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Curtis Brown Ltd. records, 1914-2018
1745 linear feetThe files of Curtis Brown, Ltd. literary agency include correspondence with authors, publishers, and other agents and deal with the editing and publishing of trade and textbooks, serial rights, reprints, dramatic rights, translations and foreign rights, promotion and copyright registration. For each author there are contracts, royalty statements, tax statements, and other financial materials. There is also a contract file, including cancellations and related correspondence, from 1914 to 1988. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Louis S. Auchincloss, W.H. Auden, Erle Stanley Gardner, Robert Graves, Ogden Nash, Ayn Rand, and Sloan Wilson.
Jack Beeson papers, 1854-2013
80 linear feetSubseries VII.2: Personal Subject Files, circa, 1933-2010
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- Rome, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Pulitzer, and the National
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This subseries contains documents related to Beeson's activities as a composer, including activities related to such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Rome, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Pulitzer, and the National Endowment for the Arts; composition projects including completed operas as well as aborted opera conceptions; recommendations; delivered lectures; publications; biographical materials on figures in the arts such as Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, and Douglas Moore; and correspondence with colleagues in the arts including Paul Henry Lang, Otto Luening, Douglas Moore, William Saroyan, John Updike, Charles Wuorinen, and others. It is organized alphabetically.