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Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. : Series II., Alfred A. Knopf Personal, 1874-1984 (bulk 1953-1984).

Title: Records. : Series II., Alfred A. Knopf Personal, 1874-1984 (bulk 1953-1984).

This series consists of Alfred A. Knopf's personal files and papers, which were maintained at his office in New York City and at his home at Purchase, New York. Sent to the Ransom Center over a period of years, the arrangement has been recreated from Knopf's personal file system. Generally, the first two subseries consist of correspondence and subject files from Knopf's office, while the Purchase files were kept at his home and used for his memoirs. The last subseries consists of materials sent to the Ransom Center that were not originally present in either his office or home file systems. Consisting largely of correspondence, generally an original letter with a blue carbon of Knopf's response, the series also includes manuscript drafts, clippings, photographs, minutes, memoranda, diaries, programs, artwork, menus, awards, account books, slides, and other printed materials. Subseries A. Alfred A. Knopf's Personal Correspondence contains correspondence with some of Knopf's earliest literary contacts, such as Kay Boyle, Joseph Conrad, Clarence Day, Theodore Dreiser, W.A. Dwiggins, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Vachel Lindsay. Also present are the beginnings of what would become life-long literary friendships with such notables as Warren Chappell, Felix Frankfurter, and Carl Van Vechten. Early folders contain fragments of Knopf's editorial correspondence from the late 1910s and the 1920s. Also, his later interest in such subjects as conservation, politics, Latin America, the American West, and fine wine is well documented. A smaller group of files contains letters from Knopf's fiance and wife, Blanche Wolf Knopf from the 1910s and 1920s. Many of the letters were sent to Knopf as he traveled on business, and Blanche often mentions the daily business of the new firm, revealing how closely the two worked together in the early years of the firm. Subseries B. The Office/Subject Files, originally maintained in Alfred Knopf's office and arranged alphabetically by subject, include a broad range of subjects representing Knopf's work in the publishing industry as well as his personal interests. The correspondence, memoranda, internal reports, and staff records in these files offer a view of the inner workings of the company and of Knopf's management style. The large number of files containing reports, correspondence, and minutes from publishing groups, charitable boards, committees, and social clubs attests to Knopf's participation in the literary, business, and philanthropic worlds. Among Knopf's personal interests, the best documented is the natural environment. Most of the files on this subject are found under the titles "Conservation" and "National Park Service," but they are also scattered elsewhere. These files contain correspondence, clippings, news releases, bulletins, reports of nature societies, legislative materials, and board meeting minutes and reports. A highlight from these files is Knopf's participation in the campaign to save the Dinosaur National Monument in 1950-57. Other personal files are present, such as travel files, covering daily activities, meetings, impressions, and a report describing his first trip to Brazil in 1961-62. Subseries C. The Purchase Files were maintained at Knopf's home in Purchase, N.Y. Among these are files pertaining directly to the writing of Knopf's unpublished memoir, containing correspondence, clippings, menus, programs, and other materials Knopf gathered together and referred to as he was writing the narrative drafts. These files offer the most comprehensive survey of Knopf's life, especially his early years as a publisher. They consist of documents that date from the period about which he was writing and are augmented by contemporary lists, correspondence, and memoranda confirming dates, giving lists of books published, and offering reminders to Knopf of these years. A strength of these files are the early letters he pulled from other sources, including files that were subsequently destroyed, or photocopied to keep in these files. Also supplementing the memoir are a large collection of Knopf's diaries and appointment books, 1919-1984 (some gaps between 1920-1933), detailing Knopf's day-to-day activities. Knopf also wrote about the memorable friendships he made as a publisher. One folder contains manuscript drafts recounting his relationship with Willa Cather, bolstered by copies of their correspondence and associated clippings. An additional twenty folders chronicle Knopf's close friendship and professional association with H.L. Mencken. The Purchase Files also include a group of alphabetical subject files which overlap Knopf's Office/Subject Files maintained at his office: both include files on the environment, typography, food and wine, and politics. However, these files also contain a number of folders pulled from the firm, including some author files that Knopf saved to use for his memoir. Early editorial correspondence with writers such as Conrad Aiken, Thomas Beer, W.H. Hudson, and Ernest Newman appears in these files. Other files contain records relating to dogs, cemetery plots, and family material. Subseries D. The Other Subjects and Interests files include materials that Knopf saved and donated to the Ransom Center, but that were not a part of any existing file system. The range of materials found is very broad and although some of the materials are ephemeral in nature, such as a large collection of clippings about people and publishing, many of the files contain papers that reflect the interests in Knopf's daily life. Non-textual materials, such as artwork, photographs and portraits, a small collection of films (including "A Publisher is Known by the Company He Keeps"), dictaphone recordings, and phonograph records are also present. Many files relate directly to Knopf's home at Purchase and reflect his interest in fine dining. Other materials relating to his home include guest books, gardening records, and an inventory of his library. This subseries also features financial and personal documentation, such as account books, covering such expenses as home costs, investments, daily expenditures, club dues, and taxes, over a 40-year period. Personal and family documents are present, as well as a folder of early internal documents from the firm. This subseries also contains the many awards and honors given to Knopf over his lifetime.

ArchivalResource: 185 boxes (77 linear feet)

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Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982. A galaxy of fathers / by Frank Swinnerton, [ca. 1966].

Title: A galaxy of fathers / by Frank Swinnerton, [ca. 1966].

