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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Thornton Wilder collection, [19--].

Title: Thornton Wilder collection, [19--].

Correspondence, photographs, programs, clippings, memorabilia, and other materials, of/or relating to Thornton Wilder and other family members.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70922488 View

Popper, Hermine Isaacs, 1915-1968. Papers, 1941-1968 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1941-1968 (inclusive).

Fiction and nonfiction writings by Popper; writings by others, which she edited; correspondence; notes; drafts; articles; and research material. Bulk of collection concerns the manuscripts of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the manuscript of Up from Poverty by Riessman and Popper. There are no papers from her early life and almost no personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006797 View

Wilder, Isabel. Letter, 1942 March 11.

Title: Letter, 1942 March 11.

Isabel Wilder discusses her brother's latest activities including his new play, The sin of our teeth, and his visits to South Americaand England. On the latter, he attended the P.E.N. Club Congress to which JohnDos Passos was also a delegate. She also supplies information on their childhood and mentions Wilder's love of music and teaching.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34689960 View

Campbell, Gladys. Papers, 1935-1976

Title: Campbell, Gladys. Papers 1935-1976

Contains correspondence, proofsheets for Thornton Wilder's James Joyce (1882-1941), and a photograph of Campbell and T.S. Eliot. Correspendents are Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, and Robert Hutchins.

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http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.CAMPBELLG View

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Thornton Wilder letters, 1927-1965.

Title: Thornton Wilder letters, 1927-1965.

The collection consists of thirty items, including two letters to Mrs. Knopf in regard to his publishing commitments; a letter to playwright Clifford Odets hoping to see several plays in New York; to Carl Schiffeler discussing his novel The ides of March; to Mr. Carroll regarding the dramatization of a Wilder novel; a long chatty letter to friends mentioning a Streetcar named desire, Myrna Loy, and Charles Laughton; typewritten letter to Mr. Carroll from Wilder's sister Isabel; two papers discussing Wilder's correspondence. Also, eight letters and cards to Lucy Tal, his German literary agent, often discussing rights to performing his plays; a letter and a card to Mrs. J.R. Buchbinder concerning music; four letters to actress Maria Fein; and other rather personal letters to friends, Alfred Noyes and Edmund Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50033142 View

Wilder, Isabel, 1900-. Typed letter signed Isabel Wilder to Mrs. Kleeman.

Title: Typed letter signed Isabel Wilder to Mrs. Kleeman.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70817727 View

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Thornton Wilder correspondence: with Gregg M. Sinclair : ALS, 1930-1968.

Title: Thornton Wilder correspondence: with Gregg M. Sinclair : ALS, 1930-1968.

All are addressed to Sinclair from Wilder with the exception of one carbon typescript from Sinclair to Wilder, one from Wilder to Paul S. Bachman at the University of Hawaii, and one each from Wilder's mother and sister to Sinclair. Relate primarily to Wilder's trip to Hawaii, his war work during WWII and his writing. He also mentions authoress Mabel Dodge Luhan.

ArchivalResource: 18 items (37 p.) in box (.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122599015 View

The Mel Powell Papers, 1942-1991, inclusive

Title: The Mel Powell Papers 1942-1991, inclusive

Musical scores, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and sound recordings by and about Mel Powell (1923-1998), the composer, jazz pianist, and educator.

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0070 View

Earl Browder Papers, 1879-1990

Title: Earl Browder Papers 1879-1990

Papers of the General secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. When the Party was reconstituted as the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its President, however he was expelled in 1946 following a debate over Party leadership. Following his expulsion, Browder lectured and wrote about Marxism and represented Soviet writers and publishers for publication in the United States. Collection incluces correspondence/subject files (1879-1970) relating to Marxist philosophy, the workings of the C.P.U.S.A., Browder's role within the Party and to Browder's business ventures as well as legal files (1938-1958); manuscripts (1924-1967) of Browder and others, including Browder's manuscripts for articles, books, memoranda, news releases, pamphlets, reports, and speeches; and memorabilia including personal files and photographs of Browder and his family, and some colleagues. Notable correspondents include Roger Baldwin, Daniel Bell, Bruce Bliven, Rudy Blum, Louis B. Boudin, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Theodore Draper, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William Z. Foster, Joseph Freeman, A.A. Heller, Lotte Jacobi, Alfred Kohlberg, Robert S. Minor, Tom Mooney, Paul and Eslanda Goode Robeson, Anna Rochester, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jack Selford, Joseph R. Starobin, I.F. Stone, John Strachey, Anna Louise Strong, Dirk Jan Struik, Norman Thomas, Harry Frederick Ward, Sumner Welles, and others. Also included is a holograph letter of greeting from Mao Zedong. The collection also includes Browder's personal library and other published materials.

