YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
YALE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
GLENWAY WESCOTT PAPERS
YCAL MSS 134
by
Timothy G. Young
New Haven, Connecticut
September 2000
Last updated: November 2006
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EXTENT
Total Boxes: 489
Other Storage Formats: audiotapes, art storage
Linear Feet: 216
Copyright © 2005 by the Yale University Library.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
PROVENANCE
Purchase from Monroe Wheeler, 1988, with later purchase and gift from
Anatole Pohorilenko, 1998 and 2003. Donation from Bruce Hotchkiss, 2004.
OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS
The Glenway Wescott Papers are the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including
copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For
further information, consult the appropriate curator.
CITE AS
Glenway Wescott Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library.
RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
This collection is open for research.
Restricted Fragile material in box 485 may only be consulted with
permission of the appropriate curator. Preservation photocopies,
photographic prints, or digital surrogates for reference use have been substituted in the main
files.
PROCESSING NOTES
The Glenway Wescott Papers contain materials from the Monroe Wheeler Papers -
and vice-versa. Wescott and Wheeler lived together or shared residences for
over six decades. Their professional and personal papers were understandably
mixed when they were transferred to the Beinecke Library in 1988 (with
further additions in 1998). During the processing of the papers, efforts were
made to segregate papers reflecting Wescott's writing and activities from
those documenting Wheeler's personal and professional life. All personal
correspondence for both men was grouped in one series and classed with
Glenway Wescott's papers. (However, Wheeler's professional correspondence
from MOMA, as well as a smaller group of vestigial letters found among his
personal effects, are classed in the Monroe Wheeler Papers.) Another group of
overlapping material placed mainly in the Glenway Wescott Papers is
photographs in Series VII. Audio Recordings of Monroe Wheeler are stored with
the Wescott Papers in Series XII. For other materials, the reader should find
parallel groups in both the Glenway Wescott Papers and the Monroe Wheeler
Papers (such as Financial Papers, and Clippings.)
CAVEAT: Readers are advised, when looking for correspondence or names of
persons, to look in both the Glenway Wescott Papers and the Monroe Wheeler
Papers.
Significant materials relating to other persons and entities were also
received with the papers. These have been cataloged separately: Harrison of
Paris Records, Nelson Lansdale, George Platt Lynes, Marianne Moore, Ralph
Pomeroy, Frances C. Lamont Robbins, and Katherine Anne Porter
LOCATION OF ASSOCIATED MATERIAL
Glenway Wescott Papers, Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
MICROFORM/DIGITAL VERSIONS
Some items in Series XII. Audio-Visual Materials have been digitized for
access and preservation. Items which have been digitally reformatted are noted
individually in the box and folder list.
GLENWAY WESCOTT (1901-1987)
Glenway Wescott was born on April 11th, 1901 near Kewaskum, Wisconsin,
to a farming family. His early education in public schools led to his
matriculation at the University of Chicago in 1917. He studied there until
early in 1919, when he left, as he writes in an autobiographical sketch (box
358, folder 3500) due to "ill health and melancholia". While recuperating, he
made the acquaintance of a Chicago native, Monroe Wheeler. Their relationship
began shortly after and the two stayed together as a couple until Wescott's
death in 1987.
After recovering his health sufficiently, Wescott moved to Santa Fe, New
Mexico, where he stayed for several months in the company of another
Chicagoan, Arthur Yvor Winters. In Santa Fe, Wescott produced a group of
poems which were published by Monroe Wheeler in 1920 under the title The
Bitterns. Wescott and Wheeler traveled to Europe together in late 1921. In
1923, Wescott traveled across Europe as factotum for the Henry Goldman
family. Upon returning to Monroe Wheeler, now in New York City, Wescott
finished his first novel, The Apple of the Eye, published in 1924.
Wescott and Wheeler moved to Villefranche, in the South of France, in
1926. They quickly made their way into artistic and literary circles,
numbering among their friends Jean Cocteau, Ford Madox Ford, Elly Ney, and
Isadora Duncan. Wescott's second work of fiction, The
Grandmothers, a
series of portraits drawn from his early memories, was published in 1927.
This novel won the Harper Prize for that year and garnered Wescott a certain
measure of reknown. A collection of short stories, Good-bye
Wisconsin was
issued the following year.
The two men stayed in France through the early 1930s. Wescott continued
to write short pieces of fiction, as well as essays, several of which
appeared in 1932 as Fear and Trembling. Meanwhile, Wheeler published books
under the Harrison of Paris imprint, which he established in 1930 in
partnership with Barbara Harrison. After Harrison married Wescott's younger
brother, Lloyd, in 1935, Wescott and Wheeler decided to move back to the
United States, setting up households both on the farm in New Jersey bought by
Barbara Harrison and Lloyd Wescott and in New York City, where they shared a
series of apartments with George Platt Lynes.
Lynes, best known as a figural and fashion photographer, came into their
world in 1926. Over time, Wescott and Wheeler's relationship expanded to
include Lynes as a full-fledged partner. The establishment of a domicile in
New York for all three to live together made for a true menage a trois.
(Lynes died in New York City in December, 1955.)
After the dissolution of Harrison of Paris in 1935, Wheeler began
free-lance work for the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City, which
hired him in 1938 to be Membership Director, then, later, Director of
Publications and Exhibitions. Wescott continued to write, publishing The
Pilgrim Hawk in 1940 and Apartment in Athens in 1945. Though he did not
produce another full-length book until Images of Truth in 1962, Wescott
lectured, wrote reviews and criticism, served as a member and president of
the National Institute and American Academy of Arts and Letters, and worked
on a number of novels. A great deal of creative energy went into another
quasi-literary project, his "journals", which he began in earnest in 1938 to
document his life and thoughts.
Though much of Wescott's later life was devoted to editing his journals
for publication, this project only reached fruition after his death, with
the appearance in 1990 of Continual Lessons, a single volume of excerpts.
Wescott, who had lived most of his later years in New Jersey, on a second
farm owned by his brother and sister-in-law, died on February 22, 1987.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPERS
The Glenway Wescott Papers consist of correspondence, journals,
notebooks, manuscripts, personal and financial papers, research files,
photographs, graphic items, clippings, objects, and audiotapes. The material
documents Wescott's life, work, and personal relationships with many noted
artists, writers, and performers of the 20th century including his long-time
companion, Monroe Wheeler, many of whose papers are included here (see
processing notes, above). The collection spans the years 1900-1990.
The Papers are housed in 485 boxes and are arranged in 13 series:
Correspondence, Journals and Notebooks,
Writings,
Personal Papers,
Financial Papers, Research Files,
Photographs,
Graphic Items,
Clippings, American Academy of Arts and
Letters, Objects,
Audio-Visual Materials and Additions Transferred from the Monroe Wheeler
Papers. Oversize materials are stored in boxes 472-484.
Series I, Correspondence, consists of six subseries: Wescott-Wheeler
Correspondence; Wescott Family Correspondence; Wescott Family Third-party
Correspondence; Wheeler Family Correspondence; General Correspondence; and
Third-party Correspondence. (See description of Series II, Journals, for
information about other correspondence.) The first sub-series contains
letters between Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler, spanning their entire
relationship, from 1919, shortly after they met, to 1986, just before Wescott
died. The interfiled letters document much of the private and public lives of
these two men. Many of the early letters are accompanied by folded paper
enclosures bearing annotation, evidence of Wescott's work to catalog his own
archives. The next three subseries contain letters among members of both the
Wescott and the Wheeler families. Almost every type of permutation is filed
here: Wescott to and from his sisters, Wheeler to and from his own siblings,
extensive early runs of letters from Wescott to his parents, as well as
nearly daily correspondence between Wheeler and his father, and letters
between Wescott, Wheeler and Barbara Harrison Wescott, before and after she
became a member of the immediate family through her marriage to Glenway's
brother, Lloyd.
The General Correspondence subseries makes up much of the rest of this
series. Found here are letters, incoming as well as copies of outgoing, to
persons and entities who played roles in the lives of Wescott and Wheeler.
The categories and names cover the gamut of 20th century culture, including:
Authors and literary friends: Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bowen, Kay Boyle,
Van Wyck Brooks, Anthony Butts, Mary Butts, Eleanor Clark, R. B.
Cunninghame-Graham, Babette Deutsch, Leon Edel, Helen Parker Evans, Bernard
Fay, Janet Flanner, Charles Henri Ford, Ford Madox Ford, Robert
Gathorne-Hardy, August Heckscher, Richard Howard, William Inge, Christopher
Isherwood, Charles Jackson, Lincoln Kirstein, Anita Loos, James Lord, W.
Somerset Maugham, William Maxwell, Harriet Monroe, Caroline Newton, Robert
Phelps, William Plomer, Frederic Prokosch, Frances C. L. Robbins, Elizabeth
Madox Roberts, Jerry Rosco, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Edith Sitwell, Osbert
Sitwell, Parker Tyler, Thornton Wilder, Donald Windham, Janet Lewis Winters,
and Yvor Winters
Artists: Mauricio Aguilar, Don Bachardy, Cecil Beaton, Isabel Bishop,
Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Joseph
Cornell, Jared French, Dudley Huppler, Arthur Lee, Loren MacIver, Maria Rosa
Oliver, Alfonso Ossorio, Alejandro Otero, Bernard Perlin, Francois
Reichenbach, Ben Shahn, Lenore Tawney, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Jan
Van Krimpen, and Ignatz Wiemeler
Critics and Wheeler's colleagues from the museum world: Alfred H., Jr.
Barr, Kenneth Clark, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Robert M. Frash, Philip Johnson, E.
McKnight Kauffer, Russell Lynes, Henry McBride, Nelson Rockefeller, and James
Thrall Soby.
Musicians: Samuel Barber, Marc Blitzstein, David Diamond, Elly Ney, Ned
Rorem, and Virgil Thomson.
Long-time friends: Newton Arvin, Brooke Astor, Jean-Pierre Brasseur,
Joseph Campbell, Henri de la Celle, William H. Chandlee, R. L. Cottenet, Eva
Goldbeck, William Goyen, Eardley Knollys, Henry McIlhenny, Raymond Mortimer,
Marguerite Namara, Agnes Rindge Claflin, Pauline and Philippe de Rothschild,
Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Bernardine Szold-Fritz, Diana Vreeland, and Edgar Wind.
Lovers and companions: Mario Amaya, Ivan Ashby, Earl Butler, Jacques
Guerin, Nelson Lansdale, David Leavitt, Christian William Miller, N. Mark
Pagano, Anatole Pohorilenko, and Ralph Pomeroy.
Publishers and agents: Cass Canfield, Harper & Row, and Alfred A.
Knopf.
Among these various figures, however, the most significant
correspondences concern friends who had a life-long impact on Wescott and
Wheeler. Foremost was the photographer, George Platt Lynes, who lived with
Wescott and Wheeler in a true menage a trois in the 1930s and 1940s. The
letters among the three men detail emotional as well as day-to-day concerns.
Wescott wrote expressively about his life in France in the late 1920s and
Lynes responded with details of his constantly changing outlook as he sought
his metier. Letters between Wheeler and Lynes reveal the depth of their
relationship, and despite a break in the mid-1940s (involving all three men),
the correspondence continues up until Lynes's death in December 1955. (In the
late 1930s and early 1940s, Lynes often sent photograph proofs as postcards.)
Wescott and Wheeler's relationships with two of the most influential
women writers of the 20th century are also documented in extensive runs of
correspondence. Katherine Anne Porter's letters, principally to Glenway, are
matched by copies of his own letters. As well, Wescott and Wheeler preserved
their own side of their communication with Marianne Moore, Wescott's one-time
mentor. In this case, however, the majority of Moore's letters are
represented by transcripts made by Wescott.
Another epistolary relationship of note is that between Wescott and
Alfred Kinsey, the pioneering sex behavior researcher. Wescott became
acquainted with Kinsey in the late 1940s, volunteered to be interviewed for a
case history, and continued to provide Kinsey with connections for further
histories, especially homosexual friends.
In many cases, copies of outgoing letters by Wescott or Wheeler have
been interfiled with incoming letters, as indicated in the finding aid.
In cases of voluminous correspondence, however, incoming and outgoing letters
have been filed separately and are noted as such in the finding aid.
Third-party Correspondence contains a number of letters between friends
of Wescott and Wheeler, including several letters to and from George Platt
Lynes, copies of letters from Marianne Moore, letters by Katherine Anne
Porter, Bernardine Szold-Fritz, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Lloyd Wescott.
Series II contains Wescott's Journals and Notebooks, an extensive
collection of personal records detailing the author's life and thoughts from
the late 1930s up to shortly before his death. Wescott's "journals" are not
journals in the classic sense of codices filled with diary-like entries.
Rather, while the journals were created chronologically, their physical
format generally is three-ring binders filled with all types of
aide-memoires: notes, incoming letters, drafts and copies of outgoing
letters, clippings, and images. It must also be noted that during the
preparation of selections from Wescott's journals (eventually published as
Continual Lessons in 1990), Wescott and various assistants disassembled
many of the journals, made photocopies, and rearranged items, such that many
pages were not filed back in their original locations. Consequently, there
are a number of folders of "loose pages" which have been sorted down to years
and decades; some journals exist purely as photocopied facsimiles of material
either disbursed or filed as "loose". Letters found in the journals have not
been cross-indexed with Series I. Researchers are urged to consider looking
into journals for specific date ranges in order to discover any
correspondence not filed or listed in Series I.
The notebooks in Series II are more closely related to Wescott's
creative writings, though they do contain a mixture of fictional sketches and
notes on current events.
Series III, Writings, is divided into five subseries: General Writings;
Writings about People; Lectures, Broadcasts and Speeches; Writings about
Glenway Wescott; and Writings of Others. They represent only a portion of Wescott's
original works. In descriptions of physical formats of manuscripts, the term
"copied" is used to distinguish later copies from original manuscripts.
(These copies were made most likely by Wescott and Robert Phelps in the 1960s
and 1970s in preparation of a volume of collected works.)
General Writings contains drafts of many works not published in
Wescott's lifetime, such as: Children of this World; The Dream of Mrs.
Cleveland; A Fortune in Jewels; The Little Ocean Liner; The Stallions; A
Windfall (a compilation of short works); and A Year of Love. Although the
bulk of manuscripts for Wescott's published works are can be found in the
Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, General Writings also contains
related items, such as: an outline of Apartment in Athens, proofs for a
1977 reissue of A Calendar of Saints for Unbelievers; draft pages of
Images of Truth; and fan letters about The Pilgrim
Hawk.
The most extensive material in this subseries is Wescott's series of
autobiographical sketches, grouped under the title "The Odor of Rosemary".
This work is divided into notebooks and pages for the general work, followed
by distinct sections, many of which were published under separate titles.
The drafts here illustrate the nature of much of the material in the Writings
series. Wescott often used notebooks to contain various notes and background
information, eventually filling them with draft holograph pages, which he
tended to correct as he wrote, creating a shifting stream of narrative.
For purposes of clarity, Wescott's Writings about People have been put
into their own subseries. Wescott wrote repeatedly about the same
individuals (many of his friends, in fact), reusing notes and draft sections
For example, several different works on Somerset Maugham have been filed
together, since they were all born from a group of related notes. Besides
extensive drafts for a biography of Maugham, other subjects of Wescott's
recurring focus include: Colette; F. Scott Fitzgerald; E. M. Forster; Ernest
Hemingway; George Platt Lynes; Marianne Moore; Katherine Anne Porter; Edith
Sitwell; Pavel Tchelitchew; and Thornton Wilder.
Lectures, Broadcasts and Speeches are divided into: Academic
Presentations (which includes "The Monday Class", given at the home of
Josephine Crane); Art Subjects; "Invitation to Learning" (a radio program of
which Wescott was a frequent guest during the 1940s), "The Open Mind"
(television program); Social presentations (many to women's civic groups);
Success magazine (another radio program); and War Bond Rallies.
A section of Writings about Glenway Wescott includes profiles and
criticism of the writer. Among Writings of Others is a collection of poems by
Mary Butts, a typescript of a play, "Paul et Virginie" by Jean Cocteau and
Raymond Radiguet, a biography of Pauline de Rothschild by G. Y. Dryansky, a
long narrative by Pauline de Rothschild, "The Irrational Journey", and a
draft of "The Early Tchelitchew" by Allen Tanner.
Series IV, Personal Papers, contains a range of material documenting
the lives of Wescott and Wheeler. Among the 18 subseries are: interview
transcripts, notebooks (for such things as household expenses, as distinct
from literary notebooks in Series II.), notecards, documentation of various
projects, scrapbooks created by Wescott, materials pertaining to symposia in
which Wescott participated, and papers related to the Wescott family.
