Series 1: Correspondence, 1901-1970
The correspondence series includes correspondence from and to Sylvia Beach. While this series largely encompasses Sylvia Beach's personal correspondence, previously interfiled business correspondence has been maintained in this file group. Correspondence with family members is interfiled.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within.
Abécassis, Guy, 1959 November 29
Acosta, Mercedes de, undated
Adam, George, 1962 July 27
Adams, E. C. L., 1927 June 14
Adams, F. B. Jr., 1950 July 10
Aggrey, O. Rudolph, 1959 May 5
Allen, D. M., 1953 August 22
Anderson, Elbridge G., 1939 June 22
Anderson, Forrest, 1934 September 10
Anderson, Margaret, 1937 March 27
Aragon, Louis, undated
Ardagh, John, undated
Armes, Ethel, 1937 July 7
Armitage, Jane, 1959 May 6
Arnaud, Odette, 1959 November 30
Arts Magazine, 1962 June 1
Ashland, Arthur, 1928 March 27
Ashworth, Roscoe, 1927 August 9
Auden, W. H., 1957 January-March
Aurousseau, M., 1927 October 21
Aveline, Claude, 1922 October 9
Antheil, Böske, 1925-1937
Antheil, George, 1923
Antheil, George, 1924
Antheil, George, 1924
Antheil, George, 1925
Antheil, George, 1926
Antheil, George, 1927
Antheil, George, 1928
Antheil, George, 1929
Antheil, George, 1930
Antheil, George, 1932
Antheil, George, 1938
Antheil, George, undated
Babbitt, Dora Drew, 1937 August 18
Baker, Denys Val, 1946 July 13
Bishop, Balogh, 1926
Baldwin, Frederick, undated
Barkey, I. H., 1928 February 19
Barnes, Djuna, 1962 September 7
Barrie Books Ltd., 1959 March 23
Bartlett, Francis, 1950 July 4
Bartlett, Henrietta C., undated
Bataille, Alfred, 1959 March 27
Bates, Ernest S., undated
Baudot, Jeanne, 1946 March 26
Beach, Helen, 1959
Beach, Sylvester W., 1912-1940
Beach, Eleanor O., 1911-1927
Beach (Dennis), Holly, 1915-1962
Bécat, Paul-Emile, circa 1921
Bécheron, Jacques, 1959 April 28
Beckett, Samuel, 1961
Belgion, Montgomery, 1946 April 8
Belmain, France, undated
Benet, S. V., 1935 May 4
Bennett, Clare, 1939 May 15
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, undated
Beresford, J. D., 1927 March 14
Bertelé, René, 1960 October 21-27
Bessie, Constance, undated
Beucler, André, undated
Blum, Etta, 1938 January 6
Bocchi, Lorenzo, 1959 April 22
Boiffard, Denise, undated
de Boissard, Comtesse A., undated
Boll, Madame Alfred, undated
Bondoux, Virginia, 1959 April 23
Bonney, M. Thérèse, 1936 May 8
de Bosdari, Anthony, 1944 October 12
Bottin, M., 1945 November 20
Bousquet, Joe, 1928 June 16
Boyer, François, undated
"Bravo", 1932 September 1
Breton, André, 1935 December 2
Brewer, Bessie, undated
Bridson, D. G., 1933 January 25
Brody, Catherine, 1922 November 17
Brody, Daniel, 1959 March 18
Brunius, Jacques, 1946 June 19
Bullitt, Anne Moën, undated
Bullitt, Louise, undated
Burelbach, James, 1945 September 3
Burnet, Mary, 1945 July 20-August 25
Burnett, Whit, 1936 November 10
Busy, Ina, 1959 March 17
Butler, Mrs. John Davidson, undated
Butts, Mary, undated
Cahill, Sir J. Robert, undated
S. Calvary & Co., 1929 December 6
Camille, Georgette, 1934 June 19
Carney, Jack, 1946 September 8
Carrwell, Mrs. J. A., 1927 August 27
Cartier, Marius, 1959 April 28
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1930-1957
Caruz, Eduardo, undated
CBS Films Inc., 1962
Cerf, Bennett, 1927 February 3
Chadourne, Marc, undated
Chevalley, Abel, 1926 May 22
Church, Barbara, 1940 March 13
Citron, Pierre, undated
Cleverdon, Douglas, 1925 November 29
Cocteau, Jean, undated
Cohen, Paul, undated
Colin, Saul C., 1933 August 5
Collins, Joseph, 1926 April 6
Conrad, Bruno, 1946 May 15
"Contact", 1959 May 1
Cook, George R., 1959 March 13
Cooper, Gertrude, undated
Copeau, Jacques, undated
Corman, Cid, 1955 December 7-10
Cornetz, Victor, 1927 March 25
Cousin, Suzanne, 1960 May 2
Cowley, Muriel, 1957
Crane, Louise, 1937 December 26
Crosby, Caresse, undated
Cross, W. L., 1922 July 11
Cullen, Winifred, 1947
cummings, e. e., 1962 September 4
Curran, C. P., undated
Curtis Brown Ltd., 1939 April 11
Cussen, Robert, 1962 May 7
de Cuy, M., 1941 July 7
Dahlberg, Edward, 1967 January 15
Daley, Louise, 1950 December
Damon, S. Foster, 1930 June 2
Daves, Joan, undated
David, André, 1962 September 20
Davidson, Jacques, undated
Debbaut, Baptiste, 1945 October 9
Defin, Michel, 1961 January 4
Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie, undated
Dennis, Dorothy, 1961 August 15-21
Denoël, Jean, 1962 June 24
Desonnes, H., 1961 August 4
DeVecchi, Florence, undated
Devine, Herbert, 1927 March 22-31
"Dial", 1926-1936
Dickie, Francis, undated
Dilkes, Marie Louise, 1959 March 12
Dobson, Silvia, undated
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1924
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1925
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1929
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1932
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1933
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1943
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1944
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1946
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1947
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1948
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1949
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1950
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1952
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1954
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1956
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1957
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1958
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1959
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1960
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 1961
