Series I. Biographical Files, 1902-74, n.d. 2 l.f.

Box 1

Annual Reports to the President, 1936-49
Biographical data, 1936-71 (4f)
Deeds and related papers, 1902, 1941, 1946
Financial records (bank statements, receipts), 1939-49
Fulbright grant records, 1932-33, 1959-60, 1972, n.d. (3f)
Grade reports, 1926-30
Guggenheim Foundation application documents, 1941-43
Insurance policies, 1934-42
Invitations, 1954-72
Legal documents, 1940-41
Letters of introduction, 1939
Miscellany (business cards, map, wallet), 1931-43, n.d.

Box 2

Medical records, 1967, 1970, n.d.
Passport pictures, 1933, n.d.
Royalty statements (Medieval Political Ideas, by Ewart Lewis, London: Routledge & Paul, 1954)
Salary records, 1937-71, n.d.
Social Security records, 1970-74, n.d.
Tax forms, 1974
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Assoc., 1970-72

Box 3

Undergraduate and graduate student files, 1926-33, n.d.
Oberlin College student files, 1926-28 (11f)

Box 4

University of Michigan student files, 1928-30 (10f)

Box 5

University of Michigan student files, 1931-33 (17f)

Box 6

University of Michigan student files, 1933 (2f)

Series II. Lewis Family Correspondence (Personal), 1928-72, n.d. 1 l.f.

Subseries 1. Correspondence of John D. Lewis (Incoming)

Box 7

Correspondence, A-M, 1928-49, n.d.
Correspondence, N-W, 1930-44, n.d.
Artz, Frederick B., 1940-41
Beard, Charles, n.d.
Clayman, Jacob, ca. 1941, n.d.
Cushman, Robert E., 1928-29, 1940
Graus, John M., 1929, 1932-33, 1941
Jaszi, Oscar, 1929-44
Kenyon, Cecelia Marie, 1943-48 (2f)

Box 8

Lanyi, George, 1955-60, 1972 n.d. (2f)
Lanyi, Susi, 1955-57, 1972, n.d.
Lewis, David, 1947-48

Box 9

Lewis, Ewart Kellogg, 1932-50, n.d. (9f)

Box 10

Lewis, John T., 1933-38
Lewis, Lew J., 1939-44
Lewis, Mary, 1931-44
Love, Donald M., 1939-50
McIlwain, Charles Howard, 1929-30
Mason, John Brown, 1932-38
Ogg, Frederic A., 1928-33
Potter, Pitman B., 1929-42
Smith, T.V., 1936-38
Wiggins, Henry H., 1942
Wittke, Carl, 1940
Unidentified, 1932-46, n.d.

Subseries 2. Correspondence of Ewart Kellogg Lewis

Correspondence (incoming), 1932-50, n.d.

Series III. Professional Correspondence of John D. Lewis, 1941-76, n.d. 3 l.f.

Subseries 1. Correspondence, 1941-76, n.d.

Box 11

Correspondence, 1941-48, n.d. (13f)

Box 12

Correspondence, 1949-65, n.d. (18f)

Box 13

Correspondence, 1966-76, n.d. (9f)

Subseries 2. Letters of Recommendation, 1941-76

Box 14

Letters, D-Oberlin Presidential Search, 1955-70 (15f)

Box 15

Letters, P-W, 1954-75 (10f)

Box 16

Letters, 1941/42-1961/62 (18f)

Box 17

Letters, 1962/63-1967/68 (6f)

Box 18

Letters, 1968/69-1975-76 (6f)

Series IV. Teaching Materials, 1933-73, n.d. l l.f.

Box 19

Political Science course materials, 1933-60 (18f)

Box 20

Political Science course materials, 1961-73, n.d. (22f)

Box 21

Miscellaneous teaching materials, 1943-72, n.d. (12f)

Series V. Research Notes and Writings, 1934-75, n.d. 2.8 l.f.

Subseries 1. Research Notes, n.d.

Box 22

Research notes (4 x 7 cards), n.d.

Box 23

Research notes (4 x 7 cards), n.d.

Subseries 2. Writings, 1934-75, n.d.

Box 24

Articles

"American Degrees and British Students": reprint from Oversea Education, Vol. XXXII, No. 3, Oct 1960
"The Caribbean Policy of the Roosevelt Administration", ms. typescript, n.d.
"Democratic Planning in Agriculture" (American Political Science Review Vol. XXXV, No. 2, April 1941): correspondence, 1941
"Formal Systematic Political Theory": ms. draft, n.d.
"Gierke, Otto von": uncorrected proof of article for McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography, 1971
"Gierke, Otto von": edited copy of article (and attached correspondence) for the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 1964
"The Individual and the Group in Marxist Theory": reprint from The International Journal of Ethics, vol. XLVII, No. 1 Oct, 1936
"Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy: 1848 and 1948" [published conference paper], 1948
"Tyrannicide": correspondence and proof of article for The Encyclopedia Americana, 1961

Book Reviews, 1935-77, n.d.