ArchivalResource: 48.0 linear ft.

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

Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963. The Paul Hindemith collection, 1901-1993 (inclusive).

Title: The Paul Hindemith collection, 1901-1993 (inclusive).

The Paul Hindemith Collection brings together primary and secondary source materials which document the life and career of Paul Hindemith, particularly his years in the United States (1940-1953). The Collection holds holographs of 14 compositions by Hindemith, including the Lilacs Requiem and the concertos for clarinet, horn, and trumpet and bassoon. The Collection also holds secondary materials (programs, notes, and reviews) for nearly all of Hindemith's compositions, as well as extensive material relating to Hindemith's classroom teaching and the Yale Collegium Musicum. Additional materials include correspondence between Paul and Gertrud Hindemith and colleagues, friends, and music publishers; photographs and drawings; articles about Hindemith; and miscellaneous materials.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft. (43 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122386247 View

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Letter to Richard Cary. Edgartown, MA. 1968 May 17.

Title: Letter to Richard Cary. Edgartown, MA. 1968 May 17.

Concerning E. A. Robinson and the reason Wilder is unable to write about him at this time.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122415230 View

Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-. Papers of the Clifton Waller Barrett family, 1960-1991.

Title: Papers of the Clifton Waller Barrett family, 1960-1991.

Additional papers of the Clifton Waller Barrett family include letters, manuscripts, newsclippings, photographs and postcards. Letters from Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant mention William Dean Howells; her book on Robert Frost and Frost's Derry notebook; publication of the book and complimentary letters from noted authors; and her final illness. A letter from Isabel Wilder thanks the Barretts for a party given in honor of Frost and Sergeant. There are brief friendly notes from Fredson Bowers and John S. Van E. Kohn and a Christmas card from Erskine and Virginia Caldwell. Photographs are of the Barretts with Robert Frost and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, William Royall Tyler, and unidentified family members. The collection also contains the original manuscript of Mr. Barrett's speech to the American Antiquarian Society, 1970 October 8.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53965997 View

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Thornton Wilder and Isabel Wilder letters to Mary Louise Ainsworth, 1934-1980.

Title: Thornton Wilder and Isabel Wilder letters to Mary Louise Ainsworth, 1934-1980.

18 letters from Thornton Wilder and 14 letters from his sister Isabel Wilder to Mary Louise Ainsworth, a student of Wilder's at the University of Chicago. Most of the letters concern social appointments, news of Thornton Wilder's health and travels, and thanks for Ainsworth's compliments on Wilder's work. The collection also contains 5 letters from Gilbert Harrison to Ainsworth written in the course of his research for a biography of Wilder.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702171889 View

Wilder, Isabel. Letter, [1980 Mar. 17?] Hamden, Conn., "To Whom it May Concern."

Title: Letter, [1980 Mar. 17?] Hamden, Conn., "To Whom it May Concern."

Introduces Gilbert A. Harrison as Thornton Wilder's "first and only authorized biographer," and names his literary executor as Donald C. Gallup.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Typescript signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34370149 View

Campbell, Gladys. Papers, 1935-1976 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1935-1976 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence, proofsheets for Thornton Wilder's James Joyce (1882-1941), and a photograph of Campbell and T.S. Eliot. Correspendents are Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, and Robert Hutchins.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52247581 View

Hawkins, Arthur. Papers of Arthur Hawkins [manuscript], 1929-1970.

Title: Papers of Arthur Hawkins [manuscript], 1929-1970.

