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I. Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism
A. Emerson
B. Thoreau
C. Other

II. Communitarianism
A.Writings and Speeches
B. Notes

III. Owenism
A. Materials relating to Backwoods Utopias
B. New Harmony--documentary history of New Harmony
C. New Harmony--other writings and speeches
D. New Harmony--notes
E. Other Owenite communities

IV. Fourierism
A. Backwoods Utopias, vol. 2 and related papers
B. Brook Farm
C. Other Fourierist communities
D. Fourierist Projects not put in operation in the United States
E. Albert Brisbane
F. Other leaders among American Fourierists
G. General notes and correspondence
H. Pictures, maps and pamphlets

V. Other communities
A. Shakers
B. To 1860
C. After 1860
D. Pictures and pamphlets

VI. Bibliography
A. Newspapers
B. Periodicals
C. Books and pamphlets

VII. Biographical notes

VIII. Miscellaneous

IX. Microfilm

I.  Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism

A. Emerson

1.  Notes on official records and material in the Concord Free Public Library.
2.  Notes and clippings concerning association copies excluding those referring to Fourierism.
3.  Indexes of newspaper references (Fourierist newspaper items are filed with Fourierist materials).
4. Reviews of books about Emerson.
5. Notes on reports of Emerson lectures excluding Fourierist references.
6. Notes on manuscripts by Emerson excluding references to Fourierism.
7. Clippings.
8. Research plans and outlines.
9. Atlantic Cable
10. Letter of January 6, 1825
11. Clippings on publications of Emerson.
12. Emerson's Influence on Liberal Religious Thought.
13. Emerson's Religious Influence (1).
14. Emerson's Religious Influence (2).
15. Emerson's Religious Influence (3).
16. Emerson's Religious Influence (4).
17. Emerson's Religious Influence (5).
18. The Philosophy of Action in Emerson; paper given at Yale, Dec. 13, 1932.
19. Emerson: "The Sphinx"; paper written in 1933.
20. Concord Library.
21. Borrowings from Concord Library: transcripts.
22. Borrowings from Concord Library: notes and outlines.
23. Concord Library: Emerson's reports.
24. Concord Social Library.
25. Concord Lyceum.
26. Emerson gifts to Concord Library.
27. Library committee; except Social Library.
28. Libraries.
29. Books suggested to Athenaeum.
30. Notes on Emerson's works.
31. Bibliographical notes on Emerson's writings and lectures excluding manuscripts.
32. Bibliographical Notes on Writings about Emerson.
33. Reading notes.
34. Manuscript notes by others.
35. Bibliography.
36. Chronological development of Emerson's ideas before 1840.
37. Journals.
38. "Historical Notes".
39. Emerson's relationship to Brook Farm Founders.
40. Notes to file
41. Emerson's home, Concord.

B. Thoreau

1. Thoreau as surveyor and pencil-maker; uncompleted article, 1932.
2. As surveyor: notes.
3. Concord records; perambulation of town lines.
4. Notes.
5. Clippings.

C. Other

1. Bibliography relating to Emerson and Thoreau.
2. Printed Concord reports.
3. Manuscript Concord reports; notes; especially on library.
4. Concord reports.
5. Francis R. Gourgas.
6. An American Achievement in Translation: notes
7. An American Achievement in Translation: early drafts
8. An American Achievement in Translation: copy being revised
9. An American Achievement in Translation: final version
10. The Later Transcendental Club

II. Communitarianism

A. Writings and Speeches

1. "Communitarian Socialism in America: Studies in the History of an Idea"; Plans for a volume of essays
2. "The Communitarian Tradition in American Social Reform" : paper given at Amana, Sept. 1, 1960
3. "Utopian Enthusiasm at the West in the 1840s" : A Contemporary narrative: draft
4. "Utopian Enthusiasm at the West" : transcript
5. "Communitarian Colonies and the Midwest Heritage" : article with notes for revision
6. Evolution of the Socialist Vocabulary; article with notes for revision
7. Patent-Office Models
8. Conference on Utopias at the U. of Ill., 1968
9. Speeches for Publication at Conference on Utopias
10. Ferment of Reform (1967) by C.S. Griffin.
11. Ferment of Refom : copies of first three editions
12. Backgrounds of the Communitarian Enthusiasm of the 1840s in the U.S. paper given at AHA Pacific Coast Branch, 20 January 1945
13. Co-dimunitive movement in the Ohio Valley; outline 18 October 1944

B. Notes

1. Utopian community experiments
2. Communitarianism
3. Communitarian socialism
4. Utopian groups
5. Utopian communities
6. Notes to file
7. Clippings to file
8. Book, manuscript lists
9. Brochures and pictures from several communities
10. Manuscripts relating to communitarianism in the Illinois Historical Survey
11. Depression of 1837; Communitarian tendencies in the late 1830s
12. Communitarianism, architecture, and city planning
13. Maps showing Utopian communities and some of Bestor's travels
14. Journal of trips to communitarian colonies
15. Unpublished papers by others
16. Papers by others; conference on utopias at the U. of Ill., 1968
17. American communities; works mentioning several different communities
18. Communitarian pamphlets
19. Other scholars of communitarianism
20. Correspondence to answer

III. Owenism

A. Materials relating to Backwoods Utopias

1. Chapter 1; Notes not needed for other chapters
2. New edition correspondence
3. Notes for additions and revisions
4. University of Pennsylvania Press correspondence
5. Second edition proofs
6. Reviews
7. List of reviews and complimentary copies sent
8. Updated bibliography
9. Addenda, second edition

B. New Harmony--Documentary History of New Harmony

1. Outline of the proposed work and related projects
2. Correspondence with Howard Peckham
3. Correspondence requesting permission to publish material
4. Title Page through Chapter 3
5. Chapter 4 through Chapter 7
6. Chapter 8 through end
7. Note on editorial principles
8. Outlines
9. Preliminary pages
10. "Chapter 1--The American Background"
11. "Chapter 2--Robert Owen's New View of Society"
12. "Chapter 3--William Maclure, Scientist, Educator, and Social Reformer"
13. "Chapter 4--The Convergence of Forces"
14. "Chapter 6--The Purchase of New Harmony"
15. "Chapter 7--Propaganda in High Places"
16. "Chapter 9--Establishing a "Halfway House"
17. "Chapter 10--The Preliminary Society in Operation"
18. "Chapter 11--The "Boatload of Knowledge"
19. "Chapter 13--Reorganization follows Reorganization"
20. "Chapter 17--Post-Mortem"

(Note: Empty manila folders were withdrawn from the collection which gave the following chapter titles: "Chapter 5: Owen's Arrival in America," "Chapter 8: The Newspaper Debate on Ownenism," "Chapter 12: Launching the "Permanent" Community of Equality," "Chapter 14: Deepening Difficulties," "Chapter 15: The Break Between Owen and Maclure" and "Chapter 16: Epilogue at New Harmony.")

21. Working copy of chapter 5; Owenite apologetics
22. Notes
23. Annotations to be written
24. Memoranda to research assistants

C. New Harmony--Other Writings and Speeches

1. Aims of the New Harmony experiment; paper given at Indiana History Conference, December 12, 1947
2. Maclure-Fretageot correspondence; page proof
3. Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Indiana History

D. New Harmony--Notes

1. Guide to the New Harmony Manuscripts in the Working Men's Institute
2. Maclure-Fretageot Correspondence; Catalogue
3. Correspondence, 1814-30; Catalogue
4. Series VIII; Guide to Maps and Plans
5. Correspondence, 1814-30; Notes on cataloging and microfilming
6. Title Pages and Preliminary Matter
7. Correspondence: Index to Persons
8. Correspondence: Notes on Series
9. Correspondence: Through 1816
10. Correspondence: 1817
11. Correspondence: 1820
12. Correspondence: 1821
13. Correspondence: 1822
14. Correspondence: 1823
15. Correspondence: January-August 1824
16. Correspondence: September-October 1824
17. Correspondence: November-December 1824
18. Correspondence: January 1825
19. Correspondence: February 1825
20. Robert Owen Discourse: 25 February 1825
21. Robert Owen Discourse: 7 March 1825
22. Correspondence: March 1825
23. Correspondence: April 1825
24. Correspondence: May 1825
25. Correspondence: June-August 1825
26. Correspondence: September-October 1825
27. Correspondence: November-December 1825
28. Correspondence: January-March 1826
29. Correspondence: April-June 1826
30. Correspondence: July 1826
31. Robert Owen--Declaration of Mental Independence
32. Correspondence: August 1826
33. Correspondence: September-October 1826
34. A Contemporary Newspaper Satire of New Harmony
35. Correspondence: November-December 1826
36. Correspondence: January-February 1827
37. Correspondence: March-April 1827
38. Correspondence: May-June 1827
39. McGowin to Smith, 8 May 1827
40. Robert Owen Philadelphia Address, 25 June 1827
41. Philadelphia Mechanics Union of Trade Associations, 1827
42. Correspondence: July-December 1827
43. Correspondence: 1828
44. Correspondence: 1829
45. Correspondence: 1830
46. Correspondence: 1831
47. Correspondence: 1832
48. Correspondence: 1833
49. Correspondence: 1834-1839
50. Correspondence: 1840 and after
51. Other correspondence
52. Paul Brown's Twelve Months in New Harmony (1827)
53. Financial records
54. Financial records; catalogues
55. Financial records; notes
56. Reading financial records
57. Financial records; extra carbons
58. Minutes; notes
59. Topographical notes
60. Papers of Joseph Neef
61. Richard Owen Mss. from Mrs. Aline Owen Neal collection
62. Robert Dale Owen Mss. from Mrs. Aline Owen Neal collection
63. William Maclure Mss. from Mrs. Aline Owen Neal collection
64. Thomas Say Mss. from Mrs. Aline Owen Neal collection
65. Pelham papers and notes from April 14, 1960 visit
66. Letters, advertisements and articles in newspapers
67. U.S. Census of Manufacturers, 1820
68. Photocopies; Robert Owen's Journal, 8 February 1851, The Cooperative Magazine and manuscripts
69. Daily National Intelligencer: November 1824-December 1825
70. National Gazette and Literary Register:
71. National Intelligencer: 1826
72. Education Society Day Book, 7 May 1827
73. J. Wright Jr. to Robert Owen, March 9, 1825, December 10, 1825
74. Proceedings of the Preliminary Society: November 1825-February 1826
75. Photocopies from books
76. Robert Owen--Ideas, Writings and Life; other than activities in America
77. Robert Owen--Activities in America in the 1840fs
78. Robert Owen--Clippings
79. Biographical notes
80. Chronologies and detailed notes on organizations, financial relations, etc.
81. Manuscripts at Economy, Pennsylvania
82. Notes on secondary works
83. Clippings and pamphlets
84. Robert Owen; clippings on books
85. Joseph Neef
86. Microfilm correspondence
87. Owenite publications in America bibliography; title page transcripts, complete set
88. Owenite publications and periodicals
89. Owenite publications--Notes for Work in Progress
90. Owenite publications--Robert Owen publications before 1820
91. Research to do
92. Editing in process
93. Clippings
94. J. C. C. Graham Instructions; work outstanding
95. J. C. C. Graham Instructions; work completed
96. Ian Graham
97. Pictures--community buildings and sites; postcard folders
98. Pictures
99. Pictures--community buildings and sites; printed views
100. Pictures--Robert Owen, oil painting
101. Pictures--manuscripts (facsimiles)
102. Pictures--views of ideal communities
103. Pictures--glossy prints
104. Pamphlets (38)

E. Other Owenite Communities

1. Indiana--Blue Spring, 1825
2. New York--Forestville Community, Coxsackie, 1826
3. New York--Franklin Community, Haverstraw, 1826
4. Ohio--Kendal Community, 1826
5. Ohio--Yellow Springs, 1825-1826
6. Pennsylvania--Goose Pond, offshoot of One-Mention
7. Pennsylvania--One-Mention, or Promisewell Community, 1843
8. Pennsylvania--Valley Forge, 1826
9. Tennessee--Nashoba
10. Wisconsin--Equality (Hunt's Colony) 1843
11. Wisconsin--Equality; Tinker mss.
12. Wisconsin--Equality; letters of Thomas Hunt from New Moral World
13. Wisconsin--Thomas Hunt, Report to a Meeting of Intending Emigrants, 1843
14. Wisconsin--Macdonald and Tinker mss. and New Moral World
15. Wisconsin--British Socialists in Wisconsin, 1843-1844; reports on equality bv Hunt
16. Wisconsin--correspondence
17. Projected Owenite communities
18. Canada--Maxwell community
19. Great Britain--Harmony Hall, Queenwood
20. Great Britain--Other communities
21. Owenism in Great Britain
22. Miscellaneous community projects--1820s
23. Great Britain--projects for emigration to America to found communities

