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Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Claude McKay collection, 1853-1990 (bulk 1922-1948).

Title: Claude McKay collection, 1853-1990 (bulk 1922-1948).

The Claude McKay Collection consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs and memorabilia documenting the life and work of Claude McKay. Series I, Correspondence, consists of two subseries for General and Publishers Correspondence. There is correspondence with many well known writers and figures in the African American community from the first half of the 20th century, including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, Countee Cullen and Harold Jackman. Series II, Writings, contains a variety of writings: articles, essays, short stories, novels, book-length autobiographical and non-fictional work, individual poems and collections of poems, and writings of others. There are holograph and typescript drafts of My Green Hills of Jamaica, and typescript drafts of Harlem: Negro Metropolis, an unpublished novel (Romance in Marseilles), and collections of poems, including The Selected Poems of Claude McKay.

ArchivalResource: 11.35 linear ft. (21 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60366601 View

William A. Bradley Literary Agency, 1923-1982. William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records 1909-1982.

Title: William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records 1909-1982.

The William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records consist of agency correspondence with authors, publishers, and other agents, accompanied by various enclosures, such as book jackets, press clippings, typed manuscripts, financial statements, and photographs. Some personal correspondence in the records predates the formation of the agency.

ArchivalResource: 245 boxes (102.9 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191957092 View

Papers, 1907-1937.

Title: Papers, 1907-1937.

Papers of American poet Alan Seeger.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01256/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

Henry, O., 1862-1910. Papers of O. Henry, 1897-1954.

Title: Papers of O. Henry, 1897-1954.

The collection contains 14 manuscripts by Henry: "Adventures in neurasthenia," "Confessions of a humorist," "The crucible," "The enchanted kiss," "The friendly call," "The hypotheses of failure," "Lo" (a fragment), "The lonesome road," "Mammon and the archer," "The shamrock and the palm," "Street of lies" (a fragment), "Strictly business," "Thimble thimble," and an unnamed play fragment. There is also a manuscript "Alias Jimmy Valentine," by Paul Armstrong, based on O. Henry's "A retrieved reformation." There are 21 letters and 2 telegrams from O. Henry discussing his social life, writing, finances, overdue manuscripts, health, marriage, housing arrangements, "Broadway magazine," a personal ad in the "New York Herald," and his story "The phonograph and the graft." A letter from S.S. McClure Company accepts "The miracle of Lava Cañon." A letter from William Aspenwall Bradley discusses an advance. A three letter exchange between Sara Lindsay Coleman Porter and John O'Hara Cosgrave of "Everybody's magazine" discusses Henry's death. Two letters from Dale Kramer to E.H. Ruestow deal with the loan of a photograph of Henry. A letter from John J. Dacey to George D. Smith discusses the authenticity of four O. Henry manuscripts. An autograph statement by Perriton Maxwell discusses the manuscript "The enchanted kiss." There are also 9 photographs of O. Henry; a copy of his "O. Henryana"; wedding invitations; a contract with "Collier's weekly" for a "southern series"; 6 sales reports and an account statement from Doubleday, Page and Company; newspaper review of "Best stories of O. Henry," including a biographical sketch; and a Doubleday, Page and Company advertising flier containing "O. Henry" by James Whitcomb Riley. Also "Strictly business" as printed in "Broadway magazine" with illustrations by Reginald Bathurst Birch; "The friendly call" as printed in "Rolling stones"; "O. Henry and me," by Ethel Lloyd Patterson as printed in "Everybody's magazine" with illustrations by William Oberhardt. Of particular interest is a sketch of Pittsburg by O. Henry. Additional correspondents include Charles Belmont Davis, Richard Harding Davis, Richard Duffy, William Griffith, William Andrew Johnston, Ethel Lloyd Patterson and Charles Alphonso Smith.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825369 View

Melville Cane Papers, 1901-1979.

Title: Melville Cane Papers, 1901-1979.

ArchivalResource: 22 linear ft (ca. 2,950 items in 46 boxes & 5 volumes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079655 View

Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939. Letters : to Maurice Firuski, Brick Row Print and Book Shop, New Haven, Conn, 1916 Nov. 20, 1916 Dec. 9, 1916 Dec. 20.

Title: Letters : to Maurice Firuski, Brick Row Print and Book Shop, New Haven, Conn, 1916 Nov. 20, 1916 Dec. 9, 1916 Dec. 20.

Holograph letters, signed. Relate to literary activities, book prices, etc. Include reference to author Walter De la Mare who was to be in Cambridge [after 1916 Nov. 20] to give a lecture before the Harvard Poetry Society.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23247600 View

Thomas Bird Mosher papers, 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Bird Mosher papers, 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).

