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 Ernest Hemingway and Clara Spiegel in Ketchum, Idaho. Photo courtesy of Andrew Spiegel. |
An Introduction
When Averell Harriman and the Union Pacific Railroad opened the Sun Valley ski resort outside of Ketchum, Idaho, in 1936, one of the very first guests to visit and ski was Clara Gatzert Spiegel (1904-1997) of Chicago, Illinois. The wife of mail-order magnate Frederick W. Spiegel, Clara was precisely the kind of visitor the resort hoped to attract: wealthy, outdoorsy, and socially well-connected. But unlike so many who came and visited, Clara Spiegel eventually made Sun Valley her home, returning to the resort time and again before finally moving to Ketchum in the early 1950s. Clara Spiegel was a novelist, short story writer, big game hunter, trout fisher, world traveler, patron of the arts and culture, and pillar of the social life in Ketchum and Sun Valley. A friend of Ernest Hemingway’s, she was profiled in Town & Country and Current Biography; her novels, written under the pseudonym Clare Jaynes, made the best-seller lists, and one of them was brought to the big screen by Warner Brothers. Her passion, beyond writing, was the outdoors, whether skiing in Sun Valley, big game hunting in Africa, or trout fishing in the familiar streams near her Idaho home. She was out fishing just two weeks before her death, catching a 23-inch trout while seated in a wheel chair. In 1999, her son Andrew donated Clara Spiegel’s literary and personal papers to Boise State University, where they are part of the Idaho Writers Archive in Albertsons Library.
Table of Contents
Series II: Clare Jaynes Literary Papers
Series III: Clara Spiegel Literary Papers
Series IV: Journals and Travel Writings
 Spiegel (right), with her friend and literary collaborator, Jane Mayer. Together they were Clare Jaynes. From her literary scrapbooks. |
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When Averell Harriman and the Union Pacific Railroad opened the Sun Valley ski resort outside of Ketchum, Idaho, in 1936, one of the very first guests to visit and ski was Clara Spiegel of Chicago, Illinois. The wife of mail-order magnate Frederick W. Spiegel, Clara was precisely the kind of visitor the resort hoped to attract: wealthy, outdoorsy, and socially well-connected. To establish its reputation as a destination for the smart set, the resort courted celebrities. Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper were among the early visitors who put Sun Valley on the map; so did bandleader Glenn Miller and Olympic skater Sonja Heine, who starred together in the 20th Century-Fox film, Sun Valley Serenade (1941). Clara Spiegel soon came into the limelight herself as the author of best-selling novels in the 1940s, but unlike the celebrities lured to there for publicity purposes, or the short-term visitors drawn by its snow and glamour, Spiegel eventually settled in Sun Valley, moving into a house she built to her specifications on a hill overlooking Ketchum. There, for more than 40 years, she enjoyed the outdoors life—fishing, hunting, skiing, and horseback riding—and established herself as one of the pillars of the town’s social life. “No one…entertains with more style and élan than Clara Spiegel,” wrote Town & Country magazine in a 1983 profile of the resort town, characterizing her as “a dynamic, highly independent woman…whose exuberant spirit of adventure personifies much of what Sun Valley is about.” [1]
Clara Elizabeth Gatzert Spiegel was born on December 6, 1904, in her parents’ home at 4915 Washington Park Court on the south side of Chicago. Her father, August Gatzert, born in Germany, was a clothing manufacturer, active in industry groups and the Chicago Association of Commerce; her mother, Isabel Rosalie Florsheim, was a Chicago native whose father, Simon Florsheim, was a corset manufacturer. He also was born in Germany. Clara’s aunt Dolly (her mother’s sister) lived on the same block on Washington Park Court; grandfather Simon and grandmother Elizabeth Florsheim lived on the next street over. The Gatzerts were more far-flung; her grandmother Gatzert and an aunt still lived in Germany, and another aunt in Paris. Her parents spoke English, German, and French, and Clara learned each of those languages as a child.[2]
Young Clara grew up with an older brother, Walter, and a governess, Maria Antonia Paulina Plaff, who lived with the family in a room adjacent to Clara’s. To Clara, she was a beloved figure, known as “Fraulein.” The household also included a waitress, a cook, a housemaid, and a houseman. Although her family moved away to a larger home when she was only six, Clara Spiegel retained vivid memories of Washington Place Court. She remembered the gypsy vans that plied the alleys, as well as the lamp lighter, the scissors sharpener, and the organ grinder and his monkey, who would dance for a penny. She remembered her neighborhood as one of brick and grey stone houses, “of nameless architectural styles which like their owners were pleasant, unobtrusive, and unpretentious.” “Beyond the sidewalks on each side [of the street] were ten-foot strips of lawn running to the curbs and spaced with shade trees which in summer umbrella’d the walks and porches from the direct sun. It was over the tops of these trees that I saw Halley’s Comet for the first time, held up in my father’s arms as he pointed out the star and its brilliant long, wide tail… ‘One only sees this once in a life-time,’ he told my brother and me, ‘so remember it well.’ He did not know nor suspect that 75 years later I would see it again from very far away…”[3]
Washington Park Court, as Clara remembered it, was ethnically and religiously diverse. “There were Irish Catholics and German Jews and French Protestants and mostly Anglo-Saxons of whatever religion. It was a typical upper middle class, upper middle income, upper middle culture residential area where the inhabitants were neighborly neighbors and acquaintances but not necessarily friends.”[4] The Gatzerts were of Jewish origin, but if religion played a large role in their lives, it is not reflected in Clara Spiegel’s writings. She did write in general terms on the discrimination Jews faced in Chicago high society (“a conglomeration of the newly-rich”) in the years before World War I: “No Jew, however cultured or however rich, was ever considered for a position on a museum or orchestral board. No Jew, however good a horseman, was ever considered for membership in the local hunts or the local polo clubs. Jewish young women were not nominated for membership in the local Junior League, much less invited to join it. And no Jew’s name ever appeared in that new and formidably ludicrous publication known as the Social Register.”[5] As to any personal instances of discrimination, her papers are silent.
Clara attended the Faulkner School, a private school for girls in Chicago, from kindergarten through high school. She also attended ballet school and rode with her father every day before breakfast, conspiring with him to keep from her mother any news of the many times she was thrown from the horse. When it came time to go to college, she journeyed East to enroll in Vassar College in Massachusetts. She studied at Vassar just one year before returning to Chicago, where, on December 1, 1923, a few days shy of her nineteenth birthday, she married Frederick W. Spiegel. Together they settled into a home in Glencoe, Illinois, one of Chicago’s North Shore suburbs. Frederick Spiegel was an executive with his family’s mail-order business, Spiegel, Inc.; during World War I he had driven ambulances with Ernest Hemingway in Italy and was counted among the novelist’s personal friends. Clara Spiegel settled into a life centered on her home, charity and community work, a busy social life with her husband, and eventually, their children. The Spiegels had two sons, Andrew and William. Much of their early social life centered on the Lake Shore Country Club, a Jewish country club in Glencoe. Clara served on the committee that organized the club’s annual musical skit in 1925 and chaired the committee in 1926. The printed program for “The Lake Shore Worries of 1926” credits her as one of three writers of the music and lyrics; Frederick was the stage manager. She also took up fox hunting and apache dancing.[6]
In 1928 the Spiegels went on a two-month cruise to the Mediterranean. They sailed first to Spain, then on to Morocco, Italy, and France. “We rediscovered Europe, quite on our own, very young, green and enthralled with everything we saw and did. We found we could break the rather rigid mold in which we had been raised and expose ourselves to ways of life as foreign to us as the countries and the people.”[7] The letters Clara wrote home describing Vigo, Rabat, Rome, and other places they visited are among the earliest writings represented in her papers. Her developing literary style is evident even in these letters, and they represent the first of a lifetime’s worth of letters and journals chronicling her travels.
During the 1930s, Clara began collaborating with Jane Mayer, a friend and classmate from her Vassar days who lived about a mile away from her, to write stories. During the summer of 1932, at Jane’s home in Glencoe, they completed an eighty-nine page typescript entitled “Guardian of the North,” an adventure-romance set in the Canadian wilderness. It was published in Five Novels Monthly in August 1933 under the joint pseudonym Janice Claremont.[8] Janice Claremont’s literary career was a brief one, however, for she soon was supplanted by Clare Jaynes. Over the next decade, using the Jaynes pseudonym, Clara Spiegel and Jane Mayer successfully placed more stories in other magazines, both British and American, including Mademoiselle, The Tatler, Liberty, and most notably, The New Yorker (“Visitors for the Soldiers,” April 17, 1943). They also contributed book reviews to Chicago newspapers. Their story “The Coming of Age,” published in Story magazine, was one of the O. Henry Memorial Award prize stories of 1942.
It was the appearance of their first novel, Instruct My Sorrows, published by Random House in 1942, however, that first brought widespread recognition to the literary partnership. The story of a wealthy young widow (from the fashionable suburbs of Chicago) forced to redirect her life after her husband’s sudden death, the book became a best-seller and attracted favorable reviews in newspapers across the country. “A very fine first novel, written with verve and sensitive awareness,” wrote the Boston Herald; “a novel that is entertaining and…definitely superior to most stories of this kind,” according to Bess Jones in the Saturday Review of Literature. Despite a negative review from the Des Moines Register (“not much ahead of the dozens of sentimental agony serials with which the radio titillates the housewife”), Instruct My Sorrows caught Hollywood’s eye, and in 1946 Warner Brothers sent it to the big screen as My Reputation, starring Barbara Stanwyck.[9]
Spiegel and Mayer followed up on the success of their first novel with three more, These are the Times (1944), This Eager Heart (1947), and The Early Frost (1952). Their literary success brought numerous invitations to speak at book clubs and writers’ forums, and the two were featured in full-page profiles in Wilson Library Bulletin and Current Biography. In their joint talks, in particular, they outlined their collaborative writing process. They tried to work five to six hours together while their children were at school, in an office hideaway with no phone and no interruptions. “We discuss plot and characters until to us the characters have taken on the forms of actual people. We write a full outline of our plot. Then we divide this outline into episodes and one of us writes one episode while the other does the subsequent one. We then revise each other’s drafts and continue in this manner, until the manuscript is complete.” Their preparation before actual writing was extensive: developing full biographies of every one of their characters, with more detail than ever appeared in their books, to the point of drawing maps of the places the characters would frequent, and, on paper, decorating their homes and filling their wardrobes. The pair generally tried to work every weekday, save for during World War II, when they both devoted their Wednesdays and Fridays to volunteer work. Both Clara Spiegel and Jane Mayer contributed their time to the Red Cross.[10]
Locales familiar to Spiegel and Mayer figure prominently in their writings. Part of their first novel, Instruct My Sorrows, was set in Sun Valley, Idaho, a place Clara Spiegel was becoming increasingly familiar with since her first visit in early 1937. Though raised in the city, and well accustomed to big city culture and amenities, she fell in love with the Idaho outdoors. Her writing and travel journals (which begin in 1936) are silent in regard to her first visit, but in a much later memoir she looked back on her early experiences there. She discovered that “I could live two lives, the urban one of operas, theatre, exhibits, concerts and parties [in Chicago] and the equally wonderful one of the outdoors. I had found an outlet for my interest in hunting by learning to bird shoot and I had taken up skiing. I fell in love with the softly folded hills of Idaho and the sport they offered me and I spent several months each year there…My sons broadened too—in their shoulders and their brains—working on the trail crews which built the ski runs at Sun Valley. We fished and hunted and rode and camped and skied. We began to know something of what communion with a true wilderness can do for the soul.”[11]
On one extended visit in to Sun Valley and Ketchum in 1939, Clara Spiegel became better acquainted with her husband’s friend Ernest Hemingway, who was there to hunt, fish, and finish up his novel of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls. As Clara recounted to Hemingway’s biographer Carlos Baker, she helped him handle a backlog of mail by taking dictation for more than fifty letters; he reciprocated by offering advice on writing. Years later, she recalled some of Hemingway’s advice to her in commentary she herself prepared for a friend’s manuscript: “Long ago when H read a mss of mine to help me with my writing, he asked me how I liked a certain ¶ [paragraph]. I said I’d never been happy with it but couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. He knew. His advice was ‘Clara, don’t say it. Make it.’ It’s the best advice any writer could receive.”[12] Their work together in 1939 became the basis of a friendship of their own. Clara Spiegel and Ernest Hemingway dined, drank, and hunted together until the end of his life, and she became good friends with his wives Martha Gellhorn and Mary Welsh Hemingway and his sons as well.
In 1949, Clara and Frederick Spiegel divorced. She maintained an apartment in Chicago for many years, but spent more and more of her time away. In 1952 she purchased two lots on the corner of Sixth and Walnut Streets in Ketchum, where she built a house of her own. She immersed herself in the social, recreational, and philanthropic life of the Ketchum-Sun Valley community. She hunted, fished, rode horses, and skied; she entertained several nights a week; she devoted herself to community causes, notably the Ketchum Community Library and the Ballet Foundation. The town’s lack of a library was a drawback to many of its newer residents who were drawn there by the resort lifestyle but felt culturally isolated in the small mountain town without a bookstore or library. The story goes that in September 1954, on the seventh green of the Sun Valley golf course, Clara Spiegel and two friends resolved to create a library.[13] A few months later, seventeen women met to found the Community Library Association and began raising funds. They operated a thrift shop, organized benefits, solicited private contributions, and engaged the men of the community to assist their efforts. An architect volunteered his services to design a building, and in 1958, on a lot donated by the Union Pacific Railroad in the heart of Ketchum, they opened the library in a striking 2800 square-foot structure filled with 3,000 volumes. The library eventually outgrew those quarters and moved, but it is still operated by the association founded by Clara Spiegel.[14]
Spiegel’s absence from Chicago most of the time brought an effective end to her literary collaboration with Jane Mayer. The Early Frost (1952) was their last novel together, though they remained lifelong friends. In 1954 Spiegel signed a partnership agreement with ski instructor Fred Iselin (from whom she had purchased the Ketchum property) to produce motion picture and television scripts. They did write synopses and scripts for at least three ski and resort-related films, but none ever made it into production. Spiegel continued to write on her own, however, contributing occasional articles to Bon Appetit, Chicago Sun-Times, and other publications during the 1960s, and to local Sun Valley publications as late as 1990. She also wrote two unpublished novels (both set in resort locations) and an unpublished cookbook (“The Indolent Gourmet”), as well as a number of articles and an unpublished manuscript on a new passion, African big game hunting.
Clara Spiegel made her first visit to sub-Saharan Africa in 1957. In Tanganyika she reconnected with Patrick Hemingway, whom she had known when he was a child but had not seen for many years. He lived there as a big game hunter and guide, and in September 1960 Spiegel returned for a month-long safari with him, his wife, their infant daughter, and a twelve-man crew of native trackers and bearers. This was the first of several safaris she took in the 1960s, and she decorated her Ketchum home with her big game trophies. She chronicled her African experiences in a manuscript she entitled “One-Woman Safari” and wrote several articles about them, two of which were published, one in the Chicago Sun-Times’ Sunday magazine, the other in the journal The Reporter. Spiegel’s second safari, taken in 1962 with her friend Mary Hemingway, was the subject of an article Hemingway wrote for Life magazine in 1963, a memoir of their experiences as well as a reflection on the Africa that Ernest Hemingway had so loved.
