Research Catalog

Title

Annie Laurie Williams records, 1922-1971

Author

Williams, Annie Laurie, 1894-1977

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

91

Summary

• Correspondence files and financial papers. The files include correspondence, contracts, clippings and programs, ledgers and financial accounts, submission books, and calendars and memorandum books. Authors for whom there are extensive files include the following: Truman Capote; Patrick Dennis; John Dos Passos; Lloyd C. Douglas; John Hersey; Alice Tisdale Hobart; Paul Horgan; William Humphrey; Frances Parkinson Keyes; Margaret Mitchell; Alan Paton; Kenneth Roberts; Lillian Smith; John Steinbeck; George R. Stewart; Ben Ames Williams; and Kathleen Winsor
• 1985 addition: Steinbeck's jeans and Mexican belt worn by Bruce Covert in the 1939 production of OF MICE AND MEN.

Subjects

• Short stories
• Programs (documents)
• Outlines (documents)
• Notebooks
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Lists (document genres)
• Ledgers (account books)
• Contracts
• Checks (bank checks)
• Accounts
• Actors
• Authors, English > 20th century
• Theater > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• Financial records
• Gassner, John, 1903-1967
• Meredith, Burgess, 1907-1997
• Luce, Claire
• Douglas, Lloyd C (Lloyd Cassel), 1877-1951
• Authors and publishers > United States > 20th century
• Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949
• Auslander, Joseph, 1897-1965
• Hersey, John, 1914-1993
• Stewart, George R
• Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954
• Novelists, English > 20th century > Correspondence
• MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
• Brown, Joe E (Joe Evan), 1892-1973
• Songs
• Scripts (documents)
• Williams, Ben Ames, 1889-1953
• Litvinov, Ivy
• Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990
• Essays
• Musicians
• Dowling, Eddie
• Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979
• Poems
• Phonograph records
• Kazan, Elia
• Literary agents
• Hobart, Alice Tisdale, 1882-1967
• Photographs
• Theatrical agents
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
• Women dramatists
• Humphrey, William
• Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961
• Logan, Joshua
• Actresses
• Articles
• Henreid, Paul
• Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
• Women novelists
• Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
• American literature > 20th century
• Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
• Theatrical producers and directors
• Golden, Harry, 1902-1981
• Lyricists
• Dennis, Patrick, 1921-1976
• Rose, Billy, 1899-1966
• Wagner, Robert F (Robert Ferdinand), 1910-1991
• Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
• Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959
• Kaufman, George S (George Simon), 1889-1961
• Rockefeller, Nelson A (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
• Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1885-1970
• Selznick, David O., 1902-1965
• Authors, American > 20th century
• Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia) 1897-1966
• Composers
• Calendars (documents)
• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
• Card files
• Fiction (general genre)
• Russell, Rosalind
• Evans, Maurice, 1901-1989
• Winsor, Kathleen
• Novelists, American > 20th century > Correspondence
• Dramatists
• Moore, Douglas, 1893-1969
• Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
• Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
• Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
• Horgan, Paul, 1903-1995
• Ritchard, Cyril, 1897-1977
• Synopses
• Screenplays
• English literature > 20th century
• Lee, Harper
• Paton, Alan
• Galley proofs
• Cashbooks
• Authors
• Interviews
• Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 1909-2000
• Audiotapes
• Novelists
• Ferrer, José, 1912-1992
• Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965
• Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957

Genre/Form

• Articles
• Accounts
• Audiotapes
• Calendars (documents)
• Card files
• Cashbooks
• Checks (bank checks)
• Contracts
• Essays
• Fiction (general genre)
• Financial records
• Galley proofs
• Interviews
• Ledgers (account books)
• Lists (document genres)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Notebooks
• Outlines (documents)
• Phonograph records
• Photographs
• Poems
• Programs (documents)
• Screenplays
• Scripts (documents)
• Short stories
• Synopses

Access (note)

• Cataloged correspondence boxes 1-20 and 5A, Steinbeck materials, and books from the collection are located on-site. Boxes 21-210 are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
• This collection has no restrictions.

Cite As (note)

• Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Annie Laurie Williams Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Original Location (note)

• Pearl S. Buck letter is on: microfilm.
• John Steinbeck correspondence and his manuscripts of "The New Order" and "The Wizard of Maine" are on: microfilm.
• John Steinbeck manuscripts of "Cannery Row" and "Of Mice and Men" are on: microfilm.
• Steinbeck, John "The Last Joan", New York, 1948, acting script - Burgess Meredith's copy. From Box 15-Cataloged Manuscripts is on: microfilm. [#2005-1030].

Terms of Use (note)

• Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Source (note)

• Records: Source of acquisition--Williams, Annie Laurie. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1971. Accession number--M-1971.
• Newsletter: Source of acquisition--Steinbeck Society of Japan. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--07/31/1995. Accession number--M-95-07-31.

Biography (note)

• New York drama and motion picture agent who founded her firm in 1929.

Provenance (note)

• Gift of Annie Laurie Williams, 1971-1974.
• Gift of Bruce Covert, 1985.

Processing Action (note)

• Records Entered in AMC 12/05/1990.
• Newsletter processed HR 10/09/1998.

OCLC

• 430336937
• ocn430336937
• SCSB-4798123

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries