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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Title:
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., Files of Hemingway and Pound
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5138jd917
- Dates:
- 1932-1952
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of selected files from the offices of Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York City publishers.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of selected files from the offices of Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York City publishers: 1) Ernest Hemingway correspondence, 1951-1952 (6 letters by him, 9 letters to him), with Rinehart & Company concerning the publication of Philip Young's biography Ernest Hemingway (1952); 2) Ezra Pound material, 1932-1951, consisting of 3 letters by him, 2 letters to him, 2 contracts, and approximately 70 letters by the staff of Farrar & Rinehart and others primarily concerning various sections of Pound's Cantos.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Farrar & Rinehart
Farrar & Rinehart (1929–1946) was a United States book publishing company founded in New York. Farrar & Rinehart enjoyed success with both nonfiction and novels, notably, the landmark Rivers of America Series and the first ten books in the Nero Wolfe corpus of Rex Stout. In 1943 the company was recognized with the first Carey-Thomas Award for creative publishing presented by Publishers Weekly. The firm later became Rinehart & Company, Inc.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
AM85-99
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.
In 2022, restrictions on the Ernest Hemingway correspondence where researchers were required to use surrogates were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- 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:
Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., Files of Hemingway and Pound; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5138jd917
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
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- Subject Terms:
- Authors and publishers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Contracts -- 20th century.
Correspondence -- 20th century - Names:
- Rinehart & Company, Inc.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Young, Philip, 1918-1991
