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1. A feeling for leaving : typescript photocopy
- Creator:
- Berrigan, Ted
- Published / Created:
- 1975.
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1395
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 62
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Typescript photocopy mock-up with autograph corrections and annotations. The notes describe text sources and other information about the poems, and instructions for typesetting the manuscript. Also includes a front cover and additional pages of front matter created by Berrigan. The cover incorporates a clipped image from a newspaper and drawings in red and black pen; the front matter includes a black and white photograph of Berrigan by an unidentified photographer. The front cover is, according to a note by Berrigan on the item, "accidentally on back upside down".
- Description:
- Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), American poet. He was married to the American poet Alice Notley (1945-)., In English., Title from title page., and With a dedication from Berrigan to Alice Notley on the verso of the penultimate leaf: "This copy completed (for Alice) 3-4 a.m., Thurs., Apr. 24th, in Needles, California.".
- Subject (Name):
- Berrigan, Ted. and Notley, Alice, 1945-
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American and Poets, American
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A feeling for leaving : typescript photocopy
2. Being geniuses together : an autobiography
- Creator:
- McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956
- Published / Created:
- [1938]
- Call Number:
- Za M117 938B 1
- Image Count:
- 193
- Description:
- BEIN Za M117 938B Copy 1: No date on t.p. Norman MacLeod's copy with his manuscript notes., BEIN Za M117 938B Copy 2: With dust jacket, is (plain, better) Pearson copy has "Secker & Warburg" on spine., and "1st pub. 1738" on verso.
- Publisher:
- Secker & Warburg
- Subject (Name):
- McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Being geniuses together : an autobiography
3. Helen Hunt Jackson correspondence, 1865-1906
- Creator:
- Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 585
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 107
- Abstract:
- Sixteen autograph letters, signed, from Helen Hunt Jackson. The letters are written to a group of friends and are addressed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, dated 1868 November 15 to 1869 September 28. Also included is an autograph note, signed, explaining the letters, dated 1906 October 5.
- Description:
- Helen Hunt Jackson, American writer and activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. and In English.
- Subject (Name):
- Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. and Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature and Authors, American
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Helen Hunt Jackson correspondence, 1865-1906
4. Joan Schenkar collection of Natalie Barney, 1935-1973
- Creator:
- Schenkar, Joan, collector
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1024
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 8
- Abstract:
- The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, an address book, a newspaper clipping, and a bookmark relating to Natalie Barney collected by Joan Schenkar, Box 1 contains correspondence, photographs, a legal document, an address book, and a newspaper clipping. The correspondence is among Barney, Bettina Bergery, Berthe Cleyrergue, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, Marcelle Fauchier-Delavigne, Nadine Hwang, Janine Lahovany, André Rouveyre, and Crédit Suisse Berne, dated 1935-1973. The bulk of the correspondence consists of eighty-five letters from Barney to Cleyrergue, dated 1940-1968. The photographs depict several individuals, including Barney, Dolly Wilde, Valery Larbaud, Hwang, Eva Palmer, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Antoinette Gentien, Renée Vivien, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, and Marie Laurencin. The legal document is a typescript copy of a page from an April 1918 voir dire, detailing the troubled marriage between Colette and Henry de Jouvenal. The newspaper clipping is an undated cartoon of the temple de l'amitié in Barney's garden. The leather-bound address book belonged to Barney and contains two cartes de visite, Box 2 contains a photographic portrait of Barney at age sixteen, and Box 3 contains a metal bookmark with a butterfly design that belonged to Barney
- Description:
- Joan Schenkar is an American playwright and biographer., Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women., Accompanied by a vendor list (in box 1)., and In French and English.
- Subject (Name):
- Barney, Natalie Clifford, Barnes, Djuna, Bergery, Bettina, 1902-1993., Bey, Eloui., Cleyrergue, Berthe., Colette, 1873-1954., de Jouvenal, Henry., Dreyfus-Barney, Laura, Fauchier-Delavigne, Marcelle., Gentien, Antoinette, Hwang, Nadine, Lahovary, Janine., Larbaud, Valery, Laurencin, Marie, 1883-1956, Loy, Mina, Palmer, Eva, Rogers, Henrietta Guilbeau., Rouveyre, André, 1879-1962., Schenkar, Joan., Vivien, Renée, 1877-1909, Wilde, Dolly, 1895-1941, and Crédit suisse Berne.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American, Authors, French, and Women authors, French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Joan Schenkar collection of Natalie Barney, 1935-1973
5. Portrait plaques of American authors
- Creator:
- Grolier Club
- Published / Created:
- 1892-1911.
