Papers, 1918-1939.

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Papers, 1918-1939.

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The papers consist of juvenilia, diaries, sketches and drawings, photographs, and letters received, plus Cowan's letters to his lover and benefactor, Stewart Mitchell (and Mitchell's aunt, Georgine Holmes Thomas), with condolences and other material preserved by Mitchell relating to Cowan's suicide, Oct. 24, 1939. A two-volume diary, 1927-1934 (with gaps), begun as a matriculating student at Cornell and concluded, after graduation, in Boston, details the process of Cowan's personal "coming out" as a gay man and sheds light on gay life during the mid-1930s in Boston. Correspondence with Gerald and Sara Murphy began after Cowan's 1934 summer trip to Europe, when Cowan and his companion, Dudley Poore, were invited to sail from Antibes on the Murphy's yacht. An affectionate friendship developed between Cowan, a landscape architect, and Murphy, in which they collaborated on selecting plantings for Murphy's estate in East Hampton, Long Island.

3 boxes ; 27 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Mitchell, Stewart, 1892-1957

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1892 Nov. 25, born, Cincinnati. 1915, A.B. Harvard. 1916, M.A. 1916-1917, English instructor, U. of Wisconsin. 1917-1919, U.S. Army, France. 1919-1920, editor, The Dial. 1933, Ph. D., Harvard. 1928-1937, editor, N.E. Quarterly. 1929-1939, editor, Collections and Proceedings, M.H.S. 1957 Nov. 3, died, Brookline. From the description of Papers, 1839-1957. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14967774 ...

Murphy, Sara.

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Cowan, Richard David, 1909-1939.

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Cornell University

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Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964

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Marion Lowndes, Palisades, New York, was a close friend of artist, Gerald Murphy. Murphy was a painter, born in Boston, Mass. and lived in Palisades, New York. He was active in Europe around 1921, and painted in an abstract style. From the description of Marion Lowndes letters from Gerald Murphy, 1948-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557109 Gerald Murphy (1888-1964), painter and businessman, and Sara Wiborg Murphy (1883-1975) were wealthy American expatriates in Paris...