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Using the Collection
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Series IX: Additions to the Collection
Sub-Series IX.1: Authors' Manuscripts Sub-Series IX.2: Copyright Cards Sub-Series IX.3: Foreign Rights Sub-Series IX.4: Maureen Walters Sub-Series IX.5: Film Department Sub-Series IX.6: Mitchell S. Waters Subseries IX.7 Peter L. Ginsberg Subseries IX.8 Timothy Knowlton |
Summary InformationAt a Glance
ArrangementArrangementSelected materials cataloged; remainder arranged alphabetically.
DescriptionSummaryThe 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 cortrespondence, 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.
Using the CollectionRare Book and Manuscript Library Conditions Governing AccessYou 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. Cataloged correspondence (35 boxes) is located on-site. Permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. required to examine and photocopy materials. 
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. Terms Governing Use and ReproductionReaders must use microfilm of materials specified above. 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 CitationIdentification of specific item; Date (if known); Curtis Brown Ltd. Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library. AccrualsMaterials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information. Alternate Form AvailableSean O'Faolain letters are on: microfilm. Immediate Source of AcquisitionSource of acquisition--Curtis Brown, Ltd. Method of acquisition--Gift; Accession number--M-1976. Gift of Curtis Brown, Ltd., 1976-1982, 1984-1988. About the Finding Aid / Processing InformationColumbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library Processing InformationProcessed 09/--/1988 HR Further processing done by Adrien Hilton and Graduate Assistants Grace Bickers, Rohan Jolly, and Michael Kordt in 2013 Finding aid written by HR in September 1988 and updated by Adrien Hilton in August 2013 Revision Description2013-08-08 xml document instance created by Adrien Hilton 2017-03-30 Website Archive Series added by Jane Gorjevsky 2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration. 2019-10-01 EAD updated by Patrick Lawlor Subject HeadingsThe subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives. All links open new windows. Genre/Form
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History / Biographical NoteBiographical / HistoricalIncorporated the literary agencies of Willis Kingsley Wing and Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., and others, and was closely associated with the English agencies of Curtis Brown Ltd. (London) and A.P. Watt & Son. |