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Libby Scheier fonds File
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Miscellaneous artwork

File consists of childhood paintings by Scheier, art prints from friends, a photocopy of the cover of her book "Sky", a poster for an exhibit by Marlene Dumas at the Art Gallery of York University, and an oversized 40th birthday card.

Divorce : Decree Nisi

File consists of a letter from lawyer Charles Roach, accompanied by a copy of the Decree Nisi pertaining to Scheier's divorce from James F. McMillan.

Graduate school papers

File consists of papers written by Scheier for her MA degree in English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Included in the file is also an undergraduate paper.

Parents

File consists of a manuscript for an article by Celia Scheier about a trip to Cuba, a newspaper clipping featuring a photo of Celia Scheier, and a newspaper clipping about children of socialist parents.

Photographs of Libby Scheier

File consists of photographs of Scheier, including a series of posed, professional photographs taken when Scheier was about 13. Photographs of Scheier's cousin Maxine, a photograph of Scheier with her brother, Michael, and a photograph of a boy playing violin are also part of the file.

Correspondence

File consists of correspondence received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, particularly her time as an exchange student in Paris. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, brother Michael and other relatives, and friends Danny Press and Sue Levering.

Correspondence

File consists of correspondence mostly received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her time as an exchange student in Paris. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, brother Michael, Lois Scheier, Tim Levenson, Arnie Katz, and Monique Bensaid.

Poems, notes and letters

File consists of an assortment of notes and a draft poems by Scheier as well as letters sent and received.

Sarah Lawrence application, '64

File consists of a draft application letter written by Scheier for her application to Sarah Lawrence College, as well as a draft letter written about Scheier by her father, Murray.

Correspondence

File consists of correspondence received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her time as an exchange student in Paris. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, brother Michael, Lois Scheier, Tim Levenson, Arnie Katz, and Monique Bensaid.

Papers : Sarah L.C. 1964-68 (& phil. notes)

File consists typescript and handwritten essays by Scheier and handwritten notes and a syllabi from a 1965-1966 philosophy class, "19th and 20th century thought". Included in the file are photographic negatives.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of two letters sent to Scheier by her brother, Michael, and a letter from Tim Levenson.

Susan Sherman : summer 1969

File pertains to a creative writing course taken by Scheier with instructor Susan Sherman. Included in the file are poems and prose writing by Scheier and others.

Poems by others

File consists of poems written by other people, possibly from a writing workshop taken by Scheier.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming letters and cards from Scheier's friends and family.

Buffalo : Stony Brook Leaflets

File consists of draft reports and papers written by Scheier pertaining to her involvement with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Stony Brook, New York, while a graduate student at SUNY.

Drama class notes and play excerpts

File consists of Scheier's handwritten notes and exercises, as well as excerpts from plays, pertaining to a class entitled "Dramatic and Diction" taught by Jean Amoroso.

Notes and correspondence : 4/15/71 - 5/16/72

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence. Much of the correspondence pertains to Scheier's socialist activism and involvement with the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus (RMC), Revolutionary Communist Youth (RCY) and the Spartacus League. Correspondents include Sue Axelrod, Liz Gordon, and Richard Stomper.

Correspondence

File consists of letters, postcards and cards received by Scheier. Correspondents include her parents and brother Michael, Sue Adams, Melinda Levine, Sue Levering, and Jon Brooks.

Correspondence

File consists of letters, postcards and cards received by Scheier. Correspondents include her parents and brother Michael, Sue Adams, Melinda Levine, Sue Levering, and Jon Brooks.

Political papers, essays and correspondence

File consists of correspondence and copies of correspondence exchanged between Yossi Schwartz, John Sharpe and others in the international socialist movement, as well as as open letters, Trotskyist League of Canada meeting minutes, statements and reports, Spartacist bulletins, and a draft paper by Scheier entitled "What is the Histadrut?".

Correspondence : mid-March 1975 - June 1975

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, received and sent while she was living in Jerusalem. Correspondents include her socialist friends and colleagues as well as her family.

Correspondence : 25.9.74 - mid-March 1975

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, received and sent while she was living in Jerusalem. Correspondents include her socialist friends and colleagues as well as her family.

Talk : blacks and women

File consists of Scheier's typescript and handwritten notes on black workers and women in socialist movements.

Posters in Hebrew

File also includes Spartacist League notices for talks by James Robertson (21-22 Jan. 1971), D.L. Reissner for International Woman's Day, and Joseph Seymour at Columbia University.

Essays on the left

File consists of research materials collected by Scheier on communist movements, as well as copies of correspondence and translated articles by Socialist Workers Party (SWP) members and articles about racism in Boston schools.

Old poetry notes

File mainly consists of draft poems and notes by Scheier, as well as a letter written by Yossi Schwartz.

Correspondence : Dec. 1975 - July 1976

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's parents and friends from her socialist activist groups.

Political misc.

File consists of notes, contact lists, Interim Secretariat (Trotskyist League of Canada) meeting minutes and notes, interview transcripts, Trotskyist League of Canada press releases, minutes and form letters from the National Black Work Consultative Fraction.

Correspondence

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence, mostly exchanged with her parents and brother Michael and sister-in-law Julie. Included are letters and circulars pertaining to Scheier's socialist activism and involvement with the Trotskyist League's University of Toronto club and the League for Socialist Action.

Political events

File consists of draft letters written by Scheier pertaining to her involvement with the Trotskyist League of Canada.

Drafts of resignation from Trotskyist League

File pertains to Scheier's membership and involvement in the Trotskyist League of Canada and the Spartacist League. Included are draft letters of resignations from both organizations, correspondence from members of the Spartacist League, a paper by Scheier entitled "The Spartacists - a rightist-sectarian tendency", and correspondence from members of the Trotskyist League of Canada.

Divorce : correspondence

File consists of correspondence from Scheier's lawyer, Mary F. Dunbar, regarding her divorce from Joseph Schwartz, as well as related legal documents pertaining to the marriage and divorce.

Histadrut documents

File pertains to Scheier's research about the Histadrut and includes her handwritten notes and copies of related encyclopedia entries.

Correspondence : Aug. 1976 - July 1977

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, on both personal and professional subjects. Correspondents are predominantly Scheier's parents, brother and sister-in-law.

Correspondence : Aug. 1977-Dec. '77

File consists of personal correspondence received by Scheier, as well as copies of some of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's brother, Michael, and her parents, Murray and Celia, as well as Susan Levering, Karen Heller and Tim Levenson.

"Expulsion" letter from Trotskyist League

Item is a letter from John Masters of the Political Bureau of the Trotskyist League of Canada rejecting Scheier's resignation and expelling her, and Yossi Schwartz, from the organization. Scheier is addressed by her code name, Lerner, in the letter.

Material for article

Files consists of Scheier's handwritten notes on her socialist research, possibly used in the writing of an article.

Workshop poems

File consists of poems written by Scheier and others at a writing workshop. Scheier's poems are entitled "Quiet" and "Julie".

Correspondence : Aug. 1976 - July 1977

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, on both personal and professional subjects. Correspondents are predominantly Scheier's parents, brother and sister-in-law.

Poems and articles

File consists of Scheier's draft poems, an article entitled "Sexual and Political Aesthetics: Some Thoughts on Feminism, Social Realism, and 'The Universal'", an article entitled "Labels: Meaningful and Not: Writing and Gender", photocopies of published poems by Scheier, and a signed poetry chapbook by Robert Priest.

Correspondence : Jan. 78-Oct. 78

File consists of personal correspondence received by Scheier, as well as copies of some of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's brother and sister-in-law, Michael and Julie, and her parents, Murray and Celia, as well as Tim Levenson, Larry Seigle, and Karen Heller.

Israel trip

File consists of publications written in Hebrew, as well as a pamphlet in English entitled "Peace now: better a land of peace than a piece of land" and handwritten notes by Scheier.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents are mainly Scheier's family members.

Leftist publications

File consists of issues of socialist publications collected by Scheier, including "Socialist Workers Party International Information Bulletin", "Socialist Workers Internal Information Bulletin", "Socialist Workers Party Discussion Bulletin", "Education for Socialists", "Intercontinental Press", "Revolutionary Marxist Papers", "The Fall of Allende and the Triumph of the Chilean Counterrevolution" (Spartacist League); "Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter", "Young Spartacus", "Women and Revolution" (Spartacist League).

Political endgame

File consists of draft writing by Scheier regarding the end of her membership in the Spartacist League and Trotskyist League of Canada, as well as minutes from meetings of the Trotskyist League of Canada.

Spartacist essay

File consists of drafts of Scheier's paper on her experience with the Spartacist League, as well as notes and correspondence sent to Larry Seigle about the paper.

Posters

File consists of political posters accumulated by Scheier, including a Spartacist League Richard Nixon impeachment poster, a Spartacist League poster advertising a talk by James Robertson, a Nicaragua Solidarity Committee poster (July 1979), two posters pertaining to the Cruzada Nacional de Alfabetizacion [Nicaraguan Ministry of Education], a handmade "Bread, land, peace" poster inscribed to Scheier, a Spartacist Youth League black liberation poster, and a University of Winnipeg Students' Association "Quebec: the people and their aspirations: Exposure '79" conference poster.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's mother and brother, Michael, Larry Seigle and Carol Auld.

Correspondence

File consists of copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence as well as incoming letters and cards. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, her brother, Michael, and sister-in-law Julie, Karen Heller and Les Baltimore.

Papers : Sarah L.C. 1964-68 (& phil. notes)

File consists typescript and handwritten essays by Scheier and handwritten notes and a syllabi from a 1965-1966 philosophy class, "19th and 20th century thought". Included in the file are photographic negatives.

Poems and letters : Oct. '79-Dec. '80

File consists of draft poems and stories by Scheier, as well as incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents are Scheier's parents, her husband Yossi Schwartz, her brother, Michael, Sue Levering and others. Some correspondence belonging to Yossi Schwartz is also part of this file.

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