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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78014241
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Lyman Bryson, radio and television broadcaster, author, and educator were given to the Library of Congress by Bryson in 1958. Bryson's wife, Katherine Bryson, gave additional papers in 1961 and 1979.
The papers of Lyman Bryson were arranged and described in 1962. The finding aid was revised and portions of the 1979 Addition were reprocessed in 1996. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
A description of the Bryson Papers appears in
A filmed interview conducted by Bryson with Arnold Joseph Toynbee in 1956 has been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where it is identified as part of the Lyman Bryson Papers.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Lyman Bryson in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of Lyman Bryson are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Lyman Bryson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Lyman Lloyd Bryson (1888-1959) span the years 1893-1978, with the bulk of the material dating from 1917 to 1959. The papers document Bryson's work for the American National Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies following World War I, his subsequent work in the field of adult education, and his role in developing educational radio and television programming for the Columbia Broadcasting System in the 1940s and 1950s. The collection also features many of Bryson's literary works, including drafts of novels, short stories, poems, and plays. The collection is arranged into five series: General Correspondence; Subject File; Speech, Article, and Book File; Miscellany; and a 1979 Addition.
The General Correspondence series covers virtually every aspect of Bryson's professional life and literary endeavors. Correspondence with friends, agents, and publishers, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, concerns Bryson's efforts to succeed as a writer. Correspondence with Red Cross colleagues in this series, the Subject File, and the 1979 Addition provides information on Bryson's work for the American National Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies as a publicist, his directorship of Junior Red Cross programs, and his extensive travels in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The addition includes Bryson's account of his interview with H. G. Wells in 1920 on behalf of the Junior Red Cross. The bulk of the General Correspondence series consists of correspondence with associates in the field of adult education, Columbia University faculty and administrators, and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executives. Correspondents include Bower Aly, Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner, George T. Bye, Morse A. Cartwright, James Mitchell Clarke, Mary L. Ely, Louis Finkelstein, Sir Claude H. Hill, Anne E. M. Jackson, Robert Edwin Olds, William S. Paley, and David Riesman.
The Subject File includes material from Bryson's participation in various conferences and seminars on adult education, public communication, and philosophy. Letters from listeners to CBS's
The Speech, Article, and Book File contains many of Bryson's lectures, articles, and books on adult education, public communication, and post World War II political, intellectual, and cultural developments. Also included is a draft of Bryson's novel, "William Blades," and correspondence with the publishers of
A small Miscellany series includes appointment books, biographical material, business and financial records, letters of recommendation, programs, and clippings.
The 1979 Addition comprises general correspondence, Red Cross correspondence, transcripts and programs from Bryson's CBS broadcasts, fan letters, and clippings which complement material found in the collection. The addition also contains Bryson's reminiscences based on oral interviews with him conducted in 1951. While covering his childhood and early career, this autobiographical account focuses particularly on Bryson's work for CBS, his chairmanship of CBS's Adult Education Board from 1938 to 1942, his appointment as Director of Education in 1942, and his role in the creation and hosting of educational programs. Family correspondence exchanged chiefly between Bryson and his parents contains detailed accounts of Bryson's activities from his freshman year at the University of Michigan in 1906 through 1940. The bulk of the addition consists of drafts of Bryson's short stories, plays, novels, and poetry, many of them unpublished. An account journal, begun by Bryson in 1917, records the sale of some of these works.
This collection is arranged in five series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78014241
Letters sent and received.
Arranged alphabetically by name of individual or organization and chronologically therein.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, articles, conference and seminar material, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Handwritten, typewritten, near-print, and printed copies with related correspondence of Bryson's speeches, lectures, broadcasts, articles, books, reviews, novel, and poems.
Grouped by type of literary work.
Appointment books, biographical material, business and financial records, letters of recommendation, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically therein.
Family and general correspondence; diary; reminiscences; biographical material; obituaries; radio and television transcripts; fan letters; drafts of short stories; plays, poems, novels, articles, lectures, essays, and books; notes and notebooks; scrapbook; and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.