Overview
Papers of French author Marguerite Yourcenar received at the repository before August 1986.
Dates
- Creation: 1920-1986
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English and French.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Conditions Governing Use
For permission to publish material created by Marguerite Yourcenar, researchers should contact the Petite Plaisance Trust:
petiteplaisance@acadia.net
Extent
10.5 linear feet (29 boxes, 6 volumes)Collection contains correspondence: with colleagues and friends; relating to "Affaire Plon", a lawsuit between Yourcenar and Plon (Firm); and between Grace Frick and others. Correspondents include: Jean Ballard, Natalie Clifford Barney, Marc Brossollet, Jeanne Carayon, Jean Chalon, Bernard Grasset(Firm), Gallimard (Firm), Hortense Flexner, Elie Grekoff, Malvina Hoffman, Jean Lambert, Marie Laurencin, Claude Servan-Schreiber, Jerry Wilson, and many others.
Compositions by Yourcenar include holograph manuscripts, drawings, typescripts, research notes, lists of corrections for various editions, galley and page proofs, and printed versions of her work with extensive annotations by Yourcenar and by Grace Frick.
Compositions of others include manuscript drafts of English translations of Yourcenar's work by David Freeman, Grace Frick, Joan Howard, Walter Kaiser, Dori Katz, and Alberto Manguel. Includes manuscripts of articles and dissertations on Yourcenar, some with Yourcenar's comments.
Biographical material includes: correspondence, contracts and accounts with various publishers; material on animal rights and conservation; Yourcenar-Frick health and travel records; official documents; photographs; and other biographical miscellany of Yourcenar and Frick.
Biographical / Historical
Marguerite Yourcenar was a French author.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Letters to Marguerite Yourcenar
- II. Letters from Marguerite Yourcenar
- III. Librairie Plon: Correspondence with Marguerite Yourcenar
- A. Letters to Marguerite Yourcenar
- B. Letters from Marguerite Yourcenar
- IV. Other letters
- A. Letters to and from Grace Frick
- B. Librairie Plon: other letters
- C. Miscellaneous other letters
- V. Compositions by Marguerite Yourcenar
- VI. Compositions by others
- VII. Biographical material
Please note that item numbers 195, 645, 767, and 1211 were inadvertently omitted from this finding aid.
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
86M-27. Manuscripts presented by Marguerite Yourcenar, Petite Plaisance, Northeast Harbor, Maine 04662; received: August 1982, May and September 1984, May and June 1985, and May and August 1986.
Processing Information
Processed by: Edith and Frederick Farrell, and Betsy Merideth; with the assistance of Elizabeth Falsey.
- Title
- Yourcenar, Marguerite. Marguerite Yourcenar papers, 1920-1986: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou00094
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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