Literary remains, as described below, from the estate of a prominent newspaper correspondent and editor and concerning the Spanish Civil War and its effects on modern Spanish society and the American campaign in North Africa, Italy, and France in 1944.
Some wear throughout the archive, some poor quality typing paper browned, but a very good archive, important as reporting and analysis by an actor in the events covered.
For the archive, Item #51493
(1) Uhl, Alexander. Spain's Cry for Freedom. Madrid, nd [ca. 1975]. Ribbon-copy typescript (with some pages in carbon) for an unpublished work of non-fiction, exploring the effects of the Spanish Civil War on Spanish Society. 4to. (8), 379 pp. [rectos only], with a dozen pages of manuscript and numerous manuscript corrections, additions, and deletions, many substantive. The manuscript portions are in several hands, presumably Uhl's and perhaps his wife's or editors.
(2) Uhl, Alexander. Gates of the Sun. NP, 1938. Carbon typescript for an unpublished novel set during the Spanish Civil War. 4to. 477 pp. [rectos only], with occasional simple overtype corrections to punctuation and missed strikes. First leaf with tears resulting in loss of a number of words, next few leaves rumpled.
(3) Uhl, Alexander. Not Thy Hate. Tuckahoe, NY, nd [ca. 1960?]. Ribbon-copy typescript for an unpublished novel set during the Spanish Civil War, a substantially reworked manuscript of Gates of the Sun. 4to. (2), 371 pp. [rectos only], with occasional simple overtype corrections to punctuation and missed strikes.
(4) Uhl, Alexander. Notes - April 18 - May 31, 1944, for John P. Lewis, Managing Editor, Newspaper PM. [Various troop planes and ships en route from the United States to North Africa with the American Army], 1944. Ribbon-copy typescript. 4to. (3), (86) pp. [rectos only], with several manuscript deletions, corrections, and additions. With a "Field Press Censor" stamp on the title page and a note in red pencil "These notes must not be published in part of whole without re-submission to War Dept." Vivid reports and analysis by a veteran war correspondent.
(5) Uhl, Alexander. Notes - June 1 - July 18, for John P. Lewis, Managing Editor, Newspaper PM. [Various places in North Africa and Italy with the invading American Army], 1944. Ribbon-copy typescript, with some pages in carbon copy. 4to. (1), (159), (3) pp. [rectos only], with several manuscript deletions, corrections, and additions. With a "Field Press Censor" stamp on the title page and a note in red pencil "These notes must not be published in part of whole without re-submission to War Dept." Vivid reports and analysis by a veteran war correspondent.
(6) Uhl, Alexander. Notes - July 19 - October 1, 1944, Property of Alexander H. Uhl, Newpaper PM. [Various places in Italy and France], 1944. Carbon-copy typescript. 4to. (1), (41) pp. [rectos only], with several manuscript deletions, corrections, and additions. Vivid reports and analysis by a veteran war correspondent.
(7) Uhl, Alexander. Notes - October 2 - December 4, Property of Alexander H. Uhl, Newpaper PM. [Paris], 1944. Ribbon-copy typescript, with several pages in carbon. 4to. (1), (7) pp. [rectos only], with several manuscript deletions, corrections, and additions. Vivid reports and analysis by a veteran war correspondent.
(8) Three folders of notes, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and other printed material, primarily from correspondents to Uhl, mostly from the immediate post-World War II era, dealing with the events in Spain and France, and with a small archive concerning the role of "activist" newspaper reporters. Approximately 250 pages.
Uhl, a native of New York City, graduated from City College of New York and studied at Columbia University's School of Journalism before embarking on a career in newspaper work. After serving on a number of east coast papers, he joined the AP press service, working for that organization, before being named bureau chief for its Madrid office, a post he held during the Spanish Civil War (1935-1938). From 1940 until 1948 Uhl was foreign editor of PM newspaper and covered the European theatre during World War II, being award the French Legion Of Honor for his service. He died in Madrid while working on the first manuscript described above.
Price: $6,000.00