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
Folders 3060, 3061, 3062, 3064, 3065, 3066, 3067, 3068, and 3069 completely digitized. and Includes documentation of Brodsky's 1964 trial and 1972 immigration to the United States, employment and appearance contracts, and documentation of Brodsky's appeals on behalf of others in the Soviet Union, especially his parents.
Subject (Name):
Brodski, Mariia, Brodskiĭ, Aleksandr, and 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
Folders 3071, 3072, 3073, 3074, 3076, 3077, 3079, 3081, 3083, 3086, and 3091 completely digitized. and Includes Brodsky's American passport and documentation of Brodsky's appeals on behalf of others in the Soviet Union, especially his parents
Subject (Name):
Brodski, Mariia, Brodskiĭ, Aleksandr, and 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
Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts, of Leopold of Austria, Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Part II was copied to finish the incomplete text of Part I. and Ownership inscription on front pastedown indicatesthat the book belonged to Philippus Schoen, medical doctor and canon of thechurch of St. Victor at Xanten, who bequeathed the manuscript together withan astrolabe to the convent of nuns at Sousbeek.
Alternative Title:
Compilatio de astrorum scientia
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Paper wrapper held by stitching at head and tail of spine and sewing around the edges of sides. Astronomical diagram and title in ink on upper side: "Astronomia Leupoldi ducis Austrie filij et cetera"., Part I: Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, for major text divisions. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, some punctuation, marginalia keyed to art. 1, all in red. Part II: Plain initials, 3-line, paragraph marks and initials strokes in red., Purchased from Nicolas Rauch of Geneva in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Part I (ff. i-vi and 1-83): Written in well formed hybrida script. Part II (pp. 1-76): Written in a small gothic bookhand with many initial letters of the opening word of each section of the text written in oversize majuscules., and Watermarks: Part I: unidentified letter P similar in general design to Piccard Buchstabe XIII. Part II: Briquet Coupe 4586.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Holograph manuscript, with corrections and a table of contents, providing an account of Christian missionarary work among the Iroquois, Cherokees, California Indians, Eskimo, Wyandots, Objibwas and other American Indians. Includes sections on Hans Egede's work among Greenland's Eskimo population, the efforts of Presbyterians in Alaska, and the Franciscan's California missions. Includes an incomplete chapter about Richard Henry Pratt and the schools he established in St. Augustine, Florida, Virginia, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Description:
Margaret Winslow authored numerous young adult novels between 1875 and 1892 while living in Boston, Massachusetts and Saugerties, New York. She also published promotional stories about the American women's gospel temperance movement and the YMCA. and Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Egede, Hans,--1686-1758, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.), Pratt, Richard Henry,--1840-1924, and United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians--Missions, Cree Indians--Missions, Eskimos--Missions--Greenland, Franciscans--California, Indians of North America--Missions, Indians of North America--Missions--California, Indians of North America--Missions--Northwest Territories, Iroquois Indians--Missions, Ojibwa Indians--Missions, Presbyterians--Missions--Alaska, and Wyandot Indians--Missions
Folder 1267 completely digitized. and Includes a letter from Bengt Jangfeldt to Ann Kjellberg.
Subject (Name):
Kjellberg, Ann
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
Manuscript on paper of 1) Les livres du roy Modus et de la royne Ratio. 2) Le bon chien Soullart (in verse).
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter purple leather with textured cloth sides., Penwork drawing (with red added) of the hound, Soullart, on f. 59r; drawing of a lion (?) in same style on f. 60r. Simple decorative initials and headings in red, blue and/or black; some with calligraphic penwork designs and grotesques extending into margins. Paragraph marks, underlining, and highlights, in red., Script: Written by a single scribe in a running script, with a more formal style of writing for headings., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de cerf 15548, Tete de boeuf 14247, and unidentified unicorn.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, French literature--To 1500, French poetry--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library