(John Joseph) Sherry Mangan papers

Finding Aid

Prepared for the WWW by Barbara Bass, March 29, 2002; Last Updated: August 2020

Inclusive Dates: 1925-1961
Extent: .33 cubic foot (1 document case)
Physical Location: 11th floor

Biographical Note: John Joseph Sherry Mangan, born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1904, was a little magazine editor, poet, novelist, short-story writer and book designer who largely associated with American expatriate writers in Paris during the 1930s. As a reporter for Time, Life, and Fortune during the World War II years, Mangan illustrated to the American public the cultural and political happenings in Paris. Notable among these features was "Paris Under the Swastika", published in Life in September, 1940. Mangan was a fervent Marxist and was active in the left-wing underground in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Some of his works include his novel Cinderella Married (1932), No Apology for Poetrie and Other Poems Written 1922-1931 (1934), and Salutation to Valediction (1938). Mangan died in 1961.

Scope and Content: The Sherry Managan Papers includes correspondence between Mangan and George Anthony Palmer, dated from 1925-61.

Related Materials: For additional notes on this correspondence, see the Manuscripts Card Catalogue.

Arrangement: Letters are arranged in chronological order.

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Dec. 1925
2. Correspondence: F., K.P. to J.J. Sherry Mangan: Sept. 9, 1926
3. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Nov. 1, 1926 [includes text of his poem "Sonnet on Faith in Love"]
4. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Mar. 4, 1927
5. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Jan. 21, 1932
6. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Jan. 30, 1932
7. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Sept. 24, 1935
8. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Mar. 5, 1936
9. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: May 28, 1938
10. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: June 12, 1938
11. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Nov. 18, 1938
12. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: [Mar. 24], 1940
13. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: July 2, 1940 [Mangan predicts the war will be over in a month. Describes being in Paris when it was captured by the Germans]
14. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Sept. 2, 1942
15. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Nov. 22, 1948
16. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Oct. 8, 1951
17. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Dec. 20, 1952
18. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: May 6, 1953
19. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Oct. 17, 1953
20. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Oct. 27, 1953
21. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Feb. 10, 1954
22. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: July 11, 1954
23. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Aug. 17, 1954
24. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Nov. 14, 1954
25. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Dec. 27, 1954
26. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: [1954]
27. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Jan. 6, 1955
28. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Mar. 6, 1955
29. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: July 5, 1955
30. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Jan. 29, 1956
31. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Feb. 29, 1956
32. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Apr. 5, 1956
33. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: May 23, 1956
34. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: June 18, 1956
35. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Sept. 17, 1956
36. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Jan. 5, 1957
37. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: [Mar. 19, 1957]
38. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Mar. 16, 1958
39. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: May 11, 1958
40. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Dec. 22, 1958
41. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: June 14, 1959
42. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Jan. 18, 1960
43. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Apr. 13, 1960
44. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Nov. 11, 1960
45. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Dec. 12, 1960
46. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: Jan. 16, 1961
47. Correspondence: Sherry Mangan to [George A. Palmer]: June 15, 1961
48. Miscellaneous uncataloged