Box: 2 Fold: 62 Robert Littell Box: 2 Fold: 63 Mary Pillsbury Lord Box: 2 Fold: 64 Carson McCullers Box: 2 Fold: 65 Carson McCullers Box: 2 Fold: 66 Carson McCullers Box: 2 Fold: 67 Carson McCullers Box: 2 Fold: 68 Carson McCullers Box: 2 Fold: 69 Carson McCullers Box: 2 Fold: 70 Carson McCullers Box: 2 Fold: 71 Claude Edmonde Magny Box: 2 Fold: 72 Alexander Makinsky Box: 2 Fold: 73 Andre Malraux Box: 2 Fold: 74 Jacques Maritain Box: 2 Fold: 75 Jacques Maritain Box: 2 Fold: 76 Jacques Maritain Box: 2 Fold: 77 Jacques Maritain Box: 2 Fold: 78 John Marshall Box: 2 Fold: 79 John P.C. Matthews Box: 2 Fold: 80 Augustin J. Maydieu Box: 2 Fold: 81 Pierre Messiaen Box: 2 Fold: 82 Darius Milhaud Box: 2 Fold: 83 Marianne Moore Box: 2 Fold: 84 Marianne Moore Box: 2 Fold: 85 Albert-Gaston Morance Box: 2 Fold: 86 Leonard W. Moss Box: 2 Fold: 87 Renee Claudel Nantet
ALS 1/11/1989 2 pages/1 leaf.
ALS 1/19/1989 w/ envelope, 2 pages/1 leaf.
ACS w/ envelope postmarked 6/15/1989.
ALS 8/9/1989 w/ envelope, 1 page.
ALS undated, 1 page, attached to autograph draft by John L. Brown (3/2/1991).
Box: 2 Fold: 88 Sigmund Neumann Box: 2 Fold: 89 Lucie Noel Box: 2 Fold: 90 Dorothy Norman Box: 2 Fold: 91 Justin O'Brien Box: 2 Fold: 92 Austin Olney Box: 2 Fold: 93 Rev. Walter J. Ong Box: 3 Fold: 1 Charles A. Pearce Box: 3 Fold: 2 Frances Perkins Box: 3 Fold: 3 Francis Pianca Box: 3 Fold: 4 Olivier Picard Box: 3 Fold: 5 Claude Pichois Box: 3 Fold: 6 John Pick
TLS 4/19/1952, 1 page.
ALS 10/4/1952, 2 pages/1 leaf.
TLS 5/19/1954, 3 pages/2 leaves.
Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (6/7/1954). Reference to W.H. Auden and Martin D'Arcy.
Box: 3 Fold: 7 Allene Talmey Plaut Box: 3 Fold: 8 Katherine Anne Porter
TLS (4/7/1964, 2 xerox copies, no original).
ACS postcard (8/18/1964) with typed carbon reply from Brown (8/26/1964).
TLS (10/14/1964 xerox copy, no original).
Reference by Porter to past and prospective visits to Mexico.
Box: 3 Fold: 9 Ezra Pound Box: 3 Fold: 10 James Purdy Box: 3 Fold: 11 Carlos de Radzitsky Box: 3 Fold: 12 Michel and Ida Rappaport Box: 3 Fold: 13 Eugene Reynal Box: 3 Fold: 14 Irene Rice Pereira
TLS 6/18/1963.
ANS 3/21/1964 w/ printed announcements for Pereira exhibition and book, "The Transcendental Formal Logic of the Infinite: the Evolution of Cultural Forms."
TLS 7/4/1968 w/ envelope.
TLS 8/4/1968 w/ envelope.
Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (6/25/1963, 3/27/1964, 7/18/1968).
Box: 3 Fold: 15 Irene Rice Pereira Box: 3 Fold: 16 Irene Rice Pereira Box: 3 Fold: 17 Irene Rice Pereira Box: 3 Fold: 18 Hans Peter Richter Box: 3 Fold: 19 Emmanuel Robles
11/30/1953
DESCRIPTION: TLS (11/30/1953) from Robert Littell, roving editor, "Reader's Digest," to John L. Brown.