IV. Fourierism

A. Backwoods Utopias, vol. 2 and related papers

1. Outlines in current use
2. Outlines; Brook Farm: An Exhibition
3. Introduction; points in vol. 1 which may require restatement of clarification.
4. Lecture on library hour, U of I, 2 Nov. 1949
5. Chapter 1--Roots of Social Reform: The United States in 1840
6. Chapter 1--Ideas of Sectarian Communities; fully corrected copy of Chap 2 of v. 1, which was almost completely eliminated in final version. To use in v. 2, eg. Swedenborgianism
7. Chapter 1--Revival of Communitarianism; Oberlin Colony
8. Chapter 1--Influence of Owenite Tradition; pages eliminated from drafts of v. 1
9. Chapter 1--Educational Aspects, especially Greaves and Alcott; pages eliminated from v. 1
10. Chapter 1--Educational and Communitarian Thought in 1840s; notes
11. Chapter 3--Albert Brisbane; notes for addition to draft
12. Chapter 4--Fourierist School in France
13. Chapter 4--Fourierism in Great Britain
14. Chapter 5--Rochester's Awakening
15. Chapter 5--Fourierism in Rochester, N. Y.; see also individual phalanxes
16. Chapter 6 (1st half)--Personnel of Rochester Fourierism
17. Chapter 6 (2nd half)--Projects and Schisms in Western New York
18. Chapter 7 (1st part)--Organizing the Sodus Bay Phalanx
19. Chapter 7 (2nd part)--Life and Labor at Sodus Bay
20. Chapter 7 (3rd part)--Disharmony and Dissolution
21. Chapter 8--The Rival Communities of Western New York
22. Chapter 8--Western New York; early drafts
23. Chapter 9--Ordeal by Law Suit
24. Chapter 9--Legal Aspects; notes
25. Chapter 10--Nothing Fails Like Failure

(Note: Empty manila folders were withdrawn from the above series of folders which bore the following titles: "Chapter 3: The Great Apostle: Albert Brisbane ," "Chapter 4: Organizing for Propaganda," "Chapter 5: The Impact of Fourierism: Stirrings in Western New York," "Chapter 6: Organizing for Action in Rochester" and "Chapter 7: Fourierism in Practice: The Sodus Bay Phalanx.")

26. The Gospel According to Charles Fourier; chap. 2, transferee from v. 1 to v. 2
27. Fourier's Doctrines; chap. 2, notes
28. Early draft of two chapters
29. Outlines
30. Fourier's Ideas; earlier drafts
31. Bibliography; Fourier's writings, earlier drafts
32. Chapter 2--Fourier's Doctrines; notes for additions to draft
33. Chapter 3--article from New York History to be revised as chapter
34. Chapter 3--Fourierism Older New York Leadership; Notes
35. Chapter 5-Emerson's attitude towards Fourierism and Brook Farm (also see folders for Origins of Brook Farm)
36. Fourier chapter
37. Chapter 5--Work of the Western Fourierist Leaders; notes
38. Chapter 6--The Middle Western Phalanxes; notes
39. The Transit of Fourierism to America; notes
40. Influence of Fourierism on Movements After 1860; notes
41. Chapter 8--The Waning of Fourierism
42. Introduction--Communitarian Viewpoint; Notes not used in v. 1, chap. 1
43. Fourierism; notes for revision of chapter
44. Manuscript sources; notes to be made into paragraphs
45. American Phalanxes; corrections of dissertation never made in official copy at Yale
46. Early versions of articles on Fourierism in America; bound April 1936
47. Phalanxes of Social Reform: The Caring of Fourierist Socialism to America 1838-1845; chapters in progress
48. Fourierist Enthusiasm in Western and Northern New York, 1842-45; paper given before the New York State Historical Association, 25 Aug. 1934
49. Brook Farm Centennial Address
50. Brook Farm Records; Announcements of Project to edit and publish
51. Charles Fourier; bibliography
52. Clippings
53. Acknowledgements; draft and notes
54. Bibliographical Essay; section eliminated from v. 1 to be used in v. 2
55. Bibliographical Essay; miscellaneous drafts
56. Bibliographical Essay

B. Brook Farm

1. General
2. 1841
3. Notes
4. Maps
5. Deed and court records
6. Papers written by Bestor students
7. "Record" Mss.; Mass. Hist. Soc.
8. Other documents; Mass. Hist. Soc.
9. Account Book; Harvard Library
10. J. Burrill Curtis letters from Brook Farm, 1842-43
11. Minutes
12. Boston Union of Associationists, Religious Union of Associationist, etc.; notes
13. Newspaper clippings noted in bibliography
14. Origins of Brook Farm--original and final drafts
15. Origins of Brook Farm--earlier drafts
16. Origins of Brook Farm--final version, outline and drafts of last part
17. Origins of Brook Farm--Influence of Brownson
18. Origins of Brook Farm--Intellectual changes in New England just before 1840
19. Origins of Brook Farm--final draft
20. Correspondence, 1834-36
21. Correspondence, 1837-39
22. Records, 1841
23. Records, 1842
24. Records, 1843
25. Records, January-June 1844
26. Records, July-December 1844
27. Records, January-June 1845
28. Records, July-December 1845
29. Records, January-June 1846
30. Records, July-December 1846
31. Records, circa 1847
32. Records, 1847
33. Records, 1848
34. Records, 1849
35. Records, 1850 and thereafter
36. Records, year unknown
37. Records, reminiscences and other sources subsequent to experiment
38. Correspondence
39. Mary MacDaniel to Mrs. Childs, 12 February 1849
40. I. B. and Ellen Walker to Mr. and Mrs. John Whiteley, 17 January 1848
41. Transcripts, 1850
42. Transcripts, 1854
43. Transcripts, 1855
44. Origins of Brook Farm; connection with Ballou's Project, notes
45. Origins of Brook Farm; events and factors in summer of 1840
46. Basic Principles and Aims
47. Theodore Parker
48. George Ripley
49. Ripley's Agricultural Studies
50. Beginning of Community Life
51. Introductory section; final draft, notes
52. Significance of Ripley's Resignation, May 1840--Date of Brook Farm Plan
53. Records and correspondence, 1840

C. Other Fourierist Communities

1. California--San Rafael Phalanstery
2. Illinois--Canton Phalanx, 1845
3. Illinois--Lamoille; Bureau County Phalanx
4. Illinois--Sangamon Association; Integral Phalanx; Sources, transcripts, photostats and notes
5. Illinois--Sangamon Association; Integral Phalanx; Chronologies, bibliographies
6. Illinois--Sangamon Association; Integral Phalanx; Archival records
7. Illinois--Sangamon Association; Integral Phalanx; Secondary accounts
8. Illinois--Sangamon Association; Integral Phalanx; Miscellaneous notes
9. Indiana--Fourier Phalanx, Moore's Hill
10. Indiana--LaGrange phalanx, 1844
11. Indiana--Philadelphia Industrial Association
12. Iowa--Iowa Pioneer Phalanx, 1844
13. Kansas--Silkville, or Kansas Co-operative Farm, or Prarie Home
14. Michigan--Alphadelphia, draft in progress
15. Michigan--Alphadelphia Association; Persons
16. Michigan--Alphadelphia Association; Mss. records
17. Michigan--Alphadelphia Association; Indexes
18. Michigan--Alphadelphia Association; Printed sources, see also: "Periodicals, Primitive Expounder
19. Michigan--Alphadelphia Association; Secondary works
20. Michigan--Alphadelphia phalanx; Correspondence
21. New Jersey--North American Phalanx; notes on preliminary activities in Albany, N. Y.
22. New Jersey--North American Phalanx
23. New Jersey--North American Phalanx; Harvard
24. New Jersey--North American Phalanx; Bucklin collection
25. New Jersey--North American Phalanx; 1843
26. New Jersey--Raritan Bay Union, Eagleswood
27. New Jersey--Raritan Bay Union; Notes
28. New Jersey--Raritan Bay Union; Bibliography
29. New Jersey--Raritan Bay Union; Correspondence
30. New York--American Industrial Union, Federation of Phalanxes
31. New York--Bloomfield Union Association; 1844
32. New York--Bloomfield Union Association; Burton v. Wight Records
33. New York--Bloomfield; Deeds in County Clerk offices
34. New York--Clarkson
35. New York--Clarkson Association; 1844
36. New York--New York City, Fourienne Society
37. New York--Jefferson County Industrial Association; 1843
38. New York--Mixville Association
39. New York--Morehouse Union; 1843
40. New York--Ontario Union
41. New York--Ontario Union; 1844
42. New York--Rochester Boarding House
43. New York--Sodus Bay Phalanx
44. New York--Sodus Bay; Proceedings, mss. in Rochester Historical Society
45. New York--Sodus Bay; mss. in Rochester Historical Society listed in bibliographical essay, 8 Aug. 1939
46. New York--Sodus Bay; Deeds
47. Ohio--Clermont Phalanx; 1844
48. Ohio--Columbian Phalanx, near Zanesville; 1845
49. Ohio--Ohio [originally American] Phalanx; 1844
50. Ohio--Trumbull Phalanx; 1844
51. Ohio--Fourierism in Ohio outside Cincinnati and Canton
52. Pennsylvania--Leraysville Phalanx; 1844
53. Pennsylvania Social Reform Unity; 1842
54. Pennsylvania--Sylvania Association; 1843
55. Texas--Reunion; bibliographical essay, see also Considerant-- bibliographical notes
56. Texas--Reunion; Societe de colonisation Europeo-Americaine au Texas
57. Texas--Reunion (Considerant!s colony); other notes
58. Texas--Reunion; Bestor correspondence
59. Texas--Reunion; Considerantfs writings thereon
60. Wisconsin--Pigeon River Fourier Colony
61. Wisconsin--Spring Farm Association
62. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx Records
63. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; "The Wisconsin Phalanx" by Frederick Boorse Kieckhefer
64. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; Bound clippings
65. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; 1844
66. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; notes of July 1946 visit
67. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; clippings
68. Wisconsin--Wisconsin phalanx; bibliographical clippings
69. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; bibliography; 1st draft for dissertation and Nov. 1938 revision for final copy
70. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; letters lent by Haven A. Mason
71. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; paper by Frances M. Allensworth

D. Fourierist Projects not put in operation in the United States

1. California Phalansterian Company (circa 1849)
2. Connecticut
3. District of Columbia
4. Illinois
5. Indiana
6. Iowa
7. Kentucky
8. Louisiana
9. Maine
10. Maryland
11. Massachusetts
12. MassachusettsBoston
13. Mississippi
14. Missouri
15. New Hampshire
16. New York
17. New York--Albany
18. New York--Canandaigua
19. New York--New York City
20. New York--Ontario Phalanx
21. New York--Rush Industrial Association
22. Ohio--Cincinnati; 1840s
23. Pennsylvania
24. Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
25. Rhode Island
26. Tennessee
27. Texas
28. Texas--Phalanx projected by German immigrants
29. Vermont
30. Virginia
31. Virginia--Potomac Phalanx
32. Wisconsin
33. National Fourierist organizations and conventions
34. Semi-Fourierist experiments in the U.S.
35. Brazil
36. Canada
37. France--Citeaux
38. France--Conde-sur-Vesgre
39. France--Phalanstere d'enfants and similar projects
40. France--Familistere of Guise (see also Godin)

E. Albert Brisbane

1. List of his columns in New York Tribune
2. New York Tribune Column: March 1-15, 1842
3. March 16-31
4. April 1-15
5. April 16-30
6. May 2-14
7. May 16-31
8. June 1-15
9. June 17-30
10. July 2-15
11. July 16-30
12. August
13. September
14. October
15. November
16. December
17. January, 1843
18. February
19. March
20. April
21. May
22. June
23. July
24. August
25. September-October, 1843
26. Correspondence: collection in Ill. Hist. Survey
27. Miscellaneous undated correspondence
28. Brisbane's library
29. Notes
30. Periodical and newspaper articles
31. European trip
32. "Fourier's Social Order" in Christian Register
33. Albert Brisbane Propagandist for Socialism in the 1840s; published article with notes for revision
34. End of Brisbane's Career; draft for Backwoods Utopias, v. 3
35. Acquisition of Brisbane Papers by Ill. Hist. Survey

