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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

Sara and Gerald Murphy papers, 1854-2003

Title: Sara and Gerald Murphy papers 1854-2003

The collection consistsof the personal and family papers of Gerald and Sara Murphy, including materialcreated and accumulated by Gerald and Sara, their children Baoth, Patrick, andHonoria, and the Wiborg family. The collection documents the Murphy'sunconventional and artistic lifestyle and their role in the American expatriatecommunity in Paris and Antibes, France during the 1920s and early 1930s, aswell as their personal connections with artists and writers of the Modernistperiod. Also found is material relating to Gerald's father, Patrick FrancisMurphy, and his stewardship of the leather goods company, MarkCross.

ArchivalResource: 100.0 linear feet (103boxes)

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

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989. Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1936-1955.

Title: Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1936-1955.

The collection contains a first draft of a review of Turn, Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell, with autograph note from M.C. to "J.M." at bottom; and a letter, 1955 March 25, from Cowley to R.F. Roberts thanking him for the loan of the Mosher facsimile of "Leaves of Grass" from Clifton Waller Barrett and mentioning that Richard S. Barnes, a Chicago bookseller, has found another copy of the Mosher printing.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647874698 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

Densmore, Verva L. A corrective morality : Noddings' "Feminine ethic of care" in A time to be born, Huckleberry Finn, and Jazz / by Verva L. Densmore.

Title: A corrective morality : Noddings' "Feminine ethic of care" in A time to be born, Huckleberry Finn, and Jazz / by Verva L. Densmore. 1996.

ArchivalResource: viii, 88 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428736295 View

Edmund Wilson papers, 1829-1986, 1920-1972

Title: Edmund Wilson papers 1829-1986 1920-1972

The collection consists of correspondence, literary manuscripts, subject files, financial records, photographs, and personal and family papers documenting Wilson's life and work. The papers span the years 1829-1986, encompassing early family documents through materials concerning posthumous publication of Wilson's books and journals. The bulk of the collection dates from the beginnings of Wilson's literary career, ca. 1920, through his death in 1972. Series I, Correspondence, contains letters from literary colleagues, friends, family members, and business associates. Much of Wilson's correspondence concerns his writing, views on literature, interest in languages, and research in subjects including American history, American Indian rights, labor, the Cold War, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Files for literary colleagues, publishers, and friends include: John Peale Bishop, John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabokov, Dawn Powell, Mario Praz, Allen Tate, Morton Dauwen Zabel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Doubleday and Company, Oxford University Press, Secker & Warburg, and W. H. Allen. Correspondence with family includes his wives, actress Mary Blair, writer Mary McCarthy, Margaret Canby, and Elena Wilson, and members of the Wilson and Kimball families. Series II, Writings, includes Wilson's journals; drafts, setting copies, proofs, and reviews for his books and plays; drafts and clippings of essays, book reviews, short stories, and poetry; and drafts and clippings of writings by others. Journals consist of holograph notebooks, 1908-1970, accompanying materials, and transcripts, which were the source of Wilson's published autobiographical works. Drafts and proofs are present for most of Wilson's books, including: American Earthquake, Apologies to the Iroquois, The Bit Between My Teeth, Classics and Commercials, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Duke of Palermo, Europe Without Baedeker, Galahad and I Thought of Daisy, The Little Blue Light, Memoirs of Hecate County (including materials relating to obscenity trials), Night Thoughts, O Canada, Patriotic Gore, A Piece of My Mind, Red, Black, Blonde and Olive, Scrolls from the Dead Sea, The Shores of Light, To the Finland Station, The Triple Thinkers, Upstate, Window on Russia, and The Twenties, The Thirties, The Forties, The Fifties, and The Sixties. Writings by Others includes articles about Wilson, interviews with him, and writings by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin. Series III, Subject Files, contain printed materials and notes documenting Wilson's research in subjects such as communism, labor, Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship, income tax protest and Cold War spending, and Iroquois land rights. Series IV, Financial Papers, contains publisher account statements and tax records documenting Wilson's income and expenses, and his response to charges of tax evasion by the Internal Revenue Service. Series V, Photographs, contains portraits and snapshots of Wilson throughout his life, early family photographs, and photographs of other writers and friends. Series VI, Personal Papers, includes awards won by Wilson, drawings by him, his collection of Punch and Judy puppets, and legal documents. Series VII, Wilson and Kimball Family Papers, includes early family correspondence and legal documents, genealogical records, and papers of Wilson's parents, including writings and speeches of Edmund Wilson, Sr.

ArchivalResource: 162.84 linear ft. (331 boxes, including 60 oversize boxes) + 4 portfolios + 3 broadside folders.

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

Powell, Dawn. Dawn Powell Papers, 1910-1998.

Title: Dawn Powell Papers, 1910-1998.

