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West, Paul, 1930-. Paul West papers, 1951-1992.

Title: Paul West papers, 1951-1992.

This collection contains notes, manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs for his biographical sketches, book reviews, essays, literary criticism, memoirs, poems, short stories, and unpublished and published novels, including Alley jaggers, Bela Lugosi's white christmas, Caliban's filibuster, Colonel Mint, Gala, I'm expecting to live quite soon, Lord Byron's doctor, Love's mansion, The Place in flowers where pollen rests, Rat man of Paris, Tenement of clay, The Very rich hours of Count von Stauffenberg, and The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the ripper. Also, includes photographs, a taped interview by Martha Deane on WOR radio (1970), cover painting of Tenement of Clay, awards, reviews of his work, and letters from Walter Ernest Allen, Frederick Wilse Bateson, Marguerite Caetani, Northrop Frye, Elizabeth Jennings, V.S. Pritchett, Alan Pryce- Jones, John Crowe Ransom, James Reeves, Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, Martin Seymour- Smith, John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, Robert Penn Warren, Basil Willey, and others.

ArchivalResource: 15 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32075254 View

Caetani, Marguerite. Autograph letter signed Marguerite Caetani to: [William Carlos] Williams February 18, [s.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed Marguerite Caetani to: [William Carlos] Williams February 18, [s.d.].

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70813782 View

Botteghe oscure. Botteghe oscure record books, 1956-1960.

Title: Botteghe oscure record books, 1956-1960.

Three manuscript notebooks, possibly in the hand of Sean O'Criadain. One, titled "Record of Mss. Returned, 12 March 1956 to 12 March 1958," records the names, addresses, and date of return of hundreds of unpublished contributions, many from authors who later achieved prominence. Occasionally the title of a returned work is noted. Accompanied by two appointment books for 1959 and 1960 in the same hand.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77597583 View

Chester, Alfred, 1928-1971. Papers, 1950-1966.

Title: Papers, 1950-1966.

Alfred Chester's papers, 1950-1966, consist of holograph manuscripts, a bound galley proof, holograph and typewritten correspondence, telegrams, a review clipping, and printed materials. The collection includes manuscripts of three unpublished and eight published short stories, collected in Behold Goliath and Here Be Dragons, and provides documentation of Chester's literary relationships and struggles with the publishing industry in the late 1950s-early 1960s. Chester's early work, his personal life and accomplishments in the area of literary criticism are unrepresented. Correspondents include: Andreas Brown, Marguerite Caetani, Christopher Isherwood, Alfred Kazin, Carson McCullers, Norman Mailer, William Maxwell, Ezra Pound, Lionel Trilling, Eugene Walter, and Thornton Wilder.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear foot).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122472956 View

Robert Lowell papers, 1861-1976 (inclusive) 1935-1970 (bulk).

Title: Robert Lowell papers, 1861-1976 (inclusive) 1935-1970 (bulk).

Compositions, letters, and other papers of the American writer Robert Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 33 boxes (8.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00658/catalog 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

Caetani, Marguerite. Letter to [?]. Rome, Italy. [19--] Dec. 23.

Title: Letter to [?]. Rome, Italy. [19--] Dec. 23.

Sending best wishes; hoping to meet soon.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311056702 View

New Directions Publishing records

Title: New Directions Publishing records

Records of the New Directions Publishing Corporation largely from the Norfolk, Connecticut office of the founder, James Laughlin.

ArchivalResource: 344 linear feet (910 boxes and 4 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00077/catalog View

James Lord papers, 1917-2003, 1946-2003

Title: James Lord papers 1917-2003 1946-2003

The collection consists of material created and accumulated by James Lord in the course of his activities as an art critic and writer, and includes drafts of writings, research material, correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual recordings. Correspondence (Series I) is both personal and professional, and relates chiefly to the artistic and literary world of mid- and late-twentieth-century Paris. Writings (Series II) include Lord's extensive research files, drafts, and primary sources for Giacometti: A Biography. Drafts and correspondence relating to Lord's memoirs, including letters from his mother that he used as source material for Six Exceptional Women: Further Memoirs (1994), are also filed in the Writings series. Visual Material (Series III) includes photographs of Pablo Picasso by Lord and an unidentified photographer, and photographs of Lord in the 1950s and 1960s, including portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Series III also includes drawings by Jean Cocteau and others. Audiovisual recordings (Series IV) relate chiefly to Lord's research on Alberto Giacometti and include interviews and lectures. Personal Papers (Series V) consist of Lord's 1960 passport and fragmentary portions of his journals. Printed Material (Series VI) consists chiefly of clippings and magazine articles related to Lord and his research. A small amount of printed ephemera is also filed in Series VI.

ArchivalResource: 31.83 linear feet (81 boxes) + 1 broadside

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.lord View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated.

Title: E. E. Cummings additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated

Additional papers of American poet E.E. Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01861/catalog View

Botteghe oscure. Botteghe oscure record books, 1956-1960.

