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Marguerite Yourcenar additional papers, 1842-1996.

Title: Marguerite Yourcenar additional papers, 1842-1996.

Additional papers of Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), the French author, as well as papers of her companion, Grace Frick.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes and 53 volumes (52 linear ft.)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00046 View

Bernard Malamud Papers 1930-1989 (bulk 1949-1986)

Title: Bernard Malamud Papers 1930-1989 (bulk 1949-1986)

Author. Part I contains correspondence, drafts, memoranda, manuscripts, notes and outlines, legal and financial records, printed matter, and other papers relating to Malamud's life and work as a novelist and short story writer, including his relations with editors, literary agents, and publishers, his work on theatrical and motion picture adaptations, his defense of free speech, and his support of the artistic community. Part II supplements the topics and files in Part I and also includes notes and outlines for classroom lectures given by Malamud at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, and drafts and notes for public lectures and readings.

ArchivalResource: 13,000 items; 77 containers; 30.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005011 View

Jack Levine papers

Title: Jack Levine papers

The papers of New York social realist painter and printmaker Jack Levine date from 1923-1999, and measure 3.2 linear feet. Levine's career is documented through biographical material, scattered letters, notes and a speech, writings, student drawings, three scrapbooks, printed material and nearly one linear foot of photographs of Levine, his family, and his colleagues.Found within the papers are two driver's licenses and several biographical accounts, and scattered letters from colleagues including one each from John Taylor Arms, Hyman Bloom, Leonard Bocour, René d'Harnoncourt, Lloyd Goodrich, Jacob Lawrence, and Homer Saint-Gaudens discussing various art-related events. There is only one carbon copy of a letter written by Levine. The correspondence includes oversized photographs of the members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Additional photographs of the members are found in the Photograph series. Notes and writings are primarily typescripts about Jack Levine written by others. There is also a transcript of one speech, "Jack Levine Speaks Regarding the Donation of 108 of his Drawings to the Archives" delivered by Levine at the Fogg Art Museum.Artwork consists entirely of Levine's student drawings including anatomical studies, neighborhood genre scenes, copies of Old Masters, and a series of images of symphony musicians. Some of the drawings display themes that are reflected in his later paintings.Three scrapbooks contain clippings that document Levine's career and reflect his political interests. Additional printed material consists of a comprehensive collection of clippings and exhibition announcements and catalogs. There is also an announcement for a lecture by Levine, press releases, calendars of events, reproductions of artwork, programs, brochures including one for <emph render="italic">Facing East</emph>, a portfolio of Levine's prints, and three books.Photographs include numerous photographs of Levine throughout his artistic career, including images of his wife, painter Ruth Gikow, their daughter Susanna, and colleagues including Hyman Bloom, Leonard Bocour, Alexander Dobkin, Joachim Probst, and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Especially notable is a series of photographs of Levine printmaking with Emiliano Sorini and Ruth Gikow. There are photographs of Levine serving on art juries and panels with Eleanor Coen, Joseph Hirsch, Gabor Peterdi, Studs Terkel, and Max Weber, and attending events with Lawrence Fleischman, Betty Friedan, Edith Halpert, Mauricio Lasansky, Gypsy Rose Lee, Pope Paul VI, and Raphael Soyer. A small album contains photographs of Levine and various buildings in Boston. There are also photographs of miscellaneous exhibition installations including Levine's retrospective at the Jewish Museum, and of artwork by Levine and others.Group photographs of the members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters are found here, and include Will Barnet, Paul Cadmus, Chuck Close, David Levine, George Tooker, and John Updike. Additional group photographs of the members that were originally enclosed with letters are found in the correspondence series.

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Repository description.

Title: Repository description.

"Deceased members files" containing correspondence about Academy and Institute business from about 800 deceased members (similar correspondence from living members is kept in an active file in the Academy and Institute's office), and minutes and scrapbooks from the beginning of the organization to the present.

