Mina Kirstein Curtiss Papers, 1913-2005
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Mina Kirstein Curtiss Papers
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Curtiss, Mina Kirstein, 1896-
Biographical History for: Mina Kirstein Curtiss Papers
Biographical Note Mina Curtiss at Chapelbrook, Ashfield, Massachusetts, n.d. Mina Kirstein Curtiss was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 13, 1896 to Louis Kirstein, an optician, and Rose Stein. She had two younger brothers, Lincoln Kirstein, founder and general director of the New York City Ballet, and George Kirstein, publisher of the Liberal Weekly. The family moved to Rochester, NY in 1901 and remained there until 1912, when they returned to Boston and Louis Kirstein became a partner in Filene's Department Store. Curtiss was schooled at home by a governess until 1912, when she was sent to Northampton, Massachusetts to attend Miss Capen's School. She graduated from Smith College in 1918 and went on to earn an MA in English from Columbia University in 1920. Prior to attending Columbia, Curtiss worked as a research clerk for Military Intelligence in Washington, D.C., from 1918 to 1920. She lived at the headquarters of the National Woman Suffrage Association where she became friends with Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt. Curtiss married Henry Tomlinson Curtiss in 1926 only to be devastated by his untimely death a year later, in 1927. In 1933 she published The Midst of Life, a book that took the form of a series of letters to her dead husband. From 1922 to 1934 and again from 1940 to 1942, Curtiss was a beloved and highly regarded professor of English at Smith College, returning in 1976, at the age of 81, as Visiting Professor of English Language and Literature to teach a course on writing biography. From 1935 to 1939, she worked with Orson Welles and John Houseman in researching and writing scripts for the Mercury Theatre of the Air. In 1942, she created a program for the Des Moines Register and Tribune radio station, based on soldiers' letters home. This evolved into a book, Letters Home, edited by Curtiss and published in 1944. In 1942 Curtiss also joined the Office of War Information and, with Houseman, developed a short wave radio program for the BBC entitled "Answering You," in which celebrities responded to questions submitted by BBC listeners. Rather than return to teaching when World War II ended, Curtiss opted to pursue a career in writing, authoring books, journal articles, and book reviews for national and international audiences. She was also fluent in French, and translated and edited works by several noted Frenchmen, including Edgar Degas, Philip Halevy, Marcel Proust, and Alexis Leger (also known as Saint-John Perse). She once said in an interview, "I fall in love with whatever I'm working on," and this passion, combined with a rigorous intellect, made her a tireless, tenacious, and meticulous researcher. Having read Proust and translated his letters for publication in the United States (The Letters of Marcel Proust, 1949), Curtiss was inspired to go to Paris to seek out Proust's family and friends still living, and to unearth more of his correspondence. This research led to publication in 1978 of Other People's Letters: A Memoir and to an interest in the composer Georges Bizet, which Curtiss pursued with characteristic vigor. Following publication of Other People's Letters: A Memoir in 1978, Curtiss continued to write. She submitted several manuscripts for publication ("Winter Letters," a sequel to Midst of Life; "The Past and I" and "Slices of Life," sequential autobiographies; and "Plato: Archbishop of Moscow," a biographical sketch that evolved from researching A Forgotten Empress: Anna Ivanovich and Her Era, 1730-1740), and to her disappointment all were rejected. Despite a severe heart condition that left her bedridden for the last several years of her life, with the help of her secretary Curtiss continued to edit and modify the manuscripts in hopes that they would eventually go to press. In addition to teaching and pursuing a career in writing, Curtiss was generous to causes in which she believed, to the extent that her finances allowed. In 1964, she donated most of the land that comprised Chapelbrook, her farm in Ashfield, Massachusetts, to the Trustees of Reservations, before selling the house and remaining acreage privately. She also founded the Chapelbrook Foundation the purpose of which was to provide funding to writers over the age of forty, to enable them to complete works in progress that might otherwise have gone unfinished. Curtiss also donated manuscript material to libraries and repositories, and works of art to museums. In 1984, Smith College alumnae Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her sister, Constance Morrow Morgan, organized a campaign among Curtiss's former students to raise funds for a tribute to her. The response was overwhelming and led to establishment of the Mina Curtiss Fund, thanks to which a vase of fresh flowers, replaced on a regular basis in perpetuity, graces the Browsing Room in the William Allan Neilson Library at Smith College. Curtiss herself was an avid gardener and, not long before she died, suggested that the tribute take this form. Mina Kirstein Curtiss died in Connecticut on October 31, 1985.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Mina Kirstein Curtiss Papers consist of 11 linear feet and date from 1913 to 1986. Types of material include biographical information, including an oral history; personal and professional correspondence; photographs; journals and diaries; financial records; clippings; and typescripts of writings. The papers are arranged in six series: Biographical Material, Photographs, Correspondence, Teaching, Writings and Subject Files. The bulk of the papers dates from 1933 to 1985 and focuses on Curtiss's writing career. It includes correspondence with publishers and researchers, research material, artwork, royalty statements, and typescripts. The typescripts are edited in Curtiss's hand and provide insight into her creative and analytical processes. Correspondence is also extensive and reflects the many friendships Curtiss developed while teaching, and in researching and writing her various books and attempting to see them through to publication. Many of the correspondents are people of note. The correspondence also well illustrates Curtiss's analytical approach to her topics of research. Although the diaries and journals in this collection are limited in scope, they do reveal something of their author's passionate nature and discerning intellect, as well as some of her struggles and disappointments. The photographs are also of interest, offering a glimpse into Curtiss's childhood and early family life, as well as life at Chapelbrook, the Curtiss home in Ashfield, Massachusetts. The financial records document the acquisition of art and antiques, and the necessity for Curtiss to sell certain pieces later in her life, when she faced financial difficulties. They are also evidence of Curtiss's generosity in donating books, manuscript material and artwork to appropriate institutions when she was financially secure.
French literature--Translations into English--Sources
lcsh
Radio broadcasting--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Women authors, American--20th century--Sources
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971--Correspondence
lcnaf
Auchincloss, Louis--Correspondence
Barzun, Jacques, 1907- --Correspondence
Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875
Conway, Jill K., 1934- --Correspondence
Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965--Correspondence
Garnett, David, 1892- --Correspondence
Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978--Correspondence
Halevy, Daniel, 1872-1962--Correspondence
Houseman, John--Correspondence
Ivanovich, Anna
Kolb, Philip--Correspondence
Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950--Correspondence
Levin, Harry, 1912- --Correspondence
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906- --Correspondence
Linscott, Robert Newton, 1886- --Correspondence
Manet, Edouard, 1832-1833
Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946--Correspondence
Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, 1894- --Correspondence
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Pope-Hennessy, John, Sir, 1834-1891--Correspondence
Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975
Steegmuller, Francis, 1906- --Correspondence
Storm, Hans Otto, 1895-1941--Correspondence
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977--Correspondence
Welles, Orson, 1915- --Correspondence
West, Rebecca, Dame, 1892- --Correspondence
Curtiss family
Mercury Theater of the Air--History--Sources
Smith College--Faculty--History--Sources
Smith College--Students--History--Sources
series
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL (1918-1986)
This series provides an overview of Mina Kirstein Curtiss's private life and includes legal documents, an oral history, and photographs. The series also contains two bound volumes of poetry, some of which is in Curtiss's hand and the rest in another, unidentified hand. There is also correspondence pertaining to the Mina K.Curtiss Fund at Smith College, established in 1984. The financial information is extensive and includes tax returns; bills of sale, receipts, and appraisals for art and antiques; and records of donations made to various museums and libraries. Also included is a set of Curtiss's daily appointment calendars, spanning the years 1936 to 1985; the year 1939 is missing. There are also magazine articles, correspondence, drawings, legal documents, and printed matter relating to various properties Curtiss owned during her life, most of which concern Chapelbrook in Ashfield, Massachusetts. The Chapelbrook photograph albums are filed in this series because they are germane to to that particular property and because many of the photographs depict life there before Mina Stein Kirstein married Henry Tomlinson Curtiss in 1926.
SERIES II. PHOTOGRAPHS
This series consists of photo albums and single images of Mina Curtiss and her family; there are also several photographs of Henry Tomlinson Curtiss. Although most of the images are undated and the people in them are unidentified, they well illustrate certain aspects of Curtiss's family life and leisure activities.
SERIES III. CORRESPONDENCE (1913-85)
This series is divided into four subseries: Family, Friends and acquaintances, Legal and financial, and Miscellaneous. In the Family subseries, letters to "Goosie" and "Pettikins" probably refer to Lincoln and George Kirstein, respectively. The bulk of the series consists of Friends and acquaintances and includes letters from many eminent figures from the literary world. Letters to family and to Smith College President William Allan Neilson are especially revealing of Curtiss's thoughts and feelings as she grappled with personal problems. Legal and financial correspondence is comprised of letters between Curtiss and the prominent Boston firms that represented her legal and fiscal interests. Since Curtiss traveled extensively, whenever practicable on incoming correspondence her whereabouts have been noted in pencil above the greeting. (See also The Tin Box Collection: Letters of Roger Sessions and His Friends, Sarah Chapin, Ed., 1992).
SERIES IV. TEACHING (1920-77)
This series contains material relating to Mina K. Curtiss's years of teaching English at Smith College, and includes a grade book, lecture notes, and letters from students.
SERIES V. WRITINGS (1917-85)
This series consists of diaries and journals; draft manuscripts and typescripts; research materials; artwork for illustrating Curtiss's books; book reviews, both by Curtiss and by others about her books; journal articles; fan mail, and correspondence with publishers, literary agents, and research associates. A significant amount of material in this series relates to unpublished works. Some of the artwork filed under "Manet Caricatures: Olympia" was not actually used in the published version of that article, which appeared in the Massachusetts Review in 1966. It is unknown whether Curtiss decided against using this material in the "Olympia" article, or if she intended all along to use it in subsequent vignettes or in the proposed book on Manet caricatures. Since Curtiss filed this artwork with illustrations that were used in the "Olympia" article, it has been retained there. Material pertaining to The Midst of Life contains an untitled essay that Curtiss had identified as "background material--Midst of Life;" the essay has therefore been filed with other papers having to do with The Midst of Life. "Winter Letters," which never reached publication, was the sequel to The Midst of Life. "Slices of Life" is a sequel to the "Past and I." Both are autobiographies, neither of which was ever published. The manuscript "Platon: Archbishop of Moscow" was originally part of "Slices of Life," but Curtiss separated it and submitted it for publication, also unsuccessfully, as a separate manuscript; the "Platon" material is therefore filed immediately after the "Slices of Life" typescript. Much of the correspondence between Curtiss and Liliane Yacoel Ziegel, Curtiss's Parisian research associate, is in French, particularly that pertaining to Letters of Marcel Proust and Bizet and His World. Correspondence with publishers and literary agents comprises a separate subseries due to its broad and varied content, particularly the letters between Curtiss and Al Hart of the Fox Chase Agency. Research material for Letters Home consists of typescripts of letters soldiers wrote either to their hometown newspapers or to their families. Material pertaining to the radio program, "What's YOUR Idea," and to a column in Cosmopolitan called "Letters Home," both of which evolved from the huge success of Letters Home, is filed with other documents relating to the book.
SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES (1937-72)
This series consists of translations of essays and a bibliography by Saint-John Perse, as well as clippings about him; and clippings about the murder of Elliot Speer, Headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys, which occurred in September 1934.
OVERSIZE MATERIALS
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Biographical statements, Smith College transcript, and obituaries, 1918, 1985
Birth and marriage certificates, passports, employment documents, clippings, and cemetery permits, 1921-83, n.d.
Wills, 1979-84, n.d.
Bequests, 1986
Mina K. Curtiss Fund at Smith College
[See also SERIES III. CORRESPONDENCE]
General correspondence and lists of donors, 1984-85
Vase design, correspondence, receipts, and drawings, 1985
Letters of thanks by Mina K. Curtiss, 1985
Responses to letters of thanks, 1985
Condolences, 1985-86
Correspondence re: estate of Mina K. Curtiss, 1985-86
Oral history transcript, 1971
Address books, circa 1985
French Legion of Honor award (includes medal), 1960
Partnership agreement, The Nation, 1963-64
Antiques, art, and furnishings
Correspondence, 1969
Receipts and bills of sale, 1954-82, n.d.
