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    • Author/Creator:Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964.
    • Title:Sara and Gerald Murphy papers, 1854-2005.
    • Physical Description:75.89 linear feet (203 boxes) + 21 broadside, 33 cold storage, 1 record album storage, 1 art, 2 roll.
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      • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
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        Folder 1546 (Broadside)  Shelved at BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
        Box 172  Shelved at BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
        Folder 1547 (Broadside)  Shelved at BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
        196 (Cold Storage)  Shelved at BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
        Box 205  Shelved at BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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        169 (Record Album Storage)  Shelved at BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
        Box 219 (Art)  Shelved at BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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      • Call Number: YCAL MSS 468
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Library Has: Boxes 20, 44-52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62-65, 67-83, 87, 93-97, 105, 120, 142-168, 169 (Record album storage), 170, 172, Boxes 205-206, Folders 1528-1547 (Broadside), Folders 1549-1550 (Roll), Boxes 219 (Art), 222 (Art)-225 (Art), 228 (Oversize), 230 (Art), 235.
       
    • Notes:In English.
      Acquired by gift and purchase from John Donnelly, Laura Donnelly, and William Donnelly, 2008-2016.
    • Organization:Organized into eleven series: I. Correspondence, 1911-1980. II. Personal Papers, 1884-1962. III. Photographs, 1880-1990s. IV. Artwork, 1897-1928. V. Objects, 1915-1967. VI. Audiovisual Material, 1932-1999. VII. Honoria Murphy Donnelly Papers, 1925-2003. VIII. Patrick Francis & Anna Elizabeth Ryan Murphy Papers, 1863-1931. IX. Wiborg Family Papers, 1854-1930. X. Additions Since 2011, 1880s-2005. XI. January 2016 Acquisition, circa 1850s-1997.
    • Access and use:This material is open for research. Boxes 170-171, 199-204 and 220: Restricted fragile material. Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. For further information consult the appropriate curator. Boxes 93-97, 169, 229-230 and 173-198, 237 (audiovisual material): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
    • Biographical / Historical note:Gerald Murphy (1888-1964), painter and businessman, and Sara Wiborg Murphy (1883-1975) were wealthy American expatriates in Paris and Antibes, France, during the 1920s and early 1930s. Gerald and Sara had a passionate interest in the currents of art, literature, and music of the period, and their home in Antibes, Villa America, was a salon for artists and writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Igor Stravinsky, and Cole Porter.
    • Summary:The collection consists of the personal and family papers of Gerald and Sara Murphy, including material created and accumulated by Gerald and Sara, their children Baoth, Patrick, and Honoria, and the Wiborg family. The collection documents the Murphy's unconventional and artistic lifestyle and their role in the American expatriate community in Paris and Antibes, France during the 1920s and early 1930s, as well as their personal connections with artists and writers of the Modernist period. Also found is material relating to Gerald's father, Patrick Francis Murphy, and his stewardship of the leather goods company, Mark Cross.
      Correspondents include: Jay Allen, Carlos Baker, Robert Benchley, John Peale Bishop, Camille Bombois, Charles and Elizabeth Brackett, William C. Bullitt, Stella Campbell, John and Katy Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, Brendan Gill, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Sheila Hibben, Charles Lederer, Fernand Legér, Archibald MacLeish, Marcelle Meyer, John O'Hara, Harold Ober, Dorothy Parker, Maxwell Perkins, Cole Porter, Jeffrey Potter, Dawn Powell, Berton Roueché, Charles Scribner, Gilbert Seldes, Bobby Short, Donald Ogden Stewart, Andrew Turnbull, Edmund Wilson, Alexander Woollcott, and Monty Woolley.
      Material includes general and family correspondence; photographic prints and albums depicting the Murphys, their children, their families, and their friends, including Pablo Picasso, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, John and Katy Dos Passos, and Archibald and Ada MacLeish, among others, at the Murphy residence, Villa America, and other places; notebooks, journals, and diaries of Gerald, Sara, Patrick, and Honoria Murphy, and Frank Wiborg; sketches and artwork by Gerald, Sara, Patrick, and Boath; three-dimensional objects, including Mark Cross leather goods; printed material, such as clippings and publications featuring articles about the Murphys, and exhibition and auction catalogs featuring the work of Gerald Murphy; motion picture film documenting the Murphys in Europe and East Hampton in the 1930s; and other personal effects.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
    • Cite as:Sara and Gerald Murphy Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
    • Subjects:Allen, Jay.
      Baker, Carlos, 1909-1987.
      Benchley, Robert, 1889-1945.
      Bishop, John Peale, 1892-1944.
      Bombois, Camille, 1883-1970.
      Brackett, Charles, 1892-1969.
      Brackett, Elizabeth.
      Bullitt, William C. (William Christian), 1891-1967.
      Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940.
      Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
      Dos Passos, Katharine, -1947.
      Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
      Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948.
      Flanner, Janet, 1892-1978.
      Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997.
      Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984.
      Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
      Hibben, Sheila, 1888-1964.
      Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976.
      Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955.
      MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.
      Meyer, Marcelle.
      Murphy, Baoth.
      Murphy, Esther, 1898-1962.
      Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964.
      Murphy, Honoria.
      Murphy, Patrick, 1858-1931.
      Murphy, Patrick, 1920-1936.
      Murphy, Sara.
      Ober, Harold, 1881-1959.
      O'Hara, John, 1905-1970.
      Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967.
      Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947.
      Porter, Cole, 1891-1964.
      Potter, Jeffrey.
      Powell, Dawn.
      Roueché, Berton, 1911-1994.
      Scribner, Charles, 1854-1930.
      Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970.
      Short, Bobby.
      Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1894-1980.
      Turnbull, Andrew, 1921-1970.
      Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
      Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943.
      Woolley, Monty, 1888-1963.
      Viborg family.
      Mark Cross.
      American literature--20th century.
      Americans--France--History--20th century.
      Art, American--20th century.
      Art, Modern--20th century.
      Modernism (Art)
      Modernism (Literature)
      Painters--United States.
    • Genre/Form:Audiovisual materials.
      Motion pictures (visual works)
      Photographs.
    • Also listed under:Murphy, Sara.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8163519