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Title: Claude Fredericks journal and letters
Date (inclusive): circa 1916-1988
Number: 900230C
Creator/Collector:
Fredericks, Claude
Physical Description:
29.5 Linear Feet
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Personal journal (1932-1988) and
correspondence (1944-1988) of the American dramatist, poet, printer and teacher, containing
some 50,000 pages of journal and some 20,000 pages of carbon copies of letters by
Fredericks. This portion of Frederick's archive also includes personal letters from James
Merrill (1950-1988).
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Language: Collection material is in
English
Claude Fredericks was an American dramatist, poet, printer and teacher. He has kept a
journal since 1932; by 1988 it comprised, in its various forms, more than 50,000 pages. He
founded the Banyan Press in 1946 and issued works by major literary figures. The Banyan
Press imprints (see The Banyan Press archive 900230A), his correspondence and journal
document his close friendships with major literary figures of the 1940s and 1950s (see also
Claude Fredericks's papers 900230C). Fredericks died on January 11, 2013.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Claude Fredericks journal and letters, circa 1916-1988, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles, Accession no. 900230C.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa900230c
Acquired in 1990.
Neil Hathaway processed the collection.
Claude Fredericks papers, circa 1850-1988, bulk 1941-1988, Accession no.
900230B.
The Banyan Press archive, 1946-1986, Accession no.
900230A.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises Fredericks's more personal writings and incoming correspondence,
all of his outgoing correspondence (1944-1988), and personal ephemera (1916-1988).
Fredericks kept a journal beginning in 1932; by 1988 it contained, in its various forms
(manuscript pages, notebooks, and typescripts), ca. 50,000 pages. Additional items date from
1916 to 1988 and include ephemera, letters ranging from juvenilia to intimate correspondence
(including letters from James Merrill, 1950-1988 in box 26), Harvard class notes, and
address books. Also included are published sections of Fredericks's journal (1932-1941).
Arranged in 3 series:
Series I.
Journal, 1932-1988;
Series
II. Letters sent, 1944-1988;
Series III. Journal Addenda, 1916-1988.
Merrill, James
Fredericks, Claude
The Journal of Claude Fredericks, Volume One: 1932-1941
Diaries -- 20th century
Correspondence
Juvenilia -- 20th century
Ephemera -- 20th century
Stinehour Press
Merrill, James
Fredericks, Claude