Marius de Zayas papers, 1914-1948

Marius de Zayas papers, 1914-1948

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS# 1407
Bib ID:
4078697 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Zayas, Marius de; Sanouillet, Michel
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
5.5 linear feet (13 boxes)
Language(s):
English , Spanish; Castilian , French .
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Description

Summary

A large collection of the letters and manuscripts of Rafael de Zayas Enriquez, as well as a miscellaneous collection of letters and bills of sale pertaining to the activities of Marius de Zayas. The Rafael de Zayas Enriquez papers include letters, manuscripts, books, and clippings. His writings reflect his many and varied talents and interests: history, poetry, sociology, novels, and plays. His manuscripts and books comprise the bulk of this collection. The photocopies of letters to Marius de Zayas pertain to the magazine "291" and the Modern Gallery. There is correspondence from Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Paul Guillaume, Max Jacob, Agnes Meyer, Alfred Stieglitz, Tristan Tzara, and Max Weber. The majority of these letters are unpublished although some of the most important ones appear in Michel Sanouillet's Francis Picabia et "291" (Paris, 1966).

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into 6 series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material 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 Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies 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); Marius de Zayas papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Reproduction Note

Type of reproduction--Photocopies, in part

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Zayas, Rodrigues de. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1972. Accession number--M-72.

Gift of Rodrigo de Zayas, 1972.

Gift of Nicole de Zayas, 1997.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.

Processed by ELJ, 3/73.

The addition was processed by Patrick Lawlor, 12/2000.

Revision Description

2010-01-27 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Painter. Marius de Zayas (1880-1961?) was a portrait painter and director of the Modern Gallery in New York. His father, Rafael de Zayas Enriquez (1848-1932) was a prominent Mexican man-of-letters and politician who was known as "The Grand Old Man of Mexico".

Subject Headings

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Name
Guillaume, Paul
Jacob, Max, 1876-1944
Meyer, Agnes E., 1887-1970
Modern Gallery
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963
Weber, Max
Zayas EnrĂ­quez, R. de (Rafael), 1848-1932
Subject
Art -- Periodicals
Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State) -- New York
Painters
Portrait painters

Series I: Photocopies of Letters to Marius de Zayas


Box 1 Folder 1

Guillaume, Paul To Marius de Zayas, France, [n.d.] & 29 May 1917, 1 a.l.s., 1 postcard, 1 t.l.s.


Box 1 Folder 2

Jacob, Max To Marius de Zayas, [n.p.], [1915 & 1916], 3 a.l.s.


Box 1 Folder 3

Meyer, Agnes To Marius de Zayas, N.Y., [1915] & 1916, 2 a.l.s., 1 t.l., 1 t.l.s. (from Eugene Meyer)


Box 1 Folder 4

Picabia, Francis To Marius de Zayas, [n.p.], 1916, 2 a.l.s.


Box 1 Folder 5

Picasso, Pablo To Marius de Zayas, Paris, 14 September 1916, 1 a.l.s.


Box 1 Folder 6

Rivera, Diego To Marius de Zayas, Paris, 1915 & 1916, 3 a.l.s.


Box 1 Folder 7

Stieglitz, Alfred To Marius de Zayas, N.Y., 1915, 5 a.l.s.


Box 1 Folder 8

Tzara, Trista & Marcel Janco To Marius de Zayas, Zurich, 28 December 1916, 1 a.l.s.


Box 1 Folder 9

Weber, Max To Marius de Zayas, N.Y., 18 November 1948, 1 a.l.s.


Box 1 Folder 10

Zayas, Marius de To Alfred Stieglitz, N.Y., 1915, 1 a.l.s. (photocopy), 1 t.l. (photocopy)

[With a.l.s. (photocopy) to Jorge, 7 September 1915]


Box 1 Folder 11 - 18

Zayas, Marius de Photocopies of letters, accounts, inventories, etc. re. his art business, N.Y.,, [n.d.] & 1914 - 1948

[With a.l.s. (photocopy) to Jorge, 7 September 1915]

Series II: Letters to and by Rafael de Zayas Enriquez


Box 1 Folder 19

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de To Marius de Zayas, Mexico, 24 August 1913, 1 a.l., 22 pages

[With a.l.s. (photocopy) to Jorge, 7 September 1915]


Box 1 Folder 20 - 68

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Letters from various people, [v.p.], [n.d.] & 1872-1932

Series III: Manuscripts

Mostly by Rafael de Zayas Enriquez


Box 2 Folder 69

Cestero, Ferdinand Poem relating to Rafel de Zayas Enriquez, Puerto Rico,, 10 September 1905, 1 page t.ms.


