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Steward, Samuel M. Collection of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas material, 1934-1971.
BANC MSS 72/133 c box; BANC MSS 72/133 c positive microfilm
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Collection Overview

Title:

Collection of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas material, 1934-1971

Creator/Contributor:

Steward, Samuel M., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

Creator/Contributor:

Toklas, Alice B.

Abstract:

Twelve letters written to him by Gertrude Stein, 1934-1945; 64 letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1939-1963; MS of Gertrudes Stein's opera libretto, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (carbon typescript, with emendations in Miss Stein's hand); photocopy of MS of a poem written by Miss Stein on Steward's birthday, 1939; photocopy of MS of Steward's reminiscences of his friendship with the two women, A Love Letter to Gertrude and Alice, completed in 1971 (166 l.); Gertrude Stein's handprint made by Steward.
Included also is a copy of his novel, Angels on the Bough, mentioned in Everybody's Autobiography and in Steward's MS.
The letters and the Stein MS are also on film. Snapshots taken by Steward in 1937 on his visit to Belignin and in the 1950s when he visited Miss Toklas in Paris have been transferred to the Pictorial Collection.

Date:

1934 (issued)

Subject:

Authors, American
Women authors

Note:

64 letters from Alice B. Toklas : also available on an additional partial microfilm reel (negative [Rich. 627:9] and positive [X-X 16 FILM]).
12 letters written to him by Gertrude Stein, 1934-1945; 64 letters from Alice b. Toklas, 1939-1963; Ms. of Gertrude Stein's opera libretto, "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" : also available on microfilm.
Poem by Gertrude Stein on Samuel M. Steward's 1939 birthday : photoreproduction.
Gertrude Stein's opera libretto, Doctor Faustus lights the lights, with emendations in Ms. Steins's hand : carbon typescript.
Samuel M. Steward's reminiscences of his friendship with Ms.
Location of originals unknown.
FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited.
Photographs transferred to the Bancroft Pictorial Collection (BANC PIC 1972.017--PIC)

Physical Description:

1 box.
1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 615:7) and positive.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 72/133 c box
BANC MSS 72/133 c positive microfilm

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited.