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These tables of contents are intended to provide general guides to the contents of the Ayn Rand Papers and the Special Collections. The categories indicated below do not constitute an exhaustive list of types of materials in the cartons, but rather the dominant themes of the materials. Finding aids will be added to this Web site at a later date.

THE AYN RAND PAPERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Correspondence regarding media, novels, writing assignments, NBI students

  • Book publicity, clippings, personal notes

  • Ayn Rand and Frank O’Connor personal material

  • Associates in print

  • Correspondence with colleagues, NBI, other business correspondence

  • Ayn Rand articles and notes

  • Fan mail answered

  • Lectures and media, stamps, law suits, campus talks

  • Screenplays

  • Anthem and short stories

  • Night of January 16th

  • Atlas Shrugged films

  • Ideal, “Think Twice”

  • Clippings, Atlas Shrugged reviews and articles

  • Russian letters

  • Magazines mentioning Ayn Rand

  • We the Living book and play, fan mail

  • Souvenirs, politics

  • Magazines containing Ayn Rand writings

  • Atlas Shrugged: research, clippings

  • Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, For the New Intellectual

  • The Fountainhead book and film

  • Miscellaneous writings and correspondence

  • Lectures: radio, campus, Ford Hall Forum, NBI

  • Book and film business correspondence

  • Branden break, NBI

  • Clippings, The Ayn Rand Letter

  • Clippings

  • Copyrights, legal and business correspondence

  • Marginalia, old documents

  • Alphabetical correspondence

  • Clippings

  • Business materials

  • Fan mail (unanswered)

  • Atlas Shrugged notes, outlines, ms. pages, typescript

  • Atlas Shrugged film, Russian documents, early notebooks

  • Misc. early materials and memorabilia

  • “Second-Hand Lives” notebook

  • Misc., including memorabilia and Russian documents

  • Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology manuscript

  • Atlas Shrugged teleplay script and notes

  • Night of January 16th reviews

  • Reviews of Communist-influenced film scripts and misc.

  • “House of Mist” screenplays

  • Book contracts

  • Daily calendars

  • Photographs

  • Address books

  • Phonograph records

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (1982–present)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ayn Rand

LIFE
  • Biographies
    • Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
    • Other
  • History, business and legal
  • History, Russia
  • History, post-Russia
  • Media appearances
  • Organizations
  • Special interests/hobbies
WORKS
  • Bibliographies
  • Fiction
    • Anthem
    • Atlas Shrugged (book)
    • Atlas Shrugged (film)
    • The Fountainhead (book)
    • The Fountainhead (film)
    • Ideal
    • Night of January 16th
    • We the Living (book)
    • We the Living (film)
    • Other fiction
  • Foreign editions
  • Nonfiction
    • The Ayn Rand Column
    • Journals of Ayn Rand
    • Letters of Ayn Rand
    • Periodicals
    • Other nonfiction
  • Personal notes and other writings
    • Inscriptions
    • Letters
    • Other
  • Publishers (New American Library, Random House, Penguin)

  • Other People/Organizations

  • Academic
    • Courses
    • Faculty
    • Publications
  • Book and media mentions
  • Family, friends and colleagues
    • Adrian
    • Ayn Rand family members
    • Capuletti
    • DeMille, Cecil B./Hollywood)
    • Engels, Wera
    • Greenspan, Alan
    • Hill, Ruth Beebe
    • Kinstler, Everett
    • Lebedeff, Ivan
    • O’Connor, Frank
    • Peikoff, Leonard
    • Shulman, Julius
    • Vaught Family
    • Wright, Evan and Mickey
    • Wright, Frank Lloyd
    • Others
  • Organizations and publications
  • Special collections and donations

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