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A Guide to the Irving Stone Collection Stone, Irving. 8534

A Guide to the Irving Stone Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 8534


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Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
8534
Title
Irving Stone Collection 1938-1962
Extent
5 items
Creator
Location
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Irving Stone Collection, Accession 8534, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Deposit [ 1963 December 17 ] 1967 February 24

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • A. B. Hansen, Jr.
  • Bennett Cerf
  • Clifton Waller Barrett
  • Clifton Waller Barrett
  • Irving Stone
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Item Listing

Manuscripts
  • Introduction for Modern Library edition of Lust for Life
    1938 December 16
    TMsS, 5 p.

    [W/autograph corrections. With long pencilled note on back of page 3.]

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Letters
  • [ Irving Stone ] to A. B. Hansen, Jr.
    1938 August 28
    Envelope
  • Irving Stone to Roeder
    1938 December 17
    TLS, 1 p.

    [Sends him the introduction to the new Modern Library edition of Lust for Life for his manuscript sale. He also includes the second draft of the Ms. and has ordered Bennett Cerf to send the third, final, draft, all to be sold together. Asks him to take any price he can get for the Ms. The money realized by the sale is intended for the [ Abraham Lincoln Brigade . ]

  • Irving Stone to Clifton Waller Barrett
    1961 December 26
    TLS, 1 p.

    [Wonders if the exhibit "Italian Influence on American Literature" was a success. Asks that his manuscript (lent it to the exhibition) be returned, since he needs to deposit it at U. C. L. A. Mentions how much his wife and he enjoyed the day they spent with the Barretts.]

  • [ Clifton Waller Barrett ] to Irving Stone
    1962 January 4
    TL (carbon), 1 p.

    [Informs Stone that the portion of the Ms. The Agony and the Ecstacy which he lent to the exhibition of "Italian Influence on American Literature" will be returned by the Grolier Club . Reports on the success of the exhibition, the attendance at the Grolier Club , the reports in the Herald Tribune , New York Times etc. Promises him a book published by the Club regarding the exhibition. Mentions the acquisition of Stone's manuscripts by U. C. L. A. , also the Irving Stone Collection at the University of Virginia . Looks forward to meeting the Stones again.]

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