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Taylor, Elizabeth, 1912-1975. "Studio one" presents A wreath of roses / by Elizabeth Taylor.

Title: "Studio one" presents A wreath of roses / by Elizabeth Taylor. 1950.

ArchivalResource: 74 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22502057 View

Elizabeth Bowen Collection TXRC98-A19., 1923-1975

Title: Elizabeth Bowen Collection 1923-1975

Irish writer ElizabethBowen brought a painter's sensitivity to her creative writing, incorporatingher memories and experiences into short stories and novels. Her collection iscomposed largely of works and correspondence and reflects Bowen's long andproductive literary career. A small number of legal and financial papers arealso present.

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Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. : Series I., General Correspondence, 1922-1977 (bulk 1946-1966).

Title: Records. : Series I., General Correspondence, 1922-1977 (bulk 1946-1966).

This series consists of the central editorial files of the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Company. It contains the correspondence for the day-to-day operations of the firm, including letters from foreign publishers seeking publication and translation rights, contacts with young writers, inquiries from aspiring authors, correspondence on legal matters such as copyright, letters from literary agents, and requests for information about writers. The General Correspondence series also contains correspondence between editors and Knopf authors, many files of which follow the creation of a book from the original idea to its final publication. Taken as a whole, this series offers a comprehensive overview of the activities of the editorial offices. The main strength of the series derives from the individual files devoted to writers published by Knopf. These files typically reveal the writer's first connection with the company, which might have occurred when the firm contacted the writer expressing their interest in her or his work, or when the author submitted a manuscript. Files follow the correspondence between the editor and writer, revealing the relationship between the two as the manuscript progresses, continues once the book is published, and shows how the book is received and how well it sells. Especially interesting is the way the files reveal how an editor would guide the creative process, as she or he suggests changes, additions, or deletions. While the vast majority of files contain correspondence only, some files relate to the inner workings of the firm. These are labelled by department or, more often, by employee name; the most significant are for Blanche and Alfred A. Knopf, and can be found in most years. The files rely on the use of documentation in the form of internal memoranda that were sent from editors and employees of other departments to update the Knopfs on current activities. Folders titled with the name of a trip taken by Alfred or Blanche Knopf in a specific year often include narrative descriptions of the visit, including detailed lists of publishers, scouts, literary agents, and writers with whom they met. Further, information about writers is also available in these folders. For example, internal memos about the rejection of John Knowles' A Separate Peace are in one of Blanche Knopf's European trip folders. Other employee named files, like those of Secretary and later President William A. Koshland, give an overview of the firm's administrative history.

ArchivalResource: 500 boxes (208 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122481717 View

Lerner, Max, 1902-2001. Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

Title: Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter and Harold J. Laski, his controversial writings on homosexuality, his work with the Democratic Party during Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, his work on behalf of Jewish causes and Zionism, and his activities during the "red scare" of the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 96.50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154142 View

Francis Henry King Collection TXRC92-A51., 1939-1992

Title: Francis Henry King Collection 1939-1992

The collection contains correspondence and literary works by theBritish author.

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Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973. Elizabeth Bowen Collection, 1923-1975.

Title: Elizabeth Bowen Collection, 1923-1975.

The 13 boxes of manuscripts and correspondence which make up the bulk of the Elizabeth Bowen Collection, 1923-1975, reflect her literary career. The Works Series consists of holograph drafts, typescripts, galley proofs, notes, and fragments of novels, stories, articles, essays, radio broadcasts, lectures, reviews, and translations. The Center has manuscript holdings for the majority of Bowen's novels, including Eva Trout (1968), Friends and Relations (1931), The Heat of the Day (1948), The Hotel (1927), The House in Paris (1935), The Last September (1929), The Little Girls (1963), To the North (1932), and A World of Love (1955). Collections of short stories include Ann Lee's and Other Stories (1926), and Joining Charles and other Stories (1929); in addition, there are manuscripts for numerous short stories which were published separately in various periodicals; and for unfinished and unpublished works. Manuscripts for her nonfiction works include English Novelists (1942), The Shelbourne (1951), and A Time in Rome (1960). Autobiographical works include Bowen's Court (1942), Pictures and Conversations (1975), published posthumously, and Seven Winters (1962). The radio broadcasts were mainly for the BBC on a variety of topics ranging from literary figures, books, and places, to plays Bowen adapted from her stories for radio. The Correspondence Series consists principally of letters regarding Bowen's literary work. Outgoing letters occupy two folders and were written chiefly to her literary agents at Curtis Brown, to various publications, to the Golden Cockerel Press, and to literary friends Joe Ackerley, Daniel George, Glyn Jones, and Grover Smith. Incoming letters are more numerous and include an extensive correspondence from her literary agents at Curtis Brown, letters from publishers, and from literary figures such as C. M. Bowra, Agatha Christie, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Cyril Connolly, A. E. Coppard, Cecil Day-Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Rosamund Lehmann, Rose Macaulay, Ottoline Morrell, John Middleton Murry, Sean O'Faolain, William Plomer, Edward Charles Sackville-West, William Sansom, Eleanor Sarton, Stephen Spender, Elizabeth Taylor, Hugh Walpole, Evelyn Waugh, Veronica Wedgwood, H. G. Wells, Eudora Welty, Edmund Wilson, and Virginia Woolf. Series III. Financial and Legal Papers includes royalty statements, tax records, and lists of memoranda of agreement with various publishing companies for publishing rights to Bowen's works. The small Miscellaneous Series contains two typescripts of works by Eudora Welty, "The Bride of the Innisfallen" and "The Wand."

