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Meridel Le Sueur papers., 1902-1997.

Title: Meridel Le Sueur papers. 1902-1997.

Correspondence, literary journals, audio tapes, publishedwritings, published and unpublished manuscripts and fragments, publicity, radicalpublications, clippings, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials documentingthe life and career of Le Sueur, a writer, journalist, actress, feminist, andradical political activist, and her family.

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Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

Green, Katharine,. Oral history interview with Katharine Green [sound recording], 1975.

Title: Oral history interview with Katharine Green [sound recording], 1975.

Tape-recorded interview, March 21 and 22, 1975, by historian Robert C. Twombly with Katharine Green, Briggsville, Wisconsin, concerning the Gurdjieffian psychological method at a 1931 communal living experiment near Portage, Wis., and the city's reactions to the method, other participants including writers Jean Toomer and Margery Latimer and her later contacts with them, and the method's effect on her life; plus her reminiscences of William Maxwell, novelist and New Yorker editor, who summered at Green's farm in the late 1920's.

ArchivalResource: 3 tape recordings (142 min.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173703071 View

Latimer, Margery, 1899-1932. Letters and manuscripts of Margery Latimer.

Title: Letters and manuscripts of Margery Latimer. 1921-1932.

Folders 1-7, 10, 11, 11a, 12 of the Jessie Gruner archive; folders 1-11,13, 126 letters of the B.C. Matthias archive.

ArchivalResource: 23 folders

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17416775 View

Matthias, Blanche C. Letters to Blanche C. Matthias from Margery Latimer and Jean Toomer; and to Henry Chester Tracy from Margery Latimer.

Title: Letters to Blanche C. Matthias from Margery Latimer and Jean Toomer; and to Henry Chester Tracy from Margery Latimer. 1921-1934.

Folders 1-11, 126 letters mostly to B.C. Matthias from M. Latimer, 2 by Donald Douglas; 12, 1 letter from Zona Gale to M. Latimer, Aug. 12, 1921; 9 letters, 1927?-1934, to Matthias from Jean Toomer; 13, 2 letters to Henry Chester Tracy from Latimer; 14, Typescript "My friendship with Margery Bodine Latimer," by B.C. Matthias, 5 p.

ArchivalResource: 14 folders 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21321280 View

Matthias, Blanche C. Letters to Blanche C. Matthias from Margery Latimer and Jean Toomer; and to Henry Chester Tracy from Margery Latimer.

Title: Letters to Blanche C. Matthias from Margery Latimer and Jean Toomer; and to Henry Chester Tracy from Margery Latimer. 1921-1934.

Folders 1-11, 126 letters mostly to B.C. Matthias from M. Latimer, 2 by Donald Douglas; 12, 1 letter from Zona Gale to M. Latimer, Aug. 12, 1921; 9 letters, 1927?-1934, to Matthias from Jean Toomer; 13, 2 letters to Henry Chester Tracy from Latimer; 14, Typescript "My friendship with Margery Bodine Latimer," by B.C. Matthias, 5 p.

ArchivalResource: 14 folders 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17416679 View

Atwood, Ormsby and Green family papers, 1853-1998.

Title: Atwood, Ormsby and Green family papers, 1853-1998.

Papers and photographs documenting several generations of the Atwood, Ormsby and Green families from the 1850s through the 1950s and also documenting the family's estate, Bonnie Oaks (Marquette County, Wis.), that served as an informal artist's retreat during the 1920s and early 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes),657 photographs (2 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 microfilm box), and20 negatives; plusadditions of 0.2 c.f. of photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173695457 View

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Papers. 1969.

Title: Papers. 1969.

Transcript and tape of an interview with Gorham B. Munson regarding Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer; interviewer, India M. Watterson. Munson gives his reminiscenses of Jean Toomer from the time they met in 1922 until about 1950, when Toomer ceased to lead an active life and became a semi-invalid. Reminiscenses mention prominently the philosopher-esthete, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff, and a number of literary figures of the 1920's and '30's such as Hart Crane, Waldo Frank, Margaret Naumberg, Margery Latimer and Marjorie Content.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20312317 View

Whiteman, Maxwell,. Whiteman Photographic Collection, 1860-1960.

Title: Whiteman Photographic Collection, 1860-1960.

