.
- Griffin, R.P.
- Griswold, A.W., M.D. (to)
- Guion, Mrs. Louis J.
- Haas, Edward R.
- Hager, Henry B.
- Hahan, R.W.
- Hall, Walter W.
- Hammond, Henry i D.
- Hammonds, Oliver W.
- Harding, J.M.
- Harris, Ray Baker
- Hauser, Ernst A.
- Hayden, James J.
- Healy, Joan M.
- Hepburn, James G.
- Herbert, Rozanne
- Herman, James S. Herman
- Herr, John Knowles
- Heymann, P .F.
- Higgins, Rev. George G.
- Himes, Canfield
- Hitchings, Sinclair H.
- Hobbs, A.H.
- Holzapple, Lloyd B.
- Hesna, James
- Houghton, Cecil
- Houtz, Phillip
- Howd, Hadleigh H.
- Howland, B.J.
- Hunterdon County Democrat
- Huvelle, Mary
- Ingalls, David S.
- Ingebretson, James C.
- Ireland, Mrs. Ellsworth
- Jackson, Mrs. Herbert S.
- Jacobi, William H.
- Jenks, Esther
- Johnson, Roger B.
- Jolmson, William
- Jones, Ellis O.
- Jones, Graham Starr
- Jones, Mark M.
- Jones, W. Alton
- Jones, Zola
- Judge, Dick
- Judd, James W.
- Kane, T. Paul
- Kaub, Verne P.
- Kelley, William C.
- Kenny, Mrs. Joseph P.
- Ketzinger, Mrs. Katherine
- Kidd, George
- Kiibourne, Frederick W.
- Kilpatrick, Mrs.
- Kinkead, Revo, George B.
- Kneller, George F.
- Klauder, Francis, Rev.
- Knox, Kerro
- Knight, Howard G.
- Koether, George
- Kuhne, Helen Eo
- Laflin, Louis E., Jr.
- Lambert, Phyllis Joan
- Lang, Berel
- Latimer, S.L., Jr.
- Lavelli, Tony
- Leach, George Sidney
- Lee, Stewart w.
- Lehman, Eugene H.
- Lenney, John F.
- LeSeur, Marcia
- Lewis, W. Sargent
- Life Line
- Lincoln, Natalie
- Lind, Charles TIo
- Lind, John
- Lucas, Peter
- Ludlum, John H., Jr.
- Lunt, Storer B.
- Lynch, George F.
- Lytle, Margaret
- MacKenzie, Norman
- McArn, A. Douglas
- McBurney, James H.
- McCann, Francis
- McCarthy, Peter H.
- McGarvey, Bert
- McGaughey, Emmet C.
- Mcgillicuddy, Rev.
- McGowan, Joseph J., S.J.
- McInerny, T.J.
- McKay, Douglas
- McKay, Robert W. M.D.
- McKneally, Martin B.
- McLean, Hugh, Jr.
- McLean, Robert
- McMullen, Carl
- Mahoney, S.P.
- Macey, Robert
- Marshall, Charles O.
- Mason, Frank E.
- Matthews, Elden S.
- Maxfield, Hiram
- Meader, John W., Jr.
- Mehren, Edward J.
- Menjou, Adolphe
- Merriman, Daniel
- The Miami Herald
- Miller, Amelia
- Miller, Vernon X.
- Milliken, Roger
- Minute Women
- Mitchell, Ledyard
- Miller, C. Phillip
- Mooney, Mable P.S.
- Moore, John D.J.
- Moore, W. Bedford, Jr.
- Morley, Felix
- Moran, Mrs. T.E.
- Morris, Gouverneur
- Morrisey, M.A.
- Mulholland, Ellin M.
- Mulqueen, Jane
- Murphy, Paul J., S.J.
- Nagel, Rev. Bill
- Namm, Major Benjamin H.
- Naranjo, Lic. Nemesio Garcia
- Newberry, Leslie W.
- Newberry, S.D.
- Nelson, Neville
- Newman, James W.
- O'Brien, Rev., Edwin B.
- O'Brien, James Fox
- O'Brien, Mrs. William
- O'Donnell, E.J., S.J.
- O'Neil, Daniel J.
