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Vicki Baum correspondence and film typescript
Collection — Pamphlet-Binder: 1
Identifier: 6267
Abstract
The Vicki Baum correspondence and film typescript consists of four typed letters signed "Vicki" on "Vicki Baum" letterhead, along with an unpublished draft for a film titled "Conspiracy (Working Title for Sands O' Life)." The correspondence is addressed to Baum's publisher Malcolm Johnsohn and his wife Mathilde Whitridge Johnson. Baum wrote the first three letters in 1943 and the fourth letter in 1946. The draft of the script for "Conspiracy (Working Title for Sands O' Life)"--authored by...
Dates:
1943 - 1946
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Julius Berstl papers
Collection
Identifier: 0031
Abstract
Literary archive of the German emigre author and playwright Julius Berstl (1883-1975). The collection includes typescripts, manuscripts, personal and professional correspondence, personal and biographical documents, theater memorabilia, and a small number of literary journals, both in English and in German. Julius Berstl was born on August 6, 1883 in Bernburg, Germany to a theatrical family. Upon graduation from university, he became the dramaturg, or literary advisor, of the renowned...
Dates:
1858 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1975
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Cleve family papers
Collection
Identifier: 6164
Abstract
A collection of family papers concerning a Jewish family who fled Austria and sought exile in the United States during the rise of Nazi power. Felix Merori Cleve, his wife Melitta Cleve, their son George Wolfgang Cleve, and Felix's sister Fanny Suhrkamp-Cleve, were Austrian-Jewish emigres who fled to the United States after the Nazi Anschluss of Austria. This collection contains professional and personal correspondence and papers prior to their departure, correspondence and papers related...
Dates:
1910s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Victor Coudron papers
Collection
Identifier: 6000
Abstract
Poems, plays, novels by French author Victor Coudron. The majority are manuscripts. Also includes notes made by the author, correspondence with an editor, and clippings.
Dates:
1890-1971, undated
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Hamlin Garland papers
Collection
Identifier: 0200
Abstract
The Hamlin Garland papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia, by and about the American realist writer. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who once held the title of "Dean of American Letters" and counted many of the prominent literary figures of his time as friends. This collection holds close to 10,000 of Garland's letters, which are now digitized and available via the USC Digital Library. Garland's literary notebooks...
Dates:
1850 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1940
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
General Literary Manuscripts collection
Collection
Identifier: 0375
Abstract
The General Literary Manuscripts collection is an artificially created collection comprised chiefly of literary works and manuscript fragments of well-known writers and other public figures. The time covered is late 17th century to the first half of the 20th century.
Dates:
1677 - 2016
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Felix Guggenheim papers
Collection
Identifier: 0312
Abstract
This collection comprises the business and private archives of literary agent and Pazifische Presse co-founder Felix Guggenheim (1904-1976).
The collection includes private and business correspondence, and contracts with publishers, authors and other business associates between 1925 and 1986 (bulk 1940-1976). The collection also includes manuscripts, some photographs and book reviews of works by many of the authors Guggenheim represented. Authors of the German-speaking Exile community in...
Dates:
1941 - 1976
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
William Torrey Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: 0184
Abstract
The William Torrey Harris papers, 1857-1909, consists of letters, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and leaflets collected and created by noted 19th century educator, philosopher and lexicographer William Torrey Harris. In addition to letters from major philosophers of the period, including John Dewey, Josiah Royce, William James, and George H. Howison, the collection also contains manuscripts and notes penned by Harris and material related to the Philosophical Union of the University of...
Dates:
1857 - 1909
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Antonio Heras papers
Collection
Identifier: 0015
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Antonio Heras, who was a professor of Spanish and Spanish Literature at USC from 1925-1950. Heras’s papers include manuscripts and typescripts of his articles and stories, research notes, clippings, correspondence and diaries.
Dates:
1923 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1965
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Jack Hirschman papers
Collection
Identifier: 0158
Abstract
Manuscripts of Hirschman's (b.1933) Requiem and Hunger; typescript translations of Russian writer Alexander Kohan; Bukowski ephemera.
Dates:
1962 - 1982
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections