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Paris (France) -- Intellectual life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Butts papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 487
Abstract: The Mary Butts Papers consist of writings, correspondence, and other papers of the British writer Mary Butts, as well as papers of her daughter Camilla Rodker Bagg and other family members, and the research files and drafts of writings about Butts of several researchers. The papers span the years 1830 to 1990, but the bulk fall between 1915-37. They are organized into three series: Papers of Mary Butts, ...
Dates: 1830-1990, bulk 1915-1937

Kathryn Hulme papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 22
Abstract:

The papers contain drafts, typescripts and reviews of writings, correspondence, family papers, photographs and other materials documenting the life and career of Kathryn Hulme. There is extensive material on Hulme's literary career, including correspondence on such subjects as Catholic reaction to The Nun's Story and the teachings of Gurdjieff. Major correspondents include Margaret Anderson, Kay Boyle, Bernice Baumgarten Cozzens, Janet Flanner, Solita Solano, and Dorothy Troxel.

Dates: 1846-1981, bulk 1945-1981

Eugène and Maria Jolas papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 108
Abstract: The Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers consist of manuscripts, letters, photographs, and printed materials relating to the work and lives of the two authors, to their publication, Transition magazine, and to their friend, James Joyce. The first subgroup, the papers of Eugène Jolas, contains his correspondence with such persons as Kay Boyle, Raoul Hausmann, Raymond Queneau, and Jean Wahl, writings (articles, columns, drafts of an autobiography, and hundreds of poems in Enlgish, German,...
Dates: 1879-1986, 1879-1986

Eugène and Maria Jolas papers : addition

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 411
Abstract:

This addition to the Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers consists of items which were separated from the printed component of the collection of Eugène and Maria Jolas when the books and serials were cataloged in 1998. The addition consists of letters, clippings, offprints, and other printed items.

Dates: 1932-1986

Susan Wilbur Jones papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2350
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other papers recording Susan Wilbur Jones' years in Europe, Chicago, and Cambridge, Mass. as a student, editor, author, wife, and mother. In addition to much material on Susan's family life and life as a student, the papers contain references to the Chicago literary world, in which Susan and her husband Llewellyn socialized with Harriet Monroe, Floyd Dell, John Cowper Powys, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, and Mark Turbyfill. The correspondence is...
Dates: 1873-1970

Matthew Josephson papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 26
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence, journals, subject files, and writings that document Josephson's life and provide information on the subjects of his research.

Dates: 1917-1979 (inclusive)

Myers family papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 27
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence with family, friends, and acquaintances, plus a variety of personal papers, including obituaries, letters of sympathy, diaries, and scrapbooks documenting the lives of Richard E. and Alice Lee Myers and their children. Prominent correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Nadia Boulanger, Grace Flandrau, John Gielgud, Charlotte Kett, Archibald MacLeish, and Gerald Murphy.

Dates: 1908-1986

Arnold Rosin papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1475
Abstract:

The papers consist of a journal (thirty-two volumes), a notebook, correspondence, photograph album, and printed material documenting Arnold Rosin's life in Paris since 1949. Photographs of Rosin's paintings are also included in the papers.

Dates: 1937-2016

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 77
Abstract: The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Collection contains manuscripts, letters, photographs, clippings, artworks, and research materials relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas gathered during the years following Stein's death to supplement the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers (YCAL MSS 76). Items from such friends and admirers as Elizabeth Fuller Chapman, Doda Conrad, Clement Hurd, Samuel Steward, and Donald Sutherland complement the...
Dates: 1901-1987

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

Leo Stein Collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 78
Abstract:

The Leo Stein Collection contains manuscripts of writings by Stein, letters from such persons as: Bernard Berenson, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Maurice Sterne, personal papers, photographs, and artworks (mainly by Stein), which document the life of Leo Stein, an artist and writer.
Many letters to Leo Stein for the period before 1913 can be found in the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, YCAL MSS 76, also owned by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Dates: 1892-1950

Edith Wharton collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 42
Abstract:

The Edith Wharton Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American author Edith Wharton, as well as letters and research material gathered by Gaillard Lapsley, Percy Lubbock, Oscar Lichtenberg, Georges Markow-Totevy, and Louis Auchincloss.

Dates: 1868-1981 (inclusive)