From the Records of
The President and Fellows of
Yale University

"Voted, to welcome the manuscripts
of the writings of Miss Gertrude Stein which
she may wish to deposit from time to time for
safe-keeping in the Yale Library and to thank
her for the gift of the complete manuscript of
her 'A Long Gay Book'".

April 9, 1938.

MANUSCRIPTS OF GERTRUDE STEIN DEPOSITED IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Accents in Alsace. 1919. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 17cm. blue
Advertisements. 1916. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 21cm. black and purple
All Sunday (II). 1916. 1 cahier 21cm. black
Alright make it a series and call it Marry Nettie. 1917. 1 cahier 21cm. black

Am I to go or I'll say so. A play in places. 1923.

[Operas and Plays] 3 cahiers 21cm. brown

Animated. lp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Another act. 7pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

At present. Contemporaries. A play. 1930.

[Operas and Plays] 2 cahiers 21cm. blue and green

Barrels. 1918. Contains also Rich in the city; Monday and

Tuesday. *With volume reversed:* The Present (incl. Italy, The Liberty loan, etc.)

Basket. See A sentence, vol. V.

Bonne Année. A play. 1916. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 20½cm. blue

A Bouquet. 1927.

Call it a table. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Camelias in *Perpignan*. See The work; A day's sun etc.

Can call us. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Can you behave better. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Can you see the name. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Can you sit in a tree. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Can you speak. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Capital Capitals. 1925. [Operas and Plays] 5 cahiers 22cm. brown, paper covers.

Captain Walter Arnold. 1916. [Geography and Plays] See Captain William Edwardes.

Captain William Edwardes. 1916. [Geography and Plays]

(With volume reversed: Captain Walter Arnold, a play)

Cezanne. 1925. 4pp. [Portraits and Prayers]

A Collection. 1916. [Geography and Plays] See I often think about another.

Civilization a play. 1931. [Operas and Plays] 1 cahier 21cm. pink

The college of France. 1931. [Operas and Plays] (Title of manuscript: Lynn brown and The College de France)

MANUSCRIPTS OF GERTRUDE STEIN DEPOSITED IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY - List 2.

Cone Sisters. 1 cahier 21cm. black, tied in brown paper

Counting her dresses. 1917. [Geography and Plays] (With volume reversed: Have they attacked Mary he giggled: a political satire) 1 cahier 21cm. red & white, blue back

Crete. 4pp. 1914. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Curtain let us. 1914. See Dates

Dates. 1914. (With vol. reversed: Curtain let us. 1 cahier 20cm. black

Daughter. 5pp. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

David Daisy and Appolonia. 1915. [Portraits and Prayers] See Independent embroidery.

Decorations. 1916. See A poem about Walberg.

A deserter. lp. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Do let us go away. 1916. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 21cm. black & red, green back

Do you like your suit. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Elucidation. 1923. [Portraits and Prayers] 3 cahiers 21cm. 1 lavender, 2 brown, with paper covers

England. lp. 1915. [Geography and Plays]

Events. lp. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Every afternoon. A dialogue. 1916. [Geography and Plays] (With volume reversed: Ladies' voices: a curtain raiser) 1 cahier 21cm. brown & white, red back

Exceptional conduct. 1918. [Will we see them again]

An exercise in analysis. A play. (With volume reversed: The King or Something)

Film. 1929. [Operas and Plays] Typescript.

Finished one. 1914. (With volume reversed: One sentence I) 1 cahier 20cm. black

The five Georges a play. 1931. [Operas and Plays] 1 cahier 21cm. orange

Five words in a line. 1929. [How to write]

For ten. 1923. 1 cahier 21cm. brown, paper covers

For the country entirely. A play in letters. 1916. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 21cm. black & yellow, gray back

The Ford. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Forensics. 1931. [How to write] 1 cahier

MANUSCRIPTS OF GERTRUDE STEIN DEPOSITED IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY - List 5.