Correspondence of the American publisher Thomas Bird Mosher.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00352/catalog View

Peter Neagoe Papers, 1928-1967

Title: Peter Neagoe Papers 1928-1967

Papers of the Romanian American artist, novelist, short short writer (1881-1960). Correspondence, diaries, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, sketches, memorabilia, and material relating to Neagoe's wife, painter and muralist, Anna Neagoe.

ArchivalResource: 7.0 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/n/neagoe_p.htm View

Marjorie Worthington papers, 1931-1976

Title: Marjorie Worthington papers 1931-1976

Author who lived in France in the 1920s and 1930s and socialized with other American expatriate artists and writers. Consists of personal diaries, 1931-1962; personal and professional correspondence, 1916-1976; published and unpublished manuscripts of novels, short stories, essays, poems, and speeches, mostly written after 1966; class notes on writers' workshops; reviews and publicity; bibliographies, royalty statements, and contracts; personal material and photographs; and books by her and from her library.

ArchivalResource: 12.25 linear feet, 24 containers

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04122 View

Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939. William Aspenwall Bradley papers, 1900-1966.

Title: William Aspenwall Bradley papers, 1900-1966.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, documents, clippings, periodicals, and books including Bradley's writings while at Columbia University, his poetry and short stories about the Kentucky mountains, his translations of various French authors, his writings on printing history, art, and health, and his other contributions to periodicals. Correspondents include John Kendrick Bangs and William Goddell Frost.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. ( 4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470399837 View

Worthington, Marjorie Muir, 1900-1976. Papers, 1931-1976.

Title: Papers, 1931-1976.

Consists of personal diaries, 1931-1962; personal and professional correspondence, 1916-1976; published and unpublished manuscripts of novels, short stories, essays, poems, and speeches, mostly written after 1966; class notes on writers' workshops; reviews and publicity; bibliographies, royalty statements, and contracts; personal material; and books by her and from her library.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 lin. ft. (19 boxes, 30 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19545912 View

O. Henry Collection

Title: O. Henry Collection

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00323.xml View

William Aspenwall Bradley Papers, 1900-1966.

Title: William Aspenwall Bradley Papers 1900-1966.

This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, notes, documents, clippings, periodicals, and books of William Aspenwall Bradley, 1878-1939.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft (ca. 300 items in 4 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079462 View

Claude McKay collection, 1853-1990, 1922-1948

Title: Claude McKay collection 1853-1990 1922-1948

The Claude McKay Collection consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs and memorabilia documenting the life and work of Claude McKay. Series I, Correspondence, consists of two subseries for General and Publishers Correspondence. There is correspondence with many well known writers and figures in the African American community from the first half of the 20th century, including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, Countee Cullen and Harold Jackman. Series II, Writings, contains a variety of writings: articles, essays, short stories, novels, book-length autobiographical and non-fictional work, individual poems and collections of poems, and writings of others. There are holograph and typescript drafts of My Green Hills of Jamaica, and typescript drafts of Harlem: Negro Metropolis, an unpublished novel (Romance in Marseilles), and collections of poems, including The Selected Poems of Claude McKay. Series III, Personal Papers, is organized into eight subseries: Books, Clippings, Financial and Legal Records, Invitations and Announcements, Material Relating to McKay's Death and Burial, Medical and Health Records, Postcards and Other. Series IV, Subject Files, consists chiefly of clippings dating from the 1920s and 1930s on liberal politics, labor issues, race, and the countries in which McKay resided while abroad. Series V, Photographs, consists of five subseries: Family, Snapshots of McKay, Other People, Places and Other. There are photographs from Soviet Russia in the early 1920s, and studio portraits of well known musicians and figures in the African American community. Series VI, Memorabilia, contains clippings, photographs, program material and souvenirs from four separate commemorative events in honor of McKay from 1979-1990.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 21; Other Storage Formats: 1 object storage item; Linear Feet: 11.35'

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

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers, 1837-1961

Title: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers 1837-1961

The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers contain manuscripts of writings, letters, clippings, photographs, artworks, and personal papers relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, and to Gertrude's brother, Leo Stein, an artist and writer. As well as holding the bulk of Stein's literary output (often described as "experimental" or "cubist" writing), the materials document Stein and Toklas' involvement with the literary and art scene in Paris during the first half of the 20th century. Series I, Writings, contains holograph and typescript drafts of the majority of Gertrude Stein's writings, including "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," "The Making of Americans" (complete with a quantity of notes, or "studies"), "Tender Buttons" and a group of unpublished fragments and carnets, notebooks kept by Stein with preliminary drafts of writings. Series II, Correspondence of Gertrude Stein, contains letters sent from a wide variety of Stein's friends: artists such as Georges Bracque, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso; writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Thornton Wilder; and acquaintances through many years such as Mildred Aldrich, Etta and Claribel Cone, Robert Haas, Mabel Dodge Luhan,Sir Francis Rose, Virgil Thomson, and Carl Van Vechten. Series III, Third Party Letters and Series IV, Alice B. Toklas Correspondence, contain letters from many of the same people, the latter group containing Alice Toklas's correspondence following Gertrude Stein's death. Series V, Personal Papers, and Series VI, Clippings, gather together various personal affects of Stein and Toklas as well as documentation of Stein's life as reported during her lifetime. Series VII, Photographs, show Stein from early childhood through 1946, the year she died. Prints showing Alice Toklas, various friends, artworks, and locales are included in this series, as are several volumes of prints made by Carl Van Vechten. Series VIII and IX contain numerous artworks and objects given by Stein and Toklas. Included here are a painting by Pablo Picasso and a sketch by Henri Matisse.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 173; Other Storage Formats: Oversize, artwork, objects, cold storage; Linear Feet: 93

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

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925. Papers, 1916-1920.

Title: Papers, 1916-1920.

Correspondence and papers (1916) concerning publication of her Ballads for sale as Sunwise Turn broadside no. 1. Includes letters to Madge Jenison of Sunwise Turn Bookshop, two from William A. Bradley, artist's proof of Broadsides by Walt Kuhn, and a sketch of a troubadour. Also a Sunwise Turn catalogue (1920).

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14344992 View

Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968. Papers of Witter Bynner, 1913-1918.

Title: Papers of Witter Bynner, 1913-1918.

The collection contains a poem, "To the Mountain," n.d.; and a newsletter of the Poetry Society of America, 1918, noting among other items, a reading by Bynner, activities of Edna St. Vincent Millay, World War I service of Raymond Weeks, William Aspenwall Bradley, Burton Egbert Stevenson, Curtis Wheeler, and Joyce Kilmer, and a hoax perpretrated by Bynner and Arthur Davidson Ficke. In letters to Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling he compliments her on a poem and offers publishing advice noting that the firm of Small, Maynard & Company publishes only Ezra Pound, Madison Cawein and himself and suggesting she send her verse to Mitchell Kennerly. Letters to a Mr. and Mrs. Carruth discuss meeting with Stanford undergraduates and announce a poetry prize for undergraduates. Letters to Christian Herter concern submissions to the "Independent."

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50297839 View

Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927 (inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk).

Title: Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927(inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk).

Correspondence of the American poet, Amy Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00100/catalog View

Family papers, 1853-1954.

Title: Family papers, 1853-1954.

Family papers of Corinne Douglas (Robinson) Alsop Cole, daughter of Douglas Robinson and Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, younger sister of American president Theodore Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/trc00018/catalog View

Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk).

Title: Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, andother papers of the music critic Richard Aldrich (1863-1937), including collectedphotographs and programs. Also includes collection of letters from Aldrich to OttoDresel (1826-1890).

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01976 View

Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939. The morbid note in art.

Title: The morbid note in art. 1900.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56182117 View

Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939. Autograph letters signed (7) and autograph postcard signed, dated : Beaune, Paris [and other places], 1919-30 [and n.d.], to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1923 Jan. 10, 1919-1930 and n.d.

Title: Autograph letters signed (7) and autograph postcard signed, dated : Beaune, Paris [and other places], 1919-30 [and n.d.], to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1923 Jan. 10, 1919-1930 and n.d.

Mostly of a social and personal nature, mentioning a visit from Fitz-Roy Carrington, etc.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (20 p., with 3 envelopes) ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270673138 View

Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1926-1935.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1926-1935.

ArchivalResource: 106 items (151 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155896102 View

Thomas Bird Mosher papers, 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Bird Mosher papers, 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).

Correspondence of the American publisher Thomas Bird Mosher.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00352/catalog View

O. Henry Collection

Title: O. Henry Collection

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00317.xml View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers, 1897-1930

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1897-1930

Papers of the African-American poet, literary critic, and editor William Stanley Braithwaite.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes (10.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01469/catalog View

William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records TXRC06-A20., 1909-1982

Title: William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records 1909-1982

The William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records document the work and personal lives of William and Jenny Bradley as literary agents in Paris for most of the twentieth century. After William A. Bradley's death in 1939, Jenny Bradley assumed responsibility for the agency maintaining William A. Bradley as the literary agency's name until her death in 1982. Representing mostly American, English, and French authors, the William A. Bradley Literary Agency counted Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Richard Wright among its numerous clients.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00300/00300p1-P.html View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Cane, Melville, 1879-1980. Melville Cane papers, 1901-1979.

Title: Melville Cane papers, 1901-1979.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and books of Melville H. Cane.

ArchivalResource: 22 linear ft. ( 46 boxes & 5 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/472459751 View