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William Morrow and Company. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1930.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1930.

Correspondence to Theodore Dreiser from Frances Phillips, Director, William Morrow and Company, publishers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155895510 View

Phillips, Frances, 1896-. Letters, 1938-1962, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1938-1962, to Lewis Mumford.

This correspondence is on the letterhead of and concerns William Morrow and Company. Frances Phillips was director of this firm.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155874516 View

Russell, Phillips, 1884-1974. Charles Phillips Russell papers, 1861-1974 [manuscript].

Title: Charles Phillips Russell papers, 1861-1974 [manuscript].

Correspondence, writings, financial and legal material, diary volumes, subject files, and drawings and photographs of Charles Phillips Russell. Professional correspondence, primarily 1931-1969, relates chiefly to writing and publishing books and articles, to the work of colleagues and former students, and to higher education. Included is correspondence with publishers (Brentano's, William Morrow, Scribners, and others) and with newspapers and magazines in North Carolina and New York. Letters from Russell's mother, Lucy Phillips Russell, deal with life in Rockingham, N.C.; with her writing; and with Russell's career. Writings include drafts, research notes, outlines, synopses, and printer's proofs of Russell's books, plays, short stories, articles, poems, and newspaper columns and of works by others. Much of this material relates to Russell's biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Paul Jones. There are also papers documenting Russell's financial affairs; short diary and other volumes; subject files pertaining to organizations with which Russell was associated and topics of interest to him; scrapbooks of clippings of articles by and about Russell and on other topics; photographs and photograph albums with images of Chapel Hill, N.C., Russell, family members, and friends; drawings by Russell and family members; an audio tape of a radio production about Horace Williams by John Ehle; and a home movie.

ArchivalResource: 7,800 items (14.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25300732 View

LeGette Blythe Papers (#4852), 1852-1996

Title: LeGette Blythe Papers (#4852) 1852-1996

William LeGette Blythe (1900-1993), native of Huntersville, N.C., was the author of several Biblical novels, award-winning biographies of prominent North Carolinians, and symphonic (outdoor) dramas based on the history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C. Blythe graduated in 1921 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the original Carolina Playmakers and a classmate of Thomas Wolfe. He died in Huntersville in 1993. The collection includes correspondence and other materials relating to LeGette Blythe's literary and civic projects. Included are letters, promotional material, and photographs, as well as audio and video recordings relating to outdoor drama productions and to Blythe's biographies of Thomas Wolfe; Mary T. Martin Sloop of the Crossnore School, Avery County, N.C.; Lucy Morgan of the Penland School, Penland, N.C.; and Gaine Cannon of the Albert Schweitzer Memorial Hospital in Balsam Grove, N.C. Major correspondents include W. H. Belk, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, William Friday, Louis Rubin, Terry Sanford, and Richard Walser. There are also two letters dated March 1934 from Maxwell Perkins of Charles Scribner's Sons. Also present are materials relating to the North Carolina Writers Conference, including photographs of the conference's first meeting in 1950 and the 1953 meeting in Boone. Manuscripts, galleys, and proofs of Blythe's works are included along with a small amount of materials and photographs collected by Blythe, including items, 1815-1861, relating to the Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Mecklenburg County. The Addition of May 2002 includes audio and video recordings collected by Blythe and photographs of Albert Schweitzer and his hospital from the 1960s; of the United States Army's 38th Evacuation Hospital during World War II; and of labor strikes in North Belmont, N.C., in the late 1920s. The Addition of 2006 includes audio recordings collected by Blythe as research for books, manuscripts and other projects. Interviewees include Fred and Mabel Wolfe, siblings of Thomas Wolfe; Mary T. Martin Sloop; James W. Davis, Gaine Cannon II, and Lucy Morgan. Other recordings relate to LeGette Blythe's works on I. D. Blumenthal, E. H. Little, Walter L. Lingle, and Alcoholics Anonymous. Also included are interviews with prominent North Carolinians, including Colonel Thomas W. Ferrebee, bombardier of the , and Senator Sam J. Ervin. The addition also contains an interview with LeGette Blythe, recordings of the outdoor drama , and the soundtrack for . Enola Gay Voice in the Wilderness The Hornet's Nest

ArchivalResource: About 1480 items (16.5 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Blythe,LeGette.html View

Wilson, Neill Compton, 1889-. Neill Compton Wilson papers, 1944-1969.