Personal and professional correspondence of Dawn Powell, including she received from publishers, agents, admirers of her work, friends, family and others. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Malcolm Cowley (4 letters); John Dos Passos (57 letters); Ernest Hemingway (1 letter); Gerald and Sara Murphy (23 letters); Mark Schorer (2 letters); Edmund Wilson (15 letters); and Powell's own letters to her family. There are drafts of her playscripts and drafts and related materials for her novel "The Golden Spur". There are 4 scrapbooks of her husband, Joseph R. Gousha, recording the plays he saw in Pittsburg from 1910 to 1914, and 4 journals of her son. Additional personal and professional papers of Dawn Powell (correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and misc. materials) are on deposit with this library and will be added to the collection in the future.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft. (1,485 items in 14 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/265033382 View

Moss, Howard, 1922-1987. Papers, ca. 1935-1987, bulk (1961-1987).

Title: Papers, ca. 1935-1987, bulk (1961-1987).

Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, personal papers, tape recording, and printed matter documenting Moss's career as poet, essayist, dramatist, and editor.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122608118 View

Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964. Gerald and Sara Murphy papers, 1854-2003.

Title: Gerald and Sara Murphy papers, 1854-2003.

The collection consists of the personal and family papers of Gerald and Sara Murphy, including material created and accumulated by Gerald and Sara, their children Baoth, Patrick, and Honoria, and the Wiborg family. The collection documents the Murphy's unconventional and artistic lifestyle and their role in the American expatriate community in Paris and Antibes, France during the 1920s and early 1930s, as well as their personal connections with artists and writers of the Modernist period. Also found is material relating to Gerald's father, Patrick Francis Murphy, and his stewardship of the leather goods company, Mark Cross. Correspondents include: Jay Allen, Carlos Baker, Robert Benchley, John Peale Bishop, Camille Bombois, Charles and Elizabeth Brackett, William C. Bullitt, Stella Campbell, John and Katy Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, Brendan Gill, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Sheila Hibben, Charles Lederer, Fernand Legér, Archibald MacLeish, Marcelle Meyer, John O'Hara, Harold Ober, Dorothy Parker, Maxwell Perkins, Cole Porter, Jeffrey Potter, Dawn Powell, Berton Roueché, Charles Scribner, Gilbert Seldes, Bobby Short, Donald Ogden Stewart, Andrew Turnbull, Edmund Wilson, Alexander Woollcott, and Monty Woolley. Material includes general and family correspondence; photographic prints and albums depicting the Murphys, their children, their families, and their friends, including Pablo Picasso, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, John and Katy Dos Passos, and Archibald and Ada MacLeish, among others, at the Murphy residence, Villa America, and other places; notebooks, journals, and diaries of Gerald, Sara, Patrick, and Honoria Murphy, and Frank Wiborg; sketches and artwork by Gerald, Sara, Patrick, and Boath; three-dimensional objects, including Mark Cross leather goods; printed material, such as clippings and publications featuring articles about the Murphys, and exhibition and auction catalogs featuring the work of Gerald Murphy; motion picture film documenting the Murphys in Europe and East Hampton in the 1930s; and other personal effects.

ArchivalResource: 100.0 linear feet (102 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702158778 View

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Papers of John Dos Passos, 1918-2000.

Title: Papers of John Dos Passos, 1918-2000.

The collection contains a manuscript poem by Dos Passos "Beer is free to soldiers," 1919 February 24. There are also letters to Dawn Powell, 1937-1965; copies of postcards to Mr. and Mrs. Terry Farnsworth and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor; some Dos Passos family letters; and some miscellaneous postcards originally inserted in "Memoires de Philippde de Commynes." The collection also contains a modern copy of an 1812 baptismal certificate in Portuguese; World War I aerial photographs; a brochure for the Browne Art Class Season of 1940; a marriage certificate for John Dos Passos and Katherine Smith, 1929; "The Marriage Service" for John Dos Passos and Elizabeth Holdridge, 1949; clippings; and printed material regarding Dos Passos including programs for productions of "U.S.A." reviews of "U.S.A." Finally the collection contains a copy of "Days near Rome" by Augustus J.C. Hare with pressed plants between its pages.

ArchivalResource: 200 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51832439 View

Matthew Josephson papers

Title: Matthew Josephson papers

The Matthew Josephson Papers document the life and career of Matthew Josephson. The papers span the dates 1917-79, but the bulk of the material covers the years 1922-76.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 Linear Feet (21 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.joseph 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

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Letters of tribute to Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1951-1952.

Title: Letters of tribute to Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1951-1952.

Collection consists chiefly of letters from eminent Americans in response to Margaret Ligon's request for tributes to Carl Sandburg on his seventy-fifth birthday.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647807768 View