Appraisals, 1965-1980, n.d.
Correspondence about Manet painting, 1974-82
Photographs and negatives of unidentified paintings, n.d.
Notes on library of Mina K. Curtiss, n.d.
List of books owned by Mina K. Curtiss (?) (incomplete), n.d.
Books of poetry, 1922, n.d.
Poems found folded in books of poetry, n.d.
Financial records
Tax returns, 1939-43
Social Security summary, 1977
List of income sources, 1973
Account sheets for household staff, 1982-83
Donations and gifts
Fondation St. John Perse: correspondence, 1975-85
Pierpont Morgan Library: correspondence, 1968-84
New York Public Library: correspondence, 1964-84
Sigmund Freud Archives: correspondence, 1962-73
Smith College
William Allen Neilson Library
Correspondence, receipts, and reports, 1974-75
Museum of Art
Correspondence, receipts, and reports, 1968-85, n.d.
Estate of Mina K. Curtiss: correspondence, 1986
Rare Book Room: correspondence and inventories, 1975-85
College Archives and Sophia Smith Collection
Margaret Storrs Grierson: correspondence, 1947-64
College Archives: correspondence and inventories,1983-84
Sophia Smith Collection: correspondence re: estate of Mina K. Curtiss, 1986
Other institutions: correspondence and inventories, 1944-83
Calendars
Residences
Chapelbrook, Ashfield, Massachusetts
Photograph albums, 1917-29, n.d.
Publications
House Beautiful, 1924
House and Garden, 1925, 1946
Management plans, 1977, n.d.
Correspondence, 1979-85
Elevation and brochure, n.d.
Inventories, 1924, n.d.
A Climber's Guide to Chapel Falls, circa 1979
Brochures, Trustees of Reservations, 1981, n.d.
Bethel and Weston, Connecticut houses: descriptive brochure, Certificates of Title, Mortgage Deed, correspondence, photograph, and financial information, 1963-78, n.d.
Mina Curtiss, alone and with family and friends, n.d.
Henry T. Curtiss, Smith College, and miscellaneous, 1916-18
Photograph album, n.d.
SERIES III. CORRESPONDENCE
Family
Louis Kirstein, 1913-37, n.d.
Rose Stein Kirstein, 1942-52
George Kirstein ("Pettikins?") and Lincoln Kirstein ("Goosie?"), 1947-49, 1971
Friends and acquaintances
Acheson, Dean and Alice, 1928-85
Adams, Thomas B., 1967-84
Adams, William H., 1985
Auchincloss, Louis, 1978
Barzun, Jacques, 1951-57
Bradley, Jenny, 1947-78
Cain, Julien, 1959-61
Conway, Jill Ker, 1975-85
Einstein, Albert, 1946-47
Fardig, Elenor, 1958-69, n.d.
Fistere, Isobel, 1978-83, n.d.
Frankfurter, Felix, 1943-44, n.d.
Garnett, David, 1947
Gottfried, Sallie, 1982-85
Grant, Duncan (photocopies), 1923-25
Green, Dorothy, 1947-60
Guerin, Jacques, 1947-49
Halevy, Daniel, 1954-58, n.d.
Houseman, John, 1936-54
Johnson, Hugh, 1942-44
Kolb, Philip, 1947-78
Krauss, Henry, 1968-69
Laski, Frida, 1919-22
Laski, Harold, 1922
L'Engle, Madeleine, 1980
Levin, Harry, 1946-59, n.d.
Levy, Harriet, 1941
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow and other members of Morrow and Lindbergh families
[See also SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL]
Anne Morrow Lindbergh to Mina Curtiss, 1929-85, n.d.
Mina Curtiss to Anne Morrow Lindbergh (photocopies), 1940
Typescript by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and related letter from Mina Curtiss, n.d.
Constance Morrow Morgan, 1930-78, n.d.
Anne Spencer Lindbergh, 1960
Reeve Lindbergh Brown, 1983
Mina Kirstein Curtiss Fund at Smith College
Executive correspondence, 1984, n.d.
General correspondence, A-Z, 1984
Linscott, Robert (?), 1947
Maloney, Daniel, 1977-78
Marshall, Delia, 1977-85
Martin-Chauffier, Louis, 1946-48
de Mornand, Louisa (includes fragments of writings), 1947
Mortimer, Raymond, n.d.
