[Corrected Typescript of "Review of Reviewers"] / Sinclair Lewis
-- 1922.
-- Inscribed by Lewis : "Dear Prof. Johannsen / Here’s your ‘scrap
of MS’... / from an article which appeared in International Book Review for
Dec. [1922]"
Little Bear Bongo [typescript] / Sinclair Lewis -- [1930]
-- 21 pages. Stapled leaves clipped into plain brown wrappers.
-- A heavily corrected typescript of Lewis’s short story "Little
Bear Bongo," which was published in the Sept. 1930 issue of Cosmopolitan.
-- Inscribed by Lewis to Lucille Florey.
Sinclair Lewis Looks at America / Donald S. Carmichael -- 1931.
-- A 3-page essay written for an undergraduate English class at Harvard. Carmichael
sent it to Lewis, who annotated and returned it.
Chronology [typescript] / Sinclair Lewis -- 1932.
-- 15 pages. Unpublished.
-- Written in the third person. Lewis discusses his family background, and
gives an account of his life to age 47. He also lists "Favorite Novelists
Today."
-- Written for the use of Carl Van Doren, who had been commissioned to write
an essay on Lewis to be published simultaneously with Ann Vickers.
-- Formerly in the possession of Lou Florey.
Angela is Twenty-two [carbon typescript] / Sinclair Lewis and Fay Wray --
[between 1938 and 1942]
-- 130 leaves stapled into red paper covers.
-- One of many revisions of this play. It was staged several times, and, after
being re-written by Wanda Tuchock, it was released as a musical in 1943 under
the title This is the Life.
[Contracts] -- 1920-1944.
-- A group of 5 original Lewis contracts: Main Street (1920); Babbitt (1922); Elmer
Gantry (1926); Twilight [Dodsworth] (1927); Husbands and Wives
[Cass Timberlane] (1944). The first 4 are agreements between Lewis and
Harcourt, Brace. The final contract, for Cass Timberlane, is with Random
House.
[Drainboard]
-- Wood ; 38 x 62 x 2 cm.
-- Lewis’s drainboard from his house on Vanderventer Avenue in Port Washington,
on which he was reputed to have written The Trail of the Hawk. See "How
I Wrote a Novel on Trains and Beside the Kitchen Sink" in American
Magazine (April 1921), p. 16+
[Clippings -- 1920--1960]
-- 2 folders ; 92 items
-- A clipping file kept by Lou Florey.
[51 Early Pieces by Sinclair Lewis / transcribed by Morris Sadow
-- 1904-1931]
-- 1 notebook ; 180 p.
-- Typewritten copies of articles, book reviews, poems, short stories and translations
from: Book News Monthly; Puck; Volta; Transatlantic Tales; The Bellman;
The Critic and Literary World; Yale Courant; Yale Literary Magazine.
[Sinclair Lewis Scrapbooks / compiled by Morris Sadow -- 1914-1951]
-- 11 vols. These scrapbooks consist almost entirely of newspaper clippings
from throughout the country, most of which are identified. Magazine articles
and clippings from booksellers’ catalogs are also present. There are
approximately 100 leaves in each scrapbook, and up to 10 clippings are pasted
to each leaf. Arrangement is roughly chronological.
[Diary / Notebook of Pearl Buck] -- Aug. 10, 1953-July 1963.
-- ca. 250 p. ; 23 x 17 cm.
-- Includes an 9-page account of the author’s encounter with Lewis at
a P.E.N. dinner after she had received the Nobel Prize. She also describes
Lewis’s hometown, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, which she visited after his
death.
[Wedding Announcement] -- May 14, 1928.
-- 1 leaf ; 18 x 26 cm., folded to 18 x 13 cm.
-- Reads: "Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis have the honour to announce
their marriage which took place in London on Monday, May 14th, 1928"
[Advertising Leaflet] Novels by Sinclair Lewis -- [London] : Jonathan Cape,
[1928]
-- A 4-page leaflet advertising the English editions of Mantrap, The Job,
Martin Arrowsmith, The Trail of the Hawk, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry and The
Man Who Knew Coolidge, with excerpts from reviews of each. Illustrated
with a caricature of Lewis.
[Advertising Leaflet] Sinclair Lewis -- New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1929]
-- Issued by Harcourt prior to the publication of Dodsworth. Illustrated
with a 6-panel cartoon by H.T. Webster of Lewis making a friend at a cocktail
party, entitled "The beginning of a beautiful friendship."
A Map of Sinclair Lewis’s United States as it Appears in his Novels
/ with notes by Carl Van Doren -- New York : Doubleday, [1934]
-- A promotional item issued by Doubleday at the time of the publication of Work
of Art.
[Hotel Register] -- [s.l. : s.n., 1934]
-- 48 leaves bound in brown cloth ; 39 x 24 cm.
-- A promotional item issued to bookstores (?) by Doubleday at the time of
the publication of Work of Art, Lewis’s 1934 novel about the hotel
industry. The first and last leaves are blank; the 8 leaves in the middle are
printed as pages of a hotel register. At the bottom of each page is stamped "Register
here for Work of Art by Sinclair Lewis."
White House Gate Pass -- Feb. 10, 1936.
-- Issued to the Lewises to attend a dinner with President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
With an accompanying newspaper clipping about the event: "Miss Thompson
wore a long trailing gown of white chiffon with a long scarf of green ..."
[Dialogue Continuity for Arrowsmith] -- [1931]
-- The 1931 film version of Arrowsmith; starred Ronald Colman, Helen
Hayes and Myrna Loy, and was directed by John Ford. The screenplay was adapted
from Lewis’s novel by dramatist Sidney Howard. "Only copy" written
on cover.
[Dialogue Continuity for Elmer Gantry] -- 1960.
-- Photocopy of a typescript. The 1960 film version of Elmer Gantry was
adapted from the novel by Richard Brooks, who also directed. The film starred
Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons.
[Cutting Continuity for Elmer Gantry] -- 1960.
-- Photocopy of a typescript.
Babbitt: A Marriage / Sinclair Lewis ; adapted by Ron Hutchinson
-- 1987.
-- Script for a musical adaptation of Lewis’s novel produced in 1987
at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.