The collection contains correspondence, engravings and photographs. Letters from various literary figures were written in response to requests for photographs to use for caricatures, or to praise his dust jacket designs. They are accompanied by 35 dry point caricatures of noted writers of the 1920s and two photographs of Hawkins. Correspondents include Robert Benchley, Sam Benfield, Margaret Waller Freeman Cabell, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Helen Grace Carlisle, Malcolm Cowley, Edna Ferber, Ellen Glasgow, DuBose Heyward, Sidney R. Jacobs, Alfred A. Knopf, R. Ellsworth Larrson, Sinclair Lewis, Howard Lindsay, Anita Loos, Archibald MacLeish, H.L. Mencken, Harriet Monroe, Barney Oldfield, Robert Osborn, Julia Mood Peterkin, Samuel Putnam, Carl Sandburg, Evelyn Scott, Hilda Scott, William B. Seabrook, Eric Sevareid, Rex Stout, S.S. Van Dine, Irita Van Doren, Mark Van Doren, Esther Van Dresser, Lynd Ward and Isabel Wilder. The name at the top of this card is either the subject of a dry point caricature by Hawkins or one of his correspondents. For more information please consult the main entry card.

ArchivalResource: 86 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821281 View

Wilder, Isabel, 1900-. Typed letter signed Isabel Wilder to Mrs. Kleeman November 3, 1965.

Title: Typed letter signed Isabel Wilder to Mrs. Kleeman November 3, 1965.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70817726 View

Powell, Mel. The Mel Powell papers, 1942-1991 (inclusive).

Title: The Mel Powell papers, 1942-1991 (inclusive).

The Mel Powell Papers contain sketches, manuscript scores, and published editions of Powell's musical compositions, including orchestral works, chamber music, keyboard pieces, choral music, songs, and electronic music. Powell's correspondence includes letters to and from performers, composers, publishers, musical organizations, and educational institutions. Powell's life and work are further documented by: programs; newspaper and magazine clippings; articles and addresses written by Powell; photographs; and recordings.

ArchivalResource: 14 linear ft. (13 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702152843 View

Ben Shaktman Papers, 1949-2009

Title: Ben Shaktman Papers 1949-2009

Papers of the American playwright and director. Correspondence subject files; production material comprising research, notes, costume sketches, and drafts for plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Ben Shaktman Arnold Wesker and others; manuscripts; printed material (posters, playbills, programs, more); audiovisual material including audiotapes, photographs; material pertaining to The Berliner Ensemble, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and The National Endowment for the Arts; more.

ArchivalResource: 54 linear feet

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/shaktman_b.htm View

Wilder, Isabel, 1900-. Letter to Mildred L. Colgan [manuscript], 1942 March 11.

Title: Letter to Mildred L. Colgan [manuscript], 1942 March 11.

Isabel Wilder discusses her brother's latest activities including his new play, The skin of our teeth, and his visits to South America and England. On the latter, he attended the P.E.N. Club Congress to which John Dos Passos was also a delegate. She supplies information on their childhood and mentions Wilder's love of music and teaching.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647880130 View

Bracker, Jon, 1936-. Letters, 1965-1970.

Title: Letters, 1965-1970.

Consists primarily of letters written by prominent authors to Jon Bracker, 1936-, author. Included are also a few letters by Bracker. They relate chiefly to poetry. There is also an article by Hans Froelicher entitled "Fragments about Christopher Darlington Morley."

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40246365 View

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Thornton Wilder letters, 1927-1963.

Title: Thornton Wilder letters, 1927-1963.

The collection consists of two letters to Mrs. Knopf in regard to his publishing commitments; to Carl Schiffeler discussing his novel The ides of March; to Mr. Carroll regarding the dramatization of a Wilder novel; a long chatty letter to friends mentioning a Streetcar named desire, Myrna Loy, and Charles Laughton; a letter to Edmund Wilson (1928?) expresses his negative feelings about writing book reviews; one to Alfred Noyes (1932) discusses Wilder family activities; one to Mr. Harris (1934) concerns an alleged insult to Beverley Nichols; and one to Clifford Odets (1936) concern tickets for Odets' play Paradise Lost. Also, a letter from Wilder (1958) and one from his sister Isabel (1963) to Jon Carroll containing advice for new authors.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79412637 View

Worth, Irene. Irene Worth papers relating to Thornton Wilder, 1955-1977.

Title: Irene Worth papers relating to Thornton Wilder, 1955-1977.

Letters, scripts, printed material and photographs documenting Irene Worth's personal and professional relationship with Thornton Wilder. Subjects of the letters include Worth's appearances in plays by Wilder; production details for the 1955 Edinburgh Festival "A Life in the Sun;" the theater and acting in general; Wilder's writing, travel, and health; comments on his current reading; and news of mutual friends. There are also several letters from Wilder's sister Isabel, containing news of Thornton and congratulations on performances by Worth. Personal papers include annotated scripts for "A Life in the Sun;" a playbill for the 1963 production of "The Ides of March;" newspaper clippings; photographs of Wilder and Worth; and a small deck of playing cards that Wilder used for solitaire.

