Ernestine Evans Papers, 1890-1968 [Bulk Dates: 1930-1967].

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Ernestine Evans Papers, 1890-1968 [Bulk Dates: 1930-1967].

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Contained in this collection are documents related to the life and career of Ernestine Evans, a journalist, critic and literary agent active in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. Personal and professional correspondence and a wide variety of literary manuscripts, likely accumulated during her long career as a literary agent, constitute the bulk of this collection. In addition, the collection includes photographs, drawings and other visual material. Also represented in this collection are clippings of Evans' and other journalists' work; printed material, both periodicals and books; personal documents (including address books, contact lists and journals), financial documents and medical documents.

13 linear ft. (28 boxes, 24 document boxes, 2 oversized boxes, 2 index card boxes)

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6347216

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Evans, Ernestine, 1889-1967

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Journalist, news correspondent, editor for Coward-McCann and for J.B. Lippincott. From the description of Ernestine Evans papers, 1930-1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 493896211 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Ernestine Evans was a prolific female journalist, author, editor and literary agent active in the early-to-mid twentieth century. BIOGHIST REQUIRED Evans was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1889. The first of two children b...

Forbes-Robertson, Diana.

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Maxine Elliott was born Jessie Dermot in 1868 in Rockland, Maine. She was an actress who appeared in her first play in 1890 and her last in 1920. She owned and played in the Maxine Elliott Theater, in New York which opened in 1908. She died in 1940. Diana Forbes Robertson was Maxine Elliott's niece, she was an author, and married Vincent Sheean. From the description of Maxine Elliot collection 1846-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701358 ...

Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951

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Flaherty, Frances Hubbard

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