Gail and Stephen Rudin literary autograph collection
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters by noted authors, many on the subject of writing. Authors represented include: Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Pearl Buck, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Samuel Clemens, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Zane Grey, Alex Haley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Rod Serling, G.B. Shaw, John Steinbeck, William M. Thackeray, Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, E.B. White, and William Wordsworth. Also an additional gathering of letters by famous literary figures.
Dates
- 1841-1993.
Creator
- Rudin, Stephen (Collector, Person)
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. (Person)
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (Person)
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. (Person)
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. (Person)
- Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959. (Person)
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. (Person)
- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910. (Person)
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. (Person)
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. (Person)
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930. (Person)
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. (Person)
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. (Person)
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. (Person)
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. (Person)
- Grey, Zane, 1872-1939. (Person)
- Haley, Alex. (Person)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. (Person)
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. (Person)
- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. (Person)
- London, Jack, 1876-1916. (Person)
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. (Person)
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. (Person)
- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. (Person)
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. (Person)
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. (Person)
- Serling, Rod, 1924-1975. (Person)
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. (Person)
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. (Person)
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. (Person)
- Vonnegut, Kurt. (Person)
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. (Person)
- White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985. (Person)
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
3.2 cubic feet. (3.2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Letters by noted authors, many on the subject of writing. Authors represented include: Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Pearl Buck, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Samuel Clemens, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Zane Grey, Alex Haley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Rod Serling, G.B. Shaw, John Steinbeck, William M. Thackeray, Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, E.B. White, and William Wordsworth.
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Books
- Victory, Joseph Conrad. Critique in the front written by Pearl Buck. Rudin # B-18.
- The Four Seasons of Success, by Budd Schulberg. Signed by the author.
- Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin. Unsigned. See Box 7, Folder 8.
- Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, by Hesketh Pearson. Including notes, signatures, and newspaper clippings on Shaw.
Physical Description
Correspondence
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC staff
- Date completed:
- October 2005
- EAD encoding:
- Peter Martinez, October 2005
- Date modified:
- Fredrika Loew, April 2018
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC staff
- Date
- October 2005
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu