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Matthews, T. S. (Thomas Stanley), 1901-1991. Reminiscences of T.S. Matthews : oral history, 1967.

Title: Reminiscences of T.S. Matthews : oral history, 1967.

Recollections of Adlai E. Stevenson at college and as governor of Illinois; Henry R. Luce and TIME magazine.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 39 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122513341 View

Sykes, Christopher, 1907-1986. The Christopher Sykes papers, 1945-1981.

Title: The Christopher Sykes papers, 1945-1981.

The archives of the English novelist Christopher Sykes, friend and official biographer of Evelyn Waugh, include a large group of Waugh letters and comprehensive research files about him. In addition to the extensive family correspondence, with a charming series of rebus letters from his sister Angela Antrim, there are letters from a multitude of literary friends and acquaintances, including John Betjeman, Max Beerbohm, Ivy Compton-Burnett, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Harman Grisewood, Nancy Mitford, Harold Nicolson, Anthony Powell, Osbert Sitwell, and Stephen Spender. The collection also includes considerable research material about Nancy Astor, Robert Byron, and Adam von Trott, subjects of other books by Sykes.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear feet (38 boxes)

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Friedmann, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Friedmann papers, 1979-2000.

Title: Elizabeth Friedmann papers, 1979-2000.

Manuscript for "When Love Becomes Words: The Life of Laura (Riding) Jackson," an early version (2000) of Friedmann's biography, eventually titled "A Mannered Grace: The Life of Laura (Riding) Jackson (2005). Publicity from Persea Books for "Four Unposted Letters to Catherine," by Laura Riding with an afterword by Elizabeth Friedmann and Alan J. Clark. Also annotated proofs of poems; letter from Livingston L. Biddle to Laura Jackson about a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship grant and her response, 1979; Letter to Mrs. Schuyler Jackson from Millicent D. Abell about the Yale University Library's Bollingen Prize in Poetry, with Jackson's response, 1991; and handwritten page titled "General Words for Particular Occasions of a Funeral Order", n.d. Also papers originally willed to Cornell, but kept on loan by Friedmann including correspondence and reports on Joyce Wexler's dissertation about L(R)J; correspondence on Martin Seymour-Smith's 1982 biography of Robert Graves; correspondence and commentary on T. S. Matthews' book "Jacks or Better" (1977); folders of writings on poetry. Manuscript materials related to "Later-Life Commentaries." Personal memorabilia including correspondence, old address book, photograph album, box of customer files from fruit shipping business, and box of family photographs, 1970s and 1980s. Materials related to "Under the Mind's Watch," edited by John Nolan and Alan Clark; inscribed copy of E.E. Cummings: A Paradox of Non-Difficulty," by Dorith Ofri-Scheps; and "carbon materials for a fugitive essay." Also materials relating to "Early Poems," clippings on Robert Graves and miscellaneous clippings, and folder of letters to editors of literary reference books. Legal documents, including will and estate folders and publishing contracts. Reel of L(R) J Harvard recording; completed ms. of the early poems; and two proof copies of T.S. Matthews' "Jacks or Better," top copy heavily marked by James F. Mathias.

ArchivalResource: 6.3 cubic ft.

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Agee, James, 1909-1955. James Agee Collection, 1928-1969.

Title: James Agee Collection, 1928-1969.

The James Agee Collection contains 14 boxes of primarily manuscripts, with a slight amount of correspondence, ranging in date from 1928-1969. The Works series consists of holographs, typescripts and carbon copy typescripts of books, articles, plays, poems, reviews, stories, and screenplays. Included are holographs and typescripts of Agee's novels, A Death in the Family (published posthumously in 1957), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), written with Walker Evans, and his shorter novel, The Morning Watch (1950). Also present are typescripts of a collection of short prose entitled Collected short Prose of James Agee (1969), and of his poetry, Collected Poems of James Agee (1968), both edited by Robert Fitzgerald. A proof copy of Permit Me Voyage and Other Poems (1934) is included, as well as copies of several of Agee's screenplays such as The African Queen The Blue Hotel, Magia Verde, Night of the Hunter, Noa-Noa, Scientists and Tramps, A Tanglewood Story, The Touch of Nutmeg, and Undirectable Director. In addition, the television play, Mr. Lincoln, is represented along with the commentary for a documentary film, The Quiet One, as well as numerous reviews of books and films. The Correspondence series consists mainly of letters relating to Agee's work. Correspondents include director David Bradley, Walker Evans, Archibald MacLeish, T.S. Matthews, Gregory Associates, and Margaret Marshall. The Miscellaneous series contains correspondence from Agee and others; articles, book reviews, and works by various authors, as well as an address by Robert Fitzgerald given at the dedication banquet of the James Agee Memorial Library at Saint Andrew's School. Included also is a bound galley proof of My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years by Stanislaus Joyce, and correspondence from and concerning Laura Tyler Wright, Agee's mother.

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes (5.83 linear feet), 7 galley folders, 2 oversize flat files.

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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Letters : to Aimée and Rosamond Lamb from T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot, 1933-1988.

Title: Letters : to Aimée and Rosamond Lamb from T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot, 1933-1988.

Eliot's letters to his American cousins are chatty and affectionate. After World War II, the Misses Lamb sent supplies of meat and eggs to Eliot in England, which he gratefully acknowledges. Other letters discuss his health and travels, family and friends, lectures and readings, and performances of his work. With photographs and a pencil sketch of Eliot by Aimée Lamb. Collection also includes letters to Theresa Garrett Eliot (Eliot's sister-in-law) from Valerie Eliot, and letters from T.S. Matthews regarding a biography of Eliot. Two typed notes from Eliot to Annie Lawrence Lamb, 1933 Jan. 29 and March 5, are on Eliot House (Harvard) stationery. With a collection of 26 original and copy photographs, snapshots, Polaroids and studio photographs of Eliot, Vivienne Eliot, Valerie Eliot, and of Eliot with others, including Theresa Garrett Eliot, Aimée and Rosamond Lamb, and Annie Lawrence Lamb; and a folder of 12 clippings from newspapers and magazines featuring photographs of Eliot.

ArchivalResource: ca. 60 items, in box + 1 folder ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61483477 View