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Harry Crosby Papers (Ms.88.3)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146


Scope & content

The Harry Crosby Papers include 19 letters to Constance Atherton, Comtesse de Jumilhac; letters from Atherton and related correspondence; 2 notebooks with letter and unpublished aphorisms addressed to Atherton; book belonging to Harry and Caresse Crosby; 10 manuscript notebooks; page proofs (bound) for Shadows of the sun and for Chariot of the sun; other writings; two albums of photographs; and Caresse Crosby's correspondence with several writers, editors, and publishers. The collection also includes Crosby's last will and testament; typescript (carbon) of his The De Geetere Maldoror; and a biographical sketch of him written by his wife, Caresse Crosby.