Frank Sullivan collection, 1910-1972.
Collection Number: 4618
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Frank Sullivan collection, 1910-1972.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4618
Abstract:
Correspondence and other papers of Frank Sullivan, an American journalist, humorist
and author who was long associated with the New Yorker magazine.
Creator:
Sullivan, Frank, 1892-1976.
Cagney, James, 1899-1986.
Cuppy, Will, 1884-1949.
Feldman, Margaret.
Ford, Corey, 1902-1969.
Honeycutt, Ann.
Kirkpatrick, Kenneth.
Lobrano, Gustav Stubbs.
Lovett, Adele.
Oppenheimer, George.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951.
Smith, Alison.
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
White, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975.
Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943.
J.M. Dent & Sons
Little, Brown and Company
Viking Press
Quanitities:
5.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
American journalist, humorist and author, long associated with the New Yorker magazine, whose Christmas poem he composed each year for 50 years. Also a member
of the Algonquin Round Table literary gathering in the 1920's.
Cornell University Class of 1914.
Consists mainly of correspondence, including letters by Sullivan (chiefly from 1925-1945),
mostly personal, but some concerning publication of his books and articles for the
New York World, the New Yorker, and the Saturday Evening Post. Includes correspondence with J.M. Dent & Sons about Sullivan's book Sullivan at Bay (London, 1939); with George Oppenheimer at Viking Press about Frank Sullivan Through the Looking-Glass, which Oppenheimer edited; and with other journalists and editors, especially New Yorker staff. Also included are issues of the Cornell Daily Sun and program for Cornell events from 1910-1914; programs for plays performed at the
Lyceum Theater, Ithaca, N.Y., from 1912-1913; and essays Sullivan wrote for an English
course at Cornell in 1912, with his professor's comments.
Correspondents include William Jacob Cuppy, Margaret Feldman, Corey Ford, Ann Honeycutt,
J.M. Dent & Sons, Kenneth Kirkpatrick, Adele Lovett, George Oppenheimer, Harold Ross,
Alison Smith, E.B. White, Katharine Sergeant White, Alexander Woollcott; Little, Brown
& Co., Gus Lobrano, James Thurber, and P.G. Wodehouse. Also included are 3 letters
to Sullivan from James Cagney and 2 letters to him from Eleanor Roosevelt.
Related collections of the papers of New Yorker staff are held in the repository,
including papers of A.J. Liebling, E.B. White, and James Thurber.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Frank Sullivan collection, #4618. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Mayes, Herbert.
Sullivan, Frank, 1892-1976.
Cornell University -- : History.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Lyceum Theater (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Hale, Agnes Burke
Places:
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History.
Subjects:
Humorists, American.
Journalists -- United States.
Authors, American.
English literature -- Study and teaching.
Theater -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American wit and humor.
American literature -- 20th century.
American periodicals.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 |
Manuscripts and documents
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Outgoing correspondence
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Box 2 |
Undated
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Box 3 | 1913-1932 | ||
Box 4 | 1933-1938 | ||
Box 5 | 1938-1947 | ||
Box 6 | 1948-1965 | ||
Box 7 | 1965- | ||
Incoming correspondence
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Box 8 |
A-I
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Box 9 |
J-Ln
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Box 10 |
Lo-Rose
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Box 11 |
Ross-St
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Box 12 |
Su-Z
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Box 13 |
Clippings and Sullivaniana
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