- O'Neil, Raymond
- Opitz, Rev. Edmund A.
- Olshauser, Kenneth W.M.D.
- Palladin, Toni
- Paine, Rev.J., S.J.
- Palmer, Cecil, Esq.
- Panuch, J. Anthony
- Parker, G.F.
- Paterson, Donald S.
- Peacock, Roscoe
- Peterson, W. Fairfiled
- Petrie, John Clarence
- Phillips, T.W., Jr.
- Pickett, A.Gordon
- Pierce, Edward Allen
- Pomeroy, Eugene C.
- Porter, Mrs. Ruth S.
- Price, Ray
- Prince, Samuel L.
- Quinn, D. Joseph
- Raffalovich, George
- Randall, Clarence B.
- Randall, R.
- Ray, John
- Raymond, Richard M.
- Redman, Mrs. W. C
- Reeves
- Reichert, Ernst
- Reynolds, Mrs. L.E.
- Richardson, Dale
- Richardson, Robert C.
- Rihl, George L.
- Rinaldi, Joseph
- Roberts, Robert
- Robinson, Claude
- Rogers, C.M.
- Rogers, Frederick R.
- Ronan, Stephen T.
- Root, Clinton W.
- Rosen, Lucie
- Rowe, Harold
- Rumsey, Bronson C.
- Russell, Lenora
- Rutsch, Mrs. Henrietta
- Rymer, T.A.
- Sargentl Henry B.
- Schaeffer, John M.
- Schaff, Norman, Jr.
- Schilling, Sibylla
- Schwab, Norman
- Schneitzer, Frederick, M.D.
- Scotti, Martin L.
- Sears, Louis N.
- Seaver, Louis
- Sexton, Joan
- Shafer, Robert E.
- Shappert, F.W.
- Shaw, Ralph M., Jr.
- Shelden, Francis D.
- Shipley, L. Parks
- Shulmanz R.L.
- Simmons, J.W., M.D.
- Simmons, Rev. Frank E.
- Singer, C. Gregg
- Slattery, Matthew J.
- Smal-Stocki, Roman
- Smith, Alice C.
- Smith, David Dean
- Smith, Henry Ladd
- Smith, Howard A.
- Smith, Mrs. P G.
- Smith, Roger M., Jr.
- Smith, Mrs. Truman
- Smyth, Jane
- Spencer, Herbert
- The Spokesman Review
- Starr, Adolph
- Stein, Robert M.
- Steinbicker, Carl R.
- Stiefel, W. K.
- Stokes, John S., Jr
- Stover, John Spoor
- Strasmich, Irving H.
- Strauss, Lewis L
- Sturges, Wesley A.
- Sweeney, Tom
- Taft, Seth C.
- Taliaferro, Dick, Jr.
- Taylor, Garrick M.
- Thompson, Thomas E.
- Tibbetts, Laura A.
- Tucker, Gilbert M.
- Van Winkle, Mrs. Cortlandt
- Venable, Grady
- Vetter, Mrs. William H.
- Vining, Donald
- Violet, S.C.
- Vision Magazine
- Walsh, Thomas J.
- Wangemann, Mrs. T.D.
- Wardwell, Arthur J.
- Watson, Mrs. Charles H.
- Weatherly, John
- Weber, J. Anne
- Webster, Edwin S., Jr.
- Wedemeyer, A.C.
- Wendell, Harold L.
- Whitford, A.C.
- Whitehill, Buell, Jr.
- Whitney, Mrs. L.E.
- Wheem, Van Zandt
- Willard, Una B.
- Williams, Herschel V.
- Williams, Mrs. Mason
- Wilson, P.H.
- Wolfe, Samuel, Jr.
- Wood, John Perry
- Woodlock, Mary
- Young, F.M.
- Youngs, Robert W.
- Zetterberg, Stephen I.
- Authors
- Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
- Conservatism -- United States
- Conservative Party (U.S.)
- Journalists
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
- Political campaigns -- New York (State) -- New York
- Television personalities
- Transcripts
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
- Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1950
- Title
- Guide to the William F. Buckley, Jr. Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- compiled by Peggy Bruns, Theodore Persons, Anna Lesniak, Diane Kaplan, and staff of Manuscripts and Archives
- Date
- January 1974
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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