Descriptive Summary
Agee, James,
1909-1955
James Agee Collection
1928-1969
TXRC98-A10
14 boxes (5.83 linear feet),
7 galley folders, 2 oversize flat files
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
University of Texas at Austin
James Agee began writing
short stories and poems in high school and by the time he graduated from
Harvard he was able to launch a fully-fledged writing career which included
novels and screenplays. This collection contains a large and diverse sampling
of his works including novels, articles and reviews, several posthumously
published collections, and a small amount of correspondence.
English.
Biographical Sketch
James Rufus Agee was born on November 17, 1909, in Knoxville, Tennessee,
the first of two children. His father, Hugh James Agee, was from rugged farming
stock in the mountainous backwoods of Tennessee while Laura Tyler, his mother,
had a more educated and artistic background. Her mother, Agee's grandmother,
was among the first women to graduate from the University of Michigan.
Throughout his life Agee was very aware of the contradictions of this twofold
heritage. His mother was a devout Episcopalian and sheltered Agee whereas his
father introduced adventure and pleasures such as going to the movies and
taking his son to the pubs afterward. As a result, Agee was both timid and
daring as a child. The death of Agee's father in an automobile accident in May
1916 was a major turning point in his life.
After vacationing near Sewanee, Tennessee, in the summer of 1918, Agee's
mother decided to relocate there and enrolled her son at Saint Andrew's, an
Episcopalian boarding school, which he attended from 1919-1924. Her reasoning
was that it would allow him to be more in the company of men and would provide
the religious training and education she felt was important. It had the effect,
however, of causing Agee to feel not only cut off from the companionship of his
father, but now from his mother as well. It was at Saint Andrew's that Agee
formed the close ties with Father James Herold Flye that were to last a
lifetime. Agee attended Knoxville High School for the 1924-25 school year and
after a trip to Europe with Father Flye in the summer of 1925, he enrolled at
Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, where his interest in writing
first began. Among his writings for the
Exeter Monthly were twelve short stories,
nine poems, several articles and reviews, and four plays.
Agee attended Harvard from 1928 to 1932 where he became increasingly
committed to a literary career. He began to write poems, short stories, and
articles for the Harvard
Lampoon, the
Crimson, and the
Harvard Advocate. He first joined the
editorial board in 1919 as an associate editor of the
Advocate, and by 1921, became
editor-in-chief. His parody of
Time in the March 1921 issue of the
Advocate was highly acclaimed. In fact, it
was this article on
Time which attracted Henry Luce, and
resulted in an offer to write for
Fortune. He accepted, thinking his
journalistic career would be brief, but it lasted for more than fifteen years.
Agee was constantly in despair that he may have sacrificed his own creative
efforts for the demands a journalistic style imposed. However, his book of
poetry,
Permit Me Voyage, was published in 1934 as
part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
In 1936, on assignment for
Fortune, Agee and photographer Walker Evans
went to Alabama to do a story on tenant farmers. By the time the project was
finished three years later Agee had enough material for a book, which was
published in 1941 as
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Considered a
failure at that time, it is now generally considered an original masterpiece.
While working on
Famous Men, Agee began reviewing books for
Time in 1938, which soon expanded to films,
and in 1941 he began a weekly column on film for
The Nation, both projects ending in 1948.
His most well known piece of criticism was
Comedy's Greatest Era, published in 1949 in
Life magazine, in which Agee extolled the
era of silent movies. After 1948 Agee wrote principally film scripts and
fiction. He wrote several screenplays and one full-length original script,
Noa-Noa, based upon the journals of Paul
Gauguin, which was never produced. Most well known is his work on
The African Queen, which he wrote in
collaboration with John Huston.
Agee's autobiographical novel,
The Morning Watch (1951), is a tale about a
young boy's experiences on a Good Friday morning while attending a boarding
school, reminiscent of his own Good Friday activities. In
A Death in the Family (1957), also
autobiographical, Agee was finally able to write about the experience of a
father's death and the reactions of various family members. Agee suffered a
series of heart attacks beginning in 1951 and did not complete the novel for
publication before his death. He began work on the screenplay, A Tanglewood
Story, in 1954 but was unable to finish it, and several other projects he had
begun, before his death from a heart attack on May 16, 1955. He was
posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1957 for
A Death in the Family.
Scope and Contents
The James Agee Collection contains 14 boxes of primarily manuscripts,
with a slight amount of correspondence, ranging in date from 1928-1969, with
the bulk covering the period before his death in 1955. The later dates reflect
posthumous collections of his works. The material is arranged in three series:
I. Works, 1928-1968 (10.5 boxes), II. Correspondence, 1930-1955 (.7 box), and
III. Miscellaneous, 1936-1969 (2.8 boxes). Within each series the material is
arranged alphabetically by title or author. This collection was previously
accessible only through a card catalog, but has been re-cataloged as part of a
retrospective conversion project.
The Works series consists of holographs, typescripts and carbon copy
typescripts of books, articles, plays, poems, reviews, stories, and
screenplays. Included are holographs and typescripts of Agee's novels,
A Death in the Family (published
posthumously in 1957),
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), written
with Walker Evans, and his shorter novel,
The Morning Watch (1950). Also present are
typescripts of a collection of his short prose entitled
Collected Short Prose of James Agee (1969),
edited by Robert Fitzgerald.
His poetry is represented as well with typescripts of
Collected Poems of James Agee (1968), edited
by Robert Fitzgerald, a proof copy of
Permit Me Voyage and Other Poems (1934), and
typescripts of several poems. Holographs, typescripts, and carbon copy
typescripts of several of Agee's screenplays are also in this collection, such
as
The African Queen,
The Blue Hotel,
Magia Verde,
Night of the Hunter,
Noa-Noa, Scientists and Tramps, A Tanglewood
Story, The Touch of Nutmeg, and
Undirectable Director. In addition, there
are typescripts of a television play,
Mr. Lincoln, and a holograph draft of
The Quiet One, a commentary for a
documentary film. Numerous reviews of books and films written for
Time and
The Nation are grouped together under the
heading
Reviews.
The Correspondence series consists mainly of letters relating to Agee's
work. Outgoing letters include correspondence to director David Bradley
regarding his screenplay for
Noa-Noa; 47 letters to Walker Evans,
photographer and co-author of
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; and letters to
Archibald MacLeish (
Fortune) and T.S. Matthews (
Time). Incoming correspondence includes a
contract from Gregory Associates, Inc. for writing the screenplay,
Night of the Hunter, and letters from
Margaret Marshall of
The Nation. Correspondents are indexed at
the end of this inventory.
The Miscellaneous series contains correspondence from Agee; a book
review by Harvey Breit; articles by George Barbarow on the cinema and Roberto
Rossellini, and by John MacDonald on
The State of the Movies; typescripts of John
Collier's
The Touch of Nutmeg; two versions of a play
by Tad Mosel based on the Agee novel,
A Death in the Family; two copies of a
screenplay,
All the Way Home, also based on
A Death in the Family, by Philip Reisman,
Jr.; a thesis on Agee by Joan Shelley Rubin, and an address by Robert
Fitzgerald given at the dedication banquet of the James Agee Memorial Library
at Saint Andrew's School, as well as letters to Robert Fitzgerald regarding
publication of his book on Agee from Houghton Mifflin Company. Included also is
a bound galley proof of
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years
by Stanislaus Joyce; and correspondence from and concerning Laura Tyler
Wright, Agee's mother.
Elsewhere in the Center are two Vertical File folders which contain
reviews of Agee's books and articles about his life. In the Walker Evans
collection in the Photography Collection are 70 published and 100 unpublished
documentary portraits, landscapes, and other images made in Alabama in 1936 to
illustrate Agee's book
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The Art
Collection houses thirteen sketches by Agee.
Acquisition
Purchases and gifts, 1964-1997 (R1975, R1976, R2163, R4149, R4289,
R4498, R7152, R7504, R8356, R11583, R11703, R12737, R13925, G5081, G8086)
Access
Open for research, with the exception of a group of restricted
correspondence which is sealed until such time as a) Patricia Scallon
Fitzgerald is deceased, or b) until her permission is secured to open them, or
c) until fifty (50) years from year of acquisition, 1989, whichever first
occurs.
