Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1921-1964.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.

Contributor:

Mumford, Sophia Wittenberg, 1899-1997.

Brooks, Eleanor Stimson.

Brooks, Gladys.

Murray, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1893-1988.

Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940.

E.P. Dutton (Firm)

Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

464 items (727 leaves)

Contained In:

Van Wyck Brooks Papers. Folders 1977-2010

Place of Publication:

1921-1964.

Summary:

Correspondence is primarily a mixture of personal exchanges and items addressing Letters. In folders 1980-1982, Eleanor Stimson Brooks is the primary addressee, and her letters address Brooks's mental breakdown between the years of 1927 and 1931. Mixed with these letters are copies of those from Murray, Perkins and Zinsser, who were consulted about Brooks and his work in this period, additionally there are several items from E. P. Dutton, who were trying to publish Brooks's Life of Emerson. Eleanor Brooks also consulted Mumford about financial worries in the letters of folders 1988 and 1989.

Notes:

Three items (4 leaves) are from Sophia Mumford. Mumford folders also contain 26 items (38 leaves) by Van Wyck Brooks, 21 items (45 leaves) from Eleanor Stimson Brooks, and 18 items (21 leaves) from others, including Gladys Brooks, Harry Murray (director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic), Maxwell Perkins, Hans Zinsser and Brooks's publisher, E. P. Dutton. All items not from the Mumfords are in photocopied or typescript form. The other side of the Brooks-Mumford correspondence can be found in the Lewis Mumford Papers (Ms. Coll. 2), also in this library.

OCLC:

182621020