Four saints in three acts [Printed. 15 leaves from transition] [Operas and Plays]

Fourteen anonymous portraits. 1925. [Portraits and Prayers] (In volume with Harold Loeb)

(G. M. P.) (Gertrude Matisse Picasso) 5 cahiers

Gentle Julia. 2pp. 1914. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Harold Loeb. 1925. [Portraits and Prayers] (Contains also Fourteen anonymous portraits)

Have they attacked Mary. He giggled. 1917. 100 copies privately printed N. Y. 1917. See Counting her dresses: a play.

He didn't light the light. 1915. See This one is serious.

He said it. A monologue. 1915. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier. 20cm. blue & white, blue back

A Hymn. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

I can feel the beauty. 1917. See Will we see them again.

I expressed my opinion. 1p. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

I like it to be a play. 1916. [Geography and Plays] See A very good house.

I often think about another. 1916. (With volume reversed: A Collection) 1 cahier 21cm. black & purple, red back

If he thinks. A novelette of desertion. 1922. 2 cahiers 20cm. brown, paper covers

If you had three husbands. 1915. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier. 21cm. black

In One. 1½pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

In the middle of the day. 1918. [Will we see them again]

In their play. 1918. [Will we see them again]

In this shape wood. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Independent embroidery. 1915. (With volume reversed: David Daisy and Appolonia) 1 cahier 21cm. black & white, red back

An Christian boy. 1925. 1 cahier 21cm. brown, paper covers

Ireland. 5pp. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

J. R. 2pp. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

James is nervous. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Jean Cocteau. 1926. [Portraits and Prayers] [Composition as Explanation?] 1 cahier 7 x 11cm. pink

Johnny Grey. 1915. [Geography and Plays] (With volume reversed: Study nature) 1 cahier 21cm. black

MANUSCRIPTS OF GERTRUDE STEIN DEPOSITED IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY - List 4.

Jonas Julian Caesar and Samuel. 1923. 2 cahiers 22cm. brown, paper covers

A king or something. A play. 1917. [Geography and Plays] See An exercise in analysis.

Ladies voices. A curtain raiser. 1916. [Geography and Plays] See Every afternoon: a dialogue.

A league. 3pp. 1920 [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

A league. 2pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Left poem. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Lend a hand. Four religions. 1922. [Useful Knowledge] 6 cahiers 15cm. various

Letters and parcel and wool. 1916. 1 cahier 21cm. black & purple, red back

Lifting belly. 1917. 3 cahiers 21cm. mottled covers

Light butter. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Lily life. 1922. In "Elucidation" reversed.

Lily life. 7pp. Filed with miscellaneous poems in folder. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

A list. Inspired by Avery Hopwood. 1923. [Operas and Plays] 164 numbered leaves. In envelope.

A long gay book. 1909-1912. [Matisse Picasso & G. S.] Plain Edition, Paris, 500 copies, 1933. Given to Yale Library.

Louis the Eleventh and Madame Giraud. 1930. [Operas and Plays] 2 cahiers

Lucy Church Amiably. 1927. Plain Edition, 1000 copies, 1930. 6 cahiers 21cm. black

Lynn and the College de France. See The College of France.

A lyrical opera. 1928. [Operas and Plays] 5 cahiers

Madame Recamier. An operatic drama. 1930. [Operas and Plays] (Laid in at end are 7p. of typescript, in French, with title: Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs, and a portrait of P. S. Ballanche with ms. of Madame Recamier on the verso)

Making of Americans. 1906-1908. Contact Editions, Paris, 500 copies, 1925. Harcourt, Brace, N.Y., (bridged) 1924. 97 cahiers, & 8 packages of Notes

Mary Nettie. 1917. See Alright make it a Series...

The meaning of the bird. 1p. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Mexico a play. 1916. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 21cm. red & black, red back

Mirror. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Monday and Tuesday. 1919. See Barrels

More league. 1p. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

A movie. 28pp. 1920. [Operas and Plays]

Mrs. Emerson. 1914. 14pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Mrs. Whitehead. 1914. [Geography and Plays] (With volume reversed: Possessive case III) 1 cahier. 21cm. black

The New Book. See G. M. P.

