Summary
Overview
Broom Correspondence of Harold Loeb
1920-1956 (mostly 1921-1924)
0.8 linear feet, 2 archival boxes
This collection is stored at Firestone Library and Firestone Library.
This collection is stored onsite at Firestone Library. Box 1, folder 26
is stored in special vault facilities.
Requests will be delivered to Manuscripts Division, RBSC Reading Room
.
Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
One Washington Road
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA
Abstract
Consists of correspondence files of Harold Loeb (Princeton Class of 1913), one of the founding editors of Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts.
Description
Description
The collection consists primarily of the correspondence files, 1921-1924, of Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts, edited in Italy by Loeb (Princeton Class of 1913) in association with Matthew Josephson, Alfred Kreymborg, Malcolm Cowley, and Lola Ridge. Approximately half the collection consists of editorial and business correspondence between Loeb and his associates, while the balance contains few or single letters from over 150 American, British, and European authors and artists. Among the correspondents represented are Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Cocteau, and Henri Matisse.
Collection Creator
Biography
A graduate of Princeton University (Class of 1913), Loeb served in World War I, later becoming a boxing sparring partner of novelist Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway used him as the model for the character Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises. Loeb was co-editor of an influential "small" literary magazine, Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts, and published The Way It Was: A Memoir in 1959.
Access and Use
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research. Researchers may be required to use surrogates of
collection items stored in special vault facilities.
Use Restrictions
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Preferred Citation
Broom Correspondence of Harold Loeb; 1920-1956 (mostly 1921-1924), Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
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