Mencken, H.L. (photocopies), 1936
Nathan, Robert, 1919-22, n.d.
Neilson, Elizabeth, 1939, 1949
Neilson, William Allan, 1919-45
Nicolson, Marjorie, 1950-53
Pope-Hennessey, John, 1962-79
[See also SERIES V. WRITINGS: Published works: Books: Other People's Letters, fan mail]
Proust, Suzy Mante, 1947-48
Russian correspondents
Drapkina, Lucy, 1969-72, n.d.
Others, 1960-70, n.d.
Sibilat, Magda, 1938-52, n.d.
Magda Sibilat (written by Pauline Nisbet on behalf of Sibilat, who was gravely ill), 1949-50
Steegmuller, Francis, 1948-84, n.d.
Storm, Hans Otto, 1940-41
Correspondence about Hans Otto Storm, 1942, 1970-73
Untermeyer, Louis, 1917-18
Vecchi, Floriano, 1971, n.d.
Welles, Orson, n.d.
West, Rebeccca (includes photocopies and related correspondence), 1924-78
Wilmerding, Gay, 1978-79
Unidentified, 1981-85, n.d.
Stenographer's notebooks, Jan 1978-Jul 1983
Aug 1983-Sep 1985
Legal and financial
Pullman, Comley, Bradley and Reeves, 1978
Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg, 1952-60
Ropes and Gray, 1961-74
Miscellaneous: letter to the editor, The New Yorker, 1979
SERIES IV. TEACHING
Grade book, n.d.
Teaching notes, 1977
Correspondence from students, 1920s, 1977
Clipping, Dec 1929
SERIES V. WRITINGS
Diaries
Journals, 1911, 1914, 1918-19
Journal from trip to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1942
Radio programs
Mercury Theatre of the Air
"War of the Worlds," clippings, 1938
Unidentified list, n.d.
Listen, Iowa's Own Newspaper of the Air
Correspondence, 1942
Character profiles, 1942
Scripts, 1942-43
Answering Australia, scripts: 1943
Answering You
Correspondence and listeners' surveys, 1943
Scripts, #1-#8, 12, 1943
Disc recordings, circa 1942
[See APPENDIX]
Published works
Lists of published works (incomplete), n.d.
Statements of earnings from writings, 1965-71
Books
Bizet and His World, 1958
Royalty statements, 1961-77
Reviews, 1958-59, 1978
Research materials: from Genevieve Bizet Straus: correspondence, printed material, clippings, transcribed excerpts, legal documents, and school records, circa 1883-1975
Records of royalties on works by Georges Bizet, 1939-43
List of documents about Georges Bizet held by Magda Sibilat, n.d.
A Forgotten Empress: Anna Ivanovich and Her Era, 1730-1740, 1974
Correspondence and contract, 1967-74
Fan mail, 1974
Royalty statements, 1976-78
Reviews, 1974-75, n.d.
Research materials
Photographs, n.d.
[See also OVERSIZE MATERIALS]
Catalogs, 1969, n.d.
Plates
Letters Home, 1944
Correspondence, 1944-72
Research materials: typescripts of newspaper articles containing information about soldiers serving in World War II, 1942-43
Africa, Asia and Europe: Africa-Trinidad
United States:Alaska- Pennsylvania
Other, 1942-43, n.d.
Clippings, 1942-43
Reviews, 1944
Column in Cosmopolitan, "Letters Home"
Correspondence, galleys, clippings, 1944
Radio program: What's Your Idea?
Correspondence and typescript, 1944
Letters of Marcel Proust, 1949
Correspondence and copyright information, 1947-49, 1977
Fan mail, 1949-50
Royalty statements, 1967-78
Reviews from U.S. publications, 1949-50
Reviews from British publications, 1950-51
Research material
Letters from Proust to Nahamas (photocopies), n.d.
Typescript, Proust and the Double 'I' of Two Characters by Andre du Bouchet, n.d.
Photographs
Marcel Proust, 1890-1922
Marcel Proust with family and friends, n.d.
Other people, n.d.
Copy negatives, n.d.
