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Curtis Brown Ltd. records, 1914-2018 1745 linear feet
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.
Dawn Powell papers, 1890s-2012, bulk 1890s-1965 40 linear feet
Grand Street Publications Inc. Records, 1980-2004 53.85 linear feet
Jerome Moross papers, 1924-2018 70.25 linear feet
Correspondence, manuscript music scores, copies of scores, playscripts, scenarios, watercolor drawings and other stage designs, contracts, legal papers, programs, clippings and other printed materials, microfilms, records, tape recordings, and photographs. Among Moross's work are the musical play, "The Golden Apple"(1954), dance music for "Ballet Ballads"(1945) and for "Frankie and Johnny"(1938), the film score for "The Big Country"(1958) and for "The Cardinal"(1963), and his Symphony No. 1 (1943). There are some financial papers and production records for the staging of his works. Among the cataloged correspondents are Aaron Copland, Agnes George De Mille, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, and Thornton Wilder.
John Leonard papers, 1939-2015, bulk 1950s-2008 26.5 linear feet
Manning Marable papers, 1967-2012 140 linear feet
Pamela Moore Papers, 1939-2018, bulk 1950-1964 12.75 linear feet
Phoebe Jacobs papers, 1951-2002 11 linear feet
Correspondence, manuscripts, articles, documents, photographs, posters, clippings relating to the professional career of Phoebe Jacobs and notable jazz musicians, especially Louis Armstrong.