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Day, Clarence, 1874-1935. Clarence Day papers, 1796-1993, (bulk dates 1890-1935).

Title: Clarence Day papers, 1796-1993, (bulk dates 1890-1935).

The Clarence Day Papers document the literary career, business activity, personal life and family background of the author and illustrator. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs and publication tearsheets; business and financial records; family papers; news clippings and literary reference files; school and college records; drawings, photographs and artifacts. Correspondents include such artists, authors and intellectuals as Helen Dore Boylston, Henry Canby, Paul De Kruif, Francis Hackett, Learned Hand, Carl Hovey, Albert G. Keller, Troy Kinney, Sonya Levien, Rose Wilder Lane, Alice Duer Miller, Elsie Clews Parsons, William Lyon Phelps, Harold Ross, Miriam Finn Scott, Upton Sinclair, Signe Toksvig, E. B. White and Katharine White. The Clarence Day Papers are an important resource for the study of American magazine literature during the 1910s-1930s, and provide essential background information regarding Day's most popular and enduring work, Life With Father.

ArchivalResource: 110 linear feet (249 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465327 View

Gordimer, Nadine. Papers, 1934-1991.

Title: Papers, 1934-1991.

Consists of the papers of South African author and Nobel prize winner Nadine Gordimer.

ArchivalResource: 6, 700 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31316216 View

Blanding, Sarah Gibson, 1898-1985. Papers, 1936-1978 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1936-1978 (inclusive).

Correspondence, oral history interview transcript, speeches, family photos, scrapbook, book reviews for The New Yorker, articles, and clippings concern Blanding's career as an educator and her retirement. Correspondents include E. B. and Katharine White, Florence Clothier Wislocki, and Rebecca Lawrence Lowrie.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006881 View

Louise Seaman Bechtel papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk).

Title: Louise Seaman Bechtel papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk).

Papers primarily concern her work in literature, publishing, and editing, especially for children, and include correspondence, manuscripts, illustrations, biographical information, and published articles and reviews from or pertaining to authors, illustrators, and publishers, 1922-1978, including Rachel Lyman Field, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, Marianne Moore, Helen Sewell, Wallace Stevens, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Carroll Moore, Frances Clarke Sayers, Harry Behn, Padraic Colum, Anne Parrish, and Sara Teasdale. Extensive correspondence from Elizabeth Coatsworth, Vassar classmate and children's author, concerning travel, writing, mutual friends, the onset of World War II, volunteer war work, and family news, 1913-1980; biographical articles on Coatsworth, 1936-1978; and a Coatsworth family photograph album, 1898-1979. Letters from editors and board members at the Horn Book Company, publishers of THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE and other children's literature, concerning Bechtel's work, editorial policy, conflicts between editors and the board, and publishing plans, with some personal and family news, 1934-1974. Correspondents include Bertha E. Mahony (Miller), Jennie D. Linquist, and Ruth Hill Viguers. Also, scrapbooks of Bechtel's published reviews and articles. Other items include typed excerpts from the diary of her father Charles F. Seaman, 1877-1950; family photographs, clippings, announcements, and postcards; and Bechtel's collection of prints and photographs including works by Boris Artzybasheff, Pamela Bianco, Fritz Eichenberg, Dorothy Lathrop, Howard Pyle, Lynd Ward, and Stanley Wengenroth.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51617324 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

Harriet Walden New Yorker papers, 1926-2004

Title: Harriet Walden New Yorker papers 1926-2004

Harriet Walden (1914-2006) was on the administrative staff of the magazine for over forty years, from 1944 to 1985, and was E. B. and Katharine Sergeant Whites' secretary from 1956 to 1986. The Harriet Walden New Yorker papers contain correspondence, procedural documents, and printed materials that reflect her career at the , as well as the friendships she developed with various writers and editors. The bulk of the collection concerns Walden's role as secretary to the Whites. Other writers and editors represented in the papers include John Bainbridge, Geoffrey Hellman, Hendrik Hertzberg, Leo Hofeller, Mollie Panter-Downes, Harold Ross, William Shawn, and William Walden. New Yorker New Yorker New Yorker

ArchivalResource: 3.57 linear feet; 9 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18913 View

White, Katharine Sergeant Angell. Time chart and style sheet : autograph notes related to The trumpet of the swan, undated [1968-1970].

Title: Time chart and style sheet : autograph notes related to The trumpet of the swan, undated [1968-1970].

Being notes on the time line of The Trumpet of the Swan (1 p.) and a style sheet (1 p.) listing four points and with a note indicating that the work should follow Strunk and White's Elements of Style.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 27.9 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756222271 View

White, Katharine Sergeant Angell. Typed letter signed : Brooklin, Maine, to E. B. White, 1971 July 14.

