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Achilles Fang papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 99
Abstract: The Achilles Fang Papers document the professional and personal relationship between Achilles Fang and Ezra Pound. The papers consist of correspondence and writings, most of which date from between 1950 and 1954. The correspondence principally concerns Fang's efforts to assist Pound in the transliteration of Chinese characters and in the publication of his Confucian translations. Writings include galley proofs of and Fang's introduction to Pound's The Classic Anthology as Defined by...
Dates: 1947-1958

William Faulkner collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 491
Abstract:

The collection consists chiefly of writings, with a small amount of correspondence. Writings include drafts of works by Faulkner and writings of others. The correspondence consists of original letters between William Faulkner and the American writer Malcolm Cowley. Also included are papers concerning the Theatre Guild and Richard Meyers production of William Faulkner's play Requiem for a Nun.

Dates: 1944-1966

Alvin Feinman papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1524
Abstract: The collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, personal papers, electronic files, and other papers by or relating to Alvin Feinman. Among the correspondents are Feinman's wife, Deborah Dorfman, Harold Bloom, James Geary, Reginald Shepherd, and Danny Myerson. Writings consist of notes and drafts of Feinman's poetry, articles, essays, and other works. Included are materials pertaining to Preambles and Other Poems and the posthumous publication of...
Dates: circa 1950-2014

Charles A. Fenton papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 579
Abstract: The collection consists primarily of material created and accumulated by Charles Fenton in the course of researching and writing books on Stephen Vincent Benét and Ernest Hemingway. Research material includes correspondence about Benét and Hemingway, Fenton's notes about their lives and careers, and index cards with which Fenton organized his research. In addition to research on Benét and Hemingway, the collection contains a smaller amount of research material on the topic of "Writer in...
Dates: 1866-1965, bulk 1918-1960

Rachel Field collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 509
Abstract:

The collection consists of letters from Rachel Field to Ruth Stanley-Brown Feis and from Field to Prentiss Taylor. Also included in the collection are writings by Field, many with illustrations by Taylor, and original writings and drawings by Taylor.

Dates: 1917-1942

Keith Fleming Papers Relating to Edmund White

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 887
Scope and Contents:

The Keith Fleming Papers Relating to Edmund White contain manuscripts, research files, biographical material, photographs, sound recordings of interviews, and electronic media created and collected by Fleming while working on the biography Original Youth: The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood.

Dates: 1993-1999, undated

John Gould Fletcher Collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 467
Abstract:

The John Gould Fletcher collection contains material by, about, and relating to American poet John Gould Fletcher.

Dates: 1911-1965

Maxwell E. Foster papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 662
Abstract:

The papers consist of letters to Foster and material relating to the Parkman, Twisleton, and Vaughan families. Correspondents include James Latimer McLane, Jr., Charlton MacVeagh, Ellery Sedgwick, Anne Shiras, and others. Material relating to the Parkman, Twisleton, and Vaughan families include correspondence, financial and legal records, documents, and notebooks.

Dates: 1809-1982, bulk 1850-1923

Michael Fraenkel papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 891
Abstract:

The collection consists of writings, correspondence, personal papers, and printed material, documenting the work of avant-garde writer and publisher Michael Fraenkel and his publishing company Carrefour Press, as well as the work of his wife Daphne Fraenkel who continued as director of the publishing company after Fraenkel's death and their literary executor Michael Peter Harris.

Dates: 1911-2002

Robert M. Furniss collection of Ezra Pound

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 633
Scope and Contents:

The collection is comprised of materials from the estate of Robert M. Furniss, Jr., who served as Ezra Pound's attorney from 1953-1958, when Pound was hosiptalized at St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C. Materials in the collection include correspondence, financial records, printed materials, and other papers relating to Ezra and Dorothy Pound and Furniss's administration of their affairs. it also includes records of dental expenses for Sherri Martinelli.

Dates: 1941-1959

Ruth Pine Furniss papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 431
Abstract: The Papers contain writings and other papers of American author Ruth Pine Furniss. Furniss's writings drew on her struggle with mental illness and her exposure to various medical treatments. Her career as an author is documented in various material, including drafts, printed versions of her writings, contracts with publishers, and copyright records. Some of her poetry, short stories, and articles written in the 1920s, and largely published in magazines and newspapers, are in a scrapbook of...
Dates: 1919-1960

Forrest Gander papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 765
Abstract: Collection contains correspondence, writings, printed material, and other paper by or relating to American poet Forrest Gander. There is correspondence with other poets, writers, translators, and publishers. Correspondents include James Merrill, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Rosmarie Waldrop, Fanny Howe, Ann Lauterbach, Michael Palmer, Michael Ondaatje, Marjorie Welish, David Shapiro, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Charles Bernstein, Cole Swensen, Henri Cole, Peter Cole, Peter Gizzi, and many...
Dates: 1849-2016, bulk 1980-2006

Gilbert A. Harrison papers relating to Thornton Wilder

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 372
Abstract: The collection contains research files, interviews, correspondence, writings, and other materials relating to Gilbert A. Harrison's biography of Thornton Wilder, The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder (New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1983). Harrison's research files, which include notes, photocopies of correspondence and writings, and clippings, make up the bulk of the collection. In addition to the research files, the collection includes: sound recordings of interviews with members of...
Dates: 1939-1975

Isa Glenn and Bayard Schindel papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 309
Abstract: The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Isa Glenn and her son, Bayard Schindel, in the course of their literary activities. Material includes typescripts of writings by Glenn and Schindel; correspondence with writers, editors, publishers, literary agents, friends, and family; material relating to Colonel S. J. B. Schindel's military career and to Glenn's travels to the Phillipines and South America; photographs of Schindel likely dating from his time at the Institute...
Dates: 1898-1936

Tereze Glück papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1535
Abstract:

The collection consists of materials by or relating to American author and businesswoman Tereze Glück, including correspondence, writings, and personal papers.

Dates: circa 1946-2018

Richard Henry Goldstone Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1106
Abstract: The papers document Richard Goldstone's process of writing Thornton Wilder's biography, Thornton Wilder: An Intimate Portrait . The collection includes photocopied and original correspondence between Goldstone and Wilder, Goldstone's research notes on Wilder's career and family life, and book reviews and correspondence in response to Goldstone's biography. The collection also contains correspondence between Wilder and friends and family, as well as...
Dates: 1915-1976

Zane Grey collection

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2761
Abstract:

The collection contains writings and correspondence of American writer Zane Grey.

Dates: 1905-1922

A. R. Gurney papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 728
Abstract:

The A. R. Gurney Papers document the life and career of American playwright and novelist A. R. Gurney and consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, and photographs.

Dates: circa 1947-2016

Robert Bartlett Haas collection on Gertrude Stein and the Conference Press

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 833
Abstract:

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?

Dates: 1936-1985

Hermann Hagedorn papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 391
Abstract: Collection contains correspondence, writings, clippings, and other materials documenting the life of author Hermann Hagedorn. Correspondence in the collection consists of letters to and from family, friends, other writers, publishers, scholars, and well-known political and cultural figures from the first half of the twentieth century. Noteworthy correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Percy MacKaye, Ezra Pound, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Albert...
Dates: 1898-1970