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Gertrude Abercrombie papers

Title: Gertrude Abercrombie papers

The papers of surrealist artist Gertrude Abercrombie date from circa 1880-1986, with the bulk of the material dated 1935-1977, and measure 5.9 linear feet. Found within are biographical material; correspondence (mostly incoming letters) with friends, museums, and galleries; files for artists that interested her; writings and notes, including five journal-type notebooks; scattered personal business records; two sketchbooks by Abercrombie and additional sketches and drawings, some by others; printed material, audio recordings, one scrapbook, photographs, and estate records.

ArchivalResource: 5.9 Linear feet

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers, 1837-1961

Title: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers 1837-1961

The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers contain manuscripts of writings, letters, clippings, photographs, artworks, and personal papers relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, and to Gertrude's brother, Leo Stein, an artist and writer. As well as holding the bulk of Stein's literary output (often described as "experimental" or "cubist" writing), the materials document Stein and Toklas' involvement with the literary and art scene in Paris during the first half of the 20th century. Series I, Writings, contains holograph and typescript drafts of the majority of Gertrude Stein's writings, including "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," "The Making of Americans" (complete with a quantity of notes, or "studies"), "Tender Buttons" and a group of unpublished fragments and carnets, notebooks kept by Stein with preliminary drafts of writings. Series II, Correspondence of Gertrude Stein, contains letters sent from a wide variety of Stein's friends: artists such as Georges Bracque, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso; writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Thornton Wilder; and acquaintances through many years such as Mildred Aldrich, Etta and Claribel Cone, Robert Haas, Mabel Dodge Luhan,Sir Francis Rose, Virgil Thomson, and Carl Van Vechten. Series III, Third Party Letters and Series IV, Alice B. Toklas Correspondence, contain letters from many of the same people, the latter group containing Alice Toklas's correspondence following Gertrude Stein's death. Series V, Personal Papers, and Series VI, Clippings, gather together various personal affects of Stein and Toklas as well as documentation of Stein's life as reported during her lifetime. Series VII, Photographs, show Stein from early childhood through 1946, the year she died. Prints showing Alice Toklas, various friends, artworks, and locales are included in this series, as are several volumes of prints made by Carl Van Vechten. Series VIII and IX contain numerous artworks and objects given by Stein and Toklas. Included here are a painting by Pablo Picasso and a sketch by Henri Matisse.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 173; Other Storage Formats: Oversize, artwork, objects, cold storage; Linear Feet: 93

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas collection 1901-1987

Title: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas collection 1901-1987

The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. ToklasCollection contains manuscripts, letters, photographs, clippings, artworks, andresearch materials relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and hercompanion, Alice B. Toklas gathered during the years following Stein's death tosupplement the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers (YCAL MSS 76). Itemsfrom such friends and admirers as Elizabeth Fuller Chapman, Doda Conrad,Clement Hurd, Samuel Steward, and Donald Sutherland complement the originalgroup of Stein papers. Series I, Writings, includes drafts of works byStein and several posthumously published items, along with a group of writingsby Alice B. Toklas. Series II, Correspondence, contains long runs of lettersfrom Stein to: Edward Aswell, Henry Phelan Gibb, William Garland Rogers, SamuelSteward, Donald Sutherland, and Virgil Thomson, all of which were acquired fromthe original recipients and several outgoing letters from Gertrude Stein andfrom Alice Toklas. Series III, Other Papers, contains research materialsfrom Stein scholars, files from the Atlantic Monthly concerning theirpublication of Stein's work, several musical settings of Stein works, and DodaConrad's files concerning a fund for Alice Toklas. Series IV and V containPrinted Materials and Series VI contains Photographs, some of Stein and Toklas,but principally of artworks owned by Stein and of posthumous productions ofStein plays. Series VII and VIII (Artworks and Objects), includes a collagepainting by Pablo Picasso and a number of paintings by Sir Francis Rose. SeriesIX, Film and Sound Recordings, contains a film of Stein and Toklas at the HotelPernollet in Belley France around 1927 and several audio recordings of Steinreadings her works.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes:40; OtherStorage Formats: Artworks, Objects, Recordings, Oversize; Linear Feet: 24

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Gertrude Abercrombie papers

Title: Gertrude Abercrombie papers

The papers of surrealist artist Gertrude Abercrombie date from circa 1880-1986, with the bulk of the material dated 1935-1977, and measure 5.9 linear feet. Found within are biographical material; correspondence (mostly incoming letters) with friends, museums, and galleries; files for artists that interested her; writings and notes, including five journal-type notebooks; scattered personal business records; two sketchbooks by Abercrombie and additional sketches and drawings, some by others; printed material, audio recordings, one scrapbook, photographs, and estate records.

ArchivalResource: 5.9 Linear feet

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Wilcox, Wendell. Wilcox, Wendell, Diary, 1944-1945

Title: Wilcox, Wendell, Diary, 1944-1945

Comprised of a typescript, the Wendell Wilcox Diary, 1944-1945, documents Wilcox's experiences in a Japanese prison camp in Los Baños, Philippines, during World War II.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

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Wilcox, Wendell, 1927-. Wendell Wilcox diary, 1944-1945.

Title: Wendell Wilcox diary, 1944-1945.

Relates to conditions in the prison camp.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

Gertrude Abercrombie papers

Title: Gertrude Abercrombie papers

The papers of surrealist artist Gertrude Abercrombie date from circa 1880-1986, with the bulk of the material dated 1935-1977, and measure 5.9 linear feet. Found within are biographical material; correspondence (mostly incoming letters) with friends, museums, and galleries; files for artists that interested her; writings and notes, including five journal-type notebooks; scattered personal business records; two sketchbooks by Abercrombie and additional sketches and drawings, some by others; printed material, audio recordings, one scrapbook, photographs, and estate records.

ArchivalResource: 5.9 Linear feet

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Toklas, Alice B. Letters and postcards to Wendell Wilcox, 1960-1967.

Title: Letters and postcards to Wendell Wilcox, 1960-1967.

News of her health, mutual friends, etc.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122453938 View

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. Gertrude Stein Collection, 1914-1973 (bulk 1946-1967).

Title: Gertrude Stein Collection, 1914-1973 (bulk 1946-1967).

Manuscripts, correspondence, financial and legal documents, address books, and personal papers make up the Gertrude Stein Collection. The material was collected by Alice B. Toklas after Stein's death and includes a large amount of Toklas's incoming correspondence. Stein's writings are represented by manuscripts for three titles: Composition as Explanation, Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded, and From Dark to Day. The correspondence series includes business letters and an extensive series of letters to the poet Georges Hugnet. Among the personal papers are inventories and appraisals of Steins art collection. The Toklas series consists mainly of a large number of incoming letters, some of them concerning Stein's estate. Among the many correspondents in this series are Mrs. William Aspenwall Bradley, Sandy Campbell, Bernard Faÿ, Donald C. Gallup, attorneys Edgar Allan Poe and Russell M. Porter, Virgil Thomson, and Carl Van Vechten, who served as Stein's literary executor.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3.78 linear feet), 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85242144 View