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American immortals in New York [manuscript],n.d.

Title: American immortals in New York [manuscript],n.d.

A group photgraph clipped from "Leslie's Weekly" depicts 23 members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters at a joint convention.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647915389 View

Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Title: Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Primarily professional correspondence of biographer and editor M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes (9 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00489/catalog View

Edwin Howland Blashfield Papers, 1870-1956 (bulk 1889-1936)

Title: Edwin Howland Blashfield Papers 1870-1956 (bulk 1889-1936)

The Edwin Howland Blashfield Papers describe the artistic career of New Yorker Edwin Howland Blashfield. They consist of correspondence, drawings, writings, and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Linear feet; (7 boxes, 5 bound volumes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/blashfield/blashfield.html View

Robert E. Sherwood papers, 1917-1968 (inclusive), 1934-1955 (bulk).

Title: Robert E. Sherwood papers, 1917-1968 (inclusive), 1934-1955 (bulk).

Letters, compositions, and other papers of the American writer Robert E. Sherwood.

ArchivalResource: 78 boxes and 1 oversize vololume (27 linear ft.).

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00564/catalog View

Erskine, John, 1879-1951. John Erskine papers, [ca. 1890]-1951.

Title: John Erskine papers, [ca. 1890]-1951.

Correspondence relating to Erskine's various educational, musical and literary interests; manuscripts of his writings; lecture notes for college courses; souvenirs of his army service in World War I and his Columbia University professorship, and student papers from his own school and college days. Also, biographical file, scrapbooks, and articles.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear ft. (41 boxes, 1 flat box & 87 v. in 11 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493895987 View

Malamud, Bernard. Bernard Malamud papers, 1945-1985.

Title: Bernard Malamud papers, 1945-1985.

The Bernard Malamud Papers are writings, correspondence, printed materials, and clippings dating from 1945 through 1985. The writings include notes, first and second drafts, and a typescript with proof corrections for the short story "Idiots First," published in 1961 (an early version, extensively reworked, was entitled "A Long Ticket for Isaac"). The correspondence is from Malamud (29 letters) and his wife Ann (5 letters) to their friend and lawyer Paul Schrag and his wife Susie, regarding family activities, financial investments, writing projects and research for stories, recommendations for books to read, and other matters. There also are letters from Schrag to Malamud (20 letters). Other material includes printed programs from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, newspaper clippings of book reviews, and a program for Malamud's memorial service.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270957084 View

Gyorgy Kepes papers

Title: Gyorgy Kepes papers

The papers of Hungarian-born artist, art theorist, and educator, Gyorgy Kepes, measure 21.2 linear feet and date from 1909-2003, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1935-1985. The papers document Kepes's career as an artist and educator, and as founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), through biographical material, correspondence, writings by Kepes and others, project files, exhibition files, printed material, sketchbooks, artwork, sound recordings and motion picture films, and photographic material.

ArchivalResource: 21.2 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f863f285-f429-48f1-ba6e-fb74702c12ba View

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908. Papers, 1840-1960.

Title: Papers, 1840-1960.

Personal and professional papers of Stedman, including correspondence, letter books, diaries, poetry manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs, and genealogical materials for the Stedman and Dodge families. Correspondence and manuscripts of his mother, Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney (1810-1889), poet and diarist, and of his granddaughter, Laura Stedman Gould (1881-1941), author and editor. Also, editions of Stedman's LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE including printed materials relating to the marketing; and an album of Civil War photographs by Mathew Brady, inscribed by the photographer to Laura H.W. Stedman as well as additional loose photographs by Brady. 1991 addition: Manuscript drafts and notecards for Edward M. Williams' "The Constructive Art", a study of Stedman's literary criticism.

ArchivalResource: 120 linear ft. (ca.76,000 items in 87 boxes which include 88 volumes, & 8 oversize items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122482519 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

National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.). [Letter] 1915, April 3, New York City, [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], [Staten Island] / Arnold W. Brunner, Treasurer.