Names of flowers. 1p. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Next. 1p. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Next. Life and letters. Marcel Duchamp. 1920. [Geography and Plays]

Not sightly a play. 1915. [Geography and Plays] 3 cahiers 21cm. blue, black, & marbled

The novel. 1925-1926. 14½cm. 1 black cahier

Old and old. 1915. [Operas and Plays] Klein Edition, Paris, 1932. 500 copies. typescript

Old dogs. 1p. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

One has not lost One's Marguerite. 1918. [Will we see them again]

One sentence. 1914. II & III (For One Sentence I see Finished One) 2 cahiers 20cm. black

One (Van Vechten) almost a play. 4pp. [Geography and Plays] 1915.

Our aid. 4pp. 1919. 2 copies (1 p. each) [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Painted lace. 7pp. 1914. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Parlor. 1930. [Operas and Plays] 1 cahier. 21cm. green

A patriotic leading. 4pp. 1919. [Useful Knowledge]

Photographs. 1920. 14pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Pink melon joy. 1915. [Geography and Plays] 3 cahiers 20 & 25cm. black

Please do not suffer a play. 1916. [Geography and Plays] See Polybe Silent

A poem about Walberg. 1916. [Geography and Plays] (With volume reversed: Decorations) 1 cahier. 21cm. black & orange, green back

A poetical plea. 3pp. & 1p. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Polish. 4pp. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Polybe silent. 1916. (With volume reversed: Please do not suffer: a play) 1 cahier 21cm. black & orange, green back

Portrait of Constance Fletcher. 1913. 2pp. [Geography and Plays]

Portrait of F. B. 1913. 6½pp. [Geography and Plays]

Possessive case (III) 1915. See Mrs. Whitehead.

MANUSCRIPTS OF GERTRUDE STEIN DEPOSITED IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY - List 6.

Praises. 1923. 6pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]
Precepts. 1923. 10pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]
The Present. 1919. See Barrels
Prim Roses. 1919. 3pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]
Procession. 1923. 1 cahier 21cm. brown
Prudence caution and foreweight. A story of Avignon. 1922. 1 cahier 14½cm. green
The psychology of nations or what are you looking at. 1920. [Geography and Plays] 19pp.
Red faces. 1918. [Will we see them again]
Regular regularly in narrative. 1927. [How to write] Plain Edition, Paris, 1920. 1000 copies 5 cahiers
Relief work in France. 1p. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]
The revery of the Zionist. 6pp. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscript]
Rich and poor in English. 15pp. 1920. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]
Rich in the city. 1918. See Barrels
Saving the sentence. 1929. [How to write] 1 cahier
Say it with flowers A play at tragedy. 1931. [Operas and Plays] 4 cahiers white, paper covers
Scenery. 1920. 4pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]
Scenes from the door. 1919. 6pp. [Useful knowledge]
Selected poems. 1918.
The sentence. 1928. [How to write]
Sentences and paragraphs. 1930. [How to write]
Series. I-XL. 1914. 6 cahiers 20½cm. blue
Simons a bouquet. 1913. [Operas and Plays] typescript
A singular addition. Sequel to one hundred prominent men. inserted at page "a" 1922. (Four loose sheets 1 cahier 16½cm. black)
Talks with saints. 1922. 1 blue cahier, 1 orange cahier
Their wills. A bouquet. An opera. 1928. [Operas and Plays] 7 cahiers with 28 pages of typescript numbered 224-239 and 178-208
Then steal. 3pp. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]
They must. Be wedded. To their wife. A play. 1931. [Operas and Plays] 1 cahier pink

MANUSCRIPTS OF GERTRUDE STEIN DEPOSITED IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY - List 7.

They weighed weighed-layed. A tragedy. 1930. [Operas and Plays] 2 cahiers

Third day not thirsty. 1918. [Will we see them again]

This one is serious. 1915. *With volume reversed:* He didn't light the light.
1 cahier 21cm. black & purple, red back

Three lives. 1904-1905. 1000 copies, Grafton Press, N.Y. 1909.
500 10 printing-bound by
John Lane, Bodley Head, London. 1920.
Boni & Boni, N. Y. 1927.
Modern Library, N. Y. 1933.
7 cahiers 21cm.

Tourty or tourtebattre. 1919. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 15 x 19cm. blue & red print

Turkey and bones and eating and we like it. 1916. [Geography and Plays]
1 cahier 21cm. brown

A valentine. To Sherwood Anderson. 1922. [Useful Knowledge]
1 cahier 21cm. brown

A very good house. 1916. *(With volume reversed: I like it to be a play: a play)*
1 cahier 21cm. black & yellow, brown back

Water pipe. 1916. *(With volume reversed: Mexico. Act IV)*
1 cahier 21cm. brown & white, red back

Wear. 5pp. 1914. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

What happened a play. 1915. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 21cm. blue, cover mutilated

What is the name of a ring. 1918. [Will we see them again]

White wines a play. 1915. [Geography and Plays] 1 cahier 19cm. black

White wings. 1p. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Why are there whites to console. 1922. 4 cahiers 15-21cm. 2 purple, 1 blue, 1 tan

Why can Kipling speak. 1917. [Will we see them again]

Why win wings. 1918. [Will we see them again]

Will we see them again. 1917. [Will we see them again] *(With volume reversed: I can feel the beauty)*
1 cahier 21cm. black

Won. 1p. 1919. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

The work; A day's sun; Not a nightingale [etc.] 1919. [Geography and Plays] *(With volume reversed: Camelias in Pigeon) 1 cahier 21cm. red & white, purple back Perpignon*

The work. 1 cahier 21cm. green

Would, wood, wooed. 1920. 2pp. [Miscellaneous Manuscripts]

Yes you do. 1922. 5 cahiers 21½cm. brown, paper covers

MANUSCRIPTS OF GERTRUDE STEIN DEPOSITED IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY - List 8.

42 Note-books of various sizes, not identified.

Miscellaneous loose papers, not identified.

Miscellaneous notes. 2 packages.

Themes written at Radcliffe College, with annotations by William Vaughan Moody and others. 1 bundle.

A typewritten list of Titles of works (arranged chronologically) by Gertrude Stein.

Yale University Library
New Haven Connecticut

Bernhard Knollenberg
Librarian

Donald G. Wing
Head of Accessions Department

March 19, 1940.

Thornton Wilder, Esq.
50 Deepwood Drive
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Wilder:

I have now a list of those books by Gertrude Stein which we lack. There may be others of which I have not heard, but if we could acquire these in some way, I think we should have a collection of which to be proud:

* Américains d'Amérique; histoire d'une famille américaine; traduction de la baronne J. Seillière et Bernard Fay. Paris 1933 Stock (Le cabinet cosmopolite, [72])

* ✓ Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded, written on a poem by Georges Hugnet Paris [1931] Plain edition

* ✓ A book concluding with As a wife has a cow, a love story; orné de lithographies par Juan Gris. Paris [1925] Editions de la Galerie Simon

* Descriptions of literature Englewood, 1922. Limited edition

* Have they attacked Mary, he giggled. N. Y., n.d. Edition limited

* ✓ Narration - Four lectures, with an introduction by Thornton Wilder. Deluxe edition, signed.

* Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia Firenze n.d. limited edition.

* Recordings - N. Y. 1936. 1. Matisse and If I told him; 2. A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson and Madame Recamier, an opera; 3. Making of Americans.

Very truly yours,

Head of Accessions Department

W*B

July 15, 1939

Miss Gertrude Stein
Bilignin
par Belley
Ain, France

My dear Miss Stein:

I know that Mr. Troxell has written to thank you for
the deposit of two more of your manuscripts, *The Making of
Americans* and *Everybody's Autobiography*, which you were kind
enough to send us by Mr. Wilder to be added to the collection
of your manuscripts already here. I want, however, to send
you this word of my own thanks, and to tell you how delighted
we are that you continue to think of the Yale Library.

