Steegmuller, Francis Papers

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Steegmuller, Francis Papers

1877-1979

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/42_STE-SY_02.pdf

Letters from Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Edith Sitwell, Adlai Stevenson, and Jacques Lipschitz. Notes and correspondence relating to Steegmuller's books, as well as manuscripts of the books, make up part of the collection. Also, seven scrapbooks of clippings and 37 inscribed books; manuscripts and proofs for his translation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary; and two solander cases containing 155 photographs, mounted and inscribed, taken by Steegmuller on his trips to France, 1948, 1950, Italy, 1950, and the Virgin Islands, 1949.

ca. 4,000 items (23 boxes, 44 volumes, & 2 solander cases)

eng, Latn

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677240

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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