Chapelbrook Foundation records, 1953-1974.

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Chapelbrook Foundation records, 1953-1974.

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The records include correspondence on the work of the Foundation, requests for grants from writers and artists and correspondence between the Foundation and grant applicants. There is a report on the first decade of the Foundation. Grant recipients included Conrad Aiken (1962), Elizabeth Bishop (1960), Marc Blitzstein (1963), E.E. Cummings (1958), James T. Farrell (1960), Phillip Levine (1968), W.S. Merwin (1966), Tillie Olson (1964-1966), Kenneth Patchen (1961), Kenneth Rexroth (1958), Theodore Roethke (1959), Ruth St. Denis (1959) and Richard Wilbur (1954) among others.

ca. 6 linear ft.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7668021

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Chapelbrook Foundation.

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The Chapelbrook Foundation was established and funded November 1953 by Mina Kirstein Curtiss (Smith College Class of 1918). An additional gift of $5,000 came from her brother George Kirstein. The foundation awarded grants to mature artists and scholars with established reputations. The Foundation was dissolved May 12, 1971. From the description of Chapelbrook Foundation records, 1953-1974. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 53448251 ...

Curtiss, Mina Kirstein, 1896-1985

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Mina Stein Curtiss was born on October 13, 1896, in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Smith College in 1918, received a M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1920, and returned to Smith, where she was an associate professor until 1934. She was a research assistant for the Mercury Theater from 1935 to 1938, and she worked for the Office of War Information during World War II. She taught at Smith from 1940 to 1941. In 1942, Curtiss wrote and produced a local radio program in Des Moin...