Box 2 Folder 70

Collselo, G. del Soneto, Mexico, 1893, 1 page t.ms.


Box 2 Folder 71

Zayas, [Nicole?] de Notes on the collection, [N.Y.], [n.d.], 1 page a.ms.


Box 2 Folder 72

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de "Anakreonte Teyo". Estudo de la vida y de las obras del famoso poeta, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 151 page t.ms.


Box 2 Folder 73

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Archipielago del Norte, [n.p.], [n.d.], 16 page t.ms.


Box 2 Folder 74

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Aventuras de Junior y Pedrito, N.Y., 16 November 1963, ca 500 page t.ms.


Box 2 Folder 75 & 76

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Adventuring Across the Rio Grande, [n.p.],, [n.d.], ca 500 page t.ms.

[In Spanish]


Box 3 Folder 77 & 78

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Adventuring Across the Rio Grande, [n.p.],, [n.d.], ca 500 page t.ms.

[In English]


Box 3 Folder 79

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Aristodemo [Play], [n.p.], [n.d.], 20 page t.ms.


Box 3 Folder 81

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Cinematograficas: coleccion de articulos publicados en el "Cine Mundial", [n.p.],, [n.d.], 238 page t.ms.


Box 3 Folder 82

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Conde de Villamediana [Play], [n.p.],, [n.d.], 110 page t.ms.


Box 3 Folder 83

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Conde de Villamediana [Play], [n.p.],, [n.d.], 110 page t.ms.

[With related material]


Box 3 Folder 84

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Crimen, [n.p.], [n.d.], ca 120 page t.ms.


Box 3 Folder 85

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Cuentos de Carnaval: Recuerdos de Venecia, [n.p.],, [n.d.], ca 40 page t.ms.


Box 4 Folder 86

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Cuentos, [n.p.], [n.d.], 367 page t.ms.


Box 4 Folder 87

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Cuentos del Cuartel, [n.p.], [n.d.], 50 page a.ms.


Box 4 Folder 88

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Cuentos del Cuartel, Mexico, 22 December 1906, 50 page a.ms.


Box 4 Folder 89

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Cuentos del Cuartel, [n.p.], [n.d.], 150 page t.ms.


Box 4 Folder 90

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Cuentos del Cuartel, [n.p.], [n.d.], 150 page t.ms.


Box 4 Folder 91

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Discursos, [n.p.], [n.d.], ca. 60 page t.ms.


Box 4 Folder 92

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Disquisicion del Orign de la Raza Maya, [n.p.],, 1930, 13 page t.ms.


Box 4 Folder 93

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Disquisiciones Literaris: Coleccion de articulos sobre estetica, y juicios criticos, Mexoco,, 1906, ca 50 page t.ms.


Box 5 Folder 94

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Entre los dos Abismos, [n.p.], [n.d.], 8 page t.ms.


Box 5 Folder 95

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Escombros [Poems], [n.p.], [n.d.], ca 70 page t.ms.


Box 5 Folder 97 & 98

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de La Evolucion en Criminologia: Estudio Juridico-Sociologico, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 300 page t.ms.


Box 5 Folder 99 & 100

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de La Evolucion en Criminologia: Estudio Juridico-Sociologico, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 300 page t.ms.


Box 5 Folder 101

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de La Evolucion Feminista, N.Y., 8 August 1924, 154 page t.ms.


Box 6 Folder 102

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Hamlet Principe Dedinamarca, [n.p.], [n.d.], 74 page t.ms.


Box 6 Folder 103 - 105

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Historia, [n.p.], [n.d.], ca. 600 page t.ms. & a.ms.


Box 6 Folder 106

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Hombre Cris: Primera Parte de la Trilogia, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 92 page t.ms.


Box 6 Folder 107

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Luciernagas [Poems], N.Y., [n.d.], 170 page t.ms.


Box 6 Folder 108

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Manuscripts (incomplete, fragments, etc.), N.Y.,, [n.d.], ca. 50 page t.ms.


