Toklas, Alice B., 1877-1967
Dates
- Existence: 1877-04-30 - 1967-03-07
Biography
Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde; life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946).
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
John Breon papers
The papers contain correspondence, diaries, writings, subject files, and personal papers of John Breon concerning his World War II experiences, correspondents include Pat Carroll, Charles Cerbone, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Carl Van Vechten.
Agnes Campbell and Kent Kramer collection of Margaret Anderson
The collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, personal papers, and printed material by or relating to American writer and editor Margaret Anderson and others.
Elizabeth Fuller Chapman papers and films
Correspondence and photographs, 1949-1967
Correspondence includes thirty six ALS and seven APcS from Toklas to Arnold Weisberger, and three letters signed and nine letters written and signed by aids, some by Joseph Barry. With seven photographs of Toklas dating from 1949-66, six of which appeared in Weisberger's book Famous Faces. Includes six envelopes.
Christopher Cox papers
The Christopher Cox Papers consists of the writings, correspondence files, and personal papers of the editor, author, actor, director, and producer Christopher Cox, and of his partner, the art historian William Olander.
Mina Kirstein Curtiss papers
The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence.
Robert Bartlett Haas collection on Gertrude Stein and the Conference Press
The Robert Bartlett Haas Collection on Gertrude Stein and the Conference Press contains correspondence, drafts of writings, notes, photographs, printed material and papers relating to Getrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and the production and distribution of Conference Press publications, including Stein's What Are Masterpieces?
Leon Katz papers
The Leon Katz Papers contains research files, writings, personal papers, professional papers, correspondence, subject files, photographs, printed materials, computer media, and audiovisual materials by or relating to Leon Katz.
Bruce Kellner papers
The Bruce Kellner Papers consist of letters to Kellner and other papers, including two poems by Fania Marinoff, actress and wife of Carl Van Vechten, a list of Marinoff's appearances on stage and in films, and a portion of Marinoff's last will and testament. Correspondents include Donald Angus, Donald Gallup, Tom Hachtman, Fania Marinoff, Alice B. Toklas, Carl Van Vechten, Donald Windham, and others.
Letter : 5 Rue Christine VI, Paris, to "Dear" Livingston, n.d.
ALS describing the seasons in Paris and mentioning E. E. Cummings.
Letter : 5 Rue Christine VI, Paris, to Mr. Hopkins, 1950 Mar 14
ALS written as executor of Gertude Stein's estate giving Hopkins permission to use a paragraph by Stein "on counting" in a forthcoming book.
Letter : Bilignin, Par Belley, Ain, to Mrs. Perry, 1933 Oct 17
ALS apologizing for not previously mentioning that a Russian play that Perry had been interested in had already been translated and produced in London.
Letter : Fourth & Wabasha, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Mrs. Mitchell, 1934 Dec 8
TLS on behalf of Gertrude Stein and Toklas declining an invitation to dinner before a lecture by Stein at the Century Club.
Letters : 5 rue Christine VI, Paris, to Leonard Lyons, New York Post, 75 West Street, New York, 1947-49
4 ALS and 1 APcS thanking Lyons for sending clippings of his articles. Letters from 1948 and 1949 concern Lyon's request for a drawing or autograph by Picasso for his collection.
Letters and envelope, 1951, [1962?]
Two autograph letters, signed, one, to Mr. Adriani and one to Roger Baker, dated 11 November 1963, with accompanying envelope, dated 14 November 1962.
Letters : to Virginia Knapik, 1949-57
Three ALS and three postcards, holograph, signed.
With two envelopes
With postcard, holograph, signed to Harold Knapik; ALS to Donald Sutherland, 1952 Aug 6; envelope to Donald Sutherland postmarked 1950 May 4; and introduction, holograph, to The Blue Dog and Other Fables for the French by Anne Bodart.
Notes for the production of DOCTOR FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS.
Postcard : to John [Breon], n.d.
One autograph postcard signed, with picture of Bilignin, sending New Year's greetings.
Kenneth Farrand Simpson papers
Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas. New York: Liveright,, n.d.
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