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Beach, Sylvia

 Person

Languages Used

  • Language: English. Script: Latin

Found in 1 Record:

Jane van Meter collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 383
Overview

The bulk of the Jane van Meter collection is correspondence, mostly letters from Sylvia Beach, who was owner of the Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris, France and for whom van Meter was an assistant. Identification documents, notecards from van Meter's studies at the Sorbonne, personally inscribed books, and photographs of van Meter in Paris and later in life on the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence make up the rest of the collection.

Dates: 1923 - 2020