Related material, 1956, n.d.
The Midst of Life, 1933
Correspondence, 1933
Fan mail, 1928-53
Typescript, n.d.
Serialized version, Atlantic Monthly, Jan-Apr, 1933
Abridged version, Reader's Digest, Feb 1938
Translation into French by Andre du Bouchet (incomplete), n.d.
Press releases and reviews, 1933
Typescript, "background material," n.d.
Olive, Cypress and Palm: An Anthology of Love and Death, 1930
Correspondence and royalty statement, 1929-32
Reviews, 1930
Other People's Letters: A Memoir, 1978
Copy of reissued book, 2005
Correspondence and contract, 1977-81
Fan mail, 1978-84
Royalty statements, 1978-84
Research materials, n.d.
Typescript, Jun 1977
Typescript (incomplete), n.d.
Photographs, 1890s, n.d.
Pre-publication correspondence and press releases, 1977-78
Reviews from U.S. publications, 1978
Reviews from British publications, 1978-79
Articles
Apollo
"Letters of Edouard Manet to His Wife During the Siege of Paris, 1870-71": published version, Jun 1981
Typescripts, n.d.
Illustrations, n.d.
Correspondence, 1980-81
Atlantic Monthly: "Harvard Calm and Henry Adams": published version and correspondence, 1920-21
Boston Herald: Series of articles on the trial of Francis A. Carroll and Paul Dwyer for the murder of Dr. and Mrs. James Littlefield in South Paris, Maine
Notes, n.d.
Clippings of articles by Mina Curtiss, Aug 1938
Clippings of articles by Arthur Stratton and others,1938-39
Correspondence, 1974
"A Mother's Career": clipping, 27 Aug 1939
Center: "Roma: Bizet's 'Souvenirs of Italy'": published version, Feb 1955
The Cornhill: "Celeste": published version and typescript, Spring 1950, n.d.
German Encyclopedia of Music: "Georges Bizet": typescript, ca. 1966
Harper's Bazaar: "Three Women": published version, Apr 1938
High Fidelity: "The Ill-Starred Debut of the Girl From Arles": published version, Sep 1958
History Today
Correspondence, 1968-78
Typescript, "The Empress Anna Ivanova's Ice Palace, Jan 1973
The Hound and Horn: "No Boswell": typescript, 1931
Mademoiselle: Published version and correspondence,"The World We Wanted," Aug 1945
Massachusetts Review
"Chosen?"
Correspondence, 1978-83
Published version and typescript, Summer 1983, n.d.
"Some American Negroes in 19th Century Russia,"
Published version, Spring 1968
Typescripts, n.d
"Manet Caricatures: Olympia," 1966
Correspondence, 1959-81
Published versions, 1966
Outline for proposed book, n.d.
Typescript, L'Exposition d'Edouard Manet by G. Randon (incomplete?), n.d.,
Art work, n.d.
Musical Quarterly
"Unpublished Letters by Georges Bizet": published version,Jul 1950
"Fromental Halevy": published version, Apr 1953
"Gounod Before Faust": published version, n.d.
The Nation
"Cocktails": published version, Jan 1925
New York Times, Op-Ed
"Women's Wasting Lives": published version, correspondence, clippings, May 1978
Seven Arts Chronicle: "One of the Little Foxes": published version, correspondence, draft and notes, 1917
Vogue
"A Letter at Last": published version, Jan 1945
"The Midst of Life: The Curious Charm, The Free Satisfactions of Middle Age": published version, Oct 1945
Book reviews
The Atlantic Monthly, 1933
The Boston Herald, 1945
The Living Age, 1936-37
The Nation, 1925-70
Washington Post
Correspondence, 1980-81, n.d.
Published versions and typescripts, 1981-82
Translations by Mina K. Curtiss
My Friend Degas by Daniel Halevy, 1964
Research material, photographs, and reviews, 1963-66, n.d.
"Le Chat" by Jean-Louis Hue: draft, n.d.
"Letters to an Amazon," author unknown: draft, n.d.
Art News, Le Figaro Litteraire, and Vogue: "Chardin, or the Essence of Things" by Marcel Proust: (published versions in French and English, and typescript), 1964, n.d.