Box 6 Folder 109

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Matter, Energy, Spirit, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page t.ms.


Box 6 Folder 110

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de The Maya Vestal [Novel], [n.p.], [n.d.], 230 page t.ms.

[In English]


Box 7 Folder 111

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Mi Homenaje a Cervantes, [n.p.], [n.d.], 100 page t.ms.


Box 7 Folder 112

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Mi Libro de Oro, [n.p.], [n.d.], 170 page t.ms.


Box 7 Folder 113

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Mi Libro de Oro, [n.p.], [n.d.], 170 page t.ms.


Box 7 Folder 114

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Mi Libro de Oro, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 a.ms. notebooks


Box 7 Folder 115 & 116

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Microbinas [Poems], [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 a.ms. notebooks


Box 7 Folder 117

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Microbinas [Poems], [n.p.], [n.d.], 149 page a.ms. notebook


Box 7 Folder 118

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Miscelleneous fragments, [n.p.], [n.d.], 10 page a.ms.


Box 7 Folder 119

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de [Mythology], [n.p.], [n.d.], 107 page t.ms. (incomplete)


Box 8 Folder 120

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Naufragio de un Alma [Play], [n.p.], [n.d.], ca 150 page t.ms.


Box 8 Folder 121

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Naufragio de un Alma [Play], [n.p.], [n.d.], 86 page t.ms.


Box 8 Folder 122

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de [Natural Sciences/Philosophy], [n.p.], [n.d.], 242 page t.ms.


Box 8 Folder 123

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Paginas Sueltas, [n.p.], ca. 1928, 150 page t.ms.


Box 8 Folder 124

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Panhispanismo y Panamericanismo, N.Y., July 1919, 107 page t.ms.


Box 8 Folder 125

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Picaros y Hombres de Bien, [n.p.], [n.d.], 105 page t.ms.


Box 8 Folder 127

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de [Play, untitled], [n.p.], [n.d.], 25 page a.ms.


Box 8 Folder 128 & 129

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de [Poems], [n.p.], [n.d.], ca. 50 page t.ms.


Box 9 Folder 130 & 131

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de La Prediccion de la Bruja [Novel], Mexico,, 2 November 1907, ca. 250 page t.ms. & a.ms.


Box 9 Folder 132

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Prizes Awarded to Rafael de Zayas Enriquez, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.


Box 9 Folder 133

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Prizes Awarded to Rafael de Zayas Enriquez, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.


Box 9 Folder 133

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Prologo, [n.p.], [n.d.], 5 page a.ms.


Box 9 Folder 134

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Sonnets, N.Y., July 1929, 49 page t.ms.


Box 9 Folder 135

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Satan Blanco, [n.p.], [n.d.], ca. 200 page t.ms.


Box 9 Folder 136

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Satan Blanco, [n.p.], [n.d.], 57 page t.ms.


Box 9 Folder 137

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Suicidio, [n.p.], [n.d.], ca. 200 page a.ms.


Box 9 Folder 138

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Los Tartufos [Play], [n.p.], [n.d.], 129 page t.ms., 1 volume


Box 9 Folder 139

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Las Teorias de Mi Amego Don Primitivo Practico, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 73 page t.ms., 1 volume


Box 10 Folder 140

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Xtabentun La Vestal Maya, N.Y., 23 October 1921, ca. 225 page t.ms.

Series IV: Documents Relating to Rafael de Zayas Enriquez


Box 10 Folder 141

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Accounts, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page a.ms.


Box 10 Folder 142

Medical diploma of C. Jose Martines Ancira, Mexico, 22 May 1877, 1 page p.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 143

College of Estado Certificate, Mexico, 16 September 1902, 1 page a.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 144

Consul of Mexico. San Francisco Documents (4), San Francisco, 1903-1906, 4 page t.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 145

Prefecture de Police. France Extrait du Registre D'Immatriculation, Paris,, 1915, 1 page a.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 146

Juarez, Benito Document re. elections, Mexico, 16 December 1899, 1 page a.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 147

Consul of Mexico. London Document re. De Zayas Enriquez, London, 1914, 1 page a.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 148

Consul of Mexico. Paris Certificate re. De Zayas Enriquez, Paris, 1926, 1 page a.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 149

Treasury. Mexico Document re. De Zayas Enriquez, Mexico, 1904, 1 page a.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 150

Military Association. Mexico Document re. De Zayas Enriquez, Mexico,, 1879, 1 page a.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 151

Secretaria de Guerra y Marina. Mexico Plana Mayor del Ejercito, Mexico,, 1899, 11 page a.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 152

Library of Congress Copyright notice, Washington, 3 October 1912, 1 card t.d.s.


