Includes manuscripts and correspondence of the American playwright, screenwriter,
biographer, and frequent New Yorker contributor, S. N. Behrman. Chief works present include Duveen, Lord Pengo, and Portrait of Max. The correspondence mainly refers to these works and includes letters from Max Beerbohm,
Rupert Hart-Davis, Selwyn and Tania Jepson, William Shawn, John Van Druten, and Edmund
Wilson among many others.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-0313
Language:
English and French
Access:
Open for research
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Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp, 2016
Note:
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