Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954
Person
Leonard Bacon (1887-1954), American poet, literary critic, and teacher
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Leonard Bacon papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 487
Overview:
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, printed material and other papers that document the life and work of the poet Leonard Bacon. Correspondence is both professional and personal, and documents Bacon's writing and publishing activities as well as his personal and family relationships. Writings include drafts and proofs for many of his published works including Ulug Beg (1923), Lost Buffalo, and Other Poems (1930), The Furioso (1932), Dream and Action (1934), and Semi-Centennial...
Dates:
1834-1962, bulk 1897-1962
William Rose Benét Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1100
Scope and Contents:
The William Rose Benét papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and personal and family papers documenting the life and work of American author and editor William Rose Benét. The collection spans the years 1847 to 1957, with the bulk of the collection dating from roughly 1900 to 1950.
Collection material is chiefly in English; with some material in French, Italiana, Russian, and Hebrew.
Collection material is chiefly in English; with some material in French, Italiana, Russian, and Hebrew.
Dates:
1847-1957, bulk 1920-1950
William Adams Delano papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 178
Overview:
The papers consist almost entirely of social and professional correspondence. They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record. Much of the personal correspondence concerns Delano's membership in various New York clubs and his classmates in the Yale College class of 1895. His professional correspondence relates in part to important commissions, among them his work on the White...
Dates:
1902-1960, bulk 1939-1960
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Adams Delano papers
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis Papers
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 20
Overview:
The Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis Papers consists of correspondence, writings, financial records, and other papers documenting the personal and professional activities and interests of the American author, editor, and collector Wilmarth Lewis and his wife Annie Burr Lewis. At their home in Farmington, Connecticut, the Lewises created a world-renowned collection of eighteenth-century print, graphic, and manuscript material related to the English author, connoisseur, and collector Horace Walpole...
Dates:
1800-1980, bulk 1926-1979
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library
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Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis Papers
Wallace Notestein papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 544
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, notes, speeches, and other papers of Wallace Notestein, historian, teacher, author, and Sterling Professor of English History at Yale from 1928-1947. The bulk of the papers consist of letters received by Notestein from other historians, scholars, writers, students, and publishers and relate largely to academic and professional matters, to politics, and to his personal life.
Dates:
1899-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wallace Notestein papers
Harold Phelps Stokes papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 645
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, memoranda, notes, writings, clippings, and subject files documenting the personal life and professional career of Harold Phelps Stokes. His interests in United States foreign policy and domestic politics, the Alger Hiss case, the Paris Peace Conference, New York City politics and government, prison reform, and journalism are documented. Stokes corresponded with many prominent American political and social figures.
Dates:
1908-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Harold Phelps Stokes papers
Chauncey Brewster Tinker papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 354
Overview:
Collection contains correspondence, writings, personal papers,financial records, photographs, subject files, clippings, printed material, and other papers by or relating to Chauncey Brewster Tinker.Correspondence consists primarily of letters to Tinker, including letters from Leonard Bacon, Charles Montgomery Hathaway, Jr., Sinclair Lewis, A. Edward Newton, Thornton Wilder, and the Yale University Library, along with several third-party letters, and a few copies and drafts of letters by...
Dates:
1898-1963