Processed by
Sally M. Nichols, 1998
Index Terms
Correspondents
Evans, Walker,
1903-1975
Fitzgerald, Robert,
1910-
Kaufman, George S. (George
Simon), 1889-1961
Kracauer, Siegfried,
1889-1966
MacGowan, Kenneth,
1888-1963
MacLeish, Archibald,
1892-
Matthews, T.S. (Thomas
Stanley), 1901-
Newhall, Beaumont,
1908-
Phelps, Robert,
1922-
Rodman, Selden,
1909-
Subjects
Authors, American--20th
century
Moving pictures
Novelists, American--20th
century
Document Types
Christmas cards
Contracts
Galley proofs
Post cards
Screenplays
Sources
Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 2
(Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1978).
Doty, Mark A.
Tell Me Who I Am (Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 1981).
Moreau, Genevieve.
The Restless Journey of James Agee (New
York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1977).
James Agee Collection--Folder List
Series I. Works,
1928-1968
1
1
Unidentified article:
In the summer 1945 issue of
<emph render="italic">The Sewanee Review...,</emph>
holograph with
revisions,
nd,
6pp
1
2
Unidentified fragments, holograph signed with corrections,
nd,
31pp
1
3
Unidentified or Untitled
Unidentified play,
nd,
7pp
Unidentified play,
nd,
2pp
Unidentified story:
All through the night...,
nd,
9pp
Unidentified story:
1928 story,
1928,
20pp
Unidentified story: outlines and notes,
nd,
13pp
Untitled article: I have been
invited to write an article for this American issue of
Horizon about American moving
pictures...,
nd,
2pp
Untitled article on war films,
nd,
2pp
Untitled notes for a romantic film,
nd,
2pp
Untitled poem:
There is a pleasant land...,
nd,
1p
1
4
A-Ab
A..., poem,
nd,
1p
About Charles Fort, article,
nd,
5pp
The absolute fundamental: it is democratic..., article,
nd,
5pp
The African Queen, by C.S. Forester;
adapted for the screen by James Agee
1
5-6
Holograph/working draft with revisions,
1950,
111pp
2
1
Typescript and carbon copy typescript with revisions,
1950-1951,
170pp
2
2
Carbon copy typescript with revisions,
1951,
74pp
2
3
Ditto film script,
1952,
63pp
2
4
At-Be
At a certain clearly definable moment, all that has been
discussed in this issue of Fortune..., article,
nd,
4pp
Before God and This Company; or
Bigger than We Are, story,
nd,
5pp
2
5
The Blue Hotel, by Stephen Crane,
screenplay, notes,
1948,
6pp
2
6
Candide. Dialogue and lyrics for...,
play,
nd,
9pp
2
7
Christmas 1945, article,
nd, 13pp;
nd, 6pp
Collected Poems of James Agee
(1968), edited and with an introduction by Robert
Fitzgerald
3
1-5
Typescript and printed pages with corrections; marginal
notes on photocopied pages,
1968,
201pp
Page proofs,
nd,
30pp
[removed to Oversize Flat Files]
Page proofs with corrections and editor's notes,
1968, 63 pp;
1968, 63 pp;
nd, 59 pp
[removed to Galley Files, three folders]
Collected Short Prose of James Agee
(1969), edited and with a memoir by Robert Fitzgerald
3
6-7
Typescript, photocopied typescript, and printed pages
with corrections and notes,
1968,
349pp
Galley and page proofs with corrections and notes, all
1968:
86pp; 78 pp; 33 pp; 77 pp; 32 pp
[removed to Galley Files, three folders]
Comedy's greatest era, article in
Life Magazine,
1949
3
8
Typescript with inserts,
33pp
3
9
Typescript and carbon copy typescript,
54pp
3
10
Carbon copy typescript with corrections,
32pp
3
11
Carbon copy typescript,
2pp
A Death in the Family (1957),
novel
4
1-2
Typescript with revisions and notes,
nd,
314 pp
4
3-4
Photocopy typescript with revisions,
nd,
366pp
4
5
Typescript/draft fragment with revisions and
corrections,
nd,
89pp
5
1
Holograph notes signed,
1948, 17pp;
nd, 6pp
5
2
Holograph/working draft with corrections,
1948,
94pp
5
3
Holograph/working draft with corrections,
1948,
201pp
6
1
De-Di
Dedication Day, article,
nd,
81pp
A Dirge for Two Veterans, poem,
nd,
2pp
6
2
Double take, article,
nd,
3pp
6
3
Dreams, article,
1944,
2pp
6
4
Epithalamium (1930), poem,
nd,
5pp
6
5
The father of the automobile dies (1947),
nd,
38pp
6
6
H-If gasping
H.G. Wells, article,
Aug. 19,
2pp
He shall kill his father; marry his
mother,play,
nd,
11pp
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by
Carson McCullers, projected film treatment,
nd,
3pp
I have a very high opinion of the value of the
project..., article,
nd,
3pp
If, gasping but victorious, he...,
poem,
nd,
1p
6
7
If in that darkness where still a little
while..., poem,
nd,
8pp
6
8
In an extremely interesting article in the current issue
of
Chimera...,
nd,
3pp
6
9
India was enjoying a breathing spell..., article,
nd,
1p
6
10
It is not fair, article,
nd,
3pp
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941),
by James Agee and Walker Evans
6
11
Holograph notebook,
nd,
40pp
6
12-15
Typescript and carbon copy typescript with corrections,
nd,
283pp
6
16
Typescript notes and appendices with corrections and
notes,
nd, 26pp; holograph page plan,
1937, 15pp; holograph preface,
nd, 1p
6
17
Limelight, film by Charles Chaplin,
notes,
nd,
2pp
6
18
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare,
outline of an adaptation,
nd,
11pp
6
19
Magia Verde, screenplay,
1953,
22pp
6
20
Man-Mar
Man's Fate, by Malraux, proposed
film treatment,
nd,
7pp
Marx, I agree..., poem,
nd,
1p
Mr. Lincoln, television
play
7
1
Mimeograph and photocopy of mimeograph,
1952,
168pp
7
2
Mimeograph, with inserts, episode three,
1952,
32pp
7
3
Typescript and mimeograph with notes and corrections,
1952,
68pp
7
4
Mimeograph with carbon copy inserts, with corrections,
episode four,
1952,
36pp, 21pp
7
5
Holograph synopsis and miscellaneous pages,
1952,
66pp
The Morning Watch (1950),
novel
7
6
Typescript and carbon copy typescript notes with
corrections,
nd,
3pp
7
7
Holograph draft with revisions,
nd,
45pp
7
8
Holograph pages of incomplete drafts,
nd,
34pp
7
9
Typescript and carbon copy typescript miscellaneous
pages with corrections,
nd,
16pp
7
10
A Mother's Tale (1952), story,
nd,
30pp
7
11
Mo-Mz
Movie reviews for
The Nation,
nd,
7pp
The moving pictures I have not managed to see this
year..., article,
nd,
6pp
8
1
Native Ground, note,
nd,
1p
8
2
Night of the Hunter, film,
instructions and master titles,
1955,
72pp
Noa-Noa, screenplay
8
3
Holograph draft with revisions,
1953,
120pp
8
4
Carbon copy typescript,
1953,
53pp
8
5
Noi-Nz
The noise we make when things are
fun..., poem,
nd,
1p
Notes and suggestions on the magazine under discussion,
article,
nd,
8pp
November 1945, poem,
nd
2pp
8
6
Permit Me Voyage and Other Poems
(1934), proof copy,
1968,
193pp
Piece for the New York Times
8
7
Holograph draft with corrections,
nd,
14pp
8
8
Typescript with corrections,
nd,
5pp
8
9-11
The poems of James Agee and related documents, typescript,
carbon copy typescript, and photocopied typescript, with corrections and notes,
1964,
401pp
8
12
Pop-Pz
Popular Religion, article
Holograph draft with corrections,
nd,
5pp
Carbon copy typescript,
nd,
5pp
[Pound, Ezra]: I have been invited to write a statement
about Ezra Pound..., article,
nd,
3pp
The Pre-Aryan Goddess Kali..., article,
nd,
7pp
Pseudo-Folk, article,
nd,
7pp
Pygmalion, poem,
nd,
4pp
The Quiet One, commentary for
documentary film
9
1
Holograph draft with revisions,
1948, 22pp; holograph supplement,
1948, 7pp; holograph signed with revisions,
1948, 23pp
9
2
Holograph draft with revisions (Wiltwyck movie),
1948,
36pp
9
3
Carbon copy typescript, (Wiltwyck movie),
1948,
24pp
9
4
René Clair, article,
nd,
5pp
Reviews of Books and Films
9
5
A-D
American Fiction, by Joseph
Warren Beach,
1920-1940, nd,
3pp
The Bells of St. Mary's, They Were Expendable, A Walk
in the Sun,
1946,
3pp
The Best Years of Our Lives, Brief
Encounter, Henry V, et al.,
1947
[removed to Galley Files]
The City that Stopped Hitler, Heroic Stalingrad, So
Proudly We Hail, The Adventures of Tartu,
1943,
4pp
The Dark Mirror, The Jolson Story,
et. al.,
1946
[removed to Galley Files]
Day of Wrath,
1948,
3pp
Dear Ruth, Possessed,
1947,
1p
The Doctor and the Devils, by
Dylan Thomas, movie script,
nd,
2pp
9
6
The Enchanted Cottage, The Corn is Green,
1945,
3pp
9
7
F-G
Filmnotes:
The Uninvited, Passage to Marseilles,
Lady in the Dark, et al,
nd,
2pp
The Great Dawn, The Tawny Pipit,
1947,
2pp
Great Expectations,
1947,
1p
Guadalcanal Diary, Flesh and Fantasy, We Will Come
Back, Old Acquaintance,
1943,
2pp
Guadalcanal Diary, We Will Come Back, Old
Acquaintance,
1943,
3pp
9
8
Higher and Higher,
1944,
3pp
9
9
I-It
I Know Where I'm Going, Kiss of Death, The Roosevelt
Story, The Devil's Envoys, Brute Force,
1947
[removed to Galley Files]
Invitation to Learning, by
Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate, and Mark Van Doren;
Reason in Madness, by Allen
Tate; The
New Criticism, by John Crowe
Ransom,
nd,
4pp
It Happened at the Inn, Murder, My Sweet, Cornered,
1946,
3pp
It's a Wonderful Life, Wanted for Murder, Till the
Clouds Roll By,
1946
[removed to Galley Files]
It's in the Bag, Molly and Me, The Unseen
9
10
Holograph,
1945,
2pp
9
11
Carbon copy typescript,
1945,
2pp
9
12
Ivan the Terrible,
1947,
5pp
9
13
Jeannie, Flesh and Fantasy, Johnny Come Lately,
1943,
3pp
9
14
La-Li
The Last Chance, My Name is Julia Ross,
1945,
2pp
Life With Father, The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty, Down to Earth, et.al.,
1947,
2pp
9
15
Lost Angel,
1944,
2pp
Man's Hope,
1947
[removed to Oversize Flat Files]
9
16
Mission to Moscow,
1943,
4pp
Monsieur Verdoux
9
17
Holograph draft with revisions,
1947,
92pp
9
18
Typescript and carbon copy typescript with one
correction,
1947,
11pp
9
19
Mountain Meadow, by John Buchan,
nd,
3pp
The North Star
9
20
Carbon copy typescript with corrections,
1943,
3pp
9
21
Carbon copy typescript,
1943,
10pp
9
22
O-S
Olivier's
Hamlet,
1948,
25pp
Review of two films,
nd,
2pp
Shoeshine,
1947,
25pp
Stones for Bread, by Edwin
Edward Carlile Litsey,
nd,
2pp
9
23
True to Life,
1943,
1p
9
24
Uncle Harry, Over 21, Bewitched,
1945,
3pp
9
25
We Accuse,
nd,
3pp
9
26
We Will Come Back,
1943,
2pp
The Well-Digger's Daughter, To Each His Own,
1946
[removed to Galley Files]
9
27
Wilson,
1944,
5pp
10
1
Sample draft for opening the column (In a recent issue of
PM...),
nd,
4pp
10
2
Scientists and Tramps, screenplay,
1948,
63pp
10
3
Silent Comedy,
nd,
79pp
10
4
So Proudly We Fail, article,
1943,
4pp
10
5
A Soldier Died Today, article,
1945,
5pp
10
6
Story suggestions for Life,
1950,
3pp
A Tanglewood Story, screenplay
10
7
Notes, two carbon copy typescripts,
1954,
46pp each
10
8
Minimal story outline for the Tanglewood film, carbon
copy typescript,
1954,
14pp
10
9
Outline, carbon copy typescript,
1954,
64pp
10
10
Outline, carbon copy typescript,
1954,
99pp
10
11
Holograph draft with revisions,
1954,
29pp
10
12
Revision notes, carbon copy transcript,
1954,
22pp
10
13
Carbon copy typescript with inserts and corrections,
1955,
225pp, 1p, 18pp
10
14
Carbon copy typescript with inserts and corrections,
1955,
184pp, 2pp
11
1
The Touch of Nutmeg, screenplay,
1948-49,
32pp
Undirectable Director, (1950)
article
11
2
Holograph fragments,
nd,
3pp
11
3
Holograph draft with revisions,
1950,
75pp
11
4
Holograph draft with corrections,
1950,
61pp
11
5
Holograph draft with revisions,
1950,
36pp
A Way of Seeing, by Helen
Levitt
11
6
Introduction and conclusion,
nd,
80pp
11
7
Introductory essay,
1946,
18pp, 6pp
11
8
We Soldiers of all Nations Who Lie
Killed..., poem,
nd,
2pp
What's Right with the Movies, article
11
9
Typescript draft fragment and miscellaneous pages,
nd,
30pp
11
10
Carbon copy typescript,
1949,
5pp
Series II. Correspondence,
1930-1955
Outgoing,
1930-1955
11
11
Unidentified; A-E
11
12
Evans, Walker,
1936-1951
11
13
Hecht, Ben,
nd
11
14
Hobson, Wilder,
1936-1938
11
15
Hu-Mac
MacLeish, Archibald
11
16
1937
11
17
1944
11
18
Mar-Matthews
11
19
Matthews, T.S.,
nd
11
20
N-Z
Incoming,
1939-1954
12
1
Unidentified; A-Z
12
2
LeMonnier,
1945, 1946
12
3
Matthews, T.S.,
nd
Series III. Miscellaneous,
1936-1969
12
4
Unidentified authors
Agee, James
12
5-6
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,
correspondence and reviews
12
7
Notebook, holograph,
1948,
10pp
12
8
Notes taken after
Sunset Boulevard
12
9-10
Papers relating to Time, Inc. and Newspaper Guild
relations
12
11
Registration card from the Greensboro Hotel
12
12
Audience Research, Inc., correspondence and survey
response
12
13
Barbarow, George, two articles
Breit, Harvey, Review:
Four Quartets, by T.S.
Eliot
12
14
Holograph, with corrections,
nd,
9pp
12
15
Typescript with notes and comments,
May 8,
9pp
12
16
Collier, John, The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It, carbon copy
typescript,
nd,
10pp
12
17
D-F
12
18
Houghton Mifflin and Company, to Robert Fitzgerald,
1966-1968
12
19
Joyce, Stanislaus,
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early
Years, galley proofs,
nd,
186pp
12
20
K
12
21
MacDonald, John,
The State of the Movies, article,
nd,
8pp
12
22
Mc-Me
Mosel, Tad
13
1
All the Way Home, a play in three
acts; from the novel,
A Death in the Family, mimeograph
typescript,
1960,
149pp
13
2
A Death in the family, a play in
three acts,
nd,
156pp
13
3
Phelps, Robert,
Agee on Film: A Miscellany for David
McDowell, holograph and printed,
1958,
11pp
13
4-5
Reisman, Philip, Jr.,
All the Way Home, two mimeograph
screenplays,
nd,
187pp each
13
6
Rodman, Selden,
1968
14
1
Rubin, Joan Shelley,
An Effort in Human Actuality: James Agee and
the Documentary Writers of the Depression, mimeograph typescript,
1969,
65pp
14
2
Whitney, Dwight, typed mimeograph memorandum to Henry
Luce,
1948,
32pp
14
3
Wright, Laura [Tyler],
1958
14
4
Miscellaneous notes and empty envelopes
James Agee Collection--Index of Correspondents
Index entries followed by the notation (from Agee) indicate people to
whom Agee wrote. Box and folder numbers followed by a number in parenthesis
indicate the number of items by (or to) that person. No parenthetical notation
indicates there is just one item. So in the example
Matthews, T.S. (Thomas Stanley), 1901- --11.13 (2) (1 from Agee), 12.3
(2) there are two items in box 11, folder 13, one from Agee and one from
Matthews; and two items from Matthews in box 12, folder 3.
