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P. L. Travers Personal Documents, circa 1946-1994 September 16 (mostly 1965-1992)
1 box
SOME ONLINE CONTENT
Notes by P. L. Travers on fairy tales, myth, and other subjects.
Dekavalles, Antōnēs, circa 1946-1985
1 folder
Box 74, Folder 1
Includes a printed copy of Dekavalles' "Three Poems to the Master-Builder"; biographic data on Dekavalles; reviews on Dekavalles' book Okeanides by Modern Greek poets; clippings of Greek and English newspapers; a printed copy of an interview given by Dekavalles to M. Keyishian "Joints, Ships, Ransoms" adopted from an interview that originally appeared in The Literary Review.
This series is primarily composed of drafts, research files, and other materials pertaining to Hughes's published and unpublished works. To a lesser extent, it documents Hughes's work as a political advisor and speechwriter for Governor Nelson Rockefeller's 1968 presidential bid.
Doukarēs, Dēmētrēs, circa 1946-1973
3 folders
Box 77, Folder 5-7
Includes typescript drafts of Doukarēs' poems translated into English by Friar with his autograph corrections; typescripts of the Greek versions of the poems; typescript of "Credo" both in English and in Greek; an holograph note by Doukarēs relating to his exile in the island of Makronēsos, Greece; photocopies of printed articles on Doukarēs' poetry published in several Greek literary magazines.
Box b-002028, Folder 2
Coroneos, Byron
Consists of 32 silver prints of Haitians just after the Haitian Revolution of 1946 and into the 1950s. The photographs include images of agricultural and artisanal work, marketplaces, and the streets of Port-au-Prince during the Mardi Gras Carnival. Many of the photographs include captions that document the subject matter and location of the image.
Poems: 1920-1945: Printer's copy of edition published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, circa 1946-1948
1 folder
Box 6, Folder 32
Association of Hiroshima University for Sending Atomic-bombed Roof Tiles
The Association of Hiroshima University for Sending Atomic-bombed Roof Tiles distributes the tiles in an effort to perpetuate awareness of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to oppose the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons. The collection includes seven atomic-bombed roof tiles; photographs of the location where the roof tiles were recovered; booklets and pamphlets on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and information and correspondence from Hiroshima University.
Photos, circa 1945-1987
2 folders
Box 129, Folder 1-2
Includes photographs and portaits of Kimon Friar and Nikos Kazantzakis; an oversized photogrpah of Kimon Friar along with Nikos Kazantzakis has been removed to Box 127 (Miscellaneous and Oversized material).
Dekavalles, Antōnēs, circa 1945-1981
1 folder
Box 74, Folder 3
Includes typed manuscripts (carbon copies) of several versions of Dekavalles' poems both in Greek and in English with handwritten corrections by Friar; and several signed poems by Dekavalles.
Box 2, Folder 1-2
These folders contain undated letters that were later identified and given approximate dates. Folder 1 contains the following groupings: seventeen letters, circa 1945-1949 (all letters beginning with "Chère Violette Leduc"); twenty-three "rendez-vous" Letters, circa 1949-1971 (beginning "Chère Violette" and "Ma chère Violette"), which are short letters making appointments to meet at cafes or at Beauvoir's home; and two undated letters. Folder 2 contains a letter from Gary, Indiana (circa August 11th, 1950) discussing Nelson Algren's new house in Michigan; a letter from Norway (circa July 1951); two letters about Ravages (May 1954); a letter from England (circa 1959) mentioning "Coriolan;" a letter and prière d'insérer (circa 1960) related to Leduc's Tresors à Prendre; a letter from Cuba (circa March 4, 1960); four letters (circa 1964) about La Batarde ; one letter (circa 1965) with a title suggestion for La Femme au (petit) renard; thirteen letters from Italy (circa 1952-1963); and thirteen letters to Faucon (circa 1961-1972).
Vrettakos, Nikēphoros, circa 1945-1969
2 folders
Box 121, Folder 3-4
Includes signed, autograph poems by Vrettakos in Greek: "Akoma tout' he anoixē", Takēs Lioumas", Etsi mou stathēke ho Taygetos", "Margarita", "To salparisma tou karaviou"; typescript drafts (carbon copies) of poems translated from Greek by Friar bearing his autograph corrections; typescripts of the poems in Greek; poet's explanatory notes on his poems; biographical statement and "Credo"; business correspondence with Friar relating to the selection, translation,and publication of some of Vrettakos' poems in Modern Greek Poetry (additional correspondence has been placed in Box 151, folder 4).
Box ad23, Folder 9
Image number: 13525. Folder or item number: 9. Additional information: At the Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University.
Box mp16, Folder 17
Image number: 419. Folder or item number: 17.
Box 15, Folder 4
Includes obituaries, memorials, newspaper clippings, issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, vol. XXIII. no. 24 (1923), and four copies of Erwin Panofksy's printed biography.