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 902
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 6
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of a set of five bronze portrait plaques issued by the Grolier Club between 1892 and 1911 to commemorate American authors. The authors include: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1892, modeled by Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, 17.2 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 173 copies in bronze and 3 in silvered bronze); James Russell Lowell (1896, modeled by Charles Calverley, 17.5 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 372 copies in bronze and 3 in silvered bronze); Edgar Allan Poe (1909, modeled by Edith Woodman Burroughs, 18 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 277 in bronze and 3 in silver); Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909, modeled by Victor D. Brenner, 18.5 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 300 copies in bronze and 3 in silver); and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1911, modeled by John F. Flanagan, 19 x 14.5 cm., issued in an edition of 300 copies in bronze and 3 in silver). There are two copies each of the Emerson and Longfellow plaques, and one copy each of the Hawthorne, Lowell, and Poe plaques
- Description:
- The Grolier Club was founded in New York on January 23, 1884, by Robert Hoe and eight other bibliophiles to foster the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and works on paper, and their art, history, production, and commerce., Title supplied by cataloger., and Captions in English.
- Subject (Name):
- Brenner, Victor D. 1871-1924. (Victor David),, Burroughs, Edith Woodman, 1871-1916., Calverley, Charles, 1833-1914., Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Flanagan, John F., 1865-1952., Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Ringel d'Illzach, Jean Désiré, 1847-1916., and Grolier Club.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Portrait plaques of American authors
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson letter to Ellen Sturgis Hooper, 1845 May 22.
- Creator:
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS FILE 141
- Container / Volume:
- (File)
- Image Count:
- 9
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript letter, signed, praising Ellen Sturgis Hooper's poetry. Enclosed with the letter are autograph manuscript copies of three recent poems of his own in return: "Forerunners", "The House", and "Loss and Gain". Also includes a manuscript poem in an unidentified hand, possibly Ellen Sturgis Hooper's, titled "Persephone". With envelope
- Description:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American author., Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812-1848) was an American poet and transcendentalist., and In English.
- Subject (Name):
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882., Hooper, Ellen Sturgis, 1812-1848., and Persephone (Greek deity)
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American, Poets, American, Transcendentalists (New England), and Women poets, American
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ralph Waldo Emerson letter to Ellen Sturgis Hooper, 1845 May 22.
7. Ted Berrigan correspondence, 1964-1968
- Creator:
- Berrigan, Ted
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 504
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Collection of approximately 70 letters to Ted Berrigan, dating from the mid 1960s, from writers, editors, and literary organizations, including Carol Bergé, Joe Brainard, Edwin Denby, Kathleen Fraser, Lita Hornick, Joanne Kyger, Lewis MacAdams, Aram Saroyan, Peter Schjeldahl, and others
- Description:
- Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), poet. and In English.
- Subject (Name):
- Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006., Berrigan, Ted., Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994., Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983., Fraser, Kathleen, 1935-2019., Hornick, Lita R., 1927-, Kyger, Joanne., MacAdams, Lewis, 1944-, Saroyan, Aram., and Schjeldahl, Peter.
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature, Authors, American, and Poets, American
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ted Berrigan correspondence, 1964-1968
8. The world of sex, 1940-1941
- Creator:
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS FILE 40
- Image Count:
- 81
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Draft of essay on the topics of sex, self-expression, and literature, typescript carbon, corrected and signed. Inscribed: "For Ed Ricketts of Pacific Grove and realms without name--from his friend Henry Miller, Hollywood, 6/26/41."
- Description:
- Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter. and In English.
- Subject (Name):
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. and Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948.
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature, Authors, American, and Sex in literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The world of sex, 1940-1941
9. William Shawn papers relating to Lousie Brooks, 1956-1986
- Creator:
- Shawn, William
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 886
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 57
- Abstract:
- Collection of correspondence, writings, and other papers growing out of Shawn's collaboration with Brooks on a collection of essays, Lulu in Hollywood (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), about her life as a film actress. Correspondence features a large production file of approximately 130 letters between Brooks, Shawn, and others, including Brooks's agent Robert Lantz, Robert Gottlieb and others at Knopf, and Jean-Pierre Sicre. There are typescript drafts (or clean copies) of over a dozen essays by Brooks, originally published from the mid 1950s through late 1970s, and copies of writings by others. Brooks appears to have submitted the essays to Shawn; several essays also have corrections by Shawn. Other papers include clippings, consisting chiefly of reviews of Lulu, material relating to production of the book, a photograph of the book cover, and printed ephemera
- Description:
- Louise Brooks (1906-1985), American dancer, actress, and author., William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker (1952-1987)., and Chiefly in English; some material in German.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, Los Angeles., and Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985., Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023., Lantz, Robert., Shawn, William., and Sicre, J. P. (Jean-Pierre)
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature, Authors, American, Motion picture industry, Motion picture actors and actresses, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William Shawn papers relating to Lousie Brooks, 1956-1986
