Francis Steegmuller papers, 1877-2012

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Adler, Elmer, San Juan, 20 December and 2 January 1961 (2 a.l.s.), January 1961


Box 1 Bentley, Eric, New York, 30 May 1963 (t.l.s., 1p), May 1963


Box 1 Carre, Louis, Paris, 3 May 1954 and 17 January 1962 (1 a.l.s.; 1 t.l.s.), May 1954, January 1962


Box 1 Cheever,John, 1955-1957 (4 t.l.s.), 1955-1957


Box 1 Cocteau, Jean, 23 and 24 May 1959 (2 a.l.s.), May 1959


Box 1 Cornell, Katharine, Vinyard Haven, 2 September 1955 (1 t.l.s.), September 1955


Box 1 Cummings, Edward Estlin, New York, 9 January and 5 March1959 (2 t.l.s.), March1959


Box 1 Edman, Irwin, New York, 1951-1953 (1 a.l.s. and 2 t.l.s.), 1951-1953


Box 1 Ellison, Ralph, Tivoli, 5 September 1960 (t.I.s.), September 1960


Box 1 Erskine, John, New York, 25 February1939 (t.l.s.), February1939


Box 1 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, Arlington, VT, 1949-1956 (4 t.l.s.), 1949-1956



Box 101 Folder 11 Harry Ford letters, with Shirley Hazzard's memorial remarks and program from the Grolier Club



Box 1 Gallamard, Gaston, Paris, 3 August 1938 (t.l.s., 1p), August 1938


Box 1 Greene, Graham, London, 21 January (t.1.s., 2p.)


Box 1 Hellman, Lillian, New York, 16 January 1961 (t.l.s., 1p.), January 1961


Box 1 Hillyer, Robert, Greenwich, 11 March1949 (a.l.s.), March1949


Box 1 Huysman, Armand, Stavelot, 1960-1963 (4 a.l.s.; 2 t.l.s.), 1960-1963


Box 1 Jacob, Max. "Souvenirs de Montmatre" (t.ms., 2 p.) (With a letter from Jean Denoel, Paris 10, December 1952


Box 1 Josephson, Matthew, Gaylordsville, 30 November 1946 (t.l.s., 2p.), November 1946


Box 1 Lipschitz, Jacques, New York, 27 Fenruary 1955 (t.l.s., 1 p.), 1955


Box 1 McCarthy, Mary, Paris, 4 June 1964 (t.l.s., 2p.), June 1964


Box 1 Maugham, Wlilliam Somerset, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, 29 January and 26 26 March1954 (2 t.l.s.), March1954


Box 1 Massine, Leonide. Paris & Salerno, 1967 (4 t.l.s.), 1967


Box 1 Maupassant, Guy de, (a.d.s., 2p.) (Certificate of medical treatment for deafness; signed by Dr. Ladreit de la Charriere). Paris, 19, July 1877


Box 1 Maurois, Andre Paris, 15 February1955 and 2 January 1956 (1 a.1.s. and 1 t.l.s), February1955, January 1956


Box 1 Meiklejohn, Alexander, New York, 21 June [n.y.] (a.l.s., 3p.)


Box 1 Meredith, William, 1958-1963 (1 a.1.s., 8 t.l.s., and 4 p.c.s.), 1958-1963


Box 1 Meredith, William, "At the Opera" Printed poem, 1p. (inscribed), December 1960 (On verso is a typescript draft of "Under Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine"); Also carbon typescript of "Under Mirabeau Bridge", December 1960


Box 1 Meredith, William, "For Guillaume Apollinaire; An old photograph of stangers. Printed poems, 1p. (inscribed). Uncasville, Connecticut, 31, December 1962


Box 1 Meredith, William, "Lines for a Guest-book." Printed poem, 1p. (inscribed) New London, 15, December 1961


Box 1 Meredith, William, "Moonlight." (T.ms., 1 p) (on top of letter dated 4 April 1962)


Box 1 Meredith, William, "A word from the translator" (T.ms., 4p) (carbon copy; also carbon copy of "Hunting Horns," enclosed with letter dated 22 July 1963)


Box 1 Odets, Clifford, New York, undated and 5 August 1941 (2 a.l.s.), undated, August 1941


Box 1 Picabia, Gabriella Buffet, Paris, 7 December (a.l.s., 2p.)


Box 1 Pickford, Mary, Beverly Hills, 15 January 1953 (t.l.s., 1p.), January 1953


Box 1 Pope-Henness, James. London, 4 February1950 (t.1.s., 3p.), February1950


Box 1 Quennell, Peter, London, 1948-1963 (5 t.l.s.; 2 t.l.s.), 1948-1963


Box 1 Simenon, George, Lakeville, Conn., 19 May 1953 (a.l.s., 1 p.), May 1953


Box 1 Sitwell, Edith, Florence, 21 January 1959 (a.1.s, 2p), January 1959


Box 1 Stevenson, Adlai Ewing, Springfield, 7 December 1952 (t.l.s., 1p.), December 1952


Box 1 Trilling, Lionel, 1939-1954 (3 a.l.s. and 6 t.l.s.), 1939-1954


Box 1 Waugh, Alec, Silchester, 23 January 1954 (P.c.s.)


