48 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Intellectual life.

  1. Daniel Chester French papers, circa 1848-1968

    23,000 items. 94 containers. 37.6 linear feet. 44 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Sculptor and artist. Correspondence, writings, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers of French, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, and other members of the French family relating primarily to French's career as a sculptor and artist and to the French family.

  2. Logan Pearsall Smith papers, 1760-1946

    400 containers. 4 containers. 1 linear foot. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Author and essayist. Correspondence, notes, drafts of writings, and other papers relating to Bernard Berenson, Roger Eliot Fry, Bertrand Russell, Walt Whitman, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and to literature, art, travel, and society in general. Includes a transcript of a diary of Ann Cooper Whitall, Quaker of Red Bank, N.J.

  3. Hermann Hagedorn papers, 1912-1933

    10,200 items. 23 containers. 9.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Poet and biographer. Correspondence, subject files, research material, and miscellaneous items relating primarily to Hagedorn’s biographies of Leonard Wood and William Boyce Thompson. Includes original material relating to Thompson’s role in relief work in Russia following the Russian Revolution and in securing diplomatic recognition for the Soviets. Also includes material on Hagedorn’s activities relating to World War I loyalty questions, especially the problems of his fellow German Americans and the Vigilantes, a militant group of patriotic writers.

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  4. Horatio King papers, 1832-1906

    3,000 items. 13 containers. 3 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    United States postmaster general, editor, and author. Chiefly letters received by King relating to politics, to his literary, historical, and social activities, and social life in Washington, D.C., in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

  5. George Middleton papers, 1872-1970

    15,000 items. 85 containers plus 8 oversize. 36.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Playwright, author, and copyright specialist. Correspondence, literary manuscripts, subject files, and research material and documenting Middleton's career as a playwright, author, and copyright specialist at the Department of Justice. Also includes correspondence relating to the La Follette and Middleton families.

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  6. Faith Berry papers, 1859-2009

    6,500 items. 30 containers plus 2 oversize. 13.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Author, editor, and professor. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, speeches, writings, book reviews, reports, radio and television transcripts, research materials, press releases, clippings, printed matter, posters, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Berry's research on the life and literary career of poet Langston Hughes; to her collaboration with professor and literary critic J. Saunders Redding; to her career as a writer, editor, and professor; and to her work on behalf of civil rights and women.

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  7. Norman Podhoretz papers, 1950-1986

    11,500 items. 43 containers. 15.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Author and editor. Correspondence, memoranda, diary, journal, writings, speeches, transcripts of interviews, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and other papers relating primarily to Podhoretz's career as an author and editor of Commentary.

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  8. Peter Force papers and collection, 1492-1977

    150,000 items. 770 containers plus 14 oversize. 300 linear feet. 168 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Antiquarian, historian, and mayor of Washington, D.C. Chiefly Force's personal papers and papers he collected for his nine-volume American Archives. Force's personal papers document his career as a Washington printer, newspaper editor, compiler, and collector. The collection records political, military, scientific, and social aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth century America.

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  9. Anne Porter papers, 1911-2014

    1,200 items. 5 containers. 1.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Poet. Correspondence, poems, notebooks, photographs, articles, legal papers, and other miscellany documenting Porter's life and career as a poet.

  10. Milton Kessler papers, 1959-1999

    9,700 items. 38 containers plus 1 oversize. 15.3 linear feet. 90 digital files (63.44 kB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Poet, editor, and educator. Correspondence, notebooks, book drafts, poem drafts, teaching materials, and family papers relating to Kessler's work as a poet, a co-editor with John Logan of Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Graphics, and a professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, N.Y.

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