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), undated
Dos Passos, John, 1936 August 10
DuBos, A., 1951 July 5
DuBos, Charles, 1926 October 2
Douglas, Simone, 1959 February 7
Dujardin, Edouard, 1933 March 6
Duplaix, Georges, 1929 April 6
Durtain, L., 1920 February 2
Dutet, Mme. H., 1962 April 2-10
Dyer, Louise, undated
Ellman, Richard, 1961
Ewing, Max, 1928 -1929
Faidherbe, Louis, 1961 November 1
Farrell, J. T., 1937 March 20
Fels, Florent, undated
Fergusson, Harvey, 1959 August 17
Féron, Yvonne, 1949 August 15
Figari, Pedro, 1928 February 21
Filene, Edward A., 1929 October 7
Firbank, Ronald, 1923 July 4
Fitzgerald, Ellen, undated
Fitzgerald, Mabel, 1930 January 21
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, undated
Flanner, Janet, 1950 July 28
Fletcher, John Gould, undated
Flowers, Robert J., 1926 December 12
Fort, Paul, 1918 February 14-July 6
Fraser, John, 1949 December 10
Frechtman, Bernard, 1948 June 14
Frémont, Hélène, 1942 January 26
Fuller, Gwendolyn, 1936
de Gallaix, Gertrude, 1959 April 15
Gallup, Donald, 1952 July 14-24
Galsworthy, John, 1929 September 11
Garcia, Martita, 1940 June 22
Gardiner, C. W., 1928 November 25
Garrett, Margaret, 1961 October 13
Gavin, Ambassador, undated
Ghose, Sudhin N., 1953 December 3
Giard, Michel, 1959 December 29
Gilbert, Madeleine, undated
Gless, Eleanor Green, 1959 March 26
Gordan, John D., 1958 April 3-July 2
Gorman, Douglas, 1925 January 14
Goyen, William, 1949 November 9
Grassot, S., undated
Green, Ray, 1936 May 19
Greenwich Library, 1960 November 17
Grémont, C., 1962 September 12
Grindea, Miron, undated
Guthrie, Ella, 1937 December 26
Haford, Maggie, 1961 November 30
Hall, Eugene, 1927 July 4
Hamilton, Gerald, 1923 November 25
Hansen, Erik, 1961 May 21
Harper, Allanah, 1926 January 14
Harper & Brothers, 1948 June 7
Harrods, 1936 January 30
Hart, Clive, 1959 April 21
de Hartman, Thomas, circa 1946 May
Harvey, Anne, undated
Hastings, John, 1933 August 19
Hay, Helen Scott, 1926 July 12
Hayes, Kiffin, 1944 December 31
Haynes, James, 1961 June 5
Hayter, S. W., circa 1950 December
Heacock, Lucille, 1961 December 14
Held, Jack, 1927 January 18
Henry, Georgette, undated
Herrick, Kitty (Mrs. P. W.), undated
Hervey, Sybil, undated
Hesse, Helen A., 1929 April 13
Heurtault, L., 1918 June 15
Higgins, Lawrence, undated
Hills, Gordon, undated
Hinman, Jane, 1933-1962
Hitchcock, W. A., undated
Hodge, Sarah M., 1937 April 5
Hoffmeister, Adolf, undated
Hollard, Mireille, 1939 April 7
Honda, Zenichiro, 1922 April 25
Hood, Sheila, 1958 April 22-May 12
Horner, David, 1940 April 29
Hoskins, Dorothy, 1938 May 27
Hughes, Toni, 1959 March 23-May 26
Humbrecht, George, undated
Hume, Mrs. James Cleland, undated
Hyde, Freda, undated
Illone, Betsy, 1958 January 3
Irons, Jessica I., 1958
Jaggard, Charles H., 1933 March 21
Jeans, Norah M., 1938 November 14
Johnston, W. Dawson, undated
Jolas, Betsy, undated
Jones, William R., 1935 October 11
Jouby, Louis, 1962 September 24
Joyce, George, 1923-1932
Joyce, James, 1926-1961
Joyce, Lucia, 1958-1962
Joyce, Stanislaus, 1926 February 13
Katta, T., 1927 August 17
Keller, Adolf, 1926 May 29
Keller, Thomas G., 1930 January 13
de Kergarion, Renee, undated
Keynes, Geoffrey, 1933 April 2-16
King, Clinton, 1961 September 4-26
Kingsbury, Muriel, undated
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1927 January 19
Klein, L., 1943 November 30
Knerr, Anthony, undated
Knoll, Robert E., 1961 November 11
Koch, Kenneth, 1955 August 16
Kohlberg, Lore, 1957 October 8
Kraft, James, 1959 May 10
Kramer, Louis L., undated
Labesse, Paul, 1928 March 8
Ladies Home Journal, 1951 May 3-21
Lafourcade, Georges, undated
Lagden, Mervyne, 1937 November 30
Lalanne, Philias, 1939 December 20
Lamotte, Angèle, 1945
Lamy, Marthe, undated
de Lanux, Pierre, undated
Larkin, Joseph J., 1945 February 5
Larsson, R. E., 1938 March 3
Lasselin, George, 1929 October 12
Lavin, Mary, 1962 June 25
LeBlanc, Georgette, undated
LeBout, G., 1942 January 5
LeGallienne, Richard, 1932 April 2
Leiris, Michel, undated
Lemaître, Madame Jacques, undated
Léon, Lucie, 1952 July 2
Léopold, Flavia, 1929 February 14
Le Progrès, 1962 August 10
Lereüil, Maurice, undated
Leroy, Jean, 1959 March 18
Leslie, Seymour, undated
Levin, Harry, 1941
Lewis, Janet, 1929 October 30
Light, James, 1922 July 22
Lilley, Joan, 1962 August 7
Lin, Fu, 1922 September 24
Linossier, Raymonde, 1926 August
Little, Brown & Company, 1928 June 5
London, Jack, 1938 September 24
Lottman, Herbert R., 1958 June 16
Lowry, Malcolm, 1934 May 25
Lubac, Jacqueline, 1948
Lund, H., 1957 November 21
Lynes, George Platt, undated
MacAlister, R. A. Stewart, undated
MacCarvill, Mrs. P., undated
MacDonagh, Donagh, undated
MacDonald, Ambassador, 1962 March 31
MacIntyre, C. F., 1946 March 3
MacShane, Frank, 1954 January 15
Magill, M. M., undated
Manfred, Ernest, 1947 August 1
Marcousé, Betty, 1927 October 21
de Margerie, Jenny, undated
Margules, de Hirsh, 1961 May 10
Mari, D. J., undated
Marichalar, Antonio, undated
Marsh, Philip, 1934 August 2
Mason, Ludo C., 1931
Massé, Henri, 1949
Matereau, C. Daniel, 1943 October 7
Mayhall, Jane, 1960 April 3
McAlmon, Robert, 1922-1949
McAlmon, Robert, 1922
McAlmon, Robert, 1923
McAlmon, Robert, 1924
McAlmon, Robert, 1925
McAlmon, Robert, 1926
McAlmon, Robert, 1927
McAlmon, Robert, 1928
McAlmon, Robert, 1929
McAlmon, Robert, 1930
McAlmon, Robert, 1931
McAlmon, Robert, 1932
McAlmon, Robert, 1934
McAlmon, Robert, 1935
McAlmon, Robert, 1936
McAlmon, Robert, 1938
McAlmon, Robert, 1944
McAlmon, Robert, 1949
McAlmon, Robert, undated
McCawley & Co., 1927 January 20
McGreevy, Thomas, undated
de Menasce, Jean, undated
Mercanton, François, undated
de Messey, Marquise, undated
Messineo, Léon, 1934 November 22
Metzenberg, Mrs. John, 1948 August 7
Michaels, Charles, Jr., 1955 May 18
