Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Brandt & Brandt
- Abstract:
- The Hahn-Brandt mss., 1935-1983, consists of New York literary agency Brandt & Brandt office files concerning American author and journalist Emily Hahn, 1905-1997.
- Extent:
- 4 Boxes (4 standard)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
[Item], Hahn-Brandt mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
In 1913, Carl Brandt founded a literary agency and soon began representing many bestselling authors. Brandt's descendants developed the firm into Brandt & Brandt Literary Agents, Inc., and the agency became Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc., in 2001. From 1935 to 1983, Brandt & Brandt represented writer Emily Hahn, 1905-1997, who published numerous articles and short stories as well as over fifty books of fiction and non-fiction, including biographies of Aphra Behn, James Brooke, Fanny Burney, Chiang Kai-shek, D.H. Lawrence, and Mabel Dodge Luhan; a description of the diamond business; four books on zoos and animals; histories of China, Ireland, and women; and several autobiographical accounts.
- Scope and Content:
The Hahn-Brandt mss., 1935-1983, contains letters received and carbons of letters sent, all involved with the marketing of Emily Hahn's writings to publishing houses and magazines, and the soliciting of manuscripts, articles, and reviews from Emily Hahn, or of research materials for her use in forthcoming publications. Typescripts of some of her writings are filed with relative correspondence in the collection.
Hahn's letters to Bernice Baumgarten of Brandt & Brandt, and later to Carol Brandt, 1904-1984, involve both business and personal matters, particularly when Brandt & Brandt served as a general clearing-house for Hahn's affairs while she lived abroad.
Correspondents in the collection include: Lebaron R. Barker, Bernice Baumgarten, Louise Bonino, Charles Ralph Boxer, Carl Brandt, Carl Denny Brandt, Carol Brandt, Whit Burnett, Cass Canfield, Bennett Alfred Cerf, David Laurence Chambers, Mitchell Dawson, Lovat Dickson, John Chipman Farrar, John Fischer, Clark H. Getts, Arnold Gingrich, Solomon Grayzel, Emily Hahn, Donald P. Hanson, Helen Hoke, Franz J. Horch, Katharine Jackson, George William Freeman Joel, Malcolm Johnson, Richard Wyckoff Johnston, William Colston Leigh, Robert Newton Linscott, Gustav Stubbs Lobrano, Kenneth Dale McCormick, Harry Edward Maule, William Maxwell, Arnoldo Mondadori, Charles W. Morton, Sterling North, Frances Lucas Phillips, Harrison Gray Platt, Ann Powers, Eleanor (Stierhem) Rawson, Stewart Balmer Richardson, Critchell Rimington, Patience Ross, Dorothy Sara, Charles Schlessinger, William Shawn, George Shively, Isaac Shuman, Helen (Hahn) Smith, Margarita G. Smith, William Soskin, Allene Talmey, Peter Watt, Franklin Mowry Watts, Edward Augustus Weeks, Victor Weybright, John Neville Wheeler, and Katherine Sergeant Angell White.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift: 1992
- Arrangement:
This collection is arranged chronologically.
- Physical location:
- Lilly - Stacks
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is open for research.
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- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Item], Hahn-Brandt mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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1200 East Seventh StreetBloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- CONTACT:
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(812) 855-2452liblilly@indiana.edu