Typescript, with autograph manuscript corrections, of a work on eighteenth century English authors and their fathers. Cover sheet for an uncorrected proof, Doubleday, release date 1966 Jul 8, is affixed.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (386 leaves in 1 box) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702148346 View

Ben Abramson correspondence, 1930-1940

Title: Ben Abramson correspondence 1930-1940

Ben Abramson was proprietor of the Argus Book Shop in Chicago, Illinois. Collection consists of correspondence with authors, illustrators and bookmen.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/5 View

Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982. Letter, 1935, Nov. 14, Cranleigh, England, to Dr. Merrill Moore.

Title: Letter, 1935, Nov. 14, Cranleigh, England, to Dr. Merrill Moore.

Thanking him for his book, The noise that time makes.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122449532 View

Evelyn Scott Collection TXRC98-A5., 1894-1952

Title: Evelyn Scott Collection 1894-1952

Drafts of published and unpublished novels, short stories, plays, and poems comprise the bulk of the papers of this American writer.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00148/00148-P.html View

Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982. Frank Swinnerton letters, 1919-1923.

Title: Frank Swinnerton letters, 1919-1923.

The collection consists of five letters, including: to Dear Aukland, 7 Dec. 1919, thanking him for praise of one of his books, and stating that he received encouragement from [H.G.] Wells and [Arnold] Bennett; four letters to James B. Pond, 20 March 1920, about the possibility of lecturing in America that summer; 23 Dec. 1921, confirming that he has no plans to visit America in the coming year, but is considering the option; 30 May 1923, relating that he has resolved to not lecture when he visits America; and 16 Oct. 1923, explaining that he has contracted with another agent for a lecture tour of America.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956. Autograph letter signed with initials : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner / 1940 Dec. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner / 1940 Dec. 21.

Thanking him for a book; mentioning Frank Swinnerton and L.A.G. Strong; commenting on the "droners" overhead and the "barking" of "distant guns"; discussing the "Modernists"; noting that his wife is no better and has been ill for 15 months.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 11.6 x 17.8 cm. + envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505276312 View

Beer family papers, 1740-1981, 1827-1981

Title: Beer family papers 1740-1981 1827-1981

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas Beer, a prominent American author of novels, short stories, and articles; and Richard C. Beer, a foreign service employee stationed in Hungary during the 1920s.

ArchivalResource: 75.5 linear feet

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Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982. Autograph letter signed : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Grant Overton, 1930 July 23-Dec. 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Grant Overton, 1930 July 23-Dec. 22.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270854696 View

Louise Morgan and Otto Theis papers, 1903-1983 (inclusive, 1930-1960

Title: Louise Morgan and Otto Theis papers 1903-1983 (inclusive 1930-1960

The papers document the literary and personal lives of Morgan and Theis, and contain correspondence, subject files, and professional papers related to the 20th century British literary world. There is correspondence regarding Evelyn Scott, and correspondence as well as poems by Nancy Cunard.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 40; Other Storage Formats: Oversize; Linear Feet: 18

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John Middleton Murry collection of papers, 1911?]-1962

Title: John Middleton Murry collection of papers 1911?]-1962

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence and one typescript.

ArchivalResource: 432 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19306 View

Westgate Press (San Francisco, Calif.). Records, 1929-1931).

Title: Records, 1929-1931).

Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and miscellaneous documents relating to the Westgate Signed Editions, a series of signed first editions of American and British authors, published in 1929-1930 by the Westgate Press, San Francisco, under the direction of Oscar Lewis. The collection contains correspondence from Sherwood Anderson, Havelock Ellis, Zona Gale, Lewis Mumford, Bertrand Russell, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ruth Suckow, Frank Swinnerton, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, as well as carbon copies of Oscar Lewis' replies.

ArchivalResource: 133 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122571537 View

Letters from various correspondents, 1921-1951.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1921-1951.

Letters to Englisheditor and scholar Henry Goddard Leach chiefly from English writers.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01320/catalog View

Miscellaneous manuscripts M-Z, 1819-1974.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts M-Z, 1819-1974.

Letters and manuscripts of literary figures including Desmond MacCarthy, John M. Murray, Katherine Mansfield, Marianne Moore, Christopher Morley, Charles E. Norton, Theodore Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, Hanus Aldo Schimmerling, Upton Sinclair, Frank Swinnerton, Edith Wharton, and W.B. Yeats; and letters and postcards of Dame Ethel M. Smyth (1858-1944) to Vanessa Bell, 1927-1939, largely concerning Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury affairs. Other items include daybook of Joseph W. Moulton, Hempstead Harbor, 1834-1835; journal of passage from New York to Le Havre and a tour of the continent, 1829-1830, kept by Peter A. Schermerhorn; and two local appointments, 1819-1821.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155537959 View

Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982. A brood of ducklings, [1928?] / by Frank Swinnerton.

Title: A brood of ducklings, [1928?] / by Frank Swinnerton.

Manuscript of a novel.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (241 leaves) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237364897 View

Frank Swinnerton: Letters to Morchard Bishop, 1951-1983

Title: Frank Swinnerton: Letters to Morchard Bishop 1951-1983

ArchivalResource: 3 envelopes

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb12-ms.add.8651 View

De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956. Typed letter signed with initials : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner / 1941 June 3.

Title: Typed letter signed with initials : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner / 1941 June 3.

Apologizing for his last letter in which he mistakenly added an autograph note addressed to "my love"; blaming the mistake on the "weakness of human nature and the imbecility of this superannuated representative of it"; discussing the volumes of [George] Darley and [Thomas Lovell] Beddoes that Turner loaned to him; mentioning a letter Turned received from Algernon Blackwood; congratulating him on the dedication of "The Fortunate Lady" [by Frank Swinnerton].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 cm. + envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505295049 View