Creator:
Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982
Inclusive Dates:
1906- 1980
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, lecturer, novelist, and literary critic. Correspondence, 1929-80, with Harriette Arnow, Newton Arvin, Van Wyck Brooks, Baker Bromell, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Cantwell, Robert Gorham Davis, Henry Christman, George Cole, James T. Farrell, Joseph Freeman, Herbert Gold, Corliss Lamont, Lucy Robbins Lang, John Lydenburg, Georgia McKinley, Fulmer Mood, Walter Ripton Morris, Wright Morris, Richard Rovere, Evelyn Scott, Lincoln Steffins, and Ella Winter, among others. Also correspondence and editorial reader's reports for Macmillan Publishing Company. Writings include articles, book manuscripts, a journal (1942-1973), lectures, as well as research notes, correspondence, and memorabilia relating to the production of Hicks' biography of John Reed.
Large collection of printed material includes book reviews, clippings, and an assortment of Leftist pamphlets and periodicals from the 1930s.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Diaries.
Lectures.
Manuscripts for publication.
Pamphlets.
Periodicals.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New leader (New York, N.Y.)
New masses.
Saturday review.
Biographers.
Critics.
Novelists.
Radicalism
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American.
Biographers -- Authorship.
City and town life -- United States.
Communism -- United States.
Communism and education.
Communism and intellectuals.
Community life.
Critics -- United States
Literary historians.
Literary quarrels.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Novelists, American.
Publishers and publishing.
Radicalism -- United States.
Creator:
Henry, Leland Boyd, 1895-1968.
Inclusive Dates:
1915- 1968
Abstract:
Papers of the American Methodist
Episcopal, later Protestant Episcopal, minister and social activist; collection includes writings (book reviews, sermons, speeches, Army chaplain log books) and memorabilia, including numerous vey full scrapbooks with a wide variety of content
Type of Material:
Book reviews.
Church bulletins.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Invitations.
Manuscripts for publication.
Military records.
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Sermons.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Clergy.
Activism and social reform
Church and clergy
Military history
Church and social problems.
Church and the world.
Clergy -- United States.
Episcopalians -- United States.
Hospital ships.
Military chaplains.
Sermons, American.
Creator:
Barker, Will.
Inclusive Dates:
1852- 1970
Abstract:
American author, native of Troy, New
York, who wrote a number of books about animals, some for young adults. Collection contains
correspondence (1852-1970), business, personal, and family; book manscripts and galleys;
genealogical material relating to the Barker family; scrapbooks; memorabilia, including
calendars and photographs; and published material, including articles and pamphlets.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Calendars (documents)
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Genealogies (histories)
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Literature -- Children's
Animal behavior.
Authors, American.
Conservation of natural resources -- Juvenile literature.
Freemasons -- United States.
Zoology -- Juvenile literature.