Title: Neill Compton Wilson papers, 1944-1969.

Correspondence, documents, and original typescripts. Collection covers the origins, planning, research, writing, and publication of N. Wilson's novels, with emphasis on those published after 1963: DEEPDOWN RIVER, GALLEON BAY, and THE FEUDING POSTMASTERS. Also included are items relating to copyright procedure.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462018755 View

Hughes, Lawrence (John Lawrence), 1925-. Papers, 1958-1976.

Title: Papers, 1958-1976.

Collection contains correspondence (1958-1976); files of correspondence, legal documents, notes, memorandums, minutes, press releases, and lists related to various authors and books published by Morrow; and files and correspondence related to Morrow's association with publisher Eugene Reynal and its purchase of Reynal & Co. in the late 1960s. Authors represented in the files include Jeane Dixon, Temple Fielding, Rex Harrison, Mary Stewart, Jacqueline Susann, Margaret Truman, and Morris West.

ArchivalResource: 7.65 cubic ft. (17 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32511261 View

Hobson, Thayer. Thayer Hobson Papers, 1913-1967 (bulk 1958-1967).

Title: Thayer Hobson Papers, 1913-1967 (bulk 1958-1967).

Correspondence, financial and legal documents, manuscripts, sound recordings, printed materials, clippings, photographs, and notes document the professional career and private life of book publisher Thayer Hobson. The collection consists largely of Hobson's correspondence after he stepped down as president of William Morrow and Company in 1958, together with some older personal and financial files. The papers show his professional and personal relations with business associates and friends. The publishing-related materials concern almost all aspects of the business, including acquisitions, editing, advertising, marketing, financial management, foreign publications, and copyright. Also included in the collection are manuscripts of a number of short stories that Hobson wrote in the 1930s. Significant correspondents include Erle Stanley Gardner and his assistants Jean Bethell, Peggy Downs, Ruth Moore, Hedy Roripaugh, and Helene Seay; Morrow employees Lawrence Hughes, John T. Lawrence, Donald Stevenson, Helen B. King, Francis L. Phillips, John C. Willey, Henriette Gelber, and Lorraine Rockett; and Pocket Books president Freeman Lewis. Among the personal correspondents are Father Joseph Cleary, F. Peavey Heffelfinger, Ruth Moore, P.I. Prentice, and Raymond M. Weaver.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes, 1 oversize folder (7.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122589980 View

Wole Soyinka papers, 1966-1996.

Title: Wole Soyinka papers, 1966-1996.

Papers of Nigerian author and humanitarian Wole Soyinka, including compositions, correspondence, and records of his teaching and human rights activities.

ArchivalResource: 16 boxes (24 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01766/catalog View

Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904-. Papers of Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, 1922-1976.

Title: Papers of Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, 1922-1976.

The manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera cover a wide span of Lord Kinross' literary career, from his earliest columns as a journalist to his final major work, The ottoman centuries. The photographs include many images used by Kinross for his biography of Kemal Atatürk. Other notable persons in the collection are Mario Amaya, David Balfour, Cecil Beaton, Elizabeth Freda Berkeley, John Betjeman, Duncan Black, C.M. Bowra, Robert Byron, Penelope Chetwode, Randolph Churchill, Cyril Connolly, Diana Cooper, Henry D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Andrew Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Kenward Elmslie, Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Fleming, Elinor Glyn, Howard Griffin, Kay Halle, Roy Harrod, Peter Howard, J.C. Hurewitz, Wilfred Kirkpatrick, James Lees-Milne, Tilly Losch, Malcolm Muggeridge, Beverley Nichols, Harold Nicolson, Frances Phillips, Alan Pryce-Jones, Freya Stark, Christopher Sykes, Violet Keppel Trefusis, Alec Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Edward, Duke of Windsor, etc.