F. Other Leaders Among American Fourierists

1. Victor Considerant; notes (see also Texas--Reunion)
2. Victor Considerant, Fourierist Communitarian; paper given at AHA, December 1948
3. Parke Godwin, A Popular View of the Doctrines of Charles Fourier; notes
4. Elijah P. Grant--Index to Correspondence
5. Elijah P. Grant--Correspondence inventory of mss.
6. Elijah P. Grant--Correspondence through 1842
7. Elijah P. Grant--Correspondence, 1843
8. Elijah P. Grant--Correspondence, 1844
9. Elijah P. Grant--Correspondence, 1845
10. Elijah P. Grant--Correspondence, 1846
11. Elijah P. Grant--Correspondence, 1847 and thereafter

G. General Notes and Correspondence

1. General accounts of movement in the United States
2. Connections with other reform movements
3. Connections with other reform movements--Anarchism before 1880
4. Connections with Swedenborgianism
5. Criticisms of Fourierism
6. Constitutions; subject notes
7. A. E. Winter to Sarah Winter, 20 September 1847
8. Le Nouveau Monde; notes
9. Notes taken at Bibliotheque Nationale
10. Notes to filed
11. Memoranda to research assistants on unfinished work
12. Correspondence to answer
13. Letter to James T. Babb
14. Notes on Henry M. Schreiber article on "Fourierism and the Paddies of Boston"

H. Pictures, Maps and Pamphlets

1. Brook Farm; photos
2. Brook Farm; sketches
3. New Jersey--Eagleswood (Raritan Bay Union)
4. New Jersey--North American Phalanx
5. New Jersey--North American Phalanx; Domain map sketches
6. New Jersey--North American Phalanx; community buildings and sites
7. New York--Bloomfield Union Association
8. New York--Clarkson Phalanx
9. New York--Mixvilie Phalanx, Wiscoy, N.Y.
10. New York--Morehouse Union
11. New York--Ontario Union, Littleville on Canandaigua Outlet
12. New York--Sodus Bay; community buildinss and site
13. Ohio--Trumbull Phalanx
14. Pennsylvania --Leraysville Phalanx; community buildings and sites
15. Pennsylvania--Sylvania Phalanx
16. Wisconsin--Wisconsin Phalanx; community buildings and sites
17. North American Phalanx Monthly Account, Nov. 30, 1854
18. Portraits: Warren Chase
19. Portraits: Charles Fourier; notes on portraits
20. Portraits: Charles Fourier; eight copies of a print
21. Caricatures
22. Views of Ideal Community
23. Views of Ideal Community by J. Sartain in Constitution of the Philadelphia Unitary Building Association
24. Portraits
25. Printed Works; photocopies
26. Community Buildings and Sites
27. Maps
28. Manuscripts; photos
29. Wisconsin Phalanx paintings and designs
30. Check-list of books containing Brook Farm letters
31. Notes and clippings on Fourierist publications
32. Pamphlets (10)

V. Other Communities

A. Shakers

1. Influences of Shakers
2. General notes
3. Unsorted notes
4. Indiana--Busro, or West Union
5. Massachusetts--Hancock
6. New York--Mount Lebanon
7. New York--Mount Lebanon; article by B. Roueche
8. Ohio--Watervliet
9. Notes on Shakers and Galena, Illinois church
10. Library of Congress manuscripts
11. Clippings and Broadsides
12. Clippings
13. Pamphlets (21)

B. To 1860

1. Arkansas--Harmonial Vegetarian Society; 1860
2. Connecticut--Wallingford Comnunity (branch of Qneida) ; 1851
3. Delaware--Plockhoy's
4. Illinois--Bishop Hill
5. Illinois--Nauvoo (Icaria); 1849
6. Illinois--Nauvoo (Icaria); correspondence
7. Illinois--Nauvoo (Icaria); clippings
8. Indiana--Christianna or Kristeen (project only); 1845
9. Indiana--Coal Creek Community; ca. 1825
10. Indiana--Congregation of Saints; 1843
11. Indiana--Grand Prarie Harmonial Institute; 1853
12. Indiana--Harmonie
13. Indiana--Union Home; 1844
14. Iowa--Amana
15. Iowa--Amana; pamphlets
16. Iowa--Communia; 1847
17. Iowa--Garden Grove Community
I8. Iowa--Icaria
19. Iowa--Jaspis Kolonie (Swedenborgian); 1851
20. Maryland--Labadists; 1683
21. Massachusetts--Fruitlands; 1843
22. Massachusetts--Hopedale; 1842
23. Massachusetts--Northampton; 1842
24. Missouri--Bethel; 1844
25. Missouri--Cheltenham (Icarian); 1858
26. Missouri--New Helvetia; foreign-language, non-religious; 1844
27. Missouri--Order of Enoch or United Order; Independence (Mormon); 1831
28. New York--Attractive Cormiunity; Galen, Wayne Co. (project only??)
29. New Vork--Ebenezer
30. New York--Jerusalem (Jemima Wilkinson); 1788
31. New York--Kiantone; 1853
32. New York--Modern Times; 1851
33. New York--Oneida Community; 1848
34. New York--Skaneateles Community; 1843
35. New York--Union; Clark's Crossing near Potsdam; 1804
36. Ohio--Community of United Christians; Berea, Cuya-hoga Co.; 1837
37. Ohio--Equality (Josiah Warren); Tuscarawas Co.
38. Ohio--Fruit Hills; 1845
39. Ohio--Kirtland (Mormon); 1830
40. Ohio--Memnomia; 1856
41. Ohio--Prarie Home; 1844
42. Ohio--Spring Hill; 1829ff.
43. Ohio--True Brotherhood (site of Clermont ^halanx)
44. Ohio--Utopia, or Trialsville (Josiah Warren); 1847
45. Ohio--Zoar; 1817
46. Oregon--Aurora; 1856
47. Pennsylvania--Bethlehem, and other Moravian communities
48. Pennsylvania--Economy (Rappite); 1825 (see also Ind.--Harmonie)
49. Pennsylvania--Ephrata; 1732
50. Pennsylvania--McKean County; Teutonia; 1842
51. Pennsylvania/Louisiana--New Philadelphia Society (Count Leon)
52. Pennsylvania--Peace Union; 1843
53. Pennsylvania--Women in the Wilderness
54. Texas--Bettina; 1847
55. Texas--Icaria; 1848
56. Wisconsin--Ephraim (Moravian); 1853
57. Wisconsin--Germania, or "The Company," Shields Township, Marquette Co.
58. Wisconsin St. Nazianz; 1854
59. Wisconsin--Voree (Mormon schismatics); 1848
60. Amish
61. Settlements that were not Communitarian
62. Great Britain--Concordium
63. Mexico--Topolobampo (Sinaloa)
64. Paraguay--Jesuit Reducciones
65. Paraguay--William Lane's Experiment
66. Religious communities
67. Sectarian communities
68. Communitarianism; Clippings
69. Communitarianism; Unsorted clippings

