TLS expressing regret that he can not attend a performance of a dramatic adaptation of "John Brown's Body" that week at Thomas Jefferson High School. Accompanied by two typescript photocopies of the script as performed by students of Thomas Jefferson High School [Brooklyn, NY] in 1936, under the direction of Mrs. Lyda Rochmis. Also accompanied by a program for the "Third Annual Field Day" at Julia Richman High School [New York, NY], 1936 May 16, at which this production was also performed.
ALS seeking, on Mr. [Richard Watson?] Gilder's advice, Jefferson's opinion about the suitability of Cable's "Bonaventure" for dramatization, and asking if Jefferson knows Mr. H. N. Carlyle of Northampton.
Autograph letter and autograph notecard, signed, regarding a possible visit by Keating, thanking him for a gift, and informing him she is about to leave for France. and Materials in English.
Two TLS and five ALS written by Crane while living in Patterson, N.Y., to Finkler; postcard photograph of Opffer, Olga Eggers, and an unidentified man, with an ANS from Opffer to Crane; an ANS from Opffer, editor of Nordlyset, to an unidentified recipient, on verso of his business card; photograph of Crane; four photographs of Finkler, Opffer, and two unidentified men; printed card issued by Harper & Brothers, publishers; and three clippings concerning the deaths of Crane and Finkler.
Crane's letters concern his friendship with Finkler and Opffer and briefly discuss his poem The Bridge.
Accompanied by an envelope annotated in an unidentified hand.
TLS with corrections in Deland's hand, regarding her first book of poetry, The Old Garden and Other Verses.
Typed note at head of first page reads "(Dictated)."
With a review of The Old Garden and Other Verses clipped from an unidentified newspaper.
Dreier, Katherine S. (Katherine Sophie), 1877-1952
Published / Created:
1946-50
Call Number:
YCAL MSS MISC
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder GROUP 4, F-1
Image Count:
2
Description:
Twelve TLS (one incomplete), one ALS, and one card, regarding photographs taken by Schiff of Dreier's houses, of her artwork, and of herself.
Accompanied by six photographs: view of Long Ridge Methodist Episcopal Church from porch of the Haven (West Redding, Conn.); inside hall of the Haven, showing Brancusi's "Yellow Bird"; library at the Haven, showing Marcel Duchamp's "Tu m'" and "Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even"; Dreier sitting in hand elevator in Laurel Manor (Milford, Conn.), side view; two photographs of rooms in either the Haven or Laurel Manor.
ALS suggesting changes to an illustration for a piece titled "The Chase of the Tide." On printed letterhead for the Editorial Rooms at The Evening Post, 206-210 Broadway, New York City.