Smaller groups of materials are classified under "General Items". These
include: address books; appointment books (for almost every year between
1929-1985); death and estate materials for Wescott; health documents;
juvenilia from Waukesha High School; and wills,
Series V, Financial Papers, gathers together material in a
chronological run, from 1925 through 1986. The material has been subdivided
into the following categories: royalties; cancelled checks; and tax
documents. A small group of material from Glenway's mother, Josephine
Wescott, is also in this series.
Series VI, Research Files contains Wescott's own working files on
various subjects, most of them people, such as T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford,
Richard Hughes, Marianne Moore, and Pavel Tchelitchew.
Series VII, Photographs, is organized into ten subseries. The first
two focus on individual images of Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler:
photographic portraits; photographs of artists' portraits; Wescott & Wheeler
with other people, and candids. The third subseries includes images of
Wescott & Wheeler together. Photographs of Other People make up the next
subseries, which includes such notables as: Mary Butts; Jean Cocteau; Ford
Madox Ford; Jean Genet; Christopher Isherwood; George Platt Lynes; Somerset
Maugham; Marianne Moore; Katherine Anne Porter; Edith Sitwell; and Pavel
Tchelitchew. The following group, Photographs in Series, contains serial
images (entire rolls of film taken at one time), documenting social events
and gatherings, as well as Wescott and Wheeler's travel in the United States
and to foreign countries. These images have been kept together to preserve
their contextual value. Art Photography houses works by artistic
photographers and includes over 70 images by George Platt Lynes. (Other
images by Lynes can be found in Box 69, in the form of proofs sent as
postcards to Monroe Wheeler.) These are followed by Photographs of Artists'
Works and several Albums, for which the contents have been listed. The
subseries documenting activities of the Museum of Modern Art covers
exhibition openings, meetings of the International Council, Monroe Wheeler's
travels, and visitors to MOMA. The series ends with several miscellaneous
subjects such as Buildings and Interiors.
The many original negatives received with this archive have been stored
apart from the papers. Separation sheets have been placed in folders
indicating the number of negatives, the number of existing prints.
Series VIII, Graphic Items, consists of various non-photographic image
materials. Among the artwork originals are an etching by Andre Denoyer de
Segonzac, and a lithograph by Henri Matisse.
Series IX, Clippings, covers a wide range of subjects, with a focus on
art, book reviews, current events, essays and articles, and people. Coverage
of activities of Wescott, Wheeler, and the Wescott family is included here.
The materials in
Series X, American Academy of Arts and
Letters,
concern Glenway Wescott's membership in this organization, including the
years of his presidency, 1959-62. This section includes Wescott's office files,
as well as a number of related pieces such as manuscripts written by Wescott
for various presentations and events, correspondence, and printed items.
Series XI, Objects, consists of pieces of memorabilia received with
the archive. Included are personal effects such as cufflinks, eyeglasses,
Wescott's New York Public Library medal, and such curiosities as
the jawbone of a rat "out of the sea: Fire Island".
Series XII, Audio-Visual Materials, consists of sound recordings and a
single videotape. The audiotape recordings were made during the 1970s and
1980s and feature principally Glenway Wescott either being interviewed by
journalists and friends, or talking by himself about his memories. A few of
these tapes have transcripts which are stored in Series IV, Personal Papers.
Several tapes from the late 1980s feature Monroe Wheeler recounting tales of
his own life. Among the audiodiscs are a radio interview done by Wescott in
1956, what appears to be a recording of Wheeler ca. 1958, and a section of
"The Grandmothers" read as a book for the blind. The videotape is labeled:
"Monroe Wheeler and MOMA, 1986 May 10".
Oversize contains materials from Series II, III, IV, VII, VII, and IX.
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Series I, Correspondence, consists of
six subseries, all of which are arranged
alphabetically, except for the first
subseries, Wescott-Wheeler Correspondence,
which is arranged chronologically.
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1919 Apr-Jun |
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1919 Jul |
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Correspondence
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1919 Aug-Sep |
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1919 Oct |
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Correspondence
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1919 Nov |
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Correspondence
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1919 Dec 2-11 |
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1919 Dec 15-30, n.d. |
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Correspondence
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1920 Jan-Feb 9 |
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Correspondence
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1920 Feb 11-Mar 9 |
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10 |
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Correspondence
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1920 Mar 12-Apr 21 |
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Correspondence
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1920 Apr 30 |
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12 |
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Correspondence
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1920 May |
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Correspondence
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1920 Jun-Jul |
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Correspondence
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1920 Aug |
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Correspondence
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1920 Sep 4-29 |
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Correspondence
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1920 Sep 27 |
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GW, 1922 Sep 20)
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1920 Sep 29 |
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Correspondence
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1920 Sep 30 |
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1920 Oct 1 |
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1920 Oct-Dec |
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Correspondence
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1920 n.d. |
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Correspondence
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1921 Jun |
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Correspondence
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1921 Oct 1-12 |
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1921 Oct 14-18 |
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Correspondence
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1921 Oct 19-Nov |
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Correspondence
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1922 Jan-Sep 21 |
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Correspondence
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1922 Sep 22-30 |
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Correspondence
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1922 Oct |
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1922 Nov-Dec |
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Journal of transcripts of letters,
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Correspondence
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1923 Jan-Feb 25 |
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Correspondence
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1923 Feb 26-Mar 10 |
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1923 Mar 11-20 |
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1923 Mar 23-31 |
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1923 Apr 1-12 |
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Correspondence
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1923 Apr 13-20 |
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Correspondence
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1923 Apr 23-30 |
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1923 May 1-17 |
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1923 May 18-30 |
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1923 Jun 1-7 |
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1923 Jun 8-20 |
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Correspondence
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1923 Jun 21-30 |
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1923 Jul 1-9 |
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1923 Jul 10-25, n.d. |
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1923 Aug 10-20 |
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Correspondence
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1923 Aug 21-29 |
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1923 Sep 5-15 |
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1923 Sep 16-23 |
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1923 Dec, n.d. |
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1924 Jan 17-29 |
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1924 Jul-Aug |
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1924 n.d. |
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1925 Jul-Dec |
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1926 Apr |
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1926 Jun-Dec |
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1928 Jan-May |
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1928 Jun 9-19 |
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1928 Jun 20-29, n.d. |
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1928 Jul 1-10 |
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1928 Jul 12-22 |
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1928 Jul-Aug n.d. |
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1929 Mar-Jul 20 |
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1929 Jul 22-Dec |
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1929 n.d. |
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1920's n.d. |
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1930 Jan |
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1930 Apr-Sep |
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1930 Oct 1-9 |
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1930 Oct 12-17 |
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71 |
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Correspondence
|
1930 Oct 20-22 |
|
72 |
|
Correspondence
|
1930 Oct 23-30 |
|
73 |
|
Correspondence
|
1930 Nov 1-10 |
|
74 |
|
Correspondence
|
1930 Nov 11-20 |
|
75 |
|
Correspondence
|
1930 Nov 22-30 |
|
76 |
|
Correspondence
|
1930 Dec |
|
77 |
|
Correspondence
|
1930 n.d. |
|
78 |
|
Correspondence
|
1931 Jan |
| 6 |
79 |
|
Correspondence
|
1931 Feb |
|
80 |
|
Correspondence
|
1931 Jun-Dec, n.d. |
|
81 |
|
Correspondence
|
1932 Jan-Mar |
|
82 |
|
Correspondence
|
1932 Apr 1-18 |
|
83 |
|
Correspondence
|
1932 Apr 22-29 |
|
84 |
|
Correspondence
|
1932 Jul-Nov 16 |
|
85 |
|
Correspondence
|
1932 Nov 17-30 |
|
86 |
|
Correspondence
|
1932 Dec 2-14 |
|
87 |
|
Correspondence
|
1932 Dec 17-31[?] |
|
88 |
|
Correspondence
|
1933 Jan-Jun |
|
89 |
|
Correspondence
|
1933 Aug-Nov |
|
90 |
|
Correspondence
|
1933 Dec, n.d. |
|
91 |
|
Correspondence
|
1934 Jan, Mar |
|
92 |
|
Correspondence
|
1934 Apr 4-25 |
| 7 |
93 |
|
Correspondence
|
1934 Apr 27-May 9 |
|
94 |
|
Correspondence
|
1934 May 13-29, n.d. |
|
95 |
|
Correspondence
|
1934 Jun-Dec, n.d. |
|
96 |
|
Correspondence
|
1935 Feb-Jun |
|
97 |
|
Correspondence
|
1935 Jul-Dec |
|
98 |
|
Correspondence
|
1936 Feb-Oct |
|
99 |
|
Correspondence
|
1936 Dec, n.d. |
|
100 |
|
Correspondence
|
1937 |
|
101 |
|
Correspondence
|
1938 Mar |
|
102 |
|
Correspondence
|
1938 Apr |
|
103 |
|
Correspondence
|
1938 Jun-Dec, n.d. |
|
104 |
|
Correspondence
|
1939 Apr-Jul |
|
105 |
|
Correspondence
|
1939 Aug-Nov |
|
106 |
|
Correspondence
|
1930's n.d. |
|
107 |
|
Correspondence
|
1940-42 |
|
108 |
|
Correspondence
|
1943 Jan-Apr |
| 8 |
109 |
|
Correspondence
|
1943 May-Jul 21 |
|
110 |
|
Correspondence
|
1943 Jul 22-Aug |
|
111 |
|
Correspondence
|
1943 Sep-Dec |
|
112 |
|
Correspondence
|
1944 |
|
113 |
|
Correspondence
|
1945 Jan |
|
114 |
|
Correspondence
|
1945 Feb-Dec |
|
115 |
|
Correspondence
|
1946 Jan-Feb 19 |
|
116 |
|
Correspondence
|
1946 Feb 20-Dec |
|
117 |
|
Correspondence
|
1947 Jan-Mar 27 |
|
118 |
|
Correspondence
|
1947 Mar 29-Apr 6 |
|
119 |
|
Correspondence
|
1947 Apr 9-Jun |
|
120 |
|
Correspondence
|
1948 |
| 9 |
121 |
|
Correspondence
|
1949 Feb |
|
122 |
|
Correspondence
|
1949 Mar 1-10 |
|
123 |
|
Correspondence
|
1949 Mar 11-29 |
|
124 |
|
Correspondence
|
1949 Apr-Dec |
|
125 |
|
Correspondence
|
1940's n.d. |
|
126 |
|
Correspondence
|
1950 Feb-Mar 14 |
|
127 |
|
Correspondence
|
1950 Mar 15-29 |
|
128 |
|
Correspondence
|
1950 Apr-Dec |
|
129 |
|
Correspondence
|
1951 Jan-Jun |
|
130 |
|
Correspondence
|
1951 Jul-Dec |
|
131 |
|
Correspondence
|
1952 Feb-Apr |
|
132 |
|
Correspondence
|
1952 May |
|
133 |
|
Correspondence
|
1952 Jun-Jul |
|
134 |
|
Correspondence
|
1952 Aug |
| 10 |
135 |
|
Correspondence
|
1952 Sep 1-17 |
|
136 |
|
Correspondence
|
1952 Sep 20-30 |
|
137 |
|
Correspondence
|
1952 Oct 1-8 |
|
138 |
|
Correspondence
|
1952 Oct 10-15, n.d. |
|
139 |
|
Correspondence
|
1953 Jan-Apr |
|
140 |
|
Correspondence
|
1953 May-Oct |
|
141 |
|
Correspondence
|
1953 Nov |
|
142 |
|
Correspondence
|
1953 Dec 1-14 |
|
143 |
|
Correspondence
|
1953 Dec 15-31 |
|
144 |
|
Correspondence
|
1954 Jan-Feb 10 |
|
145 |
|
Correspondence
|
1954 Feb 11-20 |
|
146 |
|
Correspondence
|
1954 Feb 21-28 |
|
147 |
|
Correspondence
|
1954 Mar 1-19 |
|
148 |
|
Correspondence
|
1954 Mar 21-Jun |
| 11 |
149 |
|
Correspondence
|
1954 Jul-Sep |
|
150 |
|
Correspondence
|
1954 Oct-Dec |
|
151 |
|
Correspondence
|
1955 |
|
152 |
|
Correspondence
|
1956 Feb-Apr 10 |
|
153 |
|
Correspondence
|
1956 Apr 12-29, n.d. |
|
154 |
|
Correspondence
|
1956 May 2-8 |
|
155 |
|
Correspondence
|
1956 May 8-25 |
|
156 |
|
Correspondence
|
1956 Jun-Nov, n.d. |
|
156a |
|
Compilation of letters from journal
entries
|
1956, 1959 |
|
157 |
|
Correspondence
|
1957 |
|
158 |
|
Correspondence
|
1958 Jan-Sep 15 |
|
159 |
|
Correspondence
|
1958 Sep 17-Oct |
| 12 |
160 |
|
Correspondence
|
1959 Jan-Jul |
|
161 |
|
Correspondence
|
1959 Aug |
|
162 |
|
Correspondence
|
1959 Sep 2-10 |
|
163 |
|
Correspondence
|
1959 Sep 12-20 |
|
164 |
|
Correspondence
|
1959 Sep 21-30 |
|
165 |
|
Correspondence
|
1959 Oct |
|
166 |
|
Correspondence
|
1950's n.d. |
|
167 |
|
Correspondence
|
1960-61 |
|
168 |
|
Correspondence
|
1962 |
|
169 |
|
Correspondence
|
1963 Jan-Oct 9 |
|
170 |
|
Correspondence
|
1963 Oct 10-16 |
|
171 |
|
Correspondence
|
1964 |
|
172 |
|
Correspondence
|
1965 |
|
173 |
|
Correspondence
|
1966 |
| 13 |
174 |
|
Correspondence
|
1967-1968 Jul |
|
175 |
|
Correspondence
|
1968 Aug-1969 Aug |
|
176 |
|
Correspondence
|
1969 Sep-Oct, n.d. |
|
177 |
|
Correspondence
|
1970 Feb-Aug |
|
178 |
|
Correspondence
|
1970 Sep 9-18 |
|
179 |
|
Correspondence
|
1970 Sep 21-30 |
|
180 |
|
Correspondence
|
1970 Oct-Dec |
|
181 |
|
Correspondence
|
1971 Jan-Mar |
|
182 |
|
Correspondence
|
1971 Apr-May |
|
183 |
|
Correspondence
|
1971 Jul-Nov, n.d. |
| 14 |
184 |
|
Correspondence
|
1972 Mar-May |
|
185 |
|
Correspondence
|
1972 Sep-Dec |
|
186 |
|
Correspondence
|
1973 Jan-Feb |
|
187 |
|
Correspondence
|
1973 Mar-Dec |
|
188 |
|
Correspondence
|
1974 Jan-Feb |
|
189 |
|
Correspondence
|
1974 Apr-Dec, n.d. |
|
190 |
|
Correspondence
|
1975 Jan |
|
191 |
|
Correspondence
|
1975 Feb |
|
192 |
|
Correspondence
|
1975 Apr-Dec |
|
193 |
|
Correspondence
|
1976 Jan |
|
194 |
|
Correspondence
|
1976 Feb-Mar |
|
195 |
|
Correspondence
|
1976 Apr-Dec |
| 14a |
196 |
|
Correspondence
|
1977 |
|
197 |
|
Correspondence
|
1978-79 |
|
198 |
|
Correspondence
|
1970's n.d. |
|
199 |
|
Correspondence
|
1980-82 |
|
200 |
|
Correspondence
|
1983-86 |
|
201-204 |
|
Correspondence
|
n.d. |
|
|
WESCOTT FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE
|
| 15 |
205 |
|
Barrows, Marjorie to GW
|
1920-66, n.d. |
|
206-207 |
|
GW to Barrows, Marjorie
|
1932-67, n.d. |
|
208 |
|
Clark, Deborah Wescott Prockup to GW
|
1946-80, n.d. |
|
|
|
Includes envelope addressed by MW
|
|
|
209-210 |
|
Hagen, Beulah to GW
|
1919-85, n.d. |
|
211 |
|
Hagen, Beulah to MW
|
1986 Apr 8 |
|
212 |
|
Hagen, Holger to GW
|
1944-45 |
|
213 |
|
Hotchkiss, Bruce (Nephew);
Hotchkiss, Duke;
Hotchkiss Family to GW
|
1947-86, n.d. |
| 16 |
214-216 |
|
Hotchkiss, Elizabeth W. to GW.
