Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957
Person
Dates
- Existence: May 5, 1890 - March 28, 1957
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Argus Book Shop correspondence
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 427
Abstract:
The Argus Book Shop Correspondence consists of the shop's "author correspondence" files holding letters between Ben Abramson and his staff and more than four hundred writers, artists, printers, critics, and illustrators. While some of the folders hold single or just a few letters, Abramson had more extensive relationships with many writers and artists, including John Austen, Faith Baldwin, March Cost, Frederic Dannay, Norman Davey, Rhys Davies, August Derleth, Robin Douglas, Joan...
Dates:
1857-1955, bulk 1930-1944
Beer family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 73
Abstract:
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...
Dates:
1740-1981, bulk 1827-1981
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Beer family papers
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.
Dates:
1847-1957, bulk 1920-1950
Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1265
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, note cards, and printed material documenting the professional life of Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, a literary scholar and professor of English at Yale University, 1909-1943. Joseph Quincy Adams, John Bakeless, and John LeGay Brereton are primary correspondents.
Dates:
1889-1943
William McFee collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 991
Abstract:
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...
Dates:
1862-1966, bulk 1900-1966
Dudley Nichols papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 671
Abstract:
The Dudley Nichols papers contain correspondence, writings, and personal papers documenting the life and work of American screenwriter and director Dudley Nichols. Correspondence with family, friends, authors, critics, actors, and directors includes a number of authors who, like Nichols, served in the Armed Forces during World War I or resided or worked at least briefly in California and Hollywood. There are letters from Edward Dahlberg, William Faulkner, Gene Fowler, Aldous Huxley, William...
Dates:
1903-1969