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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <ead xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"> <eadheader findaidstatus="Completed" repositoryencoding="iso15511" countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b"> <eadid url="http://hdl.handle.net/10339/27723 ">MS586</eadid> <filedesc> <titlestmt> <titleproper>Gertrude Stein and Conference Press Collection <num>MS586</num> </titleproper> <subtitle>1896-1970, 1.68 linear feet</subtitle> <author>Finding aid prepared by Processed and encoded by Megan Mulder</author> </titlestmt> <publicationstmt> <publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher> <address> <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline> <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109</addressline> <addressline>336 758-5755</addressline> </address> <date>2009</date> </publicationstmt> </filedesc> <profiledesc> <creation>This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit <date>2019-05-24T10:19-0400</date> </creation> <langusage>Description is in <language langcode="eng">English</language></langusage> <descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc> <change> <date>2019</date> <item>Revised by Stephanie Bennett</item> </change> </revisiondesc> </eadheader> <archdesc level="collection"> <did> <unittitle>Gertrude Stein and Conference Press Collection</unittitle> <unitid>MS586</unitid> <repository> <corpname>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</corpname> </repository> <langmaterial> <language langcode="eng"/> </langmaterial> <container id="cid2508009" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">4</container> <container id="cid2476002" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">2</container> <container id="cid2476003" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">1</container> <container id="cid2476001" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">3</container> <physdesc> <extent>1.68 linear feet</extent> <extent>4 document boxes</extent> </physdesc> <unitdate normal="1896/1970" type="inclusive">1896-1970</unitdate> <abstract id="ref3" label="Abstract">The Conference Press was the creation of three UCLA students, Hal Levy, Gilbert A. Harrison, and William Bayard Okie. The collection consists of the publishers' archive for Gertrude Stein's book, <title render="italic">What Are Masterpieces?</title> (Los Angeles: Conference Press, 1940), as well as several Stein manuscript fragments and notes, offprints, reviews, and other Stein ephemera, mostly related to her 1934-1935 American tour.</abstract> <origination label="creator"> <persname source="naf">Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946</persname> </origination> </did> <accessrestrict id="ref4"> <head>Access Restrictions</head> <p>Collection is open for researchers.</p> </accessrestrict> <prefercite id="ref6"> <head>Preferred Citation</head> <p>Gertrude Stein and Conference Press Collection (MS586), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.</p> </prefercite> <processinfo id="ref8"> <head>Processing Information</head> <p>Processed by Megan Mulder. Finding aid encoded by Megan Mulder, May 2009.</p> </processinfo> <bioghist id="ref10"> <head>Historical note</head> <p>The Conference Press was the creation of three UCLA students, Hal Levy, Gilbert A. Harrison, and William Bayard Okie. The three were writers for the college newspaper <title render="italic">The Daily Bruin</title>, and they formed the press after a visit to Hollywood writer William Saroyan. Harrison had begun corresponding with Gertrude Stein in 1933, met her in Pasadena during her 1934-1935 American tour, and visited Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris in 1937. This relationship led to the publication of Stein's work <title render="italic">What Are Masterpieces?</title> by the Conference Press in 1940. Harrison went on to become editor-in-chief of <title render="italic">The New Republic</title> magazine. He also wrote and edited books on literature, among them <title render="italic">Gertrude Stein's America</title> and <title render="italic">Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas</title>.</p> <p>UCLA faculty member and Stein bibliographer Robert Bartlett Haas wrote the introduction to Stein's book and seems to have been involved in the publication and distribution process. Book designer Ward Ritchie was a major figure in the fine printing movement in California.</p> </bioghist> <scopecontent id="ref12"> <head>Collection Overview</head> <p>The collection consists of the publishers' archive for Gertrude Stein's <title render="italic">What Are Masterpieces?</title> (Los Angeles: Conference Press, 1940). It includes the original typescript, various galley proofs and production materials, and a few letters of correspondence between Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and publishers Hal Levy, Gilbert Harrison, and William Bayard Okie; and material from Stein bibliographer Robert Bartlett Haas. The collection also includes several Stein manuscript fragments and notes, offprints, reviews, and other Stein ephemera, mostly related to her 1934-1935 American tour. Other materials include Conference Press correspondence from 1936-1946, relating to Stein's book, William Saroyan's <title render="italic">Three Times Three</title>, and other publications.</p> </scopecontent> <userestrict id="ref99"> <head>Copyright Notice</head> <p>The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.</p> </userestrict> <relatedmaterial id="ref100"> <head>Related Materials</head> <p>Other related archival collections include: Conference Press Records, 1936-1946, University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections. Los Angeles, California.</p> </relatedmaterial> <arrangement id="ref101"> <head>Arrangement note</head> <p>The collection is arranged into four series: Series 1. Conference Press correspondence; Series 2. Conference Press purchase orders; Series 3. Publishers' archives, <title render="italic">What Are Masterpieces?</title>; Series 4. Review clippings; and Series 5. Stein, Gertrude, writings and related materials.</p> </arrangement> <controlaccess> <corpname source="naf">Conference Press.</corpname> <persname source="naf">Haas, Robert Bartlett</persname> <persname source="naf">Harrison, Gilbert A.</persname> <persname source="naf">Levy, Hal, 1916-1970</persname> <persname source="naf">Okie, William Bayard</persname> <persname source="naf">Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996</persname> <persname source="naf">Saroyan, William, 1908-1981</persname> <persname source="naf">Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946</persname> <persname source="naf">Toklas, Alice B.</persname> <subject source="lcsh">American literature--20th century</subject> <subject source="lcsh">Authors and publishers--United States</subject> <subject source="lcsh">Authors, American--20th century</subject> <subject source="lcsh">Publishers and publishing--United States</subject> </controlaccess> <dsc> <c id="ref38" level="series"> <did> <unittitle>Conference Press correspondence</unittitle> <physdesc id="ref39" label="General Physical Description note"> <extent/> </physdesc> </did> <scopecontent id="ref54"> <head>Scope and Contents note</head> <p>Includes letters and notes from Tamara Andreeva, Natalie Bunce, June Cleveland, Janet Flanner (one typed note), Bernard Molohon, Robert Penn Warren (one typed note), Jack Woodford, Rita Young, Peter Gray Wolf, Robert Bartlett Hass, and Harry Kirby McClintock.</p> </scopecontent> <c id="ref40" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52035" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">16</container> <unitdate normal="1937/1937">1937</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref41" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52034" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">17</container> <unitdate normal="1938/1938">1938</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref42" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52033" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">18</container> <unitdate normal="1939/1939">1939</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref43" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52032" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">19</container> <unitdate normal="1940/1940">1940 January-July</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref44" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52031" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">20</container> <unitdate normal="1940/1940">1940 August-September</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref45" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52030" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">21</container> <unitdate normal="1940/1940">1940 October</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref46" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52029" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">22</container> <unitdate normal="1940/1940">1940 November-December</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref47" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52028" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">23</container> <unitdate normal="1941/1941">1941 January-June</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref48" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52027" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">24</container> <unitdate normal="1941/1941">1941 July-December</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref49" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52026" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">25</container> <unitdate normal="1942/1942">1942</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref50" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52025" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">26</container> <unitdate normal="1943/1943">1943</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref51" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52024" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">27</container> <unitdate normal="1944/1944">1944</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref52" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52023" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">28</container> <unitdate normal="1945/1945">1945</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref53" level="file"> <did> <unittitle/> <container id="cid52022" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">29</container> <unitdate normal="1946/1946">1946</unitdate> </did> </c> </c> <c id="ref32" level="series"> <did> <unittitle>Conference Press purchase orders</unittitle> <physdesc id="ref33" label="General Physical Description note"> <extent/> </physdesc> </did> <c id="ref34" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Purchase orders, A-C</unittitle> <container id="cid52039" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">12</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref35" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Purchase orders, D-L</unittitle> <container id="cid52038" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">13</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref36" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Purchase orders, M-S</unittitle> <container id="cid52037" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">14</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref37" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Purchase orders, T-Z</unittitle> <container id="cid52036" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">15</container> </did> </c> </c> <c id="ref18" level="series"> <did> <unittitle>Publishers' archives, <title render="italic">What Are Masterpieces?</title></unittitle> </did> <c id="ref20" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Typed letter, signed by Alice B. Toklas, to William Okie, with typed list of Stein publications</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1937/1937">1937 June 1</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref21" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Autograph letter, signed by Gertrude Stein, to Hal Levy</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1940/1940">1940 December 17</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref22" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Typescript for <title render="italic">What Are Masterpieces?