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Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945. Papers of Ellen Glasgow [manuscript], 1880-1963.

Title: Papers of Ellen Glasgow [manuscript], 1880-1963.

Papers of Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow include drafts of and notes on several novels including "Phases of an inferior planet," "Vein of iron," "A certain measure," "In this our life," and "The woman within," as well as copies of speeches and articles, and notes relating to her personal and literary affairs. Letters and telegrams, 1916 -1944, from Henry W. Anderson form about half of the correspondence; the more than 50 letters from James Lane Allen make up the second largest group. The collection also includes notebooks containing addresses, comments, bibliography, recipes and miscellaneous notes; and photographs and drawings of Miss Glasgow, her homes, pets, and other literary figures including a commercial strike of a woodcut of Glasgow's home by J.J. Lankes, 1926, commissioned as a design for her Christmas card.

ArchivalResource: 3385 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647898536 View

James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers, circa 1850-2005, 1900-1976

Title: James Weldon Johnson and Grace NailJohnson papers circa 1850-2005 1900-1976

The James Weldon Johnson and GraceNail Johnson Papers provide evidence of the personal and professional lives ofJames Weldon Johnson, Grace Nail Johnson, and to a lesser degree, the Johnsonand Nail families, spanning the years 1850 to 2005, with the bulk of materialdating between 1900 and 1976. The papers chronicle Johnson’s writing career andinvolvement in education, politics, and cultural affairs and consist of avariety of documents, including correspondence, writings, personal papers,scrapbooks, photographs, artwork, objects, and audiovisual materials. Johnsonwas involved in a number of significant movements and organizations during hislifetime, and, as a result, the Papers also provide insight into broader topicsin American and African-American history during the twentieth century.

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

Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1934.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1934.

ArchivalResource: 25 items (29 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155895031 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1904-1962.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1904-1962.

The collection contains letters to Wilson from American literary figures and educators including Hervey Allen; Emily Tapscott (Clark) Balch; James Branch Cabell; John Fox; Ellen Glasgow; DuBose Heyward; Sinclair Lewis; Rosewell Page; Thomas Nelson Page; Thomas Walker Page; Josephine Pinckney; Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy; Irita (Bradford) Van Doren; and John Hall Wheelock. In additon there is correspondence, 1920-1921, to Wilson and John Calvin Metcalf regarding "The enchanted years"; including letters from James Lane Allen, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Ellen Glasgow, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Kreymborg, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Lizette Woodworth Reese, George Santayana, Siegfried Sassoon and J.H. Wheelock.

ArchivalResource: 110 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647948057 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

Lechlitner, Ruth, 1901-1989. Papers of Ruth Lechlitner, 1919-1988.

Title: Papers of Ruth Lechlitner, 1919-1988.

The papers of Ruth Lechlitner are made up of subject files primarily concerned with her poetry, teaching career, and correspondence. Her poetry is documented with drafts, published copies, proofs, and reviews. There are substantial files containing teaching materials she collected for use in the classroom. The correspondence contains letters from: George Abbe, Millen Brand, Witter Bynner, John Ciardi, Carroll Coleman, Paul Corey, Howard M. Corning, Norman Corwin, David DeJong, George Dillon, Erling Larsen, Jay Latimer, James Laughlin, Willard Maas, Archibald MacLeish, Jerre Mangione, Marianne Moore, Howard Moss, Lewis Mumford, Frederic Prokosch, Kenneth Rexroth, Norman Rosten, Isidor Schneider, Winfield T. Scott, Irita Van Doren, and Hendrik Van Loon.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear ft. (19 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233104993 View

Pynson Printers records, 1927-1933.

Title: Pynson Printers records, 1927-1933.

