Papers, [ca. 1890]-1952.

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Papers, [ca. 1890]-1952.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122482737

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, commonplace books, drawings, photographs, and printed materials. The collection is a comprehensive documentation of the dramatist's career and includes manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and costume and scenic design for more than seventy of his plays and related writings; 31 diaries, commonplace books, and scrapbooks containing manuscript and typescript notes, travel sketches, original drawings, and photographs; and correspondence files including letters from Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree, John Galsworthy, Booth Tarkington, and Thornton Wilder. Austin Strong's mother, Isobel Strong, was the step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson. Consequently, the collection contains much Stevensoniana, including photographs and Mrs. Strong's letters from Western Samoa, where she was known as "Teuila." Also, correspondence and photographs relating to Cornwall Park, Auckland, New Zealand, which was designed by Austin Strong.

ca. 4,300 items (29 boxes)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6729788

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933

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Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir, 1852-1917

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Field, Isobel, 1858-1953

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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...