Williams, Wayland Wells, 1888-1945
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1888 - 1945
Biography
Wayland Wells Williams (1888-1945), American author.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Bidwell family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 79
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, legal and financial documents, and other papers of six generations of Bidwell family members. Principal figures include Barnabas Bidwell (1763-1833), lawyer and politician in Massachusetts and Kingston, Ontario; and his son, Marshall Spring Bidwell (1799-1872), lawyer and politician in Kingston and New York City.
Dates:
1750-1952, bulk 1782-1915
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bidwell family papers
Draft pages of "The whirligig of time", [ca. 1916]
Part of Collection — Box 46: [Barcode: 39002137170552], Folder: GROUP 906, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Two typed pages, numbered 406 and 411, corrected. Accompanied by TL from publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company to an unidentified recipient.
Removed from: The Whirligig of Time by Wayland Wells Williams (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c.1916).
Dates:
[ca. 1916]
Samuel Wells Williams family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 547
Summary:
The papers include correspondence (comprising over half of the collection), manuscripts of Samuel Wells Williams's Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, themes and lecture notes by Frederick Wells Williams, diaries, newspaper clippings, articles on China, maps, and pictures. The bulk of the correspondence relates to S. W. Williams, missionary, diplomat, and sinologue. The period between 1845 and 1855 has extensive correspondence with missionaries and...
Dates:
1809-1983, bulk 1809-1941
Wayland Wells Williams papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 551
Abstract:
The collection contains drafts of writings and correspondence documenting the professional life of New Haven area writer Wayland Wells Williams. Writings contain drafts of published and unpublished novels, including Goshen Street (1920) and "The King of Iceland's Eldest Son," and shorter works. Correspondence includes letters from Yale professor William Lyon Phelps and from prominent contemporaries Thomas Beers and Monty Woolley. There are also production files relating to the collection of...
Dates:
1910-1942
Yale University Press records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 552
Abstract:
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
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- Authors, American -- 20th Century -- Archives 1
- California -- Description and travel 1
- California -- Gold discoveries 1
- Canada 1
- Canada -- History -- 19th century 1
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- China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842 1
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