Kn/wh

February 11, 1941

Miss Gertrude Stein
Bilignin, par Belley
Ain, France

My dear Miss Stein:

I suppose you have heard from Mr. Van Vechten of his
recent superb gifts to us of your manuscripts, letters from you to
him, *and photographs which he has taken of you. I also think you
know that we are opening the exhibition of your works in your honor
on Alumni Day, February 22. We plan to keep the exhibition open for
a month. I wish you could be here to see it.

I asked Mr. Van Vechten to give a talk about your work
at the opening of the exhibition, but he declined to depart from
his rule against speaking in public. I then turned to Thornton
Wilder, and am happy to say that I have just had a wire from him
saying that he would be delighted to speak, provided that we let
him talk informally. This we are of course glad to do, and I have
so advised him.

Mr. Gallup has been working on a bibliography of all of your
writing in the Yale University Library, and the publishers tell me that
it will be ready for the opening of the exhibition on February 22.

*Under restrictions specified by Mr. Van Vechten.

BERNHARD KNOLLENBERG
BOX 1603A YALE STATION
NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT

February 24, 1941

Dear Miss Stein:

The Gertrude Stein Exhibition was opened last Saturday in our library with the utmost éclat. Mr. Wilder's speech was the best that I have ever heard in the auditorium adjoining our exhibition room. The room was packed to overflowing and Mr. Wilder held everyone spellbound. We had hoped to have a recording of his speech, but unfortunately the man who did recording at Yale has recently left and has taken his machine with him. You will therefore have to take it on faith that his speech was one of singular force and clarity, worthy of you and Mr. Wilder.

I am sorry to say that Mr. Gallup, who was largely responsible for the setting up of the Exhibition, was drafted just before the Exhibition opened, and could not be with us. I enclose a copy of the catalogue of the Exhibition which he prepared, and also a tiny souvenir of the day, a ticket of admission to Mr. Wilder's talk!

The Exhibition will be continued for a month, and judging from the interest displayed in it on Saturday I think it will be a most attractive and successful one.

Sincerely yours,
Bernhard KnolLENBERG

K/f

April 10, 1941

Dear Miss Stein:

I am sending under separate cover three photographs of the
Exhibition of the Gertrude Stein Collection which closed yesterday.
It has been the most successful exhibition from every standpoint
that we have had at the Library. I am only sorry that the photographs
do not give a more adequate conception of the beauty and brilliance
of the Collection.

I have had a great many inquiries about you and have been
glad to be able to assure people (on the authority of Mr. Van Vechten)
that you are comfortable and well.

I look forward with much pleasure to welcoming you to the
Yale Library when you are next in America.

K/f

May 22, 1941

Dear Miss Stein:

I was very happy indeed to see your familiar hand-
writing (familiar from looking over so many of your manuscripts)
on an envelope which I recently found on my desk. I enjoyed your
letter, and am grateful to you for the pleasant things you said
in it. You can rest assured that when next I get to France I
shall make a pilgrimage to Bilignin, but I still have hopes that
we shall see you in the United States even before I have an oppor-
tunity to come to France.

It is good news that you have more manuscripts for us,
and all the letters you have accumulated. You are of course right
in holding them until all is quiet again. I hope then you will be
coming to this country yourself, and will bring your material in
person. I do not need to tell you how grateful we shall be for
the material, and what a valuable addition it will be to the collec-
tion of your writings that we already have.

Kn/wh

November 27, 1941

Dear Miss Stein:

I am delighted to have your letter of October 7th
which reached me on November 24th. I am glad you liked my
book and was much interested and pleased to read what you
said of it. I was particularly interested by your comparison
between Washington and Lafayette and Pétain and Darlan.

I am sorry that Bernard Fay has not received the Bibliogra-
phy. I enclose a letter to Mr. Fay which I wrote him on June
26 and the envelope in which the letter was enclosed. Under
separate cover, I am sending you two copies of the Bibliogra-
phy. I shall appreciate your forwarding the letter and a copy
of the Bibliography to Mr. Fay when you have an opportunity to
do so.

