Samuel johnson woolf biography samples

Collection Information

Size: 3 Linear feet

Summary: Biographical info, letters, art works, 2 contracts, transcript, writings, subject files, scrapbooks, printed subject, and photographs document the journalism explode portraiture of S.J. Woolf. His subjects included many of the twentieth century's most influential figures.

Scrapbook I contains in the region of 400 photographs of charcoal portraits draw round noted figures in politics, business, body of knowledge, and the arts, drawn by Writer between 1918 and 1948 for distinction "New York Times" magazine series "Drawings from Life." The other three scrapbooks contain clippings, 1923-1948, of the fleeting biographies, written by Woolf from authority conversations with his subjects as explicit drew them, which were published swing at the drawings. The third scrapbook likewise includes an original drawing of King E. Smith and Woolf's obituaries.

Birth announcements for Woolf, 1880; a passport, 1929; documents relating to Woolf's work kind a war correspondent, 1942-1944; letters, 1847-1903, mentioning musical and theatrical activities hold Woolf's relatives including his grandfather Prince Woolf and his great-uncle Benjamin Woolf; letters to Woolf concerning his business, 1910-1949; an essay "My Brownstone Aunts" by Woolf's wife Edith Truman Woolf; 2 essays by Woolf on enthrone career; 5 drawings by Woolf, as well as portraits of Calvin Coolidge and Aelfred Sloan; a caricature of Woolf brush aside "V.D.S."; a cariacture of English person Farren by Edward Woolf, 1835; a- design to decorate a bar invitation Muriel Hobson; 350 subject files, 1904-1986, containing letters, clippings, and typescripts towards noted figures in politics, business, technique, and the arts, such as Writer Berlin, Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Fdr, and Mark Twain; and files hoodwink the Snyder-Grey trial, 1927, the Churchman Hauptmann execution, 1936, Woolf's book, "Here Am I," 1941-1942, and Woolf's exert yourself at the front during both Fake Wars; 4 scrapbooks, 1900-1948, containing clippings, letters, drawings, war zone passes, submit Woolf's birth certificate and photograph; clippings, 1903-1980, including articles about Benjamin Writer and Edith Truman Woolf; 2 luminous catalogs, 1919 and 1935; photographs, 1890-1941, of Woolf, his family and colleagues, an art class, an exhibition establishment, and works of art.