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{"value"=>"1421", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1421", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1907-1960", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1907/1960"}
{"value"=>"1930-1955", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1930/1955"}
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1907
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1960
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1907
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1907
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1960
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{"value"=>"Flora May Holly papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 linear feet (16 boxes, 1 microfilm reel)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Flora May Holly (1868-1960) was an American literary critic and agent who represented Theodore Dreiser and Edna Ferber among others. She was an editor at Bookman Magazine and also organized several professional associations of women writers. Collection consists of personal and business papers of Holly. Personal file, 1910-1958, includes correspondence, autobiographical writings, scrapbook and memorabilia. General correspondence, 1930-1959, is with authors, publishers and associates. Business files, 1931-1958, contain client files, literary manuscripts and criticism, notes, contracts, and royalty statements. Professional and community activities file, 1929-1958, concerns Holly's activities in Stamford, Conn. and New York City. Financial records, 1940-1960, document personal and business matters. Also, photographs of Holly and others. Bulk of the collection is correspondence pertaining to authors including Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber and Noel Coward; papers of Arthur Maurice, author and editor of the Bookman; and Holly's work with the Connecticut branch of the National League of American Pen Women. Microfilm reel contains correspondence including letters from Dreiser and photograph of Dreiser (location of originals is unknown)."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Flora May Holly papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Holly, Flora May, 1868-1960", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Flora May Holly (1868-1960) was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles E. Holly and Elizabeth Turnbull Holly. After attending private schools in Connecticut and a business school in New York City, Ms Holly worked as an editorial assistant on the staff of <em render=\"italic\">The Bookman</em>. By the mid-1920s she had become established as one of the leading independent literary agents in New York. During the course of her career she represented many prominent authors, including Gertrude Atherton, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, and numerous lesser-known writers of fiction and non-fiction earmarked for the publishers of popular magazines. In the early 1940s she transferred her office from New York to Stamford (Conn.) where she continued her career as literary agent in addition to hosting a local radio show on current books and authors. During her later years she was active in several local civic organizations including the National League of American Pen Women of Connecticut, of which she became president, and the Stamford Business and Professional Women's Club. She was never married. For many years she was a close friend and companion of the author and editor, Arthur Bartlett Maurice.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Note On The Dreiser-Holly Correspondence.</p> <p>Theodore Dreiser's correspondence with Flora May Holly is available to researchers in the Manuscripts & Archives Division on a microfilm copy acquired through the courtesy of the Special Collections Department, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania (3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206) which has custody of the original microfilm. (The whereabouts of the original correspondence from which the microfilm was made is not known). Permission to reproduce or publish this correspondence should be obtained from the Van Pelt Library.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Flora May Holly papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1421#c1040013'>I. Papers As Literary Agent</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence of Ms Holly with authors, writers, editors, publishers, and literary agents relative to the placing of her clients' manuscripts with publishers of books and magazines, her evaluations of manuscripts submitted to her, royalties received, and related matters. The files are arranged alphabetically and are mainly in the period 1920s-1940s. Some of the correspondence contains collateral papers including authors' scripts, agreements, and royalty statements. There is also a file of authors' manuscript control cards (arranged alphabetically) which record the title and date of manuscripts received by Holly and the actions taken to place them with publishers. Correspondents include Gertrude Atherton, Faith Baldwin, Whitman Chambers, Robert Hobart Davis, Dodd, Mead & Co., Lucille Selk Edgerton, Edna Ferber, Temple H. Fielding, Philip M. Fisher, Jay Garon, Guy Gilpatric, Fannie Hurst, Mary W. King, Margaret Larson, Richard Le Gallienne, Sinclair Lewis, Travis Mason, Arthur Mizener, Ann Ritner, Edith S. Stebbins, Toni Strassman, Ida M. Tarbell, and Philip Wylie. The correspondence with Edith S. Stebbins, who managed Ms Holly's office, provides a detailed account of the methods employed by Ms Holly in marketing her clients' manuscripts.</p> <p>As noted above the Theodore Dreiser correspondence is available to researchers on microfilm acquired through the courtesy of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania which has custody of the original microfilm. The microfilm (which is shelved separately in the Division's microfilm collection) contains five letters from Dreiser to Holly; a photograph of Dreiser with two unidentified men; and two letters to Holly from Ripley Hitchcock.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1421#c1040043'>II. Personal Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1421#c1040077'>III. Papers Relating To Arthur B. Maurice</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The papers consist of miscellaneous correspondence received by Maurice arranged chronologically; miscellaneous legal papers; personal miscellany including passport photos, documents relating to Maurice's service as member of the Commission for Relief in Belgium during World War I.; a few typescript drafts of writings; and two literary notebooks. Some of the correspondence received is from readers of <em render=\"italic\">The Bookman</em> and from readers of Maurice's books. Correspondents include Arthur St. John Adcock (4/18/22); George P. Brett (2/17/21); Marion Thompson Davies (7/3/16); Arthur Guiterman (2/11/16); Arthur Stringer (6/30/15); and Charles Hanson Towne (9/14/34). The literary notebooks contain notes and drafts of articles for issues (1909-10) of <em render=\"italic\">The Bookman</em>.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Eight series: I. Personal Files; II. General Correspondence; III. Business Files; IV. Professional and Community Activities File; V. Financial Records; VI. Printed Matter; VII. Photographs; VIII. Microfilm</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Visiting Nurse Association of Stamford, Connecticut, 1961 (bulk)</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Genna Rae McNeil, 1982 Revised: John D. Stinson, 1998</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Copies of microfilm to be requested from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries [Microfilm 49-D24]</p>"}
- extent_statement
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7 linear feet (16 boxes, 1 microfilm reel)
- date_bulk_start
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1930
- date_bulk_end
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1955