Overview
Compositions and letters of French authors and journalists Jérôme and Jean Tharaud.
Dates
- Creation: 1927-1949
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in French.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Extent
.2 linear feet (2 volumes)Includes manuscript in the hand of Jérôme Tharaud and edited by Frédéric Lefèvre, Une heure avec Jérôme et Jean Tharaud, 1927, and an autograph manuscript in the hand of Jérôme Tharaud of La poésie du peuple juif, 1938. Also contains letters by Jérôme and Jean Tharaud to various correspondents.
Biographical / Historical
Jérôme and Jean Tharaud were French writers and journalists, who received the Goncourt Prize in 1906; Frédéric Lefèvre was a French journalist who published interviews with contemporary authors in a series entitled Une heure avec...
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- I. fMS Fr 365: Une heure avec Jérôme et Jean Tharaud
- II. fMS Fr 365.1: Letters and composition
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
*85M-27. Purchased with the Amy Lowell fund from Thierry Bodin, 45, rue de l'Abbé Grégoire, 75006 Paris; received: 1985 July.
- Title
- Tharaud, Jérôme, 1874-1953. Jérôme and Jean Tharaud papers: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00420
Repository Details
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