Authors and patrons
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on support of literature by individuals and corporations. Works on support of literature by governments are entered under Government aid to literature.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Bryher papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 97
Overview:
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 There are manuscripts of many of her works, including fragments of an unpublished volume of autobiography; financial and personal papers; material...
Dates:
1812-1980, bulk 1911-1978
Dial/Scofield Thayer papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 34
Overview:
The papers document the life and activities of Scofield Thayer and the history of Dial Magazine under his ownership. They include the surviving Dial office files, with correspondence by Alyse Gregory, Marianne Moore, Gilbert Seldes, Kenneth Burke, and J. Sibley Watson; manuscripts, typescripts and corrected galleys of submissions to the magazine by authors including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, George Santayana, William Butler Yeats, and Glenway Wescott; and advertising material....
Dates:
1879-1982, bulk 1920-1925
Muriel Draper Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 49
Overview:
The Muriel Draper Papers document the personal life and artistic and political interests of Muriel Draper. Major correspondents include George Antheil, Samuel Courtauld, Paul Draper, Max Ewing, Lincoln Kirstein, Walter Lowenfels, and Mark Tobey. The collection also contains manuscripts of many of Draper's writings, including the largely unpublished America Deserta, and records of her activities as a member of the Congress of American Women, the League of American Writers, and similar...
Dates:
1881-1977, bulk 1925-1950
James Purdy papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 44
Overview:
The papers document aspects of Purdy's early literary career. Major correspondents include Carl Van Vechten, John Cowper Powys, Edith Sitwell,Paul Bowles, and Gerald Brenan.
Dates:
1944-1973
Sussex correspondence
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 58
Overview:
Letters to Augustus Frederick, mainly concerning the Duke's library and his literary interests; many originally accompanied presentation copies of works by the authors. Also letters requesting financial patronage, personal favors, or the Duke's participation in learned societies.
Dates:
1812-1841