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Boyd, James, 1888-1944. James Boyd papers, 1906-1952 ; 1964-1969.

Title: James Boyd papers, 1906-1952 ; 1964-1969.

Papers include more than 400 letters written by James Boyd to his parents in Harrisburg, Pa., and other places, beginning in 1903 and continuing through his years at Princeton University, 1907-1910, and Cambridge University, 1910-1912, and while working as a journalist and for the Red Cross in New York City. Also included are letters to his wife while he was overseas, 1917-1919, serving as an ambulance driver with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and correspondence with friends, readers, other writers, and publishers about his work, especially about the novels "Drums" and "Bitter Creek" and about The Free Company, a group of American writers, producers, and broadcasters who presented radio programs on the ideas of the free world, 1940-1941. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Robert Bridges, Louis Bromfield, Bernard De Voto, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, Frank Porter Graham, Paul Green, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Thomas Mann, Maxwell Perkins, William Saroyan, Laurence Stallings, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe. Also included are drafts and copies of manuscripts of stories, articles, radio scripts, and poems; and clippings and pictures.

ArchivalResource: About 1020 items (4.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26319687 View

O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Papers of Eugene O'Neill [manuscript], 1918-1947.

Title: Papers of Eugene O'Neill [manuscript], 1918-1947.

Collection includes typescripts of "Beyond the horizon" and "Screenews of war" and an uncorrected proof of "A moon for the misbegotten." In a series of letters, 1922-1929, O'Neill writes to Harold de Polo concerning family matters, the Provincetown Players, his illnesses, his travels in the Far East, the breakup of his second marriage to Agnes Boulton O'Neill and his plans to marry Carlotta Monterey. O'Neill also discusses his plays, "The Emperor Jones," The straw," "The hairy ape," "Strange interlude," "Lazarus laughed," and "Dynamo." In a letter, ca. 1927, O'Neill writes to Agnes Boulton O'Neill re finances, purchase of a house, Arthur Hopkin's production of "Burlesque," the New York theatre and his hopes that "Strange interlude" will be chosen for Book of the Month.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647809886 View

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Papers of William Faulkner [manuscript], 1931-1948.

Title: Papers of William Faulkner [manuscript], 1931-1948.

The papers contain a typed manuscript of "Idyll in the desert" inscribed to Bennett Cerf and an autograph manuscript of an introduction to the Modern Library edition of "Sanctuary." Letters of Faulkner to Cerf discuss the Modern Library series, books sent by Cerf, a new pipe and the movie version of "Intruder in the dust." Also include a Christmas card from the Faulkners, a check from Cerf to Faulkner, Faulkner's broadside "to the voters of Oxford," and two articles "The school of cruelty" by Henry Seidel Canby and "The book of the day," by Laurence Stallings both chiefly regarding "Sanctuary".

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647817572 View

Souvenir programs for theatrical productions, 1906-2005.

Title: Souvenir programs for theatrical productions, 1906-2005.

Printed souvenir programs for theatrical and musical productions.

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes (4.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02197/catalog View

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. Scrapbooks of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1886-1958 (bulk 1904-1926).

Title: Scrapbooks of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1886-1958 (bulk 1904-1926).

