The Inventory of the Amiya Chakravarty Collection #855

The Inventory

of the

Amiya Chakravarty

Collection

#855

Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center CHAKRAVARTY, AMIYA

(1900 - 1986)

# 855

Purchase from Dr. Chakravarty, 1977, 1978, 1982

I. CORRESPONDENCE

A. Unbound

B. Letter Book

II. CHAKRAVARTY, AMIYA. By him and about him. Letters; honors; printed pieces.

III. PHOTOGRAPHS OF FRIENDS

IV. MEMORABILIA: Flower from Tolstoy's Garden.

Box 1

I. CORRESPONDENCE

A. Unbound Letters. 1915-1974, with gaps.

Personal letters to A.C., unless otherwise noted; from prominent persons. Alphabetically arranged by correspondent. Many have notes of identification by A.C. A few fragments of manuscripts, and printed pieces included.

Barnett (Barrett?), Irving TLS Beijing n.d. [ca. 1980?] (#1)

Benson, A.C. [Arthur Christopher] TLS Cambridge, England Jan. 18, 1916 ALS Oct. 16, 1916 4 p. on folded leaf ALS Mar. 1, 1922 4 p. on folded leaf (#2)

Blunden, Edward ALS Oxford Feb. 13, 1939 2 p. on 1 leaf, with envelope "To the Memory of Gandhi," poem. Holograph signed. Tokyo Nov. 26, 1949. (#3)

Bose, Subhas Chandra 2 letters in Bengali: ALS Wien 2 p. on 1 leaf; photocopy ALS, 1935 (#4)

Brittain, Vera 3 TLS: with holograph postscript London, Nov. 18, 1960; London, Oct. 10, 1961; London, Feb. 23, 1965. (#5)

Buck, Pearl S. Typescript copy Perkasie, PA Nov. 8, 1949 (#6)

Burtt, Edwin TLS Ithaca, NY Apr. 19, 1965 (#7)

Case, Harold C. TLS Annisquam, MA Oct. 30, 1967 (#8)

Cummings, E.E. TLS New York June 10, 1950 (#9)

Dewey, John Typescript copy New York, NY n.d. (#10)

Einstein, Albert (#11) 2 TLS Princeton, NJ Nov. 18, 1949; Princeton, NJ Mar. 8, 1955 Photocopy of a typescript message to A.C., signed, Princeton, NJ Nov. 2, 1948 Carbon copy of a letter to Jawaharlal Nehru Aug. 10, 1950 2 p.

Fischer, Louis TLS New York, NY Nov. 8, 1949 (#12)

Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (the Honorable Mrs. Alfred Felkins) ALS Eltham July 4, 1916 4 p. on 1 leaf with envelope postmarked London (#13)

Box 1 Frost, Robert (#14)

a. Letters

ALS Ripton, Vermont Sept. 19, 1959; Photocopy ALS to Prime Minister Nehru, Nov. 5, 1962

b. Printed Items

Christmas poems with signed inscription to A.C.: 1954, 1957, 1958

"A Sermon" by R.F. Oct. 10, 1946 Victor Reichert, 1947

"Robert Frost March 26, 1959" Henry Holt, 1959

"Remarks on the Occasion of the Tagore Centenary" in Poetry, vol. 99, No. 2, Nov. 1961

Gandhi, Indira (#15)

5 TLS from New Delhi: June 7, 1963; Apr. 7, 1964; July 28, 1964; Oct. 9, 1966; Jan. 24, 1974

Gandhi, Mahatma ANS on postcard Jan. 21, 1941 Explanatory note by A.C. incl. (#16)

Hardy, Florence (Mrs. Thomas Hardy) 2 ALS: Dorchester, England Apr. 28, 1936 2 p. on 1 leaf with envelope; Mar. 16, 1937 3 p. on 2 leaves (#17)

Harraden, Beatrice ALS London Apr. 5, 1917 4 p. on 1 leaf with envelope (#18)

Heard, Gerald TL, unsigned with holograph postscript at top of first page Sherman Oaks, CA July 10, 1948 Holograph on front, typescript on verso Santa Monica, CA Oct. 26, 1949 2 p. on 1 leaf ALS Santa Monica, CA Nov. 1, 1949 2 p. on 1 leaf (#19)

Holtby, Winifred Photocopy TL signed for her by Vera Brittain. Addressed to "Mr. Tennant" July 24, 1934 2 p. (#20)

Huxley, Aldous 9 letters (#21)

TLS Los Angeles, CA Nov. 5, 1949

TLS Los Angeles, CA Nov. 25, 1949 Enclosed Foreword to an essay by A.C. Carbon typescript, 2 p.

TLS Los Angeles, CA Mar. 7, 1950

TLS Los Angeles, CA May 6, 1950

ALS Los Angeles, CA Aug. 7, 1950

TLS Los Angeles, CA Jan. 27, 1952, 2 p.

Box 1 TLS Los Angeles, CA Mar. 8, 1952

Photocopy TLS Los Angeles, CA Oct. 8, 1952

ALS Los Angeles, CA Mar. 28, 1953, 2 p. on 1 leaf

Igbal, Sir Mohammad ANS Lahore, India Jan. 21, 1938 (#22)

Jerome, Jerome K. (#23) 3 ALS, Marlow, England: Nov. 17, 1915 2 p. on folded leaf; Mar. 30, 1916 3 p. on 1 folded leaf; July 5, 1916 4 p. on 2 leaves 1 envelope

Kagawa, Toyohiko Photocopy TLS Tokyo, Japan Nov. 25, 1949 (#24)

Lowell, Robert TLS New York, NY April 26, 1968 1 p. on folded leaf (#25)

Mann, Thomas (#26) 2 TLS, Pacific Palisades, CA: Oct. 18, 1948; Oct. 6, 1949 Photocopy TLS Pacific Palisades, CA Nov. 10, 1949

Merton, Thomas (#27) TLS Abbey of Gethsemani, Trappist, Kentucky Dec. 4, 1966 Photocopy TLS Monks Pond, Trappist, Kentucky June 14, 1968 TLS Trappist, Kentucky June 24, 1968

Nehru, Jawaharlal (#28) 9 letters: 4 ALS, Badenweiler, Germany: Oct. 16, 1935; Nov. 29, 1935, 3 p. on 2 leaves; Jan. 18, 1936; Nov. 16, 1938 4 TLS, New Delhi: Aug. 3, 1948; Apr. 9, 1955; June 10, 1960; July 24, 1960 ALS Westminster, [London] Jan. 28, n.y.

Oppenheimer, Robert TLS Princeton, NJ Apr. 14, 1950 (#29)

Pasternak, Boris (#30) Photocopy of first page of AL Jan. 12, 1950 (incomplete) ALS Peredelkino Sept. 15, 1959 3 p. on 2 leaves ALS no place Dec. 2, 1959 2 p. on 1 leaf Photocopy of first page of AL Jan. 30, 1960 (incomplete) AL fragment no place, no date 2 p. on 1 leaf. With photocopy of page of letter about Teilhard de Chardin of which the fragment is a part. Photocopy fragment of holograph manuscript or letter 3 envelopes

Box 1 Pound, Ezra (#31)

Notes in pencil 6 p. on 5 leaves

"translation of document received in photostat" Carbon typescript, 1 p.

2 TL signed by Dorothy Pound, no place, no date

Radhakrishnan, S. (Sarvepalli) Copy of letter, typescript New Delhi, India Nov. 25, 1963 (#32)

Rao, Raja ALS New York, NY July 14, 1970 2 p. on 1 leaf (#33)

Ray, Satyajit ALS Calcutta, India n.d. in Bengali,envelope incl. [translation added] (#34)

Rivera, Diego ALS Coyoacan, Mexico July 11, 194_ (no last digit in year) (#35)

Rolland, Marie Romain (#36) 2 TLS in French from Paris: Sept. 18, 1950 2 p. on 1 leaf; Apr. 27, 1951 2 p. on 1 leaf

Schweitzer, Dr. Albert (#37) 2 ALS, Lambarene, West Africa in German: Nov. 5, 1962 2 p. on 1 leaf; Dec. 14, 1964 6 p. on 3 leaves Silver, A[?] Dutch nurse at hospital: ALS Lambarene, West Africa Feb. 26, 1964 Printed card to commemorate Dr. Schweitzer's 85th birthday, Jan. 14, 1960 Holograph note on envelope by A.C. (#37)

Shaw, G. Bernard TLS London [Dec. 28, 1918 in A.C.'s hand, but copy in notebook says 1916] 3 p. on 1 leaf. (Gift of A.C., 1965) (#38)

Suzuki, Daisetz T. (Zen Buddhist) TLS Honolulu, Hawaii Nov. 19, 1949 (#39)

Tagore, Rabrindranath (#40) "A page from Tagore's mss. - from The Religion of Man [New York, The MacMillan Co., 1931]. Holograph 1930, 1 p.