ArchivalResource: 0.63 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702171891 View

Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963. The Paul Hindemith collection, 1901-1993 (inclusive).

Title: The Paul Hindemith collection, 1901-1993 (inclusive).

The Paul Hindemith Collection brings together primary and secondary source materials which document the life and career of Paul Hindemith, particularly his years in the United States (1940-1953). The Collection holds holographs of 14 compositions by Hindemith, including the Lilacs Requiem and the concertos for clarinet, horn, and trumpet and bassoon. The Collection also holds secondary materials (programs, notes, and reviews) for nearly all of Hindemith's compositions, as well as extensive material relating to Hindemith's classroom teaching and the Yale Collegium Musicum. Additional materials include correspondence between Paul and Gertrud Hindemith and colleagues, friends, and music publishers; photographs and drawings; articles about Hindemith; and miscellaneous materials.

ArchivalResource: 27 linear ft. (43 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702122560 View

Lillian Gish papers, 1909-1992

Title: Lillian Gish papers 1909-1992

The Lillian Gish papers (75 lf.) span the years 1909-1992 and consist of correspondence including letters from friends, family, fans and business associates, personal papers, business, legal and financial documents, scripts, writings, photographs including early D.W. Griffith silent film photographs both candid shots taken during shooting and film stills, portraits by famous photographers, personal and family photographs, publicity and production photographs and snapshots, scrapbooks on the careers of both Dorothy and Lillian Gish, programs for early silent films and theatrical productions, clippings and ephemera that document the life and career of Lillian and Dorothy Gish from the early 1900's until Lillian's death in 1993.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21463 View

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Thornton Wilder letters : to Charles A. Abramson, 1971-1975.

Title: Thornton Wilder letters : to Charles A. Abramson, 1971-1975.

Concerning his writing; one letter regarding Gertrude Stein. Also included are letters of Wilder's sister Isabel, 1969-1977, some relating to the production of his plays; a letter of condolence from Abramson and a few obituary notices from various newspapers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122564673 View

Daniels, Mabel W. (Mabel Wheeler), 1878-1971. Papers, 1884-1971 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1884-1971 (inclusive).

Correspondence, musical scores, notebook, photos and album, scrapbooks, articles, clippings, memorabilia, a card file listing all her works both chronologically and alphabetically, and other papers of Daniels, as well as a diary of her father comprise the collection. The correspondence spans her entire career; most of the letters, both professional and personal, concern her work. Besides detailing her career, the correspondence illuminates her friendship with Marian MacDowell, her participation in the MacDowell Colony, and the financial help she gave to music students and to institutions, especially Radcliffe College.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006565 View

Arthur Unger collection of recorded interviews [sound recording]

Title: Arthur Unger collection of recorded interviews [sound recording]

This collection contains the tapes of Mr. Unger's interviews with television, film and stage celebrities. Most of the interviews were made from 1965 through 1998 for use in conjunction with Unger's article writing activites. They include interviews of Alfred Hitchcock, Al Pacino, Buzz Aldrin, Alfre Woodard, the Beach Boys, Isaac Asimov, Bette Davis, Connie Chung, Derek Jacobi, Glenda Jackson, Helen Hayes, Muhammad Ali, Lucille Ball, Tom Brokaw, Redd Foxx, Katharine Hepburn, Bill Moyers, Tony Orlando, and many others. Also includes copies of recorded press conferences.

ArchivalResource: 1173

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20491 View

Wilder, Isabel, 1900-. Typed letter signed Isabel Wilder to Mrs. Kleeman October 23, 1965.

Title: Typed letter signed Isabel Wilder to Mrs. Kleeman October 23, 1965.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70817725 View

Campbell, Gladys. Papers, 1935-1976 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1935-1976 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence, proofsheets for Thornton Wilder's James Joyce (1882-1941), and a photograph of Campbell and T.S. Eliot. Correspendents are Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, and Robert Hutchins.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40935222 View

The Paul Hindemith Collection, 1901-1993, inclusive

Title: The Paul Hindemith Collection 1901-1993, inclusive

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).

ArchivalResource: 43 boxes (27 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0047 View