The scrapbooks contain clippings supplied by a clippings service regarding Cabell and his works, chiefly reviews of his early books. The scrapbooks also contain letters to Cabell from publishers, fellow authors, readers, and reviewers; as well as programs and announcements. The "Jurgen" obscenity controversy is a frequent topic. In addition there are fragments of manuscripts by Cabell, manuscripts of poetry, essays and book reviews by other authors including "The unknown poetry of James Branch Cabell" by Louis Untermeyer, "The hashish-eater" by Clark Ashton Smith, and "Literary sore toes" by Edward Hale Bierstadt. Correspondents include Henry Mills Alden, Charles Dexter Allen, David W. Amram, Charlton Andrews, Edmund M. Ashe, Charles C. Baldwin, Samuel Barlow, Charles Bayly, Jr., Carleton Beals, Arthur E. Becher, William Rose Benét, William John Bernhard, Edward Hale Bierstadt, John Peale Bishop, edwin Björkman, Emily N. Blair, Ralph Block, Glen Walton Blodgett, Walter Russell Bowie, Ernest A. Boyd, Thomas A. Boyd, Henry Walcott Boynton, Anna Hempstead Branch, Don Marshall Bregenzer, Harold Chapman Brown, I. R. Brussel, Mitchell S. Buck, Abraham Cahan, George Chambers Calvert, Henry Seidel Canby, Lewis Chase, Donald Barr Chidsey, Thomas Caldecot Chubb, Barrett H. Clark, Wilson Ober Clough, Wilbur L. Cross, Frank Crowninshield, Aleister Crowley, Richard Harding Davis, R. De Roussy De Sales, William Arthur Deacon, Benjamin De Casseres, Leonard Cline, Frank Daniel, A. Grove Day, Floyd Dell, William Kavanaugh Doty, Philip C. Duschnes, Horace H. Edwards, Milton I. D. Einstein, Thomas Hornsly Ferril, Charles J. Finger, Samuel Fischer, Morris Fishbein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sydney B. Flower, Wilson Follett, Justus Miles Forman, Henry B. Fuller, Lewis Galantière, Glenn Garrard, Ellen Glasgow, Benjamin Glazer, Isaac Goldberg, Alfred F. Goldsmith, E. S. Goodhue, W. Cabell Greet, Elizabeth Grinnell, Frederick S. Hammett, T. Swann Harding, Lester Hargrett, Arthur Hartmann, William R. A. Hays, Joseph Hergesheimer, B. Russell Herts, H. R. R. Hertzberg, Harry Hervey, John M. Hill, Grover Cleveland Hite, Robert C. Holliday, Guy Holt, Fannie Hurst, Merle Johnson, George T. Keating, Ethel May Kelly, Alfred Kreymborg, Joseph Wood Krutch, Elinor Macartney Lane, Kenneth Westmacott Lane (Keith West), Henry W. Lanier, Clarence John Laughlin, Grace Hegger Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, H. Baxter Liebler, J. B. Lippincott Co., Horace B. Liveright, William Loeb, Jr., F. B. Luquiens, George Macy, John Macy, Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Edwin J. Mayer, Helen F. McAfee, Roy L. McCardell, Warren Albert McNeill, H. L. Mencken, George Moore, Willard S. Morse, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, George Jean Nathan, Robert Nathan, Frances Newman, Charles Edmund Noyes, Edward J. O'Brien, Hamilton Owens, Walter Hines Page, Albert Bigelow Paine, Stuart Palmer, Isabel Paterson, Thomas Rossman Palfrey, Mary Plum, Mary Brecht Pulver, Burton Rascoe, Ben Ray Redman, John R. Reinhard, Laban Lacy Rice, Thomas Geale Rice, Walter Adolphe Roberts, James Harvey Robinson, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Theodore Roosevelt, Viscountess Lilian Rothermere of Harmsworth, Harold Goddard Rugg, B. K. Sandwell, Whitelaw Saunders, Eugene Francis Saxton, Dorothy Scarborough, Laurence Schwab, George Steele Seymour, Frank Shay, Lewis Worthington Smith, Lloyd E. Smith, Paul Jordan Smith, Maurice J. Speiser, Laurence Stallings, Vincent Starrett, Donald Ogden Stewart, Gideon Timberlake, Pierre Troubetzkoy, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Doren, Nathan Van Patten, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Frank H. Vizetelly, Bernhardt Wall, Hugh Walpole, Harold Ward, Anne Rutherfoord Wayland, Franklin Wentworth, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Blanche Colton Williams, Marshall Wingfield, A. L. S. Wood, and Jack Woodford.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647901738 View

Stallings, Laurence, 1894-1968. Here's to crime [collection] : [in three acts] : adapted from Dashiell Hammett's novel "The Maltese falcon" / by Laurence Stallings.

Title: Here's to crime [collection] : [in three acts] : adapted from Dashiell Hammett's novel "The Maltese falcon" / by Laurence Stallings. [between 1920 and 1940?]

One typed script, in English, bearing the indication "return to Laurence Schwab ... New York City."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17256732 View

Johnson, Gerald W. (Gerald White), 1890-1980. Gerald White Johnson Papers, 1886-1989

Title: Gerald White Johnson Papers, 1886-1989

His papers consists of biographical information; professional and family correspondence; education files while a student at the University of Toulouse and Wake Forest College; financial documents; literary productions, including speeches, addresses, and book reviews; copies and clippings of his newspaper columns; magazine articles; his World War I notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia; photograph albums and loose photographs on the Duls, Haywood, and Johnson families; a postcard album; awards and certificates; honorary degrees; medals and insignia; scrapbooks of clippings; his subject files; and memorabilia including his academic regalia, his typewritter, and a lap-top desk.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear feet 9 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60690714 View

Ford, J. mss., 1906-1976

Title: Ford, J. mss. 1906-1976

Consists of the correspondence, papers, and memorabilia of motion picture director John Ford, 1895-1973.

ArchivalResource: 7,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC2724 View

Stallings, Laurence, 1894-1968. Papers of Laurence Stallings [manuscript], 1927-1928.

Title: Papers of Laurence Stallings [manuscript], 1927-1928.

