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Myers family papers, 1908-1986 (inclusive)

Title: Myers family papers 1908-1986 (inclusive)

The papers contain correspondence with family, friends, and acquaintances, plus a variety of personal papers, including obituaries, letters of sympathy, diaries, and scrapbooks documenting the lives of Richard E. and Alice Lee Myers and their children. Prominent correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Nadia Boulanger, Grace Flandrau, John Gielgud, Charlotte Kett, Archibald MacLeish, and Gerald Murphy.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 32; Other Storage Formats: Oversize; Linear Feet: 15

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

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Papers of Willa Sibert Cather 1899-1949.

Title: Papers of Willa Sibert Cather 1899-1949.

The collection contains the manuscripts of "A likeness," and "Prarie spring, " two poems from "April twilight"; galleys of Books II and III of "Lucy Gayheart"; page proofs of part 4 Book I (A bell and a miracle) and parts 1 & 2 Book II (The white mules, The lonely road to Mora) of "Death comes for the Archbishop." In letters Cather discusses her travels, family & friends, her work as editor for McClure's magazine her health, her current activities, her reading, and her writing. There are also letters to admirers, students, and reviewers, and notes of thanks and sympathy. Major topics in the correspondence include impressions of New Mexico; her friendship with Olive Fremstad; her work, especially on McClure's autobiography, an article on Ethelbert Nevin, the novels "O Pioneers!" "Song of the lark," "My Antonia," "One of ours," "Death comes for the Archbishop," and "Sapphira and the slave girl"; her inspirations for various characters and backgrounds; critical response to her work; her critiques of the work of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant; and incorrect impressions of her by Ford Maddox Ford. A listing of the letters contains many notes by Elizabeth S. Sergeant on the contents. The papers also contain clippings, photographs and articles including one by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét. Among the correspondents are William Valentine Alexander, Henry Walcott Boynton, William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite, Cyril Clemens, Perceval Gibbon, William Lucius Graves, Will Owen Jones, Orson Lowell, Carrie Miner Louise Pound, Violo Roseboro', Zoe Aikens Rumbold, Louise Stegner, Harvey Taylor, Henry Chester Tracy, and Josephine and Pauline Goldmark.

ArchivalResource: 129 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52238995 View

Book-of-the-Month Club Records, 1939-1967, (bulk 1939-1960)

Title: Book-of-the-Month Club Records 1939-1967 (bulk 1939-1960)

Editorial and publishers’ correspondence and preliminary readers’ reports consisting of book reviews and evaluations relating primarily to books that were submitted by publishing houses for consideration by the Book-of-the-Month Club but were not selected for distribution by the club.

ArchivalResource: 15,600 items; 61 containers; 24.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009324 View

Book-of-the-Month Club records, 1946-1979

Title: Book-of-the-Month Club records 1946-1979

The collection consists of proofs and "first reader reports" that document a component of the selection process for titles that became Book-of-the-Month Club selections. The proofs are pre-publication copies of manuscripts, used by Book-of-the-Month Club judges to select titles. The reports comprise reviews by in-house editors and outside readers of manuscripts under consideration for publication. They were written by a wide variety of individuals including Rosemary Benet, Basil Davenport, Elizabeth Wynne Easton, Roger Pippett, John Sherry, Russell Thacher, Ralph Thompson, and Leon Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 38.69 linear feet (66 boxes)

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

Ruger, Morris Hutchins, 1902-. Nancy Hanks / words by Rosemary Benet ; music by Morris Hutchins Ruger.

Title: Nancy Hanks / words by Rosemary Benet ; music by Morris Hutchins Ruger. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (3 p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63552351 View

Carpenter, Margaret Haley. Papers of Margaret Haley Carpenter [manuscript], 1898-1985, bulk 1953-1985.

Title: Papers of Margaret Haley Carpenter [manuscript], 1898-1985, bulk 1953-1985.

Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, photographs, account books, printed miscellanea. The collection contains manuscripts, proofs, correspondence, illustrations, and reviews for Miss Carpenter's books "Sara Teasdale: A biography"; "Reflections of an era: letters to Sara Teasdale"; "Anthology of magazine verse" (edited with William Stanley Braithwaite); "The Virginia author's yearbook"; and "A gift for the princess of springtime". Major topics in her papers include Sara Teasdale (for whom she collected transcriptions of over 760 letters) and William S. Braithwaite; as well as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, and Vachel Lindsay; her work as an author, biographer and editor; the literary efforts of her correspondents; the Poetry Society of America and the Poetry Society of Virginia. Also college correspondence courses in music; poetry in general; reviews; Virginia authors; the Smith family including account books, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and financial papers, 1910-1958, particularly the record of children delivered by William Tilden Smith, M.D. There are also files of correspondence (some on microfilm), manuscripts, memorabilia and other material assembled by Joy Gerbaulet, Floyd Dell, George Dillon, Robert Frost, Josephine Johnson (including letters from servicemen in World War I and II), Julia Johnson Davis and David Morton; and photographs of over thirty noted authors. Includes an audiotape of [David Morton reading his poetry?].

ArchivalResource: 10,800 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647805166 View

Benét, Rosemary Carr, 1898-1962. Correspondence.

Title: Correspondence. 1933-1934.

Poet and critic. Personal correspondence to Mrs. Donald Islin, Nov. 1933 and Oct. 1934; letter, 31 March to Captain Matthews regarding gift of "John Brown's Body."

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8690638 View

Benét, Rosemary, 1900-1962. Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1940-1943.

Title: Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1940-1943.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (12 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173642288 View

Manuscript collection, [ca. 1629-1957]

Title: Manuscript collection, [ca. 1629-1957]

Includes letters to Marion N. King concerning New York Society Library (NYSL) and literary subjects; papers of Wentworth Sanborn Butler, librarian at NYSL, including letters of recommendation, family correspondence and papers mainly regarding bounty lands in Illinois and property in New Hampshire, 1784-1880; household bills and property records concerning property in Utica, New York City, and Washington, D.C. of John Jordon Morgan, treasurer of NYSL, and member of Congress, 1823-1827; school records from Glasgow University, references and other letters of John Mulligan, 1812-1822; papers of John Romeyn Brodhead including notes for history of New York, Democratic Party circulars, and miscellaneous correspondence, 1850-1866; miscellaneous clippings and correspondence of Theophilus Carey Callicot, 1885-1895; and circulars, correspondence, testimonials, and proposals for design of cup for Bryant Testimonial Committee, 1874. Also includes letters of Susan B. Anthony, 1901; Horace Greeley, 1854; William Seward, 1870; Stephen Vincent Benét and Rosemary Carr Benét, 1939-1944; Dwight David Eisenhower as president of Columbia University, 1950; Edgar Allan Poe, 1845; George Bernard Shaw, 1881; Anthony Trollope, 1857-1882; George Washington, 1769-1799; and others.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155473062 View

William Stanley Braithwaite Papers, 1916-1962

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite Papers 1916-1962

Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/braithwaite_ws.htm View

Basil Davenport papers, 1899-1964

Title: Basil Davenport papers 1899-1964

The Basil Davenport Papers consist chiefly of correspondence, including a substantial number of outgoing letters from Davenport to his family. The collection also contains Davenport's diaries, drafts of his writings and translations, printed material documenting his career and critical work, and personal papers including genealogical material.

ArchivalResource: 9.08 linear feet (26 boxes)

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