ArchivalResource: 6,550, items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79458033 View

Beattie, Ann. Papers of Ann Beattie [manuscript], 1985-1986.

Title: Papers of Ann Beattie [manuscript], 1985-1986.

In a series of letters, 1985-86, Beattie receives requests from representatives of various publishing companies for advance reviews of unpublished novels. Also included in the collection is a copy of a piece of work entitled "North Garden."

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647817438 View

Mayse, Arthur, 1912-1992. Arthur Mayse fonds.

Title: Arthur Mayse fonds. 1936-1989.

The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, including scripts for Beachcombers, printed material, photographs, financial record, ephemera and research sources. The papers relate to his activities as a climber, free-lance writer, and columnist for the Victoria Daily Times (1963-1972) as well as containing correspondence of a personal nature . The correspondents include William Morrow and Company, ACTRA, Ronald Chambers, Leone Edgar, Elsie Norman and Willis Kingsley Wing. In addition to articles and stories by and about him, a scrapbook includes a series on the Mt. Waddington expedition.

ArchivalResource: 6 m of textual records.20 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606460489 View

Black, Hillel. [Letter, 1977 Jun. 14 : to Fred Rogers].

Title: [Letter, 1977 Jun. 14 : to Fred Rogers].

Black asks Fred Rogers to read Eliot A. Daley's new book, "Father Feelings," and submit a comment. Fred's handwritten comment, which praises the book, is on the back of the letter.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236164888 View

Kathleen Millay collection of papers, 1904-1956, 1906-1943

Title: Kathleen Millay collection of papers 1904-1956 1906-1943

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscript and typescripts, correspondence, diaries from 1911 to [1917], an undated commonplace book, notebooks for 1916-1940, financial and legal documents, and portraits and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 3,576 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19156 View

Nahum Sabsay papers, 1924-1969.

Title: Nahum Sabsay papers, 1924-1969.

Correspondence of Harvard graduate and author, Nahum Sabsay, with libraries andpublishers, manuscripts of published and unpublished works, and one photograph.

ArchivalResource: 2cartons (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00041/catalog View

Gore Vidal papers, 1850-2020 (inclusive), 1936-2008 (bulk)

Title: Gore Vidal papers, 1850-2020 (inclusive), 1936-2008 (bulk)

Papers of American author, Gore Vidal (1925-), including literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, political papers, legal and business records, and other material. Also includes papers of his companion, Howard Austen (1929-2003).

ArchivalResource: 414 linear feet (449 boxes, cartons, and film reels)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01943/catalog View

Stern, Madeleine B., 1912-2007. Madeleine Stern papers generated by the publication of Plots and Counterplots (a compilation of thrillers by Louisa May Alcott), 1976-1977.

Title: Madeleine Stern papers generated by the publication of Plots and Counterplots (a compilation of thrillers by Louisa May Alcott), 1976-1977.

Edited typescript, production and reader's galleys, page proofs, camera-ready copy (incl. illustrations), and dummy used in production of Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, edited and with an introduction by Madeleine Stern (New York: William Morrow, 1976), and one memo from Harvey Hoffman at William Morrow & Company with instructions regarding printing. Also, letter to C.E. Frazer Clark, Jr., and printed catalog relating to inclusion of papers in 1977 auction benefitting Rare Book Room of Detroit Public Library.

ArchivalResource: 2.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36031685 View

Varner, Velma Vara, 1916-1972. Papers, 1946-1973.

Title: Papers, 1946-1973.

This collection includes drawings and personal letters from authors and illustrators of children's books, correspondence about her career and promotions, and letters of condolence at the time of her death.

ArchivalResource: ca. 250 items (3 boxes, 1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122404730 View