This collection contains a variety of photographic formats including tintypes, lantern slides of Egyptian and Roman architecture, stereographsof 19th century events such as the Chicago World's Fair and scenes of New Hampshire and New York, and a group of 20th century photographs of Afro-American celebrities. The collection also includes scenes of 19th cent. Philadelphia and Schuylkill County; Italian paintings; Russian paintings; portraits of the Lehman family; the architecture of Alhambra, Spain; and the bookbinder, Harry C. Viti. There are photographs of the following individuals; Marjorie A. Costa, Marie Dressler, Lillian Evanti, Katherine Dunham, Eddie Leonard, Bill Kenny, Ethel Levy, Lucky Millinder, Margery Latimer, W.C. Handy, Mary B. Lehman, and John S. Ronig.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 cubic ft. (7 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122635735 View

Gale, Zona, 1874-1938. Papers, 1838-1970.

Title: Papers, 1838-1970.

Papers of Zona Gale, a Wisconsin novelist and playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1921 for her play "Miss Lulu Bett."

ArchivalResource: 7.7 c.f. (19 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder); plusadditions of 1.0 c.f.,194 photographs, and3 drawings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692546 View

Le Sueur, Meridel. Meridel Le Sueur papers, 1902-1997.

Title: Meridel Le Sueur papers, 1902-1997.

Correspondence, literary journals, audio tapes, published writings, published and unpublished manuscripts and fragments, publicity, radical publications, clippings, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials documenting the life and career of Le Sueur, a writer, actress, feminist, and radical political activist, and her family. Le Sueur's audio tapes (1950s-1980s) contain interviews, music, and conversation with family and friends. In addition, the collection includes papers of Le Sueur's father, William Winston Wharton, her mother and stepfather, Marian and Arthur Le Sueur, and her daughters, Deborah Le Sueur and Rachel Tilsen, and their families. The correspondence, covering over 70 years of Le Sueur's life, contains letters from friends, publishers, admirers, and family, particularly her daughters, Rachel and Deborah. There is much information on family matters, her literary progress, and political affairs. The journals, which Le Sueur kept nearly her entire life, comprise 133 volumes, dating from her teenage years through the 1990s; they are the wellspring of much of her writing. Manuscripts in the collection include a sampling of the huge amounts of material sent to Meridel by other aspiring writers, in addition to her own work, both published and unpublished. Publications, clippings, programs, and other publicity provide information on Le Sueur's career and activities, and on the many political and literary organizations that interested her.

ArchivalResource: 48.0 cubic feet (47 boxes, 1 partial box, and 1 oversize folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313801547 View

Jean Toomer papers, 1898-1963 (inclusive), 1920-1954

Title: Jean Toomer papers 1898-1963 (inclusive) 1920-1954

The papers contain correspondence, drafts of unpublished books, essays, and other writings, together with personal papers documenting Toomer's life, primarily after his Harlem Renaissance period, and papers on Marjory Latimer Toomer. Correspondents include Charles Dupee, Waldo Front, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Margaret Naumberg, and Russell S. Walcott.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 95; Other Storage Formats: Oversize; Linear Feet: 40.0

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

Latimer, Margery, 1899-1932. Letters, 1928-1930, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1928-1930, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155871310 View

Gruner, Jessie. Letters, manuscripts, and clippings to Jessie Gruner principally from Margery Latimer, Edward Harris Heth, Karl Priebe, Richard Eldridge, and Harry Beckman, M.D.

Title: Letters, manuscripts, and clippings to Jessie Gruner principally from Margery Latimer, Edward Harris Heth, Karl Priebe, Richard Eldridge, and Harry Beckman, M.D. 1924-1982.

Folders 1-7, correspondence from Margery Latimer; 8, miscellaneous correspondence; 9, from Karl Priebe; 10, clippings on Latimer and J. Toomer; 11, typescript of Latimer's review of Look Homeward Angel; 11a, Scribner's magazine, June 1931, "Guardian Angel," p. 647-661; 12, typescript of Latimer's short story "Gisela;" 13, clippings about Zona Gale; 14, clippings and letters of E. Heth; 15, typescript of "Preface to winter;" 16, typescript of Section III, Ch. 5 of "Lives of Jean Toomer;" 17, typescript of Beckman's "Kalevala;" 18, anonymous holograph translation into English of the French translation by J.W. Bienstock of Ilʹf and Petrov's Twelve Chairs.

ArchivalResource: 19 folders 1 box + 2 photographs

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17415537 View

Latimer, Margery, 1899-1932. Correspondence with May Sinclair, 1920.

Title: Correspondence with May Sinclair, 1920.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555494 View