Spiegel traveled widely in the 1970s and 80s, visiting friends and exotic locales, and documenting her travels in her journals and personal scrapbooks. In 1981 she made her first visit to New Zealand, which, after Chicago and Idaho, became a third home for her. She returned every winter (summer there), spending at least a month, and often more, based in Queenstown, where she fished for trout, attended horse shows, and visited and entertained New Zealand friends. She was in New Zealand in 1986 when she saw Halley’s Comet for the second time in her life.[15] Her fishing exploits were chronicled in the January 1993 issue of the New Zealand publication Southern Fishing. She shared her perspectives on aging with the Queenstown Mountain Scene: “You have those geriatric things that happen whether you like it or not, but I don’t believe in dwelling on them.” As to a formula for long life, the eighty-eight year old Spiegel had none. “I don’t do anything that’s good for me! I drink all sorts of things that are bad and stay up late.”[16]
Only when she hit 90 did Clara Spiegel begin to slow down. Even so, she continued her visits to New Zealand until 1996 and was still seen fishing in the streams around Ketchum. In July of 1996 she was a panelist at a Hemingway conference at Sun Valley sponsored by the Hemingway Society and the University of Idaho. She was one of the speakers at a panel entitled “Remembering Hemingway,” where she contradicted her fellow panelists who said Ernest Hemingway was at heart a shy man. “I’m afraid I disagree with the other authorities,” she said. “He had a great sense of personal dignity. He was not shy.”[17] She also shared her recollections in “Hemingway in the Autumn,” a documentary produced by a Boise television station about his life in Idaho, and in the A&E Biography, “Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life.”
Clara Spiegel died at the Wood River Medical Center in Ketchum on October 20, 1997, at the age of 92, just a few months after the death of her younger son William. “She was unbelievable,” remarked her son Andrew to the Chicago Tribune. “Two weeks ago she caught a 23-inch trout while sitting in her wheelchair. Her partners and friends had included Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper. She somehow was able to draw a lot of people to her.”[18] She was survived by her son, five granddaughters, and three great grandchildren.
-- Alan Virta, 2008
Principal autobiographical works by Clara Spiegel:
- Autobiographical drafts in Box 1, Folders 2-5
- “One Woman Safari” (Box 34). Chapter one (Folder 1) contains reminiscences of her childhood and young adulthood; love of Idaho and outdoors
- “Don’t Give Me the Good Old Days,” Valley Sun, February 1967 (Box 31, Folder 5) recollects her first days in Sun Valley
- “The Library that Faith Built” (Box 30, Folder 13), story of the founding of the Ketchum library
Scope and Content Note
Clara Spiegel’s papers, filling more than 50 boxes, date from 1924 to 1997 and are divided into four main series:
Clara Spiegel literary papers, and
Also included with the collection are photos and printed matter.
The great strength of the collection is in Clara Spiegel’s writings in published, draft, and journal form. Her voluminous handwritten journals (Boxes 38-45) contain autobiographical reflections, literary passages she later incorporated into stories and novels, and, particularly from the late 1950s onward, detailed chronicles of her travels around the world, including her African safaris. The collection also contains typescripts of published and unpublished works, both those written with Jane Mayer (Series II) and those she wrote herself (Series III), as well as published versions of many of them. Spiegel compiled scrapbooks of reviews and publicity relating to the novels she wrote with Jane Mayer; they document well the widespread popularity the novels achieved.
Clara Spiegel’s personal papers (Series I) include more autobiographical writings (in draft form), several magazine and journal articles about her, typescripts of speeches, study notes, personal scrapbooks, hostess and guest books from Ketchum, memorabilia from her life and philanthropic activities in Idaho, and clippings relating to friends. Clara Spiegel’s speeches, dating mainly from the 1940s and 50s, usually address the history of her literary collaboration with Jane Mayer. Her personal scrapbooks, covering the decade 1974-1984, contain snapshots, event programs, and greeting cards, documenting her social life and many personal connections in Ketchum and elsewhere when she was in her 70s.
There is not a lot of correspondence in the collection; the major body of correspondence being the travel letters she wrote home in 1928, 1934, 1935, and 1935 from Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (Box 37). A few letters relating to specific writing projects are scattered among her literary papers, but aside from them, the only other correspondence files in the collection are some miscellaneous letters in Box 1, the cards Clara Spiegel received during the last few years of her life (Box 5), cards affixed in her scrapbooks (Boxes 11-21), and letters she wrote arranging her 1969 African safari (Box 46, Folders 7 and 8).
Information about Clara Spiegel’s friendship with Ernest Hemingway is fairly sparse; it is mainly in the form of a few scattered recollections she offered in magazine and newspaper articles. There are three exceptions. Her hostess books (Boxes 7 and 8) contain a record of Hemingway’s visits to her home in the 1950s and early 60s; a long letter of editorial advice to a friend (Box 32, Folder 2) recounts some advice Hemingway once gave her; and a Life magazine article by Mary Hemingway tells the story of the African safari she took with Clara Spiegel a year after Ernest Hemingway’s death (Box 2, Folder 29). There is also one folder of letters and publicity relating to Clara Spiegel’s participation in the Hemingway Society’s 1996 conference at Sun Valley, for which she was a panelist (Box 2, Folder 13).
The Clara Spiegel papers were donated to Boise State University by her son, Andrew Spiegel, in 1999. One folder of archivist’s research materials on the Gatzert family has been appended to the collection (Box 1, Folder 0).
To view a short video (2008) about one research use of the Clara Spiegel collection, click here.
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Series I: Personal Papers
The short file of correspondence (in Box 1), together with the cards and letters she received during the last few years of her life (Box 5) document Clara Spiegel’s wide-ranging social connections. Among the prominent names represented are Jack, Gregory, and Patrick Hemingway, Pamela and Averill Harriman, Jimmy Stewart, musician Peter Duchin, writers Ridley Pearson and Barnaby Conrad, and Teresa Heinz and John Kerry (owners of a vacation home in Ketchum). Spiegel also kept in contact with early Sun Valley ski instructors Leif Odmark and Konrad Staudinger as well as her 1969 safari guide, Count F. Meran. Her correspondence with outfitter Denis Zaphiro reveals that even at age 86, she was considering another safari to Africa (Box 1, Folder 31).
Clara Spiegel’s autobiographical writings in Box 1 are supplemented by reminiscences of her childhood and young adulthood found in chapter 1 of her unpublished manuscript entitled “One Woman Safari” (Box 34, Folder 1), occasional autobiographical reflections scattered throughout her journals (Series IV, Boxes 38-45), and by biographical detail in the articles written about her and the talks she gave to women’s clubs and writers’ forums (Box 1). Many of the letters of condolence sent to her family at her death (Box 4) contain recollections and tributes to her. Her personal scrapbooks, bulging with captioned snapshots, event programs, and other memorabilia for the years 1974-1984 (Boxes 11-21) reveal in great detail the social life of Spiegel and her set in Ketchum during those years. Earlier scrapbooks have been retained by the family.
From the time she moved to Idaho in the early 1950s, Clara Spiegel kept meticulous records of her many dinner parties, more than one a week during her heyday. In her hostess books (Boxes 7-9) she recorded the names of her guests, the seating arrangement at the dinner table, and the menu. Shortly after Ernest and Mary Hemingway arrived in Ketchum in October 1958, she hosted a dinner party in their honor. The menu that evening included green turtle soup, steak, broccoli polonaise, a lettuce salad, meringue with frozen strawberries, and wine (October 9, 1958). Ernest Hemingway sat at the head of the table, with Clara at his left. The other dinner guests were Hemingway’s old Ketchum pals Don Anderson, Lloyd and Tillie Arnold, Forest MacMullan, and Taylor Williams, and the Hemingways’ cross-country travel companions, Betty and Otto Bruce. Clara Spiegel appended this remark to the record of the dinner: “Ernest does not eat any meat fats or dairy products nor egg yolks, or vinegar.”
