- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Weiss, Renée Karol.
- Title:
- Renée Weiss Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc028716362
- Dates:
- 1939-2006
- Size:
- 3 boxes and 2.42 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Boxes B-001898 to B-001900
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of professional and personal correspondence, travel diaries and related ephemera, notebooks, writings, and files relating to the Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL) of editor and writer Renée Karol Weiss (1923-2021). Some materials relate specifically to Renée's husband, poet and professor Theodore Weiss (1916-2003).
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of various personal and professional papers of editor and writer Renée Karol Weiss (1923-2021). Materials include incoming correspondence to Renée and her husband Theodore Weiss (1916-2003), as well as an almost daily run of love letters from Theodore to Renée from 1939 to 1941 that the couple published in The Always Present Present (2003). Other materials include travel diaries and related ephemera, notebooks, writings, and a few files of primarily correspondence relating to the Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL).
Some of the correspondence and writings relate specifically to Theodore Weiss. Most of the original folder titles, when descriptions did exist, were maintained.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Weiss, Renée Karol.
Renée Karol Weiss (1923-2021) was an editor, writer, musician, and dancer. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Abraham S. Karol and Elizabeth (Levitt) Karol, Weiss graduated from Bard College in 1951. She studied dance and violin, and was a member of multiple orchestras and music ensembles. Renée and her husband, poet and professor Theodore Weiss (1916-2003), edited the literary magazine, Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL), for nearly sixty years from 1944 to 1999. In their last years together, Renée and Theodore wrote poems together. The final QRL publication, The Always Present Present, (2003) was a collection of their jointly written poems, love letters from Theodore to Renée, and a biography of the magazine.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Theresa Roth Schaff, niece and executor of Renée Weiss, in April 2021 (AM 2022-009).
- Appraisal
No materials were removed from the collection during 2022 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Faith Charlton in May 2022. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in May 2022.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. No further duplication 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 Special Collections 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:
Renée Weiss Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc028716362
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Boxes B-001898 to B-001900
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- Subject Terms:
- American literature--20th century.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Editors -- United States -- 20th century.
Little magazines–United States–20th century. - Genre Terms:
- American diaries -- 20th century.
Notebooks--20th century. - Names:
- Weiss, Theodore Russell
- Places:
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 20th century.
