Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
27
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between Phillips and the publisher John Lane Company, correspondence, page proofs, and printed ephemera. Correspondence includes letters from John Lane Company, Dodd Mead, & Company, The University Press, and other publishers.
Description:
Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010., James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American novelist., and Mary Elizabeth Phillips (1957-1945), biographer.
Subject (Name):
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 and Drescher, Rudolf
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
Album of photographic prints and drawings probably compiled by Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham that documents his inspection tour of British colonial surveying departments in Africa for the Colonial Survey Committee, February 1929 to November 1929., Images that depict locations in individual colonies are often preceded in the album by a map of the region with annotations that trace the route of the tour. Colonies and regions documented include Egypt, Gold Coast (Ghana), Kenya, Nigeria, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar. Images include views of landscapes, communities, and informal portraits of members of the inspection tour party, as well as white and black Africans., and The album includes some images created earlier than the tour, including an informal portrait of members of the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission in 1927, as well as several photograph postcards depicting black Africans and places in Kenya created and distributed by Kodak (East Africa) Limited.
Description:
Brigadier Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham (1878-1946) served in the South African War and World War I, and as Director-General of the General Ordinance Survey of Great Britain, 1930-1935., Photographic prints in the album are 11 x 16 cm. and smaller., Purchased from McBlain Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007., and Title from cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa--Pictorial works, Egypt--Pictorial works, Ghana--Pictorial works, Kenya--Pictorial works, Malawi--Pictorial works, Nigeria--Pictorial works, Sierra Leone--Pictorial works, Sudan--Pictorial works, Tanzania--Pictorial works, Uganda--Pictorial works, Zanzibar--Pictorial works, and Zimbabwe--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Eastman Kodak Company, Great Britain.--Colonial Survey Committee, and Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd,--1878-1946
Subject (Topic):
Blacks--Africa--Pictorial works, Surveying--Africa--Pictorial works, and Whites--Africa--Pictorial works
German American authors--20th Century, Indians of North America--Biography--20th century, Indians of North America--Civil rights--20th century, Indians of North America--Government relations--20th century, Indians of North America--Politics and government--20th century, Indians of North America--Religion--20th century, Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies--20th century, and Indians of North America--Social life and customs--20th century
Collection of six letters from Asger Jorn to Edouard Jaguer and nine black-and-white photographs. Letters discuss the avant-garde art movements COBRA and the Internationale des Artistes Expérimentaux, artists affiliated with these groups, including Pierre Alechinsky, Corneille, and Christian Dotremont, and other topics. Two letters accompanied by manuscripts on the "Programme de l'organisation IAE" and "Au sujet des qualités artiste...". Six photographs record a 1953 visit by Jaguer to Jorn's studio in Silkeborg, Denmark. In addition, there is a photograph by Lars Bay of a ceramic plate made by Jorn and Jaguer, "La sirène du nord," in the Silkeborg kunstmuseum.
Description:
Asger Jorn (1914-1973), Danish artist. and Purchased from Jan Ceuleers on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Alechinsky, Pierre, 1927-, Bay, Lars, Cobra (Association), Corneille, 1922-2010, Dotremont, Christian, 1922-1979, Internationale des artistes expérimentaux, Jaguer, Edouard, 1924-2006, Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973, and Silkeborg kunstmuseum
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Arts, Modern--20th century, and Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Europe
Remarks on Sr. J. Hawkins's 'General history of music', 1776.
Image Count:
36
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, with numerous corrections, of notes on "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music" by Sir John Hawkins. Citations from Hawkins' work are followed by often disparaging commentary upon them; Burney remarks that "Ch. V. Bk. IV is chiefly made up of dry dictionary articles of Biography, loosely littering his Book as if he had been in want of a needle & thread to tack them together," and "Vol. III p. 262 He calls Jno. Okenheim the disciple of Jusquin whereas it is well known he was the master." He includes a list of "Omissions of Composers & Performers who died long before Sr. Jno. published his History & therefore had fair Claims to a Niche in it." The work is interspersed with commentaries on various pieces and composers, accompanied by fragments of musical notation, and followed by a piece on "Dancing," a history of opera and theater titled "Progress of the Musical Drama or opera, at Venice," and another titled "Progress of the Musical Drama at Rome."
Description:
Binding: contemporary parchment., Index on flyleaf., Page numbers written in ink have been crossed out and replaced by different page numbers written in pencil., and Section ends with a note written in pencil: "Here insert an engraving of the transcript" although the engraving is not included.
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814 and Hawkins, John, Sir, 1719-1789
Subject (Topic):
Music--18th century--History and criticism, Musical analysis, Music--Europe--History and criticism, Music--History and criticism, Opera, and Opera--Italy
Manuscript journal of a London wine merchants travels in France, Germany, Switzerland and the Low Countries during the summer and fall of 1835, accompanied as far as Switzerland by a boy, Alfonzo Pipon. The diary documents travel and hotel conditions; soc
Subject (Geographic):
Coblenz (Germany) and Rhine River.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism--Europe, Travelers writings, English., and Travelers.