Collection of letters to Rodman from other English-language authors discussing literary and personal matters, including published work, work in progress, publication, and health and travel plans. Correspondents include: W. H. Auden, Robert Bly, Richard Eberhart, John Hersey, Christopher Isherwood, Stanley Kunitz, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Spender, William Styron, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, and Richard Wilbur. The collection features twenty letters from Norman Mailer and a sketch by Mailer. With drafts, typescript, corrected, of chapters from an unidentified book by Rodman about Kunitz and Mailer.
Description:
Purchased from Stuart Lutz on the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2003. and Selden Rodman (1909-2002), born Cary Selden Rodman, was an American poet, critic, and art collector.
Subject (Name):
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973, Bly, Robert, Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, Hersey, John, 1914-1993, Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986, Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006, and Mailer, Norman
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
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:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes. and 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):
Leeming, David Adams, 1937-
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
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):
Lerner, Eugene, 1901-
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
Per Seyersted papers concerning Leslie Marmon Silko
Container / Volume:
Folder 14
Image Count:
7
Description:
Letter of 1975 February 3 includes Native American design by Willard L. Jones printed on verso. and Three letters addressed to Per Seyersted scanned from folder containing multiple items.
Subject (Name):
Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita and Seyersted, Per, 1921-
Collection consists of 34 pieces of correspondence, including autograph letters, postcards, and holiday cards, from O'Keeffe to Susan and Alexander Girard, and their daughter Sansi Needham Girard Agnew. The Girards were residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and most letters discuss personal topics, including plans for visits to each others' homes. Also included are invitations to openings at museums exhibiting O'Keeffe's work which were sent on her behalf. The collection holds 23 snapshot photographs of O'Keeffe, the Girards, and others at events, gatherings, and on travels, and plus some scenery in New Mexico, and a portrait of O'Keeffe in an 8 by 10 inch format bearing a studio stamp of Charles Eames; the photographs date from 1963 to 1973. and With the collection is one letter from Robert Jaffie to Thomas Needham, dated March 10, 1959, discussing a recent visit with O'Keeffe.
Description:
Alexander Girard (1907-1993), American designer, art collector., Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), American artist., Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2009., and Susan Needham Girard (1910-1996), American art collector.
Subject (Name):
Girard, Alexander, Girard, Susan Needham, 1910-1996, and O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
Subject (Topic):
Artists--United States and Painters--United States
Cover with photograph of painting, "The foundry" by Pierre Montminy and MS note, signed, to Donald Justice. and Pages 20-21, poems by Frank Stanford: Strappado, Poem, Becoming the unicorn, Narcissus to Achilles with autograph letter and annotations, signed, for Donald Justice.
Publisher:
Stephens College, Department of English
Subject (Name):
Justice, Donald Rodney, 1925-2004
Subject (Topic):
American poetry --20th century --Periodicals and Poets, American --20th century --Archives.
Yvonne Oddon letters from Alfred and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 15
Image Count:
24
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection contains letters to Yvonne Oddon from Alfred Métraux, with one folder of letters to Oddon from Rhoda Bubendey Métraux. The letters from Alfred Métraux describe his work as founder and director of the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Tucumán in Argentina, and as a Fellow of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and his teaching appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and at Yale. Also discussed are his expeditions throughout South America, Africa, and Easter Island, his trip to Europe immediately after the end of World War II, and his involvement with Unesco and their projects in the Amazon River region and Haiti. The letters also describe the writing and publishing of many of his works. and Many of the letters are personal in nature, and discuss his relationship with Oddon, his first wife, Eva Métraux, and his second wife, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux. They also describe his often difficult relationship with his work and his collegues, including Peter Henry Buck, Elizabeth Dijour, Henri Alfred Lavachery, Michel Leiris, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert Harry Lowie, Paul Rivet, Georges Henri Rivière, André Schaeffner, Jacques Soustelle, and others. The letters from Rhoda Métraux discuss their family life, her concern for Oddon after the war, Alfred's work, and her own work and studies.
Description:
Alfred Métraux, Swiss anthropologist and ethnologist particularly noted for his work in South America, Haiti, and Easter Island., Gift of Michel Leiris, 1990., Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey, American anthropologist., and Yvonne Oddon, librarian at the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadero, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme). She was part of the Musée de l'Homme Resistance Group during World War II, and was imprisoned by the Nazis. She later directed the Unesco-ICOM Documentation Centre.