Collections by Subject: Djuna Barnes
A Selected List of Holdings in the Archives and Manuscripts Department, University of Maryland Libraries
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Barnes Family Papers, 1880-1985. 18.00 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
The Barnes family papers consist of the papers of Djuna Barnes's grandmother, Zadel Barnes Gustafson (1841-1917), her father, Brian Barnes (1865-1934) (born Henry Budington, but also known as Wald Barnes, Wald Gustafson, Brian Eglinton Barnes, and Harold Barnes), and her half-sister Muriel (b. 1899) and half-brother Duane (b. 1902). Zadel Barnes was a journalist, poet, and women's rights activist, and her papers consist of poems, a short story, two scrapbooks, correspondence which includes a letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, and legal documents. Brian Barnes was an amateur poet and composer. His papers comprise the bulk of the Barnes family papers and consist of numerous literary works and musical scores, as well as correspondence, artworks, and miscellaneous items. The papers of Duane and Muriel Barnes consist of four postcards from Djuna Barnes and miscellaneous items. The Barnes family papers also contain ninety-one family photographs, spanning four generations of the family, and sixteen photographs of artworks produced by Brian Barnes and his father-in-law John Faulkner. A collection of thirty-four books owned by Barnes family members and ranging from 1846 to 1973 has been transferred to the Marylandia and Rare Books Department.
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Djuna Barnes papers, 1820-1982. 102 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
The University of Maryland Libraries are the primary repository for the archive of Djuna Barnes (1892-1982), who was an avant-garde American writer and artist. Her papers consist of family and personal papers, correspondence, publications, manuscript drafts, newspaper clippings, serials, photographs, and original art work documenting Barnes's career. Significant correspondents in the collection include T. S. Eliot, Emily Coleman, Marianne Moore, Peggy Guggenheim, Dag Hammarskjold, Kay Boyle, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert McAlmon, Laurence Vail, Allan Ross Macdougall, Allen Tate, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Eugene O'Neill. Some of the books from her personal library are among the holdings of the Marylandia and Rare Books Department.
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Papers of Saxon Barnes, 1889-1990. 1.75 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
Saxon Barnes (1902-1991) was the fourth child of Wald and Elizabeth Barnes and a brother of Djuna Barnes. He was a successful banker at Citibank for thirty-six years. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, clippings, biographical information, and printed matter. Correspondents include Andrew Field, Edith Brownman, Silas Glossop, Fran McCullough, and others. Subjects of the photographs include Djuna Barnes, Miss Barnes's family and friends, and silverpoint drawings by Thelma Wood. Most of the correspondence relates to the estate or literary works of Djuna Barnes.
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Irwin Cohen Collection, 1896-1995. 4.50 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
Irwin Cohen (1947- ), a bibliophile and book collector, is manager of the Time Warner, Inc., Bookstore in New York City. When was in high school, Mr. Cohen first encountered and read Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, which led him to collect works by and about her. He eventually met Miss Barnes, when his wife, Francesca Belanger, then senior designer at Dial Press was assigned to Miss Barnes's last book, Creatures in an Alphabet. The Cohen collection consists of artwork, clippings, manuscripts, proofs, photographs, and publications by and about Djuna Barnes and her era. Materials related to the publication of Creatures in an Alphabet form a large part of the collection. The books that came with the collection were transferred to the Marylandia and Rare Books Department and the reference collection of the Archives and Manuscripts Department.
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Andrew Field papers, 1916-1989. 7.75 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
Andrew Field (1938- ), attended Columbia University, Harvard University, Moscow State University, and the University of Queensland, where he earned his PhD in 1973. His thesis was later published as Nabokov: a Biography in 1974. Besides writing extensively on Nabokov, Djuna Barnes, and biographical narrative, he has also translated several Russian works. Dr. Field's papers consist of materials relating to the writing of his 1983 study of the life and work of Djuna Barnes, Djuna: the Formidable Miss Barnes. Included in the collection is correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, clippings related to the book's publication and reception, and photographs. Also included is a hand written manuscript of one Barnes poem.
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Elsa von
Freytag-Loringhoven papers, 1917-1933. 4 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) was an avant-garde artist and poet associated with Djuna Barnes and the Dada movement. Her papers consist of correspondence, poetry, and biographical and autobiographical notes and manuscripts documenting her life and literary career. Among the significant correspondents are Djuna Barnes, Peggy Guggenheim, and Berenice Abbott.
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Phillip Herring, 1.50 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
Phillip Herring (1936- ) is a scholar and biographer, who taught English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, for over twenty five years. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1966, and later worked at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Herring is the author of Joyce?s Uncertainty Principle (1987), Djuna: the Life and Work of Djuna Barnes (1995), and is the co-editor of Djuna Barnes? Collected Poems: With Notes Towards the Memoirs (2005). His papers consist of photographs acquired during the writing of his Barnes biography. Subjects include Djuna Barnes, her family and friends, and locations relating to Barnes? life.
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Frances McCullough
papers, 1915-1994. 18 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
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Chester Page Collection, 1933-1982. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
Pianist and art connoisseur, Chester Page (1929-) was a close confidant to Modernist American author, Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) during the final decade of her life, as well as a friend to several other major literary figures such as Bryher (1894-1983) and Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Barnes and Page shared a mutual friendship with the poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972). In the spring of 1970 Page wrote to Barnes to introduce himself and to offer his assistance. He was invited to tea at Barnes's apartment at 5 Patchin Place in New York City on 19 May 1970, and from that moment forward, enjoyed a close friendship with the author until her death. After Barnes's death on 18 June 1982, Page became an invaluable source of information on the reclusive author during her final days. He had managed a closeness which Barnes bestowed on a select few. The Chester Page Collection contains correspondence between Barnes and several friends and literary figures as well as one newspaper clipping. The collection spans the period 1933 to 1982. Correspondence with Louise Crane (1913-1997) dating between 1970 and 1973 constitutes the bulk of the collection.
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Papers of James Stern, 1940-1986. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
James Stern (1904-1993) was an Irish-born author of more than fifty short stories, non-fiction, and translations. His works include The Heartless Land (1932); The Hidden Damage (1947); and The Stories of James Stern (1969). Stern's papers consist primarily of correspondence he received relating to Djuna Barnes, both from her and from others. The papers also include newspaper and magazine articles about Miss Barnes. Major topics include Nightwood, The Antiphon, mutual acquaintances, social events, personal affairs, and requests for information about Djuna Barnes.