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Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Eugene O'Neill collection, 1912-1993

12.03 Linear Feet
The Eugene O'Neill Collection consists of material by or pertaining to O'Neill, including correspondence, writings of O'Neill, writings of others, photographs, legal documents, clippings, and programs. Correspondents include O'Neill's lawyers, Harry Weinberger and Winfield E. Aronberg; a collector of his works, Keith H. Baker; his agent, Kenneth Macgowan; his and Carlotta's friends Dale Edward Fern, Armina Marshall, Dudley Nichols, Robert Sisk, Fania Marinoff Van Vechten, and Marion Welch; and Carlotta's daughter, Cynthia Chapman Stram, and her grandson, Gerald Eugene Stram. There are letters between O'Neill's biographers and others to Gaylord Farm Sanatorium regarding his stay there, and between biographer Louis Sheaffer and Hazel A. Johnson. There is also correspondence between Harry Weinberger and Agnes Boulton regarding her divorce settlement with O'Neill.
Writings include drafts, proofs, programs, and clippings for some of O'Neill's plays, as well as works by others about O'Neill's life and writings. The photographs include prints of O'Neill and his family, among other subjects. There are also legal documents regarding his plays, and versions of Carlotta's wills.
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2011 Addition, 1951 0.21 Linear Feet

Series V. 2011 Addition contains photocopies of letters from Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill to Kenneth Macgowan, along with four autograph manuscript letters, signed and dated 1951, from Carlotta.

    2015 Addition, 1921-1964 0.42 Linear Feet

    Series VI. 2015 Addition contains Proofs of Mourning Becomes Electra, dated 1931, and a letter from Eugene O'Neill to the editor of the Yale Daily News, dated 1921.