ArchivalResource: ca. 110 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155476120 View

Deceased members files, [ca. 1884-1985]

Title: Deceased members files, [ca. 1884-1985]

Files representing ca. 800 members consist primarily of correspondence concerning membership, nominations of new members, RSVP forms, awards and prizes, and other Academy and Institute business. Also, clippings concerning members' careers, obituaries, photographs, acceptance speeches, exhibition catalogs, announcements of art exhibits, concerts, lectures, and other events presented by members, and miscellaneous other biographical data. Approximately 125 of these files contain manuscripts of poems, essays, music, and other writings. Members and honorary members represented here include Edward Abbey, Hannah Arendt, Irving Babbitt, Louise Bogan, Alexander Calder, Willa Cather, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), e.e. cummings, Ellen Glasgow, Childe Hassam, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, William Dean Howells, Randall Jarrell, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Roosevelt, and Moses Soyer.

ArchivalResource: ca. 90 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155473975 View

John Ciardi Papers, 1910-1997, (bulk 1960-1985)

Title: John Ciardi Papers 1910-1997 (bulk 1960-1985)

Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Advertisements, biographical material, contracts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, press releases, research material, royalty statements with holograph and typescript drafts, galley proofs, page proofs, and printed versions of aphorisms, articles, book reviews, books, columns, essays, etymological dictionaries, limericks, plays, poems, poetry reviews, radio and television scripts, and speeches and lectures.

ArchivalResource: 31,500 items; 91 containers plus 2 oversize; 36.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057 View

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. Oliver Wendell Holmes letters to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1824-1894.

Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes letters to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1824-1894.

This collection consists of letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes to fellow writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Holmes writes mostly to his friend thanking him for various poems and books, and commenting on Aldrich's writing. The letters also discuss women poets, Aldrich's poem "Bad Boy", the Atlantic monthly, Holmes' membership in the American Academy, dinner invitations, and poetic passages.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612787550 View

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989. Malcolm Cowley papers, 1911-1990.

Title: Malcolm Cowley papers, 1911-1990.

Correspondence with and materials about 20th century literary figures; papers reflecting Cowley's long involvement with Yaddo and the American Academy of Arts and Letters; project files including Cowley's writings, related correspondence and research materials; audiotapes and photographs; and family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 77 cubic ft. (170 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and oversize folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57176029 View

Wilbur, Richard, 1921-. Presentation of the Gold Medal for Poetry to Archibald MacLeish, May 23, 1979 / by Richard Wilbur.

Title: Presentation of the Gold Medal for Poetry to Archibald MacLeish, May 23, 1979 / by Richard Wilbur. 1979.

ArchivalResource: [2] leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122355406 View

New Directions Publishing records

Title: New Directions Publishing records

Records of the New Directions Publishing Corporation largely from the Norfolk, Connecticut office of the founder, James Laughlin.

ArchivalResource: 344 linear feet (910 boxes and 4 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00077/catalog View

Harry Levin papers

Title: Harry Levin papers

Papers of Harry Levin, American literary critic, scholar of modernism and comparative literature, and the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature atHarvard University.

ArchivalResource: 41 linear feet (34 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01917 View

Braude, Michael. Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989.

Title: Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989.

The Michael Braude papers include manuscripts of verse, drama, and prose. Also included are correspondence, periodicals, and published works related to his literary career. Most of the material is concerned with Jewish liberal themes, much of which is satirical or humorous in nature.

ArchivalResource: 11.25 cubic ft. (25 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53180743 View

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Ceremonial program, 1980 / American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Title: Ceremonial program, 1980 / American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Program for the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' annual induction and award ceremony fon May 21, 1980, at which John Cheever was a presenter. Signed by John Cheever.

ArchivalResource: 9 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/472294613 View

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Institutional file.

Title: Institutional file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318535082 View

Gail Godwin Papers, 1913-2008

Title: Gail Godwin Papers, 1913-2008

Author Gail Godwin was born in Birmingham, Ala.; grew up in Asheville, N.C.; was graduated in 1959 from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in journalism; and studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop, earning an M.A. in creative writing and Ph.D. in English literature. She has published ten novels and taught in various colleges and universities. Godwin lives in Woodstock, N.Y. The collection includes literary material, chiefly typescript drafts and stages of proofs, notes, background research, correspondence, and marketing and financial materials related to Godwin's published and unpublished books, book reviews, essays, excerpts, libretti, novellas, and short stories. There are also publicity materials, including correspondence, clippings, texts of speeches, and audiocassettes and videotapes, that document appearances, speaking engagements, honors, awards, interviews, book reviews, and articles about Godwin and her work. Personal materials include correspondence with family members, friends, fans, and other literary figures, including John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, and Joyce Carol Oates. Family correspondence pertains to members of the Cole, Godwin, Krahenbuhl, Rogers, and Zeigler families, but the bulk documents Godwin's relationships with her mother, Kathleen Cole, and with her grandmother, Edna Rogers Krahenbuhl. Family materials also include research and writings by Kathleen Cole; early writings by Gail Godwin; and personal items belonging to family members. Other materials include writing notebooks; notes on writing and teaching; photographs; research notes; a small amount of family history materials; scholarly writing about Godwin; drawings; materials related to St. Hilda's Press; and writings by others. Dream diaries and journals have been added to the collection beginning with the 2006 addition.

ArchivalResource: 15,000; 52.0

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Godwin,Gail.html View

Wole Soyinka papers, 1966-1996.

Title: Wole Soyinka papers, 1966-1996.

Papers of Nigerian author and humanitarian Wole Soyinka, including compositions, correspondence, and records of his teaching and human rights activities.

ArchivalResource: 16 boxes (24 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01766/catalog View

Vera Zorina papers

Title: Vera Zorina papers

Papers of ballet dancer, actress, choreographer and opera director Vera Zorina

ArchivalResource: 73.4 linear feet (158 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02312/catalog View

Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Title: Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Papers of Russian physicist and human rights activist Andreĭ Sakharov.

ArchivalResource: 137 boxes (57 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01977/catalog View

Schuman, William, 1910-1992. Papers and records, 1933-1986.

Title: Papers and records, 1933-1986.

Correspondence; memoranda; reports; minutes of meetings; press releases; drafts and final copies of articles, speeches, and statements; awards and certificates; diaries; photographs; magazines; clippings; pamphlets and papers; programs; posters; and scrapbooks. Correspondents include: Samuel Barber, Jacques Barzun, William Bergsma, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Agnes DeMille, David Diamond, Antal Dorati, Morton Gould, Martha Graham, Frank Loesser, Otto Luening, Peter Mennin, Eugene Ormandy, Vincent Persichetti, Frederik Prausnitz, Andre Previn, Josef Raieff, Claire Reis, Richard Rodgers, Isaac Stern, Risë Stevens, Anthony Strilko, Roman Totenberg, Edgard Varèse, and Hugo Weisgall; representatives of organizations with which he has been associated and of other orchestras, foundations, educational institutions, and publishers.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft. (195 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122485994 View

Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006. Stanley Kunitz papers, 1919-2003 (bulk 1960-1990).

Title: Stanley Kunitz papers, 1919-2003 (bulk 1960-1990).

Consists of wide-ranging materials accumulated by Kunitz over a period of about seventy years. The collection also contains papers (correspondence, documents, and printed materials) from the H.W. Wilson Company, where Kunitz worked as an editor (1928-1943), the United States Army (1943-1945), the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts (1968-1997), and the Library of Congress, where Kunitz served as the Poetry Consultant (1974-1976). Also found in the collection are some papers of others, including a poem entitled "The Gettysburg Address" by Robert Lowell and the book manuscripts that Kunitz chose while editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Also included in the Papers are teaching materials, travel files, documents, calendars, memorabilia, photos, annotated books, audiocassettes, and printed material. A small selection of additional material includes correspondence by Kunitz, primarily to Roger Skillings; correspondence of Skillings; three photographs of Kunitz and others; two copies of "Shankpainter" no. 16, Spring 1978, containing chapters from Kunitz' unfinished novel, "Hartrex"; and printed material relating to Kunitz. [Note that the Milberg Collection in the Rare Books Division holds printed books and materials by Kunitz.]. In addition, there are unprocessed materials that include correspondence, articles and interviews featuring Kunitz, printed material featuring Kunitz, manuscripts, and translations of poetry by others.