Title: Botteghe oscure record books, 1956-1960.

Three manuscript notebooks, possibly in the hand of Sean O'Criadain. One, titled "Record of Mss. Returned, 12 March 1956 to 12 March 1958," records the names, addresses, and date of return of hundreds of unpublished contributions, many from authors who later achieved prominence. Occasionally the title of a returned work is noted. Accompanied by two appointment books for 1959 and 1960 in the same hand.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702152433 View

Aldan, Daisy. Papers, 1946-1966.

Title: Papers, 1946-1966.

The Daisy Aldan Papers, 1946-1966, include correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, notes, layout dummies, paste-ups, galleys, page proofs, and photographs, as well as materials collected for publicity or publication. Aldan's editorial files for Folder Magazine of Literature and Art (1954-1955) and A New Folder: Americans--Poems and Drawings (1959) dominate the collection. Folder artists represented in this collection include John Ashbery, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Edward Field, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Willem and Elaine De Kooning, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, Frank O'Hara, Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Ned Rorem, and Eve Triem. Manuscripts by Aldan and others are also present in the collection, including manuscripts for two of Aldan's published books of poetry, The Destruction of Cathedrals (1963) and Seven:Seven (1965). Also found here are materials for Aldan's translation of Stephane Mallarmé's A Throw of the Dice (1956, 1961). Aldan's correspondence, 1946-1966, mainly reflects editorial duties and requests to a wide variety of people in the musical, literary, and art worlds. Correspondence from such writers as Gregory Corso, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Ned Rorem, James Schuyler, Eve Triem, and Eugene Walter is of a more personal nature and often discusses details of their work in a more informal context. Other significant correspondents include Donald Allen, John Ashbery, Dore Ashton, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Julian Beck, William Rose Benét, Paul Blackburn, Marguerite Caetani, Robert Creeley, Richard Eberhart, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edward Field, Charles Henri Ford, Allen Ginsberg, Erick Hawkins, George Hitchcock, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure, James Merrill, Henry Miller, Harold Norse, Charles Olson, Elliott Stein, May Swenson, Alice B. Toklas, Tristan Tzara, William Weaver, and others.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1 linear foot)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145406077 View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Additional papers, 1870-1969.

Title: E. E. Cummings additional papers, 1870-1969

Correspondence, poems, prose, notes, and drawings by American poet Edward Estlin Cummings. Also includes papers of his third wife Marion Morehouse Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 156 boxes (78 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01075/catalog View

Marguerite Yourcenar additional papers, 1842-1996.

Title: Marguerite Yourcenar additional papers, 1842-1996.

Additional papers of Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), the French author, as well as papers of her companion, Grace Frick.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes and 53 volumes (52 linear ft.)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00046 View

Marcia Nardi collection, 1949-1983

Title: Marcia Nardi collection 1949-1983

The Marcia Nardi collection contains correspondence and writings documenting her work as a poet between 1949 and 1983. The collection contains letters to Nardi by Louise Bogan, Marguerite Caetani, Randall Jarrell, Norman Holmes Pearson, Alec Waugh, Thornton Wilder, and others, most offering personal and professional advice and assistance in her efforts to complete a volume of poems. There is also a manuscript miscellany, "The New Helicon," in the hand of John Edmunds and a typescript of Nardi's poem "Femelle de l'homme." The collection also contains John Edmunds Papers pertaining to Nardi including correspondence from Nardi to Edmunds and typescript drafts of her unpublished book "Collected Poems."

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes; 0.63 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.nardimarcia View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Papers, 1870-1969

Title: E. E. Cummings papers, 1870-1969

Correspondence and working drafts of poems and other writings by American poet E. E. Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 116 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00946/catalog View

May Sarton Papers, 1846-1995, 1920-1995

Title: May Sarton Papers 1846-1995 1920-1995

The May Sarton Papers at the Berg Collection cover the years 1846-1995 (bulk dates 1920-1995) and arehoused in 188 boxes (47 linear feet), plus oversized material. They include manuscripts, correspondence, personalnotebooks, artwork, handmade collections, anthologies and commonplace books as well as family papers andphotographs. They also include professional papers, theater-related materials, translations, and work inspired byMay Sarton.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19101 View

Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977. Katherine Biddle papers, 1907-1977 (bulk 1935-1969).

Title: Katherine Biddle papers, 1907-1977 (bulk 1935-1969).

This collection, which is part 1 of the Biddle family papers, contains correspondence between Katherine Biddle and notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers, in addition to correspondence with literary associations and publishers. The collection also includes manuscripts for poetry, articles, reviews, lectures and radio talks. The personal files and scrapbooks of Katherine Biddle include photographs and clippings. The collection also contains music scores by well-known composers including Aaron Copland and William Grant Still.

ArchivalResource: 31.5 linear feet (60 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79838454 View