Two typescript letters (signed), dated 1943 August and December, discussing Fondane's personal circumstances, a planned article, and Tristan Tzara, written only months before Fondane was imprisoned and died in Auschwitz in 1944.
Description:
Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French poet and philosopher.
Subject (Name):
Fondane, Benjamin,--1898-1944, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Georges,--1884-1974, and Tzara, Tristan,--1896-1963
Subject (Topic):
Dadaism, French literature--20th century, Poets, Romanian, and Romanian literature--Jewish authors
Fred Benjamin Millett Correspondence is comprised of incoming letters from American and British authors dating from 1933 to 1950. The authors write in response to Millet's request for information while preparing his books: Contemporary British Literat...
Description:
Fred Benjamin Millett (1890-1976), professor of English and Head of the Honors College at Wesleyan University.
Subject (Name):
Millett, Fred B. (Fred Benjamin), 1890-1976
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, English--20th century, Bio-bibliography, and English literature--20th century
Correspondence of C. A. Dawson Scott and her daughter Marjorie Watts. The bulk of the letters from Dawson Scott to her daughter date from 1920 to 1921. The lengthy letters, written in diary form, contain details of Dawson Scott's divorce, her writing,...
Subject (Name):
Čapek, Karel, 1890-1938
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
Colby (Family) Colby, Clara Dorothy Bewick, 1846-1916 Colby, L. W. (Leonard Wright), 1846-1924
Published / Created:
1865-1877
Call Number:
WA MSS S-3163 C6725
Image Count:
55
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Eleven autograph letters, signed, from Leonard Wright Colby and Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby to Rowel and Abigail Livingston Colby, parents of Leonard Wright Colby. The letters concern Leonard and Clara's attempts to establish a home and business in Bea...
Description:
Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby (1846-1916), women's rights activist, journalist, newspaper publisher, and lecturer; married Leonard Wright Colby.
Subject (Geographic):
Beatrice (Neb.)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Colby and Sale, Colby family, Colby, Abigail Livingston, 1813-1905, Colby, Clara Dorothy Bewick, 1846-1916, Colby, L. W. (Leonard Wright), 1846-1924, and Colby, Rowel, 1809-1894
Letter book containing Kirke's dispatches from Tangier while in command of command of Lord Plymouth's regiment and later as governor of Tangier (1681-1683) to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of the Treasury
Description:
Percy Kirke (1646?-1691), British army officer and governor of Tangier from 1681-1683.
Subject (Geographic):
Tangier (Morocco) and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Kirke, Percy, 1646?-1691., Jenkins, Leoline, Sir, 1623-1685., and Great Britain. Treasury.
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 ...
Description:
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):
Garin-Painter, Mary
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
The correspondence between Charles Athearn and his family urges people interested in settling in Kansas Territory to consider the Wolf Creek and Neosho River area, where he has taken a site. Letters describe the weather, crops, the future prosperity o...
Subject (Geographic):
Kansas--History--1854-1861
Subject (Name):
Athearn, Caleb and Athearn, Charles G
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas and Slavery--Kansas
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 ...
Description:
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):
Garin-Painter, Mary
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
Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | 3-4
Image Count:
55
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between P...
Description:
Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851, Dodd, Mead & Company, John Lane Company, and University Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
27
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between P...
Description:
Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 and John Lane Company
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
Collection consists of correspondence, writings and other material by and about H. G. Wells. Box 1 contains autograph and typescript letters, signed, from Wells to friends, editors, and others including the writers Grant Allen, Philip Guedalla, Upton...
Description:
Acquired by gift and purchase, 1945-1983. For more information consult the appropriate curator.
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Copy, possibly in Father Xavier de Mora's own hand, of an exchange of letters between himself and Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. In the first, dated October 3, 1696, Father Xavier de Mora criticizes Father Kino's failure to obey orders and his handlin...
Description:
Purchased from Dawson's Los Angeles on the Henry Raup Wagner Fund, 1965.
Subject (Name):
Jesuits, Kino, Eusebio Francisco,--1644-1711, San Francisco de Xavier Mission (Sonora, Mexico), and Xavier de Mora, Francisco
Correspondence of C. A. Dawson Scott and her daughter Marjorie Watts. The bulk of the letters from Dawson Scott to her daughter date from 1920 to 1921. The lengthy letters, written in diary form, contain details of Dawson Scott's divorce, her writing,...
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
