Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)Edna St Vincent Millay papers, 1832-1992
Personal name
Main title
- Edna St. Vincent Millay papers, 1832-1992 (bulk 1900-1950).
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Description
- 45,000 items.
- 133 containers plus 12 oversize.
- 60 linear feet.
Access advisory
- Open to research.
- Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Finding aids
- Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006034 opens in a new window
Local shelving no.
- 0318G
- Oversize 0111E
- Oversize 7:8
- Cabin Branch (Unprocessed ac. 23,083)
- LM127 (Unprocessed ac. 25402: Gift/purchase, Aug. 2023)
- LM127 (Unprocessed ac. 25427)
Related names
Biography/History note
- Poet and author.
Organized/Arranged
- Arranged in eight series. Series 1: Family and Biographical File, 1832-1992; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1897-1953; Series 3: Literary File, 1897-1953; Series 4: Writings, 1897-1950; Series 5: Miscellany, 1911-1952; Series 6: Photographs, 1865-1978; Series 7: Restricted File, 1926; and Series 8: Oversize, 1865-1958.
Summary
- Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary drafts, reports, family papers, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, theatrical playbills, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Millay's life and literary career. Topics include her travels, daily life especially at her Steepletop farm in Austerlitz, N.Y., theater groups such as the Provincetown Players, politics, totalitarianism, and World War II.
- Papers of her mother, Cora Buzzell Millay, reflect Cora's literary ambitions and efforts; the careers and activities of her daughters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kathleen Millay, and Norma Millay including their participation in avant-garde or experimental theater and antiwar socialist politics; and genealogy of the Buzzell and Emery families. Norma Millay's papers document her work as literary executor of Edna St. Vincent Millay's estate. Also includes papers of Edna St. Vincent Millay's husband, Eugen Boissevain, and of his first wife, Inez Milholland, and correspondence of the Boissevain family.
- Other correspondents include Millay's father, Henry T. Millay; her aunts, Clementine Buzzell Parson and Susan Buzzell Ricker; and Millay's sister, Kathleen, and brother-in-law, Howard Irving Young; and Millay's sister Norma Millay's husband, Charles Ellis.
LC Subjects
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950--Travel.
- Millay, Henry T.--Correspondence.
- Millay, Kathleen, -1943--Correspondence.
- Parson, Clementine Buzzell--Correspondence.
- Ricker, Susan Buzzell--Correspondence.
- Young, Howard Irving, 1893---Correspondence.
- Boissevain family--Correspondence.
- Buzzell family--Genealogy.
- Emery family--Genealogy.
- Millay family.
- Provincetown Players.
- Experimental theater.
- Literature.
- Peace movements.
- Poetry.
- Socialism--United States--History--20th century.
- Theater--United States--History--20th century.
- Totalitarianism.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Austerlitz (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- Authors.
- Poets.
Notes
- Some books transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
- Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divison.
- Sound recordings and motion pictures transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
- Some newspapers and magazines transferred to Library of Congress Serial & Government Publications Division.
- Collection material in English, French, and Dutch.
Acquisition source
- Deposit converted to gift, Norma Millay Ellis, 1967-1975.
- Purchase, 1998.
LCCN
- mm 79032920
Other standard no.
- MSS32920
Language code
- eng dut fre
Repository
- Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home opens in a new window
Type of material
- Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
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- Oversize 0111E
- OV 2, OV 4, OV 6, OV 8, OV 9, OV 11, & OV 12
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- Oversize 7:8
- OV 1, OV 3, OV 5, OV 7, & OV 10
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- LM127 (Unprocessed ac. 25402)
- Gift/purchase, Aug. 2023
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- Cabin Branch (Unprocessed ac. 23,083)
- Request in Manuscript Reading Room (Madison LM101). Material stored offsite--advance notice required for retrieval.
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- Microfilm 13, 956
- Master negative
- Set 1
- Master negatives do not circulate.
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- Not Charged