Edna St. Vincent Millay papers
Contributors: Boissevain, Eugen, d. 1949; Millay, Cora Buzzell; Millay, Norma; Milholland, Inez
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45000
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; Literature; Theater; Provincetown Players; Genealogy; Travel; Politics and government; Poetry; Socialism; Peace movements; World War, 1939-1945; Totalitarianism; Experimental theater; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary drafts, reports, family papers, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, theatrical playbills, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Millay's life and literary career.  Topics include her travels, daily life especially at her Steepletop farm in Austerlitz, N.Y., theater groups such as the Provincetown Players, politics, totalitarianism, and World War II.

Papers of her mother, Cora Buzzell Millay, reflect Cora's literary ambitions and efforts; the careers and activities of her daughters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kathleen Millay, and Norma Millay including their participation in avant-garde or experimental theater and antiwar socialist politics; and genealogy of the Buzzell and Emery families.  Norma Millay's papers document her work as literary executor of Edna St. Vincent Millay's estate.  Also includes papers of Edna St. Vincent Millay's husband, Eugen Boissevain, and of his first wife, Inez Milholland, and correspondence of the Boissevain family.

Other correspondents include Millay's father, Henry T. Millay; her aunts, Clementine Buzzell Parson and Susan Buzzell Ricker; and Millay's sister, Kathleen, and brother-in-law, Howard Irving Young; and Millay's sister Norma Millay's husband, Charles Ellis.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Deposit converted to gift, Norma Millay Ellis, 1967-1975.

Purchase, 1998.

transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divison.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Serial & Government Publications Division.

Poet and author.

Collection material in English, French, and Dutch.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.