Box 1
Container
Contains 16 Results:
Ann Birstein Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0024
Abstract
The papers of Ann Birstein consist chiefly of manuscripts of published fiction and nonfiction works. The collection also includes correspondence, printed matter, photographs, and personal miscellany. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters and postcards from Birstein’s husband, literary critic Alfred Kazin. Additional correspondence includes letters sent to Birstein from many notable writers, poets, editors, publishers, academics, and critics. Correspondents include Hannah Arendt,...
Dates:
1942-2007
Correspondence , 1942-2006
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series I:
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Ann Birstein Papers comprise the literary and personal papers of Ann Birstein. Correspondence from Alfred Kazin to Birstein documents their relationship, and includes original greeting cards, and handwritten and typed letters. The collection also includes correspondence from Birstein and Kazin’s friends and colleagues who included authors, editors, writers, and journalists, documenting their social and literary life and providing anecdotal accounts of notable creative figures. Also...
Dates:
1942-2006
Alfred Kazin (1950-1987), 1950-1987
Sub-Series — Box: 1
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
This series includes letters, telegrams and greeting cards sent while Kazin was in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Birstein was writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Many of Kazin’s letters include personal reflection on his writing process, and comments on mutual friends and colleagues from the literary world. The series also includes correspondence from Kazin while in residence at the...
Dates:
1950-1987
October 1950 - December 1950, 1950
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This series includes letters, telegrams and greeting cards sent while Kazin was in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Birstein was writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Many of Kazin’s letters include personal reflection on his writing process, and comments on mutual friends and colleagues from the literary world. The series also includes correspondence from Kazin while in residence at the...
Dates:
1950
February 1951 - October 1951 , 1951
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This series includes letters, telegrams and greeting cards sent while Kazin was in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Birstein was writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Many of Kazin’s letters include personal reflection on his writing process, and comments on mutual friends and colleagues from the literary world. The series also includes correspondence from Kazin while in residence at the...
Dates:
1951
November 1951 - December 1951 , 1951
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This series includes letters, telegrams and greeting cards sent while Kazin was in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Birstein was writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Many of Kazin’s letters include personal reflection on his writing process, and comments on mutual friends and colleagues from the literary world. The series also includes correspondence from Kazin while in residence at the...
Dates:
1951
January 1952 - June 1952, 1952
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This series includes letters, telegrams and greeting cards sent while Kazin was in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Birstein was writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Many of Kazin’s letters include personal reflection on his writing process, and comments on mutual friends and colleagues from the literary world. The series also includes correspondence from Kazin while in residence at the...
Dates:
1952
May 1953 - September 1956, 1953-1956
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This series includes letters, telegrams and greeting cards sent while Kazin was in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Birstein was writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Many of Kazin’s letters include personal reflection on his writing process, and comments on mutual friends and colleagues from the literary world. The series also includes correspondence from Kazin while in residence at the...
Dates:
1953-1956
January 1958 - May 1958, 1958
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This series includes letters, telegrams and greeting cards sent while Kazin was in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Birstein was writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Many of Kazin’s letters include personal reflection on his writing process, and comments on mutual friends and colleagues from the literary world. The series also includes correspondence from Kazin while in residence at the...
Dates:
1958
May 1959 - June 1965, 1959-1965
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This series includes letters, telegrams and greeting cards sent while Kazin was in residence at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Birstein was writer-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Many of Kazin’s letters include personal reflection on his writing process, and comments on mutual friends and colleagues from the literary world. The series also includes correspondence from Kazin while in residence at the...
Dates:
1959-1965
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