Collection ID: 4079685 MS#0314
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Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Curtis Brown Ltd.
Extent:
1745 linear feet and 1292 document boxes 516 record cartons 132 bound volumes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Curtis Brown Ltd. Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Background

Scope and Content:

The files of Curtis Brown, Ltd. literary agency include correspondence with authors, publishers, and other agents and deal with the editing and publishing of trade and textbooks, serial rights, reprints, dramatic rights, translations and foreign rights, promotion and copyright registration. For each author there are contracts, royalty statements, tax statements, and other financial materials. There is also a contract file, including cancellations and related cortrespondence, from 1914 to 1988. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Louis S. Auchincloss, W.H. Auden, Erle Stanley Gardner, Robert Graves, Ogden Nash, Ayn Rand, and Sloan Wilson.

Biographical / Historical:

Incorporated the literary agencies of Willis Kingsley Wing and Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., and others, and was closely associated with the English agencies of Curtis Brown Ltd. (London) and A.P. Watt & Son.

Acquisition information:

Source of acquisition--Curtis Brown, Ltd. Method of acquisition--Gift; Accession number--M-1976.

Gift of Curtis Brown, Ltd., 1976-1982, 1984-1988.

Processing information:

Processed 09/--/1988 HR

Further processing done by Adrien Hilton and Graduate Assistants Grace Bickers, Rohan Jolly, and Michael Kordt in 2013

Finding aid written by HR in September 1988 and updated by Adrien Hilton in August 2013

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:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

Cataloged correspondence (35 boxes) is located on-site.

Permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. required to examine and photocopy materials.

This collection is 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.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Readers must use microfilm of materials specified above.

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:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Curtis Brown Ltd. Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027, United States
Link to repository site
CONTACT:
(212) 854-5590
rbml@library.columbia.edu