ArchivalResource: 66.1 linear ft. (121 archival boxes, 10 half-size archival boxes, 1 small box, 13 record center cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74209841 View

William Schuman papers and records, 1933-1986

Title: William Schuman papers and records 1933-1986

Correspondence; memoranda; reports; minutes of meetings; press releases; drafts and final copies of articles, speeches, and statements; awards and certificates; diaries; photographs; magazines; clippings; pamphlets and papers; programs; posters; and scrapbooks. Correspondents include: Samuel Barber, Jacques Barzun, William Bergsma, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Agnes DeMille, David Diamond, Antal Dorati, Morton Gould, Martha Graham, Frank Loesser, Otto Luening, Peter Mennin, Eugene Ormandy, Vincent Persichetti, Frederik Prausnitz, Andre Previn, Josef Raieff, Claire Reis, Richard Rodgers, Isaac Stern, Risë Stevens, Anthony Strilko, Roman Totenberg, Edgard Varèse, and Hugo Weisgall; representatives of organizations with which he has been associated and of other orchestras, foundations, educational institutions, and publishers.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft. (195 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20053 View

Beattie, Ann. Papers of Ann Beattie [manuscript], 1976-1983.

Title: Papers of Ann Beattie [manuscript], 1976-1983.

Include drafts of short stories by Beattie; an essay regarding her life at the University of Connecticut; some letters from readers, and one from John Cheever concerning an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; and clippings and reviews of her work, many pertaining to a screen adaptation of "Chilly scenes of winter." Also include two interviews; "Friends," a play by Neal Brilliant, based on a short story by Beattie; royalty statements, dust jackets, publishers' catalogs, posters, and other miscellaneous material.

ArchivalResource: 60 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647818282 View

Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989

Title: Michael Braude papers 1928-1989

The Michael Braude papers include manuscripts of verse, drama, and prose. Also included are correspondence, periodicals, and published works related to his literary career. Most of the material is concerned with Jewish liberal themes, much of which is satirical or humorous in nature.

ArchivalResource: 11.25 cubic ft. (25 document boxes)

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah02252.xml View

Meredith, William, 1919-2007. William Meredith papers, 1947-1979.

Title: William Meredith papers, 1947-1979.

Correspondence with Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick relating primarily to poetry and to personal affairs. Also includes correspondence and related material (1978-1979) pertaining to the nomination of poet Robert Earl Hayden to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Correspondents include Donald Barthelme, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Cheever, John Ciardi, Babette Deutsch, Peter De Vries, Richard Eberhart, Francis Fergusson, Lillian Hellman, Archibald MacLeish, William Maxwell, Howard Nemerov, Walker Percy, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Wallace Stegner, May Swenson, Kurt Vonnegut, and Robert Penn Warren.

ArchivalResource: 80 items.1 container.0.4 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79604917 View

Bottoms, David. David Bottoms papers, [ca. 1973-1992].

Title: David Bottoms papers, [ca. 1973-1992].

The collection consists of papers of David Bottoms from ca. 1970-1992. The papers include personal, literary, and business correspondence; manuscript drafts and notes in holograph, typescript, corrected typescript; galley proofs; and a transcript of an interview with Adrienne Bond on May 12 and June 2, 1987. Personal and literary correspondents include Jon Coppelman, Rosemary Daniell, James Dickey, Charles Levendosky, Laurence Lieberman, James Seay, and Robert Penn Warren, among others. The business correspondence includes letters from his literary agent, senior editor, Peachtree Publishers, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Academy of American Poets, and various literary publications.

ArchivalResource: 7.75 linear ft. (16 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78631900 View

Minutes and scrapbooks, 1898-1985.

Title: Minutes and scrapbooks, 1898-1985.

Included are minutes of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1898-1976; of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1904-1976; and of the merged American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1976-1985. Also, scrapbooks, ca.1904-1985, containing clippings of obituaries by and about members, exhibits, award presentations, nominations of members, and other activities of the Academy and Institute. Some scrapbooks contain invitations, blank ballots, RSVP forms, circular letters containing news of the Academy and Institute, programs, tickets, death announcements of members, announcements of prize winners, brochures describing nominees, and other forms and circular letters distributed by the Academy and Institute to the members. Some correspondence concerning the presentation of awards, exhibits, and other events, 1945-1969, is also included.

ArchivalResource: ca. 20 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155474003 View

George Balanchine archive, 1924-1989 (inclusive), 1961-1983 (bulk).

Title: George Balanchine archive, 1924-1989 (inclusive), 1961-1983 (bulk).

Papers documenting the American career of Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine. Also includes records of the New York City Ballet (1948-1987), and records of the George Balanchine Foundation and the George Balanchine Trust (1983-1989).

ArchivalResource: 115 boxes, 1volume, and 61 videotapes (62.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01785/catalog View