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Princeton is well known
for its extensive holdings in modern literature, especially British, American,
and Latin American authors. Significant collections include the papers
of Sylvia Beach, James Gould Cozzens, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Caroline
Gordon, Richard Halliburton, Stanley Kunitz, Booth Tarkington, Allen Tate,
Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Doren, and a wide array of 19th- and 20th-century
American authors and cultural figures. Also to be found are translations
of Greek and Japanese drama by Ezra Pound; the correspondence of Hester
Thrale Piozzi and Penelope Pennington; manuscripts and correspondence
of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lewis Carroll, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot,
Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and many other Victorian writers
in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists and letters
and manuscripts of Max Beerbohm, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Robert
Browning, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy,
Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Oscar
Wilde, and many other British authors in the Robert Taylor Collection.
The Manuscripts Division includes correspondence of the Bloomsbury Group
in the Raymond Mortimer Papers; selected papers of Aubrey Beardsley (including
more than 130 drawings), William Cowper, George Cruikshank, Frank Harris,
Arthur Symons, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Christina Rossetti; papers
of Kimon Friar and Edmund Keeley, as well as selected correspondence and
manuscripts of Odysseas Elytes, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, and
other modern Greek authors. Researchers will encounter the
papers of Latin
American authors and cultural figures
, including Reinaldo Arenas, Guillermo
Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortázar, Arcadio Díaz Quiñones, José Donoso,
Jorge Edwards, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Victoria
and Silvina Ocampo (selected), María Rosa Oliver, Emir Rodríguez Monegal,
and Mario Vargas Llosa; selected papers of Ernest Hemingway, Ford Madox
Ford, Osip Mandelshtam, Thomas Mann, and other 20th-century authors; American
theater collections, including the papers of Max Gordon, Otto Kahn, and
Richard Schechner, as well as Luigi Pirandello's letters to Marta Abba
and the scripts of Woody Allen. Worthy of special mention are 1,131 letters
(1930-56) from T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale (the largest single collection
of the poet's letters in the world), which are sealed until 1 January
2020.
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