C. After 1860

1. Alaska--Matanuska Valley
2. California--Kaweah; 1880fs
3. California/Louisiana--Llano; 1914
4. Colorado--Union Colony; 1869
5. Georgia--Christian Commonwealth; 1896
6. Georgia--Koinonia; 1940s-50s
7. Georgia--Macedonia Cooperative Community, Clarksville; see also correspondence: Newton, David
8. New York--Brocton, Salem-on-Erie; 1860s
9. New York--Father Divine
10. New York--Miscellaneous
11. South Dakota--Hutterites; 1874
12. Tennessee--Rugby; 1880s
13. Washington--Burley
14. U.S. government projects
15. Communes of 1960s and 1970s
16. Australia--New Island Community; 1963
17. Canada--Harmony Island (Doukhobor)
18. New Zealand--Phila; documents lent by R. L. Keyes, Oct. 31, 1965
19. Other communities
20. Project of Thomas O. Karst to investigate communes of the 1970s
21. U.S. Census of Religious Bodies, 1926, 1936
22. Clippings

D. Pictures and Pamphlets

1. Connecticut--Enfield (Shakers)
2. Illinois--Bishop Hill
3. Illinois--Nauvoo
4. Kentucky--Pleasant Hill (Shakers)
5. Maine--Sabbathday Lake (Shakers)
6. Massachusetts--Hancock (Shakers)
7. Massachusetts--Hopedale
8. New Hampshire--East Canterbury (Shakers)
9. New Hampshire--Enfield (Shakers)
10. New York--Mt. Lebanon (Shakers)
11. New York--Salem-on-Erie, Brocton (Harris Community)
12. New York--Watervliet or Niskeyuna (Shakers)
13. Ohio--Utopia
14. Ohio--Zoar
15. Pennsylvania--Economy (Rappites)
16. Pennsylvania--Ephrata
17. Pennsylvania--Harmony (Rappites)
18. Other American Communities
19. Mormon Pamphlets (8)
20. Other Pamphlets and clippings (10)

VI. Bibliography

A. Newspapers

1. Indiana--New Harmony Gazette and Free Enquirer
2. Massachusetts, Boston--Advertiser examined for Emerson
3. Massachusetts, Boston--Commonwealth; examined for Emerson
4. Massachusetts, Boston--Courier; examined for Emerson
5. Massachusetts, Boston--Journal; examined for Emerson
6. Massachusetts, Boston; various; examined for Emerson
7. Massachusetts, Concord; various; examined for Emerson
8. Massachusetts, Other towns; examined for Emerson
9. New York City--Courier & Enquirer
10. New York City--Herald
11. New York City--Post
12. New York City--Sun
13. New York City--Times
14. New York City--Times; index
15. New York City--Tribune; 1841-43
16. New York City--Tribune; 1844-47
17. New York City--Tribune; 1848 and after
18. New York City--Tribune; clippings concerning its history
19. New York City--other papers
20. New York, Rochester--Advertiser
21. New York, Rochester--Democrat
22. New York, Rochester--Republican
23. New York, Rochester--NYA Index
24. New York, Skaneateles
25. Ohio, Cincinnati; 1843-45
26. Ohio, Cleveland
27. Ohio; 1840-1850
28. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
29. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
30. Wisconsin, Ripon--Commonwealth; index of articles
31. England; examined for Emerson
32. Notes to File; Fourierist period
33. Extra carbons of transcripts

B. Periodicals

1. American Socialist (successor to Oneida Circular)
2. Boston Investigator
3. Bulletin de la Societe de Colonisation Europeo-Americaine au Texas
4. Bulletin Revue du Mouvement Social
5. Bulletin du mouvement Societaire en Europe et en Amerique
6. Bulletin Phalansterien
7. Christian Examiner
8. Christian Socialist
9. Communist (ed. by Alcander Longley); 1868ff.
10. Communist (Skaneateles)
11. Co-operative Magazine (London)
12. Credit Foncier of Sinaloa
13. The Crisis; original copies, v. I no.1-6, 10, 23, 36-38
14. Democratie Pacifique
15. Le Devoir
16. The Dial
17. Diamond
18. Educational Circular and Communist Apostle
19. L'Estafette, (New York); 1838-39
20. Etudes Sociales (Familistere de Guise); original copies of no. 1,2,3-2me ed.,4-7
21. Experimental Community Exchange (published by Cooperative Community Builders)
22. The Fourierist (Buffalo); 1844
23. The Future (New York)
24. Harbinger; references to it
25. Harbinger; photostats
26. Harbinger; original copies v. Ill #'s 2,3,10,12, 13,15, 26; v. IV numbers 5,7; gift of Miss Elizabeth Hoxie
27. Harbinger; checklist of articles, notes on articles
28. Harbinger; transcripts
29. Health Journal
30. Healthian
31. Herald of Progress (London); 1845-46
32. Herald of the New Moral World (New York); 1841-42
33. Herald of Truth
34. Journal of Association
35. La Libertaire (New York)
36. Liberator
37. London Phalanx
38. London Phalanx Monthly Magazine
39. Manifesto (Shakers)
40. Mechanic (Fall River, Massachusetts)
41. Model Republic
42. Monthly Miscellany
43. Morning Star
44. National Anti-Slavery Standard
45. New Age and Concordium Gazette
46. New England Farmer and Horticultural Register
47. New Industrial World
48. New Moral World
49. New Yorker
50. Nichols Monthly
51. Niles' (Weekly, National) Register
52. Non-Resistant
53. North American Phalanx
54. Nouveau Monde
55. Oneida Circular (Perfectionist)
56. Pathfinder
57. Peaceful Revolutionist; Periodical Letter (both periodicals of Josiah Warren)
58. Phalange, Journal de la Science Sociale
59. Phalange, Revue de la Science Sociale -
60. Phalansterian Record; Social Record
61. Phalanx (Buffalo)
62. Phalanx; transcripts and notes
63. Phalanx; photostats
64. Phalanx; references to it
65. Pioneer Phalanx
66. Ploughshare and Pruning Hook
67. Practical Christian; and other periodicals of Hopedale Community
68. The Present
69. Primitive Expounder
70. Reasoner
71. Red Republican
72. Reforme Industrielle, ou Le Phalanstere
73. Reformer, or Advocate of Industrial Association
74. Register (Orbiston); 1825-27
75. Regenerator
76. Renovation
77. Revue Encyclopedique
78. Science Sociale (Paris, 1867-70)
79. Shepherd
80. Social Pioneer
81. Social Reformer (Boston)
82. Social Revolutionist
83. Social Solutions
84. Spirit of the Age
85. Spirit of the Age; original copy #9 Sept. 1, 1849; gift of Miss Elizabeth Hoxie
86. Subterranean
87. Una
88. Univercoelum
89. Vermont Telegraph
90. Voice of Industry; New Era of Industry
91. Western Messenger
92. Working Bee (Hudsonian Society, Mamea Fen, Cambridgeshire); 1839-41
93. Working Man's Advocate
94. Yankee Doodle
95. Young America
96. Bibliographical Ghosts
97. Articles on Fourierism in British and American Periodicals before 1860
98. Fourierist Periodicals; Work in progress

C. Books and Pamphlets

1. Fourierist Publications in Great Britain and U. S.: A Critical Bibliography
2. Fourierist pamphlets; location of copies
3. Fourierist publications; notes for work in progress, 1843
4. Fourierist publications
5. Fourierist publications
6. Fourierist publications
7. Fourierist publications
8. Fourierist publications
9. Fourierist publications;
10. Fourierist bibliography
11. Fourierist Publications in Great Britain and U.S.: A Critical Bibliography; Introduction, notes
12. Fourierist Publications in Great Britain and U.S.: A Critical Bibliography; Early Drafts
13. A Bibliography of Utopias by Buell G. Gallagher notes 1844 notes 1845 notes 1846-47 notes 1848-50 notes 1851-59 notes after 1860
14. List of microfilm owned by Bestor
15. Books in English Dealing Indirectly with Fourierism
16. Memorandum on Considerant's Great West and on Brisbane's publishing activities, 1850-76
17. Notes on Fourier's Oeuvres Completes and individual works (other than Traite de 1'Association)
18. Translations from Fourier and French Fourierites
19. Co-Operative Movement--Broadsides

VII. Biographical Notes

1. Notes on Fourierites not associated with a particular phalanx
2. Authors of secondary works; notes
3. Adams, John Ouincy
4. Alcott, A. Bronson
5. Alcott, A. Bronson; clippings
6. Allen, John
7. Andrews, Stephen Pearl
8. Ballou, Adin
9. Barmby, Goodwyn
10. Bennett, James Gordon
11. Blanchard, Calvin
12. Blatchly, Cornelius Camden (including notes on Essay on Common Wealths)
13. Briancourt, Mathieu
14. Brindley, John (opponent of Owenism, England, 1840fs)
15. Brisbane, Arthur
16. Brooke, Abram
17. Brown, Bob; calendar of correspondence, 1918-40 in Bob Brown Collection in Ill. Hist. Survey
18. Brown, Paul
19. Brown, Solyman
20. Brownson, Orestes A.
21. Burton, Warren
22. Cabet, Etienne
23. Calvert, George H.
24. Capron, Eliab W.
25. Carlyle, Thomas
26. Channing, William Ellery
27. Channins;, William Henry
28. Chase, Warren
29. Clapp, Henry Jr.
30. Collins, John A.
31. Combe, Abram
32. Considerant, Victor
33. Conway, Moncure
34. Curtis, George William
35. Dana, Charles A.
36. Doherty, Hugh
37. Dorsey, James M.
38. Dwight, John Sullivan
39. Ely, Richard T.
40. Enfantin
41. Etzler
42. Evans, Frederick William
43. Fellenberg, Philipp Emanuel von
44. Fish, Benjamin (Rochester)
45. Fisher, James T.
46. Fitzhugh, George
47. Fowler, Orson S.
48. Frank, Michael
49. Frost, John
50. Frost, Thomas (Forty Years Recollection)
51. Fuller, Margaret
52. Giles, Edward
53. Girard, William
54. Godin, J. B. A.
55. Godwin, Parke
56. Grant, Elijah P.
57. Gray, John
58. Greaves, J. P.
59. Greeley, Horace
60. Griscom, John
61. Griswold, Rufus W.
62. Hansard, Luke (pseud.: Minor Hugo)
63. Harring, Harro
64. Harris, Thomas Lake
65. Hawthorne, Nathaniel
66. Hecker, Isaac T.
67. Hedge, Frederic Henry
68. Hempel, C. J.
69. Hennell, Mary
70. Hennequin, Victor
71. Hinds, William A.
72. Hine, L. A.
73. Howe, Samuel Gridley
74. Howland, Edward and Marie
75. James, Henry (the elder)
76. Kellogg, Miner K.; at New Harmony
77. Knight, Jane D. (Shaker sister)
78. Lane, Charles
79. Lazarus, Marx Edgeworth
80. Lechevalier, Jules
81. Leland, Theron C.
82. Longley, Alcander
83. Lowell, James Russell
84. Ludlow, William
85. Macdaniel, Osborne
86. Macdonald, A. J.
87. Macdonald, Donald
88. McLaren, Donald C.
89. Maclure, William
90. Maclure, William; Opinions on Various Subjects
91. Manesca, Jean
92. Maroncelli, Piero
93. Marx, Karl; and other Marxists
94. Mathews, Robert ("Matthias")
95. Meeker, Nathan
96. Morell, John Reynell
97. Morgan, John Minter
98. Murray, Orson S.
99. Neef, Joseph
100. Nichols, Mary Sargeant Gove
101. Nichols, Thomas Lowe
102. Nicholson, Valentine
103. Nordhoff, Charles
104. Noyes, J. H.; History of American Socialism
105. Orvis, John
106. Owen, Albert K.
107. Owen, Richard
108. Owen, Robert Dale
109. Owen, William
110. Peabody, Elizabeth ^almer
111. Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer; photostats
112. Pestalossi, John
113. Poe, Edgar Allan
114. Priber, Christian
115. Raymond, Henry J.
116. Ripley, George; editor
117. Ripley, Sophia
118. Ryckman, L. W.
119. Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, Comte de; and the Saint-simoniens
120. Sears, Charles
121. Shaw, Francis George
122. Simonin, Amadee H.
123. Smith, Gerrit
124. Smith, James E.; editor of Shepherd
125. Stillman, Edwin A.
126. Stone, Kirk H.; Alaskan Group Settlement
127. Theller, E. A.
128. Thompson, William
129. Thornburgh, James D.
130. Trollope, Frances
131. Tweedy, Edward
132. Tyler, Alice Felt; notes for a review of Freedom's Ferment
133. Underhill, Samuel
134. Van Amringe, Henry Hamlin
135. Warren, Josiah
136. Wattles, John 0.
137. Weitling, Wilhelm
138. Weld, Theodore Dwight
139. Whitman, Walt
140. Wilkinson, James John Garth
141. Williams, John S.
142. Wright, Frances
143. Wright, Henry G.
144. Young, Arthur

