Postcards from James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka.
(Source: openculture.com)
Manuscripts, letters, and general memorabilia from our favourite literary (and occasionally historical) figures. Collected by Angela.
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March 10, 2013
March 9, 2013
Manuscript by poet Archibald MacLeish.
The manuscript was accompanied with the following note, addressed to editor George Plimpton:
Dear George,
Will this do as a manuscript? It doesn’t show corrections but it shows me up as a pencil man, and worse still, a slave to the eraser. (Black Wing pencils have erasers which eradicate as clean as time).
As for the lines themselves—they went into a notebook and never came out again because Dylan’s death was too great a loss and George Barker’s piece was too deeply felt to fool with in a tone like this one.
But that’s all in the past now. People die too absolutely these days—disappear like pencil marks to an eraser—black wing.
Yours ever, Archie.
March 7, 2013
Fresno school library writes Copolla to suggest making a movie version of “The Outsiders”, Letters of Note
March 6, 2013
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Cahier 12, 1909, NAF 16652 Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF), Paris, France, © BnF, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais. (via)
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March 3, 2013
Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
The magazine Fire!! was founded in 1926 by young artists. Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, and Gwendolyn Bennett were, among others, members of its board of directors. This letter explains the objective of the journal and presents its board members. Fire!! was poorly received. It was criticized as being vulgar, undignified, and stereotypical, mostly because some pieces used vernacular and homosexuality and prostitution were mentioned. Although it had only one issue, it is now considered an important and innovative part of the Harlem Renaissance.
February 27, 2013
W.H. Auden’s syllabus (yes, for a single semester) for a class called “Fate and the Individual in European Culture” at the University of Michigan. This is not a course to be trifled with.
(Source: New York Daily News)
February 24, 2013
Einstein’s Relativity Manuscript (extract) via tusb.stanford.edu #History
February 22, 2013
Manuscript for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Retired Colourman (Not The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, as previously noted. Sorry for the mistake, and thank you to the user who notified me.)
(Source: bestofsherlock.com)
February 21, 2013
Passport photos of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more (click on source)
(Source: vintag.es)
February 20, 2013
Dylan Thomas’s original manuscript page of the poem “In the White Giant’s Thigh.”
(Source: bookshavepores)