Collection consists of correspondence and other materials relating to Pynson Printers and The Colophon.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet (32 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580505 View

Pynson Printers records, 1927-1933

Title: Pynson Printers records 1927-1933

Pynson Printers, founded in 1922 in New York by typographer Elmer Adler, was a private press that produced many limited edition books. In 1930 Adler began publishing The Colophon, a quarterly for book collectors. Both Pynson Printers and The Colophon ceased operations in 1940. Collection consists of correspondence and other materials relating to Pynson Printers and The Colophon. Bulk of the collection consists of Elmer Adler's correspondence files, 1927-1932, kept while he was running Pynson Printers and organizing and editing The Colophon. With the correspondence are memoranda, clippings, order forms for subscriptions to The Colophon, back issues, bills and invoices, notes, sketches, printed materials, and a few photographs of The Colophon. Topics include all aspects of Pynson Printers operations, matters relating to specific books printed by Pynson, and Adler's activities as a consultant on typography. Also, Colophon subscripton correspondence and order forms, and letters to the editors in response to an offer of a brochure about the periodical.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet (32 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2510 View

Balch, Edwin Swift, 1856-1927,. Papers of the Balch family, 1760-1955.

Title: Papers of the Balch family, 1760-1955.

The collection contains journals and letters, 1825-1881, of Joseph Swift; journal excerpts and diary of Emily Swift Balch; letters and diaries of Thomas Balch; letters of Elise Willing Balch; a diary, 1760-1761, of Joseph Shippen; deeds, letters, unpublished writing, address books, engagement book, and a Vassar sketchbook of Eugenia Hargous Macfarlane Balch; and letters, and Little Theatre minute book of Emily Tapscott Clark Balch. The collection pertains chiefly to Edwin Swift Balch, and contains a journal, 1859-1906, re Philadelphia society, the Civil War, Confederate diplomacy and European travel; an autograph album signed by prominent literary, artistic and political figures; scrapbooks re polar exploration, and the Cook-Peary controversy; a biography and bibliography of his published works, incomplete diaries, 1904-1917; and account books. Other topics include Philadelphia riots, 1864, fighting near Leestown, W. Va., Mosby's raiders, life in Paris, art in Europe and America, Louis Philippe, Jenny Lind, the London Exhibition of 1851, Prince Clemens von Metternich, Napoleon III, the Paris Commune, Henry M. Stanley, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Suez Canal, the Sedan battlefield, Richard Cobden, Theodore Roosevelt, and European travel especially in Switzerland. Also unpublished pieces by Edwin Swift Balch and Eugenia H.M. Balch; a biography of Emily Balch and manuscripts of her "Stuffed Peacocks," and of Joseph Hergesheimer's "Tintypes"; and a limerick collection. Also family photographs; a tintype album; a photograph album with notes by Rudolph Franke on a polar expedition; and "The Confession of the Murder of Prof. Marvin," analyzed by Thomas F. Hall, 1926.

ArchivalResource: 170 items.1 reel : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647842108 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1908-1936.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1908-1936.

The collection contains manuscripts of articles and poetry by Wilson, Nancy Tucker Wilson and Lawrence Lee; professional correspondence; topical files; and gradebooks and examinations from English courses taught by Wilson. Major subjects include the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College; Edgar Allan Poe; the Southern Writers Conference, 1931; the Dictionary of American Biography; and University of Virginia committees on correspondence teaching and college unity.

ArchivalResource: ca. 555 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647826789 View

Powell, Thomas Reed, 1880-1955. Papers, 1905-1955

Title: Thomas Reed Powell papers, 1905-1955

Papers relating to Powell's career as law teacher and legal scholar, consultant and mediator in legal cases involving tax, insurance, and railroad matters, and as president of the American Political Science Association. The collection also includes mss. of his humorous prose and verse.

ArchivalResource: 11 Paige boxes (lettered A-H, J) in 25 Hollinger boxes

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Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Correspondence relating to the Southern Writers Convention sponsored by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" at the University of Virginia, October 23-24, 1931 [manuscript], 1931-1932.

Title: Correspondence relating to the Southern Writers Convention sponsored by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" at the University of Virginia, October 23-24, 1931 [manuscript], 1931-1932.

The collection consists of Wilson's correspondence with authors he invited to the convention, particularly Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Maxwell Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Emily Clark, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William Edward Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H.L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Mood Peterkin, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Cale Young Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Amelie Rives, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Herbert Ravenal Sass, Mrs. Laurence Stallings, T.S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806920 View

Irita Taylor Van Doren Papers, 1920-1967

Title: Irita Taylor Van Doren Papers 1920-1967

Literary editor. Correspondence, originals of writings by various authors, and material relating to Wendell L. Willkie, especially his 1942 world tour and drafts of his book, . One World

ArchivalResource: 4,000 items; 25 containers plus 2 oversize; 9.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011149 View

Barr, Stringfellow, 1897-1982. Papers of Stringfellow Barr, 1927-1968.

