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Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965. Papers, 1932-1970 (bulk 1938-1965).

Title: Papers, 1932-1970 (bulk 1938-1965).

This collection is described in two parts. Part I consists largely of Jackson's literary manuscripts in the form of original manuscripts, typescripts, and printed galleys; diaries (1932-1936); journals; correspondence, including letters (1944-1965) from Jackson's parents and photocopies of Jackson's letters (1948-1965) to her parents, as well as general correspondence (ca. 2700 items) including letters from literary agents, personal friends, and the general public; scrapbooks; college notebooks; watercolors; and drawings. Part II consists of Shirley Jackson papers removed from the papers of Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, in 1993 and includes literary manuscripts; correspondence, such as letters to Jackson from her future husband, written while both were students at Syracuse University (the other side of the correspondence is located in the repository's collection of Hyman papers), and letters from Jackson's parents, and others; and diary kept by Jackson as a high school student. Correspondents include Harvey Breit, Kenneth and Elizabeth Burke, Bennett Cerf, Roald Dahl, Fanny McConnell Ellison, Ralph Ginzburg, Nat Hentoff, Bernard Malamud, Mary Margaret McBride, Howard Nemerov, Isaac B. Singer, James Thurber, Louis Untermeyer, and Jay Williams.

ArchivalResource: 20.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30891867 View

Ernest Hemingway Papers. 1899 - 1977. Incoming Letters

Title: Ernest Hemingway Papers. 1899 - 1977. Incoming Letters

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/575375 View

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Letter, 1951 July 18, to Harvey Breit.

Title: Letter, 1951 July 18, to Harvey Breit.

Letter to Harvey Briet of the New York Times Book Review, responding to the suggestion by Francis Brown that Frost write a prose piece for the Review. The signature of this letter in questionable. Another version of the letter is filed in Frost 906129. Included with the letter is a published note on the letter and its history.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37114789 View

Harry Levin papers

Title: Harry Levin papers

Papers of Harry Levin, American literary critic, scholar of modernism and comparative literature, and the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature atHarvard University.

ArchivalResource: 41 linear feet (34 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01917 View

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. Wallace Stevens letters and clipping, 1937-1951.

Title: Wallace Stevens letters and clipping, 1937-1951.

The collection consists of three items, including two typed, signed letters on Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company letterhead: to Harvey Breit, 5 Oct. 1942, noting a discrepancy in his address, with notes about his forthcoming books and mention of a poem sent to Mrs. Aswell; to Witter Bynner, 18 July 1951, about a package from Brentano's, Bynner's glaucoma, his own health, and sensations of attending the 50th reunion of his Harvard class; also, clipping from v. 14, no. 11 of the New York Herald Tribune, 14 Nov. 1937, of Ruth Lechlitner's laudatory review of The Man With the Blue Guitar.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70247629 View

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Papers: 1873-1993 (inclusive), 1899-1961 (bulk).

Title: Papers: 1873-1993 (inclusive), 1899-1961 (bulk).