Box 1: Personal Papers
Folder 0 Archivist’s research: Gatzert, Florsheim, Spiegel families
Folder 1 Biographical clippings and obituaries
Folder 2 Autobiographical writings: Gatzert
family and neighbors
Folder 3 Autobiographical writings: Washington
Park Court, Chicago
Folder 4 Autobiographical writings: Drafts
Folder 5 “Bequest” (Autobiographical notes and
drafts)
Folder 6 Biographical clippings: Andrew Spiegel
Folder 7 Birthday skit by Andrew Spiegel, 1994
Folder 8 Articles and interviews: 1946:
“Collaborating Ladies,” Chicago Daily News
(see also
Oversize drawer for
original rotogravure pages)
Folder 9 Articles and interviews: 1950 (ca.):
Interview by Diane Weeks
Folder 10 Articles and interviews: 1952: Radio
interview, “Talking with Toni”
Folder 11 Articles and interviews: 1959: “Clare
Jaynes,” Wilson Library Bulletin
Folder 12 Articles and
interviews: 1970: “Sun Valley Life: It’s a Party-Party,”
Chicago Daily News
Folder 13 Articles and interviews: 1983: “Sun
Valley Summer,” Town & Country
Folder 14 Articles and
interviews: 1993: “Two Veterans Perform with Distinction,” Southern Fishing
Folder 15 Speeches: 194?: [with Jane Mayer]
Folder 16 Speeches: 1943: [with Jane Mayer]
Folder 17 Speeches: 1942: Notes
Folder 18 Speeches: 1943: Working Scheme for
Collaboration, Summer Workshop
Folder 19 Speeches: 1944: Ravinia Women’s Club
Folder 20 Speeches: 1945: Chicago Public Library
Folder 21 Speeches: 1945: Carleon Theta Sigma Phi,
Milwaukee
Folder 22 Speeches: 195?: [Clara Spiegel alone]
Folder 23 Speeches: 1953: [with Jane Mayer]
Folder 24 Correspondence: Clara Spiegel cards and stationery
Folder 25 Correspondence: Bob ----- , 1935
[a novelist in Virginia]
Folder 26: Correspondence: Max Dean (Poems and
songs)
Folder 27 Correspondence: Peter Duchin and Brooke
Hayward, 1990s
Folder 28 Correspondence: Ernest and Mary
Hemingway, 1950s (one card)
Folder 29 Correspondence: Jane Mayer, 1943-1997
Folder 30 Correspondence: John and Ellen Wallace
(“Mrs. Spiegel Regrets”)
Folder 31 Correspondence: Denis Zaphiro (safari
guide), 1990
Folder 32 Correspondence: Political, 1982-1987
Folder 33 Collected humor
Folder 34 Personal library
Folder 35 Personal, Miscellaneous
Folder 36 Recipes
Folder 37 Passports, 1933-1982
Box 2: Memorabilia
Folder 1 Chicago: Lyric Theatre, 1955
Folder 2 Chicago: Red Cross / Civil Defense
(World War II), 1941
Folder 3 Chicago: Shipping of household goods and
furniture to Idaho, 1950-1954
Folder 4 Chicago: Society of Midland Authors,
1971, 1996-1997
Folder 5 Chicago: Miscellaneous
Folder 6 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Property,
Purchase of, 1952-1953
Folder 7 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Property,
Abstract of title
Folder 8 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Property,
Miscellaneous
Folder 9 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Rezoning issues,
1976-1978
Folder 10 Ketchum / Sun Valley: The Ballet School
Folder 11 Ketchum / Sun Valley: The Community
Library
Folder 12 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Ernest Hemingway
Memorial Fund, 1993
Folder 13 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Hemingway Society
Conference (1996), 1995-1996
Folder 14 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Sun Valley
Dressage Show, 1993
Folder 15 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Sun Valley Figure
Skating Club, 1955
Folder 16 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Miscellaneous
programs and tickets
Folder 17 Ketchum / Sun Valley: Miscellaneous
Folder 18 Persons: Fanny Butcher, 1987
Folder 19 Persons: Bill Butterfield, 1986?
Folder 20 Persons: Peter Duchin, 1996-1997
Folder 21 Persons: Samuel Charles Elworthy,
1986-1993
Folder 22 Persons: Sophie Engelhard, 1986
Folder 23 Persons: Robert Gatzert, 1958
Folder 24 Persons: Averell Harriman, 1983-1992
Folder 25 Persons: Pamela Harriman, 1983-1997
Folder 26 Persons: Ernest and Mary Hemingway:
Obituaries, 1961, 1986
Folder 27 Persons: Ernest Hemingway: Articles
about him mentioning Clara Spiegel,
1993-1996
Folder 28 Persons: Ernest Hemingway: Miscellaneous
Folder 29 Persons: Mary Hemingway: Safari article
mentioning Clara Spiegel (Life),
1963
Folder 30 Persons: Joan (Muffet) Hemingway, 1977
Folder 31 Persons: Margaux Hemingway, 1996
Folder 32 Persons: Bill Janss, 1997
Folder 33 Persons: Rene Lafleur, 1997
Folder 34 Persons: Leif Odmark, 1997
Folder 35 Persons: Friedl Pfiefer and Otto Lang
Folder 36 Persons: Alexander Roedling, 1985
Folder 37 Persons: Fran and Ray Stark home /
sculpture
Folder 38 Persons: Jules and Doris Stein, 1984
Folder 39 Persons: Maxine and Ted Uhrig, 1997
Folder 40 Persons: Others
Box 3: Study Notes
Folder 1 Art History
Folder 2 Art History
Folder 3 Egyptian Art
Folder 4 French lessons, pp. 1-61 (incomplete)
Folder 5 French lessons, pp. 68-187 (incomplete)
Folder 6 German notes
Folder 7 Italian lessons
Folder 8 Kings and rulers (lists)
Folder 9 World History (lists)
Box 4: Condolences
Book Condolence book: October 23-24, 1997
Folder 1 Last names A-C
Folder 2 Last names D-G
Folder 3 Last names H-L
Folder 4 Last names M-Q
Folder 5 Last names R-S
Folder 6 Last names T-Z
Folder 7 Miscellaneous and unidentified
Folder 8 Contributions to The Ballet Foundation
Folder 9 Contributions to The Community Library
Foundation
Folder 10 Condolences on the death of William
Spiegel, July 1997
Box 5: Cards and Letters
Folder 1 Card and gift lists
Folder 2 Andrew Spiegel
Folder 3 Jill Spiegel
Folder 4 Ted Spiegel
Folder 5 William Spiegel
Folder 6 Spiegel grandchildren and families
Folder 7 Cecil Andrus
Folder 8 Tillie Arnold
Folder 9 Barnaby Conrad
Folder 10 Charlotte Ford
Folder 11 Leslie and Michael Engl
Folder 12 Gretchen and Don Fraser
Folder 13 Florence Froelich
Folder 14 Ebersole Gaines
Folder 15 Wayne Garwood
Folder 16 Robert A. Gatzert
Folder 17 Ray and Helen Genereaux
Folder 18 Peggy and Sam Grossman
Folder 19 Pamela and Averell Harriman
Folder 20 Angela and Jack Hemingway
Folder 21 Carol and Patrick Hemingway
Folder 22 Ida and Gregory Hemingway
Folder 23 Lucy and David Hemmings
Folder 24 Ellen and Arnold Horween
Folder 25 Glenn and Bill Janss
Folder 26 Christian Kautz-Scanavy
Folder 27 Mary and John Kemmerer
Folder 28 Teresa Heinz and John Kerry
Folder 29 Ellen and Rene Lafleur
Folder 30 Jack Lane
Folder 31 Lisa and Wilson McElhinny
Folder 32 F. Meran
Folder 33 Jeanne and John Moritz
Folder 34 Leif Odmark
Folder 35 Beverly and Robert Pearson
Folder 36 Marcelle and Ridley Pearson
Folder 37 Carol and Charles Price
Folder 38 Duncan Read
Folder 39 Neil T. Regan
Folder 40 Sue and Chapman Root
Folder 41 Konrad Staudinger
Folder 42 Gloria and Jimmy Stewart
Folder 43 Dorice and Phez Taylor
Folder 44 Peggy and Parry Thomas
Folder 45 Last names A
Folder 46 Last names B
Folder 47 Last names C
Folder 48 Last names D
Folder 49 Last names E
Folder 50 Last names F
Folder 51 Last names G
Folder 52 Last names H-I-J
Folder 53 Last names K-L
Folder 54 Last names M
Folder 55 Last names N
Folder 56 Last names O-P
Folder 57 Last names R
Folder 58 Last names S
Folder 59 Last names T-U-V
Folder 60 Last names W-Y-Z
Folder 61 First name only A
Folder 62 First name only B
Folder 63 First name only C
Folder 64 First name only D
Folder 65 First name only E-F
Folder 66 First name only G
Folder 67 First name only H-I-J
Folder 68 First name only K-L
Folder 69 First name only M-N
Folder 70 First name only P
Folder 71 First name only R
Folder 72 First name only S
Folder 73 First name only T-V-W
Folder 74 Miscellaneous
Box 6: Guest books
1968-1975 1982-1983, 1987, 1990-1991
1975-1979 1984-1987
1979-1982 1987-1990
Box 7: Guest books
1991-1995 Appointment calendar, 1996 (“Social capers”)
1996-1997
Box 7 (Continued): Hostess books
1953-1957 1957-1960
1955-1956 Chicago 1959-1970
1956-1957
Box 8: Hostess books
1960-1962 1967-1968
1962-1965 1968-1970
1965-1967 1970-1971
Box 9: Hostess books
1971-1972 1977-1979
1972-1974 1979-1980
1974-1975 1980-1982
1975-1977
Box 10: Hostess books
1982-1984 1990-1992
1984-1986 1992-1994
1986-1988 1994-1996
1988-1990
Boxes 11 to 21: Personal scrapbooks
Box 11: 1974-1975 Box 17:
1982-1983
Box 12: 1975-1976 Box 18: 1984
Box 13: 1976-1977 Box 19: 1983
Box 14: 1977-1978 Box 20:
1983-1984
Box 15: 1978 Box 21:
The Annex, plus two portfolios
Box 16: 1980-1982
embossed “Clare Jaynes” and “C.G.S.”
