Scope and Contents
The Yale Review Records: 1911-1949 consist primarily of business correspondence between the first two editors of The Yale Review, Wilbur L. Cross and Helen MacAfee, and writers whose works appeared in the periodical during their tenures. The collection has been organized into one series, Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by author; "letter general" files, which as a rule contain correspondents represented by relatively few items, precede the individual files under each letter. The records span the years 1911-1959, with the bulk of the material dating from between 1925 and 1940.
Series I, Correspondence , is housed in boxes 1-13 and contains letters from contributors and potential contributors to the magazine, accompanied by retained carbons of letters by Cross and MacAfee. Occasional third party correspondence from literary agents or translators with the editors has been filed with the writer's correspondence. Typical subjects include: solicitations and offers of articles on specific topics, discussion of the magazine's low payment rates, suggestions for editorial changes, and comment on the magazine's quality and contents. Some letters also contain personal and family news, literary opinions, and sometimes lengthy discussions of current events and economic concerns such as a proposed nationalization of the power industry in the United States or the effect of offyear elections on foreign relations and monetary policy.
Several files also contain manuscripts and proofs of submissions, including poems by Stephen Vincent Benét, Walter De La Mare, Robert Frost, John Masefield, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Allen Tate; articles by Clemence Dane, E.M. Forster, Stephen Grahame, Harold Laski, Sean O'Faolain, George Santayana, and H. G. Wells; and book reviews by Charles Morgan, Ida B. Tarbell and Rebecca West. In many cases, the manuscripts and proofs are principal subjects of the correspondence, as the authors and editors discuss the works and the publication process; in others, these items appear to be unconnected to the surviving correspondence, or are entirely unaccompanied by letters. These materials have been identified in folder notes.
Series I, Correspondence , is housed in boxes 1-13 and contains letters from contributors and potential contributors to the magazine, accompanied by retained carbons of letters by Cross and MacAfee. Occasional third party correspondence from literary agents or translators with the editors has been filed with the writer's correspondence. Typical subjects include: solicitations and offers of articles on specific topics, discussion of the magazine's low payment rates, suggestions for editorial changes, and comment on the magazine's quality and contents. Some letters also contain personal and family news, literary opinions, and sometimes lengthy discussions of current events and economic concerns such as a proposed nationalization of the power industry in the United States or the effect of offyear elections on foreign relations and monetary policy.
Several files also contain manuscripts and proofs of submissions, including poems by Stephen Vincent Benét, Walter De La Mare, Robert Frost, John Masefield, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Allen Tate; articles by Clemence Dane, E.M. Forster, Stephen Grahame, Harold Laski, Sean O'Faolain, George Santayana, and H. G. Wells; and book reviews by Charles Morgan, Ida B. Tarbell and Rebecca West. In many cases, the manuscripts and proofs are principal subjects of the correspondence, as the authors and editors discuss the works and the publication process; in others, these items appear to be unconnected to the surviving correspondence, or are entirely unaccompanied by letters. These materials have been identified in folder notes.
Dates
- 1911 - 1949
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Yale Review Records: 1911-1949 are the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Primarily gift of the Yale Review office, 1949-1950. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Extent
5.86 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The papers consist of business correspondence, sometimes accompanied by submissions and proofs, between the editors of the Yale Review and the writers whose works appeared in the journal. Authors represented include John Jay Chapman, Walter De la Mare, Robert Frost, William Inge, Walter Lippmann, William Lyon Phelps, Edward Arlington Robinson, Sara Teasdale, and Louis Untermeyer.
Processing Information
This finding aid was produced from a previously existing card set in the Manuscripts Catalog, or from another inventory. All pertinent bibliographical information has been retained.
- Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949
- American literature -- 20th century
- American literature -- Periodicals
- Authors
- Authors and publishers -- United States
- Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933
- Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862-1948
- De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956
- Editors
- English literature -- 20th Century
- Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
- Inge, William Ralph, 1860-1954
- Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974
- MacAfee, Helen
- Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States
- Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943
- Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950
- Social sciences -- Periodicals
- Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933
- Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Yale Review
Creator
- Title
- Guide to the Yale Review Records: 1911-1949
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Beinecke Staff
- Date
- November 2000
- Description rules
- Beinecke Manuscript Unit Archival Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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