A developing list of substantial archives in the Yale Collection of American Literature (YCAL) organized by authorial categories and genres.
NOTE: This list does not include: archives in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters (archival collections with call numbers beginning JWJ), small collections (three or fewer archival boxes) or individual manuscripts; recently acquired archival collections may not yet be listed.
Consult ORBIS, the Yale Library Catalog; Yale’s Finding Aid Database; Yale Collection of American Literature Manuscript Miscellany for additional archives and manuscript collections.
Max Wilk Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.wilk *
Dudley Nichols Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.nichols
Spencer Berger Collection on Film, Theater, and Music http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.berger *
Ruth Jespersen Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.tcwilson *
William A. Graham Collection of Television Scripts http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.grahamwa
Photograph File of Close Up Magazine http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.closeup *
Ruth Jespersen Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.tcwilson *
William A. Graham Collection of Television Scripts http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.grahamwa
Photograph File of Close Up Magazine http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.closeup *
Stephen Longstreet Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.longstreet*
Daisy Aldan Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.aldan *
A.R. Gurney Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.gurney *
Nina Wilcox Putnam Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fuller *
Bernard Wolfe Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.wolfeb *
Herbert Brodkin Television Production Files http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.brodkinherbert
Ruth Ford Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fordr
Bert Stimmel Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stimmel
Alan Hovhaness Letters to Judith Malina http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hovhaness
Josephine and Sophie Schlenk Potographs of Theatrical Performers Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.schlenk
Elizabeth Hacker Valentine Louden Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.louden
Mardette Perkins Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.perkins *
Mina Loy Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.loy *
Paul Newman Scripts and Films http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.newman
Angna Enters and Louis Kalonyme Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.enters *
Angus MacLise Sound Recordings http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.maclise
Nancy Cole Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.cole
Marjorie Welish Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.welish *
Spencer Berger Collection on Film, Theater, and Music http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.berger *
Nathan Salsbury Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.salsbury *
Spencer Berger Collection on Film, Theater, and Music http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.berger *
Nathan Salsbury Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.salsbury *
Olga Rudge Papers Addition http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.olgafin
Souvenir Performance Program Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.souvprograms
Aileen Pringle Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.pringle
Isabel Leighton Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.leighton
Carolyn Burke Collection on Mina Loy and Lee Miller http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.burke *
Louise Talma Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.talma
Michael Kahn Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.kahn *
Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O’Keefe Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.sokcoll
Peter Newell Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.newellad
Elizabeth MacKinstry Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mackinstry *
Emlen Etting Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.etting *
Gary Trudeau Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.trudeau
James Thurber Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.thurber *
Bernard Perlin Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.perlin
Set Design Drawings for the Film Mourning Becomes Electra (designed by Albert M. Pyke) http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.pyke
Beatrice Wood Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.wood
Norman Holmes Pearson Collection of “Art for the Wrong Reason” http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.pearsonawr
Ray DiPalma Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dipalma*
Willard Dryden Paddock Photographs and Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.paddock
Lois and Louis Darling Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.darling
Erica Von Horn Prints http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.vanhorn
Georgia O’Keefe Foundation Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.okeeffefndn
Rebecca Salsbury James Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.james
Mina Loy Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.loy *
Michael Grumley Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.grumley *
Marsden Hartley Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hartley
Arnold Ronnebeck Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.ronnebeck
Leo Stein Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.leostein *
Clarence Day Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.day
Gaston Lachaise Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.lachaise
Jacob Y. Terner Collection of Autograph Material by American Artists http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.terner
Henry Miller Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.millerh *
Sheri Martinelli Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.martinelli *
Pavel Tchelitchew Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.tchelitchew
Kurt Seligmann Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.seligmann *
Grace Mott Johnson Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.johnsong
George Plank Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.plank
Florine and Ettie Stettheimer Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stetthe *
Photographers
George Platt Lynes Diaries and Memorabilia http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.gpl
Eve Arnold Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.arnold
Anne Brigman Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.brigman *
Paul Strand Photographs of the American Southwest and Mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.strand
Geroge Platt Lynes Scrapbooks http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.gplscrap
Marjorie Content Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.content
Flora Stieglitz Straus Collection of Stieglitz Family Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stiegfam
Photograph File of Close Up Magazine http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.closeup *
Jonathan Williams Photographs http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.williamsj *
George H. Seeley Papers and Photographs http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.seeley
Carolyn Burke Collection on Mina Loy and Lee Miller hhttp://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.burke
Editors and Publishers
Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler Collection of Marianne Moore http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mmoore
Bruce Kellner Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.kellner
Norman Macleod Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.macleodcoll *
Michael Benedikt Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.benedikt *
Thomas McMahon Correspondence http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mcmahont
Peter Davidson Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.davisonp *
Jacob Blanck Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.blanck
James Laughlin Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.laughlin *
Joseph Brewer Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.brewer
Olivia Rossetti Agresti Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.agresti
Clayton Eshleman Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.eshleman *
Michael Alexander Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.alexander
John Leggett Writings http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.leggett *
Mina Kurstein Curtiss Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.curtiss *
Matthew Jennett Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.jennett
William R. Scott, Inc. Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.scottwr
Coburn Britton Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.britton *
John B. Reubens Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.reubens *
Dudley Fitts Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fitts *
Joan Kahn Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.kahnjoan
Yale University Press Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.yup
Marilyn Hacker Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hacker *
Benét Family Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.benetfamily*
Blind Date and New Blind Date http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.bdate *
James S. Jaffe Collection of Jonathan Williams and The Jargon Society http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.jaffe
Felice Picano Papers http://handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.picano *
Harvey Shapiro Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.shapiro *
Jonathan Williams Photographs http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.williamsj *
James L. Weil Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.weil
Llewellyn Jones Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.jonesl *
Daisy Aldan Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.aldan*
Robert McAlmon Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mcalmon *
John Chipman Farrar Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.farrar
James R. Mellow Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mellow *
J.B. Carrington Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.carrington
Harrison Smith Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.smithhar
A. Poulin Papers and BOA Editions Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.poulinboa *
William Heyen Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.heyen *
George Warren Arms Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.arms *
Elena Wilson Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.elwilson
Laura Stedman Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stedman
Judson Crews Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.crews *
Vincent McHugh Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mchugh *
Dudley Poore Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.poore *
Charles Henri Ford Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.ford *
Vardis Fisher Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.vfisher *
Critics
Achilles Fang http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fang
Gertrude Buckman Correspondence http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.buckman
Cyril Clemens Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.clemens
Walter Prichard Eaton Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.eaton
Edward Killoran Brown Collection of Willa Cather http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.browncather
T.S. Eliot Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.tseliot *
Lawrence Gilman Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.gilmanl
Stephen Yenser Papers Relating to James Merrill http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.yenser
Maxwell E. Foster Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fosterm
Theodore Dreiser http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dreiser *
Jerome Mellquist Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mellquist
Thomas H. Fosters and Catherine Osgood Foster Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.foster *
Alfred Corn Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.corn *
National Book Critics Circle Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.bookcritics
Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.quinnb *
Daniela Gioseffi Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.gioseffi *
(art critic) Katharine Kuh Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.kuh
Ethan Mordden Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mordden *
T.C. Wilson Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.tcwilson *
Leo Stein Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.leostein *
Margaret Croyden Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.croyden *
Marguerite Young Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.youngm *
Brendan Gill Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.gill *
John Hollander Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hollander *
Llewellyn Jones Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.jonesl *
James R. Mellow Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mellow *
Maynard Mack Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mack *
Julien Cornell Papers Relating to Ezra Pound http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.cornell *
Susan Howe Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.howesu *
Edmund Clarence Stedman Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stedmanec *
F.O. Matthiessen Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.matthiessen
Journalists
Dial / Scofield Thayer Papers (Addition) http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dialadd
Little Square Review Archive http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.little
Eugene Field Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fielde *
James Thurber Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.thurber *
Agnes De Lima Collection of Alyse Gregory http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.delima
Bernardine Szold-Fritz Correspondence http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.szold
Glenway Wescott Collection of Nelson Lansdale Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.lansdale
H.L. Mencken Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mencken
Max Putzel Papers Relating to William Marion Reedy and The Mirror http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.putzel *
Angna Enters and Louis Kalonyme Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.enters *
Will Irwin and Inez Haynes Gillmore Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.irwin *
Mary Welsh Hemingway Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hemingwaymw
Benét Family Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.benetfamily*
Margaret Croyden Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.croyden *
Josephine Herbst Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.herbst *
Brendan Gill Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.gill *
Kenneth Roberts Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.roberts *
Damon Runyon Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.runyon *
Croswell Bowen Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.bowen *
Edmund Clarence Stedman Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stedmanec
Patrons and Collectors
Mabel Dodge Luhan Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.luhancol *
Elizabeth Fuller Chapman Papers and Films http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.chapman
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.steincol *
Julia Ellsworth Ford Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fordje *
Florine and Ettie Stettheimer Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.stetthe *
Walter L. Pforzheimer Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.pforzheimer *
Non-fiction Writers and Essayists
Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.emersonrw
Thomas Beer Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.beer *
John Leggett Writings http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.leggett *
Mina Kurstein Curtiss Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.curtiss *
Doris Bry Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.bryd
Marian Cox Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.coxm *
Thomas H. Fosters and Catherine Osgood Foster Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.foster *
Mabel Dodge Luhan Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.luhancol *
Henry David Thoreau Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.thoreau
Annie Dillard Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dillard
William David Sherman Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.sherman
John B. Reubens Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.reubens *
James Rorty Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.rorty *
Robin Magowan Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.magowan *
Max Putzel Papers Relating to William Marion Reedy and The Mirror http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.putzel *
Donald Grant Mitchell Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mitchell*
Charles H. Hapgood Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hapgoodch
Dachine Rainer Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.rainer *
Will Irwin and Inez Haynes Gillmore Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.irwin *
Alice Rogers Smith Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.smith *
John Greenleaf Whittier Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.whittier *
Michael Grumley Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.grumley *
Edgar Saltus Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.saltus *
Mary Barnard Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.barnard *
James Reid Parker Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.parkerjr*
James S. Collection of Jonathan Williams and The Jargon Society http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.jaffe *
Paul Rosenfeld Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.rosenfel
Marilynne Robinson Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.robinsonm*
Josephine Herbst Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.herbst *
Brendan Gill Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.gill *
George Warren Arms Collection http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.arms *
De Forest Family Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.deforestjw *
Sherwin B. Nuland Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.nuland
Maynard Mack Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mack *
Hermann Hagedorn Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hagedorn
Washington Irving http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.irving *
Croswell Bowen Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.bowen *
Kurt Seligmann Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.seligmann *
Paul Leicester Ford Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.fordpl *
John Hersey Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.hersey *
Richard Moore Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.moorer *
Journals, Magazines, and other Publications
Dial Press Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dialpress
Chiron Review Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.chiron
Difficulties Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.difficulties
A. Poulin Papers and BOA Editions Records http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.poulinboa *
Chimera Papers http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.chimera