Correspondence with Robert Bridges regards Stallings' literary contributions to a "Scribner's" series on World War I, and Helen P. Stallings poems submitted to the magazine. There are also galley proofs with autograph corrections of Stallings' reviews of "Pylon" by William Faulkner, "Personal history" by Vincent Sheean, "Things to live for" by Francis Stuart, and "Moscow carrousel" by Eugene Lyons.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814585 View

Theatre Arts Monthly, collection of portraits, ca., ca., 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Theatre Arts Monthly collection of portraits, ca. ca. 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Portrait and group portrait photographs of theatre-related people.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02021/catalog View

Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Title: Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was a professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and author of numerous works, chiefly relating to North Carolina's literary heritage. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials chiefly relating to North Carolina' literary heritage. Files on individual authors and literary subjects dominate, with special emphasis on the life and works of Thomas Wolfe. Other authors represented in the collection include Doris Betts, Helen Bevington, James Boyd, Richard Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Edward Eaton, John Ehle, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, George Moses Horton, Gerald W. Johnson, Frederick H. Koch, Guy Owen, Robert C. Ruark, Wilbur D. Steele, Hardin E. Taliaferro, and Jonathan Williams. There is also material on North Carolina folklore and other topics not directly connected to literature. A small number of items relate to Walser's life as a student at the University of North Carolina and to his service with the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.

ArchivalResource: About 27,800 items (32.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04168/ View

Bernd, Aaron, 1894-1937. Aaron Bernd papers, 1919-1937.

Title: Aaron Bernd papers, 1919-1937.

The collection contains the papers of Aaron Bernd from 1919-1937. The papers consist of correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed material, photographs, legal documents, and financial records. Correspondence primarily documents Bernd's professional activities as a literary editor and writer for The Macon Telegraph as well as his freelance literary endeavors. A large collection of personal letters from scholar and educator John Donald Wade concern faculty tenure negotiations at the University of Georgia in the 1920s. The correspondence also includes letters to and from Walter F. White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1924-1934 concerning racial prejudice in the South, lynching, and contemporary literature. Additional correspondents include Clark Foreman, Julia and Julian Harris, James Weldon Johnson, H.L. Mencken, Howard W. Odum, Arthur B. Spingarn, Laurence Stallings, Hank Fuller of the International Labor Defense, and Will W. Alexander and Robert B. Eleazer of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. The writings in the Bernd papers include drafts of Bernd's columns and reviews and an unpublished book draft co-authored by Susan Myrick entitled "We Get Along: A Primer for Yankees About Relations of Whites and Blacks in the South". Scrapbooks primarily contain columns and articles by Bernd for The Macon Telegraph and additional correspondence. Other materials of interest in this collection include Bernd's will, photographs from the Signal Corps USA, and printed material from the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the NAACP.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes, 25 oversized papers (OP), and 2 oversized bound volumes (OBV))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434456951 View

Aikman, Duncan, 1889-1955. Contributions to The American Mercury, 1933-1938.

Title: Contributions to The American Mercury, 1933-1938.

Typescripts, mostly heavily corrected, and proofs of stories and articles contributed to The American mercury.

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17220002 View

New Yorker records

Title: New Yorker records

Weekly magazine founded in New York City in 1925 by Harold W. Ross, Jane Grant, Alexander Woollcott and Raoul Fleischman. The records consist of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, edited and corrected manuscripts and typescripts, drawings, statistical reports, lists of story and art ideas, photographs, and sound recordings and printed materials created during the foundation and day-to-day operations of the magazine from 1924-1984. This material documents the production of every issue of the magazine and provides insight on the careers of its staff and contributors.

ArchivalResource: 1058.76 linear feet; 2566 boxes; 7 microfilm reels; 18 sound recordings

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2236 View

Hanson Weightman Baldwin papers, 1900-1988

Title: Hanson Weightman Baldwin papers 1900-1988

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, research materials, publicity for books, and other papers of Hanson W. Baldwin, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and military affairs reporter and editor for the from 1929-1968, and editor for , 1968-1976. The papers relate to Baldwin's work and interests as a journalist and author and include correspondence with many high-ranking officers of the armed services, government officials, and writers and historians, as well as other members of the staff of the and . Of particular interest are the subject files of printed materials and clippings which Baldwin collected and maintained for his own use. Included in these files are a number of important reports, transcriptions, and other items, some of which are not easily obtainable elsewhere. New York Times Reader's Digest New York Times Reader's Digest

ArchivalResource: 99.5 linear feet (173 boxes, 1 folio, 2 volumes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0054 View

James M. Cain Papers, 1901-1978, (bulk 1925-1978)

Title: James M. Cain Papers 1901-1978 (bulk 1925-1978)

Author, journalist, and screenwriter. Correspondence, writings, legal and financial records, family papers, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Cain's work as a journalist and to his career as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter.

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items; 94 containers; 36 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009011 View

Souvenir programs of motion pictures, 1915-1978.

Title: Souvenir programs of motion pictures, 1915-1978.

20th century souvenir programs primarily of motion pictures.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (1.75 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02211/catalog View