Title: [Letter] 1915, April 3, New York City, [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], [Staten Island] / Arnold W. Brunner, Treasurer. 1915.

Invitation to a dinner at the Harvard Club with an informal talk upon the subject of "The Movie."

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47060639 View

American Academy of Arts and Letters. Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1943-1945.

Title: Correspondence with Franz Werfel, 1943-1945.

As a newly-elected (January 1943) honorary associate of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Werfel was invited in May 1943 to attend the Annual Ceremonial, hosted jointly by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155862804 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

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Papers, 1925-1969 (bulk: 1937-1969)

Title: Walter Gropius papers, 1925-1969 (inclusive), 1937-1969 (bulk).

Papers of German-born architect and Harvard professor Walter Gropius.

ArchivalResource: 40 boxes (15 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00397/catalog View

National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.). [Letter] 1915, February 1, New York City, [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], [Staten Island] / Arnold W. Brunner, Treasurer.

Title: [Letter] 1915, February 1, New York City, [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], [Staten Island] / Arnold W. Brunner, Treasurer. 1915.

Invitation to an informal dinner at the Harvard Club with an informal talk upon the subject "The Magazine."

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 18-21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47060667 View

Victoria Ocampo papers, 1908-1979.

Title: Victoria Ocampo papers, 1908-1979.

Papers of Victoria Ocampo (d.1979), the Argentine writer, translator, publisher,feminist, and founder of the review Sur.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (11.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00038/catalog View

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Edith Wharton collection, 1868-1981 (inclusive).

Title: Edith Wharton collection, 1868-1981 (inclusive).

The Edith Wharton Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American author Edith Wharton, as well as letters and research material gathered by Gaillard Lapsley, Percy Lubbock, Oscar Lichtenberg, Georges Markow-Totevy, and Louis Auchincloss.

ArchivalResource: 31.0 linear feet (67 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702132873 View

Luening, Otto, 1900-1996. Reminiscences of Otto Luening : oral history, 1976.

Title: Reminiscences of Otto Luening : oral history, 1976.

Family background; early life in Madison, Wisconsin; musical education in Munich, 1912-17; composing, performing and acting in Europe during World War I; Chicago, 1920-25; executive director, opera department, Eastman School of Music, 1925-28; teaching at University of Arizona; Yaddo; organization of American Composers Alliance; Barnard College Music Department, 1944-47; professor of music, Columbia University, 1949- ; electronic workshop at Columbia, development of electronic music; meetings of National Institute of Art and Letters; impressions of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Randall Thompson, John Cage, and others.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 607 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309742935 View

Jacques Barzun Papers, ca.1900-1999.

Title: Jacques Barzun Papers, ca.1900-1999.

The correspondence, researach, and teaching files of Jacques Barzun (1907-2012).

ArchivalResource: 194 linear ft. in 454 boxes; 1 drawer of oversized material; 11 correspondence file boxes (CLOSED); 2 small cartons (CLOSED); and 2 record storage cartons (CLOSED at ReCAP).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079628 View

National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.). Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1935.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1935.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from Henry S. Canby, Member, National Institute of Arts and Letters, United States.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892603 View

Percy Wallace MacKaye Colelction, 1897-1948

Title: Percy Wallace MacKaye Colelction 1897-1948

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00291.xml View

George Grosz papers, 1893-1981 (inclusive) 1919-1959 (bulk).

Title: George Grosz papers, 1893-1981 (inclusive) 1919-1959 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, speeches, autobiographies and other papers of the German artist George Grosz.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00452/catalog View

Gore Vidal papers, 1850-2020 (inclusive), 1936-2008 (bulk)

Title: Gore Vidal papers, 1850-2020 (inclusive), 1936-2008 (bulk)

Papers of American author, Gore Vidal (1925-), including literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, political papers, legal and business records, and other material. Also includes papers of his companion, Howard Austen (1929-2003).

ArchivalResource: 414 linear feet (449 boxes, cartons, and film reels)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01943/catalog View

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936. Papers, 1867-1936.

Title: Papers, 1867-1936.

Correspondence, diaries in letter form, art notes, writings on art and artists, and miscellaneous papers, 1867-1936. Included are letters from artists, architects, museum officials, public officials, friends, relatives, and admirers; letters chiefly written by him while traveling in France, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland from 1886-1931; letter-diaries relating to his travels; art notes made in France and Italy with small sketches; agreements for doing murals; biographical sketch of his wife, Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield; rough list of a library of books on art; and addresses and notes. Some of the correspondents include Will Brownell, Henry Bacon, Nicholas Murray Butler, T.W. Dewing, Daniel Chester French, A.E. Gallatin, Charles Dana Gibson, Cass Gilbert, Thomas Hastings, W.D. Howells, Archer Milton Huntington, John LaFarge, Charles R. Lamb, Seth Low, Charles McKim, Paul Manship, Brander Matthews, Maxfield Parrish, John Singer Sargent, F.W. Stokes, Egerton Swartwout, Louis C. Tiffany, and Edith Wharton.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476478052 View

Barr, Stringfellow, 1897-1982. Papers additional of Stringfellow Barr [manuscript] 1938-67.

Title: Papers additional of Stringfellow Barr [manuscript] 1938-67.

The collection contains drafts, 1938 & 1956, of the first 5 chapters of "Purely academic." The collection also contains maps, research materials, drafts, notes, galley proofs, etc. for "The mask of Jove," and "The kitchen garden book," together with printed articles by Barr. There is also a photocopy of a citation, 1967 May 24, by the National Institute of Arts and Letters to Barr signed by Leon Edel as secretary.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938093 View

National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.). Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1905-1912.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1905-1912.

Letters from Robert Underwood Johnson, Harrison S. Morris, and Jesse Lynch Williams, and a copy of the constitution and list of members dated 1905; also includes 3 letters from H. C. Lea, and one letter to Arthur H. Lea.

ArchivalResource: 18 items (20 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448679 View

Edmund Wilson papers, 1829-1986, 1920-1972

Title: Edmund Wilson papers 1829-1986 1920-1972

The collection consists of correspondence, literary manuscripts, subject files, financial records, photographs, and personal and family papers documenting Wilson's life and work. The papers span the years 1829-1986, encompassing early family documents through materials concerning posthumous publication of Wilson's books and journals. The bulk of the collection dates from the beginnings of Wilson's literary career, ca. 1920, through his death in 1972. Series I, Correspondence, contains letters from literary colleagues, friends, family members, and business associates. Much of Wilson's correspondence concerns his writing, views on literature, interest in languages, and research in subjects including American history, American Indian rights, labor, the Cold War, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Files for literary colleagues, publishers, and friends include: John Peale Bishop, John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabokov, Dawn Powell, Mario Praz, Allen Tate, Morton Dauwen Zabel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Doubleday and Company, Oxford University Press, Secker & Warburg, and W. H. Allen. Correspondence with family includes his wives, actress Mary Blair, writer Mary McCarthy, Margaret Canby, and Elena Wilson, and members of the Wilson and Kimball families. Series II, Writings, includes Wilson's journals; drafts, setting copies, proofs, and reviews for his books and plays; drafts and clippings of essays, book reviews, short stories, and poetry; and drafts and clippings of writings by others. Journals consist of holograph notebooks, 1908-1970, accompanying materials, and transcripts, which were the source of Wilson's published autobiographical works. Drafts and proofs are present for most of Wilson's books, including: American Earthquake, Apologies to the Iroquois, The Bit Between My Teeth, Classics and Commercials, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Duke of Palermo, Europe Without Baedeker, Galahad and I Thought of Daisy, The Little Blue Light, Memoirs of Hecate County (including materials relating to obscenity trials), Night Thoughts, O Canada, Patriotic Gore, A Piece of My Mind, Red, Black, Blonde and Olive, Scrolls from the Dead Sea, The Shores of Light, To the Finland Station, The Triple Thinkers, Upstate, Window on Russia, and The Twenties, The Thirties, The Forties, The Fifties, and The Sixties. Writings by Others includes articles about Wilson, interviews with him, and writings by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin. Series III, Subject Files, contain printed materials and notes documenting Wilson's research in subjects such as communism, labor, Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship, income tax protest and Cold War spending, and Iroquois land rights. Series IV, Financial Papers, contains publisher account statements and tax records documenting Wilson's income and expenses, and his response to charges of tax evasion by the Internal Revenue Service. Series V, Photographs, contains portraits and snapshots of Wilson throughout his life, early family photographs, and photographs of other writers and friends. Series VI, Personal Papers, includes awards won by Wilson, drawings by him, his collection of Punch and Judy puppets, and legal documents. Series VII, Wilson and Kimball Family Papers, includes early family correspondence and legal documents, genealogical records, and papers of Wilson's parents, including writings and speeches of Edmund Wilson, Sr.

