Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Form: Correspondence -- 20th century / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1955">1955</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1959">1959</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Brandt & Brandt Contract Files, 1907-1997 (inclusive)

Extent:: 51 boxes, 2 items, and 22.2 linear feet
Abstract:: The Brandt & Brandt Contract Files consists primarily of contract files from Brandt & Brandt, the New York City literary agency, for published works where the rights have reverted to the author. Some represented authors are Margaret Banning, Bessie Brewer, Raymond Chandler, Carlos Fuentes, Arthur Machen, Mary McCarthy, Derek Patmore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stegner. The Fuentes material (1967-1995) is extensive and covers a fuller range of literary agency activities.

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Milton Halsey Thomas Papers, 1796-1977 (inclusive) 1930-1960 (bulk)

Extent:: 47 boxes, 2 items, and 20.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous research material of librarian/archivist Milton Halsey Thomas, including research material for several of his historical publications.

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Sylvia Beach Papers, 1872-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:: 180 boxes, 1 item, and 78.3 linear feet
Abstract:: This collection documents the life and activities of Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), the American author, publisher, and owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Company, the Paris bookshop that was a meeting-point for French, English, Irish and American writers during the 1920's and 1930's. The collection consists largely of files relating to Shakespeare & Company; Beach's writings and translations, in particular her memoir Shakespeare & Company ; and files relating to the circle of artists and writers surrounding her throughout her life. Included are family, personal, and business correspondence; business records of Shakespeare & Company; personal and family records; manuscripts and artwork by members of her circle; photographs; and memorabilia.

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Story Magazine and Story Press Records, 1931-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:: 272 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of the fairly complete working business files of the original Story and other related publishing ventures of owner-editors Martha Foley and Whit and Hallie Burnett, and the new Story author files of Richard and Lois Rosenthal. Included are editorial and personal correspondence, business and financial records, and artwork.

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Historic, Descriptive and Subject Files Relating to or About the William Seymour Theatre Collection, Covering the Years of Operation as a Separate Library Unit, 1936-2000 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Files include correspondence about the founding of Princeton University Libray's William Seymour Theatre Collection, the gala dinner opening night, efforts to enlarge the collection in the 1940 to 1960s, and descriptive writings about the collection by the various curators.

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Arthur and Sylvia Mandy Collection of Philip Wylie, 1947-1957 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of material by and about Philip Wylie collected by Arthur and Sylvia Mandy during the course of their friendship with the American writer.

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Clarence Brown Papers, 1907-2005 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 boxes and 2.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of correspondence, travel diaries, and photographs of former Princeton University comparative literature professor Clarence Brown (1929-2015) relating primarily to his scholarship on Russian writers Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (1891-1938) and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980). Correspondence with writer and illustrator Guy Davenport as well as with poet W. S. Merwin, Princeton Class of 1948, is also included.

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William Tipping Papers, 1688-2001 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 2.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Conists of personal papers of William Tipping Esq, of Brasted Park, Sevenoaks, in Kent, and Avray near Paris. He was the son of the successful Liverpool merchant John Tipping, who in his twenties traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East before turning to Tory politics and serving as director of the London and North Western Railway.

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Broom Correspondence of Harold Loeb, 1921-1924 (bulk) 1920-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence files of Harold Loeb (Princeton Class of 1913), one of the founding editors of Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts.

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Eugene O'Neill Collection, 1913-1993 (inclusive) 1913-1944 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.45 linear feet
Abstract:: Eugene O'Neill, the celebrated American playwright, was a director of the Provincetown Players and a founder of the Theatre Guild. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Strange Interlude (1928) and, posthumously, for Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956). The collection consists of fifteen manuscripts of O'Neill, most of which are first drafts of plays and include preliminary notes.

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