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Guide to the Harvey Breit Correspondence

Collection Title:	Harvey Breit Correspondence
Dates:	1940-1965
Bulk Dates:	1945-1955
Identification:	MS 1
Creator:	Breit, Harvey
Extent:	1 Boxes
Language of Materials:	English
Abstract:	Harvey Breit, poet, playwright, and interviewer, was a reviewer for the New York Times Book Review from 1940-1965. This collection consists of more than 225 pages of correspondence sent to Breit during this period by more than fifty authors and public figures.
Note:	Other Information:Correspondence to Harvey Breit consists of approximately 225 pages from fifty-six authors.
Acquisition Information:	This collection of correspondence to Harvey Breit was acquired by the McCormick Library of Special Collections from the firm of Hamill & Barker in the early 1970s. 14 of the letters were donated in January of 2011 to Northwestern by Paula Frosch, who acquired them as a gift from the American Chess Foundation. A portion of the letters was first donated to Columbia University, and then given to Northwestern to complement our existing collection (with Frosch's permission) by Michael Ryan, Director of Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The letters included were from Atkinson; Barzun, Bemelmans; Bourke-White (1/30/1949); Caldwell; Chambers; Evans; Fitts (3/12/1948); Kober; Lindbergh; Rome; Schulberg; Trilling; and Westcott (9/14/1955).
Accruals:	Jason Nargis processed the additions in January, 2011.
Conditions Governing Use:	Copyright for materials resides with the literary executors of individual letters. All users must comply with federal copyright regulations.
Conditions Governing Access:	Available for research.
Preferred Citation:	Harvey Breit Correspondence, 1940-1965, Manuscript Series I, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library.
Repository:	Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections Deering Library, Level 3 1970 Campus Drive Evanston, IL, URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec Email: special.collections@northwestern.edu Phone: 847-491-3635

Biographical/Historical Information

Harvey Breit, 1909-1968, poet, playwright, and interviewer, was a reviewer for the New York Times Book Review from 1940-1965. He published a series of interviews with various authors in the Book Review which was collected as The Writer Observed (London, 1957). He also wrote book reviews for Poetry magazine and other journals.

Scope and Content

This collection of more than 225 pages of correspondence sent to reviewer Harvey Breit between 1940 and 1965 includes letters and some manuscripts from more than fifty literary and political figures of the mid-twentieth century. Most entries consist of only one or two letters, but more frequent correspondents include W.H. Auden, Dudley Fitts, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, C.P. Snow, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. John Steinbeck's file includes the typescript of an article he intended to send to the Saturday Review. William Carlos Williams, Louis Armstrong, and W.H. Auden files also include some manuscript material.

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Guide to the Harvey Breit Correspondence

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