English Literature

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The John L. Brown papers 1, consist of 99 folders of correspondence from literary and artistic luminaries, including writers Sylvia Beach, John Dos Passos, Anne Fremantle, Katherine Anne Porter, Alice B. Toklas; philosopher Jacques Maritain; photographer Brassai; poets Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Giuseppe Ungaretti, and many more. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The John L. Brown papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques...

Content Description

Manuscript items, including letters,notes, photographs, and printed ephemera, found interleaved in books from the personal library of John S. Mayfield.

Content Description

Contains Meyers' research files re Algernon Charles Swinburne. Includes Meyers' research correspondence, dated 1980-1994.

15 folders arranged alphabetically by name. Includes photocopies of originals with transcriptions of letters by Hall Caine, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Alice Haley, Edward Verrall Lucas, Eden Philpotts, Luigi Siciliani, Isabel Swinburne, Arthur Symons, John Hall Wheelock, and Thomas Wright.