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Donors Patricia C. Willis The Yale Collection of American Literature had its beginnings in a gift to the university, and in the following near-century, gifts have made possible its development. Major funds were established through the generosity of Sinclair Lewis, 1907; Mrs. George B. Alvord in honor of George B. Alvord, 1895; Francis Hyde Bangs, 1915, as a memorial to Danforth N. Barney, 1916; Bradford F. Swan; Thornton Wilder, 1920, and Isabel Wilder, 1928 Dra.; Donald Windham; Alfred Z. Baker; Adele Gutman Nathan; Carlotta Monterey O'Neill in memory of Eugene O'Neill, 1926 Hon.; Carl Van Vechten, and other donors. These funds have been used to acquire books and manuscripts for the collection. In addition, important gifts in kind have greatly enhanced our holdings. By bequest or by personal of family gift have come the papers of Philip Barry, 1918; William Rose Benét, 1907S; Stephen Vincent Benét; James Fenimore Cooper, 1806; Sinclair Lewis, 1907; F. O. Matthiessen, 1924; Edith Wharton, 1923 Hon.; Thornton Wilder, 1920; and The Phoenix Theatre (gift of T. Edward Hambleton, 1934), as well as archival collections of Rachel Carson (bequest of Carson and gift of Marie Rodell), Hilda Doolittle, Katherine Dreier, Marsden Hartley (gift of Norma Berger), Hound and Horn (gift of Lincoln Kirstein), Arthur Davison Ficke (gift of Gladys Brown Ficke), Mabel Dodge Luhan, Robert Nathan, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, and The Theatre Guild (gift of Lawrence Langner, Theresa Helburn, and Armina Marshall), among many others.  Comments:Ellen R.
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