Matthew Josephson letter to Coburn Gilman

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0099-F0865

Staff Only

Content Description

American author Matthew Josephson typed and signed this letter of gratitude and invitation to Coburn Gilman.

Josephson thanked Gilman for locating and sending a Proust passage which he had needed for inclusion in a book he had written and expressed the importance of scholars and researchers to writers. He also wrote of his gardening, his happiness in Connecticut, an upcoming stay at Yaddo, and invited Gilman to visit during the summer. In a postscript, he requested articles on Rimbaud.

Dates

Creation: 1931 May 11

Creator

Josephson, Matthew, 1899-1978 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

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Matthew Josephson (1899-1978)

American author Matthew Josephson wrote several books about U.S. politicians and leaders of industry, the most noted of which was The Robber Barons, which traced the careers of noted capitalists Jay Gould, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, E.H. Harriman, and Henry Clay Frick.

Between 1922 and 1924, Josephson co-founded and edited the literary magazine, Secession, and was the associate editor of Broom. From 1928 to 1929, he was the American editor for Transition. As an American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, Josephson became friends with Paul Eluard, Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, and Max Ernst and was an eyewitness to the development of surrealism, as he explained in Life Among the Surrealists.

Born on February 15, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, Josephson died in 1978.

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed April 2010).