Francis Steegmuller papers, 1877-2012

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Series XIII: Other Writings



Box 6 "Big Black Box, The" (Opera, score by Sam Norgenstern, libretto by Francis Steeemuller) (1 Box): Typescript libretto; Miscellaneous correspondence; published score


Box 6 "Christening Party, The"



Box 7 "Christening Party, The": Typescript drafts; Typewritten manuscript; Miscellaneous correspondence and clippings (1 Box)



Box 10 The New Yorker: Typescripts; Correspondence; Clippings of articles (1 Box)



Box 11 "Grand Mademoiselle, The": Typescript Manuscript; Notes; Correspondence (1 Box)



Box 14 Miscellaneous notes and Correspondence (l Box)



Box 15 Americans on Relief


Box 15 Anna Comnena


Box 15 Article de Paris


Box 15 Artist at Work


Box 15 As Long As You're Up Get Me a Grant


Box 15 Aunt Flora


Box 15 Le Boudoir Chinois


Box 15 Blue Harpsichord, The


Box 15 Bridge, The, by Haria Chiapelli


Box 15 Catholicism


Box 15 Chez La Palatine


Box 15 Christian Science Monitor, The


Box 15 Christina. Returns to Stockholm


Box 15 Cigarette of the Elder Tasso, The


Box 15 Cinderella, My Grandfather, and My Sign


Box 15 College Themes


Box 15 Cousin Mag and La Lutherie


Box 15 Dea Roma


Box 15 Emergency


Box 15 The Fair Singer


Box 15 Flandreau



Box 16 Francis Bacon


Box 16 French Follies and Other Follies


Box 16 French Revere Lend-Lease


Box 16 Hibou et la Poussiquette, Le


Box 16 Informal Minutes at the Eighth Jersey Roundtable


Box 16 Jarves, James Jackson



Box 17 Legion d'Honneur


Box 17 Matter of Iodine, A


Box 17 My Father vs. Mary Queen of Scots


Box 17 Napoli se ne va


Box 17 New and Old Art at Yale


Box 17 New Year's Taxi


Box 17 Note From Avignon


Box 17 O.W.I.


Box 17 Papillot


Box 17 Pechvogel, The


Box 17 Poems


Box 17 Primo Servizio


Box 17 Rancho del Monte


Box 17 O Rare Ben Jonson


Box 17 Room Under Pascal's, The



Box 15 Sainte-Beuve



Box 16 Sainte-Beuve



Box 17 Sainte-Beuve



Box 18 Sainte-Beuve


Box 18 O Saisons, O Chateaux!


Box 18 States of Grace


Box 18 Stature of Kennedy, The


Box 18 Steegmuller, Beatrice, "Storyteller"


Box 18 Storm at Issy-La-Reine


Box 18 Street Walk


Box 18 Trace of Accent, A


Box 18 Train Bleu


Box 18 Trip to Frascati, A


Box 18 Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves, The


Box 18 Victorian Episode in Egypt


Box 18 Vive Les Artistes!


Box 18 Well Known Character


Box 18 West River Valley-Vemont


Steegmuller Articles, Essays, Introductions:



Box 34 Folder 1 "The System" Typed Mss., 1968 (New Yorker ), 1968


Box 34 Folder 2 "Ciao Fabrizio" Typed Mss., 1967 (New Yorker, 1964), 1967


Box 34 Folder 3 "The Metropolitan Museum of Art" Typed Mss., 1967 (Holiday Magazine), 1967


Box 34 Folder 4 [Gide] "Biography and the Gidian Oscillation" Typed Mss., 1967 (Life Magazine), 1967


Box 34 Folder 5 "Introduction to Maupassant Book Translated by Lowell Blair" Typed Mss., 1968


Box 34 Folder 6 "Foreword to Stravinsky book" Typed Mss., 1967 (World Publishing), 1967


Box 34 Folder 7 "The Quest for Cocteau" Typed Mss.



Box 58 Folder 1-2 Correspondence, clippings, magazines, notes and manuscripts re. Cubism and Steegmuller's essay :"Onward and Upward with the Arts The Cubists in Los Angeles" for The New Yorker ., 1970


Box 58 Folder 3 Correspondence pertaining to the volume Stories and True Stories, 1972.


Box 58 Folder 4 Printed material (reviews, etc.) pertaining to the volume Stories and True Stories, 1972


Box 58 Folder 5 "A Real Saint". Drafts and notes of story.


Box 58 Folder 6 "Emma Unglued". Correspondence with Alberto Moravia and printed material. Published in Saturday Review, December 1972


Box 58 Nuovi Argomenti 25. , February1972


Box 58 Copies of The New Yorker (1969) and Travel & Leisure



Box 62 Folder 1-2 Correspondence, and printed material relating to Diaghilev (included letters from Lincoln Kirstein and Murray Pollinger), 1970-71.


