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Author/Creator:Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
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Title:Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers, 1837-1961.
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Physical Description:93 linear ft. (173 boxes) + 5 broadside folders + 9 art objects
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
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Notes:Bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946, with subsequent gifts from Alice B. Toklas, ca. 1946-1967.
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Organization:Organized into nine series: I. Writings, 1894-1947. II. Correspondence of Gertrude Stein, 1893-1946. III. Third Party Letters, 1880-1941. IV. Alice B. Toklas Correspondence, 1946-1961. V. Personal Papers, 1837-1959. VI. Clippings, 1913-1948. VII. Photographs, 1870-1949. VIII. Artworks, 1901-1952. IX. Objects, 1945, n.d.
- Access and use:Box 173: Restricted fragile material. Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. For further information consult the appropriate curator. Painting in folder 4273: Restricted. On permanent loan to the Yale University Art Gallery. For more information please consult the appropriate curator.
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Biographical / Historical note:Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), writer, art collector, and salonniste.
Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), companion and secretary to Gertrude Stein, and writer.
Leo Stein (1872-1947), artist and writer.
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Summary:The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers contain manuscripts of writings, letters, clippings, photographs, artworks, and personal papers relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, and to Gertrude's brother, Leo Stein, an artist and writer. As well as holding the bulk of Stein's literary output (often described as "experimental" or "cubist" writing), the materials document Stein and Toklas' involvement with the literary and art scene in Paris during the first half of the 20th century.
Series I, Writings, contains holograph and typescript drafts of the majority of Gertrude Stein's writings, including "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," "The Making of Americans" (complete with a quantity of notes, or "studies"), "Tender Buttons" and a group of unpublished fragments and carnets, notebooks kept by Stein with preliminary drafts of writings.
Series II, Correspondence of Gertrude Stein, contains letters sent from a wide variety of Stein's friends: artists such as Georges Bracque, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso; writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Thornton Wilder; and acquaintances through many years such as Mildred Aldrich, Etta and Claribel Cone, Robert Haas, Mabel Dodge Luhan,Sir Francis Rose, Virgil Thomson, and Carl Van Vechten. Series III,Third Party Letters, and Series IV, Alice B. Toklas Correspondence, contain letters from many of the same people, the latter group containing Alice Toklas's correspondence following Gertrude Stein's death.
Series V, Personal Papers, and Series VI, Clippings, gather together various personal affects of Stein and Toklas as well as documentation of Stein's life as reported during her lifetime.
Series VII, Photographs, show Stein from early childhood through 1946, the year she died. Prints showing Alice Toklas, various friends, artworks, and locales are included in this series, as are several volumes of prints made by Carl Van Vechten.
Series VIII and IX contain numerous artworks and objects given by Stein and Toklas. Included here are a painting by Pablo Picasso and a sketch by Henri Matisse.
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Other formats:Available on microfilm from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Format:Archives or Manuscripts
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
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Cite as:Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Subjects:Man Ray, 1890-1976.
Acton, Harold, 1904-1994.
Aldrich, Mildred, 1853-1928.
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.
Balmain, Pierre, 1914-1982.
Barney, Natalie Clifford.
Barry, Joseph, 1917-1994.
Beach, Sylvia.
Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980.
Bérard, Christian, 1902-1949.
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959.
Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972.
Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron, 1883-1950.
Bonney, Thérèse, 1894-1978.
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939.
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963.
Breon, John, 1923-1984.
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-1998.
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956.
Brooks, Romaine.
Brown, Bob, 1886-1959.
Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952.
Bruce, Patrick Henry, 1881-1936.
Bryher, 1894-1983.
Burnett, Whit, 1899-1973.
Buss, Kate.
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987.
Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971.
Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller.
Church, Ralph Withington.
Coates, Robert M. (Robert Myron), 1897-1973.
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966.
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Cone, Claribel, 1864-1929.
Cone, Etta.
Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974.
Crevel, René, 1900-1935.
Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947.
Daniel-Rops, Henri, 1901-1965.
Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952.
Delaunay, Robert, 1885-1941.
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935.
Draper, Muriel, 1886-1952.
Dufy, Raoul, 1877-1953.
Duncan, Elizabeth.
Duncan, Raymond, 1874-1966.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Escholier, Raymond, 1882-1971.
Evans, Donald, 1884-1921.
Faÿ, Bernard, 1893-1978.
Fellowes, Daisy.
Flanner, Janet, 1892-1978.
Ford, Charles Henri.
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.
Fort, Paul, 1872-1960.
Gibb, Henry Phelan.
Gorer, Geoffrey, 1905-1985.
Gramont, Elisabeth de, 1875-1954.
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
Gris, Juan, 1887-1927.
Grosser, Maurice, 1903-1986.
Guevara, Alvaro, 1894-1951.
Haas, Robert Bartlett.
Hapgood, Hutchins, 1869-1944.
Harper, Allanah, 1904-1992.
Harrison, Gilbert A.
Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943.
Haweis, Stephen, 1878-1969.
Heap, Jane, 1883-1964.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Hopwood, Avery, 1882-1928.
Hubbell, Lindley Williams, 1901-1994.
Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964.
Hugnet, Georges, 1906-1974.
Imbs, Bravig, 1904-1946.
Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991.
Jacob, Max, 1876-1944.
Jolas, Eugène, 1894-1952.
Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry, 1884-1979.
King, Georgiana Goddard, 1871-1939.
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996.
Knoblauch, May Bookstaver.
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984.
Korzybski, Alfred, 1879-1950.
Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966.
La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold), 1873-1961.
Lane, John, 1854-1925.
Lascaux, Élie, 1888-1968.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997.
Laurencin, Marie, 1883-1956.
Leiris, Michel, 1901-1990.
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949.
Leyris, Pierre.
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962.
Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955.
Maar, Dora.
Masson, André, 1896-1987.
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954.
Maurer, Alfred Henry, 1868-1932.
McAlmon, Robert, 1896-1956.
McBride, Henry, 1867-1962.
Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway, 1891-1979.
Nadelman, Elie, 1882-1946.
Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953.
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
Richards, Grant, 1872-1948.
Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959.
Rogers, W. G. (William Garland), 1896-1978.
Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979.
Rosenshine, Annette, 1880-1971.
Ross, Marvin C. (Marvin Chauncey), 1904-1977.
Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
Schwab, Raymond.
Scudder, Janet, 1873-
Sears, William Paul, 1902-
Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970.
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
Stein, Leo, 1872-1947.
Stein, Michael, 1865-1938.
Steward, Samuel M.
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.
Sutherland, Donald, 1915-1978.
Tal-Coat, Pierre.
Tanner, Allen, 1898-1987.
Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957.
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
Toklas, Alice B.
Tonny, Kristians, 1907-1977.
Ullman, Eugene Paul, 1877-1953.
Vallotton, Félix, 1865-1925.
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
Villard, Léonie.
Vollard, Ambroise, 1867-1939.
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
Wilcox, Wendell.
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969.
Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Four Seas Company.
Hockaday School (Dallas, Tex.)
American literature--20th century.
Americans--France--History--20th century.
Art and literature.
Art, Modern--20th century.
Authors, American--20th century--Archives.
Cubism and literature.
Literature, Experimental.
Modernism (Literature)
Women authors, American--20th century.
Paris (France)--Intellectual life.
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Genre/Form:Paintings (visual works)
Photographic prints.
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Occupation:Authors.
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