Burton I. Weiss collection, 1886-1975.
Collection Number: 7812
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Burton I. Weiss collection, 1886-1975.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7812
Abstract:
Books, manuscripts, reprints of articles, ephemera, graphics, and proofs collected
by Burton Weiss, many of them on gay themes. Included are proofs of novels by Gore
Vidal, James Leo Herlihy, Gavin Lambert, and others; play scripts; and film screenplays.
Books and bound manuscripts (including proofs, scripts, and screenplays) are cataloged
individually. Reprints of articles mainly focus on the biology of hermaphroditism,
transsexualism, and sex hormones in mammals. Loose manuscripts include notes and draft
pages for the revised edition of Kay Boyle's novel Gentlemen, I address you privately
(first published in 1933, second edition in 1991); manuscripts of Lyle Glazier's Tragic
America (1974) and Person, place, or thing; an unbound copy of Une collection particulière:
250 images de l'homosexuel dans les livres français, 1605-1969, compiled by Andrea
Iezzi (privately printed, 2007); a summary of Karen Rotkin's dissertation, The socio-historical
construction of female sexuality (1975); prose and poetry manuscripts by Richard George-Murray;
a draft of the article "Designing pacifist films" by Paul Goodman (circa 1960); and
a transcript of a session from "Revolutionary males," a seminar conducted by Burton
Weiss and Charles Haynie at Tolstoy College, the State University of New York at Buffalo,
in the fall of 1972.
Creator:
Weiss, Burton I.
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992. (Title of work: Gentlemen, I address you privately..)
Glazier, Lyle. (Title of work: Tragic America..)
Glazier, Lyle. (Title of work: Person, place, or thing..)
Iezzi, Andrea. (Title of work: Collection particulière..)
Rotkin, Karen. (Title of work: Socio-historical construction of female sexuality..)
George-Murray, R. (Richard)
Haynie, Charles A. (Charles Atkinson), 1935-2001.
Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972. (Title of work: Designing pacifist films..)
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
American rare book dealer and collector.
Books, manuscripts, reprints of articles, ephemera, graphics, and proofs collected
by Burton Weiss, many of them on gay themes. Included are proofs of novels by Gore
Vidal, James Leo Herlihy, Gavin Lambert, and others; play scripts; and film screenplays.
Books and bound manuscripts (including proofs, scripts, and screenplays) are cataloged
individually. Reprints of articles mainly focus on the biology of hermaphroditism,
transsexualism, and sex hormones in mammals. Loose manuscripts include notes and draft
pages for the revised edition of Kay Boyle's novel Gentlemen, I address you privately
(first published in 1933, second edition in 1991); manuscripts of Lyle Glazier's Tragic
America (1974) and Person, place, or thing; an unbound copy of Une collection particulière:
250 images de l'homosexuel dans les livres français, 1605-1969, compiled by Andrea
Iezzi (privately printed, 2007); a summary of Karen Rotkin's dissertation, The socio-historical
construction of female sexuality (1975); prose and poetry manuscripts by Richard George-Murray;
a draft of the article "Designing pacifist films" by Paul Goodman (circa 1960); and
a transcript of a session from "Revolutionary males," a seminar conducted by Burton
Weiss and Charles Haynie at Tolstoy College, the State University of New York at Buffalo,
in the fall of 1972.
Graphics include reproductions of drawings by Paul Cadmus. Also included in the collection
are catalogs of gay and lesbian studies publications from Bolerium Books and St. Maur.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Burton I. Weiss Collection, #7812. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Related materials located in collection 7901, Victor Gollancz Ltd. publisher's files.
Subjects:
Hormones, Sex.
Transsexualism.
Intersexuality.
Lesbians in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Book collectors.
Form and Genre Terms:
Manuscripts for publication.
Printed ephemera.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Two J.R. Brussel letters to Henry Miller
|
1940, 1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
John Knowles items
|
1984-1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Litigation of Matthew Cozens and Joseph Nawkins
|
1784? |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Ephemera
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
"To Edward Carpenter"
|
1914 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
LGBT pins (MU-2228)
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Magazines
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Gay and Lesbian studies
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Greek love
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
St. Maur lists
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Bolerium lists
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Bolerium lists
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | V-7212 |
"AB 101, The Time Is Now" [VHS tape]
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Symonds' books, particularly Sexual Inversion
|
1979 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Paul Cadmus drawings
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Capra Press
|
1987-1990 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Oswell Blakeston letters to "Gay Sunshine Press"
|
1978, 1981 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
"A Star's Progress"
|
1989 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
"Some recent works on the history of same-sex intimacy and homosexuality," Jonathan
Katz
|
1979 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Comments/reviews of gay books
|
1979-1980 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
"Tragic America" and "Person, Place, or Thing," Lyle Glazier
|
1974-1975 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Proofs of "The Wonder of Beauty..."
|
1978 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Susan Griffin letters to Tom Parkinson
|
1963-1964 |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Draft?
|
1963 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
|
1950's |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
"The Saddest Shul"
|
1967 |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
"Une Collection Particuliere," Iezzi/Biffi
|
1605-1969 |
| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
"The Socio-Historical Construction of Female Sexuality," Karen Rotkin (dissertation
summary)
|
1975 |
| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Richard George Murray - manuscript material
|
n.d. |
| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
"Revolutionary Males"
|
1972 |
| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
"Designing Pacifist Films," Paul Goodman
|
1960-1961 |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Boyle (Kay), notes and draft pages for revised edition of "Gentlemen, I Address You
Privately"
|
1991 |
| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Boyle (Kay), notes and draft pages for revised edition of "Gentlemen, I Address You
Privately"
|
1991 |
| Box 4 |
Misc. reprints
|
1909-1990 | |
| Box 5 |
Reprints concerning hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, transsexualism, adrenogenital
syndrome, and sex hormones
|
1940's-1960's | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Movie posters including "Suddenly Last Summer", "Reflections in a Golden Eye", "The
Subterraneans", "Midnight Cowboy"; also an unidentified portrait
|
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