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Collection Data
- Description
- This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, correspondence, a scrapbook, and a photograph of attendees at a reception for Sir Osbert and Edith Sitwell in 1948.
- Names
- Gotham Book Mart (Creator)
- Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989 (Addressee)
- Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989 (Compiler)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1938 - 1948
- Library locations
- Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
- Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Gotham
- Topics
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941
- Gotham Book Mart. We moderns.
- Genres
- Correspondence
- Scrapbooks
- Notes
- Biographical/historical: Gotham Book Mart is a New York City bookstore and gallery, founded in 1920 by Frances Steloff.
- Content: This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, correspondence, a scrapbook, and a photograph of attendees at a reception for Sir Osbert and Edith Sitwell in 1948. The typescripts include contributions submitted by various authors for publication in the Gotham Book Mart Catalog, no. 42, "We Moderns," published in 1940, as well as a list of the authors to be included in the catalog. The correspondence includes letters from various individuals and institutions, dated 1940, to Frances Steloff, ordering copies of "We Moderns." The scrapbook, compiled by Steloff, consists of invitations, correspondence, photographs, etc. relating to the May 4, 1938, publication party for "Finnegans Wake," by James Joyce.
- Content: Card catalog available.
- Content: Processing information: Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.
- Physical Description
- Extent: 185 items
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Identifiers
- Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Gotham
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15944295
- MSS Unit ID: 19237
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c28b7c90-1782-013c-44f7-0242ac110004