1957
DESCRIPTION: 3 TLS from Mary Pillsbury Lord (Mrs. Oswald B. Lord) to John L. Brown. Includes publication announcement card for "Exit Backward, Bowing," by Oswald B. Lord, inscribed and signed by Mary Pillsbury Lord.
1946
DESCRIPTION: TLS (10/20/1946, 2 pages/2 leaves) from writer Carson McCullers (1917-67) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon from Brown (10/29/1946). Reference to a recent visit by McCullers to New York.
1947
DESCRIPTION: TLS (undated, 2 pages/2 leaves) from writer Carson McCullers (1917-67) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon from Brown (10/1/1947). Reference to McCullers' new address in Paris.
1949
DESCRIPTION: ALS (undated, 8 pages/4 leaves) from writer Carson McCullers (1917-67) to John L. Brown. Includes TLS (undated, 1 page) from McCullers' husband Reeves McCullers. Also includes typed carbon from Brown (11/13/1949). Reference to McCullers' play "The Member of the Wedding."
1950
DESCRIPTION: TLS (1/30/1950, 2 page/1 leaf) from Reeves McCullers, husband of writer Carson McCullers (1917-67) to John L. Brown. Includes clipping of review (illustrated with b/w photographs) of McCullers' play, "The Member of the Wedding." Also includes typed carbons from Brown (4/19/1950 & 8/10/1950).
1953
DESCRIPTION: ALS (undated, 3 pages/2 leaves) from writer Carson McCullers (1917-67) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon from Brown (11/14/1953). Reference to Brown's resignation and departure from post in Paris.
1954
DESCRIPTION: TLS (6/6/1954 w/ envelope, 1 page) from writer Carson McCullers (1917-67) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon from Brown (7/30/1954). Reference to Brown's travels in Italy.
1955
DESCRIPTION: ALS (postmarked 2/5/1955 w/ envelope, 3 pages/3 leaves) from writer Carson McCullers (1917-67) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon from Brown (3/5/1955). Reference to Gabriela Mistral's efforts to nominate McCullers for a Nobel Prize.
1945
DESCRIPTION: ALS (8/28/1945, 2 pages/1 leaf) from French literary critic, Claude Edmonde Magny to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon from Brown (9/8/1945). Reference to possibility of Magny visiting New York to speak about women in the French resistance.
1964
DESCRIPTION: TLS (10/5/1964) from Prince Alexander Makinsky, vice president, Coca Cola Export Corporation, New York. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (10/9/1964). Reference to Brown's assignment to Mexico.
1946
DESCRIPTION: TLS (6/28/1946, 1 page) from French author Andre Malraux (1901-76) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (7/16/1946). Reference to publication possibilities of Malraux's works in U.S.
1947
DESCRIPTION: TLS (6/17/1947, 3 pages/3 leaves) from Jacques Maritain to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (8/30/1947). Reference to invitation to Maritain from Elliott Coleman to lecture on Dante. Brown includes news of Michel and Ida Rappaport.
19/8/1944
DESCRIPTION: ALS (10/8/1944 w/ envelope, 3 pages/2 leaves) from French author and philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) to John L. Brown. Reference to Eveline Garnier and to Bella Chagall.
6/19/1948
DESCRIPTION: Typed carbon from John L. Brown to Jacques Maritain (6/19/1948). Reference to Maritain's prospective teaching position at Princeton University, and to mutual acquaintances David K.E. Bruce, Marc Chagall, and Michel and Ida Rappaport.
c.1944
DESCRIPTION: ALS (undated, 1 page) from Jacques Maritain to John L. Brown. Reference to attached ALS (12/18/1944) from the lawyer of the mother of Michel Rappaport.