Box 1 Wilson, Edmund, Hew York, 6 May 1955 (A.l.s., 1p.), May 1955


Box 1 Zweig, Stefan, Salzburg, 28 October 1929 (A.l.s., 2p.), October 1929



Box 24 Folder 1 Correspondence, chiefly outgoing, 1974-1975


Box 24 Folder 2 Correspondence (George Ffennell, etc.), 1977-1998


Box 24 Folder 6 Correspondence re. James Jackson Jarves, 1951-1992


Box 24 Folder 1 Correspondence, chiefly outgoing, 1974-1975


Box 24 Folder 2 Correspondence: Miscellaneous, (George Ffennell, etc.), 1977-1998


Box 24 Folder 7 Correspondence re. Marcel Proust, 1983



Box 25 Folder 1-2 Jacques Barzun correspondence, 1975-1995



Box 26 Folder 1 Correspondence relating to Jean Cocteau,, 1991-1993


Box 26 Folder 2 Correspondence relating to Jean Cocteau, Stravinsky and Nijinsky,, 1971-2001


Box 26 Folder 3-4 Jean Cocteau "Barbette" correspondence, 1993-1995



Box 28 Folder 3 Arthur King Peters letters and postcards, 1993-2001



Box 29 Folder 1 Correspondence relating to Gustave Flaubert, 2000-2001


Box 29 Folder 4 Correspondence re. Dear Master, starring Irene Worth and Peter Eyer



Box 101 Folder 5 Correspondence re. Dear Master, starring Irene Worth and Peter Eyer (with clippings, memorial program, etc.)



Box 30 Folder 1 Horst P. Horst and Valentine Lawford Letter and cards, 1972-1993


Box 30 Folder 2 Correspondence re. Jean Hugo exhibits, 1973-1990



Box 31 Folder 1 John D. McDonald: letter, clippings, memorial service, 1981-1998



Box 37 Folder 5 Correspondence: Pierre Gorgel, 1966-69


Box 37 Folder 10-13 Correspondence, used in preparation of biography of Jean Cocteau.



Box 38 Folder 1 Correspondence re. his biography of Jean Cocteau.


Box 38 Folder 7 Enid Starkie -- Letter


Box 38 Folder 8 Letters: Gertrude Heim, Donald Gallup, etc.


Box 38 Folder 10 Glenway Wescott. Photocopies of letters to him from Cocteau. Jean Bourgoint, etc.



Box 39 Folder 3 Jean Hugo correspondence with Steegmuller


Box 39 Folder 8 Barbette letters to Steegmuller


Box 39 Folder 9 Barbette. Correspondence


Box 39 Folder 11 Reginald Francis Orlando Bridgeman. Correspondence


Box 39 Folder 16 Letter from Juliette Roche Gleizes



Box 50 Folder 5-6 Correspondence concerning Stravinsky-Cocteau "David". Including correspondence between Steegmuller and Robert Craft.



Box 55 Folder 1 Correspondence with Liliano delli Ponti re Raymond Radiguet, 1968


Box 55 Folder 2-5 Letters to Steegmuller regarding his Cocteau: A Biography



Box 58 Folder 1-2 Correspondence re. Cubism, 1970


Box 58 Folder 3 Correspondence pertaining to the volume Stories and True Stories, 1972.



Box 62 Folder 1-2 Letters from Lincoln Kirstein and Murray Pollinger, 1970-71.


Box 62 Folder 3-9 Correspondence, relating to Igor Stravinsky



Box 70 Folder 7 Letters to Steegmullerer. Re. Flaubert



Box 72 Folder 4-5 Correspondence with Harvard University Press re. Flaubert publications, 1976-1982



Box 73 Folder 4 Letters from Jean Bruneau to Francis Steegmuller, 1979-81


Box 73 Folder 6 Letters (including William Meredith, Victor Brombert, and Jacques Barzun)



Box 74 Folder 4 Two letters to Steegmuller from Richard Cross and Mary Ann Caws, 1971


Box 74 Folder 5-7 Correspondence between Francis Steegmuller and Liliane Ziegel (Mme Olivier Ziegel), his research assistant in Paris, from the later 1960s to 1982, 1960s, 1982



Box 76 Folder 1 Correspondence re. Flaubert



Box 78 Folder 3-4 Letters relating to the preservation of art and buildings in Italy, 1971-72



Box 79 Folder 3 Letters re. Flaubert, 1980s


Box 79 Folder 11 Letters re. "The Incident at Naples"



Box 80 Folder 1-5 Letters re. "The Incident at Naples"



Box 81 Folder 2 Letters re. Apollinaire, 1974-86


Box 81 Folder 3 Letters, cards from Meyer Schapiro, 1982-89


Box 81 Folder 4 Letters re. Cocteau


Box 81 Folder 6 Letters, etc. from A. Bouveau (College of Saint Teresa, Winona, MN) re. Flaubert


Box 81 Folder 7 Letters re. Flaubert, 1972-1987


Box 81 Folder 15-16 Miscellaneous letters to Steegmuller, 1933-86 (Bernhard Steegmuller, Douglas Siler, etc.)



