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Noël J. Cortés Collection of French Manuscripts

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1173
Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of manuscript letters, writings, and documents, mostly in French, by writers, artists, historians, and philosophers, including Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Paul Morand, and George Sand.

Dates: 1760-1927

Edmond Plauchut Papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1462
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, photographs, drawings, and other personal papers by or relating to Edmond Plauchut. The materials document Plauchut's literary works, his travels, and his life at George Sand's Nohant estate. Writings include early poems; manuscripts for the book Autour de Nohant (Paris: Calmann Lé́vy, 1897), the study Les anciennes provinces de France: Le Berry, and his unpublished memoir Les malheurs d'un...
Dates: 1850-1996, bulk 1850-1909

Maurice Sand Papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1463
Abstract: The Maurice Sand papers contains family and professional correspondence, publishing contracts, writings, drawings, posters, and other material by or about the nineteenth-century author, illustrator, and puppeteer. The collection offers substantial documentation of Sand's theatrical work from the late 1840s to the 1880s; included are holograph scripts, scenarios, or posters for over forty puppet plays created by Sand. The collection also includes three novel drafts, a set of playing cards...
Dates: 1833-1995, bulk 1848-1889