The collection includes literary manuscripts, correspondence, personal papers, books, periodicals, artifacts, and ephemera. Over 90% of extant Hemingway literary manuscripts are contained in this collection. Correspondence includes letters to and from family members, friends, and business associates (largely publishers, lawyers, and agents). Correspondents include many important mid-twentieth century writers and intellectuals. Many of the books and periodicals include Hemingway's own annotations. The Hemingway Collection also contains over 10,000 photographs of Hemingway, his family and friends, as well as various subjects of interest to Hemingway: Paris, Spain, Key West, bullfighting, hunting, Cuba, and Fishing. Artifacts include personal possesions and art objects, among these a number of paintings. Correspondents include: Jay Allen, Sherwood Anderson, George Antheil, Louis Aragon, Carlos Baker, Sylvia Beach, Bernard Berenson, William Bird, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, John R. Bone, Harry Brague, Harvey Breit, T. Otto Bruce, Harry Burton, Alexander Calder, Erskine Caldwell, Morley Callaghan, Gregory Clark, Gary Cooper, Malcolm Cowley, Caresse Crosby, Harry Crosby, Rollin Dart, Marlene Dietrich, Eric Dorman-Smith, John Dos Passos, Clifton Fadiman, James Thomas Farrell, William Faulkner, Charles A. Fenton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Carol Hemingway Gardner, Antonio Gattorno, Arnold Gingrich, Zane Grey, John Gunther, Leland Hayward, Nancy Hayward, Lillian Hellman, Anson T. Hemingway, Clarence E. Hemingway, Grace Hall Hemingway, Henrietta Hemingway, Leicester Hemingway, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Pauline Hemingway, Josephine Herbst, Guy Hickock, William D. Horne, A.E. Hotchner, Adriana Ivancich, Gianfranco Ivancich, Joris Ivens, Ursula Hemingway Jepson, Eugène Jolas, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Charles Trueman Lanham, Helen Lerner, Michael Lerner, Sinclair Lewis, Wyndham Lewis, Harold Loeb, Joseph Losey, William Lowe, and Leonard Lyons. Correspondents also include: Archibald Macleish, Andrʹe Malraux, Robert Manning, Jane Mason, Andrʹe Masson, Robert McAlmon, Henry Louis Mencken, Madelaine Hemingway Miller, Joan Mirʹo, Hadley Hemingway Mowrer, Gerald Murphy, Sara Murphy, Morris McNeil Musselman, Joseph North, Sterling North, Antonio Ordʹoñez Araujo, Dorothy Parker, Waldo Peirce, Philip H. Percival, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Gustavus Pfeiffer, Mary A. Pfeiffer, Paul M. Pfeiffer, Virginia Pfeiffer, George Plimpton, Ezra Pound, Junito Quintana, Luis Quintanilla, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Quentin James Reynolds, Charles Ritz, Edwin Rolfe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ross, Lillian Ross, and Robert Chester Ruark. Correspondents also include: Jerome David Salinger, Lee Samuels, Arnold Samuelson, Marcelline Hemingway Sanford, H.J.J. Sargint, William Saroyan, Charles Scribner, Jr., Charles Scribner, Sr., George Seldes, Evan Shipman, William B. Smith, Maurice Speiser, Stephen Spender, Lincoln Steffens, Gertrude Stein, Donald Stewart, Henry Strater, Virgil Thomson, Gene Tunney, Louis Untermeyer, Peter Viertel, Agnes Von Kurowsky, William Walton, Glenway Wescott, John Neville Wheeler, Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, Ella Winter, Walter Winchell, Owen Wister, Philip Young, Lester Ziffren, Fred Zinneman, Charles Scribner's Sons, Curtis Brown Publishing Company, Jonathan Cape, Ltd., and Time-Life Books.

ArchivalResource: 107 linear feet.

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Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. Robert Edward Duncan papers, circa 1938-1969.

Title: Robert Edward Duncan papers, circa 1938-1969.

Includes eight notebooks containing drafts of poems, journal entries, prose sketches, writings in early stages, dream fragments, etc., covering the years 1940-1969; and letters to him, circa1938-1941, from Harvey Breit, Nicolas Calas, Lawrence Durrell, Mary Fabilli, Charles Henri Ford, Robert Horan, Pauline Kael, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Kenneth Patchen, Laura Riding and Sanders Russell.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 3 boxes, 1 volume, 2 reels (0.85 linear feet)Microfilmed portions of collection : 2 microfilm reels : positive and negative.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123504118 View

White mss., 1932-1969

Title: White mss., 1932-1969

Collection consists of the correspondence, writings, and memorabilia of critic, editor, and writer William Anthony Parker (W.A.P.) White, 1911-1968.

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC2076 View

Miscellaneous screen, stage, and radio scripts, ca. 1859-2007.

Title: Miscellaneous screen, stage, and radio scripts, ca. 1859-2007.

19th-21st-century typescript and manuscript American and European stage scripts, radio scripts, television scripts, and screenplays.

ArchivalResource: 60 boxes (31 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01716/catalog View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated.

Title: E. E. Cummings additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated

Additional papers of American poet E.E. Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01861/catalog View

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Ernest Hemingway letters to Harvey Breit, 1950-1961.

Title: Ernest Hemingway letters to Harvey Breit, 1950-1961.

Consists of 93 letters, 1950-1961, from Hemingway to Harvey Breit together with a copy of "Fragments from Ernst von Hemingstein's Journal," a telephone interview conducted by Breit in 1954, and two letters from Mary Hemingway. Hemingway's letters are full of discussions of writers and their books, baseball, and boxing.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612366314 View

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Papers, 1934-1954.

Title: Papers, 1934-1954.

Typescript with holograph corrections of Havana letter, published in Esquire, v. 2, no. 4 (Sept. 1934), p. 19 ff, as Defense of dirty words; typed transcript of telephone interview with Harvey Breit; Christmas card, signed; galleys for Life magazine and book publication of The old man and the sea; photostat of letter to Dartmouth College students.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (ca. 83 leaves) ; 63 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/238798214 View

Fantasy Magazine papers, 1929-1979

Title: Fantasy Magazine papers 1929-1979

The Fantasy Magazine Papers consist ofmanuscripts, correspondence, and other materials documenting the life of themagazine.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 11; Other Storage Formats: oversize; Linear Feet: 7.0

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

Living Theatre records, 1945-1991

Title: Living Theatre records 1945-1991

The Living Theatre was founded by Judith Malina and Julian Beck in 1947. The records consist of scripts and related performance papers. Also included are business papers, financial records, clippings, diaries, photographs and correspondence. There is little material reflecting the personal lives of Malina and Beck.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21263 View

Breit, Harvey. Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1951-1955.

Title: Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1951-1955.

Letters to Brown, editor of the book review section, and Breit, an assistant editor, concerning reviews by Naumburg.

ArchivalResource: 20 items (21 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63585568 View

New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers, 1823-1999

Title: New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers 1823-1999

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of xxThe New York Timesxx from 1935 until 1961 and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company from 1961 until 1968. While he was publisher, circulation of The Times almost doubled; the editorial page developed a reputation for strong opinions; news events were subjected to more analysis and coverage of specialized topics was strengthened; new sections and departments were created for food, fashion, and women; and the overall style of the paper became less rigid and more aesthetically pleasing. The papers document Sulzberger's life and career at xxThe New York Timesxx, with the majority of the collection relating to Sulzberger's 26 years as president and publisher of the paper. Included in the collection are correspondence with family members, friends, colleagues, world leaders, and other dignitaries; memoranda regarding the business of the newspaper, including Sulzberger's notes of praise and criticism to his editors, managers, and writers; reports on his meetings with world leaders, including Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman; and photographs of Sulzberger, his family, business trips, vacations, and The Times' buildings.

ArchivalResource: 129.9 linear feet; 297 boxes, 10 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17782 View

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Papers regarding Faulkner's work as Chairman of the Writers Committee of President Eisenhower's People-to People Program [manuscript], 1956-1969.

Title: Papers regarding Faulkner's work as Chairman of the Writers Committee of President Eisenhower's People-to People Program [manuscript], 1956-1969.

Papers concerning William Faulkner's work with Harvey Breit as co-chairman of the Writer's Committee contain material concerning promotional details, and letters in answer to Faulkner's appeal to famous writers for support of the program. With the papers is an article by Joseph Blotner, 1969, concerning Faulkner's work for the program. With the papers are electrostatic copies of all the permissions to publish granted to "Meridian," 2006, for an article on Faulkner and the People-to-people program.

ArchivalResource: ca. 330 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647979524 View

Arnold, Sidney,. Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar [manuscript], 1953-1954.

Title: Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar [manuscript], 1953-1954.

Correspondence of Edward C. McAleer relating to the Rushton Seminar panel discussion on modern Irish literature. The collection contains letters from Sidney Arnold, Daniel A. Binchey, Harvey Breit, Padraic Colum, Frances Balmer and M. Frost for Elizabeth Bowen, Nancy [Hale?], Denis Johnston, Oliver St. J. Gogarty, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faolain, T. O'Conor Sloane, III, Bill [Weedon?], William H. Wranek, and John Cook Wyllie.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647986549 View

Ernest Hemingway Papers. 1899 - 1977. Outgoing Letters

Title: Ernest Hemingway Papers. 1899 - 1977. Outgoing Letters

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/575363 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

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Papers of e. e. cummings [manuscript], circa 1917-1962.

Title: Papers of e. e. cummings [manuscript], circa 1917-1962.

The papers contain various drawings, corrected typescripts, proofs and layouts of writings by cummings including "Anthropos or the future of art," "Begin a pilgrmage," "Christmas tree," "Eimi," "Enormous room," "HIM," "is 5," "No thanks," "16 heures," [No title], "&" and "Tulips and chimneys." In addition there is a typed poem, possibly by cummings, "The casualty list "Dead on the field of honor" and "A few remarks on E. E. Cummings' Typography" by S. A. Jacobs. A copy of a letter to his mother, 1917, describes his imprisonment at La Ferté-Macé. Letters from cummings to Sam A. Jacobs discuss typography of "is 5," "HIM," [No title], "ViVa," Eimi and "Tulips and Chimneys," contain small illustrations and convey personal news includiing a European vacation. Correspondence with Philip Kaplan discuss a show at the Kokoon Arts Club, Cleveland, Ohio. Letters and cards from e.e. and Marion to Arthur A. Schäffer are generally social in nature, with a mention of Frederick Dupee's proposed publication of cummings's letters and a note by Marion that she was spoiled by e.e. all her life. A letter to Theodore Spencer thanks him for his new work (An Act of Life?), discusses his wife's health, and mentions how highly he values Spencer's good opinion of "1x1." Letters to Rudolph von Abele mention T. S. Eliot at Harvard, Guillaume Apollinaire, S. A. Jacobs and European travels. Letters from e. e. and Marion to writer Lloyd Frankenberg and his wife, the artist Loren MacIver, discuss Marion Cummings's health, a Guggenheim fellowship, cummings's art, and life at Silver Lake, N.H. One letter contains nonsensical references to "The enormous room." Norse mythology and Joseph F. Gould are also mentioned. A letter and postal cards to C. Bertram Hartman thank him of a painting of "coolly fountaining birches" as he has rarely met a painting that appealed to him as much, and describes a humorous incident in a hospital involving Sibley Watson. A letter to Lillian Lowenfels thanks her for a replacement passport. A draft letter to the literary editor of the New Masses responds to Isidore Schneider's review of "No thanks," taking issue with the latters belief that only class-conscious poetry is good poetry. Letters to Thurairajah Tambimuttu discuss publication of some poems in [Poetry London]. In other letters cummings discusses publication of "is 5" with Horace Liveright, thanks Gilbert Seldes for "Dartmouth document"; forwards Harvey Breit a note from Ezra Pound; thanks James Shelley Hamilton for a letter; declines D. S. Norton's invitation to lecture in Charlottesville; thanks Mrs. George P. Baker for a meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rollins and "those literary items"; thanks Mrs. Rollins for a tea party and her letter and notes he is sending [Enormous Room?] to Carl Rollins; asks Alfred Kreymberg for the loan of a manuscript; and writes to William James,III, describing the stonemasons who repaired his chimney, enquiring after James' parents and remarking on the weather. In addition letters from Bernice Baumgarten of Brandt and Brandt contains a list of "simple-minded people who refused the new collection of poems" and discuss the limited edition of "Tulips and chimneys." A letter from Gilbert Seldes discusses an article on cummings. A letter from Walter Hart Blumenthal to Samuel A. Jacobs inquires about the typograpy and format of "No thanks" which he wantas to include in a book. A letter from Thomas Seltzer requests a meeting. The collection also contains reviews, articles and clippings regarding cummings including his New York Times obituary, Syrinx" by Gorham B. Munson and "E. E. Cummings Alive" by Ezra Pound; a copy of "Secession" magazine containing four poems; an advertisement for an art exhibit; lists of paintings; a drawing; table of contents from CIOPW; photographs of him; notes concerning negotiations with Covici and royalties; a contract, 1937; a Russian travel diary; a Christmas card addressed to Walter and Lillian Lowenfels; and some checks and notes.

ArchivalResource: circa 225 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647976424 View

Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965.

Title: Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965.

Papers relating to Donald Hall's interviews with T. S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00920/catalog View