Seán O'Faoláin Collection

The major portion of this collection consists of Seán O'Faoláin’s correspondence with his publishers at Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown, and Curtis Brown between 1955 and 1959. Seymour (Sam) Lawrence of Atlantic Monthly became a good friend as well as his literary advocate. Included are O'Faoláin’s letters and carbon copies of letters sent to him, internal memos at Little, Brown, Atlantic Monthly, and Curtis Brown, and readers’ reports on O'Faoláin’s manuscripts. These materials were acquired in 1988 through a special purchase.

Seán O'Faoláin visited Northwestern University as a lecturer in spring quarter of 1958. Later, he offered Felix Pollak, curator of Special Collections, “The Death of Stevey Long” written between 1930 and 1931. Northwestern University Library purchased the manuscript which is accompanied by a brief history of the text by O'Faoláin himself and letters to Felix Pollak.