Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1917-1961.

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Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1917-1961.

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Contains autograph letters between Charles Brooks and his parents, ranging from his childhood to after his second marriage. During the years of each of his marriages, Charles Brooks's letters often contain notes from his wife (Inez Seibert during 1936-1944 or so and Charlotte Selver in 1961), and are usually addressed to both of parents (or to his father and stepmother, Gladys Brooks, from 1947 onwards). This correspondence covers events in the Brookses' lives, Van Wyck Brooks's literary work, Charles Brooks's attempts to establish a literary career, and the Brookses' artistic and literary acquaintances. Contents also include a letter from Lewis Mumford advising Charles on how to pursue a possible career in architecture (1946), and several assorted newspaper clippings concerning people of the Brookses' acquaintance.

385 items (837 leaves)

University of Pennsylvania Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6948809

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Brooks, Inez Helena Seibert, 1914-1988,

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Inez Seibert was a modernist painter who married Van Wyck Brooks's son Charles Van Wyck Brooks in 1936, at the age of twenty-two. She continued to paint, under the tutelege Arthur Dove, before moving to France with Charles (1937-1939). On returning to the United States, she and Charles moved to California, where they had a son, Peter (b. 1940), and she continued to paint. By the late 1940s, Inez was showing symptoms of schizophrenia (then untreatable), and the couple separated and divorced (1948...

Brooks, Charles Van Wyck.

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Charles Van Wyck Brooks was the son of American writer Van Wyck and Eleanor Stimson Brooks, born in California in 1912. After attending Williston Academy in Massachusetts, he attended Harvard University. Charles spent his post-college years traveling, engaging in literary work for the Federal Writers Project and translating the private journals of Henri Frederic Amiel (published 1935). In 1936, he married young modernist painter Inez Helena Seibert, and the two lived in France for several years ...

Brooks, Eleanor Stimson

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Eleanor Brooks was the mother of Charles Van Wyck Brooks, wife of Van Wyck Brooks. From the description of Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1926-1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191732230 Eleanor Stimson had been a childhood friend to Van Wyck Brooks in Plainfield, New Jersey, where both grew up. In 1902 Eleanor left Plainfield to attend Wellesley College, from which she graduated in 1906. After her graduation she departed for Europ...

Selver, Charlotte

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Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Brooks, Gladys Harding, 1892-1959

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Gladys Harding Brooks (1892-1959) was an Abilene, Kansas, native and a highschool friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower. From the description of Brooks, Gladys Harding, 1892-1959 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10610145 Gladys Brooks was Charlie Brooks's stepmother, the second wife of Van Wyck Brooks. From the description of Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1947-1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 19173223...