Miller, Charles, 1961 October 17
Monnier, Clovis, 1943 December 31
Monnier, Mathilde, undated
Monro, W. D., 1931 February 24
Montague, John, 1962 February 23
Moore, George, undated
Moorhead, Ethel, 1927 February 22
Morley, Christopher, undated
Morley, Mrs. Frederick H., undated
Morot-Sir, Catherine, undated
Morot-Sir, Jacqueline, 1961 April 13
Mort, Kenneth, undated
Moschos, Louise, 1952
Moschos, Wilhelmine, 1926 July 24
Munro, Meeda, 1933 March 3
Muoi, Doan, 1939 February 25
Nau, Naja, 1925 December 10
Nevvin, Kenneth, 1936 March 31
Nicolas, H., 1962 July 24
Norton, Barbara, 1956 October 22
Norton-Griffiths, Sir Peter, undated
Nutting, Helen, 1930 February 6
O'Brien, Frederik, 1936 September 13
O'Brien, Minna, 1929 December 11
"The Observer", 1933 May
O'Faolain, Sean, 1948 May 16
Orbison, Agnes, undated
Orbison, Bertha, undated
Orbison, J.H., 1926 November 24
Orbison, Kay, 1960 December 22
Orbison, Thomas J., 1918-1933
Orbison, Virginia, 1951
Paine, Albert B., undated
Pantling, Dorothy, undated
Parker, Constance, 1929 October 29
Partlan, Anne, 1931 August 26
Paul, Elliot, 1949 August 10
Peabody Book Shop, undated
Pellesier, Michel, 1926 May 16
Penuel Press, 1927 December 13
Peter, Marion, 1911-1961
Peterson, Spiro, 1955 September 14
Philipon, Remi, undated
Phillips, Margaret, 1960 October 15
Picasso, Pablo, undated
Pichette, Henri, 1948 July 27
Piekorski, Stefan, 1937 May 13
Pierce, Ivy, 1938 April 7
"Poetry Quarterly", 1940 March 20
Poujol, Jacques, undated
Poulenc, Francis, undated
Power, Arthur, 1950 January 5
Prévost, Jean, 1925 April 30
Prinet, Jean, undated
Prosser, Lee, 1962 July 12
Queneau, Raymond, undated
Quinn, John, 1968 November 10
Rasmussen, Bjørn, 1962 June 24
Ray, Man, undated
Razel, M., 1946 June 12
Reavey, George, undated
Reeves, Harrison, undated
Reid, Robert J., 1928 December 21
Renney, George, undated
Reverdy, Pierre, 1951 January 26
"La Revue Nouvelle", 1928 March 5
Reynolds, Ruth, 1962 March 25
Ringrose, J.A., 1927-1939
Roberts, R. F., 1938 December 8
Robeson, Paul, 1927 October 13
Rodes, Marjorie R., undated
Rodin, A., 1916 November 22
Rolland, Madeleine, 1922 July 8
Rosche, Don, 1945 August 14
Rothermere, Lillian, undated
Roullois, M., 1962 June 4
Rousseau, Henri, undated
Ryan, George B., undated
Sadiq, Mufti Muhammad, undated
Sainmont, J. H., 1952 December 24
Sandars, Edmund, undated
Sanger, Margaret, undated
Sarton, May, 1945 April 22
Satie, Erik, 1922 September 21
Sato, Ken, 1927 May 17
Sayre, Jessie W., 1925 April 11
Schaefer, Maryanne, 1962 April 12
Schiffrin, Jacques, undated
Schoberlin, Melvin H., 1947
Schwartz, Gustave, 1927 November 30
Scott, C. A. Dawson, 1933 January 30
Shaw, Sylvia de Grasse, undated
Shaw, Walter, undated
Shinkman, Paul A., undated
Shoemaker, Peter, 1952 October 22
Sibon, Marcelle, undated
de Silva, undated
Silverman, Clara, 1960 May 6
Simon, Odette, undated
Sorensen, Lis, 1959 March 22
Spaatz, Katherine, undated
Speaight, Hugh, 1929 October 2
Spectorsky, A. C., 1961 December 8
Spencer, John, 1960 July 19
Spoerri, James F., 1949 July 6
Stafford, Connie, 1961 December
Stern, Hélène, 1928 March 20
Stevens, Helena, 1928 December 14
Stevenson, Burton, undated
Stewart, William McC., 1932 May 9
Stimson, Elizabeth, 1934 July 30
Stone, Maggie, 1962 August 18
Strickland, Judson, 1938 May 22
Sutton-Paterson, J., 1923 May 15
Swain, Louise, undated
Swan, Emmy, 1938 May 18
Sykes, Claud, 1928 January 17
Symons, Arthur, 1925-1928 August 17
Symons, Rhoda, 1934 August 20
Tadie, Marie, undated
Talbert, Ernest, 1927 May 1-11
Tartiere, Drue, 1944 June 19-July 8
Taylor, Harvey, 1962 June 8
Temple, F. J., 1962 June 13-July 12
Téry, Simone, undated
University of Texas, 1959 October 21
Thoma, Richard, 1945 April 9
Thomas, Neuri, 1942 April 10
Thooris, Alfred, 1948 January 16
Toyoda, M. Sentaro, undated
Tracy, Marguerite, 1924 July 16-27
Tree, Iris, 1923 October 10
Treece, Henry, 1939
Tristan, Robert, undated
Troutman, Ivy, 1933
Trumbull, Alice, undated
Tuohy, Patrick, 1927 February 28
United Press, 1934 February 15
Valéry, François, 1935 December 31
Vallette, Jacques, undated
Van Melle, J., 1962 September 14
Van Vechten, Carl, 1957 January 7-16
Van Wyck, William, 1925 October 29
Varèze, Louise, 1959 July 11
Vogel, Arlette, 1957 April 29
Von Bergen, Ruth, 1932 February 27
Walworth, Colby, 1949 January 11
Weaver, Harriet, 1920-1961
Welland, Dennis, 1960 July 19-23
Weller, Sam, undated
Wescott, Glenway, undated
Westervelt, Betty, 1945 October 22
Whitehead, Alex, 1922 June 12
Whitman, Eleanor, 1961 November 22
Wibbelz, Henry, undated
Wickham, Anna, 1928 May
Wilder, Isabel, 1962 July 15
Williams, Clayton, undated
Williams, Florence, 1927 October 2
Wilson, Romer, 1921 August 30
Wright, Julia, undated
Winslow, Madeleine, undated
Wright, Jean, 1934 October 26
Wright, Mary Buckland, 1946 August 8
Wylie, James H., 1962 July 15
Yacoël, Liliane, 1960 January 11
Ybarra, Penny, 1934
Ybarra, Tom, 1960 February 1
Zwaska, Caesar, 1925 July 1
The Shakespeare & Company series documents Sylvia Beach's business activities relating to her bookshop in Paris. It includes information on bookshop inventory, orders and subscriptions, the lending library, publishing activities, author readings, bookshop exhibits, and the sale of manuscripts. Of special interest is the material relating to Beach's publication of James Joyce, including, in 1922, Joyce's Ulysses , which she distributed as long as it remained a banned book in England and the United States. The series also includes files relating to the publication of Joyce's Pomes Penyeach in 1927 and a volume of studies of Joyce's Work in Progress (later incorporated in Finnegans Wake ) by fourteen contributors, entitled Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress .
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
Card Catalogue, undated
Lending Library, 1922-1961
Alexandre, undated
Aragon, Louis, undated
Beach, undated
Brooks, Alden, undated
Bryher, undated
Comte, le, undated
Daumal, René, undated
Dent, 1933-01-23
Dufour, Charles, undated
Duhamel, Marcel, undated
Eastman, Max, 1927-11-07
Edel, Leon, undated
Ellis, Havelock, undated
Falquel, Louis, undated
Foret, de la, undated
Fournerey, undated
Gibault, H., undated
Goldman, Emma, undated
Goodwin, 1935-10-16
Groethuisen, undated
Harper, Allanah, undated
Hommel, Bernard, undated
Larbaud, Valery, undated
Laughlin, James, undated
Lebois, André, undated
Lucas, undated
Marotte, undated
McNair, undated
Melik, 1932-03-22
Moal, le, undated
Ogden, C. K., undated
Parisot, 1948-04-09
Pfeffel, de, undated
Pfiffer, undated
Pottier, undated
Pound, Ezra, undated
Pulsford, G. E., undated
Quennell, undated
Raoussel, de, undated
Reeves, Joyce, undated
Reid, Marjorie, undated
Rhein (Verlag), undated
Riviere, Jean, undated
Rodman, Selden, undated
Romains, Jules, undated
Roy, Jean, undated
Satie, Erik, undated
Saur, Maurice, undated
Schenk, undated
Stein, Leo, 1923-1924
Stern, James, undated
Ullmann, W. E., undated
Visser, undated
Wang, undated
Watson, 1943-1944
Wilson, Natalie, October
Winger, undated
Wright, Ellen, undated
Wright, Julia, undated
Ybarra, Penny, undated
Alvear, Elvira, 1931-1932
Ardant, Henri, undated
Arnavon, Cyrille, 1939
Auger, Pierre, 1941
Bassiano, Princess Marguerite, 1924
Branwell, Gloria, undated
Butler, H. M., 1939
Camp, Ruth, undated
Carr, Philip, 1934
Cazamian, Marguerite, 1944
Chennevière, André, 1935
Citron, Pierre, undated
Clark, John d'Arcy, 1939
Coche de la Fierte, Etienne, 1940
Colens, Fernand, 1937-1938
Connolly, Cyril, 1933
Culley, Eric, 1939
de Beauvoir, Simone, undated
de Couet, B., 1938
Dennis, Mary Cable (Polly), 1938
Diebold, Jeanine, 1941 November 19
Dupuy, Michel, 1940
Edwards, Pamela, 1942
Gascoyne, David, 1934
Gibault, H., 1938
Gillet, Robert, 1942
Hemingway, Ernest, 1934
Heurgon, Jacques, undated
Hobhouse, U., 1929
The Hound & Horn, 1928
Kalbfleisch, B. B., 1939
Kittredge, Tracy B., 1938
Lamirault, Raymonde, undated
Le Coeur, M., 1936-1937
LeRolle, Guillaume, 1938-1939
Mian, Mary, undated
Morrow, Christine, 1940
Nouvelle Revue Critique, 1939
Philip, Terence, 1924
Pierret, M. J., 1942
Pringle, Susan, undated
Rirachowsky, Fanny, 1940
Royer, S., 1935
Sage, Robert, 1930
Schueller, Juanita, 1941
Shelley, Dorothy, 1939
Shelton, Caroline, 1940
Swasey, Horatio Robert, 1938
Tehin, Laing Pai, 1944
Thèves, Elizabeth, undated
Van Vechten, Anne, undated
Venable, E. C., 1936
Wibbelz, Henry, 1936
Miscellaneous Notes, undated
Ulysses, 1914-1948
Ulysses Proofs, 1927 May
Ulysses Book Jacket Proofs, undated
Ulysses Errata Sheets, undated
Ulysses Subscribers, undated
Blank Subscription Forms, undated
Order Forms-A, 1921-1922
Order Forms-B, 1921-1922
Order Forms-C, 1921-1928
Order Forms-D, 1920-1928
Order Forms-E, 1921-1924
Order Forms-F, 1921-1933
Order Forms-G, 1921-1927
Order Forms-H, 1922-1927
Order Forms-I, 1921-1927
Order Forms-J, 1921-1922
Order Forms-K, 1922
Order Forms-L, 1921-1927
Order Forms-M, 1922-1927
Order Forms-N, 1921-1926
Order Forms-O, 1922
Order Forms-P, 1921-1927
Order Forms-Q, 1921-1922
Order Forms-R, 1921-1927
Order Forms-S, 1921-1924
Order Forms-T, 1921-1922
Order Forms-U, V, 1922
Order Forms-W, 1921-1922
Order Forms-Z, undated
First Edition Prospectus, undated
Printed Announcements, undated
Press Reviews, 1923-1929
Accounts and Royalties, 1922-1931
Exiles, 1922-1956
Correspondence, 1928-1961
1929 Edition: Announcements, 1929
1962 Edition: Reviews, 1962
Anaïs Nin on D. H. Lawrence, undated
Campbell, Alan, undated
Heaton, Hedley, undated
Frankenberg, Lloyd, 1938
Monson, Cecil, 1935
Scott Graham Williamson, undated
Thomas, W. G., 1931
Unidentified Manuscripts, undated
Unidentified Typescripts, undated
Author Readings, 1931-1937
Eliot, T. S., 1936
Sitwell, Edith, 1931 January 7
Publicity, 1937
Publicity, 1936-1937
Record Book, 1936-1937
Bills, 1937
Door Sign, undated
Walt Whitman Exhibit, 1926
Catalogue, 1926
Correspondence, 1926
Invitations, 1926
Guest Book, 1926
Account Book, 1926
Flyers, 1926
Scrapbook, 1926
Newspaper Clippings, 1926
Caedmon Publishers Correspondence Regarding Joyce Ulysses Recording, 1956 April 16-1961 April 7
C. K. Ogden Correspondence Regarding Joyce Ulysses Recording, 1929 April 23-1938 November 24
Rein-Verlag (Dr. Brody) Correspondence Regarding Joyce Ulysses Recording, 1957 April 24-1962 May 22
General Inquiries, 1919-1962
Orders and Inquiries, 1925-1940
Orders and Inquiries, 1926-1946
General Inquiries, 1919-1954
General Inquiries, 1920-1958
General Inquiries, 1925-1962
Student Inquiries, 1931-1961
Student Inquiries, 1935-1962
Review Services, 1934-1959
Myrsine Moschos, undated
Miscellaneous Business, 1919-1938
Business Records, 1913-1958
Financial Records, 1913-1958
Bills and Invoices, 1919-1921
Bills and Invoices, 1921-1940
Bills and Invoices, 1923-1924
Bills and Invoices, 1924-1932
Bills and Invoices, 1927-1958
Bills and Invoices, 1928-1957
Checks and Check Stubs, 1919-1939
Lloyds Bank Records, 1921-1948
Insurance Documents, 1926-1940
Tax Documents, 1913-1940
Tax Documents, 1920-1941
Rue Dupuytren, 1919-1922
Rue de L'Odéon, 1924-1944
Miscellaneous, 1912-1962
Sotheby's Sale Correspondence, 1935
Sotheby's Sale Mailing List, 1935
Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 1935
Miscellaneous Book Jackets, undated
Bookshop Signs, undated
Clippings and Miscellaneous, 1959
Rubber Stamps, undated
Writings and Translations documents Sylvia Beach's works, including her memoir, Shakespeare & Company , and a number of articles and speeches. The series also contains information on Beach's translations of works by Henri Michaux and Adrienne Monnier.
Arranged alphabetically by author, starting with Sylvia Beach's works followed by her translations. Minor articles and speeches are filed at the end of the series.
Shakespeare & Company, 1937-1962
Drafts, undated
Drafts, undated
Drafts, undated
Harcourt Brace, 1950-1962
Harcourt Brace Correspondence, 1950-1959
Harcourt Brace Correspondence, 1959-1962
Publicity, 1959-1961
Catalogs and Samples, 1958-1962
Hardcover Edition, 1956
Paperback Edition, 1959
Reviews, 1959 August-1960 October
Royalty Statements, 1959-1961
Presentation Copies, 1959-1961
Le Figaro Littéraire, 1959-1962
Correspondence, 1959-1962
Translation, undated
Illustrations, undated
Publicity, 1960-1962
Reviews, 1960
Correspondence, 1961-1962
Illustrations, 1961
Articles, 1960-1961
Miscellaneous, 1961-1962
Congratulations, 1959-1960
Verve Records Reading, 1960
Notes, undated
Correspondence, 1937-1969
Movements and Zao-wu-ki, 1950-1952
A Barbarian in Asia, 1947-1959
Proofs, undated
Publisher Correspondence, 1947-1950
American Educational Center, 1950
Royalty Statements, 1947-1959
Press, 1949 May-July
General Reviews, 1944-1957
Newspaper Clippings, 1946-1959
Articles, 1945-1955
Exhibits, 1949-1965
Envelopes, 1947-1959
Henri Michaux's Pen, undated
The Personal Records series contains material relating to Sylvia Beach's personal activities. It includes awards and honors received, appointment books and calendars, travel files, financial information, and files relating to her homes in France.
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
Bourré, 1940-1962
Correspondence, 1940-1945
Correspondence, 1950-1962
Postcards, undated
Inventories and Invoices, 1956-1957
Correspondence, 1937-1962
Invoices and Accounts, 1950-1962
Photographs and Invoices, 1938-1947
Photographs, 1962
Appointments, 1916-1917
Appointments and Diary Notes, 1919
Appointments, 1930-1932
Appointments, 1933-1935
Appointments, 1935-1955
Appointments, 1936-1939
Appointments, 1940-1945
Appointments, 1946
Appointments, 1947-1948
Address Books, 1948
Appointments, 1949
Appointments and Calendar, 1950-1951
Appointments and Address Books, 1954
Appointments and Address Books, 1955
Appointments and Address Books, 1956
Appointments, 1956-1959
Appointments and Address Books, 1957
Appointments and Address Books, 1958
Appointments, 1958-1960
Appointments and Calendars, 1959
Partial Diary and Notes, 1959
Appointments, 1959-1962
Appointments and Calendars, 1960
Appointments, 1960-1962
Appointments, undated
Calendar Notes, undated
Finances, 1916-1962
Princeton Bank and Trust, 1945-1961
Bank of New York, 1953-1959
Tax Business, 1953-1957
Tax Business, 1956-1959
Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, 1959-1962
Stocks and Dividends, 1952-1954
Stocks and Dividends, 1952-1960
Travel, 1916-1962
France, 1916-1940
Madrid, 1917
New Jersey, 1946
New York, 1953
New York, 1956
United States, 1959
Switzerland, 1960
Ireland, 1960-1962
James Joyce Tower Media, 1962
James Joyce Tower Notes, undated
News Clippings, 1962
Travel Arrangements, 1960
Correspondence, 1960
Mementos, 1960
Mementos, 1962
Greece, 1961
Combourg, undated
American Express, undated
World War II, 1939-1945
Official Documents, 1939-1945
Miscellaneous Notes, 1940
News Clippings, 1940-1945
News Clippings, 1940-1945
Posters, 1940
Aftenposten, 1934 June 16
Flair, 1950 March 27
Holiday, 1952 March
New Yorker, 1935 February 18
Paris Comet, 1929
Punch, 1964 May 27
Vanity Fair, 1931 December
Miscellaneous, 1917-1962
Volunteer Service, 1917-1918
Membership Cards, 1933-1947
Presents Sent, 1936-1961
Mail Sent and Received, 1946-1956
Calling Cards, undated
Invitations, 1962
Notes and Signs, 1961-1962
Miscellaneous, undated
Series 5: Family Records, 1872-1967
The Family Records series contains material relating to the Beach family but not directly involving Sylvia Beach. It includes correspondence between family members as well as files documenting certain family members' activities. The latter include correspondence with others, creative works, and documentation of their business activities. Also includes biographical reference material.
Arranged starting with family correspondence, then alphabetically by name of family member.
Beach, Sylvester, 1872-1967
Axson, Stockton, 1914
Benham, Edith, 1917-1919
Bolling, John R., 1921-1923
Bones, Helen Woodrow, 1915
Hagner, Isabella L., 1913
McAdoo, W.G., 1917
Sayre, Francis B., 1913
Sayre, Jessie Wilson, undated
Tumulty, J.P., 1913-1919
Van Dyke, Ellen R., undated
Van Dyke, Henry, 1937
Wilson, Edith B., 1924
Wilson, Ellen Axson, undated
Wilson, Woodrow, 1910-1920
Travel Itineraries, undated
Wilson Material, 1913-1914
Newpaper Clippings, 1921-1967
Newspaper Clippings, 1930-1940
Beach, Eleanor O., 1911-1927
Will of Eleanor O. Beach, undated
News Clippings, 1911
Sheet Music, undated
Books, undated
Sketchbook, undated
Miscellaneous, 1918
L'Aiglonne and Judex, 1917-1923
De Max Photograph, undated
Annexe Du Passport, 1915
Memoir, 1913-1951
Footnotes for Memoir, undated
Memoir Notes, undated
Beach (Dennis), Holly and Carlotta Briggs Concerning Eleanor (Cyprian) Beach's Death, 1951 July 26
Eddy, Helen (Jerry) Concerning Eleanor (Cyprian) Beach's Death and Proposed Trip to Paris, 1952
Sylvia Beach's Circle and Collections consists of items collected by Sylvia Beach, documenting two overlapping collecting activities: Sylvia Beach's incidental files on artists in her circle (not directly relating to her publication activities, which are documented in the Shakespeare & Company series), and her more formal literary and art collections. The boundary between the two collection activities is fluid, and there are several documented cases in which Beach later formalized collections that were originally created out of personal interest or for reference or business purposes (most notably, her collection of Joyce material, which she largely sold to the University of Buffalo, and her collection of Whitman manuscripts, originally keepsakes she inherited from her aunt and which she later exhibited and offered for sale). The series further contains information on exhibitions of Beach's collections and on the sale of collection items to various cultural institutions.
Arranged alphabetically by name or topic.
Antheil, George, 1925-1958
Glare, undated
Concert Flyers, 1926
Mementos, 1927-1928
Biographical Information, undated
Newspaper Clippings, 1925-1958
Press Notices, 1925
Comments on Music, undated
Artwork, 1874-1999
Bécat, Paul-Émile, 1921-1927
Burgin, Elizabeth M., undated
Horse, undated
Horse, undated
Man, undated
Man, undated
Man and Bird, undated
Exhibits, 1957-1962
Hommage á Commerce, Rome, 1958
Correspondence, 1959
Speeches and Related Material, 1959
Catalogue Typescript, 1959
Publicity, 1959
Poster, 1959
Photographs and Related Material, 1959
Photographs, 1959
Accounts and Related Material, 1959
News Clippings, 1959
Opening, Guest List, 1959
Notes, 1959
Notes, 1959
Memento File Case, 1959
Catalogue, 1960
Invitations, 1960
Invitations to Sylvia, 1960
USIS, London, 1960
Guest Book and Guest Lists, 1960
Travel, Hotels, Purchases, 1960
Insurance, 1960
Appointments, 1960
London Trip Mementos, 1960
Photographs, 1960
Notes, 1960
Oscar Wilde Theft, 1960
Trois Amis du VIe, 1961
Catalogue, 1961
Lists of Items, 1961
Photographs, 1961
Clippings, 1961
The Nineteen Twenties, Paris, 1959
Hemingway, Ernest, 1931-1964
"50,000 Dollars" Proofs, undated
Article in The Atlantic, 1954 March
Article in Look, 1956 September 4
Article in New Yorker, 1932
Article in Paris Match, 1961 July
News Clippings, 1938-1964
News Clippings, 1944-1949
News Clippings, 1949-1961
Miscellaneous, 1931-1933
James Joyce: Typescripts of Poems, "The Holy Office," "Molly Brannigan," and "Ecce Puer", 1932
Gorman, Herbert, 1925
Guinness, R.S., 1931 February 23
O'Callaghan, Mary, 1927 November 24
Richards, Grant, 1905 June 16
Wells, H.G., 1928 November 23
Miscellaneous Book Jackets, undated
Mementos, undated
Notes, 1950-1959
General Correspondence, 1959
Legal Correspondence, 1959-1961
Abbott Family, 1958-1960
Silverman, Clare and Anne, 1961-1963
Silverman, Oscar, 1958-1961
Inquiries, 1960
The Philip H. & A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation, "Notable Acquisitions: 1966-1967", 1967 November
Ellman, Richard, 1955-1961
Glasheen, Adaline, undated
The Listener, 1946 October 24
Magalaner, Marvin, 1956
Mercanton, Jacques, undated
Morse, J. Mitchell, 1955
The New Republic, 1939 June 28
Saturday Review, 1950 April 29
Time, 1934 January 29
Time, 1950 August 7
Tomorrow, 1949 December
Vanity Fair, 1922
Miscellaneous Articles, 1917-1951
Miscellaneous Articles, 1928-1961
James Joyce Clippings, 1922-1966
Joyce, Lucia, 1930-1961
The James Joyce Society, 1956
Contact Original Copy, undated
Contact Publications, undated
Stormy Tea-Cups, undated
Machine-Age Romance, undated
Monnier, Adrienne, 1926-1961
Design Drawings, undated
Drafts and Manuscripts, undated
La Nature de la France, undated
Health Notes, 1954
Mementos, 1956-1961
News Clippings, 1946-1960
Notes on Adrienne Monnier, undated
Miscellaneous, 1935
Literary Reviews, 1927-1955
Valéry, Paul, 1926-1957
Photographs, 1924-1960
Egoist Press Publications, undated
Unidentified Envelope, undated
Framed Autograph Manuscript, undated
Framed Autograph Manuscript, undated
Framed Autograph Manuscript, undated
Articles and Pamphlets, undated
Miscellaneous Art Shows, 1930-1960
Miscellaneous Periodicals, 1928-1962
Miscellaneous Poems, undated
Series 7: Photographs, 1881-1969
This series consists of assorted photographs documenting the different facets and relationships central to Beach's life: her family; her friends, particularly Adrienne Monnier, but also including writers and artists; and her life in Paris as proprietress of Shakespeare and Company.
Arranged into 8 subseries.
Photographs and Negatives: Sylvia Beach and James Joyce at Shakespeare and Company, 1920-1922
Group Portrait: Sylvia Beach Laughing With James Joyce and Adrienne Monnier by Gisèle Freund, 1938
Inscribed Group Portrait: Sylvia Beach With James Joyce and Adrienne Monnier by Gisèle Freund, 1938
Photographs: Wartime, 1940-1944
Photographs: Sylvia Beach at the Dedication of the James Joyce Tower and Museum, 1962 June 16
Portrait: Adrienne Monnier Seated and Reading in 18 Rue De L'Odéon by Gisèle Freund, undated
Snapshots: Adrienne Monnier Sitting at Desk Speaking to Two Men by Gisèle Freund, 1953-1954
Portrait: Adrienne Monnier Standing in Front of Shakespeare and Company by Gisèle Freund, 1920s
Portrait: Adrienne Monnier Standing in Front of Shakespeare and Company by Gisèle Freund, 1920s
Photographic Postcards: Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, And Juliette Monnier at a Fair, 1920s
Photographs: Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, And Camilla Steinbrugge at Les Déserts, 1950s-1960s
Photographs: Marie Monnier, undated
Photographs: Heutraux, Madame, 1917
Photograph: Winzer, Charles, undated
Photographs: Various Pets, undated
Abbott, Berenice, 1920
Aldington, Richard, 1930
Anderson, Margaret, undated
Anderson, Sherwood, 1911
Snapshots: George Antheil in Various Poses on Sidewalk in Front of Shakespeare and Company, undated
Barnes, Djuna, 1920s
Barney, Natalie Clifford, undated
Beckett, Samuel, undated
Benét, Stephen Vincent, circa 1920
Bird, William, 1921
Boardman, Eleanor, 1928
Boyle, Kay, undated
Breton, André, undated
Bromfield, Louis, undated
Formal portrait: Bryher Seated Wearing Fur Collared Coat and Looking Right by Man Ray, circa 1922
Formal portrait: Bryher Seated Wearing Fur Collared Coat and Looking Left by Man Ray, circa 1922
Budgen, Frank, undated
Calder, Alexander, 1929-1959
Portrait: Alexander Calder Kneeling With Cirque Calder , Signed by André Kertész, circa 1929
Catel, Jean, circa 1951
Chamson, André, 1920
Cody, Morrill, 1924
Colum, Padraic, 1930 February 1
Copland, Aaron, undated
Cowley, Malcolm, undated
Crosby, Harry and Caresse, 1929
Cummings, E. E., undated
Cunard, Nancy, undated
Dillon, George, undated
Reproduction Negative: Portrait of George Dillon by James Hargis Connelly From Publication, undated
Doolittle , Hilda (H.D.), 1917
Dos Passos, John, 1924
Eastman, Max, 1922
Eisenstein, Serge, 1930
Eliot, T.S., 1936 May-1964 June
Clipping: T.S. Eliot With Second Wife, Valérie Fletcher, From Le Figaro Littéraire, 1958 January 4
Fargue, Léon-Paul, 1921
Figari, Pedro, 1926 April 26
Flanner, Janet, 1927-1944
Ford, Charles Henri, undated
Forster, E.M., undated
Gershwin, George, 1928 June
Gide, André, 1919-1926
Gilbert, Stuart, 1931
Mounted Photograph: At His Appartment on The Île-Saint-Louis With James and Nora Joyce, undated
Portrait: Stuart Gilbert on His Balcony on the Ile Saint-Louis for the New York Times, undated
Gillet, Louis, undated
Giono, Jean, undated
Gómez De La Serna, Ramón, circa 1931
Harris, Frank, 1925
Harrison, Jane, undated
Photograph: Standing in Front of a Bookcase in Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach, 1921
Hemingway, Ernest: Fishing in Key West With Waldo Peirce and Bill Smith (Large Prints), 1928 May
Hemingway, Ernest: Fishing in Key West With Waldo Peirce and Bill Smith (Small Prints), 1928 May
Huebsch, Ben W., undated
Hughes, Langston, 1937
Copy Print: Langston Hughes in Front of Collage of Newsprint by Carl Van Vechten, circa 1937
Jacob, Max, 1922 May 28
James, Henry, undated
John, Augustus, 1926 June 26
Inscribed photogravure: Painted Portrait of Henry Festing Jones by George Clausen (1923), 1924 May
Joyce, James, 1915-1939
Negatives (No Photographs): James Joyce at His Home on Bloomsday by Sylvia Beach, 1925 June 16
Large Reproduction of a Group Photograph: James Joyce and Group Seated at Table, 1929 June 27
Negative (No Photograph): Portrait of James Joyce With Cap and Overcoat in Bognor, Sussex, 1923
Joyce, James: Places, undated
Katz, Leslie, undated
Envelope With Notes, undated
Photograph of Drawn portrait: Valéry Larbaud From the Bibliothèque Municipale De Vichy, undated
Lawrence, T.E., undated
Lewis, Sinclair, undated
Lewis, Wyndham, undated
MacLeish, Archibald, 1927
Maurois, André, 1924
Snapshot: Robert McAlmon Standing in Profile With Hands in Pockets by Sylvia Beach, circa 1920
Snapshot: Robert McAlmon Standing in Profile With One Hand in Pocket by Sylvia Beach, circa 1920
Snapshot: Robert McAlmon Standing and Facing the Camera Looking Up by Sylvia Beach, circa 1920
Michaux, Henri, undated
Miller, Henry, undated
Moore, George, undated
Nichols, Robert, undated
O'Brien, Justin, 1929 May
Ocampo, Victoria, 1934
O'Neill, Eugene, 1953 November 27
Paul, Elliot, undated
Pichette, Henri, undated
Pound, Ezra, 1922-1958
Prévost, Jean, undated
Snapshot: Jean Prévost Standing in Front of Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach, undated
Partial Negative: Jean Prévost Standing in Front of Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach, undated
Ray, Man, 1924-1925
Schlumberger, Jean, undated
Sélincourt, Hugh De, 1923 February
Shanks, Edward, undated
Shaw, George Bernard, undated
Sitwell, Edith, undated
Stein, Gertrude, 1922
Copy Prints: Gertrude Stein Seated With Alice B. Toklas in Their Parlor by Man Ray, undated
Steinbeck, John, undated
Stephens, James, undated
Strindberg, August, 1921
Sullivan, John, undated
Symons, Arthur, undated
Tagore, undated
Thomas, Dylan, undated
Thomson, Virgil, 1926
Toklas, Alice B., circa 1922
Tree, Iris, undated
Untermeyer, Jean Starr, undated
Unwin, T. Fisher, undated
Varèse, Edgard, 1927
Verhaeren, Emile, circa 1917
Vidor, King, 1928 June 22
Viele-Griffin, Francis, undated
Walsh, Ernest, undated
Wells, H.G., undated
Whitman, Walt, undated
Clipping of a Cartoon portrait: Titled "Oscar Wilde at Work (Il Ne Faut Pas Le Regarder)", undated
Wilder, Thornton, 1936
Williams, William Carlos, 1924
Snapshots: William Carlos Williams With Wheelbarrow and Kittens in Rutherford, New Jersey, undated
Snapshot: William Carlos Williams Holding a Hoe in His Garden in Rutherford, New Jersey, undated
Wilson, Edmund, 1931
Wolfe, Thomas, undated
Woolf, Virginia, undated
Wright, Richard, 1946
Wylie, James H., undated
Yeats, W.B., 1938
Series 8: Memorabilia, 1953
The Memorabilia series contains objects acquired as part of the Sylvia Beach Papers. Of special interest are a set of tin soldiers with parade ground and the cabinet they were housed in at Shakespeare & Company, as well as various trinkets relating to William Shakespeare used to decorate the bookshop.
