Box 1
Contains 58 Results:
Identification documents of Jane van Meter, 1925-1936, 1967
United States passports, social security card, and driver's license; French carte d'identité, carte d'immatriculation, as well as the fellowship certificate for study in France; and English certificate of Registration and entrance permits for the libraries at Oxford University.
Luggage Labels, 1926, 1936
Mostly Norddeutscher Lloyd labels.
Small daily expense diaries, 1931, 1939, 1940
[6] 2x3" red "Agenda Bijou" expense diaries, along with [1] green "Agenda Ticket" 1931 engagement calendar.
French bills and receipts, 1926 - 1938
Receipts and bills from Au Bon Marché; La Grande Maison de Blanc; Vve D. Dreyfus; J. Huchedé, Docteur en Pharmacie de l’Université de Paris; Clément, Bousquet, and Cie; Hélène Coutoure; and the Grand Hotel Du Louvre, among others.
Shakespeare and Company [notes], 1931 - 1935
Numerous hand-written notes, some in Beach's hand, concerning books, newspapers, and patrons, as well as a sheet of Shakespeare and Company letterhead with an erased line of ink and a postcard to Beachregarding Max Olin.
Petition for support of Shakespeare and Company [drafts], 1935
Multiple portions of draft petitions for membership support of Shakespeare and Company with a list of well-known authors who pledged signatures. Correspondence with Sotheby's about selling Ulysses items is also included.
Various notes and sketches, 1934 - 1935
Notes are written on scraps of paper including Shakespeare and Company invitations to readings by Edith Wharton and James Joyce. A Sylvia Beach calling card is also included.
"Sorbonne Ecole de Préparation…", 1927 - 1928
Envelope reading "Sorbonne Ecole de Préparation, 1927-28, cours de Laurens, explication de [texte?] Les Juifues, Langue de XVI s. Fiches" and the cards that it contained.
"Langue du XVI and XVII siècle…", 1927 - 1928
Labeled envelope and the notecards it contained.
"Peire Vidal Gel del joy que ai (variantes) A, B, C, H, L, R" [table of notes and notecards]
The notecards may or may not be associated with the Peire Vidal table.
"Vocabulaires, word lists, mainly French"
Labeled envelope and its contents, including a list of Hawaiian words among the French notes and what could be a draft poem.
"Fiches Bibliographiques"
Labeled envelope and the cards that it contained.
"Fiches BM [Faicenete ?]", 1931
Notecards made from scraps of reused paper appear to list books, book sellers, a card translating some German words, and book collectors along with the labeled envelope that contained them.
Various notes
Loose notes of various content written on notecards, notebook paper, and scraps of reused paper, including Shakespeare and Company notices dealing with James Joyce's Ulysses.
A-B [not including Sylvia Beach], 1928, 1938
Correspondents include Agnes, Au Bon Marché, M. Bayle, and Robert Boname. The letter from Agnes was in an envelope along with a poem[?] written on the back of a Shakespeare and Company invitation to an Edith Sitwell reading.
Beach, Sylvia, 1932 - 1940
Includes Beach's initial letter of engagement, hiring van Meter as an assistant, letters commending her efficient running of the bookshop, and numerous later letters thanking van Meter for her generosity in sending houshold items that were treasured in wartime Paris.
Message from Sylvia Beach written by Violaine Hoppenot, 1940 - 1941
One letter explains that Sylvia Beach was unable to write and includes a news clipping about the death of Dr. Sylvester Beach, Sylvia's father.
Beach, Sylvia, 1948-1950, 1954-1955
Beach tells of the death of her partner, Adrienne Monnier, in a 1955 letter.
C-D, 1928 - 1931
Letters from Denyse Clairouin-Deverin, M. and M. Emanuel Chalandon, M. [Chaluix or Chalerif], A. [Curlson or Carlson], Collette Denisot [Lucy], Ann Defourey, and [I. or P.] de Corbiau.
[Coleus or Colens?], F., 1938
Includes postcards of Rome and the Pyrenees.