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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Papers of Booth Tarkington [manuscript], 1892-1945.

Title: Papers of Booth Tarkington [manuscript], 1892-1945.

The collection contains five manuscripts: "Flowers for the Living," A Tribute to Julian Street; a page from "The Two Vanrevels"; introduction for "A World Worth While"; an essay on Wayman Adams; "A Great Man's career"; and a quotation. In correspondence concerning his literary work Tarkington discusses the role of the audience in a theatrical performance, adaptation of his play "Monsieur Beaucaire" to the needs of the performers at a charity benefit, collaboration with H.L. Wilson, and difficulty in being objective towards his work. He also mentions a production of "Katherine" while at Princeton, working on a scenario for Samuel Goldwyn, scheduling publication of stories, proofing and revisions, and the popularity of the Penrod stories. Correspondence also gives opinions on H.L. Wilson, Lawrence Mazzavovitch, George Ade, Mark Lee Luther, Wayman Adams and John Singer Sargent portraits of him, Richard Harding Davis, Albert B. Paine's biography of Mark Twain, and especially James Whitcomb Riley. He gives opinions on the American-Soviet confrontation and encourages the reading of Tolstoy. In addition there are letters of recommendation for Charles Fisk Dalton and a Mr. Brown; social notes; letters of thanks and regret, reminiscences including an 1872 family trip to California, comments on his poor health, nervous condition and vision problems; and personal letters to James Whitcomb Riley from Tarkington and other family members giving personal news including accounts of ill health and Maine vacations, and a solicitation of funds for the Indianapolis Orphans Asylum. The collection also contains a lithograph portrait by Richard Hood; photographs; a postcard of his summer home; a caricature of Alexander Woollcott and a pen-and-ink drawing by Robert Kastors.

ArchivalResource: 71 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647870365 View

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Booth Tarkington letters, 1907-1924.

Title: Booth Tarkington letters, 1907-1924.

Contains 8 letters to M'Cready, Madison Julius Cawein, Alexander Black, W.J. Crawford, Jr., R. Critchell Rimington, and Perriton Maxwell of "Leslie's Weekly."

ArchivalResource: 11 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62858556 View

Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947. Letters, 1888-1938.

Title: Letters, 1888-1938.

Discussing his writing, publishing, health and family.

ArchivalResource: 128 items (336 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122371727 View

Cosmopolitan Magazine. Letter,1906 Nov 15, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, New York / Perriton Maxwell.

Title: Letter,1906 Nov 15, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, New York / Perriton Maxwell. 1906.

Perriton discusses an article about people who want to make money on child labor.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48248389 View

Maxwell, Perriton, 1868-1947. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1942.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1942.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892138 View

Maxwell, Perriton, 1868-1947,. Perriton Maxwell collection, 1931-1932.

Title: Perriton Maxwell collection, 1931-1932.

ALS and TLS, mounted and with pencilled annotations by the collector on the mounting leaves, relating to a symposium entitled "Is Radio a Blessing or a Menace?" Contributors include George Ade, Brooks Atkinson, M. H. Aylesworth, Gutzon Borglum, Ellis Parker Butler, James Branch Cabell, Sen. Arthur Capper, Irvin S. Cobb, Walter Damrosch, Benjamin De Casseres, Lee De Forest, Clarence C. Dill, W. N. Doak, James Montgomery Flagg, Daniel Frohman, Fannie Hurst, Joseph Jastrow, H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Eugene O'Neill, Gov. Gifford Pinchot, Charles Edward Russell, Upton Sinclair, Harry B. Smith, Sigmund Spaeth, Ernest Milmore Stires, Booth Tarkington, Samuel Untermyer, Carolyn Wells, William Allen White, Brand Whitlock, Owen Wister, and Adolph Zukor.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.1 oversize container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71131959 View

Henry, O., 1862-1910. Papers of O. Henry, 1897-1954.

Title: Papers of O. Henry, 1897-1954.

The collection contains 14 manuscripts by Henry: "Adventures in neurasthenia," "Confessions of a humorist," "The crucible," "The enchanted kiss," "The friendly call," "The hypotheses of failure," "Lo" (a fragment), "The lonesome road," "Mammon and the archer," "The shamrock and the palm," "Street of lies" (a fragment), "Strictly business," "Thimble thimble," and an unnamed play fragment. There is also a manuscript "Alias Jimmy Valentine," by Paul Armstrong, based on O. Henry's "A retrieved reformation." There are 21 letters and 2 telegrams from O. Henry discussing his social life, writing, finances, overdue manuscripts, health, marriage, housing arrangements, "Broadway magazine," a personal ad in the "New York Herald," and his story "The phonograph and the graft." A letter from S.S. McClure Company accepts "The miracle of Lava Cañon." A letter from William Aspenwall Bradley discusses an advance. A three letter exchange between Sara Lindsay Coleman Porter and John O'Hara Cosgrave of "Everybody's magazine" discusses Henry's death. Two letters from Dale Kramer to E.H. Ruestow deal with the loan of a photograph of Henry. A letter from John J. Dacey to George D. Smith discusses the authenticity of four O. Henry manuscripts. An autograph statement by Perriton Maxwell discusses the manuscript "The enchanted kiss." There are also 9 photographs of O. Henry; a copy of his "O. Henryana"; wedding invitations; a contract with "Collier's weekly" for a "southern series"; 6 sales reports and an account statement from Doubleday, Page and Company; newspaper review of "Best stories of O. Henry," including a biographical sketch; and a Doubleday, Page and Company advertising flier containing "O. Henry" by James Whitcomb Riley. Also "Strictly business" as printed in "Broadway magazine" with illustrations by Reginald Bathurst Birch; "The friendly call" as printed in "Rolling stones"; "O. Henry and me," by Ethel Lloyd Patterson as printed in "Everybody's magazine" with illustrations by William Oberhardt. Of particular interest is a sketch of Pittsburg by O. Henry. Additional correspondents include Charles Belmont Davis, Richard Harding Davis, Richard Duffy, William Griffith, William Andrew Johnston, Ethel Lloyd Patterson and Charles Alphonso Smith.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825369 View

Maxwell, Perriton, 1868-1947. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1928.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1928.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from Perriton Maxwell, editor, Theatre Magazine.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155894400 View

Hearst's Magazine. Letter, 1913, April 5, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / Perriton Mazwell.

Title: Letter, 1913, April 5, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island, New York] / Perriton Mazwell. 1913.

Tells Markham that he just returned from London to take charge of the Magazine and would like to meet with him to discuss his department.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 21-28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47745765 View

Papers, 1904-1943.

Title: Papers, 1904-1943.

Correspondence and miscellaneous materials of prominent British and American authors, 1904-1943. Includes letters of Ambrose Bierce, Branch Cabell, Havelock Ellis, Maurice Maeterlinck, George Santayana, Llewelyn Powys, John Cowper Powys, Thomas Hardy, and Jack London. Also, manuscripts of three poems by Richard Le Gallienne and "Night" by Robinson Jeffers. Some of the letters are addressed to and annotated by Perriton Maxwell.

ArchivalResource: 383 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155456230 View

Jerome, Jerome K.q(Jerome Klapka),d1859-1927. Jerome Klapka Jerome collection of papers,f1892-1926.

Title: Jerome Klapka Jerome collection of papers,f1892-1926.

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscript materials, typescripts, correspondence by the author, and legal documents.bThe manuscripts and typescripts include plays, autograph notes, and other miscellaneous material. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1892 to 1926, to Sir Hall Caine, Perriton Maxwell, Theodore Watts-Dunton, the literary agency James B. Pinker and Son, the literary agency A. P. Watt & Son, and others.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122579856 View

Leonard Wood Letters, 1871-1927

Title: Leonard Wood Letters 1871-1927

Correspondence of the Army officer, governor general of the Philippines. Outgoing letters, mostly written while Wood served in Cuba, and later in the Philippines.

ArchivalResource: 13 letters (SC).

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/w/wood_l.htm View

Jerome Klapka Jerome collection of papers, 1892-1926

Title: Jerome Klapka Jerome collection of papers 1892-1926

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscript materials, typescripts, correspondence, and legal documents

ArchivalResource: 51 items.

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19241 View

Huneker, James, 1857-1921. James Huneker letter to Dear Mr. Maxwell, 1904 July 12.

Title: James Huneker letter to Dear Mr. Maxwell, 1904 July 12.

Huneker writes to My dear Maxwell, 12 July 1904, concerning a short story he is writing and suggesting two places where illustrations might be used.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60494866 View

Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940. Letter 1910 Sept 17, Staten Island [to] Mr. Maxwell, Unknown / Edwin Markham.

Title: Letter 1910 Sept 17, Staten Island [to] Mr. Maxwell, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1910.

Markham thanks Perriton for his kind thought in connection with the Cosmopolitan Magazine. He will try and meet with him at the end of the week.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45361527 View

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Typed letters signed (2) : London, to Perriton Maxwell, 1914 May 30 and July 10.

Title: Typed letters signed (2) : London, to Perriton Maxwell, 1914 May 30 and July 10.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270953360 View

Skinner, Otis, 1858-1942,. Autograph letter signed from Otis Skinner to the editor, Metropolitan magazine [manuscript], 1900 September 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Otis Skinner to the editor, Metropolitan magazine [manuscript], 1900 September 28.

Skinner describes a "year of grace" for the theater. Indicates that "Resplendent productions of Shakespeare and poetic plays have interested those who have not been used to fine dramatic fare." Recipient likely Perriton Maxwell, who was editor of the Metropolitan magazine starting in 1900.

ArchivalResource: 3 leaves ; 27 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367585959 View

O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Letter, 1926 January 6, Hamilton, Bermuda [to] Perriton Maxwell, New York City / Eugene O'Neill.

Title: Letter, 1926 January 6, Hamilton, Bermuda [to] Perriton Maxwell, New York City / Eugene O'Neill.

O'Neill's response to a request from Perriton Maxwell for an article on current trends in American drama for The Theatre Magazine: "Unfortunately I am way behind hand on my own work ... and I can't afford to do any outside work of any sort."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (on 1 leaf), folded ; 28 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20991427 View

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Papers of Elbert Hubbard, 1896-1915.

Title: Papers of Elbert Hubbard, 1896-1915.

In correspondence Hubbard discusses his writing, printing, publishing and lecturing, his magazine The Philistine, and the American Academy of Immortals. His Roycrofter stationary has a watermark image of Hubbard in the upper left hand corner. In addition the collection contains a manuscript quotation, an autograph, a brochure from the Roycroft Shop, a photograph of a portrait, and a clipping re the sinking of the Lusitania.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136608 View