Arranged by type of material.
- Scope and Contents
This collection documents the life and activities of Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), the American author, publisher, and owner of Shakespeare & Company, the Paris bookshop that was a meeting-point for French, English, Irish and American writers during the 1920's and 1930's. The collection consists largely of files relating to Shakespeare & Company; Beach's writings and translations, in particular her memoir Shakespeare & Company ; and files relating to the circle of artists and writers surrounding her throughout her life. Included are family, personal, and business correspondence; business records of Shakespeare & Company; personal and family records; manuscripts and artwork by members of her circle; photographs; and memorabilia.
The rich correspondence series consists of correspondence from and to Sylvia Beach and includes artists such as Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Robert McAlmon, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Alice B. Toklas, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Wright, George Antheil, Harriet Weaver, Gordon Craig, Arthur Symons, Ford Madox Ford, Frank Harris, Norman Douglas, Ivy Litvinoff, Richard Aldington, Stuart Gilbert, Cyril Connolly, D. H. Lawrence, Stephen Spender, Dorothy Richardson, to name but a few.
The collection also contains the files of Shakespeare & Company, Sylvia Beach's bookshop in Paris. Consisting largely of the shop's business records, the series notably contains the files of Shakespeare & Company's lending library, including member records and their readings. Of special interest is the material relating to Beach's publication of James Joyce, most importantly Joyce's Ulysses .
Also present is an extensive series of photographs documenting the different facets and relationships central to Beach's life, including family, friends, members of her artistic circle, and her life in Paris. They include snapshots as well as formal portraits, many of them captioned, and a number of them by noted photographers such as Gisèle Freund and Man Ray.
The collection further includes materials relating to Sylvia Beach's own writings and translations; artworks and literary manuscripts collected by her both for their artistic value and out of her interest in the artists; files relating to her personal life and files created by and relating to members of her family; and memorabilia.
- Arrangement
Arranged into the following series: Series 1: Correspondence; Series 2: Shakespeare & Company; Series 3: Writings and Translations; Series 4: Personal Records; Series 5: Family Records; Series 6: Sylvia Beach's Circle and Collections; Series 7: Photographs; Series 8: Memorabilia
- Collection Creator Biography:
Beach, Sylvia
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1887, Sylvia Beach was the second of three daughters of Eleanor Orbison Beach and the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (Princeton Class of 1876), a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She is best known for running the bookstore and lending library Shakespeare & Company and for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses .
With the help of Adrienne Monnier, owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, Beach opened Shakespeare & Company at at 8, Rue Dupuytren in Paris in 1919 as a bookshop, lending library, and occasional publisher specializing in English and American literature. In 1922 the shop moved to 12, Rue de l'Odéon, across the street from Monnier's establishment, where it remained until its closing in 1940. During two decades, Shakespeare & Company served as a meeting point for expatriate writers and American visitors to Paris. Beach was interned for six months during World War II, but although she managed to keep her inventory hidden in a vacant apartment nearby, she did not re-open the shop after the war.
Sylvia Beach chronicled her experiences with Shakespeare & Company and life in Paris between the wars in a memoir of the same title, Shakespeare and Company , which was published in 1956. Towards the end of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s. She remained in Paris until her death in 1962. Her ashes were buried in the Beach family plot in Princeton, NJ.
- Acquisition:
The collection, which had remained in Miss Beach's Paris apartment at 12, Rue de l'Odéon since her death there in October 1962, was acquired in 1964 from the Sylvia Beach estate, through the generosity of Graham D. Mattison, Princeton Class of 1926, and with the interest and support of Miss Beach's surviving sister, Mrs. Frederic J. (Holly Beach) Dennis of Greenwich, Connecticut.
AM 18348
- Appraisal
Individual items that were originally acquired as part of the Sylvia Beach Papers are now curated by the Graphic Arts division, including the Shakespeare & Company shop sign painted by Marie Monnier-Bécat; a portrait of Sylvia Beach in oil by Paul-Émile Bécat, signed, Paris, 1923; and a full-length portrait of Adrienne Monnier in oil by Paul-Émile Bécat, Paris 1921;
In addition, two items that remain part of the Sylvia Beach Papers are: an oak cabinet and a bust of William Shakespeare executed in colored Staffordshireware.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Enid Adelson, Paul Koepp and Karla J. Vecchia in 2004.
Reprocessed by Regine Heberlein and Valerie Addonizio (photographs series) in 2012.
During 2012 processing, the collection (except for the photographs series) was re-arranged on the folder level. The existing distribution of materials in folders and their labels were largely preserved except where found to be wrong.
Folder inventory prepared by Nicholas Williams '2015 and Allyse Terrell '2014 in 2012. During 2022, restrictions on original items, including Ernest Hemingway materials, were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Sylvia Beach Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7h149p866
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- This is stored in multiple locations.
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-158
- Firestone Library (scahsvm): Box 160-180
- Existence and Location of Copies
Some materials, including letters from Ernest Hemingway to Sylvia Beach, are available on microfilm.
- Bibliography
"The Sylvia Beach Collection" by Howard C. Rice, Jr., The Princeton University Library Chronicle , Vol. XXVI, No. 1 (Autumn, 1964). pp. 7-15.
- Subject Terms:
- Authors and publishers -- France -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- France -- 20th century.
Authors, English -- France -- 20th century.
Authors, French -- 20th century.
Authors, Irish -- France -- 20th century.
Booksellers and bookselling -- France -- Paris -- 20th century -- Biography.
Bookstores -- France -- Paris -- 20th century.
Exiles' writings -- 20th century.
Novelists, American -- France -- 20th century.
Novelists, English -- France -- 20th century.
Novelists, Irish -- France -- 20th century.
Publishers and publishing -- France -- Paris -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Paris. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Photoprints. - Names:
- Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France)
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 - Places:
- Paris (France) -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.