Idella E. Emery correspondence, 1915-1920.

0.21 linear feet (1 box)

English

Purchased from William Reese Co. (Swann sale 2646, 2023 September 28, lot 160) on the Lydia Winston Malbin Archives Fund, 2023.

This material is open for research.

Idella E. Emery (1898-1962) was a film columnist for the Boston Post and the Los Angeles Evening Citizen News during the silent film era.

Correspondence includes 12 letters and two telegrams. An autograph letter, signed, from Emery to Addison Madeiro, requesting his autograph, postmarked May 1915; the letter was returned unopened. Four typescript letters, signed, on Boston Post stationery, from Emery to actors Arthur Bates, June Daye, Robert Le Sueur and Virginia Pearson, dated 1918-1919. In three of these letters she writes in her capacity as Film Editor; her letter to Le Sueur, returned unopened, is more informal. Six typescript letters, signed, from S.E. Snyder, Publicity Director for Bessie Barriscale's BB Features, to Emery, discuss Barriscale, publicity photographs of actors, and potential stories, dated April through October 1919. Each letter is written on bright blue BB Features letterhead illustrated with an image of Barriscale. One autograph letter, signed, and two telegrams from "Jonesy" in New York, to Emery in Boston, are affectionate in tone; one telegram is dated April 1920. Also included are eight empty envelopes, some with Emery's return address, all of which have been returned to sender, with postmarks dating between 1916 and 1919.

November 07, 2023

Idella E. Emery Correspondence. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Idella E. Emery Correspondence. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.