- CA MDML MSG 993-1-14.55
- File
- 1976-1990
Part of Leon Edel Collection
44 letters w/ extensive enclosures
Part of Leon Edel Collection
44 letters w/ extensive enclosures
The collection consists of correspondence, research files, manuscripts, journals, and ephemera created and accumulated by writer and scholar Leon Edel, who was notably the editor and biographer of Henry James as well as Edmund Wilson.
Edel, Leon, 1907-1997
Part of Leon Edel Collection
The series contains Leon Edel's correspondence, with the majority before 1989. The correspondence ranges from personal to professional and literary, with letters from friends, acquaintances, scholars, authors, and publishers, such as Harvard University Press. Files that are significant either because of the correspondent or due to the extent of the correspondence include W. W. Norton, Anais Nin, Hannah Arendt, E. M. Forster, H. Montgomery Hyde, Geoffrey Keynes, and Allen Ginsberg. Many of the letters represent Edel's ongoing work to acquire copies of Henry James's correspondence and seek out information about the author from his contemporaries. Also includes a number of letters related to various lectures given during the 1960s and 1970s.
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Part of Leon Edel Collection
35 letters, 8 clippings
AA of A&S Fellowship Certificate
Part of Leon Edel Collection
31 letters
1 Certificate for L.E. from the American Handbook of Psychiatry