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John P. Marquand collection, 1922-1973 (inclusive), 1930-1960

Title: John P. Marquand collection 1922-1973 (inclusive) 1930-1960

The John P. Marquand Collection contains manuscripts of books, essays, short stories, addresses, lectures, speeches, and book reviews, as well as business correspondence, research material, bibliographical material, biographical material, and photographic material.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 51; Other Storage Formats: oversize; Linear Feet: 22.50

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

Baker, Sherman, 1902-1976. F. Sherman Baker collection, 1954-1971 bulk 1954-1965.

Title: F. Sherman Baker collection, 1954-1971 bulk 1954-1965.

Collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, and other items, chiefly pertaining to the novelist and memoirist John D. Voelker, whom Baker edited and published in the 1950s and 1960s. Correspondence in the collection is extensive, and includes letters from family, friends, admirers, and colleagues, as well as purely professional correspondence. The largest group of correspondence is the letters (1954-1971), between Baker and Voelker (primarily from Voelker); cumulatively, they present a narrative of the origins and success of Voelker's novel Anatomy of a Murder and its subsequent film adaptation for Columbia Pictures, directed by Otto Preminger (1959), as well as several hundred letters regarding Voelker's books Hornstein's Boy, Anatomy of a Fisherman (McGraw, 1964), and Laughing Whitefish (McGraw, 1965). Notable correspondence to Voelker also includes letters from William O. Douglas, Ralph Nader, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Another group of letters pertains to writer Samm Sinclair Baker and his book, The Permissible Lie (World Publishing, 1968), and includes clippings and promotional material regarding the book. Other letters pertain to all aspects of Baker's career and personal life. Notable correspondents include Cleveland Amory, Stephen Birmingham, Van Wyck Brooks, Niven Busch, Bruce Catton, J. Frank Dobie, Brendan Gill, A. J. Langguth, Glenn T. Seaborg, Wallace Stegner, Gore Vidal, and John Wain. Printed material in the collection consists primarily of reviews of Baker's and Voelker's writings. Other items in the collection include professional documents (meeting minutes, reports, etc.), regarding Baker's editing and publishing career; photographs of Voelker; royalty statements; and contracts.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/530220631 View