You will be interested to learn - if he himself has not
written you this - that Mr. Gallup has received his discharge
from the army and is to teach English in a college in Texas.
He is, of course, very happy to be free again.

I have had no word as to what you are now working on.
It would give me much pleasure and satisfaction to hear of
your work.

James T. Babb
Librarian

March 5, 1945

Dear Miss Stein:

I am today in receipt of a long letter of February 23rd from Major Donald C. Gallup, in which he states that you want to turn over completely to the Yale University Library all of your manuscripts which are now on deposit here and to leave to us the decisions as to their use by scholars and writers. We are, of course, delighted that you wish the manuscripts to be permanently located at Yale. We shall not send you an acknowledgment of them, however, until we have had from you a word of confirmation regarding the matter. Please drop me a note of authorization concerning the transfer of ownership of the manuscripts.

The young woman, Rosalind B. Schnitzer, made rather unreasonable demands. She wished us to ship all the manuscripts to New York for her use, and wanted to have a microfilm of them all. We thought that we should not grant either request, but we have permitted her to use the material in the Library.

Major Gallup wrote of the great pleasure that he has had visiting with you and Miss Toklas.

A week or so ago I had lunch in New York with Mr. Van Vechten, and we mentioned you.

We all hope that the European war will end soon.

JTB:BTh

Yale University Library

New Haven Connecticut

James T. Babb
Librarian

June 27, 1945

Miss Gertrude Stein
5, rue Christine (6me.)
Paris, France

Dear Miss Stein:

I am delighted to have your letter of May 11th. We shall send you, in a few days, a formal acknowledgment of the gift of all your manuscripts which are at present in the Yale University Library, but I want to send you now a personal word of deep appreciation of this wonderful gift. We are thrilled to have the material, and shall also eagerly look forward to receiving all your manuscripts in the future. It is very important that they all be in one place, as it will make the work of any scholar that much easier.

We should also be very much interested in having your correspondence, and could put on it any restrictions that you should wish. Edith Wharton left the Yale Library all her correspondence with the restriction that it not be used for twenty years. Your correspondence must be very extensive and with a great many interesting and important people, and it should really be with your manuscripts.

I am glad to have the news of Norman Pearson and Donald Gallup. We miss them both, but are pleased to know that they are helping the Library on the other side.

Best regards to Miss Toklas and you.

JTB:BTH

Yale University Library,

New Haven, Connecticut

August 31, 1945

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the gift mentioned below, and I beg
you to accept our sincere thanks.

La Vie Bugiste.

2 Septembre 1944.

(contains article by Gertrude Stein entitled "La Voix de
l'Amérique ... se fait Entendre du Bugey."

Galerie Roquépine - riba-rovira.

(contains article by Gertrude Stein)

To Miss Gertrude Stein
6, rue Christine
Paris 6, France

James T. Babb
Librarian

September 4, 1945

Miss Gertrude Stein
6, rue Christine
Paris, 6, France

Dear Miss Stein:

Norman Pearson came to the Library the other day, and we were very glad to see him. We had a good talk, and he left here as a gift from you the two items listed on the enclosed formal acknowledgment. We are delighted to have the material.

Mr. Pearson said that he is planning to go back to England, more or less to close matters.

I received a note from you several days ago and was especially pleased to read that you will eventually send the Yale Library your correspondence. I hope that you will keep it as complete as possible, as it will be most valuable to future scholars. You may, of course, if you wish, put any restrictions on its use.

JTB:BTH
Enc.

James T. Babb
Librarian

February 6, 1946

Dear Miss Stein:

The other day I had a very pleasant
visit with Lieutenant Colonel Donald Gal-
lup, and he handed me for the Library the
little volume listed on the enclosed for-
mal acknowledgment. We are delighted to
have the book, and thank you very much.

I enjoyed hearing about Gallup's
pleasure in visiting you. Thornton
Wilder is working in the Yale University
Library at present, and it seems good to
have all these men coming back.

JTB: BTH
Enc.