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Mitchell, Stewart, 1892-1957. Papers, 1907-1954.

Title: Papers, 1907-1954.

Papers of historian and editor Stewart Mitchell include a miscellaneous scrapbook containing clippings on a variety of subjects of interest to Mitchell (1907-1939); a scrapbook of clippings on his book, "Horatio Seymour of New York" (1938); correspondence, clippings, and papers related to Mitchell's article on the idolization of Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln and The Devil's Advocate"; and papers related to a poll of historians rating the U.S. Presidents which appeared in Life Magazine in Oct. 1948 and in which Mitchell participated. Correspondents include F. Lauriston Bullard, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Arthur M. Schlesinger.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19498955 View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1968. E.E. Cummings Collection, 1902-1962.

Title: E.E. Cummings Collection, 1902-1962.

Manuscripts of poems, short stories, and collections of verse, notes from his school days, and correspondence make up the bulk of the Cummings Collection, 1902-1968. The Works series contains drafts of several collections of verse as well as individual poems. The evolution of Poems: 1923-1954 is particularly well represented in both typed manuscript and galley format. There are also essays written by Cummings for college exams and two notebooks with notes and poetry fragments. The Letters series is mostly composed of single letters to various people, with the exception of Howard L. Nelson, with whom Cummings maintained a lively correspondence concerning books, poets, and fatherhood over a 22-year period. The Recipient series contains letters from admirers, publishers, and friends including Merle Armitage, Robert Bly, Hart Crane, Judson Crews, Foster Damon, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Stewart Mitchell, Marianne Moore, Marion Morehouse, Charles Norman, James Purdy, Stephen Spender, Samuel Ward, and Louis Zukofsky. The Miscellaneous series is largely composed of notes from Cummings' school days, some elementary, but mostly collegiate. Additionally, a large number of letters sent to Marion Morehouse, most of them written after Cummings' death, are present, along with quite a few letters to Charles Norman. Other miscellany includes manuscripts by other authors, a copy of Cummings' birth certificate, and musical scores.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes (4 linear feet), 8 galley folders, 8 oversize folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122632958 View

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Charles W. Bernardin-John Dos Passos Research Collection [manuscript], ca. 1940-1980.

Title: Charles W. Bernardin-John Dos Passos Research Collection [manuscript], ca. 1940-1980.

Research collection of Dos Passos biographer Charles W. Bernardin including, 3x5 research notecards, newsclippings, book reviews, articles, manuscripts, and correspondence with Carlos Baker, William Rose Benet, Malcolm Cowley, Marion Cummings, S Foster Damon, Lloyd Lowndes, Arthur McComb, Stewart Mitchell, Arthur Mizener, Joseph Moskowitz, Kenneth B Murdock, Gerald Murphy, William Page, Dudley Poore, Martha Saxton, Gilbert Seldes, Paul Sifton, Edmund Wilson, and Mrs. John Dos Passos among others including the University of Oklahoma Press. Of interest are an account of Dos Passos's home Spence's Point, and interviews of Dos Passos by Carlos Baker regarding Dos Passos's friendship with Hemingway.

ArchivalResource: 1100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748576259 View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Papers, 1870-1969

Title: E. E. Cummings papers, 1870-1969

Correspondence and working drafts of poems and other writings by American poet E. E. Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 116 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00946/catalog View

Comstock, Ada Louise. Papers, 1818-1982 (inclusive), 1887-1982 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1818-1982 (inclusive), 1887-1982 (bulk).

Speeches, correspondence, photographs, and clippings reflect Comstock's professional activities before and after retirement. Material pertainsto Radcliffe College, Smith College, University of Minnesota, Moorhead State University, Yale University, the American Woman's Association, the American Association of University Women, the National Commission of Law Observance and Enforcement and the Institute of Pacific Relations. Also included is personal correspondence with Wallace Notestein (1910-1955), letters received from family, friends, and historian colleagues of Wallace Notestein, and biographical material.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122561429 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981 (inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981(inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Editorial correspondence of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house ofBoston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 174 boxes (44 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00119/catalog 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

Mitchell, Stewart, 1892-1957. Horatio Seymour of New York : typescript, 1936.