- Arnold, Jack H.--12.1
- Audience Research, Inc.--12.12
- Bradley, David, 1919-1997--11.11 (6 from Agee)
- Brown, Chamberlain--12.1
- Darrell, Miss--11.11 (from Agee)
- De Moraes, Vinicius--12.1
- East 92nd St. Parking--12.1
- Erskine, Albert--11.11 (from Agee)
- Evans, Walker, 1903-1975-- 11.12 (47 from Agee), 12.17 (4)
- Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910- --12.5-6, 12.17 (7)
- Ford Foundation--7.5
- Gregory Associates, Inc.--12.1
- Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964--11.13 (from Agee)
- Hobson, Wilder, 1906-1964--11.14 (6 from Agee)
-
Horizon (New York, N.Y.)--11.20 (from
Agee) (with Mrs. Steloff)
- Houghton Mifflin and Company--12.10 (11)
- Huston, John, 1906- --11.15 (from Agee)
-
Kaufman, George S. (George Simon),
1889-1961--12.12
-
Kenyon Review--12.12
- Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966--12.1
- Lahn, Ilse--12.14 (with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
- LeMonnier,? --12.2 (2)
- Lewton, Val--11.15 (from Agee)
- Linscott, Robert Newton, 1886- --12.5 (3) (2 from Agee)
- Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967--9.17 (from Agee)
- Macdonald, Dwight--11.15 (from Agee)
- Macgowan, Kenneth, 1888-1963--12.1
- MacLeish, Archibald, 1892- --11.15-17 (3 from Agee)
- Marshall, Margaret (
The Nation)--9.18, 11.18 (from Agee),
12.1 (2)
- Martling, G.E.--12.1
- Matthews, Mr.--11.18 (from Agee)
- Matthews, T.S. (Thomas Stanley), 1901- 11.19 (2) (1 from Agee),
12.3 (2)
- Maxwell, Bill (
New Yorker)--12.1
- McDowell, David--12.14 (3)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer--12.14
- Mt. Washington House (Proprietor)--11.20 (from Agee)
- Newhall, Beaumont, 1908- --12.1
- Oceanic Productions, Inc.--12.1
- Phelps, Robert, 1922- --13.3
- Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974--11.20 (from Agee)
- Rodman, Selden, 1909- --13.6
- Rubin, Joan Shelley, 1947- --14.1
- Saudek, Robert, 1911- --7.5 (from Agee)
- Schoenfeld, Bernard--11.20 (11 from Agee)
- Spivak, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edmund), 1900- --11.20 (from Agee)
- Steloff, Mrs. (
Horizon)--11.20 (from Agee)
- Stevens, George Cooper, 1904- --11.20 (from Agee)
- Stillman, C.L.--11.20 (from Agee), 12.1
- Strauss, Mr.--11.20 (from Agee)
- Time, inc.--12.1
- Tyler, Hugh C.--14.3 (3) (with Wright, Laura)
- Unidentified author Teresa--12.4
- Unidentified recipient--11.11 (2 from Agee)
- Unidentified recipient Bob--7.5 (from Agee)
- Unidentified recipient Dorothy--11.11 (from Agee)
- Unidentified recipient Lloyd--12.1
- Unidentified recipient Robert--11.10 (from Agee)
- Unidentified recipients
Sirs--11.11 (2 from Agee)
- Westrate, Edwin J.--11.20 (from Agee)
- Wright, Laura [Tyler]--14.3
- Zinnemann, Fred, 1907- --10.7 (from Agee), 11.20 (from Agee)