Nahum Sabsay papers, 1924-1969.

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Nahum Sabsay papers, 1924-1969.

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The collection documents Sabsay's writing career with which his wife was also very involved. Includes correspondence with libraries and publishers, typescript copies of published and unpublished works (many with annotations by Elizabeth K. Sabsay), and one photograph. Correspondents include Miriam Allen De Ford, Maxwell E. Perkins, Bliss Perry, and Paul Stassevitch. Typescripts include Sabsay's works: America, The death of fear, The lure, One night in November, and his short stories.

8 boxes (2.6 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975

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Maynard Shipley (1872-1934) was a criminologist and scientist who often spoke out in favor of science and evolution and against religious fanaticism and capital punishment. Shipley also worked as an editor, speaker, and organizer for the Socialist Party alongside Eugene V. Debs. Shipley married Miriam Allen De Ford in 1921. Ford was a writer and eventually wrote about Shipley in a biography entitled Up-Hill All The Way (1956), also in the Tamiment Library. From the guide to the Miria...

Sabsay, Elizabeth K.

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Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954

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American educator, author and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Greensboro, Vt., 25 July 1904, and Boston, 10 October 1904, to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1904 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674901 American educator, essayist, and editor of the Atlantic Monthlyfrom 1899-1909. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Cambridge, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1936 Jan. 28 and 1938 Apr. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Sabsay, Nahum, 1890-

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Born in Simferopol on the Russian Crimean peninsula, Sabsay (d.1965) survived the pogrom of 1905 and served in the Russian and Belgian armies in WWI. Fleeing the Red Army as commander of a Jewish self-defense unit, he traveled across Siberia and arrived in the U.S. in 1918. After working for a year, he entered Harvard to study mining engineering and graduated in 1923. He settled in California, working as a tool and die and instrument maker while writing novels, short stories, and essays in Engli...

Stassevitch, Paul,

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Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...