Burton Egbert Stevenson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 7700
Subjects: Correspondence; World War, 1914-1918; American Library Association. Library War Service; Libraries; American Library in Paris; American Library Association; Societies
Description: Correspondence with poets and other writers, comments on the origin of quotations, obscure biographical data on literary figures, and negotiations with publishers relating to the compilation of Stevenson's anthologies.  Includes requests for reading material from soldiers on the front during World War I as well as correspondence and administrative files from his service as European director of the American Library Association's Library War Service, including material on the American Library in Paris.  Also includes drafts and copies of Stevenson's writings.  Individuals discussed in Stevenson's correspondence include writers such as Joaquin Miller, Clement Clarke Moore, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.  Correspondents include Charles Agnew MacLean, Carl Hastings Milam, Herbert Putnam, and M. Llewellyn Raney.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Burton Stevenson, 1953-1959.

Anthologist, author, and librarian.

Collection material in English.

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