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MacDowell Colony Records, 1869-1970, (bulk 1945-1968)

Title: MacDowell Colony Records 1869-1970 (bulk 1945-1968)

The MacDowell Colony was founded as an artist colony in 1907 by Marian MacDowell who dedicated it as a memorial to her husband, American composer Edward MacDowell. The bulk of the records reflects the operational and administrative functions of the colony and its parent organization, the Edward MacDowell Association, and consists of correspondence, applications for admission, minutes of meetings, reports, legal and financial papers, and miscellany.

ArchivalResource: 35,000 items; 81 containers plus 3 oversize; 33 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996002 View

John Livingston Lowes papers, 1916-1944 .

Title: John Livingston Lowes papers, 1916-1944 .

Papers of American literary scholar John Livingston Lowes.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00923/catalog View

Morrison, Kathleen, 1898-. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1940-1973.

Title: Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1940-1973.

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to Robert Frost, 1940-1973. Includes correspondence from a number of Frost's colleagues and friends.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237265510 View

Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949. Telegram, 19--Feb. 14, Miami, Fla., to Mrs. Theodore Morrison, Casa Marina, Fla.

Title: Telegram, 19--Feb. 14, Miami, Fla., to Mrs. Theodore Morrison, Casa Marina, Fla.

Suggests a meeting with Robert Frost.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237360346 View

Kebabian, John S.,. Book appraisals conducted for estate purposes, 1937-1960.

Title: Book appraisals conducted for estate purposes, 1937-1960.

Over 412 book appraisals made by Kebabian for the firms of G. A. Baker ? Leonard Bernstein; Nelson Doubleday; J. P. Morgan II; I. N. Phelps Stokes; and Lucius Wilmerding. Appraisals were also made on behalf of over twenty law firms and for collections acquired by the New York Public Library. Also, appraisals from the 1930s relating to the Herndon-Weik Lincoln Collection purchased by the Library of Congress in 1930 and to the library of Henry Clay Folger, which became the foundation of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568415 View

Balch, Edwin Swift, 1856-1927,. Papers of the Balch family, 1760-1955.

Title: Papers of the Balch family, 1760-1955.

The collection contains journals and letters, 1825-1881, of Joseph Swift; journal excerpts and diary of Emily Swift Balch; letters and diaries of Thomas Balch; letters of Elise Willing Balch; a diary, 1760-1761, of Joseph Shippen; deeds, letters, unpublished writing, address books, engagement book, and a Vassar sketchbook of Eugenia Hargous Macfarlane Balch; and letters, and Little Theatre minute book of Emily Tapscott Clark Balch. The collection pertains chiefly to Edwin Swift Balch, and contains a journal, 1859-1906, re Philadelphia society, the Civil War, Confederate diplomacy and European travel; an autograph album signed by prominent literary, artistic and political figures; scrapbooks re polar exploration, and the Cook-Peary controversy; a biography and bibliography of his published works, incomplete diaries, 1904-1917; and account books. Other topics include Philadelphia riots, 1864, fighting near Leestown, W. Va., Mosby's raiders, life in Paris, art in Europe and America, Louis Philippe, Jenny Lind, the London Exhibition of 1851, Prince Clemens von Metternich, Napoleon III, the Paris Commune, Henry M. Stanley, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Suez Canal, the Sedan battlefield, Richard Cobden, Theodore Roosevelt, and European travel especially in Switzerland. Also unpublished pieces by Edwin Swift Balch and Eugenia H.M. Balch; a biography of Emily Balch and manuscripts of her "Stuffed Peacocks," and of Joseph Hergesheimer's "Tintypes"; and a limerick collection. Also family photographs; a tintype album; a photograph album with notes by Rudolph Franke on a polar expedition; and "The Confession of the Murder of Prof. Marvin," analyzed by Thomas F. Hall, 1926.

ArchivalResource: 170 items.1 reel : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647842108 View

Thompson, Lawrance Roger, 1906-1973. Letters, 1940-1957, to Kathleen Morrison.

Title: Letters, 1940-1957, to Kathleen Morrison.

Letters to Kathleen Morrison from Robert Frost's biographer. Letters concern his work on the biography and the work to discover biographical details. Contains information on Frost's relationship with Hervey Allen and Louis Untermeyer as well as Frost's 1957 visit to Great Britain. Includes draft of a letter, 1973, from Morrison to Thompson concerning his health.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237243611 View

Bennett, John, 1865-1956. John Bennett papers, 1897-1978.

Title: John Bennett papers, 1897-1978.