1946
DESCRIPTION: 2 TLS (5/24/1946, 4/28/1946) from John Marshall, associate director, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, to John L. Brown. Reference to article by Brown, as well as to acquaintances Jean Bruller Vercors, Jean Paul Sartre, Georges Adam, Claude Levi-Strauss, Alexander Makinksky, and Lincoln Kirstein.
1/23/1963
DESCRIPTION: TLS (1/23/1963) from John P.C. Matthews, director of programs, Foreign Policy Association, World Affairs Center, New York, to John L. Brown. Reference to publishing an address given by Brown in the "Foreign Service Journal."
1962
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (postmarked 7/24/1962 w/ envelope, 2 pages/1 leaf; and undated, 1 page) from Augustin J. Maydieu (1900-55) to John L. Brown. Maydieu expresses appreciation for visit from Brown.
1946-55
DESCRIPTION: 2 ALS (5/8/1946, 1 page; & 2/28/1955 w/ envelope, 1 page) from Pierre Messiaen, brother of composer Olivier Messiaen. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (5/10/1946). Reference to Julien Green.
1958
DESCRIPTION: ALS (5/7/1958, 1 page) from French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) to John L. Brown (5/22/1958). Reference to possibility of inviting Queen Elizabeth II of England to attend a music festival in Aspen, Colorado.
1/21/1963
DESCRIPTION: TLS (1/21/1963 w/ envelope, 1 page) from poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) to John L. Brown. Reference to invitation from the latter.
July 1963
DESCRIPTION: TLS (2/7/1963 w/ envelope, 1 page) from Marianne Moore to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (7/4/1963 & 7/10/1963). Reference to publication of Brown's work, "Il gigantesco teatro" (1963), and to mutual acquaintances Lloyd and Loren Frankenburg, Harry Levin and George Weller, as well as to Moore's translation of the fables of Jean de La Fontaine.
November 1949
DESCRIPTION: Typescript by John L. Brown on editor Albert-Gaston Morance (1904/5- ), son of art editor Albert Morance. Written for David K.E. Bruce, November 1949 (7 pages).
1968
DESCRIPTION: TLS (10/28/1968) from Leonard W. Moss (1923-84), anthropologist and educator, to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (11/7/1968). Reference to Moss's appointment in Rome as Fulbright-Hayes Senior Research Scholar in Anthropology.
1989-91
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from Renee Claudel Nantet, daughter of Paul Claudel, and leading member of the Societe Paul Claudel, Paris. Also, wife of French literary journalist Jacques Nantet.
1962
DESCRIPTION: Typed carbon (10/8/1962) from John L. Brown to educator Sigmund Neumann (1904-62) regarding the former's appointment as a fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Conn. Includes correspondence between Brown and the president of Wesleyan.
1955-70
DESCRIPTION: 2 TLS (3/28/1955, 2 pages/1 leaf; & 4/8/1970, 2 pages/1 leaf w/ envelope) from Lucie Noel (1899-1972) to John L. Brown. Reference to Noel's translation of "Abbe Pierre and the Ragpickers of Emmaus" (a.k.a. "Les Chiffoniers d'Emmaus") by Boris Simon (1955).
1948
DESCRIPTION: TLS (4/7/1948, 2 pages/2 leaves) from Dorothy Norman (1905- ), writer and editor of "Twice a Year." Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (4/8/1948). Reference to "Twice a Year."
1947
DESCRIPTION: 2 TLS (5/7/1947, 5/15/1947) from writer Justin O'Brien (1906-68) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (5/13/1947). Reference to Gaetan Picon and Andre Malraux.
1970
DESCRIPTION: Typed carbon from John L. Brown to Austin Olney (1922- ), editor-in-chief, Houghton Mifflin publishers. Reference by Brown to various writing and teaching activities.
