Finding aid created by: KM
Date: Mar 2000
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| 29 Jul 2010 | converted to EAD (MRC) |
| 26 Feb 2016 | oversize rehoused, inventory updated (MRC) |
Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Shrifte, Evelyn. |
| Title: | Evelyn Shrifte Collection Relating to Vanguard Press |
| Dates: | 1928-1990 |
| Quantity: | 3 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Correspondence and memorabilia relating to Vanguard Press, of which Shrifte was president for more than thirty-five years. Includes correspondence with several notable authors including Saul Bellow, Pierre Boulle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Madeleine L'Engle. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
The Vanguard Press was established in 1926 with a $100,000 grant from the Garland Fund, a philanthropic foundation. The Garland Fund was noted for its support of left-wing and radical causes, organizations and institutions, and Vanguard Press published a wide assortment of new and classic works on radical topics, including studies of the Soviet Union, socialist theory, and politically-oriented fiction. In 1932 the press severed its relationship with the Garland Fund and moved into publishing more mainstream authors and titles. The firm was sold to a larger publishing firm in the late 1930s and in 1988 it was acquired by Random House.
Evelyn Shrifte (1900 or 1901-1999) was an American editor and president of Vanguard Publishing for more than thirty-five years. Educated at Barnard College, she worked for the Musical Quarterly and owned and operated a bookstore in New York City before going to work for Vanguard in the early 1930s. She became its president in 1952, a position she held until Vanguard's sale to Random House in 1988. Among the books published during her tenure were Saul Bellow's first two novels, Dr. Seuss' first two books, and many novels by Joyce Carol Oates.
Spanning 1928 to 1990, the Evelyn Shrifte Collection Relating to Vanguard Press comprises correspondence and memorabilia relating to Vanguard Press, of which Shrifte served as president from 1952 to 1988, when it was sold to Random House. Although the bulk of the Vanguard Press Archive was subsequently donated to Columbia University Library, Evelyn Shrifte retained an assortment of materials relating to a number of authors with whom she had worked.
Correspondence-subject files (Boxes 1-4) contains any combination of incoming and outgoing personal and business letters, book manuscripts, and printed material pertaining to Vanguard Press authors Saul Bellow, James T. Farrell, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Phillips, and Edith Sitwell, among others. Of greatest depth and duration (1948-1962) are materials relating to a number of Sitwell titles, including The Canticle of the Rose, Collected Poems, English Eccentrics, and Music and Ceremonies. In addition, the collection includes two versions of the Dr. Seuss manuscript for The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.
A history of Vanguard Press, notes for two projects, five catalogs from between the years 1928 and 1938, and an assortment of reviews constitute Memorabilia.
Material is arranged alphabetically.
Access Restrictions:
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Three story manuscripts ("Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood?"; "The Lady with Pet Dog"; "Nightmusic") and the partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, How Lucien Florey Died, and Was Born, have been transferred to and integrated with the Joyce Carol Oates Papers. Two published books by Louis Slobodkin have been transferred to Rare Books for cataloging; please refer to the Classic Catalog to locate these items.
Persons
Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994.
L'Engle, Madeleine.
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Seuss, Dr.
Shrifte, Evelyn.
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Slobodkin, Louis, 1903-1975.
Corporate Bodies
Vanguard Press.
Subjects
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Genres and Forms
Artwork.
Book reviews.
Catalogs (documents)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Occupations
Publishers and publishing.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Evelyn Shrifte Collection Relating to Vanguard Press,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Bernice Woll, 1999.
Correspondence-subject files
Memorabilia
| Correspondence-subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Aistrop, Jack Bentley 1965, 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Allan, Mabel Esther 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bader, Barbara 1986-1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Banning, Evelyn I. 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Beach, Edward Latimer 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Beaton-Jones, Cynon 1968, 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bellow, Saul 1944-1948, 1964, undated - photocopies of correspondence with James Henle and Evelyn Shrifte | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Benasutti, Marion 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Blackwell, Louise 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Boulle, Pierre 1989, 1992, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brandon, Evan 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Carter, Helene 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cavanah, Frances 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Chapelle, Howard Irving 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cheesebrough, Sue undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Closs, August 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Conrad, Sybil 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cooper, Brian 1964 | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Corsaro, Frank undated - Falstaff drawing (watercolor and crayon) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cost, March 1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ethridge, Willie Snow [1968] 1978 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fabricant, Noah D. 1958 | ||||||||||
| Farrell, James T. 1954-1957, 1976 | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Face of Time - partial manuscript, various paging (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The University of Kansas City Review (inscribed issue Summer 1945 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Transcripts of letters from Evelyn Shrifte 1953-1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fisher, Avery 1982 | ||||||||||
| Franklin, Hugh | |||||||||||
| See L'Engle, Madeleine. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Frenaye, Frances 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gallenkamp, Charles 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gardner, Diana 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Garnett, Richard 1970 | ||||||||||
| Geisel, Theodor Seuss | |||||||||||
| See Seuss, Dr.. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gillon, Philip 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gottlieb, Robert 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hannum, Alberta 1970, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Heard, Gerald 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Helwig, Hans 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Heyen, William 1976, 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hogeboom, Amy undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ianovskii, Vasilii S. 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Jagendorf, Moritz Adolph 1959, 1962, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Jenkyns, Chris 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Jones, Bruce E. 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Kasdan, Sara 1956-1957, 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Kling, Samuel G. 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Knopf, Alfred A. 1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Knopf, Blanche 1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Leekley, Thomas B. 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | L'Engle, Madeleine 1964, 1983 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Long, Barbara undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Marion, John Francis 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Marsh, Gwen 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Mayfield, Julian 1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | McCann's 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | McGinnis, Bruce 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | McKenna, Rollie 1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | McKone, Jim 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | McKown, Robin 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Mizener, Arthur 1965 | ||||||||||
| Morrison, Margaret Mackie | |||||||||||
| See Cost, March. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Nourse, James I. 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Oates, Joyce Carol 1969, 1972-1974, 1986 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Philipson, Morris H. 1968 | ||||||||||
| Phillips, Robert | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | General 1967, 1968, 1970, 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Face to Face (Houston: Wing Press) (inscribed copy) 1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Inner Weather (Francestown, N.H.: Golden Quill Press, circa 1966) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Pregnant Man (Garden City: Doubleday) (inscribed copy) 1978 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Potok, Chaim 1982 (photocopy) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ross, Bill D. 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Rudge, William Edwin 1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ruhm, Herbert 1962, 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Russell, Robert 1964 | ||||||||||
| Salter, Stefan | |||||||||||
| See Wolf, Helen. | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Self, Margaret Cabell 1964 | ||||||||||
| Seuss, Dr. | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - manuscript, with pencil corrections and annotations, 2 versions | ||||||||||
| Sitwell, Edith | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | General 1948-1962, undated | ||||||||||
| The Canticle of the Rose | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Correspondence (telegrams) 1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Galley proofs (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Proof of finished plate" (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Page proofs | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Selected pages, with corrections (New York: Vanguard, c1940) (inscribed) | ||||||||||
| Collected Poems | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Section 1949-1954, editing questions | ||||||||||
| English Eccentrics | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Typescript manuscripts (partial) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Production records (partial) | ||||||||||
| Music and Ceremonies | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Correspondence 1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Production records (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "The Wind of Early Spring" - holograph poem "For Evelyn Shrifte" | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Slade, Caroline 1959, undated | ||||||||||
| Slobodkin, Florence and Louis | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sarah Somebody (New York: Vanguard Press, circa 1969) - photocopy, with notes | ||||||||||
| Slobodkin, Louis | |||||||||||
| Hustle and Bustle (New York: Macmillan) 1948 | |||||||||||
| Transferred to Rare Books for cataloging. Please refer to the Classic Catalog to locate this item. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | One Is Good, But Two Are Better - artwork and production records | ||||||||||
| Our Friendly Friends (New York: Vanguard) circa 1951 | |||||||||||
| Transferred to Rare Books for cataloging. Please refer to the Classic Catalog to locate this item. | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Sootin, Harry 1981 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Tabor, Grace 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Trease, Geoffrey 1980 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Venezis, Ilias 1957 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Waller, George Macgregor 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Weart, Edith Lucie 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Weaver, Harriett E. 1988, 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Wier, Ester 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Willingham, Calder 1968, , 1976 - includes 18-page enclosure to H. Wouk | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Wiseman, Ann Sayre 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Wolf, Patricia 1983 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Wolff, Helen - 1982 appeal on behalf of book designer Stefan Salter, also two copies of manuscript ("Balance Sheet") by Salter | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Woytinsky, Wladimir S. 1989 | ||||||||||
| Yanovsky, V. S. | |||||||||||
| See Ianovskii, Vasilii S.. | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Zaidenberg, Arthur 1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Rights and permissions 1957-1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Miscellaneous 1948-1990, undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Days with Lenin, International Publishers 1932 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | History of Vanguard Press circa 1980 - typescript manuscript by unknown author | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Masterpieces of Hogarth, Frederick A. Stokes Co., undated | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Notes (2) about possible projects undated | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | P.M.: an Intimate Journal for Production Managers, Art Directors, and Their Associates Feb-May 1936 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Publicity | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Catalogs 1928, 1930, 1933, 1935, 1938 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Reviews of Vanguard Press authors | ||||||||||