Edna Kenton collection, 1899-1954

Contains correspondence, writings, six diaries, and one notebook. Correspondents (box 1) are Donald Brien, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Fania Marinoff, George Middletown, and Carl Van Vechten. Included among the correspondence is a 1954 letter to Donald Brien from an unidentified individual regarding Edna Kenton's death and personal belongings; letters, dated 1931-1951, from various correspondents; and letters and printed material, dated 1928-1929, regarding Kenton's The Book of Earths. Writings (box 1) are a typescript carbon of Kenton's "The Provincetown Players and Playwright's Theatre, 1915-1922" and a typescript carbon of "Clodah of Rohan". The diaries (box 2) date 1903 to 1917. The notebook (box 3), dated 1899 to 1914, contains notes and mounted clippings that document the publication of Kenton's stories and articles