32 ALS, 28 written by Jonathan Edwards, Jr. to John Ryland, dated 1785-1800. There are two letters from S. E. Dwight (dated 1818 and 1822), and one letter each from Jonathan Walter Edwards (dated 1803) and Timothy Edwards (dated 1819). The letters concern Ryland's and the Edwards family's mutual interest in Jonathan Edwards, Sr., with news of his descendants and the disposition of Edwards's papers. Jonathan Edwards Jr.'s letters also contain discussions of the various theological concerns of his time.
Subject (Name):
Edwards family and Ryland, John.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy--New England., Congregational churches--New England--Clergy., and Theology, Doctrinal--United States--History--18th century.
32 ALS, 28 written by Jonathan Edwards, Jr. to John Ryland, dated 1785-1800. There are two letters from S. E. Dwight (dated 1818 and 1822), and one letter each from Jonathan Walter Edwards (dated 1803) and Timothy Edwards (dated 1819). The letters concern Ryland's and the Edwards family's mutual interest in Jonathan Edwards, Sr., with news of his descendants and the disposition of Edwards's papers. Jonathan Edwards Jr.'s letters also contain discussions of the various theological concerns of his time.
Subject (Name):
Edwards family and Ryland, John.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy--New England., Congregational churches--New England--Clergy., and Theology, Doctrinal--United States--History--18th century.
32 ALS, 28 written by Jonathan Edwards, Jr. to John Ryland, dated 1785-1800. There are two letters from S. E. Dwight (dated 1818 and 1822), and one letter each from Jonathan Walter Edwards (dated 1803) and Timothy Edwards (dated 1819). The letters concern Ryland's and the Edwards family's mutual interest in Jonathan Edwards, Sr., with news of his descendants and the disposition of Edwards's papers. Jonathan Edwards Jr.'s letters also contain discussions of the various theological concerns of his time.
Subject (Name):
Edwards family and Ryland, John.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy--New England., Congregational churches--New England--Clergy., and Theology, Doctrinal--United States--History--18th century.
32 ALS, 28 written by Jonathan Edwards, Jr. to John Ryland, dated 1785-1800. There are two letters from S. E. Dwight (dated 1818 and 1822), and one letter each from Jonathan Walter Edwards (dated 1803) and Timothy Edwards (dated 1819). The letters concern Ryland's and the Edwards family's mutual interest in Jonathan Edwards, Sr., with news of his descendants and the disposition of Edwards's papers. Jonathan Edwards Jr.'s letters also contain discussions of the various theological concerns of his time.
Subject (Name):
Edwards family and Ryland, John.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy--New England., Congregational churches--New England--Clergy., and Theology, Doctrinal--United States--History--18th century.
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Eight copies of typed transcriptions, some carbon, of letters written from France, 1915-1916 and n.d.; copy of a TL from Eliot Norton to the editor of an unidentified publication, n.d.; and copy of a typed list of equipment necessary for ambulance volunteers, n.d. Correspondents include Richard Norton, his brother; and Norman, his son; and Philip O. Mills.
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