Finding Aid for the Cornel Adam Lengyel Papers, 1950-1960

Processed by Yvonne Schroeder; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
© 1999
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Finding Aid for the Cornel Adam Lengyel Papers, 1950-1960

Collection number: 466

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division



Los Angeles, CA

Contact Information

  • Manuscripts 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
  • URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
Processed by:
Yvonne Schroeder, 6 July 1960
Encoded by:
Caroline Cubé
Text converted and initial container list EAD tagging by:
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Online finding aid edited by:
Josh Fiala, August 2002
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

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

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 1973115 

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:
  1. Cosmopolis (Box 1).
  2. Four days in July (Boxes 1,3).
  3. S.O.S. from Easter Island (Boxes 1-2).
  4. The Atom Clock (play), The Lookout Letter and Other Poems, First Songs and Sonnets (Box 3).
  5. 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.

 

Cosmopolis

Box 1

Cosmopolis. Hollywood, California. 1950.

Physical Description: Typescript (carbon). 257pp. In black paper binder.
 

Four Days in July

Box 1

Four days in July; the Story Behind the Declaration of Independence.

Physical Description: Typescript (some carbon) and holograph. About 1500 leaves. In two envelopes.

Scope and Content Note

First research notes. Also, several pieces of ephemera relevant to the book.

Note

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958.
Box 3

Draft #3.

Physical Description: Typescript (mostly carbon). 226 leaves. Incomplete manuscript, with extensive holograph corrections and some duplication.
Box 3

Draft #4.

Physical Description: Typescript (mostly carbon) with some holograph leaves and occasional holograph corrections. 133 leaves. Incomplete manuscript.
Box 3

Draft #6.

Physical Description: Typescript (mostly carbon) with some holograph corrections, and some duplication. 520 leaves. In mixed order.
 

S.O.S. from Easter Island

Box 1

S.O.S. from Easter Island [play].

Physical Description: Mimeographed with occasional holograph corrections and inserts. 59 numbered pages.

Scope and Content Note

Note on first leaf [title page] reads Revise (1958) / Early version of poetic drama.
Box 1

S.O.S. from Easter Island.

Physical Description: Mimeographed. 59 numbered leaves. In yellow paper binder.

Scope and Content Note

Also: one page of production notes.
Box 2

S.O.S. from Easter Island.

Physical Description: Mostly mimeographed with some holograph pages and extensive holograph corrections, annotations, inserts and notes. In mixed order. 225 leaves.
 

The Atom Clock (play), The Lookout Letter and Other Poems, First Songs and Sonnets

Box 3

The Atom Clock [play]. Hollywood, California. 1950.

Physical Description: Mimeographed with several typed pages inserted. 45 numbered pages. In grey paper covers.

Note

Published by the Fantasy Publishing Company, 1951.
(Another copy catalogued in Special Collections)
Box 3

The Lookout Letter and Other Poems. Georgetown, California. 1950.

Physical Description: Typescript (second carbon). Holograph notations on both sides of last leaf and on inside back cover. 45pp. In tan paper binder.
Box 3

First Songs and Sonnets. A collection of miscellaneous poems, v.p. v.d.

Physical Description: Typescript (partly carbon). 28pp.
 

I, Benedict Arnold: the Anatomy of Treason

Box 2

I, Benedict Arnold: the Anatomy of Treason. 1958.

Physical Description: Typescript (some carbon) with occasional holograph leaves. About 1200 leaves. In mixed order. 2 envelopes.

Scope and Content Note

Outlines and first [3] drafts.
Box 2

I, Benedict Arnold...

Physical Description: Holograph. 64 leaves. In tan notebook with many loose leaves inserted.

Scope and Content Note

First outlines and miscellaneous notes.
Box 4

Lengyel, Cornel Adam. I, Benedict Arnold. Georgetown, California. ca. 1960.

Physical Description: 240, 7 leaves. Typescript with corrections.

Scope and Content Note

Printer's copy.

Note

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1960.
Box 4

___ ____ Another copy.

Physical Description: 81 sheets (231pp.).

Scope and Content Note

Page proofs.