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Broom Correspondence of Harold Loeb
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A graduate of Princeton University (Class of 1913), Loeb served in World War I, later becoming a boxing and sparring partner of novelist Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway used him as the model for the character Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises. Loeb was co-editor of an influential "small" literary magazine, Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts, and published The Way It Was: A Memoir in 1959.
The collection consists of the correspondence files, primarily from 1921-1924, of Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts, edited in Italy by Harold Loeb (Princeton Class of 1913) in association with Matthew Josephson, Alfred Kreymborg, Malcolm Cowley, and Lola Ridge. Approximately half of the collection consists of editorial and business correspondence between Loeb and his associates, while the balance contains few or single letters from over 150 American, British, and European authors and artists. Among the correspondents represented are Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Cocteau, Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Aldington, Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Beach, Kay Boyle, Winifred Bryher, E. E. Cummings, André Gide, Aldous Huxley, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams, as well as others. Some related newspaper clippings and manuscript lists are also present.
Researchers should note that correspondence for some authors has been arranged in a single folder, whereas others' correspondence is included in general alphabetical files for each letter. Where this occurs, a list of included names is present in a note at the folder-level. Some correspondents, whose names may not be listed, can also be found in relevant alphabetical files.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Gift of Harold A. Loeb (AM 16669).
A draft checklist is available.
This collection was processed by John Delaney in May 2007. Finding aid written by John Delaney in May 2007.
The collection was reprocessed by Kelly Bolding in August 2014.
In 2022, restrictions on Ernest Hemingway letters where researchers were required to use surrogates were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
No appraisal information is available.
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- John Delaney
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Collection Inventory
Includes correspondence with Richard Aldington (1892-1962), Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882-?), and Joseph Auslander (1897-1965).
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Includes correspondence with Albert Coombs Barnes (1872-1951), Djuna Barnes (1892-1982), Léon Bazalgette (1873-1928), Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), Carlton Beals (1893-1979), Laura Benét (1884-1979), Maxwell Bodenheim (1893-1954), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Winifred Bryher (1894-1983), Kate Buss, Mary Francis Butta (1892-1937), and Witter Bynner (1881-1968).
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Includes correspondence with Stuart Chase (1888-1985), Holling Allison Clancy, A. L. Collyer, Thomas Pynn Cope, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Lily Anne Coppard, and Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962).
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Theodore Crisp was associated with Crisp Randall & Crisp firm and Sunwise Turn bookshop.
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Includes correspondence with Andrew Herbert Dakers (1887-?), James Jeremiah Daly (1872-1953), Samuel Foster Damon, Jean de Bosschere, Walter John de la Mare (1873-1956), Adolph Arthur Dehn (1895-1968), Harrison Dowd, Jane Dransfield (1875-1957), Samuel Dublirer, and Lord Dunsany (1878-1957).
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Includes correspondence with Ilya Ehrenberg (1891-1967), Carl Einstein (1885-1940), and Paul Eldridge (1888-?).
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Includes correspondence with John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950), Consuelo Urissari Ford, and Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939).
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Includes correspondence with Gaston Gallimard, Waldemar George, Samuel Louis Gilmore, Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957), Douglas Goldring, Wallace Gould, Juan Gris (1887-1927), and George Grosz (1893-1959). See "L, General" folder for correspondence with Victor M. Llona, agent for André Gide (1869-1951).
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Includes correspondence with Edmond A. Guggenheim, Peggy Guggenheim, and Simon Guggenheim.
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Includes correspondence with Alice Corbin Henderson (1881-1949), Leon Serabian Herald, Benjamin W. Huebsch, and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).
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Includes correspondence with Willard Jo Johnson and W. Dawson Johnston (1871-1928).
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Includes correspondence with Manuel Komroff (1890-1974) and others.
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Includes correspondence with Mikhail Larinov (1881-1964), Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Olga Lesh, Jacques Lipschitz (1891-?), El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Victor M. Llona (agent for André Gide), Pierre Loving (1893-?), and Margaret Lyster (pseudonym for Mrs. Austin Clarke).
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Includes correspondence with Louis Marcoussis (1883-1941), Edgar Lee Master (1869-1950), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Marjorie Meeker, Charlotte May Mew (1869-1928), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), Susan Langstaff Mitchell (1866-1926), Lazlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), Marianne Craig Moore (1887-1972), Paul Morand (1888-1976), Thomas Moult, Peter P. Mulligan, Harold Munro, and John Middleton Murry (1889-1957).
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(Medgyesi László).
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Includes correspondence with Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941), Vincent O'Sullivan (1872-1940), and Herman Ould (1886-1951).
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Includes correspondence with Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), and others.
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Includes correspondence with Man Ray (1890-1976), Charles Recht (1887-1965), Georges Ribémont-Dessaignes (1884-1974), Jacques Riviére (1886-1925), John Rodker (1894-1955), Ralph Roeder (1890-?), Romain Rolland (1868-1944), and Albert A. Rosenthal.
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Includes correspondence with André Salmon (1881-1969), Lew R. Sarett (1888-1954), Gilbert Seldes (1893-?), Paul Selver (1888-1970), Philippe Soupalt (1897-?), Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Leo Stein, Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), Paul Strand (1890-1976), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1865-1945), and Arthur Symons (1865-1945).
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Photostat copies are available for use by researchers.
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Includes correspondence with Basil Thompson, Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977), Laurence Vail (1891-1968), Hart Vance, Glenway Wescott (1901-1987), Oscar Williams (1900-1964), William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), and John B. Yeats (1839-1922).
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Includes manuscript lists from Broom's Rome office.
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