Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1898-07-22 - 1943-03-13
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943), American author and poet
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Danford Barney papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 466
Overview:
The Danford Barney papers contains correspondence, drafts of writings, photographs, and other material relating to poet and photographer Danford Barney. Correspondence in the collection contains letters from many Yale-affiliated faculty, authors, and collaborators, including Stephen Vincent Benét, William Rose Benét, Henry Seidel Canby, John Farrar, Brian Hooker, Benjamin R. C. Low, William Lyon Phelps, and Thornton Wilder, as well as authors who commented on Barney's work, such as John Hall...
Dates:
1877-1953
Benét Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1107
Scope and Contents:
The Benét family papers consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and other papers documenting the lives and activities of four generations of the Benét family. Material relating to members of the Rose, Mahon, and Carr families can also be found. The collection spans the years from 1849 to 1994. The defining thread to the collection runs from Brigadier General Stephen Vincent Benét and his wife Laura Amanda (Walker) Benét through their son James Walker Benét and his wife Frances...
Dates:
1836-1994
Stephen Vincent Benét and Rosemary Benét papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1046
Scope and Contents:
The Stephen Vincent Benét and Rosemary Benét papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and personal and family papers documenting the life and work of American authors Stephen Vincent Benét and Rosemary Benét. The collection spans the years 1829 to 1962, with the bulk of the collection dating from roughly 1910 to 1943.
Collection material is chiefly in English; with some material in French, German, Polish, and Swedish.
Collection material is chiefly in English; with some material in French, German, Polish, and Swedish.
Dates:
1829-1962, bulk 1920-1943
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
Henry Seidel Canby papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 64
Overview:
The Henry Seidel Canby Papers document many aspects of Canby's personal life and professional activities as a writer, editor, and educator. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes and other course materials. Canby corresponded with educators, literary critics,publishers, writers and other public figures. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Mary Hunter Austin, Stephen Vincent Benét, Robert Seymour Bridges, Willa Cather, Jerome Davis, Walter De La Mare, Bernard...
Dates:
1825-1960
Basil Davenport papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 489
Overview:
The Basil Davenport Papers consist chiefly of correspondence, including a substantial number of outgoing letters from Davenport to his family. The collection also contains Davenport's diaries, drafts of his writings and translations, printed material documenting his career and critical work, and personal papers including genealogical material.
Dates:
1899-1964
Decision Magazine papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 176
Overview:
Correspondence, drafts of articles and poems, legal documents, press releases, clippings and other papers of the magazine which was published in New York from January 1941 to February 1942 under the editorship of Klaus Mann. Correspondents and writers include W.H. Auden, André Gide, Sir Julian Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, William Carlos Williams and Stefan Zweig. Also in the papers is the proof for an unpublished article by Vladimir Nabokov, "Soviet Literature...
Dates:
1940-1942
Found in:
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Decision Magazine papers
Charles A. Fenton papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 579
Overview:
The collection consists primarily of material created and accumulated by Charles Fenton in the course of researching and writing books on Stephen Vincent Benét and Ernest Hemingway. Research material includes correspondence about Benét and Hemingway, Fenton's notes about their lives and careers, and index cards with which Fenton organized his research. In addition to research on Benét and Hemingway, the collection contains a smaller amount of research material on the topic of "Writer in...
Dates:
1866-1965, bulk 1918-1960
Hermann Hagedorn papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 391
Overview:
Collection contains correspondence, writings, clippings, and other materials documenting the life of author Hermann Hagedorn. Correspondence in the collection consists of letters to and from family, friends, other writers, publishers, scholars, and well-known political and cultural figures from the first half of the twentieth century. Noteworthy correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Percy MacKaye, Ezra Pound, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Albert...
Dates:
1898-1970
Matthew Jennett papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 231
Overview:
The Matthew Jennett papers contain subject files, sound recordings, and other material documenting the life and work of Matthew Jennett as editor of Pharos Books. The subject files feature correspondence, writings, and printed ephemera relating to publication projects with Pharos Books. There are files for authors, publishers, and designers, including Bob Cato, Franz Douskey, Peter Ganick (of Potes & Poets Press), Leslie Lee, and Jonathan Williams (of the Jargon Society), Patrick Leigh...
Dates:
1883-2011, bulk 1940-1989
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Letter : 220 East 69 Street, New York City, to Mrs. Lyda Rochmis, Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Letter : 220 East 69 Street, New York City, to Mrs. Lyda Rochmis, Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1936 Jan 13
Part of Collection — Box: 34, Folder: GROUP 546, F-1, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
TLS expressing regret that he can not attend a performance of a dramatic adaptation of "John Brown's Body" that week at Thomas Jefferson High School. Accompanied by two typescript photocopies of the script as performed by students of Thomas Jefferson High School [Brooklyn, NY] in 1936, under the direction of Mrs. Lyda Rochmis. Also accompanied by a program for the "Third Annual Field Day" at Julia Richman High School [New York, NY], 1936 May 16, at which this production was also performed.
Dates:
1936 Jan 13
Letter : 220 East 69th Street, New York City, to Carl [Carmer], Undated
Part of Collection — Box: 34, Folder: GROUP 546, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS thanking Carmer for a book.
Dates:
Undated
Sinclair Lewis papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 268
Overview:
The Sinclair Lewis Papers consist of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal papers documenting the life and work of novelist and author Sinclair Lewis.
Dates:
1866-1964, bulk 1910-1950
Myers family papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 27
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence with family, friends, and acquaintances, plus a variety of personal papers, including obituaries, letters of sympathy, diaries, and scrapbooks documenting the lives of Richard E. and Alice Lee Myers and their children. Prominent correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Nadia Boulanger, Grace Flandrau, John Gielgud, Charlotte Kett, Archibald MacLeish, and Gerald Murphy.
Dates:
1908-1986
Robert Nathan papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 307
Overview:
The collection includes drafts of writings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, drawings, diaries, and audio recordings documenting the life and work of the American writer Robert Nathan. Drafts of Nathan's writings make up the bulk of the collection, and include novels, screenplays, short fiction and prose, speeches, and poetry; the writings include story ideas, or "false starts," that Nathan did not publish. Correspondence and other papers document his family relationships, in...
Dates:
1796-1985, bulk 1912-1968
Terry family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 482
Overview:
Papers of five family members, the children and daughter-in-law of Alfred and Clarissa Terry, make up the major part of the collection. The most prominent figure is Alfred Howe Terry, a Civil War general in the Union army, whose correspondence and military papers relate to the Fitz-John Porter case, the Indian campaigns (1870s) and reminiscences of military service and the Civil War. Included are orders for the court martial of General Custer and drawings supposedly given to Terry by Sitting...
Dates:
1795-1939
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Terry family 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
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