Carl and Anne Spadoni Literary Letters and Manuscripts Collection

Carl and Anne Spadoni Literary Letters and Manuscripts Collection. 1^st accrual. – ca. 1890-2002. – 80 cm textual records, photographs, and 13 glass plate negatives (6 boxes).

Collection comprises letters and manuscripts from authors writing in the English language, predominantly in the 20^th century.

Collection is organized alphabetically by the last name of the author. Files contain anywhere from one to several textual and/or photographic records. 

Please note this finding aid includes the following abbreviations:

ALS: Autograph letter signed (handwritten, signed letter)

TLS: Typed letter signed (typed, signed letter)

TS: Typescript 

Box 1

F.1     Abbey, Henry (American poet, 1842-1911). ALS to the poet Stephen Henry Thayer, 30 April 1886, re: Thayer’s volume of poetry (Songs of Sleepy Hollow and Other Poems), lamenting the fact that people would rather read about murders, robberies, divorces, horse races, baseball... instead of enjoying poetry verses.

F.2     Abdy, Maria (English poet, 1797-1867). Poem addressed “My Dear Mrs Billamore” and signed “Very Truly Yours, | Maria Abdy”, beginning “My Second magnifies numbers |My Third increases numbers….”, 1 leaf (torn at the top), n.d. ALS to Mrs. White, 19 May 1855, re: sending her poem entitled “The Japanese Bridal Veil” for the July number of the Ladies Companion, refers to Major Calder Campbell’s writings in the May issue.

F.3     Abdullah, Achmed (American writer known for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure, 1881-1945). Signed custom card, n.d., featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm.

F.4     Adams, Jane (British writer of psychological thrillers, 1960-). 2 TLS to Vance Morgan, 5 January ? and 5 November, package of books arrived Christmas eve, has signed them, does not think of herself as a public figure, great to receive letter from people who like her books, the nature of teaching and education in Britain, glad that he enjoyed The Greenaway and Cast the First Stone, her third novel Bird just published, won’t be coming to the USA until October of the next year.

F.5     Adamson, Joy (naturalist, artist, and author of Born Free etc., 1910-1980). TLS to Martha Munnecke, 20 February 1973, on letterhead of the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal, thanking her for her work and devotion to Elsa, hoping to meet her on 24 June, nursing a very ill jackal. 4 B&W photos: Adamson and Susan Hampshire (who starred in the film), airplane in the background, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 1971; 3 photos from the Daily Telegraph, 9 October 1971, 19 February 1972, related to Adamson and her artwork. Signature on a pink slip with several other signatures. [Oversize photo removed, see note at end of finding aid].

F.6     Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (American writer, poet, critic, and editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1836-1907). ALS addressed “My dear [Daniel N.] Haskell”, editor of the Boston Evening Transcript, 8 September 1856, “I send you an autumn whale which I ha[d] penned the other night….” With a photo print of Aldrich at the bottom of the letter and enclosure, poem entitled “The Winds” (2 pp.). ALS to I.P. Stephen, 8 January 1874, re: “I was not aware that Mr. Keeler” [Ralph Keeler (1840-1873), performer, traveler, and writer who wrote Vagabond Adventures, a memoir of his life as a minstrel player, card shark, low-life, and hobo along the Mississippi and throughout the U.S. in the 1840s and 1850s] “had been a student at Kenyon College.” Note signed, n.d, saying that he is allowed 40% and to make a purchase for $6. 

F.7     Allen, James Lane (American novelist and short story writer, 1849-1925). ALS (3 pp.) to Theodore L. Sewall, Sunday, re: his acceptance to address the Contemporary Club on 25 January, “Evolutionary Principles in American Literature”. ALS addressed Dear Sir, 2 December ?, saying that he would like 2 tickets for the Carnegie Hall meeting on the 12th. Card signed, 14 January 1896.

F.8     Allison, Dorothy (American feminist writer, author of A Bastard Out of Carolina, 1949-). TLS to Gil Moody Books, 1 May 1994, apologizes for the delay in her reply, has moved address, has signed the bookplates.

F.9     Amis, Kingsley (English novelist, poet, and critic; the author of Lucky Jim, 1922-1995.) TLS to M.W. Espry Jr., 7 August 1968, re: providing an autograph to Espy. 4 TLS to Pauline [Melville?], 9 June, 8 July, 28 September 1988, and 19 January 1989. With a slip “with the compliments of” and his address. Amis refers to a dinner sponsored by the Sunday Express, his book entitled Difficulties with Girls, Pauline’s health, her two-day vacation on the Moors, and the death of her parrot. TLS to Mr. Threadgold, 14 April 1988. “Thank you for your letter, and I now enclose your bookplates, duly signed.” TLS to Anthony Lee, 9 June 1988, glad that Lee enjoys his books, just finished writing one, starting to write another, does not send photos to people he hasn’t met. TLS to Mr. [Keith] Polyblank, 4 July 1990, thanking him for letter about Amis’s knighthood.

F.10     Archer, Jeffrey (English novelist, former politician, and peer of the realm). TLS to Jeremy D. Harris, 11 July 1990, thanking Harris, hoping that he will remain one of Harris’s favourite authors, working hard for Party (Deputy Chairman), encloses a signed photo (Archer standing, wearing a suit and holding a book). TLS to Vance Morgan, 8 January 2004, re: his kind comments about Archer’s books, that Archer is happy to sign his copy of Shall We Tell the President. TLS to Bill O’Neill, 14 June 1996.

F.11     Armes, William Dallam (Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of California; friend of the naturalist John Muir, 1860-1918). Postcard from Nat Thimble, 22 July 1913, sends greetings from London.

F.12     Aubry, Octave (French novelist and historian, 1881-1946). ALS addressed Madame, 24 May 1927. Letter written in French re: Le Roi perdu retrouvé: Louis XVII (1924). ALS addressed Cher Monsieur, 5 August 1937, thanking his correspondent for his appreciation of the Journal de Sainte Hélène and for his offer of the Journal of Gorgeard, mentions the Journal de Marchand and the Journal of Bertrand. 

F.13     Auchinloss, Louis S. (American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist, 1917-1010). TLS to Mrs. Joshua Logan, 12 November 1973, letterhead of the Museum of the City of New York, thanking her for the gift of $1,000.

F.14     Austin Mary (novelist and nature writer of the American southwest). Half title of Isidro, signed, n.d.

F.15     Ayrton, Anthony M. (artist and WWII camouflage officer, 1909-1943). Signed slip, “I’ll try to be famous”, pre-1943.

F.16     Bacheller, Irving (American journalist and writer, 1859-1950). ALS to Walter McElreath, 4 December 1942, re: his invitation and kind words, his age and health do not permit him to travel.

F.16A     Ballantyne, Sheila (American novelist). TLS to James Murphy, with envelope, 10 October 1982.

F.17     Baring-Gould, Sabine (Anglican priest, novelist, folk song collector, hymnist, and author of “Onward Christian Soldier,” 1834-1924). ALS to Wardell, [1865].

F.18     Barker, Clive (English author, film director, and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction). TLS to Vicki Moody, 25 April 1995, busy writing and directing Lord of Illusions, his other films just released, Everville published by Harper Collins last fall, writing a new book (“a dark fantasy for all ages”), signs Shadows in Eden for her. TLS to William Keen, 7 June 2002, thanking Keen for appreciating his work and signing a photo for him. TLS to Vance Morgan, 17 January 2001, apologizes for the delay in his reply (accumulation of mail daunting), appreciates Morgan’s support of his work, has signed the two books.

F.19     Barker, Pat (English writer and novelist, 1943-). First day cover (1971 Literary Activities), signed by Barker, post-marked 28 July 1971, with colour photo of Barker alongside a photo of Barker’s Regeneration. Both pieces affixed to a card, verso has information about Barker.

F.20     Baruch, Bernard (American financier and statesman, 1870-1965). TLS to Robert Richard Gros, 20 May 1948, tells Gros to call his office in New York for a meeting. 

F.21     Bawden, Nina (English novelist and children's writer, 1925-2012). Postcard to Mr. Ladkin, n.d. (ca. 1997), thanking him for his good wishes and noting that Family Money is the latest of her novels adapted for television. 

F.22     Belloc-Lowndes, Marie (English novelist, 1868-1947). ALS to Mr. Kears, 24 May 1917, re: the sad plight of W.L.A. Alden. 

F.23     Bellow, Saul (American novelist and Nobel Prize winner). TLS to Irma Antonetto, [Associazione Culturale Italiana], on letterhead on Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, 20 September 1968, re: her invitation to Bellow to speak in Italy, his stay in Italy limited, returning to Chicago at end of the month, has things to do in the USA in October, asks her to keep in touch with him. B&W photo, 25 October 1974, University of Chicago, ITT Community Development Corporation.

F.24     Benjamin, Park (American journalist, editor, poet, lawyer). ALS addressed Dear Sir, 2 December 1861, re: outstanding mortgage payment. 

F.25     Bentley, Phyllis (English novelist, 1894-1977). ALS to Mr. Roth, 2 November 1936, on The Drake Hotel Chicago letterhead about her giving a lecture on 11 November 1936 in Birmingham. She suggests what the topic (“What the Reader Expects from the Novelist”) should be and when she plans on arriving.

F.26     Benton, Joel (American writer, poet and lecturer, 1832-1911). ALS to Mrs. Haight, 3 June 1864, Armenia, New York, enclosing a letter from Horace Greeley (not present). ALS to Frank Lester Pleadwell (surgeon), 7 November 1905, has received Pleadwell’s cordial letter, is not quite well, will call sometime soon, mentions cataloguing, sends his regards to Mr. Merrins, can quote what he wants.

F.27     Berville, Saint-Albin (magistrate and French man of letters, 1788-1868). ALS to Monsieur Corréad, 9 July 1835, apologizing for not replying sooner due to a trip.

F.28     Bird, George Gwynne (physician and amateur naturalist in Upper Canada, 1780-1863), ALS (3 pp.) from Hannah Bird, his mother, Sunday 1799 (post-marked 22 December 1799), re: money for lectures, controlling his temper, not telling the truth.

F.29     Bishop, William Avery (“Billy”, Canadian flying ace of WWI, 1894-1956). Signed card, n.d.

F.30     Black, William (British novelist, 1841-1898). ALS to Morten, [after 1874], “Eva is under the impression you told her you had not heard of this intimation; but if you did send it, it must have been forwarded, & is probably now lying in some post-office on the Sound of Mull. However it does not matter much…Will you please thank Mina for the Wordsworth sonnet. I had not seen it; & must now quote it entire somewhere, to evade a charge of plagiarism.” Letter stuck to a card under an oval photo of Black.

F.31     Blackmore, R.D. (English novelist, the author of Lorna Doone, 1825-1900). ALS to J. Lander Brunton, 4 June 1888, re: hopes to call on him tomorrow at 3 o’clock.

F.32     Blanc, Louis (French socialist and historian, 1811-1882). 3 cartes-de-visite: photographed by C. Pilry, signed, n.d.; engraving of a young Blanc, n.d; Photographie Thiébault, Bacardfils, n.d. 

F.33     Bloom, Ursula (British novelist, journalist, and TV personality, 1892-1984). 4 TLS and an autograph postcard to Cadness Page (Robert Maxwell & Co., former manager of the book department at Harrods), 24 January, 1 February, the first day of spring [21 March], Monday, and post-marked 13 March 1966, with 5 carbon TL from Page to Bloom, 23 January 1967, 30 January 1967, 9 February 1967, 14 March 1967, and 21 March 1967 re: a series of literary lunches in Oxford organized by Page, Bloom’s many noms-de-plume, staying at the Old Mill Hotel, “A Book Is Born” as the title of her talk. TLS to Miss Cond, 3 April ?, re: providing an autograph: “I am a most enthusiastic collector myself, and have a couple of thousand.” TLS to Mr. Cowles, 18 February ?.

F.34     Bok, Edward W. (American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, editor of Ladies Home Journal, 1863-1930). ALS to W.B. Merrill, 27 June 1887, expressing his thanks to Merrill for the article written by Mr. Phillips about the Henry Ward Beecher Memorial. TLS to C.D. Weldon, 5 March 1897, re: Weldon’s drawing portraying the landing of General Grant at Yokohama. ALS to Arthur H. Parsons, Junior, 3 June 1926, with envelope, re: Parsons’s good letter about Bok’s book (probably The Americanization of Edward Bok), “Lynn’s untidy spots have been cleaned up”. 2 signed cards, 27 January 1891 and 30 September 1893, sending his kind regards and wishes.

F.35     Bold, Alan (Scottish poet, biographer, journalist, and saxophonist, 1943-1998). TLS to the editor of the Observer, 13 April 1969, re: Ian Hamilton’s hostile review of A Perpetual Motion Machine. 

F.36     Borden, Robert Laird (Canadian lawyer, politician, and Prime Minister). 4 B&W photos of Borden’s visit to London, possibly in 1912.

F.37     Botta, Carlo (Italian historian, author of Storia dellaguerra dell' Independenza d'America, 1766-1837). ALS addressed Messieurs, 3 January 1820-1, re: a new French edition of his history of the American Revolution.

F.38     Bottomley, Gordon (English poet, 1874-1948). ALS (4 pp.) to [Carl] Carmer, 26 April 1930, re: Carmer’s book [Deep South], thanking Carmer for his “sensitive and sympathetic account and appreciation of my plays in ‘The Theatre Arts Monthly’”.

F.39     Boyle, Kay (American novelist, poet, short story writer, and political activist, 1902-1992). ALS to Mr. Bower (Ann Watkins, Inc.), 5 January 1944, declining his invitation to talk on his book program. ALS to Mr. Beatty, 10 January 1960, re: a “piece by [Howard] Nemerov (whom I admire very much)”, signed Kay B Franckenstein (the surname of her second husband). Envelope addressed to John R. Uppington, date-stamped 9 November 1963. ALS to Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Wreden, 19 September 1966, with envelope, declining their invitation for 9 October. ALS (2 pp. with envelope) to Ira Morris (American writer and journalist), 20 April 1968, re: meeting with James Baldwin who is writing the script of Malcolm X. TLS from Lydia Lachenschmidt, with envelope, 14 March 1970, re: appreciation of Boyle’s work with a signed note from Boyle in reply. TLS from Paul Shuttleworth, 28 October 1974, with 2 photos and envelope, re: Being Geniuses Together, the IRA, and Terence MacSwinney. ALS (2 pp.), 19 May 1987, to Juanita Lieberman (Provenance: from the estate of Anna Sosenko, best known as the manager of the cabaret performer, Hildegarde, and for the song, “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup” among others). ALS (2 pp.) to Ken Stuart, 31 October 1987, re: returning the book jacket, Camus’s American Journals, biography by Sandra Spanier, publication of her diaries, his father who edited the Saturday Evening Post, her daughter in the hospital. 

F.40     Bradbury, Ray (American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author, 1938-2012). TLS to Charles Bryant, 11 August 1968, with signed envelope, re: Mona Lisa painting (“I knew that MONA LISA was done on wood….”). TLS to Neil McAleer (author of popular science), 28 January 1978, re: T.A. Heppenheimer’s Colonies in Space, Nicholas Shaffner’s Beatles Forever, and McAleer’s Earthlove. Twin Hieroglyphs that Swim the River Dust (Northridge, CA: Lord John Press 1978), pp. 25-6 + signed limitation leaf.

F.41     Braine, John (English novelist, 1922-1987). TLS to Renee Hellman, 21 October 1965, re: a recipe for Celebrity Cooking for You. 

F.42     Breslin, Jimmy (American journalist and author, 1928-2017). 2 signed cards, n.d.

F.43     Bridgman, M.F. (American poet and physician). ALS to his "friend Congdon", 5 May 1879, re: sending a pamphlet of critical notices about his work and that the Rev. Karl Knortz of Johnstown, Penn. is translating his poems into German for an anthology of American lyrics to be published in Berlin.

F.44     Brooks, Charles Shirley (English journalist and novelist and editor of Punch, 1816-1874). ALS (2 pp.) to James Planché (dramatist and antiquarian), Lady Day [25 March] 1873, that the circulars have been mostly sent out. ALS (2 pp.) to C.L.K. [Charles Lamb Kenney, dramatist and theatrical reviewer] on the letterhead of the Literary Gazette office, Monday, asking to receive the "theatricals" on Thursday by 2:00.

F.45     Bruce, Wallace (American Counsel at Edinburgh, known as "the Poet of the Hudson", 1844-1914). 3 ALS to his brother, Frank, 6 July 1872, 15 July 1896, and 15 August 1896, re: note of $300, his arrival in New York, Featherston, collecting $150 in New York, collecting $90 in Boston, his being in Hudson, collecting $50 of the Eastern Railroad, the mortgage, and stockholders’ meeting. ALS to his nephew Alfred, 9 October 1900, re: his being in Hudson.

F.46     Bryan, William Jennings (American lawyer, orator and politician, 1860-1925). 22 B&W photos, 1 photo print, 3 B&W photos of his wife and children, 1 B&W photo of his home. Brown Brothers, NY, ca. 1890-1920. 

F.47     Buchwald, Art (American humorist, 1925-2007). TLS addressed “Dear Leon”, 5 February 1975, re: Leon being ill, thanking him for saying he is a great journalist, sends a photo (not enclosed), the future of America, Ralph Nader.

F.48     Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 1st Baron Lytton (British author and politician, 1803-1873). ALS to Mr. Talleyrand?, n.d., inviting him and Miss F. to drink tea together. 2 notes signed. 3 cartes-de-visite: Mayall, London; S.B. Beal, Photographer and Art Dealer, St. Paul’s Churchyard.

F.49     Burgess, Anthony (English novelist, 1917-1993). TLS to Irma Antonetto, [Associazione Culturale Italiana], 16 June 1977, written in Italian, thanking Antonetto for her information about the guests of her association, apologizing for his latinate Italian, and looking forward to meeting on 25 February 1978, his birthday and that of Goldoni. B&W photo, Burgess smoking a cigar, verso has an article on Burgess by Chris Segura, 18 February 1973. See also: Anthony Burgess fonds.

F.50     Burgess, Thornton W. (American children’s author, 1874-1965). TLS to Mrs. R.C. Peterson, 4 June 1929, on letterhead of Burgess Radio Nature Lodge, with a printed card and envelope, re: blossoms sent to Burgess and their identification. B&W photo, author in a coma, AP Wirephoto, 1964.

F.51     Burns, Vincent Godfrey (poet Laureate of Maryland, 1893-1979). “For Bobby on Daddy’s Fiftieth Birthday”, ts. with annotations, 17 October 1943, 1 p. “For Bobby”, ms., n.d., 1 p. “Our hearts go with you as you fly….”, n.d., ts. with annotations, 1 p. “Redwood”, ms., n.d., 1 p. Say, Goodbye, Soldier, signed broadside, n.d.

F.52     Burroughs, John (American naturalist and nature essayist, 1837-1921). ALS addressed Dear Sir (G.F. Cary), 7 July 1902, with envelope, advising that his judgment on his essay is of little avail and that he should send his essay to a magazine.

F.53     Busch, Niven (American novelist and screenwriter, 1903-1991). ALS (2 pp.) addressed Dear Jimmy, 12 November 1948, thanking Jimmy for his story of the trip, his favorite river “Old Clean Rogue (probably in Oregon)”, send him a document (not enclosed), had given a copy to Dave Epstein, publishers and advertising.

F.54     Butler, Nicholas Murray (President of Columbia College, Nobel Prize winner for peace, 1862-1947). TLS to the Class of 1925, 2 June 1925, re: significance of Commencement Day. TLS to Phillip P. Thurston, President of the Philolexian Society, 4 May 1927, re: an honorary membership and his being an active member of its fellow society, the Peithologian. TLS to Seymour Halpern, 26 November 1928, advising Halpern to communicate with the Director of Admissions at Columbia. Card signed, 22 November 1932.

F.55     Byles, Mather (loyalist clergyman in Boston, 1706-1788). Ms. of “To the Reverend Dr. Watts on His Divine Poems”, 1 leaf, laid paper (several splits but holding), dated December 20th, 1806, Rochester, E.H.C. The original poem was written on 15 March 1725, and published as "Verses prefix'd to the late Boston Edition of Dr. Watts's Hymns", General Magazine [Philadelphia] 1 (March 1741). It also appeared in Byles’s Poems on several occasions (1744) and American editions of Watts’s Horae Lyricae (Boston, 1748; and later eds.). It is possible that this ms. is in Byles’s hand, although that is unlikely in view of the later dating by E.H.C.

F.56     Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges (French physiologist and materialist philosopher). ALS to M. Garnot, inspecteur général de la lotterie à Bordeaux, 8 May 1808.

F.57     Calisher, Hortense (American fiction writer). ALS addressed “Dear Bel”, 10 August 1988, thanks her for the preface and offers good wishes on her anniversary.

F.58     Calvert, George H. (editor, essayist, dramatist, poet, biographer, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Baltimore, mayor of Newport, RI). ALS to D. Parsons, 25 January 1854, noting that Col. Perry has informed him about the new edition to be published. 

F.59     Campbell, Bartley (American playwright). ALS/note to Ebern? Lane, 29 January 1878, “To the friend in such a galaxy is human strength. Faithfully yours…”

F.60     Cannan, Gilbert (English novelist and playwright). ALS to Mr. Edie, 20 March 1914, enclosing a play he’s written (not present) and hoping that it is playable.

F.61     Caputo, Phil (American author and journalist, best known for his memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War). ALS to [The Book Outlet Gil] Moody, 10 December 1995. Re: the promotion of his books. ANS to Moody, n.d., telling that he’d love a photo of the promo display.

