Includes: "An Example of Suicide", "Long Island" and "The Swamp Garden"
Subject (Topic):
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, and Speculative fiction, American--20th Century
Laura Riding letters to Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 16
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
One poem by Riding, a typescript carbon copy of "March 1937"
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French., Laura Riding (1901-1991), poet., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Subject (Name):
Aldridge, John W., Graves, Robert, 1895-1985, Hodge, Alan, 1915-1979, Hutchinson, Dorothy, Hutchinson, Ward, Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960, Reeves, James, and Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century
Laura Riding letters to Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 17
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
Draft of a poem by Ward Hutchinson, heavily corrected and annotated by Riding.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French., Laura Riding (1901-1991), poet., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Subject (Name):
Aldridge, John W., Graves, Robert, 1895-1985, Hodge, Alan, 1915-1979, Hutchinson, Dorothy, Hutchinson, Ward, Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960, Reeves, James, and Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century
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
Includes draft of "A Love Story and a History Lesson", and copy of letter from R. B. Cunninghame-Graham to GW
Subject (Topic):
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
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