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Benjamin Sonnenberg papers, 1956-2010 9 linear feet (20 document boxes)

Sonnenberg, Ben
Ben Sonnenberg, Jr., is a writer and editor best known for founding Grand Street, a New York literary quarterly, which he edited from 1981 until his retirement in 1989; the magazine continued for another fifteen years before it finally ceased publication in the fall of 2004. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence between Ben Sonnenberg, Jr. and literary contributors associated with Grand Street. Some Grand Street administrative files and a small amount of personal material, including family letters and writings, are also included.
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Bernardine Kielty papers, 1923-1965 3.36 linear feet (9 8 document boxes)

Kielty, Bernardine

Correspondence, manuscripts, and books of Kielty. Of special interest are the long and rich files of letters from Dorothy Canfield Fisher and W. Somerset Maugham, as well as letters from other contemporary authors, among them, Bernard Berenson, Isak Dinesen, Rumer Godden, Franz Werfel, and Kathleen Winsor.

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Edna Kenton Correspondence, 1903-1954 1 box (1 box)

Kenton, Edna, 1876-1954

Letters to Kenton from outstanding literary figures such as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Vechten, Charles Hanson Towne, George Cram Cook, Henry L. Mencken, Richard Watson Gilder, Witter Bynner. The correspondence is partly personal, and part relates to the Provincetown Players, but chiefly the letters are from editors of various magazines including DELINEATOR and SMART SET, to which Kenton contributed stories.

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Grand Street Publications Inc. Records, 1980-2004 53.85 linear feet (47 legal sized document boxes 18 record cartons [legal sized] 13 record cartons [letter sized])

Grand Street Publications, Inc
These records contain the editorial, production and correspondence files of Grand Street, a New York literary quarterly founded by Ben Sonnenberg Jr. in 1981 and published through 2004. Throughout its two decades, Grand Street prided itself on nurturing authors and presenting a smart and eclectic mix of contemporary poetry, fiction, art and journalism. The bulk of this collection consists of annotated manuscripts, proofs and correspondence related to the magazine: featured writers include Anne Carson, Arthur Coleman Danto, Jonathan Franzen, Dennis Hopper, Ted Hughes, Norman Mailer, Susan Minot, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushide, Edward Said and David Foster Wallace. Production files related to the magazine's operation are also housed within these records and these files include contracts, press and publicity files, design ideas and materials pertaining to Grand Street's attempts to rebrand itself as an online only magazine in the 2000s.
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Granta records, 1960-1968 0.25 linear feet (1 half-ms box (97 items))

Granta

Correspondence, manuscripts, and page-proofs received by Andrew Crozier for the American poetry issue of GRANTA magazine, March 1964, published at Cambridge University. There are also later correspondence and printed materials from English and American poets to Andrew Crozier.

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Henry Morton Robinson papers, 1915-1965 42 boxes (42 boxes)

Robinson, Henry Morton, 1898-1961

Papers dealing with Robinson's activities as a student and instructor in English at Columbia University, editor of CONTEMPORARY VERSE, senior editor at THE READER'S DIGEST, poet and author of many books including THE CARDINAL. Among the correspondents are Melville Cane, Paul de Kruif, John Erskine, Merrill Moore, and Christopher Morley.

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Marie Mattingly Meloney papers, 1891-1943 22 Linear Feet (40 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize flat boxes, 1 map case folder)

Meloney, Marie Mattingly, 1883-1943
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, art works, memorabilia, and printed material created by and belonging to journalist, magazine editor, socialite, and social reformer Marie Mattingly Meloney (1878-1943). Meloney edited The Delineator, 1920-1926; the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, 1926-1934; and This Week magazine, 1934-1943.
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman letters, 1893-1981, bulk 1893-1901 2 boxes (2 boxes (56 Items))

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930

Letters of Freeman, addressed to various personalities at Harper Brothers and the Century Magazine, relating chiefly to the publication in serial and book form of her various novels and short stories. Included are letters to Richard Watson Gilder, Robert Underwood Johnson, Colonel George B. Harvey, and Henry Mills Alden. Also, photocopies of the typescript of Brent L. Kendrick's Ph.D. thesis (University of South Carolina, 1981) THE INFANT SPHINX: COLLECTED LETTERS OF MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN. 2 vols. (Published version in the General Library: PS1713/.A44/1985).

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Nathaniel Parker Willis letters, 1825-1830 1 Volumes (1 volumes (24 items))

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867

Letters from Willis to George James Pumpelly. The correspondence is mostly written from Boston and only one letter is actually dated with the year by Willis. The letters are very personal in character, giving a rather full account of the young poet's activities, particularly his affairs of the heart, and the editing of a magazine. Also, there are two promissory notes, 1839, 1842, written by Willis for sums to be paid to Pumpelly.

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Poetry London-New York records, 1943-1968 2 boxes (2 boxes)

Poetry London-New York

Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and publicity materials for POETRY LONDON-NEW YORK, which appeared in four issues from 1956 to 1960. There is correspondence to and from M.J. Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915-1983), the editor, Anthony S.M. Dickins, the "editor in Britain" from the contributors, manuscripts submitted for publication, and letters about the launching party for the magazine on 31 July 1956.

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