F.62     Carleton, Will (American poet). ALS to Miss James, 11 August 1881, re: sending her a copy of Farm Festivals. ANS, n.d., to speak at the Waldorf Astoria for 5 to 8 minutes. Color postcard, ca. 1911, featuring photo of Carleton and photos of his birthplace and school in Hudson, Michigan. The Country Doctor [New York?]: [The Arlington Chemical Company?], Liquid Peptonoids Co., ca. 1900. Excerpted from Rhymes of Our Planet, 1895, Harper & Brothers. Fold-over handmade paper wrappers, wire-stitched. Fine. 6 unnumbered leaves, 13 × 21 cm, with lithographic scenes and the poem printed on rectos, advertising for Liquid Peptonoids printed on versos.

F.63     Carman, Bliss (Canadian poet). 2 B&W cabinet photo cards of Carman seated, ca. 1910, The Tonnele Company, and Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York. Glass plate negative of Carman from the same photo but he is not seated. ANS, n.d.

F.64     Carney, Julia Abigail Fletcher (American educator and poet). Signed copy of her best-known poem, “Little Things”, Christmas 1892. Card addressed to Jessie Y. Bridgman.

F.65     Cartland, Barbara (British romance writer). 3 TLS (tear punch holes on the top left corner) to Cadness Page (Robert Maxwell & Co., former manager of the book department at Harrods), 7 March 1966, 14 March 1966, and 17 March 1966 re a series of literary lunches in Oxford organized by Page, Cartland declined the invitation. TLS to Mrs. Roberts, 29 October 1984, delighted that Roberts enjoys reading her books, sends Roberts a list of her books and a signed photo (enclosed). TLS to Mr. Landin, 10 February 1999. Signs the cover for him and sends him a list of books that she has written.

F.66     Catherwood, Mary Hartwell (American writer of popular historical romances, short stories, and poetry). ALS to the editor of Cottage Hearth, ? November 1877, re: publication of a short jingle (“Hoppity”), notes that she will have one in the Christmas number of St. Nicholas, can pay her usual rates, inquires about future work.

F.67     Cecil, Lord David (British biographer, historian, and scholar). TLS to Giancarlo Camerana, 1 August 1952, and 2 TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 5 January 1957, and 25 February 1957, re: invitations to lecture in Italy. TLS to “Dear Sir”, 28 September 1953.

F.68     Channing, Mark (pseud. of Leopold Aloysius M. Jones (1879-1943), UK soldier and novelist). 3 TLS to Elizabeth Cleveland (book reviewer), 17 August 1934, 27 September 1934, and 2 January 1935, and TLS, 25 July 1934, from F.P. Frazier, Publicity Manager, J.B. Lippincott Company, to Cleveland, 2 envelopes, re: her review of King Cobra, the film rights to the book, sending her a copy of White Python, his collaboration with F. Yeats-Brown, paintings for Red Saunders and Sinister Eden, the height of the villain and her of King Cobra. With a signed title page of King Cobra.

F.69    Chomsky, Noam (American linguistics professor and political activist). 2 TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 15 June 1978 and 17 July 1978 (bottom of letter with signature missing), will be at the Scuola Normale in Pisa on sabbatical from February to June 1979, will be taking trips to other parts of Europe, but cannot spare the time to give lectures for the Associazione.

F.70     Churchill, Winston (American novelist). ALS to Brentano, 23 November 1899, ordering a book be sent to him. 4 ALS to playwright Louis Evan Shipman, 5 February, 8 February, 27 February, and 28 March 1902, who was adapting Churchill's book The Crisis for the stage which happened later in the year at Wallack's Theater on Broadway. With 2 original transmittal envelopes. Program, Empire Theatre, New York, advertising The Crisis, Churchill’s play in four acts, 20 November 1905. Color postcard of Churchill’s home, The Inn, Cornish, New Hampshire. Signed card, n.d.

F.71     Cladel, Léon (nineteenth century French novelist). ALS addressed “Mon cher confrere”, 27 August [18?], referring to an article that he’s written and asking his correspondent to have E. Rapp pick up the article rather than sending it through the post.

F.72     Clarke, Arthur C. (American science fiction writer). Mimeo TLS (form letter) to Miss Glover, November 1973, re: standard questions posed to Clarke and pointing to information about 2011: A Space Odyssey.

F.73     Cleugh, Sophia O. (English novelist). ALS (3 pp.) to Colonel Bruce, 25 December 1923, delighted to hear from him but sorry to hear that his wife is ill, returning from Scotland, Rosalind. B&W photo by Bachrach (N.E.H.) of Cleugh wearing pearls, 8 June 1929, in Wellesley visiting Mary C. Black, finishing her novel. 

F.74     Clifford, Lucy (British novelist, wife of W.K. Clifford). ALS addressed Dear Madam, 13 June 1918, re: Mrs. Ch. De Crespagny having asked Clifford to donate a book for the French Emergency Fund.

F.75     Cocteau, Jean (French poet, graphic designer, designer, playwright and filmmaker). ALS to addressed “Ma chère amie” [Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana], written in French, 29 May 1953, will not be leaving the ocean before 8-10 June, will then be in Spain, having lunch with her in Santo Sospir (his villa located in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera), he is tired after Cannes, Munich, and Rome.

F.76     Comfort, Charles F. (Canadian painter (official war artist), sculptor, teacher, writer and Director of the National Gallery). TLS to John Secord, Chairman, Art Committee, Arts & Letters Club, Toronto, 19 June 1973, 1 p. re: exhibition of his paintings at the Club in September 1973 and the loan of his paintings from the Canadian War Museum for that purpose. With a carbon TL from Secord to Comfort, 2 July 1973, 2 pp., and a carbon TL from Secord to L.F. Murray, Chief Curator, Canadian War Museum, [July 1973], 2 pp.

F.77     Cookson, Catherine (British novelist). TLS to Arlene Price, 21 June 1978, with envelope, thanking her for enjoying her books, especially Our Kate, encloses a list (not present) of titles in the USA and also published under pseudonym, Catharine Marchant.

F.78     Coolidge, Dane (Western novelist). TLS from Coolidge’s secretary to S.D. Green, 23 May 1928, noting that Coolidge is in the mountains of Wyoming in the summer. ALS to S.D. Green, 28 May 1928, with envelope, re: providing a message to Green’s students. 

F.79     Costain, Thomas B. (Canadian-born journalist, editor, and historical novelist). TLS to Bernice Brandt (a New York publisher and literary agent), 20 November 1949, asking her to send the cheque from Doubleday, that The Moneyman will be made into a movie, and that the writing of his new novel progresses well. TLS to Mr. and Mrs. K.L. Coles, 6 February 1960, with envelope, re: Clem Coles, cricket team, and Homedale Club. With 2 B&W photos of Costain.

F.80     Coward, Noël (English playwright and composer). ALS to Mary, n.d. Tells her that he’ll pick her up in his car if he can get the car to start. Postcard, Ruby Foo’s Den, signed in pencil. Photo Christmas card, Coward seated and holding a long cigarette looking at a bust of his likeness, with sticker (“Joyeux Noël”) and signed: “My love to you Noël”, n.d. Signed postcard, n.d.

F.81     Cox, Harvey (American theologian). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 10 June 1975, declining her invitation to speak between November 1975 and March 1976.

F.82     Crawford, Christine (actress and author, daughter of Joan Crawford). Signed card, n.d.

F.83     Crisp, Quentin (English writer, humorist and actor). Signed card, n.d.

F.84     Dana, Charles A. (American journalist, author, Assistant Secretary of War, art collector). ALS addressed Dear Sir, 30 October 1855, re: Mr. Huntington having gone back to Paris. Signed card. Engraved portrait.

F.85     Dane, Clemence (English novelist and playwright, pseud. of Winifred Ashton, 1888-1965). ALS to Miss Dawson-Scott. Can’t help her with the judging. She’s in Devon and has many visitors. Ts. entitled “Cresses from the Rills”,3 pp., with manuscript corrections in ink and pencil, apparently published in the Bermondsey Book literary magazine, sometime between 1923 and 1930. Hand signed album page (ca. 1950) and computer-generated photo. Card signed “Ralph Lewis | With best regards | from | Clemence Dane”.

F.86     Davies, Rhys (Welsh novelist and short story writer). ALS to Mary E. Allen, 18 May 1957, apologizes to her for not replying sooner, has an attack of gout, thanks her for her Christmas card and her nice letter after reading his story in the New Yorker, hopes that she’ll like his next collection of stories.

F.87     Davis, Richard Harding (American journalist and writer of fiction and drama). Signed card.

F.88     Dawson, Coningsby (British novelist, short-story writer, soldier, and literary adviser to the George H. Doran Publishing Company). ALS to Mrs. Riggs (i.e. Kate Douglas Wiggin, the American author of American children’s stories), 20 February 1914: “On February 23rd I expect to be in New England, paying a long delayed visit to my first home in America….” He recalls meeting her and hearing her autobiographical poem which put a lump in his throat. Signed card with envelope addressed to Warner E. Colville, post-marked 5 November 1941. ALS from Adelaide Robb, 13 September 1924, requesting his autograph as a keepsake; autograph and date on verso. Newspaper clipping announcing the release of Old Youth.

F.89     Day, Clarence (American author and cartoonist, best known for his 1935 work Life with Father). ALS (4 pp.) to Mr. Nock [Albert Jay Nock, author and editor], 3 October 1935, re: arranging a meeting, “stiffened up with rheumatism”. 2 B&W photos of Day at his desk drawing and 2 glass plate negatives of these photos, ca. 1900-1910.

F.90     Day-Lewis, Cecil (English poet, poet laureate, mystery author). ALS on Chatto & Windus letterhead to Mr. Roberts, Wednesday, n.d., telling him that he has no photographs available. ALS on Chatto & Windus letterhead to Mr. Roberts, 23 June 1950, re: his first book being Beechen Vigil and Other Poems (1925), not Collected Poems, cannot remember the size of the edition, not published in the USA.

F.91     de Castro, Adolphe Danziger (Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer and author). TLS from Lillith Lorraine, 9 June 1948, re: Portrait of Ambrose Bierce, his remarks on Victorianism, and lack of background in modern poets. TLS from Sam Sackett, 15 July 1954, re: The Hybrid Prince of Egypt. Hotel bill, Gran Hotel Washington Irving, 11 March 1908, Santiago. 

F.92     de Koven, Anna Farwell (American novelist, historian and socialite). ALS to H.G. Jacobs, 23 June [189?], re: his review of her book (“The Hamilton comparison which you do not accept is principally pertinent as you seem to realize in this common attitude to America.”).

F.93     de la Mare, Walter (English poet, short story writer and novelist). 2 TLS to Scott-James, 20 July and 5 August 1938, re: his review of Wilfrid Gibson’s Coming and Going. “Dear Scott-James, I am very sorry not to be sending you the review; but as I rather expected, it has proven simply impossible to get it in. I won’t fail to let you have it during the next week or two, and will add initials. Yours ever Walter de la Mare”. “Dear Scott-James, Here is the review of Wilfrid Gibson’s “Coming and Going”. I hope it’s not too long and may I have a proof? Yours ever, Walter de la Mare”. ALS to Anne Johnson, 9 March 1945, suggesting that she send her poem to John O’ London’s Weekly or another periodical, with a signed poem (1944) in her hand about de la Mare. ALS to Miss Scott, 6 February 1923.

Box 2

F.1     Deland, Margaret (American novelist). TNS to Mr. Whittlemore, n.d., saying that she would be glad to autograph books, books to be sent to Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Mass. 4 B&W photos and 3 glass plate negatives, ca. 1900, Brown Brothers, New York and Sterling, Penn. Cabinet photo of Deland’s home in Berlin, MA.

F.2     Delderfield, R.F. (English novelist and dramatist). 3 ALS to Miss Toms, 23 July 1967, 31 July 1967, 10 November 1967. TNS, 14 February 1963, re: the writing of Worm’s Eye View. 5 theatre programmes for various productions of Worm’s Eye View.

F.3     DeLillo, Don (American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist). TLS to James C. Murphy, with envelope, post-marked 26 November 1982.

F.4     DeMille, Nelson (American author of action adventure and suspense novels). TLS to Samantha Walker, 21 June 1996, re: congratulations on her bookstore, signing bookplates, his wife part owner of a Christian bookstore, and publication of Plum Island. TLS to Cassandra Allison, 1 November 1999, re: sending signed bookplates, his next book to be entitled The Lion’s Game. Signed bookplate. ALS on card to Vance Morgan, 29 September 2004, signing a copy of By the Rivers of Babylon, his latest book is entitled Night Fall, will be visiting US military hospitals in Germany.

F.5     Denison, Merrill (Canadian playwright). TLS to W. Perry of the Royal Society of Arts, 7 October 1937, re: his eligibility for a fellowship from the Society. Annotation on the half title page of Denison’s Klondike Mike: An Alaskan Odyssey, “For Mary Margaret McBride with much gratitude and the most profound admiration Merrill Denison Apr 1943 New York”.

F.6     Denny, Harold (American war correspondent). Signed card, n.d.

F.7     Deussen, Paul (German philosopher and Sanskrit scholar). ALS addressed Lieber Freund, Kiel, 1918 (3 December?), in German, Kurrent script, thanking his correspondent for the beautiful poem in honour of Schopenhauer’s 130th birthday, which will be saved in the Schopenhauer Society archives. Transcription and translation of poem.

F.8     DeVoto, Bernard. (American historian, journalist, and novelist). TLS to Mr. Wallis, 25 February 1949, re: “The Hound of Heaven” (a poem by Francis Thompson), noting that it elicits an intense religious emotion, majestic and noble, has the most tremendous metaphors.

F.9     De Vries, Peter. TLS to Mr. Ginsberg, 25 May 1963, re: quotation or opinion of [Elliot Baker’s] A Fine Madness. De Vries declines to comment on the book.

F.10     Dewey, John (American philosopher and psychologist). 2 B&W photos and 2 glass plate negatives, Brown Brothers, n.d.

F.11     Dickens, Monica (English novelist and journalist). TLS to Mr. Harris, 28 April 1960, re: not having pictures and her greatest satisfaction (being accepted as a writer).

F.12     Dickey, James (American poet and novelist). Signed ts. of poem, “Birth”, n.d., inscribed to Seymour Kessler. Signed ts. of poem, “In the Child’s Night”, n.d. Signed photo print, New York, 1968: (verso Lewis Mumford): “To Michael and | Donna Hecht | with best | wishes | from | James | Dickey”. TLS to Vearl Moody, The Word Bookstore, 4 April 1983, re: her efforts to promote his books, willing to sign books and bookplates, large purchase of False Youth. Envelope “Let’s All Celebrate America’s Bicentennial”, post-marked Philadelphia 1 June 1976, signed by Dickey.

F.13     Dickinson, Kate Letitia (American poet and editor). 7 letters to Dickinson, 1925, re: permission to reprint poems in an anthology, probably “Flesh and Spirit” (1926). Correspondents include Bernard Guilbert Guerney of the Blue Faun Bookshop, W.H. Simpson, May Folwell Hoisington, Sister Mary Theodora, F.E. Hill of the New York Sun, John Oxenham, and B. Blackwell of Basil Blackwell, Publisher. 

F.14     Dobson, Arthur (English poet). ALS/card addressed Dear Sir, 2 April 1901, re: invitation and his interest to renew his connection with literature.

F.15     Dodd, William E. (American historian and Ambassador to Germany in the 1930s). TLS and ALS on University of Chicago letterhead to Oliver R. Barrett (lawyer and avid collector of Lincoln)., 17 March 1932 and 21 July 1932, re: seeing his “incomparable collection” and sale of a letter of Lt. James Robertson re: Washington.

F.16     Donaldson, Stephen R. (American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist). TLS to The Book Outlet (Gil Moody), 3 March 1994. Re: the promotion of his books.

F.17     Doudney, Sarah (English poet and novelist). ALS to Miss A.L. Ward, 29 November 1882, re: the origin of her poem, “The Lesson of the Water-Mill”. 

F.18    Douglas, Norman (British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind). ALS to Mr. Dodd, 18 September 1928, re: signatures that he has received and will forward to Dodd.

F.19     Dowden, Edward (Irish biographer and literary critic). ALS to Williams & Norgate, 5 November 1884, ordering books. ALS addressed Dear Sir, 13 October 1910, re: not sending a book (he as a later edition), 1867 the year he was made professor, sends Trelawny’s Life of Shelley as a gift for which he wrote the introduction.

F.20     Doyle, Roddy. Original US press kit for the film release of The Commitments complete with custom folder, press book, 12 8 × 10 promo photos, 4 postcards and a “Tosser Glossary”. Colour flyer for a joint reading, Doyle and Linwood Barclay, IOA Burlington, 20 October 2018, 2 tickets to the event.

F.21     Drinkwater, John (English poet and dramatist). TLS to Miss Williams, 25 November 1918, on letterhead of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre that her play, “The Spirit of Parsifal Robinson” is not being accepted. Tipped to a larger sheet with bio at the bottom blank part. ALS to Whitelaw Saunders, 3 January 1920, on letterhead of the Schuyler Hotel in New York City, cannot send Saunders any of his manuscripts, leaving for England on the next day, send his autograph on a separate piece of paper (not present). TLS to Mr. Braybrooke, 16 June 1927, that he cannot accept an invitation so far ahead, is writing two plays for the autumn. TLS to [James R.] Wells of the Fountain Press, 13 July 1927, thanking him for the letter and stamps, will return the proofs after he gets them, inquires about date of publication. Slip with his written address and his signed compliments and his wife, 13 October 1929. ALS to Miss Prince, 6 July 1932, “happy for you to use Inheritance for your library”. Bottom of TLS, n.d., “than five shillings… be an occasion for the… all subscribers will receive… In behalf of the Committee”, signed “Sincerely yours | John Drinkwater”. Signature on piece of paper. B&W photo of Drinkwater in the role of Prospero in Shakespeare’s Tempest, 20 September 1933, Wide World. Signed B&W photo postcard of Drinkwater with a woman in dramatic dress, 1934.

F.22     Dufferin, Earl (Frederick Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada from 1872-8). ALS (3 pp.) to George Stewart, 27 November 1878, thanking Stewart for sending a “beautifully bound presentation copy” of Canada under the Administration of the Earl of Dufferin and for Stewart’s judicious narrative.

F.23     Duncan, Ronald (Rhodesian-English writer, poet and playwright). TLS to Mr. Harper, 16 September 1948, thanking Harper for the loan of the Gentleman’s Magazine, Andrew Brice having published Scolding in his Weekly journal.

F.24     Dunning, John (American writer of non-fiction and detective fiction). TLS to Vicki [Allison], 17 May 1995, re: The Bookman’s Wake and inscribing books.

F.25     Dunsany, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish writer and dramatist). ALS, with signed photo by Poole, Waterford of Dunsany in riding clothes, to Mr. Harvey, 18 December 1937, noting that he’s just received his parcel (“the silly game that they play here that Ireland is a foreign country”), that he likes Harvey’s poem, thanking Harvey for the appreciation of his work, and enclosing a photo.

F.26     Durrell, Lawrence (British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer). ALS on a card with his name printed in italics addressed Martin, n.d., sends Martin a thought from “a quiet village in France” (Sommières), “Why don’t you write a book for children about your life?” TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 18 May 1963, in French, apologizes for the delay in his reply (his wife was in the hospital), declines her invitation to speak to the Associazione.

F.27     Early, Eleanor (American travel writer). TLS to Miss Cogswell, providing her an autograph, with a note appended; “I hate black ink-and always use a lovely purple-But yesterday I had to fill my pen at the bank-so here’s a very funereal signature for you! I’m sorry.”

F.28     Edman, Irwin (American philosopher and social critic). 2 TLS to Charles L. Wallis (English professor), 23 April 1949 and 24 October 1949, re: Santayana’s sonnet, how philosophy may be translated into imaginative literature. TLS to Henry Hurwitz, 1 December 1949, re: a broadcast that may have disappointed the peace of mind of a few listeners in the Bible belt.

F.29     Eggleston, Edward (American historian and novelist). ALS to Miss M.H. Whittingham, 8 January 1898, re: her list of books on cathedrals.

F.30     Elio, Charles William (Harvard president). TLS to Perriton Maxwell, 20 November 1920, not familiar with Leslie’s Weekly and cannot write an article for the sixty-fifth number.

F.31     Eliot, George (pseud. of English novelist, journalist, and translator, Mary Ann Cross, née Evans). Carte-de-visite, signed “Mary Evans Paris. 1866” on verso (probably her signature but uncertain). 2 cabinet cards: London Stereoscopic Company and M.E. Berger, NY, Eliot seated, one hand on her chin; “The Late George Eliot”, London Stereoscopic Co.

F.32     Ervine, St. John Greer (Irish-born author, writer, critic, and dramatist). TLS addressed “My Dear Wallace”, 30 March 1920, thanks Wallace for his letter, had a letter from Mr. Fleisher, will not follow the matter further, Ervine’s wife in bed with tonsillitis, hopes to meet Wallace before they set sail home. 4 TLS to Leslie Stokes (11 years old), 2-3, 5, and 15 June 1921, re: play sent to Ervine, much entertained by it, letting the editor of the Observer print it, sends him a proof, Ervine having started writing at age 10 or 11, “You see, Leslie, there are such a lot of things to learn before you can really write about them properly, and eleven is early, isn’t it?”

F.33     Evarts, Hal G. (American short story writer). Signed custom card, n.d., featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm.

F.34     Fadiman, Clifton (American intellectual, author, editor, radio, and television personality). TLS to George E. Keane, National Bureau for Blind Artists, Inc., 10 May 1940, willing to sign a few letters as an appeal and suggests Mrs. James Roosevelt, Alec Templeton, and Alexander Woollcott. ALS addressed Dear Jim, 3 April 1956, sending him a copy of an annual magazine published by a drug laboratory with story, “The Last Christmas” (not present), and hoping for Jim’s recovery.

F.35     Fairholt, Frederick William (English antiquary and engraver). ALS (4 pp.) addressed My dear Sir (possibly Sir John Evans or Sir Frederick Madden), 23 January 1854, re: dispatch of “a parcel containing casts of coins and memorandum connected therewith which were in my possession” to be used for the completion of a book. ALS to Mr. Dafforne, Tuesday, sends an enclosure (not present), complains that Mr. Luth cannot give his orders properly, impossible to do some of his illustrations until the manuscript is ready, requests that Dafforne obtains the manuscript from Virtue (the publisher), cannot borrow “cuts from my Costume… Chapman & Hall sold all to Bohn”.

F.36     Farina, Salvatore (Italian novelist). Postcard letter addressed to Martino Roeder, 26 August 1883, in Italian, asking for Roeder’s news, that he will be at sea and then in a villa that he has rented for nine years, that he can’t work and is convalescing, hoping to see Roeder in the autumn.

F.37      Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold (English novelist, dramatist, editor). 2 ALS to Malcolm Watson (drama critic of The Daily Telegraph), 2 1/2 pp., 11 Lancaster Road, Belsize Park, one dated 26 July 1900. ALS to Loveday, 2 pp., 196 Adelaide Road, South Hampstead, 20 November 1892, consoling him on the death of his mother: "... though the loss you have sustained could not, in the course of nature, have been entirely unexpected, you will nevertheless miss the lovely presence which was so endeared to you... It is a great many years since I saw her bright and kind face, but I can see it now, and have often in my mind associated it with that of my own dear mother...”

F.38     Farjeon, Joseph Jefferson (English crime and mystery novelist, playwright and screenwriter). Signed postcard to Eileen Cond, 22 March 1944, re: keeping story in Collier’s despite tempting offer from the Daily Express.

F.39     Farrell, James T. (American novelist, short-story writer, and poet). ALS to Marilew Kogan with envelope, 11 June 11, 1969: “Dear Marylew [sic]; Please don’t force me to get angry about the manuscripts. I need some of them. Thank you. Love & Reproof Jim Farrell”. Kogan’s husband, Herman, was a noted Chicago newspaperman and biographer.

F.40     Ferber, Edna (American novelist, short story writer, and playwright). TLS to Frederick S. Hopkin, 10 March 1962, re: ordering copies of American Beauty from Doubleday & Company. Publishers. Signed decal, Arizona State Semi-Centennial 1962 Territorial Centennial 1963, with envelope addressed to Mrs. K.H. Browne.

F.41     Feuillet, Octave (French novelist and dramatist). ALS addressed Monsieur, 23 September 1877. Says that he’s far from Paris. He has sent the recipient’s letter to Calmann Levy, his publisher, who will supply the recipient with the books requested. ALS addressed Monsieur, from Paris, 11 April 1880, apologizing to his correspondent for not having been present at his home when he had come to introduce himself and for not being able to be present for the next election which takes place at the French Academy. ALS addressed Mon cher Monsieur, Saint Lô, 26 August 1856. ALS addressed Cher ami, 3 April ?. 2 cartes-de-visite of Feuillet (Navar; Disdéri) and a photo card (Collection Felix Potin).

F.42     Fitch, Clyde (American dramatist). Signed card, 1940?

F.43     Flagg, James Montgomery (American illustrator). Signature.

F.44     Fleming, Peter (British adventurer and travel writer, the older brother of Ian Fleming). 2 TLS to Henry Roe (Librarian at St. Thomas Public Library, Ont.), 27 September 1935 and 30 August 1938, thanking him comments about his books (A Journey to China and News from Tartary).

F.45     Foote, John Tainton (American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and screenwriter). Custom postal cover hand-signed in ink, post-marked 17 September [1930?], featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm, Appleton, Wisconsin.

F.46     Forbes, Kathryn (American script writer and memoirist). TLS to her friend, the song writer Anna Sosenko, 18 July 1961, re: Mel Dinelli and his story “A Place at the Beach”, her divorce in 1955, when she returned to writing.

F.47     Fowles, John (English novelist). TLS to Mr. McPherson, 1 November 1975, with envelope, apologizes for not answering sooner, fatuous American academics, hasn’t been able to get to the Scillies, Abbey gardens, Rex Cowan, Mary Wilson and Schiller celebrations, 10 Downing Street dinner list, Peter Mackenzie, bird island of Steep Holm in memory of Ken Allsop. ALS on card to Mr. Pearson, 30 May 1990, apologizes for not answering his previous letter which he can’t recall receiving, dislikes intensely signing photos “which seems to me more an activity for football and film stars than for a writer.”

F.48     Frankau, Gilbert (British war poet and novelist). TLS with envelope, 17 December 1934, to Elizabeth Cleveland (book reviewer, Texas newspapers), re: ms. of Three Englishmen (printing works burned down, including the corrected ms.), why he chose a literary career (his mother was Frank Danby, a well-known novelist of her day), his first novel written in verse, The Woman of the Horizon.

F.49     Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins (American author). 7 B&W photos, n.d. 1 glass plate negative.

F.50     French, Alice (American novelist, pseud. Octave Thanet). ALS on letterhead of the Iowa Society of the Colonial Dames of America, with undated note to Helen Hadley (wife of President of Yale University), 28 April 1906, with envelope (post-marked 1 and 4 May 1906), declining an invitation to meet the secretary of war (William Howard Taft, later US President): “I have admired him for years…The Panama canal will be another triumph.” Signed card, Chicago, 7 June 1893, “It is not so much what we have, as how we do, makes us happy. Very sincerely yours.”
F.51     Friedan, Betty (American feminist). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 1 February 1971 and and 1 April 1971, re: accepting an invitation to speak in November.

F.52     Fromm, Erich (German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 7 May 1974, re: an invitation to speak in Italy between November 1974 and April 1975 and whether simultaneous translation would be available.

F.53     Froude, James Anthony (English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine). ALS addressed “My dear Boyd”, 21 May 1880, telling to come to see him with a reference to Carlyle. Glued to an album page.

F.54     Galbraith, John Kenneth (Canadian American economist, public official, and diplomat). TLS to the Associazione Culturale Italiana, 12 September 1967, has received their telegram, requests details, suggests May as possible date for a lecture. TLS to US Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, 8 October 1991. Signed envelope, “In Memoriam John Fitzgerald Kennedy”, first day of issue, post-marked 29 May 1964. Signed Medal of Honour keepsake card, 15 October 1908. 8 B&W photos: “Field Trip”, Galbraith observing a woman planting rice in a field in then-Orissa State in Eastern India, 2 October 1961, Chronicle Files; “Different Diplomat”, Galbraith with his wife with two Indian officials to the Bhakra Dam in Northwest India, 15 October 1961, Chronicle Files; Galbraith with William F. Buckley Jr., NBC “Today” program, Democratic and Republican national conventions, 5 July 1972; Galbraith seated, 1972; “Political Professor”, Galbraith teaching in the classroom, Associated Press, 12 October 1960; Galbraith seated, 8 April 1969; Galbraith seated, n.d.

F.55     Gannett, Lewis S. (American journalist). TLS on New York Herald Tribune letterhead, 26 February 1937, to Mrs. Baker, quoting from Professor E.J. Simmons of Harvard, re: the ethnic heritage of Robert Browning. TLS on New York Herald Tribune letterhead, 14 May 1956, to Harold Roland Shapiro, re: Mr. Hertz and the character of Billy Herndon. ALS to Miss Wolinsky, 12 January ?.

F.56     Gardette, Charles Desmarais (American poet, journalist, and perpetrator of a literary hoax concerning Poe’s “The Raven”). ALS to William Winter (poet and theatre critic), 14 May 1864, complains that Winter has not gotten in touch with him, that the editor Henry Clapp was in Philadelphia but did not meet him, inquires whether Winter has done anything with “Echoes of War & Peace”, and asks whether Guernsey is ill.

F.57     Garland, Hamlin (American novelist, poet, psychical researcher, essayist, and short story writer). TLS to Brooklyn Eagle Editor H.G. Jacobs, 11 March 1914. “Permit me to thank you for your appreciative notice. It always heartens a writer when a reviewer gets his point of view. Very sincerely yours”. B&W photo, 21 December 1928, re: Chairman of Award Committee for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Custom postal cover hand-signed in ink, post-marked 11 July 1930, featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm, Appleton, Wisconsin.

F.58     Gault, William Campbell (American author of sports, crime, and pulp fiction). 2 TLS, 26 June 1937 (3 pp.) and 4 February 1938 (1 p.), and 2 ALS (letterhead of Tank Destroyer Center, Camp Hood, Texas, Ward C-3), 14 December 1943 and 11 December 1943, to Larry Sternig, re: his writing and that of Sternig: the Hacketeer series, McClure, pulp love fiction, stories (“Romantic Racketeer” and “Playboy”), Eleanor (Sternig’s wife), job at Weyenbergs, not writing during wartime, convalescing in hospital.

F.59     Geis, Bernard (American publisher). Christmas card signed, envelope post-marked 14 December 1943, to Dorothy and Donald McKay, writing from the Savoy Hotel that London is quite a place. B&W photo of Geis, 21 October 1969, N.E.A. B&W photo of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 25 May 1970, V.P. of Bernard Geis Associates, 25 May 1970. Card notice about The Voyeur’s publication (10 February 1969) and newsletter/poster about the book.

F.60     Gérard, Francis (English detective novelist). TLS to Mr. Cond, 3 August 1938, re: his “Sanders venture”, working on another John Meredith book.

F.61     Gibbon, Charles (Scottish novelist). ALS to William Linsley, 4 May 1883, hoping to chat with him and asking for the return of his story.

F.62     Gibbs, A. Hamilton (English novelist, brother of Sir Philip Gibbs). ALS to Mr. Sutton, 6 August 1932.

F.63     Gibbs, Philip (English journalist and prolific author). ALS to Mr. Sayers, 5 May ?, declines an invitation to speak.

F.64     Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, Jr. (American author and journalist, co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen). Postcard to Edna Pettigrew, post-marked 24 September 1959, glad that she liked the review of her book written by his daughter.

F.65     Gillilan, Strickland (American poet and humorist). Autograph typed poem on card entitled “Heaven”, 17 March 1933.

F.66     Glasgow, Ellen (American novelist). ALS to Mrs. Brown, 11 January 1936, thanking her for her kind comments about Vein of Iron and in the hope that they will meet again: “Why didn’t you stop to speak to me when you came to Virginia?”

F.67     Gombrich, Sir Ernst Hans Josef (British art historian). ALS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 29 April 1986, re invitation to lecture in Italy.

F.68     Gosse, Edmund (English poet and critic). ALS addressed Dear Sir (Adolphe Ribaux), 18 May 1920, thanking him for his books, Printemps du Poitu and Rosaire d’amour.

F.69     Graeme, Bruce (pseud. of Graham Montague Jeffries, who also wrote as Peter Bourne and David Graeme, British mystery writer, film producer and reporter, author of the Blackshirt series). 3 TLS and Christmas greeting, 9 August and 6 September 1934, and 8 February 1937, 3 envelopes, and signed title pages of Epilogue (1934) and The Sword of Monsieur Blackshirt (1936), re: Epilogue being one of his best novels but has sold poorly, not to publish An International Affair in the USA, no such fear for his next novel Public Enemy, just delivered The Story of Windsor Castle to his publisher, sorry to hear about her influenza.

F.70     Graham, Winifred (prolific English novelist and anti-Mormon crusader). 2 TLS to. Mr. Sayers, 22 February 1923 and 8 November 1924, re: the naming contest of her next novel (And It Was So), thanking him for his interesting book.

F.71     Granville, V. L. (English actor). Signed poster for a costume recital titled “Dramatic Interludes”, 20 November 1928.

F.72     Grass, Günter (German novelist, poet, playwright, artist, and Nobel Prize winner). Signed ts. of poem, 1 p., entitled “Steam Boiler Effect”, n.d.

F.73     Green, Gerald (American author, journalist, and television writer). ALS to Mr. Rentz, 23 February 1981, re: reasons for his success: interest in human affairs, fine education, thoughtful parents, understanding wives, good children. 

F.74     Greenburg, Dan (American author, humorist, screenwriter, and journalist). TLS to Mr. Norbutt, 31 January 1979, on what gives a literary work a lasting importance and the significance of literary creativity and perception.

F.75     Gregory, Horace (American poet, literary critic, and academic). TLS to Mr. Reed, 13 March 1936, re: his acceptance to work with Mr. Brown in a lecture series on “Trends in Contemporary Literature”.  TLS to Mr. Roberts, 12 March 1945, re: Chelsea Rooming House (1930), his first publication. 

F.76     Grey, Sir Edward, third baronet and Viscount Grey of Fallodon (British foreign secretary, Ambassador to the USA). ALS addressed John Alfred Spender, ? 1933, re: quotation by Winston Churchill in one of his books referring to a memorandum circulated by Landsdowne to the Cabinet in 1916 which led to the breaking up of the Cabinet by Lloyd George.

F.77     Grisham, John (American novelist of legal thrillers). Signed typed quotation from interview on “Now with Tom Brokaw & Katie Couric”, re: people not wanting to read about honest lawyers, n.d.

F.78     Grove, Frederick Philip (Canadian author). Signed card, n.d.

F.79     Guest, Edgar (American poet). Custom postal cover hand-signed in ink, post-marked 10 March 1930, featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm, Appleton, Wisconsin. TLS to Marion Palmer, c/o J. Walter Thompson Co., 25 March 1930, sends “four bits” of poetry following their guidelines, will send another four, discusses copyright and his use of them in other publications. TLS to Anita Simpson, 14 May 1936, re: speaking engagement (cannot commit himself), hopes to see her sometime when she is in the Mart. TLS to Jeanette B. Kimball, 29 April 1937, with envelope, re: his acting as chairman of a committee to sponsor a dinner to be held at the Book-Cadillac Hotel for the Boys’ Clubs of America. TLS to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mallott, 17 September 1937, re: donating to Boy’s Club of Detroit. Tss. of 3 poems, each 1 p.: “Apple Pie” (correction made to the last line); “Wild Ducks”; and “Marching on to Christmas". Poem, a Souvenir. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton, Co., 1918. TS carbon of a letter to Guest from “S-B.”, 3 June 1936. B&W of Guest next to a CBS microphone, “Poet on New CBS Program”, 17 April 1938.

F.80     Gunther, John (American novelist). TLS to Jim Schendel, 10 September 1958, regrets that he has no “personal things” to give to him, sends autograph instead.

F.81     Hackett, Francis (Irish novelist and literary critic). ALS to James M. Libby, 31 March 1930, written from Venice, France, “Since it pleases you!”

F.82     Hall, Samuel Carter (Irish-born Victorian journalist). ALS to Mrs. T.A. Greene, 28 August 1896, complies with her request for an autograph, notes that he has passed his 76th year and is nearing his 52nd wedding anniversary. 

F.83     Hardy, Arthur Sherburne (American engineer, mathematician, novelist, poet and diplomat). B&W cabinet photo card of Hardy, 1873, in a suit holding a top hat.

F.84     Harré, T. Everett (American novelist). ALS to Whitelaw Saunders, 20 February 1917, provides autograph as requested, wonders whether autograph hunters have read his books, and notes that T. (not F.) stands for Thomas. 2 B&W advertisements for The Eternal Maiden.

F.85     Harsent, David (English poet). Autograph in ink on postal cover, post-marked 11 April 1930, with original mixed media illustration by H.M. Brehm. 

F.86     Hawthorne, Julian (American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody). ALS to E. Leslie Gilliams, 22 November 1897, obliging his proposition but requesting the return of his story, “Against Himself”.

F.87     Hawthorne-Oskison, Hildegarde (writer of supernatural and ghost stories, poet, biographer, granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne and daughter of Julian Hawthorne). 3 ALS, 3 TLS, to Elizabeth Cleveland, 6 envelopes, signed and inscribed half title pages of Rising Thunder and The Poet of Craigie House, 1937, telling her not to come to Fallen Leaf Lodge at Lake Tahoe, her review of Phantom King, writing a tale for girls set in Cambridge of Longfellow’s years (The Miniature Secret), her vacations. B&W photo of Hawthorne-Oskison aboard the S.S. President Harding after spending a year in Europe, “Authoress Arrives in New York”, 28 October 1933, Acme Newspictures, Inc.

F.88     Haynes Irwin, Inez (American feminist author, journalist, member of the National Women’s Party, and president of the Authors Guild). TLS (signed Inez Haynes Gillmore) to Edward F. O’Day, 27 February 1914, with envelope re: an interview O’Day did. “I belong to a merry, thoughtless, disrespectful, profane and sacrilegious family. They have never treated me with an atom of THAT RESPECT WHICH IS MY DUE. I am going to have your interview framed and hung upon the wall.” Signed postcard, ca. 1940, plus 6 other Bronte Country postcards. “I bought these cards at Haworths. Please don’t bother to acknowledge them.”

F.89     Hellman, Lillian (American author and playwright). TLS to Ken Browne, with envelope, 19 January 1953.

F.90     Henrey, Madeleine (French-born English author of autobiographical works). TLS to Miss Hellman, 9 May 1960. Tells Hellman that her favourite recipe is called “galette enportefeuille” (recipe provided) which her grandmother used to make for her when she was a child in Blois, France: “I have learned to be a very expert cook since then, but Granny’s galette evokes for me all the wonders of Blois, cobbled streets, and roses.”

F.91     Hergesheimer, Joseph (American novelist). Card with image of Hergesheimer, May 1930, from notable collector H.M. Brehm. Signed note on a card, 1932, “Why you bother about such useless details is beyond me.” TLS to the Secretary of the Marine Research Society, 6 January 1942, inquiring whether the Society would like to buy his copies of the Society’s books (“When writing Java Head I had continuous trouble with such fine phrases as a frail of dates, a picul, the dusty and charming bulk of indigo.”). 6 B&W photos: 27 June 1923, N.E.A.; 26 April 1929, Bachrach (small piece missing at the bottom right); “Famous Novelist Completes Tour” (“as he arrived here this afternoon (May 24) on the S.S. Bremen….), 24 May 1934, International New Photo; “Noted Author Sails” (“bound for Bermuda….”), 16 January 1936, Acme; 14 December 1936, Ref. Dept. N.E.A; “Dominos? Well, I Should Guess Yes”, Hergesheimer with Aileen Pringle, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star, n.d.

F.92     Heslop, Harold (English novelist). TLS addressed Dear Joe, 27 July 1947, re: the publication of his new novel The Earth Beneath by John Day Company New York, comments on James Burnham’s book, The Struggle for the World, Joe’s son, social democracy, and his new novel concerning a Yankee invasion of Taunton.

F.93     Hobbes, John Oliver (pseudonym of Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie, Anglo-American novelist and dramatist). ALS to Miss Repton, 30 October 1900, informing her that she has the part of the maid in her new play.

Box 3

F.1     Hocking, Joseph (Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister). TLS to Charles Wilson, 20 December 1921, re: an invitation to give a lecture and thanking him for his book of poems (not present). ALS to Howard May, 31 January 1931, informing May that he’s on vacation in Switzerland and reciprocating his best wishes. “I shall be staying here for a few days longer in the hope that we shall get some sun. Up to the present the King of the Day has hidden his face.” Hymn sheet (4 pp.) for West London Mission service at Kingsway Hall, W.C., signed at the top, “If we give up Christ - ? Joseph Hocking, Jan 26 1913”.

F.2     Hollander, John (American poet and literary critic). ALS to The Book Outlet (Gil Moody), 20 February 1973. Re: autographing his books and where his books can be found at various bookstores.

F.3     Holmes, Mary J. (American novelist). ALS on personal monogrammed letterhead of Brown Cottage, Brockport, Connecticut, 3 October 1887, to Mr. [James C.] Derby [American bookseller, publisher and author of His Fifty Years Among Authors, Booksellers and Publishers, 1884], writing: “I suppose you did not get my last letter... asking that the volumes of the Cyclopedia should not be sent at present. I designed the set as a gift to my husband -- on our Anniversary and did not wish him to know at present. Today the two volumes came but I have put them aside and shall write the Appletons not to send the rest till ordered...” 2 ALS (both affixed to a sheet) addressed “Dear Sir” (G.S. Williams), 30 January ? and 2 February 1858, re: her autograph. Magazine clipping announcing Holmes’s passing, n.d. Signature on piece of paper, March 10th, New York. Photo card of her home in Brockport, NY.

F.4     Holt, Victoria (pseud. of Eleanor Alice Burford, English author and novelist). TLS to Allison Hoffman, 22 May 1973. ALS to Bob Hemminger, 3 August 19991.

F.5     Hood, Thomas (nineteenth century British humorist, poet, and author). ALS to Mr. Reseigh, 12 October 1856, thanking him for the £10 but stating that he needs another £110 to pay his battels at Oxford. ALS addressed “Dear George”, n.d., sending an enclosure for George and his friend, refers to the new piece of Gil Blas, and asks George not to be after 7 o’clock.

F.6     Hope Hawkins, Anthony (English novelist and playwright, the author of The Prisoner of Zenda). 2 ALS to Ethel Lockwood, 14 November 1896, 21 June 1897. ALS to F.J. Cowles, Pendlebury Public Library, 26 January 1933, thanking Cowles for his letter and magazine, the Library under Cowles’s auspices “seems full of vigour”, declines to write an article, is recovering from a long illness.

