Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Williams, Annie Laurie, 1894-1977
- Extent:
- 91 linear feet and 210 boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Annie Laurie Williams Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Background
- Scope and Content:
Correspondence files and financial papers. The files include correspondence, contracts, clippings and programs, ledgers and financial accounts, submission books, and calendars and memorandum books. Authors for whom there are extensive files include the following: Truman Capote; Patrick Dennis; John Dos Passos; Lloyd C. Douglas; John Hersey; Alice Tisdale Hobart; Paul Horgan; William Humphrey; Frances Parkinson Keyes; Margaret Mitchell; Alan Paton; Kenneth Roberts; Lillian Smith; John Steinbeck; George R. Stewart; Ben Ames Williams; and Kathleen Winsor
1985 addition: Steinbeck's jeans and Mexican belt worn by Bruce Covert in the 1939 production of OF MICE AND MEN.
- Biographical / Historical:
New York drama and motion picture agent who founded her firm in 1929.
- Acquisition information:
Records: Source of acquisition--Williams, Annie Laurie. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1971. Accession number--M-1971.
Newsletter: Source of acquisition--Steinbeck Society of Japan. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--07/31/1995. Accession number--M-95-07-31.
- Custodial history:
Gift of Annie Laurie Williams, 1971-1974.
Gift of Bruce Covert, 1985.
- Processing information:
Records Entered in AMC 12/05/1990.
Newsletter processed HR 10/09/1998.
- Arrangement:
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged alphabetically.
- 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:
- appm
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- American literature -- 20th century
Authors, American -- 20th century
Authors and publishers -- United States -- 20th century
English literature -- 20th century
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
Songs
Actors
Composers
Dramatists
Literary agents
Lyricists
Musicians
Theatrical producers and directors
Authors, English -- 20th century
Actresses
Authors
Novelists
Theatrical agents
Women dramatists
Women novelists
Articles
Accounts
Audiotapes
Calendars (documents)
Card files
Cashbooks
Checks (bank checks)
Contracts
Essays
Fiction (general genre)
Financial records
Galley proofs
Interviews
Ledgers (account books)
Lists (document genres)
Manuscripts (documents)
Notebooks
Outlines (documents)
Phonograph records
Photographs
Poems
Programs (documents)
Screenplays
Scripts (documents)
Short stories
Synopses - Names:
- Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959
Auslander, Joseph, 1897-1965
Brown, Joe E (Joe Evan), 1892-1973
Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
Dennis, Patrick, 1921-1976
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
Douglas, Lloyd C (Lloyd Cassel), 1877-1951
Dowling, Eddie
Evans, Maurice, 1901-1989
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 1909-2000
Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Ferrer, JoseĢ, 1912-1992
Gassner, John, 1903-1967
Golden, Harry, 1902-1981
Henreid, Paul
Hersey, John, 1914-1993
Hobart, Alice Tisdale, 1882-1967
Horgan, Paul, 1903-1995
Humphrey, William
Kaufman, George S (George Simon), 1889-1961
Kazan, Elia
Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1885-1970
Lee, Harper
Litvinov, Ivy
Logan, Joshua
Luce, Claire
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
Meredith, Burgess, 1907-1997
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949
Moore, Douglas, 1893-1969
Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
Paton, Alan
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965
Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954
Ritchard, Cyril, 1897-1977
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
Rose, Billy, 1899-1966
Russell, Rosalind
Selznick, David O., 1902-1965
Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia) (1897-1966)
Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Stewart, George R
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
Wagner, Robert F (Robert Ferdinand), 1910-1991
Williams, Ben Ames, 1889-1953
Winsor, Kathleen
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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Cataloged correspondence boxes 1-20 and 5A, Steinbeck materials, and books from the collection are located on-site. Boxes 21-210 are located off-site. You will need to request this material 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); Annie Laurie Williams Records; 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