Series II: Clare Jaynes Literary Papers
This series contains reviews, stories, and novels, in draft and published form, that Clara Spiegel wrote with Jane Mayer under the joint pseudonym Clare Jaynes. Also included are some business papers and scrapbooks of reviews and other publicity for their novels. A detailed plot outline and character development for an unpublished novel called “Craig Huston” (Box 24, Folder 1) illustrates the work Spiegel and Mayer did before actually writing their novels; unfortunately no such documents for their published works survive. N.B. There is no typescript present for This Eager Heart and no scrapbook for The Early Frost.
Box 22: Stories, Plays, Poems, and Reviews (Typescripts)
Folder 1 Lists of characters in Clare Jaynes novels and stories; work list
Folder 2 Humorous skit, “You Know What I’ve Got” (Heiser Tennis Club)
Folder 3 Review of I, My Ancestor, 1950
Folder 4 Review of A Light in the Window, 1948
Folder 5 Review of Mr. Bremble’s Buttons (clipping), 1947
Folder 6 Review of Though They Go Wandering, undated
Folder 7 Review of Wild Calendar, undated
Folder 8 A Brief Thank You Note [to Random House], 1947
Folder 9 Commencement….1944
Folder 10 Con-Man-About-Town, 1938
Folder 11 The Fifth Horseman, 1944
Folder 12 Guardian of the North (by Janice
Claremont), 1932
Folder 13 Man Across the Hall
Folder 14 Mrs. America
Folder 15 Mrs. Seever and the General
Folder 16 On Race Suicide (poem)
Folder 17 On Supply and Demand (poem)
Folder 18 Peacock Alley
Folder 19 Perchance to Dream
Folder 20 Return to Home
Folder 21 The Ripened Fruit
Folder 22 Story of a Young Man
Folder 23 Suburban Rhapsody
Folder 24 Theodore
Folder 25 Thursday In
Folder 26 A Woman Came In, 1937
Folder 27 Untitled play (at Loop Double O Ranch,
Wyoming), 1944
Folder 28 Untitled story (Norman Wells is…)
Folder 29 Guardian of the North (Fragile original; use photocopy in Folder 12)
Box 23: Stories and Articles in Published Form
Folder 1 Back to Earth (Liberty, October 10, 1942)
Folder 2 Black Pearl (Mademoiselle, February 1936)
Folder 3 The Coming of Age (Story, January-February 1942)
Folder 4 The Eyes of the Beholder (The Tatler, November 2, 1938)
Folder 5 Facts for Fiction (The Writer, December 1944)
Folder 6 Oceans Apart, But Reading Unites Them (Chicago Sunday Tribune, December 3, 1944)
Folder 7 Primer for Partnership (Writers Digest, April 1948)
Folder 9 The Secrets of Collaboration (The Writer, July 1948)
Folder 9 These Are the Times (Liberty, June 3, 1944)
Folder 10 Two Working as One, the Secrets of
Collaboration (Chicago Sun, December 2, 1945)
Folder 11 Visitors for the Soldiers (The New
Yorker, April 17, 1943)
Folder 12 We are Three (Book News, Summer
1944)
Folder 13 Review of Cousin From Fiji (Chicago Sun, April 7, 1944)
Folder 14 Review of A Garden to the Eastward (Chicago Sun Book Week, March 23, 1947)
Folder 15 Review of How About Tomorrow Morning? (Chicago Sun Book Week, May 6,
1945)
Folder 16 Review of Leave Her to Heaven (Chicago Sun Book Week, June 11,1944)
see also
Oversize drawers for original newspaper
Folder 17 Review of Mr. Bremble’s Buttons (Chicago Sun-Times, April 13, 1947)
Box 23 (continued): Business Papers
Folder 18 Business papers: Partnership agreement, Mayer and Siegel, 1949-1986
Folder 19 Business papers: Royalty statements,
1937-1968
Folder 20 Business papers: The Coming of Age: Press coverage, 1942-1946
Folder 21 Business papers: The Coming of Age:
Reprint negotiations, 1942-1983
Folder 22 Business papers: The Early Frost:
Publicity and awards, 1952-1953
Folder 23 Business papers: The Early Frost:
Screenplay negotiations, 1981-1983
Folder 24 Business papers: Instruct My Sorrows / My
Reputation: Screenplay reprint, 1987
Folder 25 Business papers: This Eager Heart:
Publishers agreement, 1948
Box 24: Novels
Folder 1 Craig Huston (Plot outline and character development; unpublished)
Folder 2 The Early Frost: Incomplete manuscript
Folder 3 The Early Frost: Edited typescript, pp. 1-150
Folder 4 The Early Frost: Edited typescript, pp. 151-291
Folder 5 The Early Frost: Galley proof, Version 1
Folder 6 The Early Frost: Galley proof, Version 2
Folder 7 The Early Frost: Layout mockups
Folder 8 The Early Frost: Partial list of reviews (?)
