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Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. Edna Ferber papers, 1910-1977.

Title: Edna Ferber papers, 1910-1977.

Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, manuscript drafts, research material, notes and reviews of some of her novels, short stories, and autobiographical writings. Of these, "Cimarron" (1929), "Giant" (1952), "Great Son" (1944), and "Ice Palace" (1958) are best represented. Also included are scripts, reviews. financial information, and correspondence related to theater scripts such as collaborations with George V. Hobart, as well as adaptations of her work by others. Of the many film adaptations of her novels, the collection includes variant scripts for "Giant" and reviews and correspondence for several other productions. General correspondence contains letters from family, friends, and notables such as Louis Bromfield, Noel Coward, Jay N. Darling, Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle Hart, Malcolm Johnson, Daniel Longwell, Kenneth D. McCormick, H. L. Mencken, William Lyon Phelps, Robert Sherwood, Louis Untermeyer, Alexander Woollcott, Rebecca West, and William Allen White. Other correspondence concerns relations with her literary agents and her editors, her coverage of the Lindbergh kidnapping trial for the "New York Times," and her attempts to bring her Jewish relatives to the United States prior to World War II. Miscellaneous papers include research material about Ferber collected by her great-niece Julie Goldsmith Gilbert, a taped recording of Ferber reading, personal and literary financial papers, speeches, and photographs. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 10.6 c.f. (26 archives boxes, 1 flat box),1 disc recording, and1 tape recording; plusadditions of 0.2 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692522 View

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Papers, 1912-1957.

Title: Papers, 1912-1957.

Correspondence; manuscripts and typescripts of his fiction and non-fiction; research notes; annotated maps; and diaries (1912-1957) all relating to his work as a writer of fiction and non-fiction. The correspondence is voluminous and is with many noted authors, editors, publishers, and critics of the period. Also includes papers on dowsing and Water Unlimited, Inc.

ArchivalResource: 89 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/238647838 View

Schulberg, Budd. On the waterfront : an original screenplay / by Budd Schulberg.

Title: On the waterfront : an original screenplay / by Budd Schulberg. [1954?]

ArchivalResource: 148 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38427161 View

Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997. Papers, 1942-1943.

Title: Papers, 1942-1943.

Consists of correspondence urging the U.S. Government to place Emily Hahn's name on the list of American correspondents in Japan and Japanese held territories to be exchanged for Japanese journalists in the United States. Copies of these letters of support and of the responses from State Department officials were forwarded to Emily Hahn's sister Helen Asbury, usually by New Yorker editor Isaac Shuman or by William Rose Benét of the Saturday Review of Literature.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49254173 View