Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#3418
BURTON EMMETT PAPERS
Summary
Emmett, Burton, 1871-1935.
Papers, 1888-1939.
260 items.
In part, typed transcriptions and microfilm.
Emmett was an advertising copywriter and executive in New York City. He
collected woodcuts, prints, engravings, and literary manuscripts, and was
president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in the 1920s.
Correspondence concerning Emmett's collecting activities and his work with
the American Institute of Graphic Arts; handwritten and typed versions of
poems, plays, and other works by various authors; and miscellaneous other
items. Correspondence includes about fifty letters, 1926-1935 and undated,
to Emmett from his close friend, Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), and one or
two letters from Robert Louis Stevenson (1850- 1894), Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961), Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Booth
Tarkington (1869-1946), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Willa Cather
(1873-1947), Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), Owen Wister (1860-1938),
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), Christopher Morley (1890- 1957), Thornton
Wilder (1897-1975), Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), and Rockwell Kent
(1882-1971). Works by authors include a playscript each by Thornton Wilder
and Lewis Ely, two poems by Robinson Jeffers, an untitled poem beginning
"In the night..." by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), a speech by Sherwood
Anderson, and stories and a poem by Christopher Morley. Other items
include typed transcriptions of eight letters, 1925 and undated, from
Ernest Hemingway to Ernest Walsh (1895-1926); a photograph purportedly
picturing Aubrey Beardsley; two reels of microfilm of drafts of works by
Sherwood Anderson and other items relating to Anderson, originals of which
were apparently transferred in 1954 or 1955 from the Library of the
University of North Carolina to the Newberry Library, Chicago; and a
scrapbook of Northwestern University memorabilia, 1888-1890, compiled by
Emmett.
Purchase, 1951.
Microfilm copy available of original Sherwood Anderson letters in this
collection.
ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
American drama--20th century.
American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941--Correspondence.
Artists--United States--History--20th century.
Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898--Portraits.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Correspondence.
Collectors and collecting--New York (State)--New York.
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900--Manuscripts.
Dramatists, American--20th century--Correspondence.
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945--Correspondence.
Ely, Lewis B.--Manuscripts.
Emmett, Burton, 1871-1935.
Engraving--Collectors and collecting--New York (State)--New York.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Correspondence.
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962--Correspondence.
Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971--Correspondence.
Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--New York (State)--New York.
Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957--Correspondence.
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)--History.
Novelists, American--20th century--Correspondence.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953--Correspondence.
Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966--Correspondence.
Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence.
Poets, English--20th century--Correspondence.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Correspondence.
Prints--Collectors and collecting--New York (N.Y.).
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935--Correspondence.
Scrapbooks--Illinois.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894--Correspondence.
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946--Correspondence.
Walsh, Ernest, 1895-1926.
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975--Correspondence.
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938--Correspondence.
Wood-engraving--Collectors and collecting--New York (N.Y.).
COPYRIGHT: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.