Title: Papers of Stringfellow Barr, 1927-1968.

Papers contain research notes and drafts, correspondence, reviews, promotional material, royalty statements, etc. for "The will of Zeus" and "The mask of Jove," together with various articles, reviews, editorials. The collection also contains professional and personal correpondence of Barr. Topics include speaking engagements, conferences and lectures; United States foreign policy, especially the war in Viet Nam, the cold war and American socialists. Correspondents include Saul Alinsky, Jacques Barzun, William Benton, R.P. Blackmur, Sarah Patton Boyle, Crane Brinton, Alfred L. Bush, Cass Canfield, Norman Cousins, Jack Dalton, Colgate Darden, J. Frank Dobie, Paul H. Douglas, William O. Douglas, Leon Edel, Murrell Edmunds, Clifton Fadiman, Eric Goldman, Caroline Gordon, Ernest Gruening, Mary Francis Gyles, Moses Hadas, Edith Hamilton, Piet Hein, Christian Herter, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard J. Hughes, Robert Hutchins, Gerald Johnson, Alfred A. Knopf, Bernard Knox, Bill Leonard, and Sol Linowitz. Also Walter Lippmann, Jacques Maritain, Alexander Meiklejohn, Paul Mellon, Robert B. Meyner, John Morton, Lewis Mumford, A.J. Muste, John U. Nef, Whitney Oates, William S. Payley, Martin Paul, Henri Peyre, Gerard Piel, Charles O. Porter, Bernard Rosenberg, Lincoln Schuster, Eric Severeid, Harvey Shapiro, Howard K. Smith, Benjamin Spock, George Steiner, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harold Stauss, Robert Theobald, Norman Thomas, Paul Tillett, Irita Van Doren, Mark Van Doren, Mike Wallace, Franz E. Winkler and John Cook Wyllie.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647985283 View

Joseph Barnes Papers, 1930-1952, (bulk 1940-1952)

Title: Joseph Barnes Papers 1930-1952 (bulk 1940-1952)

Newspaper editor and author. Primarily material relating to Barnes’ biography of Wendell L.Willkie entitled . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Willkie: The Events He Was Part Of, the Ideas He Fought For

ArchivalResource: 5,000 items; 14 containers; 6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009319 View

Van Doren, Irita Taylor, 1891-1966. Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1951.

Title: Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1951.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122690978 View

Van Doren, Irita, 1891-1966. Letters, 1927-1931, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1927-1931, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Irita Van Doren, for the periodical the New York Herald Tribune.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155873685 View

Van Doren, Irita. Letter, 1926 Apr. 21, New York, to Warner Rice, Cambridge, Mass.

Title: Letter, 1926 Apr. 21, New York, to Warner Rice, Cambridge, Mass.

Requests a review of A. E. Powell's "The romantic theory of poetry."

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Typescript signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34370121 View

Reid Family Fapers, 1795-1970, (bulk 1869-1970)

Title: Reid Family Fapers 1795-1970 (bulk 1869-1970)

Journalists and newspaper publishers. Correspondence, financial records, office files, household and estate records, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous papers related to newspaper publishing and public affairs.

ArchivalResource: 232,000 items; 850 containers plus 1 oversize; 340 linear feet; 239 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003038 View

Beall, Jack. Correspondence : with Theodore Dreiser, 1926-1938.

Title: Correspondence : with Theodore Dreiser, 1926-1938.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the staff of the New York Herald Tribune.

ArchivalResource: 28 items (48 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892771 View

Women's National Book Association. Women's National Book Association records, 1917-1989.

Title: Women's National Book Association records, 1917-1989.

Correspondence, memoranda, publications and financial records.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft. (ca. 43,450 items in 102 boxes, 14 bound volumes, & 1 flat package).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/303022653 View

American Scholar, Records, 1926-2006, (bulk 1944-2005)

Title: American Scholar Records 1926-2006 (bulk 1944-2005)

A quarterly magazine of public affairs and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Correspondence, business and editorial records, original manuscripts and edited drafts of works published by the Society in the . American Scholar

ArchivalResource: 140,500 items; 428 containers; 171.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011151 View