Donald C. Wiltse and Louise Roarty collection of Henry Miller, 1941-1979.

1.05 linear feet (3 boxes)

English

In English.

Purchased from Clouds Hill Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.

Organized into three series: I. Correspondence, 1941-1979. II. Writings, 1952-1979. III. Photographs, 1953-1979.

This collection is open for research.

Henry Miller (1891-1980), American author.

Collection of correspondence, writings, and photographs relating to American novelist and author Henry Miller, dating largely from the 1960s and 1970s. Correspondence (box 1) includes a small number of outgoing and incoming letters with, among others, Harold Clurman, Wallace Fowlie, Claude Houghton, Sydney Omarr, and Emil Schnellock, as well as some third-party letters from Alfred Perlès to Graham Ackroyd. Writings (boxes 1-2) consist chiefly of corrected drafts of shorter works, such as biographical portraits and reminiscences, and book reviews, introductions, and blurbs. The collection features approximately 165 photographs (boxes 2-3) relating to Miller, with images of Miller alone, Miller with others, other people, places, and objects. Other people represented in the photographs include the following writers, artists, and cultural figures: Richard Aldington, Lawrence Durrell, Buddy Hackett, Marino Marini, Mezz Mezzrow, Maurice Nadeau, Anais Nin, John Cowper Powys, Jean Renoir, Bezalel Schatz, and Michel Simon. Some photographs were taken during trips to France and Italy during the early 1950s and 1960s respectively, and there are photographs of Miller's home in Big Sur, California dating from early 1961. Photogaphs are attributed to Elvin Ambrose, Mario Casilli, Virginia Dorteh, Robert Fink, Nancy Golden, Jean-Charles de Fontbrune, René Saint-Paul, Poul Henrik Seifert, Frédéric Jacques Temple, and others.

Archives or Manuscripts / Images

January 21, 2015

Donald C. Wiltse and Louise Roarty Collection of Henry Miller. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Donald C. Wiltse and Louise Roarty Collection of Henry Miller. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Photographic prints.

Authors United States 20th century.