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Collection Overview

Creator:
Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947
Title:
Maxwell E. Perkins Letters to Elizabeth H. Lemmon
Repository:
Manuscripts Division
Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0g354f26q
Dates:
1922-1947
Size:
2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
Storage Note:
  • ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-2
Language:
English

Abstract

Consists of 128 letters (1922-1946) by Scribner editor Maxwell E. Perkins to his long-time friend and platonic lover Elizabeth H. Lemmon.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 128 letters (1922-1946) by Perkins to his long-time friend and platonic lover Elizabeth H. Lemmon, often discussing books to be read and his relationships with Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other authors for whom he was editor with Charles Scribner's Sons. Also present are three letters by Louise Perkins (Perkins' wife) and one letter by Elizabeth Gorsline (Perkins' daughter), all written to Lemmon after Perkins' death in 1947.

Arrangement

Letters are arranged chronologically.

Collection Creator Biography:

Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

Born in New York City, Maxwell E. Perkins attended the St. Paul's School of Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard College, graduating from Harvard in 1907. Following his graduation, Perkins worked for The New York Times prior to joining publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, in 1910. As an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, Perkins is most closely associated with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. However, Perkins also worked with noted authors, J. P. Marquand, Erskine Caldwell, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

Collection History

Acquisition:

Gift of Robert B. Dale III CPA (AM 90-11).

Appraisal

No appraisal information is available.

Processing Information

Folder inventory prepared by Lisa Yankowitz ('13) in 2012.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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Credit this material:

Maxwell E. Perkins Letters to Elizabeth H. Lemmon; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0g354f26q
Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
  • ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-2