Carl Van Vechten papers relating to African American arts and letters
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | 144-145
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
[Invitation to wedding of Countee Cullen and Nina Yolande Du Bois]
Subject (Name):
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946, Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
1 photomechanical postcard in folder 1 digitized.
1 TLS with manuscript friendship contract on verso in folder 5 digitized.
Description:
6 folders.
Subject (Name):
Bellamy, Dodie and Killian, Kevin
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, American poetry--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Gay authors, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets--United States--20th Century
1 of 4 folders completely digitized. and The papers include autograph and typed letters, signed (arranged alphabetically by sender in boxes 1-2) to Richard Adams Romney from Leonard Bernstein, Paul Cadmus, Eva Le Gallienne, David Horner (including one sent on his behalf from Osbert Sitwell), Christopher Isherwood, Pavel Tchelitchew, John van Druten, Margaret Webster, and others dating from the 1940s to the 1970s, who write to him (often addressing him by his nickname, "Twig") with advice and news of their activities and that of other friends. The letters from Alice Delamar (circa 1946-1989) form the largest group of letters, and document their long and close friendship, travels, and the activities of mutual friends. Also included are photograph albums and loose photographs (boxes 3-4) documenting Romney's travels to Greece and Peru, and social gatherings in Connecticut and Palm Beach, Florida.
Description:
Purchased from Richard Adams Romney on the George Henry Nettleton Fund, 1999 and 2000, and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2002. and Richard Adams Romney was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1918, and was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. He lived on the Upper East Side of New York City from 1945 to 1997, and worked in the real estate and insurance businesses. He was a gallery assistant at the Betty Parsons Gallery from 1950 to 1954. His friends and acquaintances included writers, artists, and musicians, including Leonard Bernstein, Christopher Isherwood, and Paul Cadmus. One of his closest friends was Alice Delamar, an American heiress and partner of the actress and director Eva Le Gallienne. Romney died in Troy, New York in 2009.
Diary completely digitized. and William E. Prince, born in and appointed from Massachusetts to the United States Army, describes the military posts in which he served, namely: Ringgold Barracks, Forts Clark, Terrett, Duncan, McKavett, Texas, and Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory. He describes the wagon trains, the difficulties with the Mexicans crossing the border, the Carbajal revolt in Mexico, 1850-1853, known as the Merchants War, and his command along the Rio Grande where the army was preserving civil authority.
Description:
Accompanied by a typewritten summary of the diary.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Arbuckle (Okla.), Fort Clark (Tex.), Fort Duncan (Tex.), Fort McKavett (Tex.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Terrett (Tex.), Mexico--History--1821-1861, and Texas--History--1846-1950
Subject (Name):
Carbajal, José María Jesús, d. 1874, Prince, William E., d. 1892, and United States--Army--Military life--History--19th century
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Texas, Merchants War, 1850-1853, and Military bases--Texas
Each diary also includes Sanford's accounts of personal expenses. The two earlier diaries are written in small notebooks; the last diary is written in a printed diary by an unknown publisher containing various printed time and measurement tables, phases of the moon, postal rates, etc. In addition to the diaries there are three manuscript letters to Sanford: H. L. Barnes, Haven, Iowa, February 27, 1872, to "Absent Nephew," Nashua New Hampshire, regarding family and farming matters; W. Laughlin, Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, July 20, 1874, to "Friend Sanford," Co. D, 6th Infantry with Northern Boundary Survey, regarding Sanford's mail; and Jacob Pipher, Fort Peck, Montana Territory, April 6, 1878, to "Friend Sanford," Hudson, New Hampshire, discussing news of Sanford's former army acquaintances. Accompanied by volume 3, no. 4 of the journal North Dakota History, which contains an article by Ben Innes with a transcript of the diaries dating from September 26, 1874 to May 23, 1875. and Three holograph diaries dated September 26-December 8, 1874; December 9, 1874-May 23, 1875; and March 25, 1876-March 1877, of Wilmot P. Sanford, a private in Company D, 6th United States Infantry stationed on the Dakota-Montana frontier. The diaries describe Sanford's daily life including army chores, inspections, illnesses, discharges, his frequent visits to the library and his becoming assistant librarian on April 19, 1875, and letter writing. The entries in the diary of 1876-77 note Sanford's co-ownership of a photographic studio at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, and contain his comments regarding Indian trouble as well as news of General Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and General George Crook and the Battle of the Rosebud.
Description:
The diaries dated 1874 and 1875 were the gift of Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke. The diary dated 1876-77 was purchased from Old Book Store on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1978. The letters were the gift of Charles and Lindley Eberstadt, 1969.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Buford (Fort Buford, N.D.)
Subject (Name):
Barnes, H. L., Crook, George,--1828-1890., Custer, George A.--(George Armstrong),--1839-1876., Laughlin, W., Pipher, Jacob., Sanford, Wilmot P., United States.--Army.--Infantry Regiment, 6th.--Company D., and United States.--Army--Military life.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--North Dakota., Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876., and Rosebud, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.