"A manuscript page from Rabindranath Tagore's 'Religion of Man' written on board ship July 1930 (from Bombay to Marseilles)" Holograph, 3 p. on 2 leaves.

Continuation of mss. Religion of Man (?) Holograph, 5 p.

Printed statement from World Pacifist Conference Dec. 1-8, 1949, India.

Valery, Paul ALS London Nov. 21, 1934 3 p. on 1 leaf, in French (#41)

Wells, H.G. 2 ALS: Washington, D.C. n.d., 2 p. on 1 leaf; photocopy ALS, London June 30, 1916 (#42)

Yutang, Lin ANS on card August 18, 1967. Box 1

B. Bound Notebook (#43)

1. Holograph (few typescript) copies by A.C. of original letters sent to him from England and France in 1916 and 1917. [Condition fair] A.C.'s notes on cover. Arranged alphabetically. From:

Belloc, Hilaire Bennett, Arnold Benson, Arthur Christopher Churchill, Winston Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (See original Folder 13) Gosse, Edmund Harraden, Beatrice (See original Folder 18) Hope, Anthony Jacobs, W.W. Jerome, Jerome K. (See original Folder 23) (#43) Locke, W.J. Lucas, E.V. Maeterlinck, Maurice Masefield, John Noyes, Alfred Pinero, Arthur Rolland, Romain Shaw, George Bernard (See original Folder 38) Wells, Herbert George (See original Folder 42) Yeats, William Butler

2. Photocopies of notebook contents. 42 p.

Box 2

III. BY AND ABOUT AMIYA CHAKRAVARTY

1. Business correspondence 3 TLS: 1949, 1951, 1964 (#1)

2. Recommendation of A.C. written by R. Tagore. Photocopy typescript, 1 p.

3. Fragment of foreword to work of A.C. by ____? Typescript photocopy.

4. 2 other documents (#2)

B. Printed

1. Newspaper clippings (#3)

2. Various brochures, announcements. 1933, 1934, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1975. (#4)

3. Published writings 1956, 1963. Reprints 1971, 1978. (#5, 6)

IV. PHOTOGRAPHS All black and white unless indicated otherwise.

Buber, Martin 8" x 10". [Magnification of newspaper photo?] (#7)

Chakravarty, Amiya

1. 4-1/2" x 7"

2. UN panel at Boston University. A.C., Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, President Daniel L. Marsh, Mr. Norman Thomas seated. Feb. 9, 1951. Sepia 8" x 10" (#8) Box 2 Einstein, Albert 10" x 8" (sepia) (#10)

Frost, Robert (#9)

1. 5" x 3" (in color)

2. 7" x 4-1/2" with A.C. 1957

3. R.F. with Scotty dog. 10" x 8" (2 copies in sepia)

Gandhi, Mahatma from rear 6" x 7-1/2" (#11)

Hamsun, Knut

1. At workbench 4" x 5-3/4" 1933

2. At desk 4" x 5-3/4" 1933 (#12)

Keller, Helen 10" x 8" with signed holograph

8 inscription to A.C. (#13)

Nehru, Jawaharlal with a group of students. 7" x 9" (#14)

Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 President of Ghana, 1955 8" x 6" (#15)

Pasternak, Boris Two copies of same photograph:

1. 7" x 5"

2. 10" x 8" with printed signature (#16)

Schweitzer, Albert

1. 9" x 7" Aug. 17, 1951 With signed inscription in French to A.C.

2. 10" x 8" Sepia

3. 10" x 8" Black and white (#2 and #3 same photograph) (#17)

VI. MEMORABILIA: "A flower-spring-from Tolstoy's garden Yasnaya Polyana 1932" (In small envelope)