Title: Typed letter signed : Brooklin, Maine, to E. B. White, 1971 July 14.

Thanking him for a Xerox copy of a letter in the Mary Flagler Cary collection, which was written by the mother of White's childhood friend, Katherine Gericke; reporting that Gericke has suffered a stroke, but will love having the copy of her mother's letter; discussing her own childhood with the Gericke family, saying that "this whole experience was most widening and it gave me a love of good music that has lasted a lifetime." With an autograph postscript saying that Andy [E. B. White] adds his thanks and is looking forward to the Sonnenberg catalogue.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 18.7 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756212666 View

Mears, Helen. Papers, 1861-1863, 1935, 1938, 1943-1955, 1961 1935-1955.

Title: Papers, 1861-1863, 1935, 1938, 1943-1955, 1961 1935-1955.

Correspondence (professional and personal) including undated letters and manuscripts from Mears' time in Asia in the 1930s and 1940s; journals, manuscripts, reference files; minor references to publication of her books and articles, and to antinuclear activism in the 1950s. Collection also includes Civil War letters written by relatives: Lester E. Ward (5 letters, 1861-1862) and Erastus Ward (11 letters, 1862-1863 and undated). Correspondents of Helen Mears include: William Shawn, Katherine S. White.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49291115 View

Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997. Brendan Gill letters to William Shawn, 1960-1986.

Title: Brendan Gill letters to William Shawn, 1960-1986.

Collection consists of approximately 50 letters from Brendan Gill to William Shawn, a long-time editor at The New Yorker. In addition to producing collections of poetry, novels, and biographies, Gill was a regular contributor to The New Yorker from 1936 onward, as film, theater, and architecture critic. Gill's letters deal chiefly with submissions to The New Yorker, though some letters touch on publishing and 20th century American literature. Enclosures include clippings, copies of articles, and third party correspondence, such as a letter to Gill from Katharine Sergeant Angell White, also an editor at The New Yorker. Articles include an obituary of John O'Hara and a summary of his memoir, Here at The New Yorker.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702193978 View

E. B. White collection, 1899-1985.

Title: E. B. White collection, 1899-1985.

Manuscripts, letters, documents, clippings, photographs, filmstrips, film reels, notecards, cassette tapes, bound photocopies, medals and awards by, to, or about E.B. White, spanning the entire range of his activities throughout his life.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM04619.xml View

Nancy Hale Papers 251., 1908 - 1989

Title: Nancy Hale Papers 1908 - 1989

Author. Hale is perhaps best known for her short stories many of which were published in the New Yorker and in collected works. Hale's papers, provide significant information about her life and work; the relationships between writers and their agents and editors; the life of a modern professional woman writer; as well as topics such as creativity, human psychology, the New England character, and faculty politics in educational institutions. Material includes writings, diaries, photographs, speeches and correspondence with family and numerous 20th century writers.

ArchivalResource: 67 boxes, 8 volumes; (33 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss26.html View

Angell, Roger. New Yorker records, ca.1924-1984.

Title: New Yorker records, ca.1924-1984.

New Yorker 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. The files of founding Editor Harold Ross include memoranda and correspondence that document his meticulous attention to every aspect of the magazine's production. The collection includes only a few files from the office William Shawn, Ross' successor, but Shawn's influence is well evidenced by material included in other records series from his tenure. "Run and Killed" manuscripts files contain edited drafts of non-fiction articles. "Copy and Source" files contain typescripts of all items published from 1951-1981. Editorial Business files include letters to the editor, staff replies, and reprint and permissions requests. Log books, lists, and files of ideas for articles and art document how the magazine generated editorial content, and how writers chose their subjects. Administrative records include accounts of contributor payments and staff salaries, memoranda concerning writer and artist contracts, and legal files.

ArchivalResource: 875.8 linear feet (2509 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122575521 View

Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973. S. N. Behrman papers, 1912-1987.

Title: S. N. Behrman papers, 1912-1987.

The S. N. Behrman Papers document the literary career and personal life of the playwright and essayist.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (88 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144651920 View

White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985. E. B. White collection, 1899-1999.

Title: E. B. White collection, 1899-1999.

Manuscripts, letters, documents, clippings, photographs, filmstrips, film reels, notecards, cassette tapes, bound photocopies, medals and awards by, to, or about E.B. White, spanning the entire range of his activities throughout his life. Letters consist of ca. 3,000 letters by White and 25,000 letters to him from others; manuscripts include drafts, notes, and some galley proofs for his books Charlotte's Web, The Elements of Style, the Essays of E.B. White, the Letters of E.B. White, One Man's Meat, The Points of My Compass, Poems and Sketches, and Stuart Little, as well as drafts of his "Notes and comment" and "Talk of the Town" columns for the New Yorker magazine from 1934-1953. Printed items include White's contributions to the New Yorker and other magazines, his editorials for his high school newspaper, and ca. 350 articles about him, including interviews and reviews. Photographs include a large portrait photo of White, ca. 1950, and a family group photo taken at the 50th wedding anniversary of Samuel T. White and Jesse White in 1929, with E.B. and Katherine Sergeant White included in the group. Films include Maine lobsterman, narrated by White and produced for the television show Omnibus in 1954, and The family that dwelt apart, written and also narrated by White. Correspondents include: Katharine Sergeant White (his wife), James Thurber, Frank Sullivan, Harold Ross, William Shawn, Gus Lobrano, S.J. Perelman, Nathaniel Benchley, Howard Cushman, Alice Burchfield Sumner, Scott Elledge, and publishers such as Harper & Row, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, and Macmillan.

ArchivalResource: 96.9 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936573 View

Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979. Jean Stafford papers, 1893-1992

Title: Jean Stafford papers, 1893-1992

The papers include holographic and typewritten notes and drafts, typescripts, early versions, revised versions, deleted versions, and final manuscripts of most of Jean Stafford's output. There are galleys, page-proofs, and tear-sheets as well as grammar school essays, diaries, journals, nearly 200 photographs, hundreds of letters, and her first Royal portable typewriter. The collection also includes a rapidly growing body of work by authors who have written about Jean Stafford.

ArchivalResource: 33 linear ft. (63 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181160330 View

Geoffrey T. Hellman Papers, 1842-1971

Title: Geoffrey T. Hellman Papers 1842-1971

Geoffrey T. Hellman was a long-time contributor to ("Talk of the Town" section in particular) and other periodicals, and wrote extensively about institutions such as: the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection gives a glimpse into the operation of from the 1930's through 1960's. Research for Hellman's articles, his correspondence, and manuscripts are contained in this collection. The New Yorker The New Yorker

ArchivalResource: 26.0 linear feet; (51 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/hellman/hellman.html View

White, Katharine Sergeant Angell. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1946-1961.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1946-1961.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190874485 View

Papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk).

Papers primarily concern her work in literature, publishing, and editing, especially for children, and include correspondence, manuscripts, illustrations, biographical information, and published articles and reviews from or pertaining to authors, illustrators, and publishers, 1922-1978, including Rachel Lyman Field, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, Marianne Moore, Helen Sewell, Wallace Stevens, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Carroll Moore, Frances Clarke Sayers, Harry Behn, Padraic Colum, Anne Parrish, and Sara Teasdale. Extensive correspondence from Elizabeth Coatsworth, Vassar classmate and children's author, concerning travel, writing, mutual friends, the onset of World War II, volunteer war work, and family news, 1913-1980; biographical articles on Coatsworth, 1936-1978; and a Coatsworth family photograph album, 1898-1979. Letters from editors and board members at the Horn Book Company, publishers of THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE and other children's literature, concerning Bechtel's work, editorial policy, conflicts between editors and the board, and publishing plans, with some personal and family news, 1934-1974. Correspondents include Bertha E. Mahony (Miller), Jennie D. Linquist, and Ruth Hill Viguers. Also, scrapbooks of Bechtel's published reviews and articles.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155518610 View

White, Katharine. Christmas card with autograph letter and signed poem, from Katharine White and E.B. White : [Maine], to Louise, [1970].

Title: Christmas card with autograph letter and signed poem, from Katharine White and E.B. White : [Maine], to Louise, [1970].

A card with a photograph of the Whites' house in North Brooklin, Maine, reproduced on the front, with hand-drawn red ink border"; a printed poem by E.B. White, the first line of which is "Home is the place where the queer things are," signed "EBW" (probably in Katharine White's hand); and a two-age autograph note from Katharine White, thanking Louise for comments on E.B. White's Trumpet of the Swan, and saying, "Andy has no illusions about 'The Trumpet' and knows it is less good than 'Charlotte's Web' but we're glad the Times included it among the best eight juveniles of the year," mentioning Stuart Little and "Sendak's book," noting with pride that Roger Angell's book is also on the "Times Honor Roll," and saying that Andy has received many letters from parent of handicapped children in response to "Trumpet."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 9.8 x 13.3 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270958102 View

Frank Sullivan collection, 1910-1972.

Title: Frank Sullivan collection, 1910-1972.

Correspondence and other papers of Frank Sullivan, an American journalist, humorist and author who was long associated with the magazine. New Yorker

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM04618.xml View

Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978

Title: Edmund Wilson collection of papers 1922-1978

This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, a manuscript, correspondence, and a portrait photograph.

ArchivalResource: 424 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19279 View

S. N. Behrman papers, 1912-1987

Title: S. N. Behrman papers 1912-1987

The S. N. Behrman Papers document the literary career and personal life of the playwright and essayist. The date span of the papers is 1912-1987. They include personal and professional correspondence; diaries; notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs and publication tearsheets of Behrman's writings; news clippings; scrapbooks; photographs; and a few items of ephemera. The S. N. Behrman Papers are an important resource for the study of the American theatre, the Hollywood film industry, popular magazine literature and New York intellectual culture. Prominent correspondents include: Maxwell Anderson, Brooks Atkinson, Bernard Berenson, Isaiah Berlin, Edna Ferber, Felix Frankfurter, Ira Gershwin, F. Tennyson Jesse, George S. Kaufman, Joshua Logan, Sonya Levien, W. Somerset Maugham, St. Clair McKelway, Kenyon Nicholson, Cole Porter, Joseph Verner Reed, Gottfried Reinhardt, Harold Ross, Siegfried Sassoon, William Shawn, Robert E. Sherwood, Salka Viertel, Rebecca West, Katharine White, Edmund Wilson and Alexander Woollcott.

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http://archives.nypl.org/mss/248 View

Frank Sullivan collection, 1910-1972.

Title: Frank Sullivan collection, 1910-1972.

Correspondence and other papers of Frank Sullivan, an American journalist, humorist and author who was long associated with the magazine. New Yorker

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM04618.xml View

White, Katharine Sergeant Angell. Notes on galleys : autograph notes related to The trumpet of the swan, undated [1970].

Title: Notes on galleys : autograph notes related to The trumpet of the swan, undated [1970].

Penciled notes on the galleys of E. B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan. Each note has been canceled (possibly indicating that the suggestions have been looked at and the typos have been fixed).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 27.9 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756222299 View

James M. Cain Papers, 1901-1978, (bulk 1925-1978)

Title: James M. Cain Papers 1901-1978 (bulk 1925-1978)

Author, journalist, and screenwriter. Correspondence, writings, legal and financial records, family papers, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Cain's work as a journalist and to his career as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter.

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items; 94 containers; 36 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009011 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

Honeycutt, Ann. Ann Honeycutt letters, 1931-1985.

Title: Ann Honeycutt letters, 1931-1985.

Autograph and typewritten letters, postcards, and telegrams to Honeycutt, with one short typewritten manuscript by her on dogs, one humorous autobiographical note, and one clipping of a newspaper article by her. Correspondence consists of letters and other communications from friends, mainly on social or personal matters. Most of the correspondents are fellow journalists associated with the New Yorker magazine, and they briefly discuss some current writing projects; also, E.B. White comments on Scott Elledge's biography of him. Correspondents include Harold Ross, Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Sullivan, E.B. White, Patricia Fowler (writing for White when he was in failing health), Katharine Sergeant White, and William Shawn.

ArchivalResource: 1 notebook (28 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63937108 View

Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988. Papers, 1908-1989.

Title: Papers, 1908-1989.

The Nancy Hale Papers consist of biographical material; correspondence; diaries; photographs; subject files; and extensive notes, drafts, typescripts, publicity, and reviews of many of her speeches and writings. The papers provide significant information about Hale's life and work; her family relationships; the relationships between writers and their agents and editors; the life of a modern professional woman writer; as well as many of the topics that interested Hale, such as creativity, human psychology, the New England character, and faculty politics in educational institutions. The bulk of the papers focus on Hale's writing. Included are manuscript and published versions of many of Hale's works along with research materials and notes. The role of editors and agents in the writing process is well documented, particularly through the correspondence between Hale and her agent Elizabeth Nowell.

ArchivalResource: 33 linear ft. (67 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48403695 View

Clarence Day papers, 1796-1993, 1890-1953

Title: Clarence Day papers 1796-1993 1890-1953

The Clarence Day Papers document the literary career, business activity, personal life and family background of the author and illustrator. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs and publication tearsheets; business and financial records; family papers; news clippings and literary reference files; school and college records; drawings, photographs and artifacts. Correspondents include Helen Dore Boylston, Henry Canby, Paul De Kruif, Francis Hackett, Learned Hand, Carl Hovey, Albert G. Keller, Troy Kinney, Sonya Levien, Rose Wilder Lane, Alice Duer Miller, Elsie Clews Parsons, William Lyon Phelps, Harold Ross, Miriam Finn Scott, Upton Sinclair, Signe Toksvig, E. B. White and Katharine White. The Clarence Day Papers are an important resource for the study of American magazine literature during the 1910s-1930s, and provide essential background information regarding Day's most popular and enduring work, . Life With Father

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http://archives.nypl.org/mss/741 View