Box 25

Books

Against the Tyrant, by Oscar Jaszi and John D. Lewis (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, [1957])

Ms. notes, n.d.
Ms. draft (incomplete), n.d.
Original ms. draft, n.d.
First complete typescript draft, 1939
Second (revised) ms. draft, [1942]
Second (revised) typescript draft, n.d.
Third (revised) typescript draft, Chapters 1-8, n.d.
Correspondence with various publishers, 1943, 1950-51
Correspondence with The Free Press, 1954-75
Correspondence with Oscar Jaszi, 1950-52

Box 26

Anti-Federalists versus Federalists: Selected Documents (San Francisco: Chandler Pub. Co., [1967])

Correspondence and royalty statements, 1961-75

The Genossenschaft-theory of Otto von Gierke; a study in Political Thought (Madison, 1935)

Ms. draft (incomplete), 1934
Typescript draft, Chapters 1-9, Appendices, n.d. (3f)
Revised typescript draft, Chapters 1-8, Appendices, n.d. (3f)
Published version, 1935

Box 27

Memorial Minutes

Fenn, Thomas, 1964
Jaszi, Oscar, 1957
Nichol, Carl C. W., 1969

Reports

"County Land Use Planning," 1940
"Report on the Progress of Land-Use Planning During 1939," January 30, 1940
"Report on the Progress of Land-Use Planning During 1939" (revised), January 31, 1940

Talks

"American Party History", ca. 1936
"The American Welfare State", 1960
"The Case for Liberal Democracy", 1954, 1957
"Chapel Talks" (collected), ca. 1936-65
"Coming to Conclusions", n.d.
"Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution", 1947
"Democracy and Leadership", 1958
"Democracy in the World Today", 1946
"Early American Socialism", original and revised ms. drafts, n.d.
"The Essential Elements of Democratic Theory", ca. 1938
"Fathers and Sons in America", 1959 (2f)
"Federal-State Relations", 1944
"Greek Democracy and Modern Democracy", 1956
"Jefferson and American Democracy", ca. 1956

Box 28

Marxism (various talks), 1950
"New Trends in Political Science", 1960-61
"The People's Choice", 1952
"Paine and Jefferson", 1942
"The Pattern of American Politics", 1960 (2f)
"The Pattern of American Political Thought 1890-1914", n.d.
"Political Science: The Present State of the Discipline", 1965 (2f)
"Some Comments on Walter Lippmann's An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society," ca. 1937
"Traditional Political Theory: Its Uses and Abuses", 1968 (3f)
Tribute to Robert K. Carr, 1970
"What Happened to American Socialism", 1960
"What of Russia", 1946
Various talks, 1936-46, n.d.

Box 28a

Thesis

"The King Can Do No Wrong: An Analysis of the Doctrine of State Immunity from Suit in English and American Law," 1929

Series VI. Subject Files, 1932-77, n.d. 3.2 l.f.

Box 29

American Political Science Association (APSA), 1947, 1970, 1977 (3f)
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, 1966-68
American Thought (clippings), 1935-39
Beard [Charles]: Lewis' research notes for The Idea of National Interest, 1932
British Elections 1944-66 (chart), n.d.
Campus violence: miscellany, 1968-70
Constitution: West Germany, 1949 (clippings)
Constitutions: France (clippings and texts), 1946, 1958
Council on Foreign Relations, 1939

Box 30

Election results, France, Germany, Italy, 1949-65
Jaszi fund (correspondence), 1942-43
Jaszi fund (accounts and publicity), 1943-57
Journal of Politics (corresp.), 1949
Midwest Political Science Association, 1968
Mussolini, Benito: reprint of an article in Enciclopedia Italiana, 1932
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1977

Box 31

Oberlin College

Codification Committee to the College Council (report), n.d.
Educational Policy Committee, 1949-50
Faculty Council on Promotions, 1949-65
General Council Committee to Study A.A.U.P. Salary Report, 1946-47 (4f)
General Faculty salary scales, 1966-67
Governance controversy, 1973 (2f)
Grading System, 1946-48

Box 32

Honorary degrees (nominees, citations), 1963-70, n.d.
Student-Faculty Committee on Atomic Energy, 1946

Oberlin election study: 1908-38, ca. 1938
Office of Facts and Figures (U.S. gov't. survey), 1938, 1940
Publishers (corresp. with), 1941-45, 1968-69, 1975 (3f)
Ranney, John C. (misc. corresp.), 1948
Student papers, 1941, 1966-67, 1972 (3f)
Writings of Oberlin colleagues

Dawson, Paul A., conference paper, 1973
Gaus, John (course materials), 1935-37
Jaszi, Oscar, English translation of Etienne de La Boetie, Discours de la servitude volontaire (ms. typescript), n.d.
Simpson, George, "Cultural Relativism", n.d.
Wilson, Harlan, "Complexity as a Theoretical Problem", n.d.