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Justin O'Brien papers, 1925-1968
53 boxesCorrespondence with André Gide, the manuscripts and notes for his biography PORTRAIT OF ANDRÉ GIDE, and for his translations of the JOURNALS OF ANDRÉ GIDE, SO BE IT, and PRETEXTS, and other notes and articles about André Gide. Also, correspondence with many contemporary French writers including Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Julian Green, Valéry Larbaud, Jean Malaquais, Roger Martin du Gard, André Maurois, Henry de Montherlant, and Georges Simenon. Prof. O'Brien translated works by Baidouy, Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Henry de Montherlant, Nathalie Sarraute, and Jean-Paul Sartre; the typescript of Camus' L'EXILE ET LE ROYAUME is of special interest. Professor O'Brien's files cover a broad range of French culture including correspondence with other French scholars, educational organizations, editors, publishers (notably Blanche W. Knopf), with members of the OSS in wartime France, and with other literary figures such as Gilbert Highet, Dwight Macdonald, and Klaus Mann.
Karl Brown papers, 1955-1960
1.5 linear feetKulchur Foundation records, 1936-1994, bulk 1969-1989
29.74 linear feetLewis Corey papers, 1910-1953
10 linear feetCorrespondence, both personal and relating to social and political movements of 1926-1953, unpublished manuscripts on economic and political subjects, an unfinished manuscript on Fanny Wright with notes for the completion of the book, a manuscript outline for a projected book - "Towards Understanding America.", the manuscript of an F.B.I. investigation of the early years of Communism in America. Also included are pamphlets, magazine articles, and books, 1914-1919 by Louis C. Fraina and 1926-1953 by Lewis Corey.
Louise Ropes Loomis papers, 1925-1958
0.5 linear feetTypescript copies of Louise R Loomis' translations of contemporary accounts of the Council of Constance, 1414-1418 (THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE; THE UNIFICATION OF THE CHURCH. Translated by Louise Ropes Loomis. Edited and Annotated by John Hine Mundy and Kenneth M. Woody. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961). These are not the accounts which constitute the text of the printed volume, but rather translations of other contemporary works made for her research, sometimes cited in the published "notes."
Louis Vincent De Foe papers, 1892-1922
10.5 linear feetCollection contains typed manuscripts of Louis DeFoe's DAYBOOK OF A CRITIC and THE THEATRE THROUGH A CRITIC'S EYES. Included is a scrapbook of Mr. DeFoe's columns for the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Also included are 56 scrapbooks of theatre clippings.
Marie Mattingly Meloney papers, 1891-1943
22 Linear FeetMark Van Doren papers, 1910-1976
35 linear feetCorrespondence and manuscripts of Van Doren, consisting of letters, poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio broadcast transcripts ("Invitation to Learning"), diaries, critical works, proofs, and printed works. Correspondents include Louise Bogan, Philip Booth, Babette Deutsch, Richard Eberhart, T.S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Herbert Gorman, E.W. Howe, Robinson Jeffers, Archibald MacLeish, Louis MacNeice, Edgar Lee Masters, Lewis Mumford, Hyam Plutzik, Allen Tate, and Louis Zukovsky. Also, extensive correspondence with Robert Lax and Thomas Merton, as well as manuscripts by these two authors.
Mary Louisa Sutliff papers, 1917-1940
2 boxesLetters both from and about Irish poets, playwrights, and editors written to Mary Louisa Sutliff. The correspondents discuss Irish literature and Irish writers and show a warm friendship for Miss Sutliff. Among the authors represented are Seumas O'Sullivan, Padraic Colum, and George W. Russell. Also, a box of printed materials about Irish authors.