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.
Yonekazu Satoda papers, photographs, and moving films
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1
Image Count:
178
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Material related to his internment at the Jerome Relocation Center includes a diary he kept from May 1942 to February 1945, as well as photographs that document the camp and his family., Material related to his military service includes training information from Officer Candidate School at the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, as well as photographs and moving films created during his service in Japan., and This collection includes papers, photographs, and moving films that document the internment of Japanese American Yonekazu Satoda at the Jerome Relocation Center in Denison, Arkansas, 1942-1945, as well as his military service with the United States Army in Japan, 1946-1948. Additional material documents other aspects of his life, especially his education as an accountant, as well as correspondence with friends and businesses.
Description:
Blank pages at end not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Arkansas--Pictorial works, Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952--Pictorial works, and Japan--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Infantry School (U.S.), Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.), Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.)--Pictorial works, Satoda, Yonekazu,--1921-, and United States.--Army--Officers--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps--Arkansas, Concentration camps--Arkansas--Pictorial works, Japanese American soldiers, Japanese American soldiers--Pictorial works, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arkansas, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arkansas--Pictorial works, World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans, and World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese American