Durant, Will

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Description

Title: Durant, Will
Creator: From the Collection: Argus Book Shop (Chicago, Ill.)
Contributor: From the Collection: Abramson, Ben
Published / Created: 1940
Provenance: Gift of Philip D. Sang in 1955 and 1956., Deborah B. Covington's biography of her father, The Argus Book Shop: a Memoir (1977), reveals that Abramson's will instructed that "all records were to be destroyed and the stock sold within six months after his death" (p. 50). She wrote that "Going through six four-drawer file cabinets of correspondence was a big job. The author correspondence Ralph Newman purchased and arranged to have donated to Yale, Ben's favorite university" (p. 52), a choice likely influenced by Abramson's long friendship with Argus patron Norman Holmes Pearson (1909-1975), a professor of English at Yale University. Ralph Newman (1911-1998) was proprietor of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago. Philip D. Sang (1902-1975), the donor of the collection, was a Chicago businessman, philanthropist, and collector of historical and literary manuscripts. Sang appears to have transferred the bulk of Abramson's "author correspondence" to Yale in 1956, but had given a few letters the previous year with another part of his manuscript collection. Covington mentioned in a 1957 letter to Yale curator Donald Gallup that Abramson had given some of Steinbeck's letters to collectors. The New York Public Library holds three folders of Abramson's correspondence with authors whose names begin with L through Z (MSS Col. 5).
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note: Some reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. Originals housed in box 16, folder 563
Language: English

Item Location

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

YCAL MSS 427

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Box 5, folder 137

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Citation: Argus Book Shop Correspondence. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 3765277
Object ID (OID): 17411905