Millen Brand papers, 1919-1976

Summary Information

Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, journals, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, and printed materials relating to writer Millen Brand.

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0145
Bib ID:
4079473 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Brand, Millen, 1906-1980
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
40 linear feet (95 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
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.

The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1-89. 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.

Description

Scope and Content

Personal and literary correspondence, journals from 1919 to 1976, manuscripts of Brand's novels, poems, articles and other writings, documents, memorabilia, and printed materials. Novels by Brand include THE OUTWARD ROOM (1937), a novel about mental illness; THE HEROES (1939), a novel about veterans' hospitals; ALBERT SEARS (1947), a novel about racial intolerance; THE SNAKE PIT (1948), a screenplay about mental illness, SOME LOVE, SOME HUNGER (1955), a novel about Puerto Ricans in New York; SAVAGE SLEEP (1965), a novel about the use of shock treatment; DRY SUMMER IN PROVENCE (1966), poems about the South of France; FIELDS OF PEACE (1970), poems; LOCAL LIVES (1975), poems about Mennonites of Pennsylvania; and PEACE MARCH (1980), poems. Correspondents include Nancy Cunard, Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernest Hemingway, Rockwell Kent, Harriet Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Kenneth Patchen, Diego Rivera, Jules Romains, May Sarton, Louis Untermeyer, Thornton Wilder, Colin Wilson, and Darryl F. Zanuck.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in three 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.

The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1-89. 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 Governing Use and Reproduction

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); Millen Brand 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.

Alternate Form Available

William Goyen letters are also available on: microfilm.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Millen Brand, 1954-1976.

Gift of Lillian Gilkes, 1961.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Brand, Millen. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1954. Accession number--M-54.

Brand letters to Lillian Gilkes: Source of acquisition--Gilkes, Lillian. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1961. Accession number--M-1961.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/12/1989.

Brand letters to Lillian Gilkes Cataloged, trans. from Gen Ms Coll HR 08/11/1995.

Revision Description

2012-03-13 Xml document instance created by Alison Rhonemus.

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

Biographical / Historical

Author, poet, Hollywood screenwriter, editor at Crown Publishers, Inc., teacher of writing at New York University. Brand was active in the Left during the 1930s and in the Civil Rights movement.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Journals CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poems CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Romains, Jules, 1885-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sarton, May, 1912-1995 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wilson, Colin, 1894-1978 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1953 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Authors, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Civil rights -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
College teachers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
College teachers -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Editors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
English language -- Study and teaching CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poets, American CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Screenwriters CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID