Inventory of the Hildegarde Flanner Papers, 1923-1983, bulk 1923-1953
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Inventory of the Hildegarde Flanner Papers, 1923-1983, bulk 1923-1953
The Huntington Library
San Marino, California
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Department
- The Huntington Library
- 1151 Oxford Road
- San Marino, California 91108
- Phone: (626) 405-2203
- Fax: (626) 449-5720
- Email: lgarcia@huntington.org
- URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554
- Processed by:
- The Huntington Library staff
- Date Completed:
- June 1984
© 2000 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Hildegarde Flanner Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1923-1983,
Date (bulk): bulk 1923-1953
Creator:
Flanner, Hildegarde
Extent: 166 pieces
Repository: The Huntington Library
San Marino, California 91108
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of author, 1983.
Access
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Publication Rights
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from the office of the Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the physical
property rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances,
the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights. Researchers may contact the appropriate
curator for further information.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hildegarde Flanner Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Biography
Hildegarde Flanner, the poet (whose full name was June Hildegarde Flanner before she became Mrs. Frederick Monhoff), was born
in Indianapolis in 1899, educated at Sweet Briar College and the University of California. Her works have been published in
periodicals such as
Poetry,
Voices,
Saturday Review of Literature,
New Republic,
New Yorker, and
Westways. She has also written the following volumes:
This Morning (1920),
Young Girl (1920),
Mansions (1920),
That Endeth Never (1921),
A Tree in Bloom and Other Verses (1924),
Time's Profile (1929),
Valley Quail (1929),
In Galilee (1932),
If There is Time (1942),
Poems (1958),
In Native Light (1970),
The Hearkening Eye (1980) and
A Vanishing Land (1980). Her books of poetry were illustrated by her husband, the artist and architect Frederick Monhoff. Many honors have
been bestowed upon Hildegarde Flanner, including the Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize in 1920 and New Direction's Poet of the
Month in 1942.
Scope and Content
The collection contains three parts: 1) manuscripts by Hildegarde Flanner (11 poems, 1923-1924, and recollections of Olive
Percival, 1983), 2) correspondence with author Olive Percival (120 letters, 1923-1944), and 3) letters to poet Ethel (Hamilton)
Hinkle (52 letters, 1923-1953). The letters contain occasional references to her sister, author and journalist Janet Flanner,
as well as to Harriet Monroe and other literary figures.
Subject Matter
Literary interests and personal affairs
Arrangement
Box 1
Manuscripts; Olive Percival correspondence, 1924-1926
Box 2
Olive Percival correspondence, 1927-1932
Box 3
Olive Percival correspondence, 1933-1944
Box 4
Letters to Ethel (Hamilton) Hinkle, 1924-1953
Contents
The Modern Cinderella HM 19419
The Morning Bird HM 19420
Plaint of the Missouri `Coon in the Berlin Zoological Gardens HM 19423
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks HM 19424
The Straw Parlor HM 19426
The Twenty-Third Psalm HM 19881
Whenever I've this headache... HM 19431
To De Witt Miller HM 19428
To Francis Wilson HM 19429
My Book (37 poems) HM 19435
Private Diary for 1873 HM 19436
Letters from Eugene Field
33 letters to his wife, Julia Sutherland (Comstock) Field. The letters date from both before and after their marriage in 1873.
Many date from Field's trip to Europe before his marriage, but after their engagement, which was to last for 2 years. Other
letters were written after the marriage during some of their temporary separations while Field was working for one newspaper
or another. These letters require the permission of the Field family for photocopying or publication.
HM 12555-12583 HM 31986-31988 (Box 1)
22 other letters from Eugene Field to various persons, including his mother-in-law and father-in-law, 1 to Julian Hawthorne.
Some concern literary matters.
1 letter from his wife, Julia (1893, Dec. 21) -- HM 42832
1 letter from the journalist Edward David Cowen -- HM 42825
1 letter from Hildegarde Hawthorne -- HM 42838
2 letters from Washington Irving Way -- HM 42856-42857
Diary from 1890 -- HM 19437
Doctors: a poem -- HM 19438
Armenian Lullaby -- HM 19440
Poems and Letters -- HM 19441-19447