</title> prepared in part by Alice B. Toklas</unittitle> <container id="cid52049" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">2</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref23" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Galley proofs</unittitle> <container id="cid52048" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">3</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref24" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Galley proofs with manuscript notes by Stein</unittitle> <container id="cid52047" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">4</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref25" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <persname>Page proofs</persname> </unittitle> <container id="cid52046" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">5</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref26" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <persname>Page proofs with manuscript notes by Stein</persname> </unittitle> <container id="cid52045" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">6</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref27" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Layout and design sketches by Ward Ritchie</unittitle> <container id="cid52044" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">7</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref28" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Prospectus and advertising materials</unittitle> <container id="cid52043" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">8</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref29" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Book contract</unittitle> <container id="cid52042" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">9</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref30" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Printers' estimates from Ward Ritchie Press and Adcraft Printers</unittitle> <container id="cid52041" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">10</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref31" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Reviews, <title render="italic">What Are Masterpieces?</title></unittitle> <container id="cid52040" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">11</container> </did> </c> </c> <c id="ref84" level="series"> <did> <unittitle>Review clippings</unittitle> </did> <c id="ref85" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <title render="doublequote">Four Saints in Three Acts</title> </unittitle> <container id="cid52013" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">38</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref86" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="italic">Geographical History of Americ</title>a</unittitle> <container id="cid52012" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">39</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref87" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <title render="italic">Narration</title> </unittitle> <container id="cid52011" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">40</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref88" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <title render="italic">Portraits and Prayers</title> </unittitle> <container id="cid52010" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">41</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref89" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="italic">Paris France</title> reviewed by Janet Flanner</unittitle> <container id="cid52009" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">42</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref90" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="italic">Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein</title>, ed. Carl Van Vechten</unittitle> <container id="cid52008" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">43</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref91" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="italic">Everybody's Autobiography</title>, parody from <title render="italic">New Yorker</title></unittitle> <container id="cid52007" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">44</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref92" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <title render="italic">Useful Knowledge</title> </unittitle> <container id="cid52006" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">45</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref93" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="italic">Primer for the General Understanding of Gertrude Stein</title>, by Robert Bartlett Haas</unittitle> <container id="cid52005" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">46</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref94" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Clippings: G.S.'s American visit</unittitle> <container id="cid52004" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">47</container> <unitdate normal="1934/1935" type="inclusive">1934-1935</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref95" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>General clippings</unittitle> <container id="cid52003" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">48</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref96" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="doublequote">Money</title> by G.S., in <title render="italic">Saturday Evening Post</title></unittitle> <container id="cid52002" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">49</container> <unitdate normal="1936/1936">1936</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref97" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="doublequote">I Came and Here I Am</title> by G.S., in <title render="italic">Cosmopolitan</title></unittitle> <container id="cid52001" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">50</container> <unitdate normal="1935/1935">1935 February</unitdate> </did> </c> </c> <c id="ref55" level="series"> <did> <unittitle>Stein, Gertrude, writings and related materials</unittitle> <physdesc id="ref56" label="General Physical Description note"> <extent/> </physdesc> </did> <c id="ref60" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Ephemeral Stein manuscripts</unittitle> <container id="cid52020" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">31</container> </did> <c id="ref61" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Manuscript page from <title render="italic">Ida</title>, in pencil on page torn from <title render="italic">Desmond's Daughter</title> (1937)</unittitle> </did> </c> <c id="ref62" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Notes for novel <title render="italic">Mrs. Reynolds</title>, 1 page in pencil on graph paper</unittitle> </did> </c> <c id="ref63" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="italic">Paris, France</title>, 1 page pencil notes</unittitle> </did> </c> <c id="ref64" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="italic">The World is Round</title>, 1 page in pencil on title page from Philip McDonald's <title render="italic">The Link</title> (London: Crime Club), with typed note from Stein</unittitle> </did> </c> <c id="ref65" level="file"> <did> <unittitle><title render="italic">Prothalamium</title>, complete manscript in pencil on back of pages from Henry Holt's <title render="italic">Gallows Grange</title>, published by Tauchnitzm</unittitle> </did> </c> <c id="ref66" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Autograph letter, Stein to publisher James Laughlin</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1936/1936">1936</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref68" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Article offprint, <title render="doublequote">Normal Motor Automatism</title>, by Stein and Leon Solomons, from <title render="italic">Psychological Review</title></unittitle> <unitdate normal="1896/1896">1896 September</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref69" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Article offprint, <title render="doublequote">Cultivated Motor Automatism</title>, by Stein, from <title render="italic">Psychological Review</title></unittitle> <unitdate normal="1898/1898">1898 May</unitdate> </did> </c> </c> <c id="ref57" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Robert Bartlett Haas bibliography of Gertrude Stein</unittitle> <container id="cid52021" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">30</container> </did> <c id="ref58" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Typescript with notes</unittitle> </did> </c> <c id="ref59" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Stein and Toklas's answers to Haas's questionnaire, 5 pages</unittitle> </did> </c> </c> <c id="ref73" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Theatre programs, <title render="doublequote">4 Saints in 3 Acts</title></unittitle> <container id="cid52017" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">34</container> </did> <c id="ref74" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Forty-fourth Street Theatre, New York</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1934/1934">1934</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref75" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Empire Theatre, New York</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1934/1934">1934</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref76" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1947/1947">1947</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref77" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>University of California Extension, Los Angeles</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1965/1965">1965</unitdate> </did> </c> </c> <c id="ref78" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Theatre programs, <title render="doublequote">The Mother of Us All</title>, by Stein and Virgil Thomson</unittitle> <container id="cid52016" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">35</container> </did> <c id="ref79" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Columbia Theater Associates of Columbia University, program inscribed to Hal Levy by Virgil Thomson</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1947/1947">1947</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref80" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>UCLA Opera Workshop, with note by Robert Bartlett Haas</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1965/1965">1965</unitdate> </did> </c> </c> <c id="ref70" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Theatre programs, <title render="doublequote">Yes is for a Very Young Man</title>: Pasadena Playhouse and The Interplayers, San Francisco</unittitle> <container id="cid52018" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">33</container> <unitdate normal="1946/1947" type="inclusive">1946-1947</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref98" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Clippings</unittitle> <container id="cid1377001" type="Box" label="Mixed materials">4</container> <container parent="cid1377001" type="Folder">51</container> <unitdate>ca. 1940s</unitdate> </did> </c> <c id="ref83" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Photographs</unittitle> <container id="cid52014" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">37</container> </did> </c> <c id="ref81" level="file"> <did> <unittitle>Stein materials, general</unittitle> <container id="cid52015" type="Folder" label="Mixed Materials">36</container> </did> <odd id="ref82"> <head>General note</head> <p>Includes publishers' prospecti, poster with caricature of Stein, Phoenix Bookshop catalog 115, and other ephemera.</p> </odd> </c> </c> </dsc> </archdesc> </ead>
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