Consisting primarily of correspondence, manuscripts of poems, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Bennett's career, including the dramatization and film version of his book, Master Skylark, a work printed five times between 1897 and 1965 in various forms. Correspondence includes approximately 500 letters, documenting his long friendship with Yates Snowden (1858-1933); and 7 manuscripts, 27 Dec. 1918 - 16 Dec. 1922, representing Bennett's research with Ambrose Elliott Gonzales on the creole form of the English language known as Gullah, and related to Gonzales' publication of The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast, published 1922. Letters, 5 and 8 Jan. 1921, containing Bennett's assessments of the works of Charleston artist William Aiken Walker; 16 July 1923, his estimate of writers Hervey Allen and DuBose Heyward; and correspondence, mansucripts of poems, critical notes, and other papers relating to Snowden's writings, including his poem, "A Blast Against Bookkeepers." Other correspondents include Annie E. Snowden, Susan S. Bennett, Anne King Gregorie, Charles Woodward Hutson, and Arthur Medlock. Places represented include Charleston and Columbia, S.C.; Flat Rock and Hendersonville, N.C.; and Bennett's native Chillicothe, Ohio. Collection contains letter, 14 Jan. 1978, from Mrs. Josephine Fenstermacher, Bridgewater, N.J., accompanying John Bennett manuscripts, and including her recollections of Columbia, S.C., when she was the first professional librarian at Columbia High School; and reproduction of typescript of novel, The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard, held at Charleston Library Society. Library also has typed transcripts, 3 volumes, of Snowden-Bennett letters, with editorial notes by Mary Crow Anderson.

ArchivalResource: 599 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28417790 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Booth Tarkington papers [manuscript], 1900-1945.

Title: Booth Tarkington papers [manuscript], 1900-1945.

Collection of letters, manuscripts and ephemera by, or relating to, Booth Tarkington, a portion from the papers of his secretary, Elizabeth (Betty) Trotter. Original manuscripts in the collection include "Edgar XIV Title The Little Saw"; a silent film scenario in the "Edgar Pomeroy" series; a synopsis of the play "Colonel Satan" about Aaron Burr; a description in the hand of Trotter "About Wanton Molly"; a statement about American school children; an untitled article beginning "How shall 'we the prople' make up our minds which way to vote in November [1940?]; "Flanner House"; an untitled page beginning "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link"; a typescript "Blind eyes or wits" for a "Save your vision week"; a speech "The colonel and 1942"; an untitled tribute for "Big Murray"; manuscript beginning "Mr. Tarkington's nurses say they go in fear" by Elizabeth Trotter; an essay "Brain sand"'; and two original manuscripts in the hand of Eliabeth Trotter, possibly from Tarkington's dictation, beginning "Did you have a good time dear" and "Cynthia Weldon is my first cousin." Topics in Tarkington's correspondence, several of which are in the hand of Trotter, include stories for publication; Robert H. Davis; vision problems and home remedies for blindness; possible collaboration with N. C. Wyeth; censorship of sexual references and "Anthony Adverse"; John Coffee's bill to transform the Federal Arts Project into a permanent government agency, Harry Byrd's opinion on the former, and income tax deductions for art purchases; economic and labor problems,the depression and the Works Progress Administration; the Munich Agreement; Picasso as the Father Divine of art; presidential term limits; his characters "Ames Lanning" and "Josephine" and creating characters readers like; World War II including an anecdote about plane spotting, a reference to a young acquaintance missing in action, and unfavorable comments on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; the rescue of stray dogs; and a severe winter storm at Kennebunkport. Correspondents include Edward R. Burke, Frederick A. Duneka, Lloyd Frankenburg, Fanny Hurst, Ray Baker Harris, Robert Underwood Johnson, Fred Kelly, William Charles Lengel, Walter Moses, Adelaide W. Neall, Wellington Roe, Roger Livingston Scaife, [Abraham or Elkan?] Silberman, [Henry?] Pratt [Smith?], Mrs. William H. Trotter, Warrack Wallace, and a secretary to William H. Wilmer. Correspondence of Mrs. William H. Trotter with her daughter Elizabeth, Allan A. Hunter, Henry G. Leach, and Robert Emmet MacAlarney chiefly concerns Tarkington. Topics include Scott Nearing and a coming class struggle, Lyell Rader, The Forum magazine, stage play "The poor nut," Tarkington's "Mirthful haven" and "Seventeen," Elizabeth's writing, the New Deal, John Main Coffee, and the European war. Miscellaneous items include a comically illustrated bill; a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; various printed reviews, advetisements, and two bulletins from the Indiana Committee for National Defense, 1941, and unidentified photographs.

ArchivalResource: 90 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460638710 View

Mabel Loomis Todd papers, 1863-1948

Title: Mabel Loomis Todd papers 1863-1948

The papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, diaries, lectures, financial records, scrapbooks, subject files, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Mabel Loomis Todd. Correspondence and diaries detail Todd's personal attitudes and feelings toward her family, her relationship with William Austin Dickinson, her travels with her husband, David Peck Todd, and other matters. Legal and financial papers document court battles over her status as editor of Emily Dickinson's work. Lectures and subject files detail much of Mrs. Todd's work as a speaker and author, including material on Emily Dickinson and David Peck Todd's eclipse expeditions.

ArchivalResource: 51 linear feet (124 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0496c View

John Phillips Marquand correspondence

Title: John Phillips Marquand correspondence

Correspondence of American author John Marquand with literary associates, friends, and publishers.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet (17 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00833/catalog View

Allen, Annette Hyde Andrews. Letter : Ann Arbor, Mich., to Eleanor and Bill [Hart], 1965 Aug. 14.

