An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Dannay, Frederic, 1905-1982
Title:
Frederic Dannay Collection
Dates:
1860-1975, undated
Extent:
2 boxes (.84 linear feet), 1 galley folder (gf)
Abstract:
Includes a few letters written by the
American author and collector Frederic Dannay, who wrote with his cousin Manfred
B.
Lee under the joint pseudonym Ellery Queen. The bulk of the collection consists
of
letters received by Dannay as well as letters collected by him that were written
by
other authors. Notable correspondents include Agatha Christie, Bret Harte, Dashiell
Hammett, W. S. Maugham, Dorothy Sayers, Bram Stoker, and H. G. Wells among others.
Many of the items were withdrawn from books in the Ellery Queen Collection of
Mystery and Detective Fiction.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-1057
Language:
English and
French
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, 2011
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information
previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at
the
end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts
as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