F.7     Hough, Emerson (American author of western stories and historical novels). TLS to David L. Holmes, 8 July 1910, re: California bird “is not the wild pigeon or passenger pigeon at all, but the band-tailed pigeon, which very much resembles it.”

F.8     Houghton, Claude (British novelist, poet, and dramatist). ALS addressed Gentlemen (probably the publisher Grant Richards), 4 August 1919, re: sending review copies of The Tavern of Dreams.

F.9     Housman, Laurence (English playwright, novelist, illustrator). ALS addressed Dear Lady, 12 January or June [1935?], 4 pp., amusing letter wishing his correspondent happy birthday and stating that he is writing his reminiscences (at Chapter VI, age 10) and that he has composed the following new beatitudes: “Blessed are the optimistic for theirs are the United States of America” and “Blessed are the sensible for they shall leave America and live in England.” With a leaflet announcing a series of plays (“Little Plays of St. Francis”) by Housman presented at the University of London, 14-9 January 1935. Bottom part of an ALS, n.d., “out of fashion in the present day. Yours very faithfully Laurence Housman”.

F.10     Hoveyda, A. A. (Iranian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Iran). TLS to John D. Buchanan, 17 February 1974.

F.11     Hubbard, Elbert (American writer and publisher). Donation postcard addressed to Mrs. Hammond, postmarked 14 October 1908.

F.12     Hueffer, Oliver Madox (English author, playwright, and war correspondent). ALS from Jane Wardle (Hueffer’s pseudonym) addressed Dear Madam, 30 January 1908, thanking the correspondent for her letter, noting that The Artistic Temperament has been published in the USA by McClure but that The Lord of Latimer has only appeared in England thus far, will be writing a political fantasy in the spring.

F.13     Hughes, Samuel (Canadian journalist and politician). 3 B&W photos, n.d. 1 glass plate negative.

F.14     Hull, Helen (American novelist, feminist, and English professor). TLS to Miss Wolinski, 19 December 1936, re: her Fellowship cause and the subject of her symposium, interests Hull, but she cannot take part in the symposium (on leave of absence from Columbia and leaving town).

F.15     Hunt, Violet (British novelist and biographer). ALS to Mr. Chaplin, South Lodge, n.d., declining an invitation to give a lecture (“I am very sorry to say that I never speak in public. I don’t know how in fact.”). 

F.16     Hurst, Fannie (American novelist and short story writer). Card signed in ink, [1930?], featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm. TLS to Robert Ballou (editor of Viking Press), 2 March 1936. Typed contract signed by Hurst and representative of National Broadcasting Company for broadcasting “What Does Miss Firper Think About”, 29 August 1956. 2 postcards (one typed) and a handwritten note to Irene and Victor Hammer (a businessman, philanthropist), post-marked 23 January 1958 and 3 August 1962, and an undated postcard from Irene. TLS to Mr. Gutterman, 28 June 1965. 2 signatures on cards. B&W photo (tears at the sides) of Hurst and others seated at a dinner at Farleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey, guest of Dr. Sanmarkind, President, 1957. B&W photo of Hurst (“A Magazine of Writers”) and six other writers (Joe Mitchell Chapple, Cora Harris, Joseph C. Lincoln, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Richard Burton, and Edwin Granberry) at Rollins College, Winter Park Florida, 1 March 1934, ACME Newspictures Inc. B&W photo, “Fannie Hurst Presents”, The Blue Network, Cleveland Press, & July 1944.

F.17     Ignatow, David (American poet and editor). Signed card, n.d.

F.18     Innes, Hammond (British author of novels, children's and travel books). 3 TLS, Ayres End, Kersey, Suffolk, 13 April 1960, 4 and 9 August 1962, to the Book Society, the first, to Mr. Godwin, discussing book reviews and the other two Gordon Grimley, discussing the process of a book becoming a Book Society Choice. Also included is a carbon TL from Grimley to Innes, 8 August 1962. 

F.19     Ionesco, Eugène (Romanian-French playwright). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 1 July 1963, in French, re: her invitation to speak between 29 November and 5 December of that year on “Le théâtre, moi, les autres”. 4 B&W photos: Le “contre –conférenced’Helsinki à Berne”, 15 April 1986, Pica Pressfoto, Lausanne; Svenska Dagbladet, n.d.; Svenska Dagbladet, 1962 (Ionesco touching his forehead, looking down); Pica Pressfoto, Svenska Dagbladet, 22 May 1973.

F.20     Irwin, William Henry “Will” (American author, writer and journalist). 2 ALS to Edwin A. Elsbach, 7 June 1921, and 29 August [1921?] re: the League [of Nations?], whether to agitate against it or to change it, working for the government and returning to France. ALS to Miss Feldman, 14 January 1930, “I believe that there is an opening for an able woman in almost every career, and law is no exception.” TLS to Dr. Kendall Emerson, National Tuberculosis Association, 20 October 1933, willing to give his name to a committee of ex-tuberculosis victims also with reference to Alice Rohe, a newspaper woman who tells of her recovery in the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Custom postal cover hand-signed in ink, post-marked April 1930, featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm, Appleton, Wisconsin.

F.21     Isherwood, Christopher (Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist). Signed souvenir ts., 1 p., the first page of “The Berlin Stories, The Last of Mr. Norris”, “For Dave, | from | Christopher Isherwood | October 8 1980”.

F.22     Jameson, Storm (English author and journalist). TLS to Carl Brandt (New York publisher and literary agent), 16 May 1949, telling him that the Virginia Quarterly might be interested in “The Novelist Today” rather than Harper’s. “I like visiting highbrow heavens sometimes.” Provides Brandt with her address in New York City.

F.23     Jastrow, Robert (American astronomer and planetary physicist). 2 TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 17 August 1982 and 11 December 1982, re: her invitation for him to speak in Italy.

F.24     Jerrold, Douglas (English dramatist and journalist). ALS addressed Dear Miller, Friday [pre-1857], request a “pilgrimage to town, by letting one of your lads to leave to accompany me at Cadell’s...”

F.25     Johnson, Owen (American storyteller and novelist). ALS to Helen Hadley (wife of Arthur Twining Hadley, President of Yale University), April 1906, re: the Russian Players who were performing to earn enough money to get them back to Russia. 

F.26     Johnson, Rossiter (American author and editor). ALS to Miss Ward, 23 March 1883, re: her poems in Idler and Poet, correct copy of “On the Cliff”, a collection of poems on the sea, and Joseph O’Connor of the Buffalo Courier. ALS to Mr. Malone, 27 December 1893, re: a sumptuous book published by the Authors Club that he wants to send to Augustin Daly.

F.27     Kane, Harnett (American author). 4 TLS to Arnold Gates, 11 November 1954, 10 April 1956, 12 June 1957, 3 July 1958. TLS to Clifford Evans, 26 October 1956. ALS to Mr. Gates, 20 August ?. 

F.28     Kaye, M.M. (British novelist, children’s author, playwright). ALS to Miss Cond, 2 August from Berlin, signed Mollie Kaye Hamilton, nice to hear from her again, glad that she liked House of Shade, trying to write another Shadow of the Moon but difficult doing so in Berlin where her husband is stationed.

F.29     Kaye-Smith, Sheila (English novelist). ALS to Mr. Benjamin, 1 November 1920, politely declining his request for an article on “The Peasant of Yesterday & Tomorrow”. TLS to H. Norton Matthews, 22 June 1926, declining an invitation to meet with the Bristol Playgoer’s Club. 2 TLS to Pat Lawlor, 2 December 1937, 22 March 1944, with envelopes. ALS to Mrs. Field, 15 March ?. ALS to Mr. McKinley, 25 May 1930. ALS with envelope to Rev. Fr. D. Manning, 29 December 1938. Colour photo of Kaye-Smith, Wills’s cigarette card, Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain & Ireland, Limited, n.d.

F.30     Keillor, Garrison (American humorist). ANS, n.d. “Dogs don’t lie, and why should I? | Strangers come, they growl and bark, | They know their loved ones in the dark. | Now let me by night or day | Be just as full of truth as they.” His inscription reads: “To my old friends by radio, Love from an older dog, Garrison Keillor.”

F.31     Kent, Rockwell (American painter and illustrator). Rockwell-Kentiana. Small leatherette 3-ring binder, 7 1/4" × 9", ca. 80 pp. documenting the collection, dating from pre-1914 to 1971. Organized chronologically, the compiler has inserted clipped reprint images of Rockwell Kent covers, frontispieces, etc. The collection includes "The Decameron”, “Wilderness”, “Moby Dick”, “Canterbury Tales”, “Saga of Gisli”, etc. Handwritten pages include publishing information on all Kent’s works and market value of his works in 1986-7.

F.32     Kenyon, James B. (American poet). ALS to Stephen Henry Thayer (American author, poet, and editor), 5 November 1887, re: Thayer’s pretty volume (Songs of Sleepy Hollow and other poems: “Not Less But More”, “Divided”, “November”, etc.), glad that Thayer has found something of interest in his own little book, hopes to meet him. 

F.33     Ker, William Paton (Scottish writer). 4 ALS, to [Henry?] Newbolt (English poet, novelist, historian, and government adviser),13 February 1912, 15 February 1912, 19 February 1912, and 28 May 1919, re: a meeting of a literary society at University College (reference to Sir Walter Scott, history of poetry, and Richard II) and Ker unable to attend another meeting (called to Durham).

F.34     Kienbusch, William (American painter). Signed exhibition card from the Kraushaar Galleries, New York, January 28 to February 16, 19?

F.35     Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth (American poet and newspaperman). ALS to Dr. Charles Hadden Parker, 1904, with manuscript (1 p.) of his poem, “His Part”. Father (Chicago: P.F. Volland, 1920), illustrated broadside poem. The Jolly Goblins (Chicago: J.J. Austen Company, 1920), fantasy story poem, drawings by Edna Longest, lacking the color wrapper. 

F.36     Koestler, Arthur (Hungarian-British novelist and journalist, author of Darkness at Noon). 2 TLS to Warren Bower of New York University, 14 October 1940 and 30 October 1950, apologizes for the delay in answering Bower’s letter (staying at Jim Putnam’s), asks Bower to have a drink with him, and Koestler’s search for a secretary. TLS to Joseph Fabry, 29 March 1965, “I do intend to get acquainted with Dr. [Victor] Frankl’s ideas, but it will take some time until I have finished with two seminars which I am running here and which take up practically all my time.” TLS addressed Dear Peter, 31 October 1969, re: prisoners, meeting for a drink, contacting the Home Office and Sir Hugh Casson, Chairman of the Trustees of the Koestler Award. TLS with envelope to Dr. E. Silberstein, 27 April 1974, re: Irving Stone. TLS to Mr. Loewenberg, 3 January 1983, apologizes for writing in English rather than German, cannot remember having written about Le Vernet for a literary magazine. B&W of Koestler smoking a cigarette. 

F.37     Kurtz, Katherine (American author of fantasy novels). TLS to The Book Outlet (Gil Moody), 6 March 1992. Re: signing copies of her books. With Moody’s reply, 13 March 1992, and a note from Deborah Hogan, Kurtz’s editor at Ballantyne Del Rey Fawcett.

F.38     Lamb, Wally (American novelist and works of non-fiction). Postcard to Vance Morgan, [1998?], happy to sign the book, front of the card advertises I Know This Much Is True.

F.39     Lang, Andrew (Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology). ALS addressed Dear Sir, 10 January n.d., advises that it is not worthwhile for his correspondent to travel to St. Andrews for an interview. Tape on the verso of the letter. 2 ALS to G.F. Scotson (Park), Wentworth Studios, London, 5 December [1905] and 5 February [1907], with envelopes, re: being remote he cannot meet his correspondent, suggests acquiring a copy of The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart, “utterly impossible for me to invest in the work”.

F.40     Latham, Robert (American novelist and poet). “On a Mayoralty Election” souvenir ts., 1 p., signed.

F.41     Lathrop, George Parsons (American poet, novelist, and editor). ALS with envelope to Edward P. Clark (journalist and editorial writer for The Evening Post), 30 April 1889, re: a donation to the Welch Fund, to raise money for the widow and children of humorist and editorial writer Philip H. Welch (d. 1889). ALS to “Dear Stoddart”, 7 March 1895.

F.42     Leakey, Richard E. (archeologist). “The Making of Mankind”, souvenir ts., 1 p., signed.

F.43     LeCarré, John (British author of espionage novels). “The Growth of Marie Louise”, ts. with holograph corrections, 22 pp. 1968? Alsots. of speech, 13 pp., delivered at the Morrab Library on 26 February 1997, signed at the top. Signed 3 × 5” card re: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Signed note for Laurie, 6 July 1993.

F.44     Le Clezio, J.M.G. (French-Mauritian author and professor). “Desert”, souvenir ts., 1 p., signed.

F.45     Le Gallienne, Richard (English author and poet). ALS, 1 p., 13, Gramercy Park, Monday (no date, but annotated in pencil in an unknown hand “May 13, 1918”). To “My Dear Smith”, on literary business, pledging: “I will get at the anthology as soon as possible, but... I am driven with work which has to be done... I have been rather surprised to have received no acknowledgment of a copy of Pieces of Eight which I sent you fully a month ago, c/o ‘The Century’.” Ms. of poem, “From the hand of a poet | This parchment came….”, 1 p., n.d. (possibly not Le Gallienne’s hand). 

F.46     Le Guin, Ursula K. (American author of fantasy and science fiction, children’s books, poetry, and short stories). 2 TLS to Robert C. Lyon, 9 January 1978 and 16 January 1978, with envelopes, re: bibliographical queries about her work (she refers Lyon to Jeff Levin of Garvin and Levin Bookstore) and declining to speak at a conference. TLS to Kathy Kugler, 22 September 1989, re: declining to speak at a conference (“Though I think of librarians as quiet angels.”). ALS to The Book Outlet (Gil Moody), 1 February 1999 re: signing copies of her books. Signed poetry card printed in brown, “To Siva the Unmaker”, Science Fiction Poetry Association Series, 1980.

F.47     Leonard, Elmore. ALS to Molly [S. Adams], 2 September 1994, re: signing books and having just finished Riding the Rap (to be published next June). 2 TLS to The Book Outlet (Gil Moody), 29 September 2009 and 21 January 2000, re: autographing books and items for Moody, that he is working on his book entitled Djibouti, that he has finished writing Pagan Babies, and that he is writing a screen play and short stories. Also Signed B&W photo, “Take it easy--| Elmore Leonard”. Ts. signed, 1 p., excerpt from Valdez Is Coming, post-1969. Ts. signed, 1 p., excerpt from The Bounty Hunters.

F.48     Lermina, Jules (French writer). 9 ALS to Ely Halperine-Kaminsky (Russian-French translator), 13 January 1894 with envelope, 23 February 1894 with envelope, 20 April 1895 with envelope, 11 September 1899 with envelope, 7 November 1899 with envelope, 5 January 1902, 14 January 1902, 13 February 1902, 10 December 1909 with envelope. ALS to “Monsieur le Ministre”, 20 April ?.

F.49     Levin, Ira (American novelist, playwright, and songwriter; author of Rosemary’s Baby). TLS to Tom Burford, 14 June 1984, has no photos, signed the jacket, glad Burford liked the book which is under option by various producers.

F.50     Lewis, Sinclair (American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930). TLS to Charles E. Tuttle, 7 November 1936. “Thank you very much for the Barnard meeting house certificate, which I think I shall present to the East Barnard School – taking all the credit, of course!” Theatre program for “Angela Is Twenty-Two” at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, week of 27 February 1939. 2 B&W photos; Brown Brother, New York, and Sterling, Pa., 1925; “The Editor” re: dramatization of his novel, It Can’t Happen Here, 19 July 1938, Associated Press Photo.

F.51     Lewisohn, Ludwig (American critic, translator, and novelist). Typed postcard signed to Ted Robinson, Book Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1 March 1941, thanking him for the review and remarking that it is much better than those in the New York Times, Herald Tribune, and elsewhere.

F.52     Lighthall, William (Canadian lawyer, historian, novelist, poet and philosopher). 2 ALS to “Mother”, 10 September 1914, 1 December 1915.

F.53     Lincoln, Joseph C. (American novelist). TLS to Rev. L.A. Harvey, 25 April 1914, re: declining an invitation to read in Brooklyn because he is exhausted. ALS to “My dear Bassett”, 9 November 1906.

F.54     Lincoln, Natalie Sumner (American novelist). Custom postal cover hand-signed in ink, post-marked 17 June 1930, featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm, Appleton, Wisconsin.

F.55     Lindley, John (British botanist). ALS (3 pp.) addressed Dear Mr. Drau?, Monday, ca. 1843, re: botanical studies for assistant surgeons going to India.

F.56     Linton, Eliza Lynn (British novelist). ALS to Dr. Ord, n.d., providing an introduction to Miss Manning.

F.57     Lippincott, Bertram (editor and proprietor of J.B. Lippincott Company). TLS to Elena J. Darling, Vineland Historical & Antiquarian Society, 6 February 1940, re: diary of Martha Furnace.

F.58     Litchfield, Grace Denio (American poet and novelist). ALS to Mrs. L.G. Dickinson, 24 October 1886.

F.59     Llewellyn, Richard (British novelist). TLS to Carrie “Falcom” [Falconi] (in response to her letter written to him on 17 April 1940, also included), 8 May 1940, with envelope, thanking her for her comments about How Green Was My Valley and how to pronounce Huw.

F.60     Lloyd George, David (British politician and Prime Minister). 3 B&W cabinet photo cards, ca. 1903-1913, Elliott & Fry, London, versos of 2 cards also stamped Brown Brothers, New York or Funk & Wagnalls Company. B&W cabinet card, Lloyd George seated and reading a document, ca. 1920. B&W cabinet card, Lloyd George on a horse and another man walking, later in his life, 1930s?, Brown Brothers, New York. B&W cabinet card, No. 10, Downing Street, Cabinet Room, ca. 1920

F.61      Lodge, David (English novelist). TLS to Neville Braybrooke, 18 November 1988, re: his juvenilia (writings in Signum Fedei, his school magazine) and thanking him for comments about Nice Work. TLS to Charles Penrose, 15 January 1990, re: Nice Work and the name, Penrose, for the heroine (“pen” suggesting writing, “rose” suggesting beauty).

F.62     Lofts, Norah (English novelist). 2 TLS to Bessie G. Redmer, 21 January and 21 March 1967, with envelopes, re: her recipe for Chicken Paprika.

F.63     Longmans, Green & Co. (English publisher). ALS in an unidentified hand from the English publishing firm, 1 1/4 pages, (faintly ruled), London, 4 February 1871. A business letter to Messrs. S.C. Griggs in Chicago, writing: “We are in receipt of yours enclosing Second of Ex for 33 pounds... We feel gratified in hearing that the books sent are entirely to your satisfaction, to which end our best endeavours are always devoted. Allow us to express our high appreciation of your Mr. Grigg’s [sic] proffered hospitality & attention, in the event of any one of our Firm visiting the West.”

F.64     Longstreth, T. Morris (American outdoor adventurer and author). TLS to S.D. Green, 21March 1925, with envelope and signed photo, re: group of eight students in Green’s high school and Longstreth acting as a guardian. 3 B&W photos of Longstreth standing by a rocky shore, each signed on verso: “With best wishes for your future | T. Morris Longstreth | Lake Placid Club NY.”.

F.65     Lowell, James Russell (American poet, critic, and diplomat). ALS to Julia Goddard, 21 March 1884, with envelope, on letterhead of the Legation of the United States, London, says that he wasn’t thinking of his official position, the number of people who came to see him that morning, his writing to her via a secretary, if a note isn’t answered at once it gets buried. 2 oval sepia photos, n.d. 2 cartes-de-visite: Sarony & Co. Photographers, New York City; Allen. B&W photo similar to the CDV by Sarony. Lithograph image with Lowell’s signature in facsimile.

F.66     Lucas, Edward Verrall (English humorist and writer). ALS to the editor of The Bookman, 19 June 1922, re: having his photo taken, wants Yevonde “to perform the horrid task.” ALS to Alster Malheur?, with envelope post-marked 10 February 1932, saying that he can’t provide any money, Malheur’s travels, glad to publish his account, his project fills Lucas with the desire to be young again. ALS to the literary agent, Major Pond, 11 April 1934, declining to speak in public.

F.67     Luce, Clare Boothe (American author and politician). TLS to René [de Chambrun], 11 September 1940, soon after the German invasion of France during World War II which de Chambrun wrote about in his 1940 book, I Saw France Fall. Apologizes for misconstruing the purpose of his visit to the US in her book, Europe in the Spring, refers to “the great-great-grandson of Lafeyette”.

F.68     Lurie, Alison (American novelist and academic). TLS from Vance Morgan, 22 February 1996, re: his appreciation of her novels, Truth about Lorin Jones and The War Between the Tates, interested in the process and art of her writing, short reply on the same letter by Lurie, “Thanks for your appreciation & kind comments on my novels.” Envelope signed, post-marked 19 August 1985, reference to Lurie’s Foreign Affairs, addressed to Charles J. Salaki, Jr.

F.69     Mabie, Hamilton Wright (American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer). TLS on letterhead of The Outlook Company to Mrs. A.M. Kilham, 2 April 1898, thanking her for the request to give lectures but declining the invitation because he will be in Pittsburgh between 20 and 27 April. ALS to Miss Williamson, 7 September 1900, agreeing to give a lecture. TLS to St. Clair McKelway, 18 November 1902, on letterhead of The Outlook Company, re: mailing list of the members of the Institute and the archives of the Institute. TLS on letterhead of The Outlook Company to Major James B. Pond, 5 June 1903, expressing to Major Pond his “great pleasure to give that lecture.” He goes on to mention that “I saw the editorial in the Tribune; I thought it admirably well balanced and sensible.”

F.70     MacGrath, Harold (American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter). ALS to Maude, 19 January 1920, “The Drums of Jeopardy will begin in the Sat. Post this coming Thursday. Follow that copy for the new book.” Autograph quotation signed, 5 lines: “It is at his fireside that a man is proven…” (extract from Pidgin Island, 1914). With a B&W photo of MacGrath, cut from a magazine. Signed card.

F.71     MacGregor, John (Scottish author known for his series of travel stories, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe). ALS to Reed, 7 September ?, Edinburgh, stating that he’s not on the Chichester Committee only one of the Girls School Trustees, losing his voice speaking in the open air, and visiting and sketching the graves of his ancestors (“A ragged set of rascals they were but their tatters were poeticized by Scott….”).

F.72     MacInnes, Helen (Scottish-American author of espionage novels). Souvenir ts., 1 p., first page of The Salzburg Connection, 1968 or afterwards, signed “Best wishes | to Joe -- | Helen MacInnes”.

F.73     Mackenzie, Compton (English-born Scottish novelist, biographer, and playwright). ALS to Mr. Edita, 26 October 1946, thanking his correspondent, the old Debater, his old school, can talk on November 10.

F.74     MacLaren, Ian (pseud. of John Watson, Scottish author and theologian). Signed card, n.d.

F.75     MacManus, Seumas (an Irish author, dramatist, and poet). ALS to Mrs. Blane?, March 191?, pleasure to have dinner with her on 15 March in Boston, leaving Buffalo the previous day.

F.76     Magruder, Julia (American novelist). ALS to Miss Telney, 12 December 1900, telling Telney that it wouldn’t be a good idea for Telney to visit her sister: “She is not allowed to see visitors during Advent...”

F.77     Mallet, Lucas (English novelist, pseud. of Mary St Leger Kingsley). ALS (4 pp.) addressed Dear Mr. Mackie and signed Mary St. Leger Harrison, 26 July 1902, wishing Mackie happiness in love, prosperity in business, his engagement to Miss Graham (Winifred Graham, author of The Zionists), the Vagabond dinner. ALS to Mr. Ford, 9 November 1905, signed Francesca Mary St Leger Harrison, providing an introduction to Miss Granville, her cousin, friend, and actress.

F.78     Malraux, André (French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs). TLS to Giancarlo Camerana, 29 June 1954. ALS to “Monsieur le Président”, 3 June 1953.

F.79     Manhood, Harold Alfred (English short story writer). 2 ALS to Mrs. Hans Kurath, 11 September and 20 November 1931, with an envelope and photo of Manhood, re: appreciation of his work, signing books, and enclosing a photo.

F.80     Marcel, Gabriel (Christian philosopher, drama critic, playwright, and musician). TLS in French addressed Monsieur [Giancarlo Camerana, Associazione Culturale Italiana], 15 May 1951, thanks Camerana for the invitation and “quaderni” [magazine of the ACI], says that he is lecturing for the Alliance Française in Italy and that the ACI might have to coordinate his lectures with the Alliance Française.

F.81     Maritain, Jacques (French political thinker, philosopher, and exponent of Thomism). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 31 January 1959, declining her invitation to lecture in Italy due to his own ill health and that of his family.

F.82     Marquand, John P. (American novelist). 2 TLS with envelopes, 30 June 1948 and 27 February 1951, to Herschel Brickell (editor of O’Henry Prize Stories) re: Brickell no longer working for the State Department, propaganda efforts, Archibald MacLeish, Marquand writing a novel, being in Nassau, Herschell’s heart attack, and Marquand acting as an O’Henry judge. Envelope addressed to Mabel B. McClure, post-marked 24 November 1941, signed by Marquand. TLS to F. Harry Brown, Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., 18 August 1958, re: gift tax and meeting Brown and his daughter. 6 B&W photos: “At Book & Author Luncheon”, Marquand at New York City, Hotel Astor, with Irita van Doren and Wilbur Forbes of the New York Herald Tribune, 18 April 1939, N.E.A.; Marquand with his son, Lonnie, with dog at his home in Newburyport, Mass., 12 August 1958; 19 July 1960, photo from 1957 but noting his death on 16 July 1960; Marquand seated, 12 August 1958; 16 July 1972; portrait of Marquand, dated 16 July 1972 but noting his death in 1960; Marquand seated with golf club, n.d., credit: Marie Newberry.

F.83     Mason, A.E.W. (British novelist). ALS to Harry Jacobs, editor of the Brooklyn Daily. 2 April 1913, with envelope, sending Jacobs his autograph. 2 ALS to “Dear Sir”, 22 February ?, June 15 ?. ALS response to TL on Evening Standard letterhead, n.d.

F.84     Mason, Walt (Canadian American humorist and poet). Postcard to Mark Sullivan (American journalist and political columnist), 19 February 1914, provides reference to the publication of an article in Collier’s. Custom postal cover hand-signed in ink, post-marked 7 April 1930, featuring original mixed media illustration by notable collector H.M. Brehm, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Box 4

F.1     Maugham, W.S. (British novelist, playwright, and short story writer). TLS to Mr. Gray, 13 January 1949, thanking him for his letter (“It is a great joy to me to think that people of your age read me with pleasure….”).

F.2     Mauriac, François (French novelist and Nobel Prize winner in Literature). TLS addressed “Mom Père”, 16 January 1936, re: preface he is writing for Vie de Jésus, asks his correspondent to contact him if it is too short but he is under contract to write a book. TLS to Giancarlo Camerana, [Associazione Culturale Italiana], 8 June 1955, replying to an invitation to speak in Italy, saying that he doesn’t give presentations, that he just spoke in Florence, directs him to M. de La Pira, the state of his voice forbids doing so.

F.3     Maxwell, W.B. (British novelist and playwright). TLS to Mr. Pond, 20 March 1920, turning down an offer of a lecture tour in USA. TL carbon of Pond’s response, 5 April 1920. TLS to Harry E. Jacobs, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 4 December 1919, thanking him for his review of Life Can Never Be the Same.

F.4     McCarthy, Mary (American novelist). Postcard to Vance Morgan, date-stamped 19 May 1980, noting that she received a stamped self-addressed envelope marked “BOOK” but there was no book.

F.5     McEwan, Ian (English novelist and screenwriter). ALS to Gil and Linda MoodY of The Book Outlet, 20 March 2001, apologizing for the delay in sending his books (busy writing The Atonement).

F.6     McFee, William (English writer of sea stories). TLS to James R. Wells, The Fountain Press, 18 September 1929, his arrival in New York, “Mr. Gerguson doesn’t get into NORTH OF SUEZ… It is… a `stream-of-consciousness novel’. It is quite short—about 90,000 words and is nearly finished.” Will read White Jacket and “wire into the introduction”. TLS to Elizabeth Cleveland, 23 March 1934, with envelope and signed title page of The Harbourmaster (1932), reluctant to have publicity like other authors, always writing a novel, next book to be called More Harbours of Memory.

F.7     McKuen, Rod (American poet and singer). TLS to Rev. and Mrs. Britton, 17 June 1981, re: their Golden Anniversary.

F.8     McLennan, Isaac (American poet and sports enthusiast). ALS addressed Dear Sir, 9 June ?, sends his autograph and makes reference to Nathaniel Parker Willis when they were at Phillips Academy at Andover.

F.9     Melchior, Ib J. (American novelist, short story writer, film producer, director, and screenwriter). ALS to [Henry J. Lohrengd], 23 August 1985, re: the authenticity of his novels (“My first novel 'Order of Battle' (Harper & Row, 1972)—although written as fiction, was 90% true...”), with a salutation on an ad for V3. 2 TLS to John Ivan Huscha, 20 May and 3 June (with envelope) 1998, re: The Angry Red Planet, enclosing a signed photo (not present), and his books on US counterintelligence in Europe (not present).

F.10     Mertz, Barbara (Egyptologist and novelist, pseuds. Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels). ALS addressed Dear Tom, 23 January 1992, encloses a photo (not present), “Keep up the good work with the kids.” Signed Barbara Michaels. First day of issue envelope honoring Edith Wharton, 5 September 1980, signed by Peters. 

F.11     Michener, James (American novelist). TLS to Don ?, 31 August 1977, re: official version of the chant of the Hebrides. TLS to Juanita Shettig, 23 February 1981, with envelope, also includes Shettig’s ALS: “I enjoyed reading about your summer place and am sure it is fascinating. However, my time is taken up in the near future. I hope to get to that neck of the woods someday.” TLS to Molly S. Adams, 2 April 1985, with envelope, just returned to Austin from Alaska, novel on Texas almost finished, has done research on Col. Henry Millard and the Battle of San Jacinto. 5 B&W photos: “Michener and his pretty wife, Mari”, 28 July 1962, United Press International Photo Service; Michener at the ruins of Tell Beth-shan, 20 June 1965; “James Michener’s World” (Sports in America), PBS, 17 March 1980; photo by Carlos Rios, 31 October 1982; photo by Carlos Rios, 31 October 1982 and later dates; Texas (his latest novel), 4 August 1983 and later dates, Houston Chronicle Library.

F.12     Millett, Kate (American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 8 September 1974, re: Antonetto’s invitation for Millett to speak in Italy at various venues.

F.13     Miłosz, Czesław (Polish American poet, prose writer, translator, diplomat, winner the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature). Signed envelope, “Honoring Higher Education”, first day of issue, post-marked 14 November 1962.

F.14     Mistral, Frédéric (Occitan write and lexicographer). 2 B&W photos of Mistral, E. Filiatre, n.d. 2 B&W photos of Mistral’s home in Maillane, n.d. B&W cabinet card photo, n.d. 9 postcards featuring Mistral’s poetry or signature, various dates.

F.15     Montague, Margaret Prescott (American short story writer, and novelist, pseud. of Jane Steger). ALS to Anna, n.d., thanking her for the telegram.

F.16     Morford, Henry (American novelist). ALS to Robert Allen, Jr., with envelope, 21 March 1854, re: schedule of publication of his writings.

F.17     Morley, Christopher (American journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet). Note signed, November 1922: “This is signed by the author—but, like all rich puddings, it must not be devoured too hastily.” TLS to S.D. Green, 4 February 1924, apologizes (“I have so abominably rude to you in the past”), busy with newspaper work, will sign it, should have written a letter to Green’s students. ALS to Mr. Lucas, 14 October 1927, re: signing books, sends his signature on 2 slips of paper (not present), and offers best wishes for the success of the bazaar and the camp. TLS to Mrs. Drake, 7 September 1943, re: permission to use “The Tree That Didn’t Get Trimmed” in her radio program. ALS to Dave, 6 December ?, meeting him and giving a talk (“Don’t let ‘em pin me down to any definite topic--then I can talk whatever seems to lie uppermost when the dice are thrown.”), and asks if he can speak to a club of wealthy ladies. Signed card “Good luck! | Christopher Morley”.

F.18     Morrell, Lady Ottoline (English aristocrat). 2 ALS from E.V. Knox, 13 November and 30 November 1929. Postcard of the Ottoline Morrell Memorial at St. Mary’s Church, Garsington, Oxfordshire. Presentation copy of Odette Keun’s A foreigner looks at the British Sudan (London: Faber & Faber, 1930), “To Lady Ottoline and Mr. Morell | With love | Odette”. 

F.19     Morris, Desmond (English zoologist, ethologist, and surrealist painter). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 2 May 1978, declining an invitation to speak in Italy.

F.20     Morse, Edward Sylvester (American zoologist and orientalist). ALS to Cablani? Zielinski, 26 November 1899, re: book plates, residence in the East, sends offprints, invites him to Boston.

F.21     Mowat, Farley (Canadian author). TLS to Clyde Gilmour, 31 October 1994. See also: Farley Mowat fonds.

F.22     Moyers, Bill (American TV personality). ALS to Jim Schendel, n.d., thanking Schendel “for the efforts of the pioneers of this system put into the process that brought me the opportunity to do my work”.

F.23     Murdoch, Iris (English novelist). ALS to Mr. Crosby, 31 October ?, re: signing books. Signed souvenir ts., 1 p., “The Sea, the Sea Prehistory”, 1978 or afterwards.

F.24     Murray, David Christie (English journalist and novelist). ALS to C. Welsh, 20 April 1880, noting that he may go to Afghanistan and that he would be grateful if Welsh could arrange copyright quickly.

F.25     Murray, Gilbert (British classics scholar). TLS to Leon M. Lion (British stage and film actor), 28 September 1945, thanking him for the extract and compliments him on the comparison between Euripides and J.G. ALS to “My dear Unwin,” 30 August 1922. TLS to the secretary of the Leage of Nations Union, 25 September 1931.

F.26     Murry, John Middleton (English critic, editor, and prolific author). ALS (2 pp.) on The Adelphi letterhead to Mr. Hogg, 19 December 1937, apologizes for not replying sooner, affected by the death of Canon Dick Sheppard, and arranging to place prospectuses and subscriptions of The Adelphi with Hogg. ALS on Murry’s Norfolk farm letterhead to a Miss Cooper, 3 May 1954, concerning an essay he has sent her, presumably for review, proof reading or editorial purposes; a review request compliments slip from Jonathan Cape; a note to a reviewer from Time and Tide magazine; and a card from Now & Then issued by Jonathan Cape.

F.27     Mycue, Edward (American poet and publisher). TLS to Michael, 3 May 1981, asking for feedback on poems, enclosed as 9 carbons. Root, Route, & Range (Alamo, CA: Holmgangers Press, 1977).

F.28     Nash, Ogden. TLS to Gordon Bloom, 6 June 1956, that he has no signed photos of himself but provides his autograph. TLS to Mr. and Mrs. Ken Browne, 26 September 1956, has been in New Hampshire all summer, will sign the photograph and send it to them. TLS to Mr. Carmichael, 14 May 1959, “I have never received an interesting rejection letter...”, cannot help him on his project. “The Unpublished Adventures of Santa Claus”, Family Circle 61, no. 6 (December 1962): 27-40 (also tearsheets from the magazine).  “A Boy in His Room, Here Ogden Nash Rhymes for Boys, While Little Girls Get Their Due on Page 74”, printed poem signed. “I Don’t Understand Women”, Ladies Home Journal, 81, no. 8 (September 1964): 58-9, signed article excerpt. “The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t” (1957), 2 pp., mimeo ts. barely legible from the publisher promoting the book, first page signed. Everyone But Thee and Me (1962), 2 pp., ts. from the publisher promoting the book, first page signed. 2 postcards, Little Boar’s Head, New Hampshire, 1939, where Nash lived. 4 B&W photos: Nash and Dagmar (Virginia Ruth Egnor, actress, model, and TV personality) on “Masquerade Party”, ABC TV, [1955]; Nash, “Masquerade Party”, panelist on ABC TV show, Photo News from Bureau of Industrial Service, Inc., [1955], photo torn at the side; Nash in a garden, Spokesman-Review, 19 June 1965 and 31 December 1969; “Ogden Is Gone”, sitting on a chair holding a couple of pages, originally 1953, AP Wirephoto, 21 May 1971. [Oversize magazine removed, see note at end of finding aid].

F.29     Nicolson, Harold (English diplomat, author, diarist and politician; husband of Vita Sackville-West). ALS addressed “My dear Thomas,” 22 November 1927, hoping that they can see each other in the autumn or when Thomas returns to England. 2 TLS to Giancarlo Camerana, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 6 June 1950 and 10 July 1950, re: an invitation to lecture in Turin, Genoa, and Rome. B&W photo of Nicolson and Sackville-West, 5 January 1933 on their arrival in New York on the liner Bremen.

F.30     Nordhoff, Charles (American journalist). ALS to Mr. Campbell, 8 May 1876, re: a debt of $1200 or $1500.

F.31     Norton, Charles Eliot (American author, social critic, and professor of art). ALS to Mr. Fisher, 22 December 1876, thanking Fisher for his hospitality in New Haven. ALS to William Ordway Partridge (American sculptor), 19 September 1891, re: visiting Partridge at his studio to see his bust of Lowell. ALS to the Rev. Dr. Heber Newton, 9 June 1898, re: Newton’s son (a sailor) whom he has seen and who exhibits a character of high quality. ALS to Dame Flora Louisa Shaw, Lady Lugard, 10 May 1907, telling her that although he submitted her manuscript on central Africa to the Atlantic Monthly and Scribner’s, the magazines declined publication. ALS addressed “Dear Sir”, telling his correspondent that he is not a poet and quoting instead a verse from his favourite poet (Matthew Arnold’s “Thyrsis”). ANS, 10 December 1907, quoting lines from Richard II. Signed card. TLS to Frank M. Annis, 28 August 1901.

F.32     Nova, Craig (American novelist). TLS to Mr. Murphy, 31 August ?.

F.33     Nye, Edward Wilson (“Bill”, American journalist and humorist). ALS addressed “Dear Sir”, 4 November 1885. Tells his correspondent that he would be pleased to go to Portland and other Pacific cities. “Kind words can never die and I am headquarters for kind words this fall.” Card signed by Nye. ALS addressed “Dear Sir”, 18 March 1890, “Why didn’t you muster the courage to come and see me? You would have been surprised to see a most comfortable and ordinary citizen.” With postscript, “By mistake this letter has not been posted as you see till now May 6, 1890.” 2 B&W cabinet photos, 1880s?: Copyrighted Rockwood, NY; M. Landerbergh, Brown Brothers. B&W photo of Nye with James Whitcomb Riley and Eugene Field, all of them looking at a pocket watch held by Field, ca. 1888 (probably a later reprint), Brown Brothers.

F.34     O’Flaherty, Liam (Irish novelist). ALS to “the beautiful Mary”, n.d.

F.35     O’Hara, Mary (American author and screenwriter, the author of My Friend Flicka). TLS to Ms. Davies, 19 August 1978, thanking her for esteem as an English teacher (“Across the space that separates us, I shake hands with him.”).

F.36     Orczy, Baroness Emma (British novelist, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel). Signed card: “Kind thoughts | from | yrs. v. sincerely | Emmuska Orczy”.

F.37     Osborne, John (British playwright). 2 TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 16 July 1963 and 14 May 1976, flattered by her invitations but hesitating and declining to come to Italy to lecture (cannot “leave the house. I have to complete two full length plays next May”; “I have been commissioned to write two plays, and also direct three, as well as produce another.”).

F.38     Osbourne, Lloyd (American author, stepson of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson). ALS to Mr. Mackay, 7 June 1895, sends the list cut down to 26 pictures. 

F.39     Ouida (English novelist, pseud. of Marie Louise de la Ramé). ALS in purple ink to Mr. Reid, Tuesday, no place, 4 pp. with clipped signature, post-marked 16 August 1904. “I am concerned fearing you may be ill, or there you may not have received days posted ten days ago. On Saturday, I posted to you 100p. Can you ask Windsor or Newton if they have a letter from me in reply to their... of catalogues. I have not recd Atlas. Look out in Truth for article.” B&W cabinet photo, Elliott and Fry, London, n.d.

F.40     Overstreet, Harry Allen (American lecturer and popular author on modern psychology and sociology). TLS to Richard L. Tobin, Saturday Review, 30 September 1964, thanking him for the editorial on his book.

F.41     Overton, Grant (American author, critic and literary editor of Collier’s Weekly and George H. Doran Company). TLS on George H. Doran Company letterhead to Harriet Brandon, 17 August 1922, sending her a copy of Andrew C.P. Haggard’s Madame de Stael. TLS on George H. Doran Company letterhead to Erwin F. Keene, 31 August 1923, re: subject of “Grandchildren” as a publication, John Russell (“His stuff is the real thing”), meeting Keene in New York. TLS to Pirie MacDonald, 7 March 1929, re: photo he needs for Doubleday Doran’s Crime Club circular to be sent to Ogden Nash at Doubleday Doran. TLS to Martin B. Orenstein, 18 June 1930, “Your letter went to Santa Fe and back, but it made pretty good time, and I am Your faithfully”. 

F.42     Parker, Cornelia S. (American author). 1 TL carbon, signed, postmarked 28 October 1929. 2 ALS to Mrs. Mortimer Fox, post-marked 19 April 1925 with envelope; 3 September 1925. Postcard to Mrs. Mortimer Fox, 4 August [192?]. ALS to Miss Eleanor Keel, with envelope, post-marked 3 April 1945.

F.43     Parker, Gilbert (Canadian-British politician). 4 B&W cabinet photos, n.d.

F.44     Parrish, Anne (American romance novelist). 2 ALS to Miss Deane, 15 December 1924 and 7 March 1927 (sent from Buenos Aires), would have sent autograph sooner but was moving, had a fire, hired a new maid, writing a new novel etc., and delighted to autograph her copy of The Perennial Bachelor.  B&W photo, 27 May 1937, N.E.A.

F.45     Parton, James (American biographer). Signed card, 1882.

F.46     Paton, Alan (South African author and anti-apartheid activist). TLS addressed to a group of children, likely students at the Thornton Academy in Maine, thanking them for the pictures (“with the sun shining and the flowers growing and the birds flying”). ANS, 30 April 1974, “I send you my sympathy over the loss of your collection.”

F.47     Patti, Carlotta (Italian French operatic soprano, sister to famed soprano Adelina Patti). ALS to M. Collins, 12 January 1886, re: thanking her correspondent for New Year’s wishes and hoping to meet together soon, with a carte-de-visite of Patti. AL in Urdu pasted to reverse, with card from Meer Afzall Alee, Wakeel to the Maharaj Chutur Putee of Sitara, n.d.

