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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

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Papers of John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1896-1970.

Title: Papers of John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1896-1970.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence with publishers, lecture organizer Harold R. Peat, inc., and academics. Correspondence, 1953-1955, with the Peat agency discusses itineraries, monetary arrangements, criticism, advice, lecture format and stress. Some contracts, itinaries and instruction sheets are included. Correspondence with agents and publishers traces the publication history of his books. Very brief, routine letters from academics generally request permission to reprint selections in anthologies and college texts. Of interest in the correspondence are a 1952 letter resigning from the American Civil Liberties Union and three letters re potential libel over the character "Elsa" in "Great Days." The collection also contains a Columbia University Law School Class Book, 1896, with a biographical note and photograph of his half brother James Madison; royalty statements; clippings; obituaries; a memoranda notebook; miscellaneous printed material and two articles by Dos Passos "The Truth About Visual Training," "Two Eighteenth-Century Careers"and "Thomas Jefferson Looks At the Modern World."

ArchivalResource: 680 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647834374 View