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Eugene O'Neill papers, 1872-1970, 1930-1959

Title: Eugene O'Neill papers 1872-1970 1930-1959

The Eugene O'Neill Papers document the life ofdramatist Eugene O'Neill, especially his life with Carlotta Monterey O'Neillafter 1928. Correspondents include O'Neill's lawyers, Harry Weinberger andWinfield E. Aronberg; his agent, the Richard J. Madden Play Company, Inc.;friends and colleagues; and family members, including his daughter, Oona, hissons, Shane and Eugene, Jr., his third wife, Carlotta, and her daughter,Cynthia Chapman Stram. The collection also contains Carlotta'scorrespondence after O'Neill's death. There is correspondence with her lawyersat Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and at Nutter, McClennen & Fish; theYale Library system regarding her gift of O'Neill's papers; biographers ofO'Neill; others concerning her work on the production and publication ofO'Neill's plays; and friends and family members. There are also letters fromformer husband Ralph Barton before she married O'Neill. Writings includenotes, outlines and plot summaries, drafts (typescript and holograph), proofs,contracts, programs, and clippings for many of O'Neill's plays. There are somepoems and other writings, as well as his work diaries, in which he documentedhis writing schedule from 1924 to 1943. There are also some works by othersabout O'Neill's life and writing. The personal papers include addressbooks, membership certificates, awards for O'Neill's writing, Carlotta'sdiaries from 1928 to 1964, clippings and ephemera about friends and relatives,and financial material, including cancelled checks and checkbooks. Thephotographs document O'Neill, his family members, friends, colleagues, pets,and places where he lived and visited. Some of the photographs are in albums.There are also photographs of productions of his plays, from 1916 to 1966. Thememorabilia includes office materials, writing tools, jewelry, and locks ofhair, among other items. Artists represented in the collection include CyrusLeroy Baldridge, Miguel Covarrubias, Alfred Joseph Frueh, and Robert EdmondJones. Some of the artworks are portraits of O'Neill; others pertain to hisplays; others were given to, or collected by, the O'Neills. The recordings (allafter O'Neill's death) include three recordings of O'Neill plays and onetribute to O'Neill.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 185 (incl. 25 oversize boxes); Other Storage Formats: 7 broadsides, 4 art storage items, cold storage; Linear Feet: 92.60

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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. Gertrude Stein Collection, 1914-1973 (bulk 1946-1967).

Title: Gertrude Stein Collection, 1914-1973 (bulk 1946-1967).

Manuscripts, correspondence, financial and legal documents, address books, and personal papers make up the Gertrude Stein Collection. The material was collected by Alice B. Toklas after Stein's death and includes a large amount of Toklas's incoming correspondence. Stein's writings are represented by manuscripts for three titles: Composition as Explanation, Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded, and From Dark to Day. The correspondence series includes business letters and an extensive series of letters to the poet Georges Hugnet. Among the personal papers are inventories and appraisals of Steins art collection. The Toklas series consists mainly of a large number of incoming letters, some of them concerning Stein's estate. Among the many correspondents in this series are Mrs. William Aspenwall Bradley, Sandy Campbell, Bernard Faÿ, Donald C. Gallup, attorneys Edgar Allan Poe and Russell M. Porter, Virgil Thomson, and Carl Van Vechten, who served as Stein's literary executor.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3.78 linear feet), 1 oversize folder.

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Eugene O'Neill collection, 1912-1993

Title: Eugene O'Neill collection 1912-1993

The Eugene O'Neill Collection consists of materialby or pertaining to O'Neill, including correspondence, writings of O'Neill,writings of others, photographs, legal documents, clippings, and programs.Correspondents include O'Neill's lawyers, Harry Weinberger and Winfield E.Aronberg; a collector of his works, Keith H. Baker; his agent, KennethMacgowan; his and Carlotta's friends Dale Edward Fern, Armina Marshall, DudleyNichols, Robert Sisk, Fania Marinoff Van Vechten, and Marion Welch; andCarlotta's daughter, Cynthia Chapman Stram, and her grandson, Gerald EugeneStram. There are letters between O'Neill's biographers and others to GaylordFarm Sanatorium regarding his stay there, and between biographer Louis Sheafferand Hazel A. Johnson. There is also correspondence between Harry Weinberger andAgnes Boulton regarding her divorce settlement with O'Neill. Writingsinclude drafts, proofs, programs, and clippings for some of O'Neill's plays, aswell as works by others about O'Neill's life and writings. The photographsinclude prints of O'Neill and his family, among other subjects. There are alsolegal documents regarding his plays, and versions of Carlotta'swills.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 27 (incl. 1 oversize box); Linear Feet: 11.40; Other Storage Formats: 4 broadsides, 1 art storage item

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