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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: MS 383

Contains 58 Results:

Identification documents of Jane van Meter, 1925-1936, 1967

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1925-1936, 1967

Luggage Labels, 1926, 1936

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Mostly Norddeutscher Lloyd labels.

Dates: 1926, 1936

Small daily expense diaries, 1931, 1939, 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

[6] 2x3" red "Agenda Bijou" expense diaries, along with [1] green "Agenda Ticket" 1931 engagement calendar.

Dates: 1931, 1939, 1940

French bills and receipts, 1926 - 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1926 - 1938

Shakespeare and Company [notes], 1931 - 1935

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1931 - 1935

Petition for support of Shakespeare and Company [drafts], 1935

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1935

Various notes and sketches, 1934 - 1935

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1934 - 1935

"Sorbonne Ecole de Préparation…", 1927 - 1928

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1927 - 1928

"Langue du XVI and XVII siècle…", 1927 - 1928

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11-13
Scope and Contents

Labeled envelope and the notecards it contained.

Dates: 1927 - 1928

"Peire Vidal Gel del joy que ai (variantes) A, B, C, H, L, R" [table of notes and notecards]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

The notecards may or may not be associated with the Peire Vidal table.

"Vocabulaires, word lists, mainly French"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Labeled envelope and its contents, including a list of Hawaiian words among the French notes and what could be a draft poem.

"Fiches Bibliographiques"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Labeled envelope and the cards that it contained.

"Fiches BM [Faicenete ?]", 1931

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1931

Various notes

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

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

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
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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.

Dates: 1928, 1938

Beach, Sylvia, 1932 - 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21-27
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1932 - 1940

Message from Sylvia Beach written by Violaine Hoppenot, 1940 - 1941

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
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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.

Dates: 1940 - 1941

Beach, Sylvia, 1948-1950, 1954-1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Beach tells of the death of her partner, Adrienne Monnier, in a 1955 letter.

Dates: 1948-1950, 1954-1955

C-D, 1928 - 1931

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1928 - 1931

[Coleus or Colens?], F., 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
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Includes postcards of Rome and the Pyrenees.

Dates: 1938