Typescript photocopy mock-up with autograph corrections and annotations. The notes describe text sources and other information about the poems, and instructions for typesetting the manuscript. Also includes a front cover and additional pages of front ...
Description:
Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), American poet. He was married to the American poet Alice Notley (1945-).
The collection contains typescripts of four undated novels by Aleta B. Baker: Captive Amid the Astral: A Romance (355 pages); The Double Bridal (366 pages); The Mysterious Opal Globe: A Mystical Romance (67 pages); and Rathbone, Son of the Sun: A Roma...
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Aleta Blanche Baker, American author, was born in Maine in 1880, and died in Miami, Florida, on January 19, 1943. Baker was the founding director of the Order of the Portal, a Christian occultist group headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1924 s...
Contains correspondence, writings, six diaries, and one notebook. Correspondents (box 1) are Donald Brien, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Fania Marinoff, George Middletown, and Carl Van Vechten. Included among the correspondence is a 1954 letter t...
Contains correspondence, writings, six diaries, and one notebook. Correspondents (box 1) are Donald Brien, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Fania Marinoff, George Middletown, and Carl Van Vechten. Included among the correspondence is a 1954 letter t...
Collection consists of approximately 120 letters and cards from James Purdy to his assistant and friend Elaine Benton, dating from 1983 to 1999, writings, and other materials. Benton served as Purdy's typist, and the writings include typescript drafts...
Collection consists of approximately 120 letters and cards from James Purdy to his assistant and friend Elaine Benton, dating from 1983 to 1999, writings, and other materials. Benton served as Purdy's typist, and the writings include typescript drafts...
The collection includes letters, manuscripts and photographs related to Emily Dickinson. There are original letters from Dickinson to family and friends, holograph manuscripts by Dickinson, galley proofs for work by Charles Roberts Anderson and Millic...
Description:
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), poet.
Subject (Geographic):
Amherst (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Anderson, Charles Roberts, 1902-1999., Bingham, Millicent Todd, 1880-1968., Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886., and Roche, Thomas P.
The papers document Emily Farnham's research and writing of the biography Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask. The collection contains correspondence; questionnaires for interviewees; lists of Demuth collectors and collections; photographs of pain...
Description:
Emily Farnham is the author of Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask (Tulsa: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971).
Subject (Name):
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935., Ebberts, Carolyn May., and Farnham, Emily, 1912-
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Artists, American, and Authors, American
Collection of photographs of, relating to, or once owned by Ezra Pound. Subjects include Pound himself; Olga Rudge; sketches, paintings and sculptures of Pound; and a series of photographs of factories and manufacturing processes collected by Pound in...
Description:
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet.
Subject (Name):
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. and Rudge, Olga, 1895-1996.
Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of...
Description:
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994., Curtwright, Wesley., Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974., Ellison, Ralph., Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979., Handy, W. C. 1873-1958. (William Christopher),, Hill, Abram, 1910-1986., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., McKay, Claude, 1890-1948., Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985., Poston, Ted, 1906-1974., Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976., and United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors, African Americans, Social life and customs, Antislavery movements, Authors, American, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of...
Description:
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994., Curtwright, Wesley., Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974., Ellison, Ralph., Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979., Handy, W. C. 1873-1958. (William Christopher),, Hill, Abram, 1910-1986., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., McKay, Claude, 1890-1948., Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985., Poston, Ted, 1906-1974., Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976., and United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors, African Americans, Social life and customs, Antislavery movements, Authors, American, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Letters to Havelock Ellis from H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Bryher, and Jessie Capper. There is one letter from Françoise Delisle to Meum Stewart. The letters regard their work and friendships, mutual friends, and books read. The letters date from 1922 t...
Description:
Havelock Ellis, essayist, editor, physician, and psychologist.
Subject (Name):
Bryher, 1894-1983., Capper, Jessie., Delisle, Françoise Roussel., Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939., H. D (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961., and Stewart, Meum.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Editors, American, and Psychologists, American
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, from Helen Hunt Jackson. The letters are written to a group of friends and are addressed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, dated 1868 November 15 to 1869 September 28. Also included is an autograph note, signed, explain...
Description:
Helen Hunt Jackson, American writer and activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. and Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Collection contains approximately 30 pieces of correspondence between Miller and French publisher Maurice Girodias, dating from the mid to late 1970s, and drafts, corrected, of several pieces of writing, including a fragment from Nexus and four essays...
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)
Subject (Name):
Fraenkel, Michael, 1896-1957., Girodias, Maurice., Man Ray, 1890-1976., and Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, and Intellectual life
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Collection of sixteen pieces of correspondence from Miller to Sister Magdalen Mary of Immaculate Heart College, dating from the mid 1960s, along with photographs, clippings, and printed ephemera relating chiefly to publications and exhibitions of work...
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. and Immaculate Heart College (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Artists, and Authors, American
Papers feature material relating to Sikorsky's The Invisible Encounter (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947), including: drafts, autograph manuscript (incomplete) and typescript, corrected; a printed version, annotated, of the 1947 Scribner's edit...
Description:
Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1889-1972), aviator, engineer, and industrialist, was born in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1919.
Subject (Name):
Brasol, Boris, 1885-1963., Golokhvastov, G. (Georgiĭ), Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972., Charles Scribner's Sons., and Poushkin Society in America.
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, an address book, a newspaper clipping, and a bookmark relating to Natalie Barney collected by Joan Schenkar
Description:
Joan Schenkar is an American playwright and biographer.
Collection of approximately 75 pieces of correspondence from Riding to Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson. There are also letters to the Hutchinsons from John Aldridge, Robert Graves, Alan Hodge, Harry Kemp, James Reeves, and others; one poem by Riding, a ty...
Description:
Laura Riding (1901-1991), poet.
Subject (Name):
Aldridge, John W., Graves, Robert, 1895-1985., Hodge, Alan, 1915-1979., Hutchinson, Dorothy., Hutchinson, Ward., Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960., Reeves, James., and Riding, Laura, 1901-1991.
Collection of correspondence with Edith Wharton and others, including Hamilton Aidé, Anna Bahlmann, Bernard Berenson, Walter Berry, William Morton Fullerton, Percy Lubbock, and abbé Arthur Mugnier. The collection features approximately 172 pieces of...
Description:
Léon Bélugou (1865-1934), French educator.
Subject (Name):
Aïdé, Hamilton, 1826-1906., Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, 1849-1916., Bélugou, Léon, 1865-1934., Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959., Berry, Walter, 1859-1927., Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-1952., Lesage, Claudine., Lubbock, Percy, 1879-1965., Mugnier, abbé 1853-1944. (Arthur),, Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937., and Michel Houdiard éditeur.
Group of letters, photographs, and clippings chiefly related to Read's poem "Sheridan's Ride," and its composition on the morning of James E. Murdoch's recitation at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, October 31, 1864. It includes four letters written ...
Description:
Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Literary Club of Cincinnati., Grafton, E. D., James, Davis L., Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893., Read, Harriet Denison Butler., Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, and Vanloo, Leon.
Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed material by or relating to Anne Waldman dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which time Brownstein and Waldman were living in New York and Waldman was directing the Poe...
Description:
Michael Brownstein (1943-), poet and novelist.
Subject (Name):
Berkson, Bill., Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994., Brownstein, Michael, 1943-, Clark, Tom, 1941-2018., Padgett, Ron, 1942-, Waldman, Anne, 1945-, Warsh, Lewis., Angel Hair Books., Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics., and St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.). Poetry Project.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, American poetry, Authors, American, Beats (Persons), and Poets, American
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 Ci...
Description:
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,...
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and New York (N.Y.)
Subject (Name):
Brinig, Myron, 1897-1991. and Ellsworth, George.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American, Gay men, and Social life and customs
Correspondence and other papers relating to Barney's involvement with the Prix Renée Vivien and other matters. Correspondents include Daisy Fellowes, George-Day, Armand Godoy, Myriam Harry, Jean Massin, Henry de Montherlant, Marie de Regnier (Gérard...
Description:
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) was an American author whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women.
Subject (Name):
Barney, Natalie Clifford., Brooks, Romaine., Colette, 1873-1954., Fellowes, Daisy., George-Day., Godoy, Armand, 1880-1964., Harry, Myriam., Houville, Gérard d', 1875-1963., Massin, Jean, 1917-1986., Montherlant, Henry de, 1896-1972., Pozzi, Catherine, 1882-1934., Vannier, Angèle, 1917-1980., Vilmorin, Louise de, 1902-1969., and Vivien, Renée, 1877-1909.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, and French literature
Notebook containing verse and notes for lyceum speeches by Atkins, along with receipts and drawings. Topics covered in speeches include Middlefield, Connecticut history and education, the fugitive slave law, and the temperance movement. Accompanied by...
Description:
Thomas Atkins (1797-1882), author.
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and Middlefield (Conn. : Town)
Subject (Name):
Atkins, Thomas, 1797-1822., Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892., and United States.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American, Lyceums, Temperance, and History
Letters from Olga Rudge to Linda Melton, accompanied by a small group of papers relating to Ezra Pound. The letters date from between 1947 and 1960 and are almost entirely concerned with Rudge's efforts to win Pound's freedom from American custody in ...
Description:
Olga Rudge (1895-1996), musician and friend of Ezra Pound.
Subject (Name):
Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 (Thomas Stearns),, Melton, Linda., Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972, Pound, Isabel Weston, 1860-1948., and Rudge, Olga, 1895-1996.
Subject (Topic):
Friends and associates, Public opinion, American literature, American poetry, and Authors, American
The collection consists of a set of five bronze portrait plaques issued by the Grolier Club between 1892 and 1911 to commemorate American authors. The authors include: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1892, modeled by Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, 17.2 cm. in diamet...
Description:
The Grolier Club was founded in New York on January 23, 1884, by Robert Hoe and eight other bibliophiles to foster the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and works on paper, and their art, history, production, and commerce.
Subject (Name):
Brenner, Victor D. 1871-1924. (Victor David),, Burroughs, Edith Woodman, 1871-1916., Calverley, Charles, 1833-1914., Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Flanagan, John F., 1865-1952., Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Ringel d'Illzach, Jean Désiré, 1847-1916., and Grolier Club.
Autograph manuscript letter, signed, praising Ellen Sturgis Hooper's poetry. Enclosed with the letter are autograph manuscript copies of three recent poems of his own in return: "Forerunners", "The House", and "Loss and Gain". Also includes a manuscri...
Description:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American author.
Subject (Name):
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882., Hooper, Ellen Sturgis, 1812-1848., and Persephone (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American, Poets, American, Transcendentalists (New England), and Women poets, American
Collection of approximately 70 letters to Ted Berrigan, dating from the mid 1960s, from writers, editors, and literary organizations, including Carol Bergé, Joe Brainard, Edwin Denby, Kathleen Fraser, Lita Hornick, Joanne Kyger, Lewis MacAdams, Aram ...
Autograph manuscript draft fragment of Henry James's 1870 short novel, The Europeans. Includes manuscript corrections. Pages are laid-in to a reused cover from an unidentified book
Description:
Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Massachusetts, and Boston
Subject (Name):
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Europeans, and Upper class
Holograph manuscript, corrected, of a memoir by a young African-American, circa 1858. The memoir documents the major events in Reed's life leading up to and including incarcerations in the New York House of Refuge, the first juvenile reformatory in th...
Description:
Austin Reed, born circa 1823 in Rochester, New York, wrote under the pseudonym "Rob. Reed."
Subject (Geographic):
United States., New York (State)., and New York (State)
Subject (Name):
Reed, Austin, 1823?-., Auburn Correctional Facility., and House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American authors, American literature, Authors, American, Juvenile detention homes, Prisoners' writings, American, and Prisons
Draft of essay on the topics of sex, self-expression, and literature, typescript carbon, corrected and signed. Inscribed: "For Ed Ricketts of Pacific Grove and realms without name--from his friend Henry Miller, Hollywood, 6/26/41."
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. and Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, and Sex in literature
Collection of correspondence, writings, and other papers growing out of Shawn's collaboration with Brooks on a collection of essays, Lulu in Hollywood (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), about her life as a film actress. Correspondence features a large...
Description:
Louise Brooks (1906-1985), American dancer, actress, and author.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Los Angeles., and Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985., Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023., Lantz, Robert., Shawn, William., and Sicre, J. P. (Jean-Pierre)
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Motion picture industry, Motion picture actors and actresses, and Social life and customs
A portrait of the American academic and editor Norman Holmes Pearson by Deane Keller. The painting is oil on canvas, and is signed at the upper right: "Deane / Keller / 1976." Included in the portrait (hanging on the wall behind Pearson) is a painting...
Description:
Deane Keller (1901-1992), American artist, academic, soldier, and preservationist. He earned a BA from Yale University in 1923 and a BFA from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1926. Keller taught for forty years at the Yale School of Fine Arts, and duri...
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Keller, Deane, 1901-1992., Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930. (David Herbert),, and Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975
