Papers of Henry Miller [manuscript], 1943-1946.

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Papers of Henry Miller [manuscript], 1943-1946.

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The papers consist chiefly of letters to Marion and Norman Perry discussing his writing. Topics include finances and need for remunerative work, possibly for Readers Digest; watercolors; lack of political beliefs; admiration for Paul Klee and Hans Reichel; Picasso and Guernica; and personal news including the birth of his daughter Valentine. He also mentions prices for and new editions of "Tropic of Capricorn"; book review work and possibilities; the American Library Service; radio scriptwriting; friends Robert Swasey and Herbert F. West; the work of Abe Rattner, Jack Levine, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Marc Chagall, Max Jacob, George Leite, Bern Porter, Brassaï, Ghika,and Leo Lerman. The collection also contains a clipping of a review of Miller's "The Air-conditioned nightmare" by Orville Prescott. Additional correspondents include Henry Morton Robinson, Sherman H. Dryer, Emil White, and Carl Carmer.

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Jacob, Max, 1877-

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Levine, Jack, 1915-2010

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Jack Levine interview, 1968 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220187653 Artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Jack Levine : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738074 Painter; Boston, Mass. and New York, N.Y. Exponent of Social Realism during the 1930s. He resided in Boston until 1942. Married to painter Ruth Gik...

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961

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Prescott, Orville

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Rattner, Abraham

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Kramer is an assemblage artist and sculptor. Abraham Rattner (1895-1978) was a painter in New York, N.Y. His 2nd wife, Esther Gentle, was also a painter. From the description of Abraham and Esther Rattner letter to Helen Kroll Kramer, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77961303 Abraham Rattner (1893-1978) was a painter, mosaicist, and stained glass artist from Paris, France and New York, N.Y. Studied art and architecture...

Lerman, Leo, 1914-1994

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Reichel, Hans, 1892-1958

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Dryer, Sherman H. (Sherman Harvard), 1913-1989

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West, Herbert Faulkner, 1898-1974

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West was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass. in 1898. He attended Pennsylvania State College before serving in the United States army, 1918-1919. He received his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1922 and his A.M. degree from Dartmouth College in 1924, after working as an Instructor of English at the college. During 1924 and 1925 he pursued post graduate studies in London and Berlin, before returning to Dartmouth College as an Instructor of Comparative Literature. In 1929 he became an assistant pro...

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Perry, Norman

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Robinson, Henry Morton, 1898-1961

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Henry Morton Robinson, b. Boston, September 7, 1898, d. January 13, 1961; instructor in English, Columbia, 1923-1926, editor Contemporary verse, 1927-1927, free lance writer, 1927-1935, associate and later senior editor Reader's digest, 1935-1945; co-author with Joseph Campbell of A skeleton key to Finnegan's wake. From the description of Second wisdom, 1938. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 57240125 Author, editor. From the description of Papers, 19...

Brassaï, 1899-1984.

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French photographer. From the description of Letters : to Timothy Seldes, 1973-1975. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83780611 ...

Leite, George

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Perry, Marion

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Carmer, Carl, 1893-1976

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Carl Carmer was an author, folklorist, and educator, known as a regional writer whose New York-based works achieved a national audience. Born in Cortland, New York, and educated at Hamilton College and Harvard University, he served as professor of English at several universities before commitiing himself to writing full-time in 1928. He worked as a columnist, and then became editor of Theatre Arts Monthly from, 1929-1933. He wrote poetry, essays, and juvenile fiction, often based in New York's F...

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.

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Novelist. From the description of Papers, 1952-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155457225 Henry Miller (1891-1980) was an American author. He was known for his experimental, surrealist novels, such as Tropic of Cancer, which mixed fiction and autobiography. His writing was controversial for its graphic depictions of sexuality, leading to a 1964 obscenity trial in the United States, Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein. From the guide to the Henry Miller Letter, unda...

Ghika, 1906-1994

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Reader's digest association

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Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985

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Porter, Bern, 1911-2004

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