Title: Horatio Seymour of New York : typescript, 1936.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. (1147 leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612842623 View

Britten, Clarence. Letters, 1919-1924, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1919-1924, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from various members of the editorial staff of The Dial. This correspondence also includes letters to Lewis Mumford from Martyn Johnson, Publisher, The Dial.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (12 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122526597 View

Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923. Letters regarding Abraham Lincoln's life mask and hands, 1917-1948; bulk: 1948.

Title: Letters regarding Abraham Lincoln's life mask and hands, 1917-1948; bulk: 1948.

Letters discussing the appraisal value of Abraham Lincoln's life mask and hands which were cast by Leonard W. Volk, 1948. Includes a letter from the appraisal company Paul B. Volk and Son, describing the unique characteristics of the life mask and hands; a letter from the MHS Director Stewart Mitchell describing their provenance; and a typed copy of a letter sent by Truman Howe Bartlett to the editor of the Boston Evening Transcript, March 12, 1917, discussing the sales of similar Lincoln life masks and hands. The mask and hands were donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1948.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44878492 View

Papers, 1839-1957.

Title: Papers, 1839-1957.

Collection consists of personal, professional and family papers: letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, photographs and newspaper clippings. It is a complete record of Mitchell's public and personal life over fifty years. The strength of the collection is in the letters of American writers of the modern movement; friends of Mitchell's such as E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer and Marianne Moore. Other correspondents include Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Kenneth Patchen, Conrad Aiken and the owners, editors and contributors to The Dial in the 1920s. Members of the N.E. academic community are strongly represented, inc. Samuel Eliot Morison and Arthur Meier Schlesinger. Mitchell's outgoing correspondence is preserved in carbon, or in the original. Mitchell's personal correspondence, with family and friends, is only partially organized. Literary mss. include short works by Dos Passos and Samuel Eliot Morison, and an unpublished memoir by Mitchell, Gateway to Nowhere. Papers of Mitchell's aunt, Georgine Holmes Thomas, include letters and diaries (ca. 1839-1940) and a multi-volume autobiography in ms.

ArchivalResource: 25 ft.

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Cowan, Richard David, 1909-1939. Papers, 1918-1939.

Title: Papers, 1918-1939.

The papers consist of juvenilia, diaries, sketches and drawings, photographs, and letters received, plus Cowan's letters to his lover and benefactor, Stewart Mitchell (and Mitchell's aunt, Georgine Holmes Thomas), with condolences and other material preserved by Mitchell relating to Cowan's suicide, Oct. 24, 1939. A two-volume diary, 1927-1934 (with gaps), begun as a matriculating student at Cornell and concluded, after graduation, in Boston, details the process of Cowan's personal "coming out" as a gay man and sheds light on gay life during the mid-1930s in Boston. Correspondence with Gerald and Sara Murphy began after Cowan's 1934 summer trip to Europe, when Cowan and his companion, Dudley Poore, were invited to sail from Antibes on the Murphy's yacht. An affectionate friendship developed between Cowan, a landscape architect, and Murphy, in which they collaborated on selecting plantings for Murphy's estate in East Hampton, Long Island.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70122375 View

Columbia (Ship). Papers III, 1935-1958.

Title: Papers III, 1935-1958.

Correspondence and notes concerning the publication of the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections Vol. 79: Voyages of the "Columbia" to the Northwest Coast ... (1941), edited by Frederic W. Howay. Principal correspondents are Howay, Stewart Mitchell, and Allyn B. Forbes. Collection includes photographs of illustrations used in the book and some 20th century maps of British Columbia.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16816896 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

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

Mitchell, Stewart, 1892-1957. Papers, 1839-1957.

Title: Papers, 1839-1957.

Contination of: OCLC#14967774.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14967770 View

E. E. Cummings Collection TXRC98-A2., 1902-1968

Title: E. E.Cummings Collection 1902-1968

Manuscripts of poems,short stories, and collections of verses, notes from his school days, andcorrespondence make up the bulk of the Cummings Collection.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00030/00030-P.html View