|
1919-80, n.d. |
|
216a |
|
Hotchkiss, Elizabeth W. to MW
|
1919 |
|
217 |
|
Hotchkiss, Tom to GW
|
1929, n.d. |
|
218-220 |
|
Jacobs, Katherine W.;
Jacobs, Herbert to GW
|
1920-84, n.d. |
|
220a |
|
Jacobs, Katherine W. to MW
|
1920 Feb 8 |
|
221 |
|
Ross, Marion to GW
|
n.d. |
|
222 |
|
Ubben, Mary Sue to GW
|
1963 Mar 27 |
| 17 |
223-226 |
|
Wescott, Barbara to GW
|
1929-75, n.d. |
|
227-233 |
|
GW to Wescott, Barbara
|
1929-46 |
| 18 |
234-237 |
|
GW to Wescott, Barbara
|
1947-76, n.d. |
|
238-242 |
|
Wescott, Barbara to MW
|
1928-77, n.d. |
|
|
|
Includes letter from Bernardine
Szold-Fritz to MW [1959 Nov 24]
|
|
| 18a |
243-245a |
|
MW to Wescott, Barbara
|
1929-77, n.d. |
|
246 |
|
Wescott, Bruce to GW
|
1924-38, n.d. |
|
247 |
|
GW to Wescott, Bruce
|
1918-45 |
|
248 |
|
Wescott, Bruce to MW
|
1949 Aug 16, n.d. |
|
249 |
|
[Wescott], Dorothy to MW
|
n.d. |
|
250 |
|
Wescott, Harold G. to MW
|
1938 Dec 18, n.d. |
|
251 |
|
Wescott, Hugh to GW
|
1952 Aug 25 |
| 19 |
252-269 |
|
Wescott, Josephine to GW
|
1919-58, n.d. |
| 20 |
270-282 |
|
GW to Wescott, Josephine
|
1914-27 |
| 21 |
283-287 |
|
GW to Wescott, Josephine
|
1928-54, n.d. |
|
288 |
|
Wescott, Josephine to & from MW
|
1919-56, n.d. |
|
289-291 |
|
Wescott, Lloyd to GW
|
1920-85, n.d. |
|
292-296 |
|
GW to Wescott, Lloyd
|
1920-77, n.d. |
| 22 |
297 |
|
Wescott, Lloyd to MW
|
1920-88, n.d. |
|
298 |
|
MW to Wescott, Lloyd
|
1920-25 |
|
299 |
|
[Wescott], Mandy to GW
|
1980 Mar 8 |
|
300 |
|
Wescott, Paul to GW
|
n.d. |
|
301 |
|
[Wescott], Ruth to GW
|
1922 Jan 5 |
|
302 |
|
[Wescott], Will and Natasha to GW
|
1979-84 |
|
303 |
|
[Wescott], Walter
[Wescott], Lou Ella to GW
|
1955 Jan 1 |
|
304 |
|
GW to an unidentified sister
|
n.d. |
|
305 |
|
[Wescott] family members, unidentified,
to GW
|
1929-62, n.d. |
|
306 |
|
[Wheatley], Susan to GW
|
n.d. |
|
|
WESCOTT FAMILY THIRD-PARTY CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
307 |
|
Jacobs, Herbert to Wescott family
members
|
1963, 1966 |
|
308-310 |
|
Family letters to Josephine & Bruce
Wescott
|
1934-59, n.d. |
|
311 |
|
[Prockup], Jennifer to Wescott, Lloyd
|
1980 Mar 24 |
|
312 |
|
Wescott, Lloyd to Wescott family
members
|
1935-79, n.d. |
|
313 |
|
Wescott Family Members to George Platt
Lynes
|
1935, n.d. |
|
314 |
|
Letters between Wescott sisters
|
1920-66 |
|
|
WHEELER FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE
|
|
315 |
|
Bach, Doris to MW
|
1922-82, n.d. |
|
316 |
|
MW to Bach, Doris
|
1926-86, n.d. |
|
317 |
|
Bach, Doris to & from GW
|
1961-86, n.d. |
|
318 |
|
Heartt Family to MW & GW
|
1962-83, n.d. |
|
|
|
Includes: Ella, Phillip, Peg, Sara
and Stephen Heartt
|
|
|
319 |
|
Kolbe, Frank to MW;
Kolbe, Marjorie to MW
|
1961-84, n.d. |
|
|
|
(includes empty envelope from MW to FK)
|
|
| 23 |
320 |
|
Wheeler, Anna to MW
|
1922-60, n.d. |
|
321-323 |
|
MW to Anna Wheeler
|
1921-61, n.d. |
|
324 |
|
Wheeler, Anna to GW
|
1945-61 |
|
325-328 |
|
Wheeler, Fred Monroe to MW
|
1921-61 |
| 24 |
329-331 |
|
Wheeler, Fred Monroe to MW
|
1962-66, n.d. |
|
332-340 |
|
MW to Wheeler, Fred Monroe
|
1920-30 |
| 25 |
341-353 |
|
MW to Wheeler, Fred Monroe
|
1931-48 |
| 26 |
354-365 |
|
MW to Wheeler, Fred Monroe
|
1949-65, n.d. |
| 27 |
366 |
|
Wheeler, Fred Monroe to GW
|
1925-64, n.d. |
|
367-368 |
|
Wheeler, Richard to MW
|
1925-88, n.d. |
|
369 |
|
Wheeler, Richard to GW
|
1922-81, n.d. |
|
370-372 |
|
MW to Wheeler, Richard
|
1929-54, n.d. |
|
373 |
|
Stephen Wheeler to MW
|
1959-86, n.d. |
| 27a |
374 |
|
Various Wheeler Family Members to MW
|
ca. 1961-87 |
|
375-376 |
|
Wheeler Family 3rd Party
|
ca. 1912-70 |
|
|
|
| 28 |
377 |
|
A. Robert Samuel Gallery, Ltd.
|
1980-81 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
378 |
|
Abels, Cyrilly
|
1961-67 |
|
|
|
to GW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
379 |
|
Acton, Harold
|
1951 Jan 14 |
|
|
|
to MW
|
|
|
380 |
|
Adams, F. B.