VIII. Miscellaneous

1. Notes on a variety of aspects of the 3 vol. Backwoods Utopias project
2. Notes on Owenism and Fourierism
3. Correspondence of Fourierites having nothing to do with Fourierism
4. Unsorted clippings on communitarianism, reform, etc.
5. Utilitarians on education
6. Utilitarians on education; final paper
7. Utilitarianism
8. Tennyson
9. Science, Dissent and Tennyson; drafts of sections not completed
10. Science in Tennyson's Intellectual Environment; early versions of sections
11. Science in Tennyson's Intellectual Environment; first fair copy
12. Science in Tennyson's Intellectual Environment; second fair copy
13. Science in Tennyson's Intellectual Environment; second fair copy revised for last copy
14. Tennyson and Science; notes
15. Science and Dissent; notes
16. Priestley, Dr. Joseph; done in connection with Tennyson and Science; March-April 1933
17. Dissenting Academies
18. Dissenters; relationship between U.S. colleges and English dissenting academies
19. Science, Dissent and Education; notes and bibliographies for future use
20. Population of England and Wales
21. Population in England in late 18th and early 19th centuries (paper written for Mr. David Owen's seminar, January 1934)
22. Birth control
23. Romanticism
24. David Jacks of Monterey, and Lee L. Jacks, His Daughter by A. E. Bestor
25. Dana-Greeley Break
26. G. W. Curtis; on the Dorr Rebellion
27. Proposal for Poison Gas
28. Octagonal Houses
29. Anti-Abolitionists
30. Foreign Travelers in America
31. Lyceums and Chautauouas; Encyclopaedia Britanica article
32. Rowland Hill's plan for Hone Colonies for Poor; 1832
33. U. of Ill. theses relating to Labor and Industrial Relations
34. Labor Union Journals and Newspapers available from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
35. Kollman, Eric C. M1848--The Parting of the Ways"
36. Capron, E.W.; Senaca Falls Women's Rights Convention
37. Unsorted notes
33. Bestor's critique of James J. Martin's "Men Against the State" for U. of Pa. Press
39. Review of proposed article by Harold F. Wilson for MVHR
40. William H. Chamberlin on Animal Farm
41. Lists of Books
42. Religious history book list
43. Ill.. Hist. Survey--Publications; mailing lists
44. Ill. Hist. Survey--Guide to mss. Collections
45. Memos to Research Assistants; uncompleted work
46. Historical Methods, Hist. 495
47. Historical Methods; editing documents
48. Arranging, Cataloguing and Microfilming a Small Manuscript Collection
49. Correspondence
50. Unitarian Church matters
51. Research to do--Illinois Historical Survey
52. Research to do--Indianapolis
53. Research to do--Cincinnati
54. Research to do--Washington, D.C.
55. Research to do--Elsewhere
56. Research to do--General
57. Notes--Chicago Historical Society
58. Notes--National Archives
59. Notes--Morgan (Pierpont) Library; 1953
60. Correspondence: letter I
61. Correspondence: Illinois State Historical Library
62. Correspondence: Indiana Historical Bureau
63. Correspondence: Indiana Historical Society
64. Correspondence: Indiana State Library
65. Clippings

IX. Microfilm

1. The Disseminator, Feb. 27, 1828 - June 3, 1829
2. The Social Revolutionist, 2 issues
3. The Communist (Skaneateles Community), July 10, 1844 - Mar. 5, 1846
4. The Present, Sept. 1843 - Mar. 1, 1844
5. Harbinger, July 1845 - Aug. 22, 1846, scattered
6. Harbinger, Nov. 6, 1847 - Feb. 10, 1849, scattered
7. U.S. Supreme Court Records, Dred Scott v. Sandford; case papers and Justices opinions
8. Senate Bill #1, 1st Cong, 1st sess., to create Judicial Courts of the U.S.; also other early bills
9. U.S. Supreme Court, published briefs of Mississippi v. Johnson; Georgia v. Grant; Ex parte McCardle and Ex parte Yerger
10. Calvin Blanchard books (7 title pages only) and two Damphlets advertising books he published
11. Albert Brisbane and Charles Fourier, General Introduction to Social Science, Sociological Series No. 1; Preface and 13 pp. of Introduction
12. Phalanx Associations' pamphlets (2)
13. William Henry Channing; part of unidentified work
14. George A. Throop Papers; microfilmed from Cornell University's Collection