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes (5.42 linear feet), 1 galley folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122632957 View

Max Lerner papers, 1927-1998

Title: Max Lerner papers 1927-1998

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers, (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter and Harold J. Laski, his controversial writings on homosexuality, his work with the Democratic Party during Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, his work on behalf of Jewish causes and Zionism, and his activities during the "red scare" of the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 102.79 linear feet (185 boxes)

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Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Papers of Elizabeth Jane Howard, 1933-2009.

Title: Papers of Elizabeth Jane Howard, 1933-2009.

ArchivalResource: 4,214 items.124 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540564 View

King, Francis Henry. Collection, 1923-1992.

Title: Collection, 1923-1992.

Comprises correspondence (primarily incoming) and several works by King from 1939-92. Correspondence content varies from discussions about his works, reviews, publishing, PEN, and politics, to personal information. The bulk of correspondence is from Edith Borne, Ronald Bottrall, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Clifford Kitchin, Robert Liddell, Harold Nicolson, Desmond Stewart, and Godfrey Winn. Also in the correspondence series are letters from King to Alexander Walton (1956-63), discussing King's experiences and impressions of Greece and Japan during his employment with the British Council. Letters from King to his mother date from 1931 to 1992, but the bulk are from 1957-63, and cover a variety of topics. The majority of the novels King wrote between 1949 and 1978 are represented in the collection in typescript or holographic form, most of which have been heavily edited. Some of his novels in this collection are The Custom House (1961), The Last of the Pleasure Gardens (1965), The Waves behind the Boat (1967), A Domestic Animal (1970), and The Needle (1975).

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122590156 View

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. Series VI., Editorial Department Files, 1915-1984 (bulk 1948-1978).

Title: Records. Series VI., Editorial Department Files, 1915-1984 (bulk 1948-1978).

This series consists of selected files maintained by the editorial offices of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Containing internal forms and correspondence, it highlights numerous aspects of the publishing process. Subseries A.: Contract Data Sheets. This subseries contains the internal forms, called contract data sheets, that consolidated an author's contract and sales records, highlighting rights, contract options, translations, and royalties. While these single sheets make up the bulk of the subseries, occasionally other forms such as reprint contract sheets, contract proposals, and internal memoranda have been attached for reference. Subseries B.: Foreign Rights. These files contain correspondence and internal forms relating to the publication of Knopf books in other countries. Most of these files consist of correspondence from foreign publishers asking Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for the right to publish a particular title in their country. While some folders contain letters from many different publishers, others follow the lengthy negotiation process for foreign rights between Knopf and a particular publisher. Subseries C.: Manuscript Records. This subseries is made up of the internal forms called "white sheets" by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and pertains only to manuscripts accepted by the firm. These manuscript record forms were attached to every incoming manuscript, to document how the manuscript arrived, its original title, and the date of its initial submission. The standard form included such information as the author's name, manuscript title and form (whether typescript, proofs, or sheets), name of the person submitting it, contract information, a list of the manuscript's readers, and space for remarks by those readers. In a few cases the white sheets were attached to internal memoranda, correspondence, contract proposals, or publishing summaries. Subseries D.: Reject Files. This largest subseries contains correspondence with rejected authors and/or their agents. Most consist of single contacts with aspiring authors who were never published. This correspondence generally contains an introductory letter from the author (or sometimes an agent) describing the manuscript, with a carbon negative reply from the firm. While most of the correspondence is routine, the subseries' chief importance derives from the known authors that Knopf rejected and the early appearance of authors who would later go on to prominence. Of particular interest is the appearance in this subseries of established Knopf authors such as Mildred Cram, Erna Fergusson, Yukio Mishima, and Elizabeth Taylor, showing that Knopf was reluctant to publish inferior works from even the best known of its list. Subseries E.: Rejection Sheets. This subseries consists of the manuscript "white sheet" forms for books rejected by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. These white sheets complement subseries D, though they represent only manuscripts actually submitted. The reject sheets are particularly interesting because a substantial minority of submitted manuscripts that were rejected by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. went on to be published elsewhere. As in the manuscript records in Subseries C, frank narrative reports of these rejected works by the manuscript readers and editors are present. Subseries F.: [Translations]. This small subseries contains a loose assortment of files pertaining mainly to translations of Spanish and Portuguese writers. The subseries documents the firm's growing interest in the publication of Latin American writers in the 1960s. Most of the files contain correspondence or internal documentation relating to writers and translators in which the company was interested. The subseries is strengthened by a number of annotated lists of current writers and translators working in the area, offering an overview of Latin American scholarship in the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 239 boxes (99.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122590288 View