Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Related Material
Descriptive Summary
Title: Cornel Adam Lengyel Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1950-1960
Collection number: 466
Creator:
Lengyel, Cornel Adam
Extent:
4 boxes (2 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Cornel Adam Lengyel (1915- ) was a poet, historian, playright and translator. The collection consists of literary manuscripts
of plays, poems, fiction, and history.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Cornel Adam Lengyel, 1960-61.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Cornel Adam Lengyel Papers (Collection 466). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Lengyel was born on January 1, 1915 in Fairfield, Connecticut; was editor, Federal Writers' Project, 1936-37; music critic
for
Coast (San Francisco), 1938-41; censor, Office of Censorship, San Francisco, 1942; shipwright and personnel interviewer, Kaiser
Shipyards, Richmond, California, 1943-44; manager, Forty-Niner Theatre, Georgetown, California, 1946-49; editor, W.H. Freeman
Company, 1952-54; founder and executive editor of Dragon's Tooth Press in 1970; visiting professor and lecturer, Sacramento
State College, 1962-63; has been poet, historian, playright and translator; books include:
First Poems (1940),
The Atom Clock (1951),
Four Days in July: the Story Behind the Declaration of Independence (1958), and
I, Benedict Arnold (1960).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of literary manuscripts of California writer Cornel Adam Lengyel. Includes plays, poems, fiction, and
history.
A 1961 Record, Selected Poems by Cornel Lengyel, is stored in Collection 249, box 10.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
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Cosmopolis (Box 1).
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Four days in July (Boxes 1,3).
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S.O.S. from Easter Island (Boxes 1-2).
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The Atom Clock (play),
The Lookout Letter and Other Poems,
First Songs and Sonnets (Box 3).
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I, Benedict Arnold: the Anatomy of Treason (Boxes 2,4).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Lengyel, Cornel Adam--Archives.
Authors, American--20th century--Archives.
Historians--California--Archives.
Related Material
Collection of Miscellaneous Recordings (Collection 249). Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.