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- Author/Creator:[Jolas, Eugène, 1894-1952.](search?searchArg=Jolas, Euge%CC%80ne, 1894-1952.&searchCode=NAME&searchType=4)
- Title:Eugène and Maria Jolas papers, 1879-1986.
- Physical Description:31.75 linear feet (70 boxes)
- Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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- Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
- Call Number: GEN MSS 108
- Status:Not Checked Out
- Library Has: Boxes 27, 67-68
- Location:LSF- BEINECKE
- Call Number: GEN MSS 108
- Status:Not Checked Out
- Library Has: Boxes 1-26, 28-66, 69-70
- Notes:In equal parts English, French, and German, with significant writings in Atlantica, an artificial language created by Eugène Jolas.
Purchase and gift of Betsy and Tina Jolas, 1989. - Organization:Organized into four subgroups: Eugène Jolas Papers (Series I-VI); Maria Jolas Papers (Series VII-XI); transition (Series XII-XIII); James Joyce Papers (Series XIV-XVII).
- Access and use:Box 70: Restricted until 2032 December 12. For further information consult the appropriate curator. Box 69: Restricted fragile material. Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
- Biographical / Historical note:Eugène Jolas (1894-1952), poet, author and editor of the magazine transition.
Maria Jolas (1893-1987), author and translator. - Summary:The Eugène and Maria Jolas papers consist of manuscripts, letters, photographs, and printed materials relating to the work and lives of the two authors, to their publication transition, and to their friend James Joyce.
The first subgroup, Eugène Jolas Papers (Series I-VI), contains his correspondence with people such as Kay Boyle, Raoul Hausmann, Raymond Queneau, and Jean Wahl; writings (articles, columns, drafts of an autobiography, and hundreds of poems in English, German, French, and Jolas' own invented language, Atlantica), and translations by Jolas of the works of writers including Andre Breton and Gerard de Nerval. The subgroup also contains materials Jolas prepared for, and used during, his service in the Deutsche Allgemeine Nachrichten Agentur (DANA, but known in English as DENA), as well as Personal Papers and Photographs.
The second subgroup, Maria Jolas Papers (Series VII-XI), contains correspondence with Samuel Beckett, Padraic Colum, the Duthuit family, Paul and Lucie Leon, the Matisse family, Nathalie Sarraute, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. The subgroup also contains Jolas' writings (including drafts of her autobiography), her English translations of works by writers such as Rene Char, Robert Jaulin, and Nathalie Sarraute, and a number of poets who contributed to her "Multilingual Poets Project." The majority of her Subject Files concern the scholarly treatment of James Joyce. Also included is a series of Personal Papers.
The third subgroup, transition (Series XII-XIII), consists of a small group of materials documenting transition magazine, which Eugène and Maria Jolas published from 1927 to 1938. The original magazine archives were destroyed during World War II. The material here documents the publication of several special projects and a short-lived revival of the magazine in the late 1940s.
The fourth subgroup, James Joyce Papers (Series XIV-XVII), contains materials that James Joyce left with the Jolas family shortly before he died, including letters to Joyce from Samuel Beckett and Ezra Pound, a draft of "Comeallyou," a typescript carbon of a French translation of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" done by Joyce, Philippe Soupault, Eugene Jolas, Yvan Goll, Samuel Beckett and Alfred Peron in 1932, a list of typographical corrections to Finnegans Wake made by Paul Leon in 1940 for a second edition of the book, and several photographs of the Joyce family. - Format:Archives or Manuscripts
- Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
- Cite as:Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Subjects:[Novalis, 1772-1801.](search?searchArg=Novalis, 1772-1801.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Alexeieff, Alexandre, 1901-1982.](search?searchArg=Alexeieff, Alexandre, 1901-1982.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Aubert, Jacques.](search?searchArg=Aubert, Jacques.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962.](search?searchArg=Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.](search?searchArg=Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Bayet, Albert, 1880-1961.](search?searchArg=Bayet, Albert, 1880-1961.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Beach, Sylvia.](search?searchArg=Beach, Sylvia.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.](search?searchArg=Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Benstock, Bernard.](search?searchArg=Benstock, Bernard.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Benstock, Shari, 1944-](search?searchArg=Benstock, Shari, 1944-&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992.](search?searchArg=Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Breton, André, 1896-1966.](search?searchArg=Breton, Andre%CC%81, 1896-1966.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Cain, Julien, 1887-1974.](search?searchArg=Cain, Julien, 1887-1974.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.](search?searchArg=Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961.](search?searchArg=Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Char, René, 1907-1988.](search?searchArg=Char, Rene%CC%81, 1907-1988.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Cixous, Hélène, 1937-](search?searchArg=Cixous, He%CC%81le%CC%80ne, 1937-&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972.](search?searchArg=Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Donnelly, Dorothy, 1903-1994.](search?searchArg=Donnelly, Dorothy, 1903-1994.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Du Bouchet, André.](search?searchArg=Du Bouchet, Andre%CC%81.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Duthuit, Claude.](search?searchArg=Duthuit, Claude.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Duthuit, Georges, 1891-1973.](search?searchArg=Duthuit, Georges, 1891-1973.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Duthuit-Matisse, Marguerite.](search?searchArg=Duthuit-Matisse, Marguerite.