Box 82 Folder 5-6 Miscellaneous letters re. Voltaire (letter from Jacques Barzun re "Je me tiens")



Box 83 Folder 6 Charles Dupaty. Letters. Photocopy


Box 83 Folder 7 Bjoernstafhl. Letters



Box 84 Folder 5-6 Letters relating to Ferdinando Galiani.


Box 84 Folder 8 Letters from Colin B. Bailey re. La Live de Jully



Box 85 Folder 8 Letters, 1985-89



Box 88 Folder 8 Letters, clippings, etc. re. Cocteau



Box 89 Folder 1 Correspondence between Francis Steegmuller and Frederick Wegener, 1994


Box 89 Folder 2 Correspondence between Francis Steegmuller and Jacques Barzun, 1993


Box 89 Folder 3 Correspondence between Francis Steegmuller and Julie Saul, Elizabeth Harvey, Arthur King Peters re. Jean Cocteau Exhibition of Photographic portraits, 198889


Box 89 Folder 4 Correspondence between Francis Steegmuller and Julie Saul, et. al regarding. Jean Cocteau, 1989-1995


Box 89 Folder 12 Correspondence: The Isadora Duncan Memorial Foundation (Richard Stoots, etc.), 1957-1995



Box 90 Folder 3 Letters regarding the d'Épinay-Galini book, 1991



Box 91 Folder 4 Letters from William Maxwell, Victor Brombert Jean Bruneau re. Flaubert-Sand letters and Alphonse Jacobs



Box 92 Folder 6 Letters: Donald Keene, Jacques Barzun


Box 92 Folder 6 Letter from Shirley Hazzard to Princeton University Press re. the obituary of Francis Steegmuller, 30, July 1995


Box 92 Folder 8 Letters from Francis Steegmuller to his first wife, Beatrice Stein, 1951



Box 93 Folder 1 Letter from Giles Constable to Francis Steegmuller, 1, December 1957


Box 93 Folder 3 Correspondence regarding the discovery of the Thomas Heywood MS by Norman Farmer, 1971-74


Box 93 Folder 9-14 Letters of condolence to Shirley Hazzard on the death of Francis Steegmuller



Box 94 Folder 1-6 Letters of condolence to Shirley Hazzard on the death of Francis Steegmuller



Box 95 Folder 1-3 Letters of condolence to Shirley Hazzard on the death of Francis Steegmuller



Box 97 Folder 11 Harry Levin to Francis Steegmuller, 9 February1987 re. Steegmuller's proposing him for an award., February1987


Box 97 Folder 12 Letter to Steegmuller, 1981-93 (with copy of letter from Shirley Hazzard to Luann Walther, 12 November 1995)



Box 98 Folder 1-4 Copies of the Douglas Cooper correspondence with Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard, 1967-77

Placed on deposit by The Getty Institute in1998. Requests for photocopies must be addressed to Beth Ann Guynn at the Getty Institute. Questions regarding rights and reproductions of this material must be addressed to Head of Special Collections, the Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688



Box 99 Folder 3 Letter concerning Lionello Venturi", 17, December 2002


Box 99 Folder 7 Letters from William Maxwell, 1980-93


Box 99 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1989-1990



Box 101 Folder 12 Correspondence, 1971-1994



Box 99 Folder 8 Peter Eyre and Irene Worth (Flaubert-Sand correspondence). Letter.


Box 99 Folder 9 Letters, article relating to Gustave Flaubert (includes letter from Steegmuller to Peter Eyre re. dramatizing the Flaubert-Sand letters


Box 99 Folder 10 Letters and clippings from Jacques Barzun to Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard, 1973-2001


Box 99 Folder 8 Letter: Peter Eyre and Irene Worth


Letters regarding Villa I Tatti from:



Box 101 Folder 1 Sheila and Myron Gilnore


Box 101 Folder 2 Bernard Berenson


Box 101 Folder 2 Nicky Mariano


Box 101 Folder 2 Alda Anrep


Box 101 Folder 3 Letters from John Pope-Hennessy and Michael Mallon, 1970-2002


Box 101 Folder 9 Clippings, newsletter, brochure, and Harvard Magazine



Box 125 Folder 5 Correspondence, 1944-1945


Box 125 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1961-1991


Correspondence on Art Collections


Box 125 Folder 21-22 Correspondence on Steegmuller's Art Collection, 1950-1975, 2001, 2 folders


Box 125 Folder 23-24 Quasi-Current, 1918-1920, 1950-1997, 2 folders


Box 125 Folder 25 Appraisals and Correspondence, 1981, 1994


Box 125 Folder 26 Randall Morgan


Box 125 Folder 27-28 Randall Morgan--Correspondence and Photographs, 1991-1994, undated, 2 folders


Box 125 Folder 29 Beatrice Stein Steegmuller--Art, 1961-1962


Box 125 Folder 30-31 Villon Paintings, 1981-1987, undated, 2 folders