Mademoiselle: "Names and Places" by Marcel Proust:(published version in English), Oct 1956
The Nation: "Love" by Tibor Dery: (published versions in French and English), Feb 1967, n.d.
The Virginia Quarterly: "Letters From China" by Alexis Leger (Saint-John Perse)
Published version, Autumn 1973
Correspondence, 1973
Typescript and fragments, 1973, n.d.
Unpublished works
M.A. Thesis: "Henry Adams and Failure": typescript, n.d.
As For Man
Correspondence, 1934-36
Typescript, circa 1935
The Past and I
Outline, n.d.
Original typescript, n.d.
Master typescript, n.d.
Master typescript, carbon, n.d.
Master typescript, second carbon (incomplete), n.d.
Typescript, n.d., edited by George Kirstein (incomplete)
Slices of Life
Draft, n.d.
Harriet Lane Levy, correspondence, clipping, and typescripts, 1974, n.d.
Platon
Original typescript, carbon, n.d.
Revised typescript, n.d.
Revised typescript (as orginally included in Slices of Life master typescript), 1985
Revised typescript (as orginally included in Slices of Life master typescript), photocopy, 1985
Revised typescript, 1985
Typescript, cut versions, n.d.
Research notes, n.d.
Winter Letters
Correspondence, 1979-81
Draft manuscript, n.d.
Master typescript (incomplete?), n.d.
Miscellaneous manuscripts and typescripts
"Alamogordo Before the Bomb," n.d.
"Another Day," n.d.
"California Episode," n.d.
"Campanula Pyramidalis," n.d.
"The Desert" and "Desert Spring," n.d.
"Exercise in Narcissim," n.d.
"The Frontier, Bar," n.d.
"Giants and Pygmies," n.d.
"Lindbergh: A Personal Portrait," n.d.
"Military Intelligence, 1918 Style," n.d.
"A Monument," n.d.
"My [illegible] and Hopes," n.d.
"Natives," n.d.
"New Mexico," n.d.
"Period Piece," n.d.
"These Moderns," n.d.
Untitled, n.d.
Fragments, n.d.
Correspondence with publishers and literary agents
Al Hart (Fox Chase Agency)
Re: Other People's Letters, 1974-84, n.d.
Re: Slices of Life, 1979-85
Eakins Press, Houghton Mifflin and Random House, 1978-81
Research
Correspondence with Liliane Yacoel Ziegel, 1947-73
Correspondence pertaining to Liliane Yacoel Ziegel, 1984-85
Unidentified research material, n.d.
Writings by others
Lincoln Kirstein, n.d.
Lewis, Nell Battle, "The Follies of 1918 or How Doth the Busy Bolshevik (An Agitation in Two Spasms)," typescript, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1937-77, n.d.
SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES
Saint-John Perse (Alexis Leger)
Writings
"Narrow Are the Vessels," 1937
"Seamarks," 1937
"A Selection of Works for Understanding World Affairs Since 1914", 1943
Clippings, 1957-72
Murder cases: Elliott Speer murder, clippings, 1937
A Forgotten Empress: Anna Ivanovich and Her Era, 1730-1740, photographs, and plates
Letters Home, column in Cosmopolitan, "Letters Home," galley
Other People's Letters, review from Danbury New Times, 23 May 1978, containing photograph of Mina Curtiss
Letters of Marcel Proust, fold-out with photographs and letter
2 photographs of Proton, n.d.
16" Disc Recordings
Answering Australia
# 5 (2 identical discs; 1 disc is broken): 30 Jan 1943
#? (1 disc): 26 April 1943
Scripts to Answering You #s 4, 5 and possibly #2 are located in Box 17, Folder 8.
Script to Answering You #8 is located in Box 17 Folder 9
#2 (1 disc, Part 2; Part 1 is missing): 16 Nov 1943
#4 (1 broken disc, Part 2; Part 1 is missing): 10 Jan 1943
#5 (2 discs; Parts 1 & 3): 30 Jan 1943
#8 (1 disc, Part 2; Part 1 is missing): 21 Apr 1943
#9 (3 discs, Parts 1-3): 3 May 1943
#9 (1 disc, Part 2; Part 1 is missing): 4 May 1943