Papers, 1884-1972 (inclusive), 1920-1961 (bulk) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Includes literary manuscripts (mostly 1940 and later), background materials collected for writings, correspondence (including family, personal, literary, business, fan mail), original drawings, photographs, tapes and transcripts of interviews with family and associates, scrapbooks, clippings, and some juvenilia. The manuscripts files are especially rich for The white deer, The wonderful O, The Thurber album, The beast in me, and Thurber country. Chief correspondents include: Robert Douglas Andrews, Cass Canfield, Malcolm Cowley, Elmer Holmes Davis, Peter De Vries, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Frank Hummert, Herman Allen Miller, Elliott Nugent, James Edward Pollard, and George A. Smallsreed