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.](search?searchArg=Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Erben, Walter.](search?searchArg=Erben, Walter.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Ghika, 1906-1994.](search?searchArg=Ghika, 1906-1994.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Giedion-Welcker, Carola.](search?searchArg=Giedion-Welcker, Carola.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Gillet, Louis, 1876-1943.](search?searchArg=Gillet, Louis, 1876-1943.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Goll, Yvan, 1891-1950.](search?searchArg=Goll, Yvan, 1891-1950.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979.](search?searchArg=Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971.](search?searchArg=Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856.](search?searchArg=Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929.](search?searchArg=Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964.](search?searchArg=Huebsch, B. W. %28Benjamin W.%29, 1876-1964.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Jaulin, Robert.](search?searchArg=Jaulin, Robert.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Jolas, Betsy.](search?searchArg=Jolas, Betsy.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Jolas, Eugène, 1894-1952.](search?searchArg=Jolas, Euge%CC%80ne, 1894-1952.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Jolas, M.](search?searchArg=Jolas, M.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Jolas, Tina.](search?searchArg=Jolas, Tina.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Joyce, James, 1882-1941.](search?searchArg=Joyce, James, 1882-1941.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Joyce, Lucia, 1907-1982.](search?searchArg=Joyce, Lucia, 1907-1982.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Joyce, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951.](search?searchArg=Joyce, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Joyce, Stanislaus.](search?searchArg=Joyce, Stanislaus.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Larbaud, Valéry, 1881-1957.](search?searchArg=Larbaud, Vale%CC%81ry, 1881-1957.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Larsson, Raymond Ellsworth, 1901-1991.](search?searchArg=Larsson, Raymond Ellsworth, 1901-1991.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Lefort, Claude.](search?searchArg=Lefort, Claude.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Leyris, Pierre.](search?searchArg=Leyris, Pierre.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973.](search?searchArg=Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Masson, André, 1896-1987.](search?searchArg=Masson, Andre%CC%81, 1896-1987.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954.](search?searchArg=Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Matthias, Blanche.](search?searchArg=Matthias, Blanche.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Mauriac, Claude, 1914-1996.](search?searchArg=Mauriac, Claude, 1914-1996.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[McMillan, Dougald.](search?searchArg=McMillan, Dougald.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.](search?searchArg=Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Meyer, Franz, 1919-2007.](search?searchArg=Meyer, Franz, 1919-2007.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855.](search?searchArg=Nerval, Ge%CC%81rard de, 1808-1855.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.](search?searchArg=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.](search?searchArg=Nin, Anai%CC%88s, 1903-1977.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.](search?searchArg=Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976.](search?searchArg=Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.](search?searchArg=Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Riquet, Michel.](search?searchArg=Riquet, Michel.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Roditi, Edouard.](search?searchArg=Roditi, Edouard.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Rougemont, Denis de, 1906-1985.](search?searchArg=Rougemont, Denis de, 1906-1985.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Sarraute, Nathalie.](search?searchArg=Sarraute, Nathalie.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.](search?searchArg=Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Schimanski, Stefan.](search?searchArg=Schimanski, Stefan.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Schwartz, Laurent.](search?searchArg=Schwartz, Laurent.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Slocum, John J.](search?searchArg=Slocum, John J.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Soupault, Philippe, 1897-1990.](search?searchArg=Soupault, Philippe, 1897-1990.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Sprigge, Elizabeth, 1900-1974.](search?searchArg=Sprigge, Elizabeth, 1900-1974.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Staley, Thomas F.](search?searchArg=Staley, Thomas F.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989.](search?searchArg=Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Triolet, Elsa.](search?searchArg=Triolet, Elsa.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945.](search?searchArg=Vale%CC%81ry, Paul, 1871-1945.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Vidal-Naquet, Pierre, 1930-2006.](search?searchArg=Vidal-Naquet, Pierre, 1930-2006.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Wahl, Jean André, 1888-1974.](search?searchArg=Wahl, Jean Andre%CC%81, 1888-1974.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.](search?searchArg=Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Transition (1927)](search?searchArg=Transition %281927%29&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Languages, Artificial.](search?searchArg=Languages, Artificial.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Authors, French--20th century--Archives.](search?searchArg=Authors, French--20th century--Archives.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Modernism (Literature)](search?searchArg=Modernism %28Literature%29&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3)
[Paris (France)--Intellectual life.](search?searchArg=Paris %28France%29--Intellectual life.&searchCode=SUBJ%2B&searchType=3) - Occupation:Authors.