Farrar, John Chipman, 1896-1974
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1896 - 1974
John Chipman Farrar (1896-1974), American publisher and author
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
James Branch Cabell collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 566
Overview:
The collection contains letters, manuscripts, and printed material related to the life and work of James Branch Cabell. The letters in Series I were written by Cabell to his publishers, literary collaborator, and colleagues; in most cases the folders include carbon copies of responses sent back to Cabell. Writings in Series II are typescripts and proofs of several works, and include correspondence related to their publication, as well as designs by John O'Hara Cosgrave for the cover and end...
Dates:
1912-1971, bulk 1927-1954
Seward Collins papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 12
Overview:
The Seward Collins Papers contain correspondence, subject files, business papers, and other papers documenting Collins's editorship of The Bookman and The American Review.
Dates:
1918-1952, bulk 1927-1937
Clyde Brion Davis papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 255
Overview:
The Clyde Brion Davis Papers document his work as a journalist and novelist in the United States during the early twentieth century. The Papers contain correspondence and writings as well as personal papers such as business records. The Papers also include correspondence and writings documenting Martha Wirt Davis's writing career.
Dates:
1854-1967, bulk 1907-1962
John Chipman Farrar papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 437
Overview:
The John Chipman Farrar Papers consist of correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, personal papers, and printed material relating to the personal and professional life of John Chipman Farrar, and to a lesser degree, his wife Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, between 1916 and 1974. The Papers also document the publishing firms Farrar and Rinehart and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. A number of authors' correspondence and drafts are included in the Papers.
Dates:
1916-1974
Earl E. Fisk papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 342
Overview:
Collection includes correspondence, writings, and other materials by and relating to book collector, anthologist, writer, and insurance agent Earl E. Fisk. Correspondence contains letters to and from writers, publishers and others, including Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Warren Beck, John Chipman Farrar, Farrar, Straus and Company, Harry Hansen, Robert Cortes Holliday, H. L. Mencken, A. Edward Newton, Carl Van Vechten, and Eudora Welty. Many of the letters concern Haldane Macfall. Writings include...
Dates:
1911-1953
Yale University Press records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 552
Overview:
The records contain setting copies and proofs for works published by the press from 1919 through 1964 for many well-known twentieth century authors. Materials relating to multiple titles dating from the 1950s can be found, for example, for Gertrude Stein and Eugene O'Neill. Works can also be found for a number of authors affiliated with the University either as students or faculty. Many of the early titles in the collection were published as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. These...
Dates:
1919-1964