Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of...
Description:
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994., Curtwright, Wesley., Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974., Ellison, Ralph., Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979., Handy, W. C. 1873-1958. (William Christopher),, Hill, Abram, 1910-1986., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., McKay, Claude, 1890-1948., Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985., Poston, Ted, 1906-1974., Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976., and United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors, African Americans, Social life and customs, Antislavery movements, Authors, American, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Letters to Havelock Ellis from H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Bryher, and Jessie Capper. There is one letter from Françoise Delisle to Meum Stewart. The letters regard their work and friendships, mutual friends, and books read. The letters date from 1922 t...
Description:
Havelock Ellis, essayist, editor, physician, and psychologist.
Subject (Name):
Bryher, 1894-1983., Capper, Jessie., Delisle, Françoise Roussel., Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939., H. D (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961., and Stewart, Meum.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Editors, American, and Psychologists, American
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, explain...
Description:
Helen Hunt Jackson, American writer and activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. and Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Collection contains approximately 30 pieces of correspondence between Miller and French publisher Maurice Girodias, dating from the mid to late 1970s, and drafts, corrected, of several pieces of writing, including a fragment from Nexus and four essays...
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)
Subject (Name):
Fraenkel, Michael, 1896-1957., Girodias, Maurice., Man Ray, 1890-1976., and Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, and Intellectual life
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Collection of sixteen pieces of correspondence from Miller to Sister Magdalen Mary of Immaculate Heart College, dating from the mid 1960s, along with photographs, clippings, and printed ephemera relating chiefly to publications and exhibitions of work...
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. and Immaculate Heart College (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Artists, and Authors, American
Papers feature material relating to Sikorsky's The Invisible Encounter (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947), including: drafts, autograph manuscript (incomplete) and typescript, corrected; a printed version, annotated, of the 1947 Scribner's edit...
Description:
Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1889-1972), aviator, engineer, and industrialist, was born in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1919.
Subject (Name):
Brasol, Boris, 1885-1963., Golokhvastov, G. (Georgiĭ), Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972., Charles Scribner's Sons., and Poushkin Society in America.
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, an address book, a newspaper clipping, and a bookmark relating to Natalie Barney collected by Joan Schenkar
Description:
Joan Schenkar is an American playwright and biographer.
Collection of approximately 75 pieces of correspondence from Riding to Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson. There are also letters to the Hutchinsons from John Aldridge, Robert Graves, Alan Hodge, Harry Kemp, James Reeves, and others; one poem by Riding, a ty...
Description:
Laura Riding (1901-1991), poet.
Subject (Name):
Aldridge, John W., Graves, Robert, 1895-1985., Hodge, Alan, 1915-1979., Hutchinson, Dorothy., Hutchinson, Ward., Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960., Reeves, James., and Riding, Laura, 1901-1991.
