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Box Contents List
Series VIII - Archives of Henry F. Odell
Box 55
Biographic Material
Official and Other Documents
“Documents” = brown folder with flap. Includes birth and marriage
certificates; “Affidavit of support” for entry in the USA; résumés
1 envelope = passport, carbon copy of May 17, 1974 last will and testament;
December 21, 1975 living will
Membership cards
Personal stationery, return address labels, personal calling card
4 birthday cards from Lil Picard, 1968, 1974, 1975, and 1 undated, made and
decorated by her
Material relating to Henry Odell’s restitution case
Engagement Books
23 engagement books, 1954 -- 1976
Autobiographic Writings
1 gray envelope marked in LP’s hand, “Dell’s/Manuscript/Amboise
1963/fragment/unfinished”: 9-page ms., 1963
1 manila folder marked in Henry Odell’s hand, “Collegianenverein.” Includes:
“Erinnerungen aus meiner Schulzeit im Königlichen Französischen
Gymnasium, 1896-1908”: 19-page ms.; 7-page typescript with holograph
corrections; 2 incomplete carbon copies of typescript. With: DER COLLEGIANER/INFO,
number 105, Berlin, 1 November 1975 in which the text is published
“Fürtenbergiana”: 2-page ms., n.d.
Untitled memoir: 4 notebooks, numbered I-III, the 4th unnumbered. 419
manuscript pages, April 1972-1976 and 4 unnumbered pages in LP’s
hand dated may 13, 1976. The first notebook has a felt pen drawing and
dedication by LP; her appraisal, pages 30-34, of the material in the
first 30 pages; and 3 photographs loosely laid-in.
Other Writings
Miscellaneous holograph notes on 2 leaves
Passage from Arthur Koestler’s “The Lotus and the Robot” copies
by hand on 2 pages
Unidentified writer, Untitled 69 + 3-page typescript dated 17 December 1930
on first page
Photographs
“Family Photos and Friends”: brown folder labeled in Henry Odell’s
hand. Circa 70 black and white photographs, including a few of LP; 2 fragments
of black and white contact sheets (3 images each)
1 album, 1 brown Mark Cross box, and 1 Berkey Photo Service box: 146 photographs
(37 color) of unidentified person
1 envelope: 6 black and white photographs of unidentified interior
Box 56
Correspondence
Brown folder with flap labeled “Correspondence” in Henry Odell’s
hand: letters received, carbon copies of letters sent, 1950s to 1970s.
Includes original holograph and Xerox copy of September 15, 1975 eleven-page
letter to Hans [Firstenberg?]
Correspondence to Henry Odell
Black portfolio with clear plastic pockets: 68 pieces from Alice Croner,
Ruth Fabian and Hans Fürsbenberg, among others. Mostly 1960s and
1970s
1 folder:
Peter Frank, (1), 1973
Dr. Vladimir Gurewich, (1), 1972
Dr. Reinhold Michelly, (1), 1976
Thomas B. Schumann, (1), 1976
Thomas G. Traube, (1), 1976
Correspondence to and from Ernst Matthiensen [Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main],
1961 -- 1975: 1 pink folder
Publications
Felix JÜDELL. Dresdner Bank/Ihre Entwicklung von 1872 -- 1914, n.d. [1929]
26 publications of the Französisches Gymnasium, Berlin, 1965 -- 1976
Photographs of Art Works
38 black and white photographs and 4 color transparencies
Medical Records
1 manila folder marked “Operations log,” 1963 -- 1970
2 brown folder with flap: Medicare
Financial Records
Brown folder with flap labeled “Dresdner Bank”: correspondence,
statements, 1945 -- 1976
Manila folder: Hardy & Co., Frankfurt-am-main: correspondence, statements,
1957 -- 1966
Brown folder with flap marked “Taxes and Insurance”: 1957 --
1968
Manila folder marked “Bear, Stearns & Co./Sutro Bros. & Co.” =
1960 -- 1962
Joint savings accounts bankbooks: Greenwich Savings Bank (2), Manhattan Savings
Bank (2)
Miscellaneous papers: credit cards statements, insurance policy 1971 --
1974, cancelled checks, holograph notes
Envelope marked “Correspondence/Con Edison”
1 expanding folder: Chase Manhattan Bank account: cancelled checks, statements,
1957 -- 1961
Box 57 Financial Records, cont.
2 expanding folders: Chase Manhattan Bank account: cancelled checks, statements,
1965 -- 1970, 1971 -- 1975
1 expanding folder: financial records, 1975 -- 1976
Brown folder with flap marked “Henry F. Odell/Lil Picard A/C/1976”
