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 1953 to 1987. In his letters Baldwin discusses his writing projects and personal life (ranging from his relationships to his experience living abroad in France and Turkey). Baldwin also reflects on his experience at the MacDowell Colony where he was in residence while working on his novel Giovanni's Room. The correspondence constitutes a window into Baldwin's creative process and life during this period.
Description:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes. and 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
Collection of four scrapbooks compiled by Marcel Jean between 1921 and 1940 containing over 150 tracts, exhibit catalogs, letters, advertisements, subscription forms, invitation cards, and other ephemera documenting Surrealism in France, Belgium, and other locations. Includes printed, typescript, and manuscript material relating to Surrealist exhibitions, publications, and political activity, including tracts on the Spanish Civil War and fascism. Printed ephemera feature artists and writers such as Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, René Char, and André Breton. Correspondence includes letters from Georges Bataille, Henri Pastoureau, Remedios Varo, Sheila Legge, Wolfgang Paalen, Eduardo Westerdahl and others to Jean, 1935-1939. Contains one photograph of Benjamin Péret and Jean at Léo Malet's house, 1935 and Volume 1: 1921-1934. Volume 2: 1935-1936. Volume 3: 1937-1939. Volume 4: supplement, 1926-1940
Description:
Marcel Jean (1900-1993), French artist, member of the Paris Surrealist group and author of numerous publications on Surrealism., Largely in French., and Each volume includes original endpapers created by Marcel Jean with ex-libris and autograph list of contents.
Benserade, Isaac de, 1613-1691 Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 Moliere, 1622-1673
Published / Created:
[16--]
Call Number:
GEN MSS MUSIC MISC VOLUME 18
Collection Title:
General Collection manuscript music miscellany
Container / Volume:
Volume 18
Image Count:
312
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript by a contemporary copyist, consisting of music for a treble instrument, possibly a dessus part, from music composed by Lully for various ballets, including ballets and comédies-ballets composed in collaboration with Isaac de Benserade and Molière. A table of contents written by a former owner is laid in.
Alternative Title:
[Ballets. Selections], Alcidiane., Amour malade., Amour médécin., Amours déguisés., Arts., Ballet de Créquy., Bourgeois gentilhomme., Carnaval., Feste de Versailles., Flore., Gardes., George Dadin., Hercule amoureux., Impatience., Jeux pythiens., Mariage forcé., Mascarade de Versailles., Monsieur de Pourceaugnac., Muses., Naissance de Vénus., Noces de village., Princesse d'Elide., Raillerie., Saisons., and Xerxes.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Binder's title: Anciens ballets dessus., Blanks not digitized., Bound in calf with gilt spine, French ca. 1700; unidentified arms on front and back covers., and Spine title: Anciens ballets dessus.
Subject (Name):
Pforzheimer, Walter L., (Walter Lionel), 1914-2003 --Bookplate
Published on April 15, 1755 and written largely single-handedly by Samuel Johnson. Sometimes published as "Johnson's Dictionary." The first edition was published in two folio volumes; later editions were published in four volumes.
Description:
Three volume printer's proof with manuscript notes throughout.