ArchivalResource: 162.84 linear ft. (331 boxes, including 60 oversize boxes) + 4 portfolios + 3 broadside folders.

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

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Minutes and scrapbooks, 1898-1985.

Title: Minutes and scrapbooks, 1898-1985.

Included are minutes of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1898-1976; of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1904-1976; and of the merged American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1976-1985. Also, scrapbooks, ca.1904-1985, containing clippings of obituaries by and about members, exhibits, award presentations, nominations of members, and other activities of the Academy and Institute. Some scrapbooks contain invitations, blank ballots, RSVP forms, circular letters containing news of the Academy and Institute, programs, tickets, death announcements of members, announcements of prize winners, brochures describing nominees, and other forms and circular letters distributed by the Academy and Institute to the members. Some correspondence concerning the presentation of awards, exhibits, and other events, 1945-1969, is also included.

ArchivalResource: ca. 20 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155474003 View

Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992

Title: Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992

Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was an author, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, and humanitarian. This collection contains material documenting many facets of Green's life and work, material relating to the life and work of his wife, Elizabeth Lay Green, and numerous items relating to members of the Greens' immediate and extended family. Paul Green's work as a dramatist and writer is documented in his professional correspondence files (circa 34,400 items); by extensive files on his including background material, drafts, musical scores, and business records; and by drafts of poems, essays, and novels by Green. Also included are yearly diaries (1917-1980), photographs, tape recordings, and appointment books. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, James Boyd, Erskine Caldwell, William T. Couch, Jonathan Daniels, Donald Davidson, John Ehle, Caroline Gordon, Frank Porter Graham, John Howard Griffin, Tyrone Guthrie, Dubose Heyward, Noel Houston, Langston Hughes, Gerald W. Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Frederick Koch, Lotte Lenya, H. L. Mencken, Howard Odum, Clarence Poe, Carl Sandburg, Betty Smith, Lamar Stringfield, Allen Tate, Kurt Weil, Orson Welles, and Richard Wright, among many others. Green's associations with various theater, cultural, and humanitarian organizations in North Carolina and elsewhere are extensively documented. Correspondence and other materials show his opinions on such issues as lynching, capital punishment, nationalism, communism, race relations, religion, and the Vietnamese, Korean, and First and Second World Wars. Also included are a considerable number of photographs relating to Green's family and to his work, and financial records. symphonic dramas,

ArchivalResource: 195 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 111,500 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03693/ View

Lillian Hellman Papers TXRC05-A10005., 1904-1984 (bulk 1934-1984)

Title: Lillian Hellman Papers 1904-1984 (bulk 1934-1984)

The Lillian Hellman papers comprise manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, business records, appointment books, scrapbooks, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 119 boxes, 38 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders, 9 galley files (68 linear feet)

