Benet family papers, 1918-1960.
Collection Number: 4667
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Benet family papers, 1918-1960.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4667
Abstract:
Manuscripts, correspondence, bibliographies, publishing releases and proofs, scripts,
photographs, sheet music, subject files, and other miscellaneous papers of Stephen
Vincent Benét, Laura Benét, and William Rose Benét.
Creator:
Benet family.
Quanitities:
.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Manuscripts, correspondence, bibliographies, publishing releases and proofs, scripts,
photographs, sheet music, subject files, and other miscellaneous papers of Stephen
Vincent Benét, Laura Benét, and William Rose Benét.
Council for Democracy | Box 3 |
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Benet Family Papers, #4667. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.
Benet, Laura.
Benet, William Rose, 1886-1950.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Stephen Vincent Benét [SVB] papers
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Minotaur," unpublished manuscript; letters to Mr. Braithwaite
re: manuscript
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1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: "Nightmare for Future Reference," manuscript, typescript
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1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: Selected bibliography
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: Bibliographical information; correspondence; biographical information
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1939-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Ballad of the Duke's Mercy," typescript.
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1939 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: Correspondence with George Abbe
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n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: American Academy of Arts and Letters Ceremonial; remarks; correspondence,
address; "The Prayer" manuscript, a poem about arthritis; poem by Laura Benét re:
SVB
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1945 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: Correspondence; manuscript of poem to Walter Damrasch; typescript
copies of New York Times articles
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1941-1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: Publishing releases; poems; letter to H.C. Baird, 1856; obituaries
of Mrs. Frances Benét
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1933-1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Stephen Vincent Benét: "Service Time - It's Maritime," typescript of radio play
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1945 |
Series II. William Rose Benét [WRB] papers
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
William Rose Benét: Poem, "S.V.B. 1898-1943"; correspondence to Eugene Delafield,
1938-1944; correspondence to Mr. Wilder from the Algonquin Hotel, 1960; to Basil Davenport,
1938, 1941
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1938-44, 1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
William Rose Benét: "The Seventh Pawn," typescript
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n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
William Rose Benét: Correspondence
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1914-1948 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
William Rose Benét: "The Blackamoor's Pantomime," typescript
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n.d. |
Series III. Laura Benét [LB]
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Laura Benét: poems
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1948, 1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 2-4 |
Laura Benét: copyreaders of essays on American poets
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n.d. |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Laura Benét: Radio broadcast scripts
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1940-54 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Laura Benét: "The Eternal Light," radio scripts
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1944-45 |
Series IV. Photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Photographs: Stephen Vincent Benét; SVB and Raymond Massey; SVB and Rosemary
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1941, 1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Photographs: Laura Benét; Stephen Vincent Benét; SVB and ?
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1850-1914 |
Series V. Miscellaneous
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Political and miscellaneous correspondence, newsclippings
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1941-53 |
Box 3 | Folder 2-3 |
National Institute of Arts and Letters
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1936-50 |
Bulletins, nominations and ballots, programs, letters, addresses
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Box 3 | Folder 4-7 |
Political and literary miscellany
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1929-51 |
Bulletins, reports, music, graduate paper
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Council for Democracy
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Council for Democracy: Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board of Directors, Oct.
20
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1941 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Council for Democracy: Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board of Directors, Dec.
15
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1941 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Council for Democracy: Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board of Directors, Jan.
5
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1942 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Council for Democracy: A Digest of Proceedings - the Negro Press Conference
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1943 |
Box 3 | Folder 12-13 |
Council for Democracy: Miscellany
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1942-44 |
Bulletins, scripts, minutes, statements, reports, newsletters
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