Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1892 - 1969
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Harold Acton papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 663
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of Harold Acton's translations of Chinese literary works and his writings; correspondence from Chinese, English, and American scholars and friends; material relating to a lecture tour of Italy; and other papers. Highlights include the unpublished manuscript for Popular Chinese Plays, which was once thought lost, as well as correspondence concerning its projected publication by Henry Vetch. Also...
Dates:
1932-1941
Bryher papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 97
Abstract:
The papers document the personal life and literary career of Bryher. Her extensive correspondence includes letters from H. D., Robert MacAlmon, Kenneth MacPherson, Norman Holmes Pearson, Sylvia Beach, Norman Douglas, Horace Gregory, Islay Lyons, and Edith Sitwell, and from many other figures in the fields of literature, psychoanalysis, and film. There are manuscripts of many of her works, including fragments of an unpublished volume of autobiography; financial and personal papers;...
Dates:
1812-1980, bulk 1911-1978
William Adams Delano papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 178
Abstract:
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 They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record.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
Fragment poems, undated
Part of Collection — Box 263: [Barcode: 39002140920282], Folder: 10
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Three autograph manuscript fragments containing portions of unfinished poems.
Dates:
undated
Jared French papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 732
Abstract:
Collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the life and career of painter Jared French and a circle of friends and collaborators. Correspondence with individuals and cultural institutions, chiefly museums and galleries, document French's personal and professional affairs, with significant representation from members of the literary and artistic and gay male communities in New York during the middle decades of the twentieth century. In addition to large...
Dates:
1921-1990
H. D. Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 24
Abstract:
The papers document the personal life and literary career of H. D. Major correspondents include Richard Aldington, Bryher, Helen Wolle Doolittle, Robert McAlmon, Brigit Patmore, Norman Holmes Pearson, George Plank, and Ezra Pound. There are manuscripts of many of her works, including Her (1927), The Walls Do Not Fall (1944), Helen in Egypt (1961), and her memoir End to Torment (1958). The collection also contains personal papers, subject files, and photographs, including items related to the...
Dates:
1887-1977
Frederick R. Koch collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 601
Abstract:
The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings,...
Dates:
1640-1983
Note : The Ambassador, New York, New York, to Crosby Gaige, undated
Part of Collection — Box 270: [Barcode: 39002140920464], Folder: 11
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Autograph manuscript note, signed, scheduling a meeting.
Dates:
undated
Norman Holmes Pearson Collection of “Art for the Wrong Reason”
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1031
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains sixty-three sketches, drawings, paintings, and prints acquired by Yale faculty member Norman Holmes Pearson not for their aesthetic or artistic merit, but because they were created by poets and other authors; he titled his collection “Art for the Wrong Reason.” The works were executed in crayon, gouache, graphite, ink, charcoal, oil, and watercolor on paper, board, canvas, and panel, by fifty-three writers including E. E. Cummings, George Du Maurier, Victor Hugo, D....
Dates:
1833-1979
Alan Pryce-Jones papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 513
Abstract:
The Alan Pryce-Jones Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts and printed versions of writings, photographs, scrapbooks, financial papers and other personal papers of the English writer, editor, and critic Alan Pryce-Jones.
Dates:
1813-2000, bulk 1915-1990
Annie Schletter papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 547
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, printed ephemera, and photographs related to Annie Schletter and her family. Correspondence consists of letters to Annie Schletter, Pauline Schletter, Percy Schletter, and others, including Adrian Boult and Rosetta Phillips. Letters to Annie Schletter, many brief notes, largely relate to theater in London. Her correspondents include Margot Asquith, Adrian Boult, Ernest Coquelin, F. Paolo Tosti, Oscar Wilde, and Charles Wyndham. Correspondence also includes two...
Dates:
1757-1937
"Ultimate judgement", 1920 August 21
Part of Collection — Box 263: [Barcode: 39002140920282], Folder: 11
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Autograph manuscript poem, signed, written for Edith Sitwell.
Dates:
1920 August 21