Ella Winter papers, 1913-1978

Creator:: Winter, Ella, 1898-1980
Extent:: 41 boxes 41 boxes 1 oversize folder
Language:: English .
Scope and content:: Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, notes, photographs, and printed material of Winter. The papers cover primarily the years after 1952 when she and Stewart settled in England to avoid involvement in the House Un-American Activities Committee investigations. Winter traveled widely in Russia, visited China in 1958, and spent nine months in Ghana in 1965. Her journeys are well documented in this collection. Among the manuscripts are drafts for many of her periodical articles, typescripts of her autobiography AND NOT TO YIELD, and articles written about her travels. Also, files on art, the labor movement in California, Robinson Jeffers, the McCarthy era, Lincoln Steffens, and Vietnam. There are numerous photographs taken on her trips abroad, including her work with the Friends of Austria, 1920, of many theatrical productions, and of her family and home. Because of her eclectic interests she was acquainted with many prominent individuals in politics, literature, theatre, and the arts. Among the major correspondents are Edward Albee, Charles and Oona Chaplin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Katharine Hepburn, Carey McWilliams, Kwame Nkrumah, Sean O'Casey, and Muriel Rukeyser.
Biographical / historical:: Writer. Ella Winter (1898-1980) whose full name was Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart, was an economist by training and journalist by profession. She was married to Lincoln Steffens, and after his death, to screenwriter and playwright Donald Ogden Stewart.

Acquisition information:

Source of acquisition--Estate of Ella Winter. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1980. Accession number--M-80.

Justin Kaplan corr. re. Steffens: Source of acquisition--Kaplan, Justin. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--01/08/1998. Accession number--M-01-08-98.

Boxes 32-42: Source of acquisition--Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--7/27/2011. Accession number--M-2011-2012-M020.

Processing information:

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/1989.

Justin Kaplan corr. re. Steffens Processed HR 06/28/2000.

Boxes 32-41 processed by Ryan McComas (Pratt Institute, 2012) 2012.

Box 42 added after materials found in stacks processing area. Archival objects with multiple containers were broken out. Barcodes added to AS. kws 2022-09-01

Arrangement:

Selected material cataloged; remainder listed and arranged.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related material:

Lincoln Steffens Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Access and use

Restrictions:

The following boxes are located off-site: 3-42. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred citation:: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ella Winter papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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