Box 25: Novels
Folder 1 Instruct My Sorrows: Typescript for printer, front matter and pp. 1-150
Folder 2 Instruct My Sorrows: Typescript for printer, pp. 151-300
Folder 3 Instruct My Sorrows: Typescript for printer, pp. 301-449
Folder 4 Instruct My Sorrows: Typescript for printer, pp. 450-491
Folder 5 Instruct My Sorrows: Galley proof
Folder 6 Instruct My Sorrows: Dust jackets
Box 26: Novels
Folder 1 These Are the Times: Typescript, Version A, pp. 1-100
Folder 2 These Are the Times: Typescript, Version A, pp. 101-200
Folder 3 These Are the Times: Typescript, Version A, pp. 201-300
Folder 4 These Are the Times: Typescript, Version A, pp. 301-391
Folder 5 These Are the Times: Typescript, Version B, pp. 1-150
Folder 6 These Are the Times: Typescript, Version B, pp. 151-300
Folder 7 These Are the Times: Typescript, Version B, pp. 301-391
Folder 8 These Are the Times: Uncorrected proof (galleys)
Boxes 27: Literary Scrapbooks
Instruct My Sorrows / My Reputation 1942-1944
My Reputation 1944-1946
Box 28: Literary Scrapbooks
These Are the Times 1946
These Are the Times: Uncorrected proof (galleys) (2nd copy)
Box 29: Literary Scrapbooks
This Eager Heart, 1952
Series III: Clara Spiegel Literary Papers
This series includes stories and articles, in typescript and published form, written by Clara Spiegel; typescripts of two unpublished nonfiction works, an African safari memoir (One Woman Safari, or One Woman’s Meat) and a cookbook (The Indolent Gourmet); and drafts and synopses of movie proposals and unpublished novels (some written with Fred Iselin), most of which were set in resort locations. With the exception of some writings inspired by her Red Cross work (Box 30, Folder 22) and skits written (collaboratively) for the Lake Shore Country Club in the 1920s (Box 32, Folders 5 and 6), most of these writings date from the 1950s onward. In her long letter of editorial advice to Barney ---- , evidently prepared after reading a manuscript of his World War II memoirs (Box 32, Folder 2), she recounts Hemingway’s writing advice to her (“Make it, don’t say it”). Many of her stories and articles (Box 30) relate to her African hunting trips. One (The Most Exclusive Club in the World, in Box 30, Folder 15) tells the story of a rafting trip down the Salmon River in Idaho. Chapter one of One Woman Safari contains several pages of reminiscences of her childhood and young adulthood (Box 34, Folder 1).
Box 30: Stories and Articles (Typescripts and Manuscripts)
Folder 1 The Agent
Folder 2 Birthday Party, 1982
Folder 3 The Captive Guest
Folder 4 East African Capsule, 1962
Folder 5 A Fable
Folder 6 A Fable
Folder 7 Flea Bag
Folder 8 The Good Life [on safari]
Folder 9 Hannibal (Nell Gates)
Folder 10 Hortense
Folder 11 How Not To Be a Hostess
Folder 12 I Love Men
Folder 13 The Library That Faith Built (Ketchum,
Idaho)
Folder 14 Manual for Manners
Folder 15 The Most Exclusive Club in the World
(Salmon River rafters)
Folder 16 Mrs. Glover
Folder 17 The Ngorongoro Crater, 1962
Folder 18 On Hunting Lions
Folder 19 On Hunting Lions
Folder 20 The Pearl Wearers
Folder 21 Pig
Folder 22 Red Cross writings, 1940s
Folder 23 Skillets and Skis, 1962
Folder 24 The Storm
Folder 25 Ten Years From Now
Folder 26 Tower of Babel
Folder 27 Who’s Cooking, 1961
Folder 28 A Woman’s Guide to East Africa
Box 31: Stories and Articles in Published Form
Folder 1 Bangkok Boxing (Chicago Sun-Times, September 8, 1963)
Folder 2 A Bird in the Pan (Bon Appetit, September 1960)
Folder 3 Chicago Woman Author Turns Antelope Hunter (Chicago Sun-Times, February 19, 1961,
Midwest magazine)
Folder 4 Day on Safari (The Reporter, July 1, 1965)
Folder 5 Don’t Give Me the Good Old Days (Valley Sun, February 1967)
Folder 6 A Look at East Africa: Some Do Fear Freedom (Idaho Statesman, January 29, 1961)
Folder 7 Skillets and Skis (Bon Appetit, February 1962)
Folder 8 A Very Tall Oak (The Valley Magazine, Summer 1990) [Ketchum
Community Library]
Folder 9 Who’s Cooking (Bon Appetit, January 1961)
Box 32: Miscellaneous Writings
Folder 1 Book proposal: Foreign phrases for European travel, 1956
Folder 2 Editorial suggestions for Barney --- (266 Squadron, RAF)
Folder 3 Humorous writings, Miscellaneous
Folder 4 Travel advice: Egypt
Folder 5 Plays: Lake Shore Country Club skit, 1924
Folder 6 Plays: Lake Shore Worries of 1926
Folder 7 Plays: The Somnambulent Prince
Folder 8 Poems / Songs: Birthday songs
Folder 9 Poems / Songs: Deep Sea Chanty, or The Destroyer
Folder 10 Poems / Songs: Ski-Friendship
Folder 11 Poems / Songs: Untitled (Skiing)
Folder 12 Fragments, Notes
Folder 13 Untitled fragments
Folder 14 Black composition book
Folder 15 Loose papers and fragments from black
composition book
Box 33: Book-length (Typescripts)
Folder 1 Playground, pp. 1-150
Folder 2 Playground, pp. 151-298
Folder 3 Ski-resort novel (untitled)
Folder 4 The Indolent Gourmet (pp. 1-119) (1990)
Folder 5 The Indolent Gourmet (pp. 120-236) (1990)
Folder 6 The Indolent Gourmet: Drafts
Folder 7 The Indolent Gourmet: Drafts
Folder 8 The Indolent Gourmet: Agent’s
correspondence (1 item), 1963
Box 34: Book-length (Typescripts)
Folder 1 One Woman Safari (chapters 1-7)
Folder 2 One Woman Safari (chapters 8-16)
Folder 3 One Woman’s Meat: Editorial suggestions
from Belle Sideman
Folder 4 One Woman’s Meat: 2nd draft
(chapters 1-10)
Folder 5 One Woman’s Meat: 2nd draft
(chapters 11-21)
Folder 6 One Woman’s Meat: 2nd draft,
carbon revised (chapters 12-20)
Folder 7 One Woman’s Meat: 3rd draft
(chapters 1-5)
Folder 8 One Woman’s Meat: 3rd Draft
(chapters 6-10)
Box 35: Other collaborations
Folder 1 With Fred Iselin: Partnership agreement, 1954
Folder 2 With Fred Iselin: Correspondence, 1954
Folder 3 With Fred Iselin: Alpine Misadventure
(Motion picture synopsis)
Folder 4 With Fred Iselin: Sun Valley Fantasy
(Motion picture script), 1954
Folder 5 With Fred Iselin: Sun Valley film,
untitled (Synopsis)
Folder 6 With Fred Iselin: Ski movie notes
Folder 7 With Max Barsis: Correspondence, 1942-1946
Folder 8 With Catherine Gordon: Eye of the Beholder, Co-Authorship agreement, 1980
Folder 9 With Catherine Gordon: Photography book, Miscellaneous, 1984-1985
Series IV: Journals and Travel Writings
Clara Spiegel and her husband took several trans-Atlantic cruises to the Mediterranean in the 1920s and 30s. The scrapbooks she compiled for each of them are nostalgic reminders of a mode of grand travel that has almost passed from the scene. The scrapbooks contain photos of the ships, fellow passengers, and sights they saw; programs, tickets, and other tourist souvenirs; and detailed letters Spiegel wrote home chronicling her experiences. The letters offer the earliest descriptive narrative in the collection, as well as occasional commentary on her shipmates. All of the letters from the scrapbooks have been photocopied and are assembled in a chronological sequence in Box 37.
Spiegel’s numbered journals begin in 1936. Until the 1950s, she used the journals (which she numbered herself) to record autobiographical reflections, musings on life and society, passages for novels and stories, and occasional travel notes. From the 1950s onward, they are more and more travel-oriented, and by the 1970s they are almost exclusively so. Spiegel had typewritten transcripts prepared for the journals of her 1969 African safari and her 1981 South Pacific tour. She inserted photos at the appropriate places and placed the transcripts in notebooks (Boxes 47 to 49).
Appended toward the end of this series is a box of associated travel papers, mostly business and logistical in nature (Box 46), though the folders for her 1969 African trip contain several detailed letters to her safari guide, Count F. Meran, outlining her hopes and expectations for the trip. “I have a great lion which I shot with Patrick [Hemingway] in 1962, so I don’t want another one,” she wrote, but she did ask for herring, sardines, sausage, and powdered soups for their lunches, dry white wines to accompany their dinners, and above all a chemical toilet. “My guns will come with me as I like to practice with them until the last moment…” (August 10, 1968). As the trip drew nigh she also supplied an extensive liquor list (March 19, 1969), adding she did not drink juices for breakfast “but like enough tomato juice for Bloody Marys, if I want them in the evening” (March 19, 1969). Also present are instructions for the taxidermists for preparation of her trophies (Box 46, Folder 7).
