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1. Acton, Harold
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1947 July 6
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 330 | Folder 4079
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / 101 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission."
- Subject (Name):
- Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell, and d 1904-
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Acton, Harold
2. Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), and Christopher Isherwood
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1939 February 6
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 333 | Folder 4168
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Roll Number IX o.
- Description:
- Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten" and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Cannot be reproduced without permission"
- Subject (Name):
- Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 and Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--20th century and Poets, English--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), and Christopher Isherwood
3. Bryher
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1938 December 21
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 338 | Folder 4312
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Cannot be reproduced without permission"
- Subject (Name):
- Bryher, 1894-
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--20th century, Novelists, and Poets
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bryher
4. Campbell, William March
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 862
- Collection Title:
- Fred Benjamin Millett correspondence
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 7
- Abstract:
- Fred Benjamin Millett Correspondence is comprised of incoming letters from American and British authors dating from 1933 to 1950. The authors write in response to Millet's request for information while preparing his books: Contemporary British Literature: A Critical Survey and 232 Author-bibliographies (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935) and Contemporary American Authors: A Critical Survey and 219 Bio-bibliographies (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940). Correspondents include: Sherwood Anderson, Gordon Bottomley, John Dos Passos, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. D., Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Parker, Ezra Pound, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Ethel Sidgwick, Wallace Stevens, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Penn Warren, Evelyn Waugh, Thornton Wilder, and William Carlos Williams. In his questionnaire Millett asked authors for a list of writings, biographical information, whether the author is represented in an oil portrait, and whether their works have been adapted to film. and Letters from American authors.
- Description:
- Fred Benjamin Millett (1890-1976), professor of English and Head of the Honors College at Wesleyan University. and Purchased on the George B. Alvord Fund, Library Associates Fund, William Robertson Coe American Studies Fund, and Francis O. Matthiesen Fund, 1960.
- Subject (Name):
- Millett, Fred B. (Fred Benjamin), 1890-1976
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, English--20th century, Bio-bibliography, and English literature--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Campbell, William March
5. Correspondence Wells, H.G [to] Allen, Grant
- Creator:
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
- Published / Created:
- 1895-1899
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1324
- Collection Title:
- H. G. Wells collection
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 33
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection consists of correspondence, writings and other material by and about H. G. Wells. Box 1 contains autograph and typescript letters, signed, from Wells to friends, editors, and others including the writers Grant Allen, Philip Guedalla, Upton Sinclair, and William Wallace Whitelock; the literary agent William Morris Colles; the editors Robert Underwood Johnson and Perriton Maxwell; and the publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin. Autograph letters, signed, from Wells's wife, Catherine Wells, include those written on her husband's behalf to Perriton Maxwell and Maurice Browne, and to Philip and Nellie Guedalla. Box 2 contains autograph and typescript manuscripts, many signed, with additions and corrections by H. G. Wells including an introduction to his novel, Boon, the Mind of the Race, the Wild Asses of the Devil and the Last Trump (circa 1915); an essay, "The Human Adventure" (1926); a proof of Wells's review of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1917); a novel, The Research Magnificent (circa 1915); an introduction to the reprint of the article, "The Star" (undated); an article, "Stephen Crane, from an English Standpoint" (circa 1900); an essay, "The United States of America and the United States of the World" (undated); and an untitled story, with illustrations by Wells, written for his son, Anthony West (circa 1915). Also included in Box 2 are materials relating to Ruford Franklin's collection of H. G. Wells books and manuscripts, including Franklin's correspondence with book and manuscript dealers (1899-1934) and his autograph manuscript notes on Wells's writings.
- Description:
- Acquired by gift and purchase, 1945-1983. For more information consult the appropriate curator. and H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, journalist, and historian.
- Subject (Name):
- Allen, Grant, 1848-1899
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence Wells, H.G [to] Allen, Grant
6. Dahl, Roald
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1954 May 20
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 342 | Folder 4438
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / 146 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission."
- Subject (Name):
- Dahl, Roald
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--20th century and Writers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dahl, Roald
7. Gorer, Geoffrey
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1935 December 2
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 351 | Folder 4677
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten" and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / Cannot be reproduced without permission."
- Subject (Name):
- Gorer, Geoffrey, 1905-
- Subject (Topic):
- Anthropologists--Great Britain and Authors, English--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gorer, Geoffrey
8. Gorer, Geoffrey
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1936 March 1
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 351 | Folder 4678
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Prints have erroneous marks on versos by Van Vechten.
- Description:
- Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten" and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / Cannot be reproduced without permission."
- Subject (Name):
- Gorer, Geoffrey, 1905-
- Subject (Topic):
- Anthropologists--Great Britain and Authors, English--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gorer, Geoffrey
9. Isherwood, Christopher
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1939 February 6
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 354 | Folder 4790
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten" and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Cannot be reproduced without permission"
- Subject (Name):
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Isherwood, Christopher
