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Argus Book Shop correspondence, 1857-1955, 1930-1944

Title: Argus Book Shop correspondence 1857-1955 1930-1944

The Argus Book Shop Correspondence consists of the shop's "author correspondence" files holding letters between Ben Abramson and his staff and more than four hundred writers, artists, printers, critics, and illustrators. While some of the folders hold single or just a few letters, Abramson had more extensive relationships with many writers and artists, including John Austen, Faith Baldwin, March Cost, Frederic Dannay, Norman Davey, Rhys Davies, August Derleth, Robin Douglas, Joan Marshall Grant, W. G. Hardy, Claude Houghton, William McFee, Henry Miller, Frank Cheyne Papé, Louis Paul, Frederic Prokosch, William Saroyan, Harold Sinclair, and John Steinbeck. Hundreds of Abramson's typed carbon replies are present in the files; in them, he discusses business and literary concerns, along with his philosophies and opinions on a wide range of topics. While the lack of financial, inventory, vendor, and publishing records keep the collection from being a complete record of the Argus Book Shop, the correspondence files present reveal how Ben Abramson developed business and personal relationships with authors, illustrators, and shop patrons, and in particular with British authors, the obstacles he encountered while conducting business during World War II. The collection also includes, in Series II, more than forty undated literary essays, poems, and book reviews which may have been submitted for an "Argus miscellany" that Abramson often discussed in his correspondence but apparently never produced. The writings do not appear in Abramson's journal Reading and collecting, and likely date after 1938. The Argus Book Shop correspondence files were acquired by Philip D. Sang (1902-1975), a Chicago businessman, philanthropist, and collector of historical and literary manuscripts, who then donated the material to Yale.

ArchivalResource: 7.0 linear feet (18 boxes)

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

Letters to Lewis Gannett from various correspondents, 1936-1965.

Title: Letters to Lewis Gannett from various correspondents, 1936-1965.

Letters written to journalist and author Lewis Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00644/catalog View

Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960)

Title: Lewis Gannett papers, 1681-1966 (inclusive) 1900-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00670/catalog View

Clark, Donald Lemen, 1888-1966. Donald Lemen Clark papers, 1927-1956.

Title: Donald Lemen Clark papers, 1927-1956.

Letters, manuscripts, memorabilia, and printed materials including letters from a number of well-known authors, three typescript manuscripts, working copies of books in Clark's library, and numerous copies of books inscribed to Clark.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft. ( 15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489374997 View

Paul, Louis, 1901-. Papers, 1904-1971.

Title: Papers, 1904-1971.

Collection contains correspondence (1928-1971) inlcuding love letters to his wife Mary during the late 1920s, letters written by Louis to Mary while she was in a mental institution from 1947-1948 and photocopies of letters from John Steinbeck; transcript of an interview with Paul (1950); photographs (1904-1953); poetry and popular music scores written by Louis and Mary Paul; research notes on the works of John Steinbeck; and the manuscripts for many of his short stories.

ArchivalResource: 4.15 cubic ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29950185 View

Donald Lemen Clark Papers, 1927-1956.

Title: Donald Lemen Clark Papers 1927-1956.

This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, memorabilia, and printed materials, 1927-1956, of Donald Lemen Clark, Professor of English Literature.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft. (89 items in 16 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4078611 View

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Papers of John Steinbeck [manuscript], 1932-1974.

Title: Papers of John Steinbeck [manuscript], 1932-1974.

The collection contains manuscripts of "The grapes of wrath," a scene for the film "Of mice and men," "Sea of Cortez" written with Edward F. Rickett, and "The short reign of Pippin IV." Letters from Steinbeck discuss his personal and professional life. Topics include his plays, films and books, particularly "Burning bright," "The red pony," "The wayward bus," "Viva Zapata," "Cup of gold," "The forgotten village," "The grapes of wrath," "In dubious battle," "Of mice and men," "Sea of Cortez," "The short reign of Pippin IV," "To a God unknown," and "Tortilla flat." Also magazine articles; the art of writing; theater; publishing and publishers particularly Pascal Covici; producers Charles Kenneth Feldman and Darryl F. Zanuck; and directors Elia Kazan and Lewis Milestone. Also agent Annie Laurie Williams and the McIntosh and Otis Literary Agency; critic Mary McCarthy; and his opinions on Hollywood, fame, humor, love, New York City, the Nobel Prize, the loss of one of the senses, life, American tourists, and war. Also his marriages and divorces with Carol Henning, Gwendolyn Conger, and Elaine Anderson Scott; family members; his dog Charley; health; correspondence; finances; scientific interests; lifestyle; social life; friends; residences; travels, particularly to Mexico; his lawyer Webster F. "Toby" Street; and the weather. Robert O. Ballou, Humphrey Bogart, "The country girl" by Clifford Odets, Charles deGaulle, dogs, the works of Louis Paul, and Edgar Varèse are also mentioned. Four letters from other people discuss Steinbeck's letters and works. In addition the collection contains three photographs; a hand drawn map of Los Gatos; notes about Steinbeck and a chronology of his works by Mary P. Engargiola Paul; a life mask of Steinbeck by Ritch Lovejoy (William Alston Ritchie Lovejoy); and two copies of the record album "John Steinbeck: the snake, Johnny Bear."

ArchivalResource: 111 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647823891 View

Paul, Louis, 1901-. Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, [after 1944].

Title: Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, [after 1944].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155862407 View