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Henry Miller Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 472
Abstract:

The Henry Miller papers contain writings, journals, administrative files, correspondence, photographs, and personal papers chiefly documenting Miller's life and career from the 1950s through 1970s.

Dates: 1898-1979, bulk 1930-1979

Piet Mondrian papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1102
Abstract: The collection consists of the writings and personal papers of Piet Mondrian, in addition to writings about him and the DeStijl movement. Most of Mondrian's writings were arranged and annotated by Harry Holtzman and Martin S. James for their volume The New Art, the New Life: the Complete Writings of Piet Mondrian (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986). Some of the writings also were annotated by Mondrian's colleagues Michel Seuphor and Georges Vantongerloo. Personal papers include items such as...
Dates: 1881-1945

Edmond Pauker papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 118
Abstract: The Edmond Pauker Papers consist of manuscripts, chiefly by Pauker's client, Ferenc Molnár; business files including correspondence, contracts, financial papers, and reviews and publicity materials for plays and other works by Pauker's clients; and a small amount of personal papers. The Molnár manuscripts, mainly typescripts, include dialogues and sketches, novels, plays, stories, and other works. The business files contain contracts for works by Pauker's clients that date mainly from...
Dates: 1898-1960

Alice Raphael Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 21
Abstract: The Alice Raphael Papers contain writings, translations, correspondence, lectures, photographs, a scrapbook and other papers that document the professional and personal life of author and translator Alice Raphael. The papers include letters from Carl Gustav Jung and drafts of Raphael's book Goethe and the Philosophers' Stone: Symbolical Patterns in 'The Parable' and the Second Part of 'Faust' and her translation of Goethe's Faust:...
Dates: 1917-1977

Leonid Rzhevsky papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 630
Abstract: The Leonid Rzhevsky Papers consist of correspondence, writings, clippings and personal papers that document the work of Russian-born novelist and literary critic Leonid Rzhevsky. The papers span the years 1941-1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1950s and 1960s. The papers include material related to a few of Rzhevsky's works of fiction but chiefly document his critical essays, lectures and editorial work.Correspondence and writings document Rzhevsky's role in the...
Dates: 1941-1987

Carl F. Schreiber papers

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Call Number: YCGL MSS 22
Abstract: The Carl F. Schreiber Papers consist of material generated by Schreiber as curator of the William A. Speck Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and as a Yale faculty member. The bulk of the papers were left in the library when Schreiber retired; some material has been brought to the library by the Yale German Department and by occupants of the Palmer Schreiber Library in Bingham Tower. Material includes personal papers, correspondence, writing and research files, and...
Dates: circa 1910-1957

Steven Schuyler papers relating to Kurt Wolff and Hermann Broch

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Call Number: YCGL MSS 17
Abstract:

Papers related to Steven Schuyler's doctoral thesis entitled Kurt Wolff and Hermann Broch: Publisher and Author in Exile.

Dates: 1943-1991

Kurt Seligmann papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 827
Abstract: The Kurt Seligmann Papers consist of correspondence, personal papers, photographs, and artwork documenting his personal life and artwork. The papers provide insight into Seligmann's work as a surrealist painter and engraver and his circle of friends, many of whom were artists and writers. Correspondents include Nicolas Calas, Alexander Calder, Pierre Courthion, Enrico Donati, Jean Dubuffet, Charles Duits, Georges Duthuit, George W. Federoff, Fernand Léger, Pierre Mabille, Robert Motherwell,...
Dates: 1883-1991

Gerdi Sobek-Beutter papers relating to Hommage à Gertrude Stein

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 1244
Scope and Contents: Papers documenting planning, events, and critical response for student performances in each phase of Hommage à Gertrude Stein, 1990-1996, including notes, correspondence, scripts, publicity, photographs, drawings, audio and audiovisual recordings, and reviews; similar papers for related conferences, lectures, and performances by guest artists; proposals and reports for the project; and notes by Sobek-Beutter on collection content. The papers provide evidence of teaching,...
Dates: 1990-1997

William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : general ephemera

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 27
Abstract: The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: General Ephemera is an artificial collection of miscellaneous, non-book materials long associated with the Speck Collection but previously uncataloged. The collection demonstrates how Goethe and his works entered into the popular culture in the late nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. The collection includes a few items relating directly to Goethe, such as pens that he used and his grandfather Textor's seal, as well as items...
Dates: 1766-1999

William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 6
Abstract: The collection, a part of the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana, consists of correspondence, documents, playscripts, and other writings by or relating to Goethe and his work. The major strength of the manuscript collection is its documentation of Goethe's literary reception in England and America in the nineteenth century. There are 25 letters and manuscripts in Goethe's hand, and several Faust-related items. Authors represented prominently besides Goethe include Thomas Carlyle, Frank...
Dates: 1542-1967, bulk 1770-1900