|
1948-50 |
|
|
|
to MW & GW
|
|
|
381 |
|
Adams, Leonie
|
1949 Feb |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
382 |
|
Agee, James
|
1949 Feb 23 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
383-388 |
|
Aguilar, Mauricio
|
1944-47 |
|
|
|
to MW
|
|
| 29 |
389-396 |
|
Aguilar, Mauricio
|
1948-50 |
| 30 |
397-404 |
|
Aguilar, Mauricio
|
1950-66, n.d. |
|
405-406 |
|
MW & GW to Aguilar, Mauricio
|
1943-68, n.d. |
|
407 |
|
Aitkin, Donald;
Aitkin, Elizabeth
|
1962-85, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
408 |
|
Alexander, Harriet
|
n.d. |
|
|
|
to MW
|
|
|
409 |
|
Algren, Nelson
|
n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
410 |
|
Amaya, Mario
|
1957-59 |
|
|
|
to MW & GW
|
|
| 31 |
411-413 |
|
Amaya, Mario
|
1960-86, n.d. |
|
414 |
|
MW & GW to Amaya, Mario
|
1963-73 |
|
415 |
|
American Committee for Cultural Freedom
|
1952, n.d. |
|
|
|
[regarding L'oeuvre du XXe Siecle]
|
|
|
|
|
to GW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
416 |
|
Ames, Elizabeth
|
1949-67 |
|
|
|
to GW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
417 |
|
Ames, Louis;
Ames, Jetti
|
1945-88, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW & MW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
418 |
|
GW to Amory, Cleveland
|
1968, n.d. |
|
419 |
|
Anderson, Sherwood
|
[1924], 1940 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
| 32 |
420 |
|
Andersson, Jon
|
1982-84 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
421 |
|
Ando, Nisuke
|
1959-66, n.d. |
|
|
|
to MW
|
|
|
422 |
|
Ararat Books
|
1964 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
423 |
|
Arden, Elsie
|
1936-45, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
424 |
|
Arvin, Newton
|
1949-62 |
|
|
|
to GW ; includes letters from GW
|
|
|
425-428 |
|
Ashby, Ivan
|
1967-70 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
| 33 |
429-430 |
|
Ashby, Ivan
|
1971-86, n.d. |
|
431-433 |
|
GW to Ashby, Ivan
|
1965-1969 Feb |
| 34 |
434-439 |
|
GW to Ashby, Ivan
|
1969 Mar-1970 Sep |
| 35 |
440-447 |
|
GW to Ashby, Ivan
|
1970 Oct-1971 Jul |
| 36 |
448-449 |
|
GW to Ashby, Ivan
|
1972-81, n.d. |
|
450 |
|
GW to "Verna," [letter of
introduction for Ivan Ashby]
|
1969 Jun 18 |
|
451 |
|
Ashby, Louie
|
1970-76 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
452 |
|
Askew, Kirk;
Askew, Constance
|
1958-1974, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW & MW
|
|
|
453-454 |
|
Astor, Brooke
|
1962-86, n.d. |
|
|
|
to MW & GW
|
|
|
455 |
|
MW to Astor, Brooke
|
1962-70, n.d. |
|
456 |
|
Atheneum Publishers
|
1961-82 |
|
|
|
to GW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
457 |
|
Atkinson, Brooks;
Atkinson, Ariana
|
1962, 1963 |
|
|
|
to MW
|
|
|
458 |
|
The Atlantic Monthly Press
|
1962-64 |
|
|
|
to GW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
459 |
|
Auden, W.H.
|
1939 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
460 |
|
Augarten, Stan
|
1980 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
461 |
|
Auric, Georges
|
n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW & MW
|
|
|
462 |
|
The Authors Guild of the Authors League
of America, Inc.
|
1947-84, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
463-464 |
|
"A" general
|
1920-87, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW & MW ; includes letters from GW
|
|
| 37 |
465 |
|
B., Sam
|
1950-51 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
466 |
|
Bachardy, Don
|
1961-82, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW & MW
|
|
|
466a |
|
Baldwin, Neil
|
1984 Feb 20 |
|
467 |
|
Barber, Samuel
|
1937-44, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW & MW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
468 |
|
Barnes, Djuna
|
1948, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
469 |
|
Barney, Natalie C.
|
1952 May 24 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
470 |
|
Barr, Alfred H., Jr.
|
1965, 1970 n.d. |
|
|
|
to MW ; includes letter from MW
|
|
|
471 |
|
Barr, Ingle
|
1959 Mar 11 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
472 |
|
Barzun, Jacques
|
1947-80 |
|
|
|
to GW & MW
|
|
|
473 |
|
Bate, Neel
|
1981-82 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
474 |
|
Bathurst, Timothy S.
|
1971 Aug 10 |
|
|
|
to GW
|
|
|
475 |
|
Bayer, Herbert;
Bayer, Joella
|
1949-67, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW & MW
|
|
|
476 |
|
Bayley, Isabel
|
1983-85, n.d. |
|
|
|
to GW ; includes letter from MW
|
|
|
477 |
|
Beach, Robert
|
1968-77 |
|
|
|
to GW & MW ; includes letter from GW
|
|
|
|