Broom Correspondence of Harold Loeb

Loeb, Harold (1891-1974)

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).

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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.

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Broom Correspondence of Harold Loeb; Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Publisher

Manuscripts Division

Finding aids author

John Delaney

Date

2008

Creator

Loeb, Harold (1891-1974)

Subject

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence

Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence

Editors -- Italy -- 20th century -- Correspondence

People

Josephson, Matthew (1899-1978)

Ridge, Lola (1883-1941)

Language

English

Form

Little magazines -- Italy -- 20th century

Periodicals -- Publishing -- Italy -- 20th century

Correspondence -- 20th century