A Guide to the Papers of John Dos Passos, 1918-2000
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 5950-cn
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Preferred Citation
Papers of John Dos Passos, Accession #5950-cn, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was deposited by Lucy Dos Passos Coggin on 2000 November 22.
Scope and Content Information
This collection contains a manuscript poem by Dos Passos "Beer is Free to Soldiers," 1919 February 24. There are also letters to Dawn Powell, 1937-1965; copies of postcards to Mr. and Mrs. Terry Farnsworth and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor; some Dos Passos family letters; and some miscellaneous postcards originally inserted in Memoires de Philippe de Commynes.
The collection also contains a modern copy of an 1812 baptismal certificate in Portuguese; World War I aerial photographs; a brochure for the Browne Art Class Season of 1940; a marriage certificate for John Dos Passos and Katherine Smith, 1929; "The Marriage Service" for John Dos Passos and Elizabeth Holdridge, 1949; clippings; and printed material regarding Dos Passos including programs for productions of U.S.A. reviews of U.S.A.
Finally the collection contains a copy of Days Near Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare with pressed plants between its pages.