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- Access & Use
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Brandt & Brandt
- Title:
- Brandt & Brandt Contract Files
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sj139194m
- Dates:
- 1907-1997
- Size:
- 51 boxes, 2 items, and 22.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-51
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Brandt & Brandt Contract Files consists primarily of contract files from Brandt & Brandt, the New York City literary agency, for published works where the rights have reverted to the author. Some represented authors are Margaret Banning, Bessie Brewer, Raymond Chandler, Carlos Fuentes, Arthur Machen, Mary McCarthy, Derek Patmore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stegner. The Fuentes material (1967-1995) is extensive and covers a fuller range of literary agency activities.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists primarily of contract files from Brandt & Brandt, the New York City literary agency, for published works where the rights have reverted to the author. Some represented authors are Margaret Banning, Bessie Brewer, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Machen, Mary McCarthy, Derek Patmore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Carlos Fuentes. The Fuentes material (1967-1995) is extensive and covers a fuller range of literary agency activities.
- Arrangement
Arranged by accession, then in alphabetical order; Fuentes material (boxes 15-20) arranged chronologically.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Brandt & Brandt
Brandt & Brandt is an American literary agency founded in 1912.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Carl D. Brandt. Author contract files are a gift of Charles Schelessiger and Gail Hochmann.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was initially processed in 1995. Finding aid written in 1995 and updated as needed, most recently in 2010.
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:
Brandt & Brandt Contract Files; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sj139194m
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-51