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00398/00398-P.html View

Papers of Robert Graves: Press cuttings, 1920 to 2005

Title: Papers of Robert Graves: Press cuttings 1920 to 2005

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes and 5 lever arch files

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb473-rg/l View

Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing>

Title: Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing>

Publications are primarily contained in the Roosevelt class, a classified sequence of books, pamphlets, contemporary periodical and later scholarly journal articles (clippings or offprints), theses and dissertations, broadsides, newsclippings, and other formats as noted below. Some ms. items. Works by Theodore Roosevelt: Collected sets, individual editions and reprints, reviews, translations. Collected and individual letters, diaries, speeches (including extracts and commentaries), proclamations, and official messages. Contributions (including prefaces, introductions, and forewords) in works by others, to magazines and society publications, book reviews, works of joint authorship, editorials. Anthologies. Editions for the blind. Works about Theodore Roosevelt: Bibliographies. Biographies and other general works. Anecdotes, reminiscences of contemporaries, and other works with TR references. TR as a religious man, naturalist, man of letters (also books belonging to TR, largely Harvard texts, and to other family), outdoorsman. Works dedicated to TR. Ancestry, family, works by family members, homes. Career by special periods and events, each segment including all formats, campaign literature, honorary degrees and citations received. Memorials: addresses, resolutions, anniversaries, sites, organizations. Pictures and cartoons (see: Theodore Roosevelt Collection : visual materials (008177700); Theodore Roosevelt Collection : political cartoons (008177701)). Satirical and comic works. Poetry, drama, fiction, juvenile biographies. Biographies and writings of contemporaries. General U.S. history, local history, political parties (including Progressive periodicals; see also special periods). Files of contemporary periodicals, newspapers; newspaper indexes, biographies of journalists. General newsclippings: mounted and unmounted series, scrapbooks (see: Theodore Roosevelt Collection: ephemera (000602382)) For further details see: Guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, available onsite, under: Roosevelt class.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 12,000 volumes

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990081776990203941/catalog View

Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006. Stanley Kunitz papers, 1919-2003 (bulk 1960-1990).

Title: Stanley Kunitz papers, 1919-2003 (bulk 1960-1990).

Consists of wide-ranging materials accumulated by Kunitz over a period of about seventy years. The collection also contains papers (correspondence, documents, and printed materials) from the H.W. Wilson Company, where Kunitz worked as an editor (1928-1943), the United States Army (1943-1945), the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts (1968-1997), and the Library of Congress, where Kunitz served as the Poetry Consultant (1974-1976). Also found in the collection are some papers of others, including a poem entitled "The Gettysburg Address" by Robert Lowell and the book manuscripts that Kunitz chose while editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Also included in the Papers are teaching materials, travel files, documents, calendars, memorabilia, photos, annotated books, audiocassettes, and printed material. A small selection of additional material includes correspondence by Kunitz, primarily to Roger Skillings; correspondence of Skillings; three photographs of Kunitz and others; two copies of "Shankpainter" no. 16, Spring 1978, containing chapters from Kunitz' unfinished novel, "Hartrex"; and printed material relating to Kunitz. [Note that the Milberg Collection in the Rare Books Division holds printed books and materials by Kunitz.]. In addition, there are unprocessed materials that include correspondence, articles and interviews featuring Kunitz, printed material featuring Kunitz, manuscripts, and translations of poetry by others.

ArchivalResource: 66.1 linear ft. (121 archival boxes, 10 half-size archival boxes, 1 small box, 13 record center cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74209841 View

