- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Wilcox, Wendell, 1906-1981
- Title:
- Wendell Wilcox Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gx41mh88d
- Dates:
- 1930-1960
- Size:
- 17 boxes and 6.7 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-17
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of papers of the American author and novelist Wendell Wilcox (1906-1981), including personal correspondence and photographs of his wife, Esther Willson Wilcox, their relatives, and other writers and friends.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of papers of Wilcox, including correspondence, diaries (various years from 1940-1979), typescripts of his published and unpublished short stories, articles, literary criticism, and novels, photographs, and printed material. There are approximately 95 short works, primarily from the 1930s-1940s, such as "Mother of a Hero" anmd "Night Falls in Michigan," as well as manuscripts for his published novel Everything is Quite All Right (1945) and three other novels, The Color of Darkness, Rock Me to Sleep, and Helen. Correspondence includes 46 letters (1934-1959) from Alice B. Toklas, five from Gertrude Stein, several from Thornton Wilder, Samuel M. Steward, August Becker, Gertrude Abercrombie, and other writers and friends. Also present is an extensive correspondence between Wilcox and his wife, Esther Willson Wilcox, spanning their courtship, marriage (1931), and his trip to Paris in 1950. Their home was in Chicago, Illinois.
In addition, there are over 400 photographs of Wilcox, his wife and their relatives, Alice B. Toklas, Sam Steward, James Purdy, and others. Printed material includes such magazines as Creative Writing, The New Yorker, Decade, and Story which contain works by Wilcox.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Wilcox, Wendell, 1906-1981
Wendell Wilcox was an American novelist and storywriter.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from August Baker in 1987. Additions are a gift of Tom H. Ray.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Natalie Kim in September 2008. Finding aid written by Natalie Kim in October 2008.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Wendell Wilcox Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gx41mh88d
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-17
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- Subject Terms:
- American fiction -- 20th century.
Husband and wife -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Novelists, American -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Diaries -- 20th century.
Fiction -- 20th century.
Manuscripts -- 20th century.
Photographs -- 20th century. - Names:
- Toklas, Alice B.
Wilcox, Esther Willson