F.48     Peale, Norman Vincent (minister and author of The Power of Positive Thinking). TLS to William A. Agar, 5 February 1942, re: statement regarding Hitler’s ‘Principle of the Big Lie’. TLS to Loretta Buzzerio, 18 December 1971, on letterhead of the Foundation for Christian Learning, re: her faith in God, with a brochure and 1 postcard of the Marble Collegiate Church. TLS to James Lowe of James Lowe Autographs Ltd., 12 December 1978, telling him what a fascinating business he has and thanking for his work as an usher in their church. TLS to the Rev. John E. Sexton, 13 May 1980, thanking him for the comments and sending him an autographed copy of You Can Have God’s Help with Daily Problems. TLS to C. R. Hester, 24 July 1975. TLS to from Peale’s secretary, Doris W. Phillips, to Charles Sivertsen, 2 June 1982, thanking Siversten for his kind remarks about Peale’s work and enclosing a signed B&W photo.

F.49     Peel, Sir Robert (British Prime Minister). Partial ALS to John Round, 17 July [?], informing Round that he is unable to assist him (“I am sorry that I have so many candidates among persons with whom I have done local connection….”). Only the top part of Peel’s signature is present. Envelope in Peel’s hand. Outside of envelope addressed by Peel to C.A. Adderley, 1845.

F.50     Pemberton, Sir Max (British novelist, working in the adventure and mystery genres). ALS addressed Dear Woolf?, one page, on printed letterhead of The Gore, Monkton, Ramsgate, 27 October 1898. ALS to Mr. Waugh, 19 July 1907, saying that it is a pleasure to read Waugh’s letter. 3 ALS (7 pp. total) to Clement Shorter, 16 July 1909, 2 February 1912, and 27 March 1921. TLS with letterhead of The London School of Journalism to James Burton Pond (a lecturer promoter), 31 May 1923, re: an arrangement to meet for lunch. ALS (marked "Personal" at the upper left), to Mr. Brittain[?], presumably an editor, one page, on printed letterhead of 197, Queen's Gate, S.W.7., 15 March 1935, submitting an unidentified piece. Ogden’s Guiness Gold Cigarettes miniature B&W card, Pemberton in his study, n.d.

F.51     Perry, Nora (American poet, journalist, and writer of juvenile stories). ALS to A.H. Dooley, [2 June 187?], with envelope, has not published any poems since “After the Ball” (1875), pleased that he likes “The Tramp” (“I regard the story of course as the exceptional possibility of the present time and not the rule”).

F.52     Phelps, William Lyon (American author, critic and scholar). TLS to Miss Newton, 21 April 1926, thanking her for the two tickets but is doubtful that he can attend the event. TLS to Miss Deane, 15 April 1931, thanking Deane for liking his sermon and sending her a signed bookplate. TLS addressed “Dear Page”, 2 December 1931, re: Wuthering Heights, Guercino’s “The Guardian Angel” in San Agostino church in Fano, and Mr. Browning. TLS to Mr. Thayer, 11 October 1933, re: Lady Flabella, returning to New Haven, “I suspect it is a name made up by D. to stand for a type, don’t you?” TLS addressed Dear Sirs, 15 September 1937, re: his change of address from Michigan to New Haven, Conn., and all review copies should be sent to his Conn. address.

F.53     Phillpotts, Eden (English author, poet, and dramatist). Signed ms. excerpt, 4 lines from his poem “The Epitaph”, 12 January 1906, on letterhead of the autograph collector, Howes Norris, Jr. ALS to Miss Bazley, 11 March 1911, re: her getting married, he sends her a song (not enclosed) since she disdains wedding presents. ALS to Meredith Starr, 3 December 1920, his thoughts about the evolution of the novel as a genre. ALS to Mrs. Wiggs (author Kate Douglas Wiggin), 29 August 1903, thanking her for kind letter and pictures. ALS addressed My dear Editor, 28 December 1938, flattered by his overture but regrets that he cannot do justice to the theme, reads very little of modern literature. ALS (2 pp.) addressed “My very dear Lion”, 10 March 1947. Remnant of ALS addressed to the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George (Prime Minister of the UK, 1916-22), n.d.

F.54     Pidgeon, George C. (Presbyterian minister). Autograph, n.d.

F.55     Pilcher, Rosamunde (British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories). TLS to Sonja Park, 3 April 1998, with envelope, re: her ancestry, marriage, her writing (“I have never done any other work but write, except serve in the WRNS during the war”), and her love of Cornwall.

F.56     Plain, Belva (American novelist). 2 ALS to Mr. Broox Sledge, 3 May 1980, thanking him for his review of Evergreen, and 20 March 1982, with envelope. Will be pleased to autograph a copy of Evergreen. “We have many friends who have undergone open-heart surgery and they seem to be stronger than ever. So I am glad to know that you are recovering and hope you will also be stronger than ever.”

F.57     Plunkett, James (Irish playwright, novelist, and short story writer). TLS to Frank Adamucci, 16 July 1970, thanking for his comments on Strumpet City and that he’ll autograph the book for him.

F.58     Poincaré, Raymond (French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France). 30 B&W photos, 3 of Poincaré’s wife, Brown Brothers, New York. 12 of the photos are of Poincaré by himself; 2 photos of Poincaré in a carriage; 2 photos of Poincaré with the King of Italy; 10 photos of Poincaré with soldiers during WWI.

F.59     Porter Eleanor H. (American novelist, best known for her best-selling book, Pollyanna). TLS to Nixon Waterman, journalist and poet, 3 January 1917, thanking him profusely for the verb Pollyanna. 

F.60     Potter, Margaret Horton (American novelist of historical fiction). ALS to Mrs. Charles A. Eves, 2 March, Chicago, saying that she began writing under her maiden name, Margaret Horton Potter, before she was married, has never written using a pseudonym, signed “Margaret Black”.

F.61     Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (English politician and poet). ALS to John Francklin (Chairman of the Aylesbury Board of Guardians, died 23 July 1862), 6 November 1838: “On the day on which you were so good as to accompany me to the voters in your neighborhood, I remember that we omitted to see one, with whom I was to have shaken hands after dinner. Your good cheer put the good man out of my head, and my neglect of him has only lastly been stinging my conscience; the more painfully, as Mrs. Francklin has made us laugh before dinner by telling us that my worthy had said, 'Mr. Praed would never think of the likes of him.’ I am sure Mrs. Francklin will remember who it was that so modestly, & up to this time so justly, anticipated my forgetfulness; and she will enable you to kindly repair my error by delivering the enclosed card... Mrs. Praed joins me in compliments to yourself & Mrs. Francklin.” ALS addressed Dear Sir, 15 Suffolk Street, Haymarket, Saturday, 20 June [183?], declaring his great aversion the provisions of Lord John Russell’s Bill. 4 envelopes addressed by Praed. 

F.62     Pritchett, V.S. (British journalist, novelist, and short story writer). ALS on letterhead of the New Statesman & Nation to Arthur J. Bull (a minor poet), 25 July 1948, with envelope, interested in Bull’s suggestion, will look up the article but cannot get a copy for him.

F.63     Prokosch, Frederic (American novelist, poet). Ms. drafts of three poems entitled “Death, Though It Cool”, “The Sure of Heart”, and “Eclogue”, each 1 p., slight tears. 3 ALS from Elsa Newman to David Meier of the Bookstall, 29 June 1939, 29 July 1939, and 29 January 1940, talking about paying for these poems and those of Stephen Spender giving some background information. B&W photo “Excalibur Arrives”, Prokosch departing from the American export liner, 2 October 1941. 

F.64     Pryce, Richard (English novelist). ALS to Miss Collet, 2 April 1894, re: sending her tickets to his play (“Miss Rutland”) at the Gaiety theatre. ALS to H.G. Jacobs, 4 October 1913, with front of envelope, thanking him for the review of The Successor in the Brooklyn Eagle.

F.65     Pullman, Philip (British author). ALS response on TLS from fan George Rigden, n.d.

F.66     Purdy, James (American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright). TLS to Toni?, 8 February 1957, sending a new story. TLS to Andrea Brown, 25 October 1979, re: difficulties getting published, “The most vicious and powerful forces in America militating against imaginative and distinguished writing are the New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Newsweek… America is indistinguishable from Russia in so many respects….”

F.67     Putnam, Nina Wilcox (American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright). TLS to John J. Lipsey, 17 January 1924, thanking him for his friendship. 

F.68       Raine, Kathleene (English poet). ALS to Fredrick Grubb, [196?], re his interpretation of her early poetical work (references to pantheism, Christianity, Philip Larkin, the Holy Shroud, etc.).

F.69      Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (American author). TLS addressed “Dear Harold”, 25 January 1953.

F.70     Read, Herbert (English anarchist, poet and critic). TLS and 2 ALS to Lewis Mumford, 18 January 1950, 10 March 1954, and n.d., re: Marie Louise Berneri, Philip Geddes’s Life and Letters of Sir Patrick Geddes, seeing Mumford in Philadelphia and New York City, delivering the Mellon lectures, and the distressing news of Sophie.

F.71     Reeves, Helen (English author, pseud. of Ellen Buckingham Mathews, aka Helen Mathers). ALS to “Dear Sir”, 18 April 1895.

F.72     Reid, Thomas Mayne (Scottish-Irish American novelist). ALS to Charles N. Collagan, 16 February 1883. Provides him with an autograph and thanks him for his friendly communication.

F.73     Renault, Mary (English historical novelist). TLS to Philip Dossé, Books and Bookmen, 16 May 1974, thanks Dossé for printing her letter about Alexander the Great, says that that she is too busy to review books with the exception of Modesty Blaise. 

F.74     Rexroth, Kenneth (American poet, translator, and essayist). TLS from Carol Tinker (Rexroth’s secretary), 11 November 1965, impossible for Rexroth to be in Pittsburgh in November, suggests sometime in 1966, testimonial dinner for Rexroth’s 60th birthday, with envelope. TLS, with envelope, to Charles H. Cagle, 8 July 1965, re: his speaking at Pittsburgh in November, explains that he is a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, teaches a seminar at San Francisco College, his heavy lecture tour, $325 fee plus expenses. TL carbon from Cagle, 15 July 1965, offers him a fee of $600 outright, mentions the students having read Richards’s translation and abridgment of The Illiad. “Sky Sea Birds Trees Earth House Beasts Flowers” (Santa Barbara, California: Unicorn Press, 1971), 2 leaves, promotional notice for publication of upcoming book by Kenneth Rexroth. Orange paper wrappers handbound with black string, contains one poem from the book.

F.75     Reynolds, George W.M. (British journalist and mystery writer). ALS to Mrs. Fitzrichard, 11 April 1867, re: a missing manuscript at his office or home. 

F.76     Riddell, Charlotte E.L. (English novelist). ALS to Mr. Cullen, 18 December 1878, sends her autograph.

F.77     Robbins, Tom (American novelist and short story writer, the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues). TLS addressed “Dear Doc” [E.L. Doctorow?], 17 October 1939. Tells his correspondent that he’s just finished writing Still Life with Woodpecker, that he plans to spend Halloween in Guatemala and the Yucatan, and he’s living in Skagit River Valley with his son and Ginny Rose, a girl friend.

F.78     Roberts, Kenneth (American author of historical novels). TLS to Mr. Vallée, 29 August 1936, re: Anthony Gibbs “who wrote an American who talked like one.” TLS to Mr. Gifford, 27 December 1940, with envelope, re: invention of a name (Reverend James Wiswell). 2 TLS, ALS, and postcard to Cedric R. Crowell (Vice President of Doubleday), 24 December 1938, 29 December 1940, post-marked 25 December 1942, and 14 January 1947, re: publicity for Roberts’s books, why Roberts said no to the Book-of-the-Month Club proposal, reviews of Rabble in Arms, Christmas wishes, cannot attend the Bowdoin Alumni Association dinner, is in Nassau via Dacca. 

F.79     Robinson, (Ted) Edward Meade (journalist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, humorist, and light poet). 2 ALS from J.W. Raper, Monday and 6 November, envelope post-marked 6 November 1945, re: Robinson not feeling well, Raper drinking scotch and smoking cigarettes, departing for the southwest, Robinson’s columns, writing something about Charlie Leedy. TLS from Fannie Ratchford, Rare Book Collections, University of Texas Library, 8 January 1945, re: Robinson’s kind words about Wise’s Letters. TLS from J.R. (Jack) Ratcliffe, 21 June, re: Ratcliffe’s review of the Science Yearbook. TLS from P. Richards of the Berkshire Press, 29 March 1945, re: Robinson’s review of one of their books. TLS from Curt Riess, 3 August 1944, with envelope, re: Robinson’s comments about They Were There. Typed postcard from Douglas Rigby, 27 January 1945, re: Robinson’s review of Lock, Stock and Barrel. TLS from Constance Robertson, 11 May 1944, with envelope, re: Robinson’s review of her book. TLS from Leonard H. Robins, 11 October 1943, re: Robinson’s contribution to Doughnuts, asking Robinson to send samples of his work. TLS from Willard Robertson, 10 October 1944, with envelope, re: Robinson’s review of Oasis. ALS from Mercedes Roseberry, 5 June 1944, with envelope, re: Robinson’s review of his book. TLS from Stephen Edward Rose, re: sales of his book. Typed notice from the Rowfant Club, 27 April 1945, re: Robinson’s “My Cousin, the King” presented at the Club.

F.80     Roe, Azel S. (American novelist). ALS to Elisha Covell (died 1 June 1861), 31 December 1839, re: arrangement for the note of $300, reference to Mr. Belknap, cannot pay the sum.

F.81     Rohmer, Sax (English novelist, author of the Fu Manchu series, pseud. of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward). TLS to H.W. Winslow, 18 January 1920, re: the YMCA (verso has information about Rohmer’s Dope). B&W photo of Rohmer and wife arriving in New York on the S.S. Franconia, 12 November 1926, Underwood & Underwood. 2 B&W glass plate negatives, Rohmer and his wife aboard the S.S. Majestic, 21 September 1932. 

F.82     Russell, Bertrand (British mathematician and peace activist). 3 B&W photos, British pacifists gathered around a cement mixer, 16 December 1958, UPI Telephoto; Ralph Shoenman is greeted at Euston Station by Alastair Yule, 10 November 1961, Keystone Press; Dora Russell (née Black) and schoolchildren at Beacon Hill School, 27 November 1931, N.E.A. See also: Bertrand Russell fonds.

F.83     Russell, Frank (2nd Earl Russell). Postcard, 27 August 1888, to Wm. Salthouse, requesting prices and lists of oils and varnishes. Miniature photo tobacco card, Ogden’s Tab Cigarettes, no. 108, n.d.

F.84     Russell, John (Viscount Amberley). Carte-de-visite, John Watkins, Photographer to the Queen, ca. 1870. Label (5 lines), outlined in black, signed by Amberley and addressed by him to Messrs. Hurst & Blackett Publishers, 1862.

Box 5

F.1     Sabin, Albert (Polish American medical researcher, known for developing the oral polio vaccine). First day of issue envelope, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, post-marked 15 January 1957, signed.

F.2     Salk, Jonas (American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 7 July 1978, declining her invitation to lecture in Italy. Signed card, n.d.

F.3     Sambourne, Edward Linley (English illustrator, Punch cartoonist). ALS addressed “Dear Sir”, 23 August [post-1878], wishes to secure a property, mentions ground rent, annual payment, apologizes for the delay caused by his ignorance, has been ill the last two years.

F.4     Samuelson, Paul A. (American economist and winner of the Nobel Prize). TLS to Il Direttore Generale [Irma Antonetto], Associazione Culturale Italiana, 25 June 1973, declining her invitation to lecture in Italy (busy schedule revising his economics textbook).

F.5     Sandburg, Carl (American poet, biographer, journalist, editor, Pulitzer Prize winner). TLS to Mrs. Vernon Parks, 30 December 1949, with envelope, re: his time in Rochester, hopes to visit with “you Galesburg old timers”. 2 B&W photos: “Sandburg Celebrates 75th Birthday” (with his wife), 8 January 1953, Associated Press Photo; “Noted Poet on Birthday Eve” (with his wife on eve of his 86th birthday), 6 January 1964.

F.6     Sansom, William (British novelist, travel, and short story writer). ALS (2 sides) to Pat Lawler, 13 April 1958, re: Lawler’s review of Among the Dahlias, asks Lawler to send him a copy of his Masefield monograph, “As I write there in Arcadia Road, I can almost see the house where once she lived, the house with the pear-tree in the garden.”

F.7     Sarton, May (1912-1995, American poet, novelist, and memoirist). TLS (8 October 1939), 2 ALS (4 March; n.d. French line, à bord, le Normandie), and a postcard (post-marked 17 March 1938) to Grace Marie Daly. TLS to Christine Donohoe, Santa Fe, N.M., 25 February, re: enchanted time together, “rather breathless”, Marjorie, the poem about California, the pictures, De Gaulle pins.

F.8     Scribner, Charles (American publisher). ALS on Charles Scribner’s Sons letterhead to Charles M. Skinner (journalist and editor), 17 November 1886, re: editorial work on Scribner’s Magazine.

F.9     Seton, Anya (American historical novelist). TLS to Andrew Coddington, 7 January 1964, with envelope, re: The Winthrop Woman, being the daughter of Ernest Thompson Seton, “wallowing in a very hard biographical novel about 10th century England (“Avalon”). TLS to Danny, 9 February 1977, thanking him for his appreciation of her books, encloses autographed bookplates, what gives a work of literature lasting importance (“universal values presented and strong characterisation”).

F.10     Sifton, Clifford (Canadian politician). B&W photo of Sifton, 29 April 1929, Acme Newspictures. Turf Cigarettes picture card, depicting Sifton horse jumping, 22 June 1912. Pamphlets: Canada Occidental: conseils aux colons (Paris: Paul Wiallard, n.d.). L'Ouest Canadien (Ottawa: Clifford Sifton, 1900). To Canada: for investment in Western Canada (Ottawa: Clifford Sifton, 1903).

F.11     Sillitoe Alan (British novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist). ALS to Kim Herzinger, 14 June 1982, with envelope, invitation to give a speech.

F.12     Silone, Ignazio (Italian novelist). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 9 November 1960, written in Italian, recommending various people who might lecture for the Associazione (Paolo Angioni, Walter Irico, etc.). 

F.13     Simenon, Georges (Belgian author of detective stories starring Jules Maigret). ALS, 1984, telling a man he will not give him one of his manuscripts.

F.14     Simon, Neil (American playwright and screen writer). TLS to Ben B. Braude (dentist and magic author), 6 November 1975, with envelope, thanks him for his warm letter, notes that his plays are published by Random House and in paper editions by Samuel French Play Service.

F.15       Simpson, John Palgrave (Victorian playwright). ALS to botanist Dawson Turner, his uncle, 17 January 1849, thanking him for his kind letter and remembrance, discussing several prints and books, mentioning some of his works and a coming trip to Paris. ALS to Mr. Beckett, 18 April 1868, “Be it as you will. Let the past be forgotten and blotted out. I will confess, that, looking back, I feel I have been hard.”

F.16     Sims, George Robert (English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant). ALS to Nora Brannon, Lord Mayor’s Day [9 November] 1884. Re: publication of “Fallen by the Way” in The Ballads of Babylon (1880). ANS, 18 November 1896, unaddressed, providing a specimen of his handwriting.

F.17       Sinclair, Catherine (Scottish writer and novelist). ALS addressed Dear Sir [Charles West Cope, English painter and etcher of genre and history scenes], 1 August 18?, thanking Cope for the ticket to the Royal Academy (sent seven days ago).

F.18     Sinclair, May (British novelist, poet, and short-story writer; pseud. of Mary Amelia St. Clair). ALS to Alfred Knopf, American publisher, 29 April 1924, regretting that due to a previous engagement, she can’t dine with him.

F.19     Sinclair, Jo (American novelist, pseud. of Ruth Seid). TLS to Ted Robinson, Book Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Saturday, late”. Thanking him for coming to the party, refers to Miss Herdman, hopes he likes the pictures taken at the party, sends regards to Robinson’s wife. Mail order form re: her novel Wasteland (1946), winner of the Harper prize published by Harper & Brothers.

F.20     Sinclair, Upton (American novelist). TLS to the editor of the Forum, 29 May 1928, re: Arthur Train and Judge Train being dead, his own quotations about Dill could not be trusted, and therefore sends a statement and transcript from Lincoln Steffens (not present). TLS (left side of letter partially cut) to Charles Edwin Knowles, 16 February 1931, re: James Larkin Pearson, the Mountain Poet of North Carolina. TLS to Lewis Mumford (American literary critic), [1952], sending him a copy of A Personal Jesus and soliciting Mumford’s opinion. ALS to Anna Melissa Graves (writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist), 4 September 1957, apologizes for forgetting her book that he has read. “I am ashamed of my memory. You sent me your book & I read it, I even read some of it to my invalid wife.”

F.21     Sisson, Rosemary Anne (English television dramatist and novelist). TLS from Bernard Slater, 10 August 1966, re: her play The Queen and the Welshman, productions of plays at Stratford (“cult for ‘Dirt’ and ‘Violence’”), poetry reading of Ted Hughes (“cannot read his own poems”), Clemence Dane. 

F.22     Slaughter, Frank G. (American novelist and physician, pseud. of C.V. Terry). Biographical mimeo resume (3 pp., small photo print on first page) with an undated note addressed to Carolyn Teague with 2 lines written and dates at the end, with envelope post-marked 21 April 1966. TLS to Bessi G. Redmer, 3 October 1966, with envelope, providing her with his favourite recipe (corn-beef-cheeseburgers) with 3 pp. of biographical information. ANS to Mr. Robuck, 27 December 1973, apologizing, his wife has been ill for several months and he has been busy writing a novel about Stonewall Jackson. 2 signed single-page typescripts on blue paper entitled “Upon This Rock” and “The Galileans”, n.d. ALS to Mr. Buchanan, 3 February 1976, thanking Buchanan for his birthday wishes and compliments about writing, cold in Florida. Bookplate, signed. Small B&W photo signed in facsimile. TLS to V.E. Moody, Magic Lantern Books, 31 August 1977, re: signed copies of Women in White and publication of his future books. Postcard to Mr. Moritz, 20 February 1988, thanking him for his note and that he doesn’t have any photos of himself. Postcard to Mr. Stanhope, postmarked 10 November 1974.

F.23     Smith, Alfred Emanuel (American politician). TLS to Gustavus A. Rogers, 27 December 1920.

F.24     Smith, Francis Hopkinson (American engineer, artist, novelist, and short story writer). ALS to Mrs. Ward, 19 November [1903?], re: Morgan Bates, his book [Martin Brook], and his passing (“He was a dear fellow and a brilliant man”). ALS to Mrs. Cronley, 28 February ?, sends her one of his books and thanks her for her hospitality.

F.25     Southern, Terry (American novelist, satirist, screenwriter, and university lecturer). TLS to Michael Myerberg, 19 March 1964, “You are an honorable man. I hope we can do something together sometime.” With carbon of Myerberg’s TL, 3 March 1950, paying Southern a check of $50.

F.26     Spark, Muriel (British novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist). TLS to Carol Tideswell, 9 June 1991, re: her book on Mary Shelley.

F.27     Spillane, Mickey (American crime writer). Card signed “Hi Mike | a big hello! | Mickey Spillane”. TLS to Mike, n.d, advice about writing: “I turned pro in 1935, just out of high school. I went through the slicks, pulps and comic books, following the best money. After the service I wrote I, the Jury, aiming for a new market.” TLS to Mrs. Rocker, 10 December 1994, re: delay in replying to her, sends photos, mentions test sheets of his new comic book (Mike Danger later turned into Mike Hammer) which was ready for publication before WWII when he signed up for the Air Force. Color photo signed: “Hi Bill- | great to say | hello! |Mickey Spillane”. Signed ts. excerpt from “The Mystery Man” by Carey Winfrey re: the women’s movement, Memories Magazine, April/May 1990, “But what a great difference! | Mickey Spillane”.

F.28     Spock, Benjamin (American pediatrician whose book The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care was a best-seller). TLS to Ken Browne, 26 February 1968, with envelope, re: an invitation to visit Browne at Phoenix. TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 18 April 1972, suggesting topics of lectures: “Child Rearing in America”, “How I Became Politically Radicalized”, and “American Youth”. TLS to Carol Kover, 12 December 1973, apologizes for delay in his reply. TLS to Leonard Katz, 2 June 1967. Signed envelope, Centennial of the Benevolent Order of Elks, first day of issue, post-marked 1 May 1968. B&W photo print of a drawing of Spock by Greg Jones, n.d. 3 Signed B&W photos, 1972, 1987 (St. Thomas, Virgin Island), n.d. 5 B&W photos: press conference with Spock, Mrs. Spock, Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman and Marcus Raskin, co-defendants in Boston on a charge of conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet violations of the Selective Service Act, 30 January 1968, photo by Earl Ostroff; “Spock Indicted”, 6 January 1980, AP Wirephoto; standing on a street with four young people, shaking a man’s hand, 11 July 1968; Spock at welfare rally, Boston Common, group from the Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization, 1 July 1969, photo by Zabala; Spock at welfare rally, Boston Commons, sign of Mother Power in foreground, 1 July 1969, photo by Zabala.

F.29     Spofford, Harriet Prescott (American novelist and poet). Signature, Newburyport, Mass., n.d.

F.30     Sprague, Charles (American poet), ALS to Mr. Mason, 18 September 1868, returns “curious volume” and recalls Mason’s father who was two days younger than his mother.

F.31     Spring, Howard (Welsh author and journalist, the author of Fame Is the Spur). ALS to Eustace B. Griffith, 10 December 1943, “Mr. Eustace of ‘My Son, My Son!’ is a fictitious character—no more.” ALS to Mr. Jones, 10 January 1946. Provides Jones with an autograph. “As for the international dispute: the fact is that I was born in Cardiff of an Irish mother and an English father, lived there for my first 22 years, and thereafter for many years lived in Bradford (Yorks.) and Manchester.” 2 ALS with envelopes to Patrick Crosby, 7 and 10 June 1955, re: thanks for Crosby’s kind remarks about Spring’s novels, that Spring will sign copies of his books for Crosby, “I loved writing Natal on the parcel”. TLS to Cecil Piper, 6 February 1937.

F.32     Starrett, Vincent (American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile). Signed card with color sketch (“For Barbara Little | Vincent Starrett | (His signature, but | not his portrait)”, n.d.

F.33     Stead, Christina (Australian novelist and short-story writer). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 10 September 1978, declining her invitation to lecture in Italy due to ill health.

F.34     Steel, Flora Annie (British writer who lived in British India). ALS to Mr. Stewart, n.d., apologizes, just returned by train from Aberdovey, trying travel journey, with envelope in a different hand addressed to John Craig, Doubleday, Page & Co., post-marked “21 AUG 28”.

F.35     Steen, Marguerite (English novelist). 2 TLS to Terry J. Lehane, 16 August [1961] and 15 October 1961, re: her going into a nursing home, his scatological cat, Don Marquis, her love of illustrators, she can’t read much, reading in the original, Thackeray, her encouragement of his work, her writing (“I worked through the night until 4 or 5 in the morning”), Dickens, her books (Anna Fitzalan and The Tower), her starting a new book.

F.36     Stevens, Thaddeus (American politician and lawyer). “Reconstruction: Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania. Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, December 18, 1865.” [Washington: H. Polkinhorn & Son, Printers], 1865. 8 pp., no binding. 

F.37     Stone, Robert (American novelist). Signed card to Vance Morgan, n.d., thanking Morgan for his words and that he is happy to sign a copy of A Flag for Sunrise. Signed card.

F.38     Stong, Phil (American author, journalist, and Hollywood scenarist). TLS to Carl [Carmer], ? [1937], re: Carmer’s book [most likely The Hurricane’s Children: Tales from Your Neck o' the Woods].

F.39     Storey, David (English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and professional rugby league player). ALS to James Hotch?, 26 November [1970?], apologizes for not replying sooner but occupied with The Contractor, “As a result, I hope you’ll see The Contractor! and take that in lieu of a lecture”).

F.40     Strachey, Lytton (British writer and critic, a member of the Bloomsbury Group). TLS to Miss Rudston-Brown, 27 October 1930. "I think you told me that I might have a few printed copies of my article on my father [Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey] when the 'Eighteen Eighties' book was published." He wants to know when he may receive the offprints and when it will be published.

F.41     Straub, Peter (American author and poet, noted for his horror fiction). ALS to Jeff Gelb, 25 January 1990. “I’m glad you’re going to invite Thom[as] Tessier to contribute – he’s a wonderful writer too he loves rock.” Provides Gelb with Tessier’s address. 

F.42     Strauss, Gustave Louis Maurice (Canadian-born author, linguist, tutor, dramatist, and surgeon). ALS to William Tinsley, his publisher, 1 January 1865, sent from Paris, saying that he has been ill for five weeks, now feeling well, will be sending the first portion of the novel on 15 January, volume 1 to be complete by 1 February, suggests setting it in type, is quite poor but determined not ask for any more money. 

F.43     Street, Alfred B. (American poet and author). ALS addressed “Gentleman” (Philomathean Society of the University of the City of New York), declining to deliver a poem at their annual celebration because he has already committed to deliver a poem at the Literary Societies of Vermont. With a signed engraving of Street and a clipping of his poem, “The Advent of Evening”.

F.44     Street, Julian (American author). TLS (3 pp.) to Mark Sullivan (American journalist and political columnist), 29 April 1932, re: Pete Street (his son) and his wife (Narcissa Vanderlip Street), the Diplomatic Service, living in Paris, Mark’s success at Princeton, Hoover and the Depression, the Progressive Party. ALS to Mr. Cate, 17 April 1934, stating in part that someone did him a mighty good turn when they sent him that bully thing Phelps wrote. He goes on to send two books to the recipient. ALS to Lewis Mumford, 21 May 1942, “Margaret Kennedy has sent over a delightful comedy she has written….” 

F.45     Stribling, T.S. (American novelist). TLS to Charles F. Scott, [1925?], waiting for the books to be forwarded from Clifton, will sign them, mentions Teeftallow to be published in the spring (“I think [it] will make at least as much of a sensation as BIRTHRIGHT”).

F.46     Strickland, Agnes (English historical writer and poet, sister of Elizabeth Strickland, Susanna Moodie, and Catharine Parr Traill). Carte-de-visite, 1870. Autograph postcard written for the Worcester Bazaar, n.d. Signed note written for Mrs. Pemberton, 30 October 1857, at Walsingham Abbey. ALS to Miss Moultrie, 5 August 1859. Autographed slip of paper.

F.47     Strickland, Elisabeth (author, sister of Agnes Strickland, Susanna Moodie, and Catharine Parr Traill). ALS to Mrs. Frederic May, 14 February 1862, offering congratulations to Mrs. May on her marriage.

F.48     Strother, Emily Viele (American novelist). ALS to H.G. Jacobs, 20 October [1915?], with partial envelope, re: his article about Eve Dorre, “The Story of Her Precarious Youth”.

F.49     Stuart, Jesse (poet and novelist from Kentucky). ALS to Miss Lohman of the Boston Herald, 20 October 1953, re: bloodroot and “shoemake” (sumac). ALS to John [Gross], 29 March 1967, re: Gross’s wife, Bethune Cookman College (building named after Gross), and Dr. Carl Leiden. 

F.50     Stuart, Ruth McEnery (southern American short story writer, novelist, and poet). 4 B&W photos, ca. 1900, Brown Brothers, New York.

F.51     Styron, William (American novelist and essayist). Ts. signed, excerpt from The Confession of Nat Turner entitled “Judgment Day”. Envelope signed, 5 June 1965. TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 20 June 1968, declining her invitation to lecture in Italy. Card signed for Roger Harris with Styron’s address in Connecticut, 8 November 1961. 

F.52     Sullivan, Mark (editor, journalist, and historian). TLS to Art Young, 13 May 1926, informing Young that he is “writing for Scribner’s a history of our time” and that he would like to include cartoons from Young’s work in his book. Signed card, n.d.

F.53     Sutcliffe, Halliwell (British novelist). 4 ALS to Ashworth, 26 January 1898, 23 January 1899, 15 July 1899, 5 February [1902], re: not had time to look at Burns, “Peckett Well is the notion”, writing a “long, stiff piece”, notice in the Academy, critic wrong about run and punch, book excerpt (By Moor and Fell) in the Beresford Observer, looking forward to a holiday, afternoon at Leeds, Shameless Wayne “shows every sign of travelling fast” (reviews in newspapers), and “seeing some magnificent snow scenes”.

F.54    Sutro, Alfred (English author, dramatist, and translator). ALS to S.D. Green, 22 November 1923, re: group of eight students in Green’s high school and Sutro acting as a guardian. ALS to Miss Fraser?, 24 January?, re: Harvey’s rights to a play have lapsed, wishes to talk with her about this.

F.55     Swinton, John (American journalist and publisher). ALS to Ben. W. Austin, secretary of the Northwestern Literary Society, 2 April 1886, expressing his thanks for being elected an honorary member of the Society.

F.56     Swope, Herbert Bayard (American editor, journalist, and intimate of the Algonquin Round Table). TLS to Herbert H. Lehman, Honorary Chairman, Ambassador’s Ball Committee, 15 April 1957, placing his name on the Honorary Committee for the Eban Ball.

F.57     Tartt, Donna. ALS to Samantha Walker, [199?], signing her bookplates (she gets tons of mail and doesn’t have a secretary).

F.58     Taubman, Howard (American music critic, theater critic, and author). TLS on letterhead of the New York Times to Mrs. Erwin Piscator, 30 November 1964, re: Erwin Piscator’s difficulties (“I would certainly be delighted if he and his company could bring some of his plays here).

F.59     Taylor, Benjamin Franklin (Civil war correspondent, poet). ALS to Rossiter Johnson, 1 August 1893, enclosing a corrected proof copy of his poem, “Pictures of Life in Camp and Field” (1875).

F.60     Thayer, William R. (American author, poet, and editor). ALS to Mrs. H.W. Eliot (née Charlotte Champe Stearns, mother of T.S. Eliot), with envelope, 2 November 1920, re: her biography of her father-in-law, William Greenleaf Eliot.

F.61     Torrence, Ridgely (American poet). TLS on letterhead of the New Republic to Carl Carmer, 18 January 1930, declining to publish Carmer’s poem. ALS to Mr. Leach, 25 March 1948, re: reprinting of his poem, “Ygdrasil”, in the American Scandinavian Review.

F.62     Travers, Ben (English playwright and novelist). ALS addressed “My dear Lindi,” 18 November 1976, thanking the correspondent for the “lovely long cablegram” to John Moffat. B&W photo of Travers, 7 April 1926, N.E.A.

F.63     Trine, Ralph Waldo (mystic, teacher, author, and early mentor of the New Thought Movement). 3 ALS, 1 envelope, to Curtis Freshel (business tycoon) and his wife, 4 April 1913, 24 April 1924, 25 April 1913, re: he has done no public speaking but accepts the invitation to speak before Freshel’s society, is writing an article on vegetarianism (“non-flesh eating”), and Every Living Creature.

F.64     Tuchman, Barbara (American historian and author). TLS with envelope to Anne Edwards (biographer of celebrities), 18 November 1983, re: Edwards’s report from Washington, Flexner’s George Washington, and her disturbing experience with Amtrak.

F.65     Turner Hospital, Janette (Australian-born novelist and short story writer). TLS to Vance Morgan, 29 May 2002, re: his warm letter, since fall 1999 she became the successor to the late James Dickey at the University of South Carolina, encloses some literature (not present), her books that will soon be published, comments on the Morgan name and its importance in her family.

F.66     Updike, John (American novelist). Typed signed quotation from The Centaur re: children and schools. Signed envelope, first day of issue, “United Nations Commemorates Independence,” post-marked 17 March 1967.

F.67     Uris, Leon (American author of historical fiction). TLS to Arthur Knight, 13 September 1955, letterhead of Paramount Pictures Corporation, re: set of pictures, his favorite being Uris holding the dog on his lap, plans to use it for his next book jacket. TLS addressed Dear Arthur [Knight], 12 September 1958, re: the shot on the veranda, Mal will jibber like an idiot, doesn’t understand “all the crap in and about Kelley”, asked Arthur to call him, just back from three days at Disneyland. TLS addressed Dear Tom, 4 October 1985, with envelope, re: returning photographs. TLS addressed Dear Dale, 18 September 1986, re: Denver, what he does on weekends, his “reward for having been a faithful custodian of Mens’ Room for 20 years”, and his “debut (and farewell) column as a sports writer.” TLS from William W. Stanhope, 22 September 1989, inquiring as to Uris’s favorite passage of his writings. Uris writes that his favorite passage is always the end. Fair copy ts. signed from QB VII, 1 p. (3 paragraphs), after 1970.

F.68     Van Druten, John (American playwright). ALS to Beauvais Fox, with envelope, 26? December 1926. ALS to Mrs. Fry, Tuesday, re: dining together at Sovranis.

F.69     Van Horne, Sir William Cornelius (railroad magnate who oversaw the construction of the first Canadian transcontinental railway). 4 B&W photos, Brown Brothers, 1 glass plate negative, and 2 cabinet card photos, Notman, Montreal, ca. 1900-1910. C.P.R. extension, profile of line from Chases Creek (British Columbia), eastwards 4538 feet, drawing on linen (17.5 × 36.5 cm), signed by Van Horne as Vice-President of the Canadian Pacific Railway and examined and certified by T. Trudeau Deputy of the Minister of Railways and Canada, Ottawa, 9 April 1885.

F.70     Van Wyck Mason, F. (American historian and novelist). TLS to Philip P. Monaghan, 7 May 1959, sends his autograph and thanks Monaghan for his high opinion of his work.

F.71     Vandercook, John W. (American author, and correspondent and commentator for NBC radio). TLS to Mr. Trevillian, 5 October 1945, encloses a card (not present) instead of a book.

F.72     Vidal, Gore (American novelist). ALS to Irma Antonetto, n.d., declining her invitation: “Next year I must be political in California.”

F.73     Viele, Herman Knickerbocker (American novelist, short story writer, and poet). ALS to Jules Eckert Goodman (American playwright and author), 9 September 1902. Pasted to the back is an undated B&W photo of Israel Zangwill, “from a copyrighted photo by Rockwood.”

F.74     von Arnim, Elizabeth (Australian-born British novelist, Countess Russell, known as “Elizabeth”). 2 ALS to Miss Tute (a matron at Eton), 17 September and 7 October1917, on Telegraph House letterhead, re: her son “H.B.”. Postcard to Curtis Freschel, 19 September 1937, thanking him for “the vegetarian love letter”. ALS addressed “Dear Madam,” declining a request, n.d., signed “the author of ‘Elizabeth & her German Garden’”. B&W photo of Ann Harding and Ralph Forbes, Enchanted April, film, 1935, RKO Radio Pictures.

F.75     Von Hutten, Baroness (Bettina Riddle, American-born novelist). ALS to Elizabeth Cleveland, 14 August 1934, with envelope and signed title page of Pam’s Own Story (1931), glad that Cleveland likes the Pam books, will ask Duttons to send Cleveland a copy of Mice for Amusement, Duttons has also bought her new thriller, Die She Must, mentions that she was born in Pennsylvania, lives in England, but has a German connection.

F.76     Walker, Alice (American novelist). TLS to Daniel Turov, New Innovations Publishing, 26 August 1985, declining an invitation due to the press of other obligations and her work. Signed typed quotation on purple paper, n.d.: “We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”

F.77     Ward, Mary Augusta (pen name “Mrs. Humphry Ward;” British novelist, social activist, and anti-suffragette). ALS (2 pp.) to Mr. Westlake, 3 July 1894, declines an invitation to “come to you on the 10th.” ALS (4 pp.) to Mr. Ogle, 26 February 1897, apologises for missing their engagement.” ALS addressed “Dear Madam,” [189?], re: the author won’t be visiting America this year. ALS to Mr. Stanley, 26 November 1899, apologizing for having missed seeing him. ALS (3 pp.) addressed to Mademoiselle de Mistral Contremont, 27 January 1904, noting that she has written to Madam Blanc about Robert Elsmere, “too much to hope that the Revue will print it”, M. Brunchère doesn’t realise how unorthodox it is, it is longer than Lady Rose, does not want the text altered or curtailed. ALS addressed “Dear Madam,” 6 November 1904?, that she isn't yet sure about her literary plans and that she is well acquainted with the New York Times. B&W cabinet photo card, Ward standing with a book in her hand, London, Elliott & Fry (Charles L. Ritzmann, New York), 1880s. B&W photo of Ward, ca. 1920 when she was appointed as a magistrate just before her death. 2 clipped signatures from letters.

F.78     Warren, Robert Penn (American poet, novelist, and literary critic). Typed signed card to Ashley T. Cole, post-marked 8 March 1921, thanking him for the notice of his Essays from the Times. 2 TLS to K.H. (Ken) Browne, 9 June 1967, and 16 October 1970, with envelopes, travel plans, snafus forwarding mail, thanking him for his note about Warren receiving the National Medal of Literature, Warren and his wife Eleanor had a lovely visit to Phoenix. Signed photo for Browne, signed at Phoenix on 10 May 1965. ALS to Iris Burch, n.d.

F.79     Waterman, Nixon (American poet). TLS to Mr. Reid, 23 April 1909. Illustrated poem postcards: “The Home Builders” ill. A.T. Cook, n.d.; “Field Flowers”, ill. A.T. Cook, n.d.; “Thanksgiving”, ill. A.T. Cook and J.O. Hulbert, n.d.; “A Rose to the Living”, ill. A.T. Cook and J.O. Hulbert; “A Rose to the Living” 2 signed copies, n.d.; “Recompense”, ill. A.T. Cook, n.d.; “Smile, once in a while...”, © 1902 Nixon Waterman; “My good old friend...”, 2 copies, © The A.M. Davis Co., 1910.

F.80     Watts, Mary Stanbery (American novelist). ALS to Miss Holloway, n.d., replying to a request for her autograph. TLS to Mrs. Williams, with envelope, 4 February 1922, enclosed specimen print of the jacket for her upcoming novel, The House of Rimmon.

F.81     Weaving, Willoughby (British writer and poet of the World War I era). ALS addressed Dear Sir, 265 August 1925, re: selection of his poems in the recipient’s book. Verso of letter features a brief handwritten bibliography.

F.82     Wescott, Glenway (American poet, novelist, and essayist). ALS with envelope to Tom Sullivan, 19 May 1958, sad news, Baba not looking at his drawing because she has suffered a heart attack.

F.83     Wesker, Sir Arnold (British author, journalist, and playwright). 2 TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 22 September 1975 and 16 February 1976, re: sending her his lecture (“The shortest lecture I’ve ever delivered!”), will be in East Germany, providing addresses for Harold Pinter, John Osborne, and Renato Delbecco, publishing his lecture, just finished a film (Love Letters on Blue Paper; The Merchant), going to France and Denmark. Draft autograph letter to Wesker from Antonetto, 7 November 1976, sending Wesker his wife remembrances of their time together.

F.84     West, Morris L. (Australian novelist and playwright). TLS to S. Cawley, 28 July 1981, thanking Cawley for his “personal response” and enclosing a signed slip (not present). B&W photo by Chris West with signature of Morris L. West, March 1982.

F.85     West, Rebecca (British author). ALS to Justice ?, n.d.

F.86     Weston, George (American novelist). ALS to Edna Sherman, 27 October 1927, with envelope, thanks her for her letter which has received from a long cruise around the world.

F.87     Weyman, Stanley John (English writer of historical romance). ALS to Mrs. Acland?, 1 December 1896, re: attending the theatre and hoping that his correspondent can join Weyman and his wife.

F.88     Wheelock, John Hall (American poet). “Earth, Take Me Back,” signed ts. of poem, 1 p., n.d. ALS on a card (both sides) addressed “Dear Dick”, 10 December 1964, re: his appreciation of “Seven Sonnets” and Dick’s as free-lance writer. B&W photo, 28 December 1936, N.E.A.

F.89     White, Stewart Edward (American novelist and spiritualist). TLS to Miss Deane, 24 October 1923, “happy to add my poor phiz to your very wonderful collection”, and her leaky heart his brother’s heart (“My brother served through the war as an aviator and was one of the best `stunt’ fliers in the army.”). TLS to A.B. Cargill, 25 March 1936, re: Cargill’s column in the Burlingame Advance-Star. ALS to “My dear Williams”, 17 October 1903. Two signatures cut from letters, n.d.

F.90     Whitely, Isabel Nixon (author of The Falcon of Langéac, etc.). ALS to Mr. Power, Monday evening [after 1899], thanking Power for the books, she and the Major are going to the Kilpatricks, reference to For the French Lillies, fifty different expressions for love in Gaelic.

F.91     Whitney, Phyllis A. (Japanese-born American mystery writer). TLS to Harvey, 11 April 1964, re: treatments on her knee, completing the manuscript of Sea Jade, sending him a copy of Black Amber, hoping to travel to the Virgin Islands for book material later in the summer, Dorothy on her trip, Lovell in retirement. 3 TLS to Bessie Redmer, 3 September 1967, 7 November 1967, and 16 November 1967, re: recipes to be included in Redmer’s anthology of recipes from celebrities, Redmer in hospital, Whitney suggests the title “Favorite Recipes of the Stars” and provides a recipe for Oriental Chicken. TLS to Mel Cagle, 13 June 1980, thanks for his kind words, would take too much time to answer his questions, she’d rather write books, suggests going to his library for her juvenile stories and novels, with envelope, signed note, and advertisement from Doubleday. Signed ts. for Tom Green, “The Glass Flame”, 1 p. Signed sheet, “Sincerely, Phyllis A. Whitney”. Signed B&W photo inscribed for Michael Robuck.

F.92     Wiener, Norbert (American mathematician). 8 B&W photos of Wiener, ranging from boyhood to old age, Brooks Brothers, n.d.

F.93     Wiesel, Elie (author, Nobel laureate, political activist, and Holocaust survivor). TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 8 June 1987, written in French, hoping to accept her an invitation to lecture for the Associazione in Italy but is uncertain if he can do so given his commitments. TLS to Robert F. Allen, 29 May 1990, enclosing (not present) a copy of his text for the World Jewish Congress meeting in Berlin. TLS to John Caserma, 17 December 2002, thanks for his kind words, noting that he is not a movie star and does not have photos of himself, and correcting the spelling of his name. TLS to Russell Kane, 31 January 2001, thanking Kane for his recent note and kind words, noting that he is not a movie star and does not have photos of himself. Autographed program, the 1975 Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture sponsored by Westchester Reform Temple, Scarsdale, NY, 4 December 1975, Wiesel’s text was entitled “The Crisis of Hope”, 1977. Card signed: “For Zack | Best wishes | Elie Wiesel.” Card (“Help End Hunger”) signed. Signed card, n.d.

F.94     Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (American author and poet). ALS to Wheeler from E.Y. Carson, 4 December 1881, re: her postal of the 2nd, the package of Proceedings, “Now I want to make you ‘smile’ a smile.”, the Masonic Archeological Society of Cincinnati. Postcard, designed by A.T. Cook, December 1913, with her poem (“’Tis is easy enough to be pleasant…). Signed ts. of poem, “A Man’s Ideal,” 1 p., verso has photo prints of various people. Signed ms., variant extract from her poem, “The Room Beneath the Rafters,” 4 lines, “I am one who lives to say…”, October 1908.

F.95     Wilder, Thornton (American playwright and novelist). Mimeo typed letter-contract, signed, 31 July 1934, authorizing Edington Vincent to accept delivery of checks and money in his name. Signed pink card: “Thornton Wilder | Cohasset | Aug. 1940”. Autograph postcard signed to Michael Meyerberg, 6 December 1940, “Gratitude in advance”, coming to New York in about a week and a half.

F.96     Williams, Ben Ames (American novelist and short story writer), 2 TLS to Hazel Young, 12 February and 23 April 1933, re: The Sunrise Side and proving Young with his autograph. TLS to Elizabeth Cleveland, 21 September 1933, with envelope and signed title leaf of A.L. McCorrison’s Letters from Fraternity (1931; introduction by Ames), embarrassment in sending autograph since he had little to do with the book, asks whether Cleveland is related to Luther Cleveland (“married my cousin Elizabeth Ames”). TLS to Sands Chipman, 16 November 1933, arranging to meet with his class and saying that he’ll be in Florida for a week and then returning to Boston. TLS to Fannie N. Eckstorm, 16 January 1941, thanking her for her review of Doctor Speck’s Penobscot Man, “The Bangor novel [The Strange Woman] is progressing fairly well”. B&W photo, “Talent Runs in Family”, Williams with his son Ben Ames Williams, Jr., Associated Press Photo, 3 March 19?

F.97     Wilson, Angus (English poet and novelist). ALS (5 pp.) to Britta Petterson, with envelope post-marked 15 November 1959. TLS to Mr. Crosby, 15 March 1963?, will be at St. Remy de Provence and will sign books there. 3 TLS to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana, 5 February 1970, 16 March 1970, and 8 April 1970. 2 TLS to Alan G. Hill, 29 May 1984, and 1 June 1984.

F.98     Winchell, Walter (syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator). TLS on New York Mirror letterhead to George J. Silver, 22 January 1947, re: Myson Cohen and others who libel Jews and others. With 11 letters from Rose Bigman (Winchell’s assistant), 1944-6, 1957. TLS on New York Mirror letterhead (piece missing at top left but not affecting the text) to Miss Drewelow, 27 November 1956, declining her invitation to Buffalo on Saturday, 9 February 1957. 

F.99     Winter, John Strange (British novelist, pseud. of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard). ALS to Miss Dennis, 25 November 1910.

F.100     Wolfe, Tom (American novelist). Card signed. 2 telegrams to [Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana], post-marked 21 January 1971 and 3 February 1971, re: his arrival in Rome, Milan, and Turin and accommodations for his talks.

F.101     Wouk, Herman (Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and novelist). Postcard to the Ambassadors Ball Committee, Washington, DC, 1 April 1957, re: Senator Lehman’s invitation to join the Honorary Committee, happy to join it but cannot attend the ball. TLS Gerald G. Wagner, United Nations Association of the USA, 15 November 1967, thanking him for comments about “A Common Prayer” with reference to the Casals concert in Washington. TLS to Frederic Stoessel, 12 September 1977, thanking him for his appreciative comments and that the sequel to The Winds of War will be published in early 1978.

F.102     Wren, P.C. (English writer). ALS to Mr. Waley, with envelope, n.d.

F.103     Yates, Edmund A. (British journalist, novelist, and dramatist). ALS to D, Webster, Tuesday, doesn’t want to bore him, hopes to see him on Saturday.

F.104     Yonge, Charlotte Mary (prolific English novelist of the Oxford Movement). ALS to Miss Lefroy (probably Fanny Caroline Lefroy, 1820-1885, daughter of Jane Austen's niece Anna Austen), August 15th, re: acceptance of a contribution probably to The Monthly Packet (which Yonge edited). ALS to Mr. Stone, 20 May 1874, his verses gone to the printer for the July number, advises Stone to add a note in proof. ALS addressed “Dear Madam,” 27 October 1875, declining to write an article about travel. ALS addressed "Dear Madam", 24 February ?, explaining that illness prevented an earlier reply. ALS addressed to “My dear Susan”, 30 June 1857. ALS to Lady Jenkyns, 13 October 1900. ALS to Mrs. McDougall, 21 May 1875. ALS fragment, n.d. Article, “English Men and Women of Letters of the 19th Century. VIII. John Keble,” 1888. Clipping from bottom of ALS, “yours most affectionate CM Yonge.” 2 cartes-de-visite: Alexander Bassano, London, n.d.; C.H. Hawkins, Brighton School of Photography, Brighton and Bath, n.d.

F.105     Young, Francis Brett (English novelist, poet, playwright, and composer). ALS to Basilic, 11 October 1924, thanking her for the potpourri. ALS addressed Dear Sir, 17 March 1935, regretting that the only story he has available “for your collection of Translations” was just published in an anthology of Best Short Stories. Asks his correspondent to get in touch with Heinemann for a photo.

Oversize Materials

F.1     Adamson, Joy. B&W photo of Adamson with one of her paintings at an exhibition, photographed by William Russell, 19 February 1972. [removed from Box 1 File 5].

F.2     Nash, Ogden. “Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too”, The Saturday Evening Post, 207, no. 20 (17 November 1934): 100. [removed from Box 4 File 14].

Donated Books

The following books have been removed from the archive and added to the Division’s monograph collection:

Alrich, Thomas. Ponkapog Papers. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1904). Half red morocco, half marbled paper boards, top edge gilt. On the front pastedown is a signed card: “Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Redman Farm | Ponkapog, | Mass. | Oct. 9, 1899.”

Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina. (New York: Dutton, 1992). Signed presentation copy.

Ballantyne, Sheila. Imaginary Crimes. (New York: Viking Press, 1982). Cream paper boards, quarter bound in matching cloth, in dust jacket, signed presentation copy dated 10 October 1982. 

Ballantyne, Sheila. Life on Earth, Stories. (New York: Linden Press, 1988). Cream paper boards, quarter bound in white cloth, in dust jacket.

Ballantyne, Sheila. Norma Jean the Termite Queen. (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975). Grey flecked paper boards, quarter bound in black cloth, in dust jacket, signed presentation copy.

Bridgeman, M.F. Mosses (Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1877).

Burdette, Robert J. Old Time & Young Tom (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1912), dark brown cloth, former owner’s name on front free endpaper with a signed card by Burdette on the front free endpaper. 

Burdette, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache and Other “Hawkeyetems” (Burlington, Iowa: Burlington Publishing Company, 1877), tooled decorated brown boards, bright gold gilt lettering, signed by Burdette at Burlington, Iowa and dated “Aug 6 1877”.

Burgess, Anthony. Any Old Iron. (London: Hutchison, 1989). Uncorrected proof copy, no. 323 in a limited edition of 500 copies, perfect bound, printed in red & black, additional lettering in white. Signed by Greg Gatenby on the front free endpaper.

Carleton, Will. Farm Festivals. (Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1881). Red cloth, gilt lettering, embossed design on upper board, beveled edges. Third volume in the Farm Series. Carleton’s signature on a card affixed to the front free endpaper.

Carleton, Will. Farm Ballads. (New York: Harper & Brothers, Publisher, 1882). With a signed slip and an ALS to Mrs. Prescott, 10 July 1883.

Churchill, Winston. The Crossing (London: Macmillan and Co., 1904), dark green cloth in partial dust jacket.

Cohen, Octavus Roy. Florian Slappey Goes Abroad. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928). Blue cloth, slight water staining along the edges of the front and rear free endpaper, in dust jacket. R.H. Macy & Co. blind stamp on the title page above the title.

Cohen, Octavus Roy. The Other Tomorrow. (Chicago: The White House Publishers, 1927). Light greyish blue cloth in chipped dust jacket. Stamp on p. 1 of Dr. Earl S. Weber. 

Davidson, Gustav. Twenty Sonnets (New York: Blue Faun, 1926), gray paper boards, upper cover with printed paper label, one of 350 copies printed on Roma hand-made paper, presentation copy to the magician Howard Thurston, signed and inscribed by Davidson.

Davies, Rhys. The Stars, the World, and the Women (London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1930). No. 4 of the Furnival Books. Foreword by Liam O’Flaherty, illustrated by Frank C. Papé. Black cloth, no. 355 of 550 copies, signed by Davies, signature of Greg Gatenby. 

Delderfield, R.F., Richard Pollock, and Brian Doherty. Embassy successes, V.1 1945-46 (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1946]).

DeLillo, Don. Love-lies-bleeding. (New York: Scribner, 2006). Advance uncorrected proof. 

DeLillo, Don. The names. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982).

Dickinson, G. Lowes. Letters from a Chinese Official (1903, 7th impression), missing spine binding, with TLS addressed “Dear Madam”, 4 March 1906.

Doudney, Sarah. Psalms of Life (London: Houlston and Sons, 1889; 3rd ed.), containing her poem on pp. 82-4. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Library slip on the front pastedown.

Doyle, Roddy. The Commitments (Dublin: King Farouk, 1987). Card signed by Doyle on front free endpaper. First edition, perfect binding. Doyle co-founded King Farouk Publishing with John Sutton for the principal purpose of publishing this book. 3000 copies were printed of which only about 800 were sold.

Duvert, Felix-Auguste and Augustin-Theodore Lauzanne. Prosper et Vincent (Paris: Imprimerie de Dubisson et Ce, [1833?]). Quarter green cloth with black paper boards, 22 pp., ex-library copy from the Wilmington Institute Free Library. Tipped into the book is an ALS, 7 July 1843, 3 pp., addressed “Monsieur”.

Gregory, Horace. No Retreat, Poems (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1933]), blue cloth in dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper: “To Lewis Mumford, whose friendship I value highly and whose sensitive, yet vigorous creative energy has produced so excellent a book as 'Herman Melville', Horace Gregory, Feb 13, '33”.

Kaye-Smith, Sheila. Iron and Smoke. (London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1928). First edition, blue cloth in slightly chipped dust jacket.

Kenyon, James B. An Oaten Pipe (The Fleur De Lis Poets), blue boards, gilt lettering and decoration, ALS from author to R.L. Weed, 15 January 1896, taped to front pastedown, also signed by Weed.

Le Clezio, J.M.G. The interrogation (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1963).

Le Clezio, J.M.G. The book of flights (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969).

Leonard, Elmore. Get Shorty (New York: Delacorte Press, 1990) in jacket. Signed B&W photo (“To Chris & Mary | with best wishes, | Elmore Leonard | 4/94”.

Lodge, David. The British Museum Is Falling Down. (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967). Dark pink paper boards, quarter bound in dull gold cloth, in jacket. First American edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Greg Gatenby. 

Lodge, David. The British Museum Is Falling Down. (London: Secker and Warburg, 1981). Purple paper boards, near fine in dust jacket. Signed by the author and inscribed by him on the title page to Gatenby with Gatenby's signature on the front free endpaper. From the collection of Canadian crime writer James Dubro and with his bookplate on the inside front cover.

Longstreth, T. Morris. The Laurentians (New York: The Century Co., 1922), green pictorial cloth, front hinge loose but holding, with bookplate of Charles Dexter Allen (a prominent bookplate collector) on the front pastedown with inscription by Longstreth: “To that brother of the creator, the appreciator Charles Dexter Allen with continued good wishes of the author Morris Longstreth”; an undated ALS from Longstreth to Allen is tipped in to the fly leaf of the book.

Lowell, James Russell. Fireside Travels (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), pebble green gilt cloth, near fine, first edition, with a tipped-in ALS on Elmwood, Cambridge stationery to Mrs. Blatwagh, 18 May 1891, stating "I will be at home tomorrow forenoon. Faithfully yours, J.R. Lowell." Bookplate of Morris L. Parrish.

Marquand, John P. H.M. Pulham, Esquire. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1941). Cream colored cloth in slightly chipped creased jacket, includes TLS (affixed to the front pastedown) to Dr. James Harwood Closson 3rd, 21 November 1941, saying that he cannot sign the book “because of the secretarial details involved in such a practice.”

McCallum, D.C. The Water-Mill; And Other Poems. (Brooklyn, N.Y.: privately printed, 1870). Inscribed and dated 5 November 1879, by Orange H. Stevens, to (Gen.) W. W. Wright. His plagiarized version of the “Water-Mill” is on pp. 9-11 of his book. Marbled paper boards, half-bound in leather, leather label on the upper board.

Mertz, Barbara. Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: The Story of Egyptology. (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1964). Grey cloth, stained blue, in dust jacket, fine condition. Mertz’s first book, signed on the title page.

Murry, John Middleton. Keats. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1955). 322 pp. 4th ed. revised and enlarged. Frontispiece drawing by B. R. Haydon. Dark pink cloth with silver lettering on the spine in red dust wrapper (price clipped, browning, staining, and spine panel faded). Slight staining to the top edge of the text block.

Nova, Craig. The good son. (New York: Delacourt Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1982).

Overton, Grant. The Philosophy of Fiction (New York: D. Appleton, 1928), in slightly chipped jacket with a long inscription written by Overton to the bibliophile John S. Mayfield, 10 May 1930, Mayfield’s signed bookplate, and a TLS, 25 March 1930, affixed to back pastedown.

Parker, Cornelia S. An American idyll: the life of Carleton H. Parker (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1941).

Parker, Cornelia S. Ports and happy places (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924).

Parrish, Anne. Sea Level. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934), 10th printing, blue cloth in dust jacket, signed presentation copy for Annie Edgerly Thayer, with Thayer’s bookplate on the front pastedown, and an ALS to Thayer, 1930, North German Lloyd, Bremen, beginning “where e’er we wend, magic was in the Orient….”

Phelps, William Lyon. What I like (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933).

Porter, Eleanor H. The Turn of the Tide: The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem. (Boston: W. A. Wilde Co, 1908). Brownish grey cloth, pictorial cover, good condition. Signed presentation copy of her first book.

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross creek (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1942).

Silone, Ignazio. Bread and Wine. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. Trans. Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. Black cloth in slightly chipped dust jacket. Inscription on front free endpaper from previous owner: “New York | 1/20/37 | in omaggioalla | giustizia e la libertà”.

Slaughter, Frank G. Constantine: The Miracle of the Flaming Cross (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1965), grayish blue paper boards, signed.

Slaughter, Frank G. The Curse of Jezebel: A Novel of the Biblical Queen of Evil (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961), light blue paper boards, quarter bound in cream paper boards, in chipped dust jacket, book club edition, signed.

Slaughter, Frank G. Daybreak: A Novel of Medicine’s Newest Miracle (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958), orange paper boards in jacket, book club edition, signed.

Slaughter, Frank G. Epidemic! (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961), light brownish cream-colored boards, signed.

Slaughter, Frank G. In a Dark Garden (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946), black paper boards, signed.

Slaughter, Frank G. The Mapmaker: a novel of a great navigator Who Sailed Before Columbus (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957), brownish cream paper boards in jacket, book club edition, signed.

Slaughter, Frank G. The Stubborn heart (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, [195?]), blue paper boards, signed.

Sutton, Henry [David R. Slavitt], The Exhibitionist (New York: Bernard Geis Associates, distributed by Crown Publishers Inc., 1967), uncorrected proof (Crane Duplicating Service, Inc. of Cape Cod), spiral bound soft covers somewhat stained, dirty, and bent and creased. 

Sutton, Henry. The Voyeur ([New York]: Bernard Geis Associates, 1969), blue paper boards, quarter bound in white cloth, in jacket.

Viele, Herman Knickerbocker. Random verse (New York: Brentano’s, 1903), with ALS on front free endpaper, “Verse written for the Dinner Card of George E. Hazelton, Jr.”, 21 December 1903.

Von Arnim, Elizabeth. The Caravaners (London: Smith Elder & Co., 1909) with ALS on front free endpaper to W.B.E. Ranken, 1 June 1928, trying to find a free day to see each other, going to Switzerland, had a marvelous Whitsuntide holiday, with ALS, envelope, and photo print of von Arnim (Weekly Magazine published in 1919).

Von Arnim, Elizabeth. Vera (New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1921).

Waterman, Nixon. A book of verses (Boston: Forbes & Co., 1900).

Waterman, Nixon. A rose to the living, and other poems. (Boston: Chapple Publishing Co., 1929).

Waterman, Nixon (ed.). Ben King’s verse (Chicago: Forbes & Co., 1898).

Waterman, Nixon. Boy wanted (St. Louis: A.H. Eilers & Co., 1906).

Waterman, Nixon. Sunshine verses (Boston: Davis & Bond, 1913).

Wiesel, Elie. Legends of our time (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968). Signed copy in jacket.

Williams, Ben Ames. Great oaks (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951), blue cloth in slightly chipped dust jacket, presentation copy signed on the front free endpaper, “To General Patton | In memory of a delightful | friendship | Ben Ames Williams | Sea Island Ga | March 17, 1951.”

Wilson, Angus. Late call (London: Secker & Warburg, 1964), wrappers, signed copy.

Wilson, Angus. Such darling dodos and other stories. (London: Secker and Warburg, 1950). Red cloth in very good jacket, offsetting to endpapers, Spingarn’s book label, with a couple of lines written in pencil indicating when he purchased and read the book.

Wilson, Angus. The Wrong set and other stories. (London: Secker and Warburg, 1950). Blue cloth in very good jacket, book label of Lawrence P. Spingarn (American poet) with a couple of lines written in pencil indicating when he purchased and read the book.