Box 10 Folder 153

Photocopies of documents, Mexico & Peru, [n.d.] & 1903, 2 page a.d.s.

Series V: Printed Material Relating to Rafael de Zayas Enriquez


Box 10 Folder 154

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Avicultura Practica, Mexico: Ofic. Tip. de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1897, 1 volume


Box 10 Folder 155

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Biographical material, [n.p.], 1910, 3 clippings


Box 10 Folder 156

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de "Consideraciones Sobre la Raza Blanca. Su Origen", America magazine,, [n.d.], 12 pages


Box 10 Folder 157

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de "Cuentos del Cuartel - Un Valiente", America magazine & Revista Latino-Americana,, [n.d.], 14 pages


Box 10 Folder 158

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Elementos de Moral, Veracruz: Tipografia "Comercial" de R. de Zayas, 1875, 60 pages, 1 volume


Box 10 Folder 159

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Elevacion y Caida del Gral. Porfirio Diaz, Merida Yucatan: Imp. de "La Revista de Merida",, 1911, 206 pages, 1 volume


Box 10 Folder 160

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Exposito, Veracruz: Tip. de R. de Zayas, 1882, 46 pages, 1 volume


Box 10 Folder 161

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Fisiologia del Crimen, Veracruz: Imprenta de R. de Zayas, 1885, 267 pages, 1 volume


Box 10 Folder 162

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Historia de la Reforma en Mexico, Merida Yucatan, 1926, 172 pages, 1 volume


Box 10 Folder 163

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Historia de la Reforma en Mexico, Merida Yucatan, 1926, 172 pages, 1 volume


Box 10 Folder 164

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Historia de la Reforma en Mexico, Merida Yucatan, 1926, 172 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 165

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Los Ilotas, Veracruz: Tip. de R. de Zayas, 1887, 100 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 166

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de "The Mexican Crisis", The Financial Review of Reviews,, 1914, 10 pages


Box 11 Folder 167

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de "Mi Bandera", Revista Latino-Americana, [n.d.], 3 pages


Box 11 Folder 168

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Oceanida, Veracruz: Tip de R. de Zayas, 1887, 236 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 169

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Oceanida, Veracruz: Tip de R. de Zayas, 1887, 236 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 170

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Poemas Sudras, Mexico: Tip. Artistica, 1903, 64 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 170

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Poemas Sudras, Mexico: Tip. Artistica, 1903, 64 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 171

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de La Reforma el Segundo Imperio, Lagos de Moreno, 1904, 206 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 172

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Remordimiento, [n.p.], [n.d.], 123 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 173

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Secreto de Carlos, [n.p.], [n.d.], 147 pages, 1 volume


Box 11 Folder 174

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de El Teniente de los Gavilanes, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Co., 1902, 341 pages, 1 volume


Box 12 Folder 175

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de [La Verdad de] 25 de Junio, [n.p.], [n.d.], 159 pages, 1 volume


Box 12 Folder 176

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de La Verdad Sobre el 25 de Junio, Merida Yucatan, 1919, 113 pages, 1 volume


Box 12 Folder 177

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de La Verdad Sobre el 25 de Junio, Merida Yucatan, 1919, 113 pages, 1 volume


Box 12 Folder 178

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Violetas: Periodico Literario, Veracruz, 1869, 276 pages, 1 volume


Box 12 Folder 179 & 180

Miscellaneous printed material, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 folders


Box 12 Folder 181

Redarez Saint Reme Odes, Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette,, 1854, 240 pages, 1 volume


Box 12 Folder 182

Ignacio Gutierrez Zamora Contando un Viaje, [n.p.], 1934, 89 pages, 1 volume


Box 12

Artemio de Valle-Arizpe Historia, tradiciones y leyendas de calles de Mexico, Mexico, 1957, 834 pages, 1 volume

Series VI: Clippings by Rafael de Zayas Enriquez


Box 13

Zayas Enriquez, Rafael de Clippings of articles, Mexico & N.Y.,, [v.d.], ca. 500 clippings