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Authors, American -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Alice B. Toklas correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 1977-001
Scope and Contents

Consists of 89 handwritten letters and postcards, and 1 telegram to John E. Dobbin, Brion Gysin, and Sir Francis and Frederica Rose. Also included is one typed letter (as secretary to Gertrude Stein) to John Hinsdale Thompson.

Dates: 1933 - 1961

Alvin F. Harlow manuscripts, 1930-1940

 Collection
Identifier: 1500-001-18
Scope and Contents

Tomahawk Trails. Typescript and carbon copy typescript drafts of stories for a proposed collection of Indian fighting stories of American pioneer days.

Dates: 1930 - 1940

Anais Nin papers, 1969-1992

 Item
Identifier: 1988-010
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence between Nin and colleagues and between her publisher, Peter Owen and others, particularly her literary agent, Gunther Stuhlmann. Also included is Nin's typescript draft of her essay, "On Writing, Writer and Symbols," a transcription of Nin's introduction to Anna Kavan's Ice, as well as draft introductions to Ladders to fire and Children of the albatross and a preface to Cities of the interior, all written by Gunther Stuhlmann.

Dates: 1969 - 1992

Andre Deutsch archive, 1952-1995

 Collection
Identifier: 1988-013
Scope and Contents

Consists of editorial, production and publicity files for approximately 2000 books published by this London firm. Includes correspondence with Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, and V.S. Naipaul, among many others. Also represents a great deal of the work of Deutsch editor Diana Athill who influenced women's writing in Britain.

Dates: 1952 - 1995

David Plante papers, 1963-1982

 Collection
Identifier: 1981-007
Scope and Contents Consist of handwritten, typed, carbon copy typed and photocopied typescripts, galley proofs and page notes, of short stories, television scripts, and novels including The Family and The Woods (2 novels in the trilogy, The Francoeur Novels) and one segment, “Jean" in Difficult Women; also included are handwritten notes and typescripts from Plante’s collaboration with Jean Rhys for Smile Please, 2 manuscript notebooks, 67 carbon copy typescript reader’s reports submitted by Plante (each...
Dates: 1963 - 1982

D.H. Lawrence papers, 1913-1977

 Collection
Identifier: 1976-013
Scope and Contents Organized into 3 series:Series 1: Correspondence consists of the following: D.H. Lawrence: 17 handwritten letters, 3 handwritten postcards, and a typed letter, 1918-1930.Frieda Lawrence: 3 telegrams and 4 handwritten and carbon copy typeed letters to Willard Houghland, Mr. Mercer, Jake Zeitlin and others; a photostatic reproduction of an handwritten letter to "Auntie;" a handwritten letter from Alfred Stieglitz to Frieda Lawrence; and a telegram from Morris L. Ernst...
Dates: 1913 - 1977

Edmund Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1976-014
Scope and Contents Consists of 74 handwritten, typed and carbon copy typed letters, postcards and telegrams between Wilson and various editors at Doubleday & Company (including brief correspondence between Jason Epstein and Leonard Baskin concerning a proposed portrait of Wilson for a dust jacket), as well as correspondence with friends and colleagues such as Leon Edel, Helen Gould, Sidney Hook, Elizabeth Huling and Henry Miller. Also included are handwritten, typed, and carbon copy typed drafts of book...
Dates: 1911 - 1972

Edward Dahlberg letters to Sara Mazo Dahlberg, 1929-1932

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-062
Scope and Contents

28 letters and postcards from Edward Dahlberg to Sara Mazo, a photograph, a dance recital program, and an article about Sara Mazo.

Dates: 1929 - 1932

Elizabeth L. Banks correspondence, 1893-1903

 Collection
Identifier: 1991-002
Scope and Contents

The Elizabeth L. Banks correspondence consists of 46 autograph and typescript letters from the journalist to William Morris Colles of the Author's Syndicate. The content of the correspondence primarily concerns the writing and publishing of her work Autobiography of a Newspaper Girl (London: Metheun, 1902; and Dodd Mead in the United States) and a series of articles entitled In Cap and Apron. Correspondence dates from 1893 to 1903.

Dates: 1893 - 1903