Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
Person
Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963), American literary critic and historian
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Hamilton Basso papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 57
Overview:
Manuscripts, letters, and research material document the life of best-selling novelist Hamilton Basso.
Dates:
1861-1975
Beer family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 73
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas Beer, a...
Dates:
1740-1981, bulk 1827-1981
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Beer family papers
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 They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record.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
Alyse Gregory papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 163
Overview:
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, with smaller amounts of diaries, writings, notebooks, artworks, photographs, and other personal papers. Also present are papers of others closely associated with Gregory, including papers of Llewelyn Powys; writings of John Cowper Powys and Edna St. Vincent Millay; and diaries of Gertrude Powys. Accompanying these is a small amount of correspondence and notes of Rosemary Manning, concerning Gregory's papers.
Dates:
1888-1982, bulk 1939-1967
Alvin Saunders Johnson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 615
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes, clippings and photographs of Alvin Saunders Johnson. Although records relating to his career are relatively scanty, two manuscript drafts of his autobiography, Pioneer Progress, are among the writings. The correspondence of some 1,700 letters includes: Max Ascoli, Jacob Billikopf, Gerhard Colm, Agnes DeLima, Thomas E. Dewey, Eduard Heinmann, Edith Johnson, Corliss Lamont, Adolphe Lowe, Thomas Mann, Harry Scherman.
Dates:
1902-1969
Max Lerner papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 322
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers, (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter...
Dates:
1927-1998
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Max Lerner papers
Letter : Westport, Connecticut, to Irving Fisher, 1940 Aug 6
Part of Collection — Box: 13, Folder: GROUP 259, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
TLS regarding Archibald MacLeish's The Irresponsibles.
Removed from: The Irresponsibles: A Declaration by Archibald MacLeish (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940).
Removed from: The Irresponsibles: A Declaration by Archibald MacLeish (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940).
Dates:
1940 Aug 6
William McFee collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 991
Overview:
The William McFee Collection contains correspondence between McFee and literary colleagues, publishers, friends, and family; third-party correspondence concerning McFee, his family, and his friendship with James T. Babb; autograph manuscript or typescript drafts for most of McFee's novels, and for short stories, essays, books reviews, and poems; autograph manuscript diaries, 1911-1963; writings of others, including Margery Allingham and Beatrice Allender McFee; photographs of McFee and others;...
Dates:
1862-1966, bulk 1900-1966
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
Photograph of Van Wyck Brooks's study, undated
Part of Collection — Box: 105, Folder: 13
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Photograph of Van Wyck Brooks’s study by an unidentified photographer. Inscribed on verso: "Study of Van Wyck Brooks, Bridgewater, Connecticut".
Dates:
undated
Carl Ruggles Papers
Collection
Call Number: MSS 26
Overview:
Music, correspondence and other papers, art works, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer Carl Ruggles (1876-1971)
Dates:
1894-1981 (inclusive)
Found in:
Gilmore Music Library
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Carl Ruggles Papers
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 3
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, writings, subject files and personal papers documenting the personal life and writing career of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant and such subjects as the Taos writers colony, the Indian rights movement, popular psychology, and life in Paris during World War I. Major correspondents include Randolph Bourne, John Collier, Alyse Gregory, Sidney Howard, Haniel Long, Amy Lowell, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Thornton Wilder.
Dates:
1903-1965
Tiger's Eye records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 362
Overview:
The records document all aspects of the production and distribution of the little magazine The Tiger's Eye, from its inception in 1947 through the decision to cease publication in 1951. Correspondence, manuscripts, and business records document the creative and editorial process, the enthusiasm of its readership, its subscription base, and the work involved in producing and distributing the issues.
Dates:
1939-1955
Thornton Wilder papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 108
Overview:
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence with family, friends, and literary colleagues; and writings, accompanied by related material. There are smaller amounts of personal papers, printed material, photographs, memorabilia, and audio recordings. The material documents Wilder's life and work, in particular his career as a successful novelist and playwright.Series I, Correspondence, consists of four subseries: Family Correspondence; General Correspondence; First Name Only and...
Dates:
1892-1991, bulk 1935-1975