Box 62 Folder 3-9 Correspondence, notes, and printed material relating to Igor Stravinsky (Includes a copy of the Saturday Review containing Steegmuller's article "Stravinsky at Work" 1970-71


Box 62 Ameryka (2 copies), 1972



Box 63 Folder 5-8 Letters, printed material and photographs re. Stravinsky.



Box 64 Folder 1 Abbot Suger. Letters, notes, and clippings on Suger, 1959


Box 64 Folder 2 Article on Paul Valéry for the TLS, 17 September 1976. Notes, correspondence, mss.


Box 64 Folder 3 Printed material on Freud, Charles Kingsley, Cardinal Wisemann, Cardinal Newman


Box 64 Folder 4 Clippings, magazines, and book on the German occupation of France


Box 64 Folder 5 Correspondence and synopsis re. "The Big Black Box", 1968


Box 64 Folder 6 Poem "Vers Nonsensiques," by George du Maurier. Photocopy


Box 64 Folder 7 Reviews of Cocteau


Box 64 The Big Black Box Comic opera in I act and IV scenes. Libretto by Francis Steegmuller. Music by Sam Morgenstern. Two copies



Box 65 Folder 1-5 Miscellaneous letters, clippings, etc. relating to Cocteau, Stravinsky, etc., 1972-75


Box 65 Folder 6 Photographs: Thomal Milian (the injured poet at Spoleto--See French edition page 359); Francis Steegmuller with Vera de Bosset Stravinsky (Mrs. Igor Stravinsky), 1970



Box 66 Folder 1-4 Silence at Salerno: Mss. (typed)


Box 66 Folder 5-6 Silence at Salerno: Letters, 1977-1979


Box 66 Folder 7 Silence at Salerno: Manuscript fragments


Box 66 Folder 8-9 Silence at Salerno: Printed material (clippings, ads, reviews, etc.)


Box 66 Folder 10 Silence at Salerno: Photographs, negatives.



Box 69 Folder 8 Silence at Salerno. Author's page proofs.



Box 70 Folder 1-3 Silence at Salerno. T.ms., with markup.



Box 69 Folder 6-7 Silence at Salerno. Galleys



Box 70 Folder 5 Louise Colet. Le Poëm de la Femme, 1854. Photocopy.



Box 78 Folder 1 Lillian Libman re. Stravinsky Estate, 1979 (includes Notice of Settlement from Surrogate's Court), 1979


Box 78 Folder 2 Clippings and article re. Stravinsky, 1981-82


Box 78 Folder 3-4 Letters relating to the preservation of art and buildings in Italy, 1971-72


Box 78 Folder 5-6 Clippings and article relating to the preservation of art and buildings in Italy, 1971-72



Box 81 Folder 1 Article on Stravinsky, 1966


Box 81 Folder 11 Clippings and article re. James Pradier; miscellaneous clippings; photocopies of French documents.


Box 81 Folder 12 Gautier at the première of Ernani. Photograph of drawing.


Box 81 Folder 13 Article on Théophile Gautier


Box 81 Folder 14 "Lest We Forget". A Tribute to Sefi Through Her Letters, 1938-1941



Box 88 Folder 7 Photographs, lists, notes re . Raymond Radiguet



Box 89 Folder 10 "Francis Steegmuller" entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography


Box 89 Folder 11 Revisions by Francis Steegmuller of his interview by Lucy Rastelli, 1991



Box 92 Folder 5 The New York Times Magazine, 1 January 1995. Shirley Hazzard on Francis Steegmuller.



Box 97 Folder 6 I. Mark Paris re. Steegmuller's review of his translation on Paul Iribe book. 3 July 1984 (with review), July 1984



Box 99 Folder 3 Letter, clipping, and "Note by Shirley Hazzard concerning Lionello Venturi", 17 December 2002


Manuscripts and Related Documents



Box 123 Steegmuller to Columbia, 1950-1999


Box 123 Obituaries and Condolence Letters, 1994


Box 123 Steegmuller, Bea, 1967, 1985


Box 123 Autobiographical and Biographical Writings, 1923-1991


Box 123 Maxwell, William, 1963-2000


Box 123 Apollinaire, 1976-1986


Box 123 Talks, undated


Box 123 Marinetti and Futurism, 1960-1976, undated


Box 123 Flaubert and Sand, 1986-1991


Box 123 Flaubert Letters and Bio, 1981-2006, undated


Box 123 Your Isadora , 1974, 1980-2001


Box 123 Flaubert in Egypt, 1979-2007


Box 123 Incident at Naples, 1986-1991, undated


Box 123 Stravinsky, 2001-2004


Box 123 Le Hibou et la Poussiquette , 1962-1985


Box 123 Cocteau, 1966-1988


Box 123 Madame Bovary, 1981-1989


Box 123 Galiani & d'Epinay, 1988, undated, 2 folders


Box 123 Manuscripts: Essays, Stories, Reviews, 1939-1964, undated


Box 123 Manuscripts: Various, 1968-1994, undated



Box 24 Folder 4 Unpublished Essay on Eugene Fromentin (t.ms.)