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- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 905
- Collection Title:
- Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 27
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between Phillips and the publisher John Lane Company, correspondence, page proofs, and printed ephemera. Correspondence includes letters from John Lane Company, Dodd Mead, & Company, The University Press, and other publishers.
- Description:
- Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010., James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American novelist., and Mary Elizabeth Phillips (1957-1945), biographer.
- Subject (Name):
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 and Drescher, Rudolf
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Cooperana by Herr Rudolf Drescher"
- Published / Created:
- [1920s]
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS FILE 50
- Collection Title:
- Drafts for The I. O. U.
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 69
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Material consists of one autograph manuscript draft, signed and corrected, and one typescript carbon draft of a short story. Typescript draft inscribed in an unidentified hand: "written before 1928". Accompanied by a typescript note by Fitzgerald's agent Harold Ober providing a synopsis of the story.
- Description:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American author. and Purchased from William Reese Co. (Sotheby's sale, 2012 June 15, lot 99) on the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2012.
- Subject (Name):
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 and Ober, Harold, 1881-1959
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "The I. O. U.," drafts, autograph manuscript signed and typescript carbon
- Creator:
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 3
- Collection Title:
- Richard Wright papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 89 | Folder 1086
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "The Mob and the Elite," [article] printed version, Partisan Review
5.
- Published / Created:
- 1950 Jan 27
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 69
- Collection Title:
- Myron Brinig papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 13
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Letters to George Ellsworth, accompanied by a letter from Noel S. about Brinig's No Marriage in Paradise, two book jackets, a promotional piece for Singermann, and photographs of Ellsworth and of Brinig. Brinig's letters, most written from New York City, are detailed accounts of the life of a gay man in New York. Brinig writes of parties, friends, plays and movies he's seen, and of his attempts to get his work published. People mentioned in his letters include Eric Ambler, Erskine Caldwell, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Lynn Riggs, Cady Wells, and Tennessee Williams.
- Description:
- Gift of Robert MacLeod, 1994. and Myron Brinig, American novelist, was born in Minneapolis on December 22, 1896. He grew up in Butte, Montana and many of his most noted works, including Singermann (1929), Wide Open Town (1931), and The Sisters (1937), were set in Montana. As an adult, Brinig lived in Taos, New Mexico and in New York City. He died in New York on May 13, 1991.
- Subject (Geographic):
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
- Subject (Name):
- Brinig, Myron, 1897-1991 and Ellsworth, George
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American--20th century--Archives and Gay men--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > ----, Mabel
- Published / Created:
- 1985
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 613
- Collection Title:
- Joseph Brodsky papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 122 | Folder 2733
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Benedict, Helen, printed version
- Published / Created:
- 2013, undated
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1097
- Collection Title:
- Joan Daves papers relating to M. M. B. Walsh
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Papers of M. M. B. Walsh's literary agent, Joan Daves, including publishing contracts, a power of attorney, correspondence, photographs, and printed ephemera. Correspondence includes eleven autograph and typescript letters, signed, from Walsh to Daves, eight typescript carbon letters from Daves to Walsh, and several third party letters from editors and publishers regarding Walsh's work. Letters from Walsh discuss literary and personal matters, including her books, work in progress, including the novel The Ghost-walkers, teaching, life on reservations in the Dakotas, and the relationship between her literary output and the Sioux community.
- Description:
- Joan Daves, American literary agent., Margaret M. B. Walsh (1916-1996), American author., and Purchased from Ken Lopez Bookseller on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
- Subject (Name):
- Daves, Joan and Walsh, M. M. B
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Dakota Indians, and Dakota Indians--Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biographical information
8.
- Creator:
- Boone, Bruce
- Published / Created:
- 1986-1993, undated
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1090
- Collection Title:
- Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 1 photomechanical postcard in folder 1 digitized.
- Description:
- 2 folders.
- Subject (Name):
- Bellamy, Dodie, Killian, Kevin, Lennon, John, 1940-1980, and Ono, Yōko
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature--20th century, American poetry--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Gay authors, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets--United States--20th Century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Boone, Bruce
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 862
- Collection Title:
- Fred Benjamin Millett correspondence
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 7
- Abstract:
- Fred Benjamin Millett Correspondence is comprised of incoming letters from American and British authors dating from 1933 to 1950. The authors write in response to Millet's request for information while preparing his books: Contemporary British Literature: A Critical Survey and 232 Author-bibliographies (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935) and Contemporary American Authors: A Critical Survey and 219 Bio-bibliographies (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940). Correspondents include: Sherwood Anderson, Gordon Bottomley, John Dos Passos, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. D., Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Parker, Ezra Pound, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Ethel Sidgwick, Wallace Stevens, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Penn Warren, Evelyn Waugh, Thornton Wilder, and William Carlos Williams. In his questionnaire Millett asked authors for a list of writings, biographical information, whether the author is represented in an oil portrait, and whether their works have been adapted to film. and Letters from American authors.
- Description:
- Fred Benjamin Millett (1890-1976), professor of English and Head of the Honors College at Wesleyan University. and Purchased on the George B. Alvord Fund, Library Associates Fund, William Robertson Coe American Studies Fund, and Francis O. Matthiesen Fund, 1960.
- Subject (Name):
- Millett, Fred B. (Fred Benjamin), 1890-1976
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, English--20th century, Bio-bibliography, and English literature--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Campbell, William March
10.
- Creator:
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Published / Created:
- 1960-1961
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 107
- Collection Title:
- Walter O. Evans collection of James Baldwin
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 6
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from 1953 to 1987. In his letters Baldwin discusses his writing projects and personal life (ranging from his relationships to his experience living abroad in France and Turkey). Baldwin also reflects on his experience at the MacDowell Colony where he was in residence while working on his novel Giovanni's Room. The correspondence constitutes a window into Baldwin's creative process and life during this period.
- Description:
- Purchased from Walter O. and Linda Evans on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2013.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States--Race relations
- Subject (Name):
- Garin-Painter, Mary
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence