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Bryher papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 97
Abstract:
The papers document the personal life and literary career of Bryher. Her extensive correspondence includes letters from H. D., Robert MacAlmon, Kenneth MacPherson, Norman Holmes Pearson, Sylvia Beach, Norman Douglas, Horace Gregory, Islay Lyons, and Edith Sitwell, and from many other figures in the fields of literature, psychoanalysis, and film. There are manuscripts of many of her works, including fragments of an unpublished volume of autobiography; financial and personal papers;...
Dates:
1812-1980, bulk 1911-1978
Photograph File of Close Up Magazine
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 337
Abstract:
This collection consists chiefly of promotional photographs and film stills created by motion picture studios for their films and actors, which the editors of Close Up used to illustrate the magazine.
Dates:
1911-1947, bulk 1926-1933
Silvia Dobson papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 409
Abstract:
Collection contains letters from American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) to Silvia Dobson, letters from the British author Bryher to Silvia Dobson and her siblings Mervyn and Norah Dobson, as well as copies of several letters from Silvia to Bryher and letters from Kenneth Macpherson. Letters from H.D. document her life in Switzerland and London for nearly thirty years and include information about H.D.'s analysis with Sigmund Freud. Letters from Bryher document Bryher's life in Switzerland in...
Dates:
1945-1992
Norman Douglas Collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 88
Scope and Contents:
The Norman Douglas Collection chiefly documents Douglas's writing career, personal life, and relationships with other writers and artists. Although the collection spans the years 1864-2000, the bulk of the papers fall in the period 1920-1980. The collection contains material created and accumulated by Norman Douglas, Kenneth Macpherson, Islay de Courcy Lyons, and Maurice Magnus. Material includes correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, photograph albums, financial and business...
Dates:
1864-2000, bulk 1920-1980
H. D. Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 24
Abstract:
The papers document the personal life and literary career of H. D. Major correspondents include Richard Aldington, Bryher, Helen Wolle Doolittle, Robert McAlmon, Brigit Patmore, Norman Holmes Pearson, George Plank, and Ezra Pound. There are manuscripts of many of her works, including Her (1927), The Walls Do Not Fall (1944), Helen in Egypt (1961), and her memoir End to Torment (1958). The collection also contains personal papers, subject files, and photographs, including items related to the...
Dates:
1887-1977
Ralph Hodgson papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 245
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, artwork, photographs, and printed material documenting the life of Ralph Hodgson. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, which occupies 38 boxes. Principal correspondents include Enid Bagnold, Silvia Baker, Edmund Blunden, Bryher, T.S. Eliot, Vivienne Eliot, Norman Holmes Pearson, I. A. Richards, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy Hall Smith, and W. Bevan Whitney. Topics in the correspondence include the work and personal lives of other poets and authors...
Dates:
1695-1976, bulk 1914-1970
Hound & Horn records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 458
Abstract:
The Hound & Horn records contain correspondence, drafts of writings, financial records, and ephemera relating to the literary quarterly. The records feature original letters from well-known Modernist era authors during the tenure of the journal from the late 1920s through mid 1930s, including Bryher, Jean Cocteau, E. E. Cummings, René Daumal, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, François Mauriac, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos...
Dates:
1925-1940
Viola Baxter Jordan papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 175
Abstract:
The collection contains letters to Jordan from Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D. and Bryher, as well as manuscripts of poems by Pound and Williams and a small quantity of personal papers. Subjects of the Pound letters include personal and family news; his writing and the literary world in general; his political and economic opinions; and his confinement at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letters from Williams discuss relationships between men and women; poetry; and arrangements for social...
Dates:
1905-1951
Monkey's Moon, Pool Productions, 1929 / by Kenneth Macpherson
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 598
Scope and Contents:
Monkey's Moon, Pool Films, is a silent black and white nitrate film made in 1929. The film was directed and filmed by Macpherson and features Bryher, two of their pet monkeys, and maybe H. D. It was thought to be lost until the Beinecke Library acquired a copy in 2008. The original film is one reel and film measures 750 feet (6.5 minutes).
Dates:
1929
Louise Morgan and Otto Theis papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 80
Abstract:
The papers document the literary and personal lives of Morgan and Theis, and contain correspondence, subject files, and professional papers related to the 20th century British literary world. There is correspondence regarding Evelyn Scott, and correspondence as well as poems by Nancy Cunard.
Dates:
1903-1983, bulk 1930-1960
Nikolai Nadezhin papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 99
Abstract:
The papers contain letters to and from Nadezhin regarding social engagements, manuscript submissions, and requests for performances. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters from Bryher discussing Nadezhin's work, literature in general, and personal matters. The collection also contains drafts of Nadezhin's articles, poetry, and autobiography, as well as biographical information, concert programs, and photographs.
Dates:
1910-1957
Norman Holmes Pearson Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 899
Abstract:
The Norman Holmes Pearson papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs, and audiovisual material that document a broad range of Pearson's professional and personal activities, including his research on Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ezra Pound, his management of the literary estates of H.D. and Bryher, and his activity as a professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Documentation relating to Pearson's service in the Office of Strategic Services is...
Dates:
1829-1983, bulk 1930-1975
Alice Rogers Smith papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 29
Abstract:
The papers contain correspondence and personal papers, including photographs, writings of Amy Margaret Smith, and art work of George Plank.
Dates:
1880-1971 (inclusive)
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 76
Abstract:
The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers contain manuscripts of writings, letters, clippings, photographs, artworks, and personal papers relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, and to Gertrude's brother, Leo Stein, an artist and writer. As well as holding the bulk of Stein's literary output (often described as "experimental" or "cubist" writing), the materials document Stein and Toklas' involvement with the literary and art...
Dates:
1837-1961
Jean Starr Untermeyer papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 52
Abstract:
The Jean Starr Untermeyer Papers contain correspondence, photographs, book reviews, obituaries, poems, offprints, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1924-1970 (inclusive)
Helen and Kurt Wolff papers
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 16
Abstract:
The Helen and Kurt Wolff Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and personal papers documenting the professional lives of Helen and Kurt Wolff through their affiliations with Kurt Wolff Verlag, Pantheon Books, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Series I, Correspondence, consists predominantly of professional correspondence with authors, publishers, and translators, though correspondence can also be found with friends, editors, literary agents, periodicals, and...
Dates:
1888-1994