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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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.
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
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
