The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, an address book, a newspaper clipping, and a bookmark relating to Natalie Barney collected by Joan Schenkar, Box 1 contains correspondence, photographs, a legal document, an address book, and a newspaper clipping. The correspondence is among Barney, Bettina Bergery, Berthe Cleyrergue, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, Marcelle Fauchier-Delavigne, Nadine Hwang, Janine Lahovany, André Rouveyre, and Crédit Suisse Berne, dated 1935-1973. The bulk of the correspondence consists of eighty-five letters from Barney to Cleyrergue, dated 1940-1968. The photographs depict several individuals, including Barney, Dolly Wilde, Valery Larbaud, Hwang, Eva Palmer, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Antoinette Gentien, Renée Vivien, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, and Marie Laurencin. The legal document is a typescript copy of a page from an April 1918 voir dire, detailing the troubled marriage between Colette and Henry de Jouvenal. The newspaper clipping is an undated cartoon of the temple de l'amitié in Barney's garden. The leather-bound address book belonged to Barney and contains two cartes de visite, Box 2 contains a photographic portrait of Barney at age sixteen, and Box 3 contains a metal bookmark with a butterfly design that belonged to Barney
Description:
Joan Schenkar is an American playwright and biographer., Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women., Accompanied by a vendor list (in box 1)., and In French and English.
Dans la maison aux planches disjointes ... and GBMZ ; 2
Description:
"Les constructions et les photographies de Hans Bellmer datent de 1936 et 1937. La préface écrite en 1938 a été traduite en collaboration avec Georges Hugnet et remaniée partiellement par l'auteur en 1946. Paul Eluard a écrit les textes en décembre 1938"--T.p. verso. and One of 15 copies with illustrations out of a total of 136.
Publisher:
Editions Premières,
Subject (Topic):
Art, Modern --20th century, Art, Modern--20th century, Erotic art, and Photographs.
Dorothy Stanley letters to Constant Coquelin, 1886-1938
Container / Volume:
Folder [4]
Image Count:
59
Abstract:
99 letters from Lady Dorothy Tennant Stanley to the actor, Constant Coquelin, discussing affairs of the Comedie-Francaise, political events, including colonial engagements in Africa, particularly those with which her husband, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, was involved, and her travels. Also included are: 2 letters from Eveleen Myers (Dorothy Stanley’s sister) to Coquelin; 2 letters from Dolly Tennant to Coquelin; 13 letters from Gertrude Tennant (Dorothy Stanley’s mother) to Coquelin; and 2 letters from D. M. Stanley to a M. Chabert concerning the proposed publication of the Stanley-Coquelin letters.
Subject (Name):
Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909, Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, d. 1926, and Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. These letters mainly document social and personal activities, such as news of Clemy's husband and children and the health of their mother. Many of Louisa Siefert's letters to her sister describe her own ailing health and advancing tuberculosis, and her doctors' advice. Letters to Siefert's mother also describe the dinners Siefert attends; visits with acquaintances, including Victor Hugo, Charles Blanc, and Paul Chenevard; and operas she sees. Other correspondents in the collection include Siefert's friends such as Charles Asselineau, Chenevard, and Emmanuel des Essarts; admirers of her poetry; the Journal de Lyon concerning her publications; and family members to each other after her death. Also in the collection are Siefert's wedding announcement and death notice; several accounts and receipts; and a manuscript, with numerous corrections, of Adele-Adrienne Siefert's memoirs of her daughter. and Series II contains eight volumes of poetry, primarily in Siefert's hand. Two volumes contain collections of other poets' works, one of which includes, dos-a-dos, a juvenile play by Siefert titled En Automne. Other volumes include a set of notes taken during a course on French poetry taught by Charles Asselineau, and four collections of original poetry dated between 1865 and 1872, which include many sentimental or dedicatory poems to friends and family members. The original poems are annotated with the dates of their composition, and occasionally with publication information; and laid in a volume titled Poems d'amour are two pages of comments on the poems in Asselineau's hand. Also included in the collection is a volume of reviews of Siefert's works, copied in her hand.
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other collections published during her lifetime include L'Année républicaine (1869); Les Stoïques (1870); Les Saintes Colères (1871); and Comédies romanesques (1872); as well as a novel, Méline (1875). Through her friendship with Charles Asselineau, she became well acquainted with other literary and artistic figures, including Victor Hugo, Emile Deschamps, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul Chenavard. In 1876, she married Jocelyn Pene, secretary to Emilio Castelar; a year later, she died of tuberculosis in Pau, France. After her death, her mother published Souvenirs, Poésies inédites. and Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Edwin J.Beinecke Book Fund, 2006.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Chenavard, Paul Marc Joseph, 1807-1895
Subject (Topic):
Artists--France--19th century--Correspondence and Authors, French--19th century--Correspondence
Solidaridad con los escritores franceses. Comite de solidarite des intellectuels Argentins avec les
Image Count:
4
Description:
Laid in 1945 vol.: Marcel, Jean Marie. 1 black and white photograph with photographer's stamp on verso. Title: "Distribution de cafe / (Solidarite Argentine)". Paris, undated.
Subject (Geographic):
Argentina --Relations --France and France --Relations --Argentina
Subject (Name):
Marcel, Jean Marie
Subject (Topic):
Authors, Argentine --20th century --Political and social views, Authors, French --20th century --Social conditions, and Charities --Argentina
Souvenir photograph album of images with printed captions in Russian and French depicting buildings and monuments in Saint Petersburg and the surrounding areas of Petrodvorets, Pushkin, Pavlovsk, and Novgorod, Russia, ca. 1870.
Description:
Photographs in album 5.0 x 8.5 cm.
Subject (Geographic):
Russia --Pictorial works, Saint Petersburg (Russia) --Buildings, structures, etc. --Pictorial works, and Saint Petersburg (Russia) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855 --Monuments and Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725 --Monuments