Title: Letter : Ann Arbor, Mich., to Eleanor and Bill [Hart], 1965 Aug. 14.

Letter to Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hart [in Charleston (S.C.)] concerns an article about Hervey Allen in "Preservation Progress"; the time of DuBose Heyward's stay in Charleston (S.C.) and his friendship with Dick Allen (Annette's son); and family matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37521919 View

Lee, Lawrence, 1903-1978. Letter, Pittsburgh, Pa., to Carlton G. Ketchum [manuscript] 1972 May 11.

Title: Letter, Pittsburgh, Pa., to Carlton G. Ketchum [manuscript] 1972 May 11.

Lee thanks Ketchum for an article and relates how James Southall Wilson aided Hervey Allen in the writing of Israfel.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647983610 View

Edgar Allan Poe Collection TXRC99-A0., 1766-1974 (bulk 1829-1850)

Title: Edgar Allan Poe Collection 1766-1974 (bulk 1829-1850)

The Poe Collection contains severalmanuscript works and about seventy letters written by Poe, while the bulk of thecollection consists of correspondence and works about him.

ArchivalResource: 13 document boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 galley folders, and 9 oversize folders(5.46 linear feet)

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00109/00109-P.html View

University of Miami. Division of Adult Education. Letter, 1944, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letter, 1944, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Hervey Allen, member, Board of Trustees, University of Miami, on behalf of its Division of Adult Education.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155877271 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers relating to Wilson's collection of Edgar Allan Poe [manuscript] 1926-54.

Title: Papers relating to Wilson's collection of Edgar Allan Poe [manuscript] 1926-54.

The collection, which centers around portraits of the poet, contains a typescript [n.d.] Facts about Poe, portraits and daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe by Amanda Pogue Schulte. It also contains Wilson's correspondence about Poe, portraits, miscellaneous clippings and photocopies of Poe portraits in various mediums, and one print of Brigham Young. Harvey Allen is correspondent.

ArchivalResource: 60 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647953328 View

Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932. Mabel Loomis Todd papers, 1863-1948 (inclusive)

Title: Mabel Loomis Todd papers, 1863-1948 (inclusive)

The papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, diaries, lectures, financial records, scrapbooks, subject files, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Mabel Loomis Todd. Correspondence and diaries detail Todd's personal attitudes and feelings toward her family, her relationship with William Austin Dickinson, her travels with her husband, David Peck Todd, and other matters. Legal and financial papers document court battles over her status as editor of Emily Dickinson's work. Lectures and subject files detail much of Mrs. Todd's work as a speaker and author, including material on Emily Dickinson and David Peck Todd's eclipse expeditions.

ArchivalResource: 51 linear ft. (124 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145079239 View

Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932. Mabel Loomis Todd papers, 1863-1948 (inclusive).

Title: Mabel Loomis Todd papers, 1863-1948 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, diaries, lectures, financial records, scrapbooks, subject files, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Mabel Loomis Todd. Correspondence and diaries detail Todd's personal attitudes and feelings toward her family, her relationship with William Austin Dickinson, her travels with her husband, David Peck Todd, and other matters. Legal and financial papers document court battles over her status as editor of Emily Dickinson's work. Lectures and subject files detail much of Mrs. Todd's work as a speaker and author, including material on Emily Dickinson and David Peck Todd's eclipse expeditions.

ArchivalResource: 51 linear ft. (124 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153550 View

Cox, H. Morris (Headley Morris), 1916-. Research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930.

Title: Research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930.

This collection consists of 5x8 index cards which were used for research in: Cox, Headley Morris, Jr. Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930, Thesis (Ph.d.), University of Pennsylvania, 1958. The information included is about the literary South, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Charleston Renaissance, and the poems of W. Herbey Allen and DuBose Heyward. Other writers who contributed to the Charleston Renaissance are noted, along with a list of prizewinners in the contests sponsored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and a list of the volumes of poetry published by Charleston poets.

ArchivalResource: 1 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75185029 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1904-1962.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1904-1962.

The collection contains letters to Wilson from American literary figures and educators including Hervey Allen; Emily Tapscott (Clark) Balch; James Branch Cabell; John Fox; Ellen Glasgow; DuBose Heyward; Sinclair Lewis; Rosewell Page; Thomas Nelson Page; Thomas Walker Page; Josephine Pinckney; Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy; Irita (Bradford) Van Doren; and John Hall Wheelock. In additon there is correspondence, 1920-1921, to Wilson and John Calvin Metcalf regarding "The enchanted years"; including letters from James Lane Allen, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Ellen Glasgow, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Kreymborg, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Lizette Woodworth Reese, George Santayana, Siegfried Sassoon and J.H. Wheelock.

ArchivalResource: 110 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647948057 View

Lee, Lawrence, 1903-1978. Letter, Pittsburgh, Pa., to Carlton G. Ketchum [manuscript] 1972 May 11.

Title: Letter, Pittsburgh, Pa., to Carlton G. Ketchum [manuscript] 1972 May 11.

Lee thanks Ketchum for an article and relates how James Southall Wilson aided Hervey Allen in the writing of Israfel.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647944427 View