William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : medals and medallions

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 28
Abstract: The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: Medals and Medallions consists of 178 medals, coins, medallions, and reliefs depicting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and other figures, mostly literary. By date, the pieces range from 1740 (a Gutenberg medal commemorating the tercentennial of the invention of printing) to 1934. The earliest Goethe items are a circa 1775 tin medal by Boltschauser and an 1808 medallion modeled by the painter Gerhard Kügelgen (1772-1820). Many...
Dates: 1740-1934

William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : original artwork

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 26
Abstract: The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: Original Artwork is an artificial collection comprising original artwork that came to Yale from various sources, mostly during the Speck Collection's early decades. It includes some of the Collection's best-known holdings, including an anonymous silhouette made of Goethe in 1786 as well as original sketches and engravings by Goethe. Other artists represented include Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Georg Melchior Kraus, Johann Heinrich Lips, and Moritz...
Dates: 1785-1916

Fedor Stepun papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 172
Abstract: The Papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Fedor Stepun as an émigré writer, educator, and political commentator. Principal correspondents include such famous Russian émigré writers as Nikolaĭ Arsenʹev, Ivan Bunin, Roman Gulʹ, I︠U︡riĭ Ivask, Michael Karpovich, Aleksandr Kerensky, Victor Leontovitsch, S. P. Melʹgunov, N. P. Poltorat︠s︡kiĭ, Leonid Rzhevskiĭ, Gleb Struve, Dmitrij Tschižewskij, V. Veĭdle, M. V....
Dates: 1902-1965, bulk 1946-1965

James F. White research files relating to Thomas Mann

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 35
Abstract: The collection consists of manuscript notes and card files, printed material, writings drafts and offprints, and a small amount of correspondence and grant applications relating to White's research on Thomas Mann. Notes and card files mostly concern White's research on Dante's Divina commedia and Karl Vossler's work on Dante as source material for Mann's Der Zauberberg. Some notes concern Mann's Doktor Faustus or works of other German authors. Correspondence with Joseph Angell, founding...
Dates: circa 1940s-circa 1976

Thornton Wilder papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 108
Abstract: The collection consists chiefly of correspondence with family, friends, and literary colleagues; and writings, accompanied by related material. There are smaller amounts of personal papers, printed material, photographs, memorabilia, and audio recordings. The material documents Wilder's life and work, in particular his career as a successful novelist and playwright.Series I, Correspondence, consists of four subseries: Family Correspondence; General Correspondence; First Name Only and...
Dates: 1892-1991, bulk 1935-1975

Elena Wilson papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 188
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, literary manuscripts, printed materials, and personal and family papers documenting the life of Elena Wilson and her work as literary executor of Edmund Wilson. The bulk of the collection dates from 1972-1979, after Edmund's death; also present are a small amount of early papers and documents of Elena's family. Series I, Correspondence, includes letters from Edmund Wilson, letters of condolence received after his death, and correspondence concerning...
Dates: 1906-1979, bulk 1972-1979, 1906-1979, bulk 1972-1979

Eugene Winick papers relating to Eugene O'Neill

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 758
Abstract: The Eugene Winick papers relating to Eugene O'Neill consist of correspondence and other papers dating from the mid 1920s through late 1940s. There is correspondence addressed to Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill from publishers, literary agents, law firms, and individuals, with large files for the literary agency, Richard J. Madden Play Company, Random House, Theatre Guild, and the law firm of Harry Weinberger. There are also subject folders for "foreign letters" and "requests" relating to...
Dates: 1923-1949

Winkler collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 14
Abstract: The collection consists chiefly of letters to Winkler, Elisa von der Recke, and others. Also included are manuscripts of some original poems, a few printed works by and about Winkler, copies of documents pertaining to Winkler's family, including Festschriften in his honor, and photographic reproductions of portraits and drawings. Correspondents include H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen, Sarah Austin, Ludwig Börne, Eduard Devrient, Johann Peter Eckermann, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von...
Dates: 1748-1854

Bernard Wolfe papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 831
Abstract: The collection includes correspondence, writings and research material, photographs, printed material, and personal papers relating to American author Bernard Wolfe. There is correspondence, including incoming and outgoing letters, with family, friends, writers, publishers, editors, and labor organizations. Individual corrrespondents include: Pearl Buck, Marcel Duhamel, Dwight MacDonald, Henry Miller, A. J. Muste, John Crowe Ranson, Harry Ross, and Wolfe's brother Albert; there is a...
Dates: 1920s-1998