Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Brand, Millen, 1906-1980
- Abstract:
- This collection contains correspondence, journals, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, and printed materials relating to writer Millen Brand.
- Extent:
- 40 linear feet and 95 boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Millen Brand papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Background
- Scope and Content:
Personal and literary correspondence, journals from 1919 to 1976, manuscripts of Brand's novels, poems, articles and other writings, documents, memorabilia, and printed materials. Novels by Brand include THE OUTWARD ROOM (1937), a novel about mental illness; THE HEROES (1939), a novel about veterans' hospitals; ALBERT SEARS (1947), a novel about racial intolerance; THE SNAKE PIT (1948), a screenplay about mental illness, SOME LOVE, SOME HUNGER (1955), a novel about Puerto Ricans in New York; SAVAGE SLEEP (1965), a novel about the use of shock treatment; DRY SUMMER IN PROVENCE (1966), poems about the South of France; FIELDS OF PEACE (1970), poems; LOCAL LIVES (1975), poems about Mennonites of Pennsylvania; and PEACE MARCH (1980), poems. Correspondents include Nancy Cunard, Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernest Hemingway, Rockwell Kent, Harriet Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Kenneth Patchen, Diego Rivera, Jules Romains, May Sarton, Louis Untermeyer, Thornton Wilder, Colin Wilson, and Darryl F. Zanuck.
- Biographical / Historical:
Author, poet, Hollywood screenwriter, editor at Crown Publishers, Inc., teacher of writing at New York University. Brand was active in the Left during the 1930s and in the Civil Rights movement.
- Acquisition information:
Source of acquisition--Brand, Millen. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1954. Accession number--M-54.
Brand letters to Lillian Gilkes: Source of acquisition--Gilkes, Lillian. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1961. Accession number--M-1961.
- Custodial history:
Gift of Millen Brand, 1954-1976.
Gift of Lillian Gilkes, 1961.
- Processing information:
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/12/1989.
Brand letters to Lillian Gilkes Cataloged, trans. from Gen Ms Coll HR 08/11/1995.
- Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in three series.
- Accruals:
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- English language -- Study and teaching
College teachers -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York
Civil rights -- United States
College teachers
Poets, American
Authors, American
Editors
Screenwriters
Journals
Poems - Names:
- Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
Romains, Jules, 1885-1972
Sarton, May, 1912-1995
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
Wilson, Colin, 1894-1978
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979 - Places:
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1953
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1-89. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Millen Brand papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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6th Floor East Butler Library535 West 114th St.New York, NY 10027, United States
- CONTACT:
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(212) 854-5590rbml@library.columbia.edu