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
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 6 | Folder 187
Image Count:
65
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Includes letter of introduction on behalf of Bette Latimer and enclosed note from Latimer (1948); letters from Dorothy Dover to CVV (1948); article, "IBN Khaldun on Poetry" by Bernard Fisher and Cedric Dover, from an unidentified publication(1951); greeting card from Maureen Dover (1962)
Subject (Name):
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Letters to George Ellsworth, accompanied by a letter from Noel S. about Brinig's No Marriage in Paradise, two book jackets, a promotional piece for Singermann, and photographs of Ellsworth and of Brinig. Brinig's letters, most written from New York City, are detailed accounts of the life of a gay man in New York. Brinig writes of parties, friends, plays and movies he's seen, and of his attempts to get his work published. People mentioned in his letters include Eric Ambler, Erskine Caldwell, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Lynn Riggs, Cady Wells, and Tennessee Williams.
Description:
Gift of Robert MacLeod, 1994. and Myron Brinig, American novelist, was born in Minneapolis on December 22, 1896. He grew up in Butte, Montana and many of his most noted works, including Singermann (1929), Wide Open Town (1931), and The Sisters (1937), were set in Montana. As an adult, Brinig lived in Taos, New Mexico and in New York City. He died in New York on May 13, 1991.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
Subject (Name):
Brinig, Myron, 1897-1991 and Ellsworth, George
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives and Gay men--United States
Letters to George Ellsworth, accompanied by a letter from Noel S. about Brinig's No Marriage in Paradise, two book jackets, a promotional piece for Singermann, and photographs of Ellsworth and of Brinig. Brinig's letters, most written from New York City, are detailed accounts of the life of a gay man in New York. Brinig writes of parties, friends, plays and movies he's seen, and of his attempts to get his work published. People mentioned in his letters include Eric Ambler, Erskine Caldwell, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Lynn Riggs, Cady Wells, and Tennessee Williams.
Description:
Gift of Robert MacLeod, 1994. and Myron Brinig, American novelist, was born in Minneapolis on December 22, 1896. He grew up in Butte, Montana and many of his most noted works, including Singermann (1929), Wide Open Town (1931), and The Sisters (1937), were set in Montana. As an adult, Brinig lived in Taos, New Mexico and in New York City. He died in New York on May 13, 1991.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
Subject (Name):
Brinig, Myron, 1897-1991 and Ellsworth, George
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives and Gay men--United States
Twenty-four pieces of correspondence written by Pound during his hospitalization at St. Elizabeths in Washington, D.C. Letters to Mac Low contain opinions on literature, literary scholarship, and politics. Some typed letters, dating from 1951, include envelopes in the hand of Dorothy Pound. Letters also include drafts, typescript, of two poems by Mac Low, "Venti Creator Spiritus" and "The Queen Anne's Lace," corrected and annotated by Pound. With one typescript carbon letter from Mac Low and one autograph manuscript letter, signed, to Mac Low from Omar Pound.
Description:
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet., Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004), American poet and composer., and Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Mac Low, Jackson , Pound, Dorothy, Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Political and social views, Pound, Omar S, and Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Antisemitism, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives