Subseries 2C: Nellie Harris/Esar Levine, 1925-1955
Consists of miscellaneous correspondence of Nellie Harris and Esar Levine.
Series 2: Correspondence, 1920-1955
Consists of over one hundred autograph and typed letters (chronologically arranged in 8 folders by date), mostly signed by Harris, to his friend and agent, Esar Levine, dating from 1920 to 1930 and discussing various publication and marketing strategies for My Life and Loves in both Mexico and America, as well as personal and financial matters. There are also letters to Harris and Levine from their mutual business associates, and from such notable persons as Otto Kahn, H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, and G.S. Viereck, arranged by correspondent. Also present is a typed copy of a letter from G. Bernard Shaw to Harris's widow, Nellie O'Hara Harris, as well as one folder of her sporadic correspondence with Levine, ending with the news of her death in 1955
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Miscellaneous Items, 1949
DS (photostat), July 11, 1949, 1 p., from the University of Chicago, conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws on Dr. Albert Schweitzer, signed by Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chancellor of the University; with mailing envelope; printed blank invitation (July, 1949) from Dr. and Mrs. Albert Schweitzer, to an informal tea during the Schweitzer's stay in New York, to be filled in by recipient with preferred day; booklets of clergy fare certificates to be used on railroad lines, sent (1949) to the Schweitzers from the Eastern Clergy Bureau and the Western Clergy Bureau; Strasburger Universitäs-Kalender for Winter 1910/1911, possibly used by Schweitzer
Series 1: Manuscripts and Documents, 1949-1960
Consists of a few brief Schweitzer manuscripts, a copy of one Schweitzer document, and several miscellaneous Schweitzer items. (Original folders numbered 1 to 14 contained miscellaneous printed material; their contents have been filed in Series V.)
Einstein, Albert, 1948
ALS (photostat), September 25, 1948, expressing regret that Dr. Albert Schweitzer cannot visit "our Institution," with photostat copy of ALS and translation into English
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Series 1: Manuscripts of Handel's Works and Works by Contemporary Composers, 1720-1958
A collection of 29 bound manuscripts including but not restricted to contemporary copies of Handel's musical works. Some of these copybooks include works by other contemporary composers. Also included are several indices of Handel's works and a scrapbook concerning 19th-century performances at various Handel festivals.
Series 5: Handel Societies and Festivals, 1784-1959
Includes files of the activities of the Deal and Walmer Handelian Society, founded by Hall in 1946, arranged by event, followed by files on other such societies, including one in Brisbane, Australia. Following the files on Handel societies is material on East German Handel festivals. At the end of the series is a box of commemorative medals, minted for various anniversaries and festivals in honor of the composer.
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Subseries 3A: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, 1919-1977
This subseries consists of both pen-and-ink and pencil drawings, as well as three prints and one tracing. The primary subject is female figures, but there are also two portraits and a small selection of miscellaneous drawings. Three drawings, "Relaxation," "Memory," and "Extension" [circa1919-1920], were published in Twenty-eight Drawings [see also Box 7, Folder 1]. Furthermore, this subseries contains three prints of drawings of Bloch. This subseries is organized by subject and then by medium, with miscellaneous material located at the end.
Series 3: Drawings, 1919-1977
Consists of both pen-and-ink and pencil drawings, as well as three prints and one tracing. The primary subject is female figures, but there are also two portraits and a small selection of miscellaneous drawings. Three drawings, "Relaxation," "Memory," and "Extension" [circa1919-1920], were published in Twenty-eight Drawings [see also Box 7, Folder 1]. Also consists of unbound pencil drawings and two sketchbooks from Bloch's travels, one each from Bali (1919) and Java (1919-1920). The primary subject of the unbound drawings is Coomaraswamy and Bloch, while that of the sketchbooks is indigenous people and dancers of Bali and Java. Also included in the Bali sketchbook are two drawings of Coomaraswamy, one of him wearing a typical Balinese hat, and two prints of a Balinese dancer, one hand-colored [see also Box 8, Folder 1].
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H. L. Mencken Correspondence with Dent Smith, 1938-1945
Consists of 108 letters by Mencken to Dent Smith between the years 1938 and 1945, with Smith's side of the correspondence present in carbon copies.
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Raymond Mortimer Letters to Edward Sackville-West, 1925-1963
Consists of 73 letters (1925-1961) by English author and literary critic Raymond Mortimer to his life-long friend Edward Sackville-West, both members of the "Bloomsbury Group."
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Platform Magazine Collection, 1927-1957
Consists of miscellaneous papers related to the short-lived, twentieth-century British literary periodical Platform.
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Hermann Broch Collection, 1938-1972
Consists of mostly English correspondence and manuscripts of the Austrian author Hermann Broch.
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David N. Rowe Correspondence, 1944-1948
Consists of correspondence between David Nelson Rowe, a professor in Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, and five of his Princeton University students who had joined the U.S. Army, Navy, or the Marines, during World War II.
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Alonzo Gore Oakley Diaries, 1899-1948
Consists of 50 diaries of Alonzo Gore Oakley, a manager of the New York City office of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company.
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Barton Wood Currie Collection, 1918-1948
Consists of selected letters by authors and publishers addressed to American reporter and editor Barton Currie and his wife, Florence.
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Letters to Eliseo Diego, 1946-1990 July 9
Includes letters by Gaston Baquero, Eugenio Florit, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Jorge Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Dulce María Loynaz, Julián and Tangui Orbón, Alphonso Reyes, José María Valverde,
Eliseo Diego Papers, 1940-1990
This collection consists of papers of Diego, Cuban poet, author, and translator. Included are correspondence between Diego, his wife, various friends and other writers.
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Millicent Todd Bingham, 1948 January
A.L.S. to Troxell 25 January 1948 and TL from Yale Reference Librarian (unnamed) to Bingham, concerning a student who attended Yale in the 1820's.
Sinclair Lewis, 1939-1947
7 A.Ls.S. (all to Troxell) and 4 T.Ls.S. (1 to Mr. Tinker, 1 to James T. Babb, 2 to Troxell).