Ben Shahn papers

Title: Ben Shahn papers

The papers of social realist painter, photographer, illustrator, printmaker, and teacher Ben Shahn (1898-1969) measure 25.1 linear feet and date from 1879-1990, with the bulk of the material dating from 1933-1970. The bulk of the collection consists of over 14 linear feet of incoming letters from artists, writers, colleagues, publishers, art organizations, galleries, and universities and colleges. Also found are biographical materials, project and source files, printed material, artwork by Shahn and others, photographs taken of and by Shahn, interview transcripts, sound recordings of interviews and a motion picture film.Biographical material and family records include a 1924 passport for Shahn and his first wife, Tillie, biographical sketches of Shahn, and award certificates received by him.Letters are primarily written to Shahn from family members, artists, writers, colleagues, publishers, art organizations, galleries, and universities and colleges. Notable correspondents include Leonard Baskin, Alexander Calder, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Joseph Hirsch, Leo Lionni, John Bartlow Martin, George and Marian Nakashima, Clifford Odets, Charles Olson, Robert Osborn, Diego Rivera, Jerome Robbins, Selden Rodman, James Thrall Soby, Raphael Soyer, and William Carlos Williams. A small number of scattered letters from Shahn can also be found throughout the series.Project files document approximately twenty-one of Shahn's commissions, including murals for the community center at Jersey Homesteads, the Bronx Central Annex Post Office, the Social Security Building in Washington D.C. , and the William E. Grady Vocational High School. The files also document his involvement in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Roosevelt, in addition to projects for schools, temples and private homes.Financial and legal records include consignment records, loan agreements, royalty statements and receipts for artwork sold.Notes and writings are by Shahn and others including Alan Dugan, W. H. Ferry, Theodore Gusten, and John Bartlow Martin. They include lists of artwork, many of which are annotated.Artwork includes a sketchbook and several unbound sketches and lettering by Shahn, in addition to drawings and prints by others including Shahn's children, Mario Casetta and Stefan Martin.Source files contain printed material and photographs relating to topics depicted by Shahn in his artwork such as children, dams, farming, houses, industry, mines and miners, slums, war and workers. These files also contain scattered photographic prints by FSA and OWI photographers including Shahn, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon.Printed material includes news clippings covering Shahn and his career as well as subjects of interest to Shahn. Also found are exhibition catalogs and announcements for exhibitions for Shahn and others, and reproductions of Shahn's artwork including publications illustrated by him.Photographs are of Shahn, his family and friends and colleagues including Alexander Calder, Jerome Robbins, Charles Sheeler, David Smith and William Zorach. Also included are photographs taken by Shahn of New York City and for the FSA in the 1930s, as well as photographs of artwork by Shahn. Photographs by others include one photo each by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee and Arthur Rothstein.The collection also contains transcripts of eight radio, television and motion picture interviews of Shahn and a reel of 16mm motion picture film from the BBC-TV program "Monitor," in addition to sound recordings of interviews of Shahn by Tony Schwartz and Arlene Francis. Artifacts include a Christmas greeting in the form of a sock.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw983b06d9b-dd51-45bc-9b11-09b06a88f6c6 View

McGinley, Phyllis, 1905-1978. Lillian Hellman Papers, 1904-1984 (bulk 1934-1984).

Title: Lillian Hellman Papers, 1904-1984 (bulk 1934-1984).

The Lillian Hellman papers comprise manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, business records, appointment books, and clippings. Series I includes notes for and multiple drafts of all Hellman's plays and memoirs. Drafts of film scripts, original and adaptations, by Hellman and others, are included in the series, along with articles, interviews, speeches, teaching files, and editorial work. Series II contains Hellman's professional and general correspondence, principally from 1934 to her death. Personal correspondence is largely absent. Correspondents include Leonard Bernstein, Kermit Bloomgarden, Don Congdon, Dashiell Hammett, Max B. Hellman, John Hersey, Stanley M. Isaacs, Diane Johnson, Robert Lantz, Katherine Lederer, Harry Levin, Little, Brown and Company, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, John F. Melby, New York Times, R. D. Orlova, Dorothy Parker, Richard Poirier, Herman Shumlin, Margaret Tallichet, Hanna Weinstein, and Richard Wilbur. Series III Other Papers is the largest series and contains Hellman's appointment books from 1956 on, along with an extensive collection of scrapbooks and clippings. Notebooks describing foreign travel between 1944 and 1980 and a group of address books are also present in the series. Series IV, Legal and Financial Papers, includes documents and correspondence concerning Hellman's acquisition and administration of Dashiell Hammett's literary estate, along with materials relating to Hellman's investments, personal taxes, and household expenses. Series V, Works by and Papers of Others, includes short pieces about Lillian Hellman, a small group of materials relating to Dorothy Parker, and a collection of documents on Hellman assembled by various federal government agencies between 1940 and 1975.

ArchivalResource: 157 boxes (68 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78685575 View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View