1954-68
DESCRIPTION: 4 TLS (3/30/1954, 5/31/1954, 6/28/1961, 1/6/1968) from Rev. Walter J. Ong, S.J., to John L. Brown. Includes clipping of reviews of Fr. Ong's book, "Frontiers in American Catholicism" (1957). Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown. Reference also to Albert Guerard and to Pierre Emmanuel.
1947
DESCRIPTION: TLS (2/26/1947) from publisher Charles A. Pearce (1906-70) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (3/5/1947). Reference to by Louis Aragon and invitation to Brown to write an article on Aragon.
1947
DESCRIPTION: TLS (2/10/1947) from American politician Frances Perkins (1882-1965) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (3/5/1947). Reference to Leon Blum and Brown's writings on French culture.
1984
DESCRIPTION: ACS postcard from Swiss diplomat Francis Pianca to John L. Brown, sending New Year's greetings.
1968
DESCRIPTION: ALS (6/17/1968 w/ envelope, 4 pages/1 folio) from Belgian painter Olivier Picard. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (6/29/1968). Reference to Muriel King and Loren Frankenberg.
1991
DESCRIPTION: ALS (1/26/1991) from author Claude Pichois (1925- ) to John L. Brown. Reference to article by Brown on the lost art of letter-writing, and to Pichois' own work on Charles Baudelaire.
1952-54
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from John Pick (1911- ), author and editor of "Renascence: A Critical Journal of Letters."
1947-48
DESCRIPTION: TLS (1/14/1947) from Allene Talmey Plaut (1903-86) writer and editor of "Vogue," New York, to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (2/3/1947. Reference by Plaut to colleague Peggy Riley, "Vogue," Paris; and by Brown to Josephine Baker and Marcelle Sibon. Also includes TLS (3/19/1948) from Peggy Riley to Brown, with typed carbon from the latter in reply (4/9/1948).
1964
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from author Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) to John L. Brown:
3/25/1954
DESCRIPTION: TLS (3/25/1954, aerogramme notelet) from poet Ezra Pound to John L. Brown, granting the latter permission to reprint extracts of Pound's work.
1963-1964
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from writer James Purdy (1923- ) to John L. Brown: 2 ALS (9/22/1963 w/ envelope and playbill for "Color of Darkness"; and 3/23/1964 w/ envelope); 1 TLS (9/1/1964) w/ typed carbon from John L. Brown. References to Purdy's works include "Cabot Wright Begins," and "Eustace Chisholm and the Works."
1969
DESCRIPTION: ACS (undated, with print by Carlos de Radzitsky) from Radzitsky to John L. Brown with New Year's greeting. Includes typed carbon(s) from Brown (2/11/1969).
1947
DESCRIPTION: ACS postcard from Michel and Ida Rappaport - the latter, the daughter of Marc Chagall. I8/31/1947). References by Brown to numerous acquaintances including Jacques Maritain, Marc Chagall, and Huseyin Halit.
1946
DESCRIPTION: TLS (2/28/1946, 2 pages/2 leaves) from Eugene Reynal (1902-68) to John L. Brown. Reference to a proposal by Brown for a "book club."
1963-64
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence form artist Irene Rice Pereira to John L. Brown:
undated
DESCRIPTION: TLS (undated) from Irene Rice Pereira to John L. Brown, enclosing items in ensuing folders (3:16 & 3:17).
undated
DESCRIPTION: Original artwork by Irene Rice Pereira, inscribed and signed.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Typed manuscript by Irene Rice Pereira, "The Forms of Immateriality: the Poetics of the Form of Space, Light, and the Infinite."
1974
DESCRIPTION: TLS (11/28/1974 w/ envelope) from writer Hans P. Richter to John L. Brown. Reference by Richter to living in Locarno and to the publication of a new book.
1954
DESCRIPTION: ALS (4/28/1954 w/ envelope) from writer Emmanuel Robles (1914- ) to John L. Brown. Includes typed carbon from Brown (6/7/1954). Reference to a trip by Robles to Mexico.
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