Box 36: Travel letters and Scrapbooks
Book 1: 1928: Vigo, Casablanca, Gibraltar, Algiers, Rome, Hill towns, Florence, Venice, Milan, St. Moritz, Cannes, Paris; S.S. France and S.S. Ile de France
Book 2: 1934: Gibraltar, Naples, Herculaneum, Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, Thebes, Paris, London; S.S. Rex, S.S. Ansonia, S.S. Gange
Book 3: 1935: Madeira, Seville, Granada, Malaga, Algiers, Mallorca, Malta, Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus, Rhodes, Istanbul, Athens, Korfu, Dubrovnik, Paris, Chartres, England; S.S Statendam
Book 4: 1936 Marrakech, Atlas Mountains, Fez, Sefron, Tangier, Madrid, Toledo, Paris, London; S.S. Conte di Savoia, S.S.Berengaria
Box 37: Travel letters (Photocopies)
Photocopies of letters from Travel Scrapbooks 1-4 (Box 36)
Box 38: Journals
1. 1936 August – 1937 April 9. 1938 September – 1938 October
2. 1937 April – 1937 October 10. 1938 October – 1938 November
3. 1938 April – 1938 May 11. 1938 November
4. 1938 May – 1938 June 12. 1938 November – 1938 Dec.
5. 1938 June 13. 1938 December- 1939 January
6. 1938 June – 1938 July 14. 1939 January – 1939 February
7. 1938 July – 1938 September 15. 1939 February – 1939 March
8. 1938 September 16. 1939 March – 1939 April
Box 39: Journals
17. 1939 April – 1939 May
18. 1939 May – 1939 June
19. 1939 June
20. [?] October
21. 1941
22. 1944 August – 1944 September
23. 1944 August – 1944 September
24. 1946 January; 1950 April
25. 1947 May – 1947 September
26. 1948 January – 1948 February
27. Undated; blue composition book
28. 1953 September – May 1954
29. 1954 May – 1956 July
29a 1957 September (Portugal; Africa)
29b 1957 October (Africa)
30. 1960 April – 1960 September (Africa)
31. 1959 June
32. 1959 November
33. 1959 November – 1960 April
34. 1960 September (Africa)
35. 1960 September (Africa)
Box 40: Journals
36. 1960 September (Safari 1 ; Africa)
37. 1960 September – 1960 October (Safari 2; Africa, India, Nepal)
38. 1960 October (India, Thailand)
39. 1962 April – 1962 May (Paris, Israel)
40. 1962 May (Greece)
41. 1962 May – 1962 June (Greece, Africa 1)
42. 1962 June (Africa 2)
43. 1962 June (Africa 3)
44. 1962 July (Africa 4, Italy)
45. 1962 Game record
Box 41: Journals
46. 1964 April
47. 1964 May
48. 1964 May
49. 1964 September (Africa)
50. 1964 September (Africa)
51. 1964 September – 1964 October (Africa)
52. 1964 October (Africa)
53. 1965 January
54. 1965 April
55. 1965 May (Sicily, Sorrento)
56. 1965 May – 1965 June (Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, Austria)
57. 1965 August
Box 42: Journals
58. 1966 April (Spain)
59. 1967 Ireland
60. 1968 May, 1969 January
61. 1969 September (Africa) [typed transcript in Box 43]
62a 1969 July – 1969 September (Africa) [typed transcript in Box 43]
62b 1970 May – 1970 June (England, Austria) [typed transcript in Box 43]
63. 1972 – 1973
64. 1973 August – 1973 September (includes Portugal, Germany)
65. 1973 September – 1973 October (Germany, Austria)
100. 1976 October – 1976 November (Pacific Islands, Hawaii)
101. 1977 May – 1977 June (Spain, Austria)
Box 43: Journals
62a. 1969 July – September (Africa) [Transcript, photocopy] [Original scrapbook / transcript with photos is in Box 47]
61. 1969 September (Africa) [Transcript, photocopy] [Original scrapbook / transcript with photos is in Box 47]
62b. 1970 May – June (England, Austria) [Typed transcript]
102. 1978 May (Chicago, Peru)
103a 1981 January – February (New Zealand, Australia)
103b 1981 February - March (Australia, Bali, Taiwan)
103a 1981 February – March [Transcript, photocopy] [Original scrapbook / transcript with photos is in Box 48]
103b 1981 February – March [Transcript, photocopy] [Original scrapbook / transcript with photos is in Box 49]
(none) 1982 February – April (New Zealand)
104a 1983 February – April (New Zealand)
104b 1983 April – May (New Zealand)
Box 44: Journals
105. 1983 September – October (France, Austria)
106. 1983 October – November (Austria, England, East Coast, Chicago)
107. 1984 February- March (New Zealand)
108. 1984 March – May (New Zealand, Beverly Hills, Santa Barbara)
(none) 1984 September (Yellowstone)
109. 1985 February (Santa Barbara, New Zealand)
110. 1985 February – March (New Zealand)
111. 1985 March – April (New Zealand)
112a 1986 March – April (New Zealand)
112b 1986 April – May (Hong Kong, China)
Box 45: Journals
113. 1987 January (New Zealand)
114. 1988 January – February (New Zealand)
(none) 1988 August (Vancouver, southeast Alaska cruise)
115. 1988 October (North Carolina, Virginia, Wilmington, Bucks County)
116. 1989 January - February (New Zealand) and 1989 June (London)
(none) 1996 January (New Zealand) 6 pages only
Numbered journals end with 116; record books below are lists of travel necessities, gifts, etc.
Record book 1988 Record book 1991
Record book 1989 Record book 1996
Record book 1990
Box 46: Associated Travel Papers
Folder 1 South Africa, 1957
(cf. Journals 29a, 29b)
Folder 2 France, Israel, Greece, Africa, 1962
(cf. Journals 39-45)
Folder 3 Africa, 1962
(cf. Journals 41-45)
Folder 4 Africa, 1964
(cf. Journals 49-52)
Folder 5 Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, Austria, 1965
(cf. Journal 56)
Folder 6 Ireland, etc., 1967
(cf. Journal 59)
Folder 7 African safari, 1969
(cf. Journals 61, 62a)
Folder 8 African safari, 1969
(cf. Journals 61, 62a)
Folder 9 New Zealand, Australia, Bali, Taiwan,
1981 (cf. Journals 103a, 103b)
Folder 10 New Zealand, 1987
(cf. Journal 113)
Folder 11 Santa Barbara, 1987
Folder 12 New York, Chicago, 1987
Folder 13 Bermuda, 1991
Folder 14 Miscellaneous trips
Box 47: Journals: Transcripts
“Transcript with pictures of Clara Spiegel’s journal of the trip she and Raimund Wurzenrainer took to Kenya, Tanzania, and Kenya [sic] in August and September 1969” [Refer first to photocopy in Box 43, journals 62a and 61]
Boxes 48 and 49: Journals: Transcripts
Transcript with photos of trip to New Zealand, Australia, Bali, and Taiwan,1981 [Refer first to photocopy in Box 43, journals 103a and 103b)
Series V: Photographs
Until the early 1980s, Clara Spiegel documented her travels and social life by assembling scrapbooks in which she placed hundreds of captioned snapshots. Those scrapbooks are located in Series I. With very few exceptions (notably the Africa photos), the photos in this series are loose snapshots that date from the mid 1980s to 1997, the last dozen years of Clara Spiegel’s life, after she stopped assembling those scrapbooks. They reveal that she was an active traveler and angler to the end. Some of these snapshots are grouped by trip and destination; others are in no order at all. Many have captions on the back; many do not. The photos in Box 50 have been numbered; some are portrait-like snapshots of Spiegel and family members; a few others (Photos 1001-1010) are professionally-photographed 8x10 prints.
Box 50
Photos 001-011 Clara Spiegel,
portrait-like snapshots
Photos 101-132 Clara Spiegel fishing;
one with antelope (Patrick
Hemingway in photos 125, 131, 132)
Photos 201-226 Sons Andrew and
William and families
Photos 301-324 Clara Spiegel’s house
and garden
Photos 401-407 African safari photos
(1962) (Patrick
Hemingway in photo 407)
Photos 501-504 Friends
Photos 1001 Wedding party of
Maria Teresa (“Chiquita”) Duchin and Morgan Heap, including
Peter Duchin and Clara Spiegel (195?)
Photos 1002 Colorized portrait
of Jane Mayer
Photos 1003 Trail Creek (Sun
Valley) by Lloyd Arnold
Photos 1004-1007 Portraits of Mary
Hemingway, by Liz Malone (1971)
Photos 1008-1010 Celebrity autographed
photos
Box 51
China, 1986
Lake Yellowstone, 1987
New Zealand, 1987
Bermuda, 1991
Pashimeroi (Idaho), 1996
Boxes 52 and 53
Unsorted snapshots
Series VI: Printed Matter
This series consists of miscellaneous postcards and travel brochures collected by Clara Spiegel in Australia, New Zealand, and China (1980s-1990s), Shell and Mobil road maps of East Africa (1960s), and route maps for Pan Am and BOAC (1950s); together with complete issues of magazines featuring her writings (under both her own name and the pseudonym Clare Jaynes), magazines she collected with articles about Ernest Hemingway, and a few other magazines she saved on topics of personal interest.
Box 54: Travel brochures: Australia (1980s -1990s); Africa (road maps, ca. 1960); BOAC and Pan Am (route maps, 1950s)
Box 55: Travel brochures: China (1980s)
Box 56: Travel brochures: New Zealand (1980s
-1990s)
Box 57: Writings in journals (complete issues)
Bon Appetit (Sept-Oct 1960), with “A Bird in the Pan” (p. 10)
Bon Appetit (Feb 1962), with “Skillets and Skis” (p. 4)
Bon Appetit (Jan-Feb 1961) with “Who’s Cooking” (p. 4)
Liberty (Oct 10, 1942), with “Back to Earth” (p. 28)
Liberty (June 3, 1944), with “These Are the Times” (p. 31)
The New Yorker (April 17, 1943), with “Visitors for the Soldiers” (p. 22)
The Reporter (July 1, 1965) with “A Day on Safari” (p. 38)
Story (Jan-Feb 1942), with “The Coming of Age,” (p. 68)
Wilson Library Bulletin (May 1954), with “Clare Jaynes” (p. 740)
Box 58: Journal articles about Hemingway (complete issues)
Elle (Sept 15, 1971), with “Papa Hemingway” by Jean Dutourd
Hunting Yearbook (1957), with “The Sixteenth Retrieve” by Don Anderson
Life (September 5, 1960), with “The Dangerous Summer” part 1, by EH
Life (September 12, 1960), with “The Dangerous Summer” part 2, by EH
Life (September 19, 1960), with “The Dangerous Summer” part 3, by EH
Life (July 14, 1961), with “Hemingway”
Look (Jan 26, 1954), with “Safari” by EH
Look (Sept 12, 1961), with “Hemingway: A Personal Story,” by MH
Paris Match (June 20, 1959), with Hemingway, Le Vieil Homme et Son Coeur”
The New York Times Magazine (August 18, 1985), with “The Young Hemingway” (three unpublished stories)
Saturday Review (July 29, 1961) subtitled “Hemingway: A World View”
Box 59: Magazines of personal interest
The Chronicle of the Horse (Dec 112, 1986) [annual stallion issue]
Holiday (April 1959) [Africa]
Life (Dec 5, 1969) [African antelope]
Saturday Review (July 19, 1958) [Africa, New Star in History]
Sports Illustrated (August 15, 1955) [first anniversary issue]
Sports Illustrated (August 20, 1955) [second anniversary issue]
Sports Illustrated (Oct 10, 1955) [upland birds]
Oversize Drawers
Chicago Herald Tribune, October 25, 1940 (Third Section, page 1)
“Premiere Thrills Throng” including photo of Clara Spiegel, Jane Mayer, and their husbands at the Chicago movie premiere of North West Mounted Police) cf. Box 1, Folder 1, for photocopy
Chicago Sun Book Week, June 11, 1944 (Page 1)
“A Woman of Monstrous, Jealous Will” (review by Clare Jaynes of Leave Her to Heaven) cf. Box 23, Folder 16 for photocopy
Chicago Daily News, News-Views (rotogravure), April 13, 1946 (pages 2-4)
“Collaborating Ladies” about Clara Spiegel and Jane Mayer, with photos. cf. Box 1, Folder 8, for photocopy
Midwest, Magazine of the Chicago Sun-Times, February 19, 1961 (pages 20-21)
“Chicago Woman Author Turns Antelope Hunter” about her African safari, with photos
Idaho Mountain Express, February 10-16, 1993 (Pages B-1 and B-2)
“Pfeifer, Lang: A Tribute to Two Skiing Giants” about Sun Valley ski instructions Friedl Pfeifer and Otto Lang. No mention of Clara Spiegel
Paris-Soir, February 6-8, 1934
Pages reporting on street riots in Paris
Il Mattino (Naples), May 10, 1936 (Page 1)
Headline “Il Duce Proclama l’Imperia d’Italia / S.M. Vittorio Emanuele III assume il Titolo di Imperatore dell’Etiopea”
Footnotes to the Biographical Sketch
[1] Laton McCartney, “Sun Valley Summer, Town & Country, July 1983, p. 160 (Box 1, Folder 13)
[2] Clara Spiegel’s autobiographical writings (Box 1, Folders 2-5) and archivist’s research (Box 1, Folder 0)
[3] “Bequest,” 1st draft, pp. 5-6 (Box 1, Folder 4)
[4] “Bequest,” 2nd draft, pp. 4-5 (Box 1, Folder 3)
[5] “Story about E.R.” written in blank book (In My Own Write) in Box 1, Folder 5. For a general history of Jews in Chicago, see The Jews of Chicago: From Shetl to Suburb, by Irving Cutler (University of Illinois Press, 1996)
[6] For these and other reminiscences of her childhood and young adulthood, see chapter one of her African safari memoir, One Woman Safari (Box 34, Folder 1). Information on Frederick Spiegel’s friendship with Ernest Hemingway is found in Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (Scribner, 1969). The programs for the Lake Shore Country Club skits are in Box 32, Folders 5 and 6. Irving Cutler (The Jews of Chicago, cited above) characterizes Lake Shore as a Jewish country club.
[7] One Woman Safari, page 4 (Box 34, Folder 1)
[8] The typescript is found in Box 22, Folder 12.
[9] Reviews found in Instruct My Sorrows scrapbook in Box 27.
[10] From a talk entitled “Working Scheme for Collaboration,” page 4 (1943) in Box 1, Folder 18
[11] One Woman Safari, page 6 (Box 34, Folder 1)
[12] Editorial suggestions to Barney (Box 32, Folder 2)
[13] Wendolyn Spence Holland, Sun Valley: An Extraordinary History (Idaho Press, 1998) page 358>
[14] Clara Spiegel, “The Library That Faith Built” (Box 30, Folder 13)
[15] “Bequest,” 1st draft, page 6 (Box 1, Folder 4)
[16] Roy Moss, “Two Veterans Perform With Distinction,” Southern Fishing, January 1993 (Box 1, Folder 14); quote from “Amazing Angler,” Mountain Scene, February 3, 1993 (Box 1, Folder 1)
[17]“Fond Memories,” Lewiston Tribune, August 4, 1996 (Box 2, Folder 27)