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Janet Flanner-Natalia Danesi Murray
A Register of Their Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Nan Thompson Ernst
1996
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2001
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Table of Contents for Janet Flanner-Natalia Danesi Murray
Collection Summary
Selected Search Terms
* Names:
* Subjects:
* Occupations:
Administrative Information
* Provenance:
* Copyright Status:
* Preferred Citation:
Biographical Note
* Janet Flanner
* Natalia Danesi Murray
Scope and Content Note
Description of Series
* Janet Flanner Papers, 1940- 1978, n.d.
* Natalia Danesi Murray Papers, 1944- 1984, n.d.
Container List
* JANET FLANNER PAPERS, 1940- 1978, n.d.
* NATALIA DANESI MURRAY PAPERS, 1944- 1984, n.d.
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Collection Summary
Creator: Flanner, Janet, 1892-
Title: Papers of Janet Flanner-Natalia Danesi Murray 1940-1984 (bulk
1944-1975)
Size: 4,500 items; 13 containers; 5 linear feet
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Papers of Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray, journalists,
writers, and editors. Correspondence, writings, notes, reviews, printed
material, financial records, photographs and other papers relating
primarily to the last decade of Flanner's writing career and to the
relationship between Flanner and Murray.
Selected Search Terms
Names:
Boyle, Kay, 1902-
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967
Flanner, Janet, 1892- Darlinghissima: letters to a friend (1985)
Flanner, Janet, 1892- Janet Flanner's world: uncollected writings, 1932-75
(1979)
Flanner, Janet, 1892- Paris was yesterday (1972)
Murray, Natalia Danesi. Janet Flanner-Natalia Danesi Murray papers
(1940-1984)
Subjects:
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Americans--France--Paris
Rive gauche (Paris, France)--Intellectual life
Occupations:
Authors
Editors
Journalists
Administrative Information
Provenance:
The papers of Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray, journalists,
writers, and editors, were conveyed to the Library of Congress in 1994 by
William Murray as the bequest of his mother, Natalia Danesi Murray.
Copyright Status:
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi
Murray in these papers is claimed by William Murray .
Preferred Citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: container number, Janet Flanner-Natalia Danesi Murray Papers,
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Janet Flanner
Date Event
1892 , Mar.
13 Born, Indianapolis, Ind.
1912 - 1913 Student, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1917 Drama editor, Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Ind.
1918 Married William Lane Rehm (divorced, 1926)
Moved to New York, N.Y.
1921 - 1922 Toured Greece, Crete, Turkey, Italy, Austria, and Germany
with Solita Solano, who was on assignments from National
Geographic magazine
1922 Settled in Paris, France, among the American expatriates on
the Left Bank
1925 Published first "Letter from Paris" in The New Yorker (Oct.
10) under the pen name Genêt
1925 - 1977 Contribed to The New Yorker and numerous other periodicals
1926 Published The Cubical City (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
426 pp.)
1940 Moved to New York after the German army captured Paris
Published An American in Paris: Profile of an Interlude
Between Two Wars (New York: Simon and Schuster. 53 pp.)
1940 - 1944 Resided with Natalia Danesi Murray, New York, N.Y.
1944 Published Pétain: The Old Man of France (New York: Simon
and Schuster. 53 pp.)
Returned to Paris, France, and resumed work as foreign
correspondent
1947 Decorated, Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor for
locating stolen French art in Germany
1957 Published Men and Monuments (New York: Harper. 297 pp.)
1958 Honorary Litt.D., Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
1965 Published Paris Journal: 1944-1965 (New York: Atheneum. 615
pp.), edited by William Shawn
1966 National Book Award for Paris Journal
1971 Published Paris Journal: Volume II, 1965-1971 (New York:
Atheneum. 438 pp.), edited by William Shawn
1972 Published Paris Was Yesterday (New York: Viking Press. 232
pp.), edited by Irving Drutman
1972 Elevated to the rank of Grande Maître in the French Legion
of Honor, the highest civilian honor
1975 Published last "Letter from Paris" in The New Yorker (Sept.
29)
Published London Was Yesterday, 1934-1939(New York: Viking
Press. 232 pp.), edited by Irving Drutman
Moved to New York, N.Y., to live with Natalia Danesi Murray
1978 , Nov.
7 Died, New York, N.Y.
Natalia Danesi Murray
Date Event
1901 , Dec.
14 Born, Rome, Italy
1924 Immigrated to the United States ; married William B. Murray
(d. 1949), American music critic and agent (divorced, ca.
1935)
1938 - 1944 Wrote, directed, produced, and announced a radio program of
news and interviews broadcast to Italy for NBC
1940 - 1944 Resided with Janet Flanner, New York, N.Y.
1944 Director, press bureau, Office of War Information, Rome,
Italy
1945 Head, Special Projects Division, United States Information
Service, Rome, Italy
1946 Freelance correspondent, Italy
1951 Moved to New York, N.Y., to head the American office of the
Italian publisher Arnoldo Mondadori of Milan
1966 Appointed vice president, Rizzoli Editore Corp., New York,
N.Y.
1972 Decorated, Order of Cavaliere al Merito by the Italian
Republic
1979 Arranged for the publication of Janet Flanner's World:
Uncollected Writings, 1932-1975 (New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich. 368 pp.), edited by Irving Drutman
1985 Edited, with commentary, Darlinghissima: Letters to a
Friend, by Janet Flanner (New York: Random House. 508 pp.)
1994 Died, San Diego, Calif.
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Janet Flanner (1892-1978) and Natalia Danesi Murray
(1901-1994) span the years 1940-1984 with the bulk of the material
concentrated in the period 1944-1975. The collection includes
correspondence, writing notes, drafts, corrected galleys, and off prints,
review clippings, financial records, photographs, and printed material. The
papers are organized in two series: Janet Flanner Papers and Natalia Danesi
Murray Papers.
Janet Flanner's papers largely concern the last decade of her writing
career. Her books were compiled from New Yorker essays, selected and edited
by William Shawn and Irving Drutman. Files are scant for Paris Journal,
volumes one and two (1965, 1971), and London Was Yesterday (1975). Files
for Paris Was Yesterday (1972) are more comprehensive and include corrected
galleys and publicity files. Flanner's original essays for The New Yorker
during this period look back to her early literary efforts and life among
the writers, publishers, artists, and personalities on the Left Bank in
Paris during the interwar years, figures such as Colette, Pablo Picasso,
Margaret Anderson, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein, and Alice B. Toklas. A
notable exception is the small file of radio scripts dated 1945 and written
in Rome as Flanner reported to an American audience on the war's end and
aftermath in Europe .
Natalia Danesi Murray's papers concern her relationship with Janet Flanner.
Their correspondence, 1944-1977, is almost entirely composed of Flanner's
letters to Murray, although copies of a few of Murray's letters to Flanner
are included. Flanner's letters to Murray provide a detailed and personal
record of those thirty years, a contrast to the detached reporting in the
"Letters" by Gênet, Flanner's New Yorker pseudonym/persona. The letters
trace the course of Flanner's health and emotions and are full of
observations on friends, family, acquaintances, and comments about her
writing assignments, entertainments, politics, and current news events.
Murray published about half of Flanner's letters in Darlinghissima: Letters
to a Friend (1985). She selected and edited the letters and wrote
introductions, commentaries, and footnotes. Documentation for
Darlinghissima includes annotated exact copies and transcripts of the
letters, early and revised drafts of the text, and notes, with lists of
letters considered for publication. A final chapter by Murray, not
published in the book, concerns the three years they lived together in New
York until Flanner's death in 1978.
Murray had a memorial service for Flanner, received condolence letters and
collected a file of obituaries which are preserved in the Flanner file. On
occasion, Murray acted as literary representative for Flanner, which
accounts for a small file of publicity records. After Flanner's death,
Murray arranged for the publication in 1979 of Janet Flanner's World:
Uncollected Writings, 1932-1975, records of which are in Murray's Flanner
file.
Murray's papers also include miscellaneous correspondence, some in Italian
and French, from family, associates, and friends such as Kay Boyle and
Carson McCullers. The McCullers file includes a typescript of her
children's poems, eventually published in the book Sweet as a Pickle and
Clean as a Pig (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964) and other poetry, 1951 and
undated. Murray's correspondence with Noel Haskins Murphy concerns their
shared responsibility in attending to the aging Flanner's health and well
being.
Related collections in the Library of Congress include the Janet Flanner -
Solita Solano Papers in the Manuscript Division.
Description of Series
Box Series
BOX Janet Flanner Papers, 1940 - 1978 , n.d.
1-2
Correspondence, notes, drafts, corrected galleys, offprints,
review clippings, financial records, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, title, or type of document.
BOX Natalia Danesi Murray Papers, 1944 - 1984 , n.d.
2-13
Correspondence, drafts, notes, photographs, clippings, and
additional printed matter.
Organized in two groupings, Janet Flanner file and other papers,
and thereunder, alphabetically by subject or type of document.
Container List
Box Contents
JANET FLANNER PAPERS, 1940 - 1978 , n.d.
BOX 1 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1978
Clippings, 1974-1978, n.d.
Correspondence, 1950, 1972-1978, n.d.
Financial records, 1974-1978
Public appearances and recognition, 1966-1970, 1978
Writings
Afterword, Cubical City reprint, 1975, n.d.
Introduction, Colette: The Difficulty of Loving, by
Margaret Crosland, n.d.
London Was Yesterday, 1974
Miscellaneous draft fragments and notes, 1972, n.d.
"Moura Budberg," n.d.
New Yorker articles
Miscellaneous, 1940-1973
"Profile: Margaret Anderson," (3 June 1974)
Correspondence and notes, 1973
Drafts, n.d.
Galleys, edited by Flanner, 1974
Review: Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice
B. Toklas, 1974, n.d.
BOX 2 "Oriana" [Falacci], 1973
Paris Journal, 1966-1972
Paris Was Yesterday
Galleys, edited by Flanner, 1972, n.d.
(2 folders)
Publicity, 1972
Review clippings, 1972-1973
Prefaces
J'aime Paris, n.d.
Published in Paris, by Hugh Ford, 1973,
n.d.
The Pure and the Impure, by Colette, 1967,
n.d.
Radio scripts, 1945
NATALIA DANESI MURRAY PAPERS, 1944 - 1984 , n.d.
BOX 2 Janet Flanner file
Correspondence
1944-1946
(6 folders)
BOX 3 1947-1952
(13 folders)
BOX 4 1953-1960
(12 folders)
BOX 5 1961-1964
(9 folders)
BOX 6 1965-1968
(10 folders)
BOX 7 1969-1977
(12 folders)
BOX 8 Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend
Biographical notes, n.d.
Book proposal, n.d.
(3 folders)
Correspondence, 1981-1984
Lists of letters (1944-1950) used and not
used, n.d.
Notes, n.d.
Text, by chapter, n.d.
"1944"
(2 folders)
BOX 9 "1945"-"1952"
(14 folders)
BOX 10 "1953"-"1963"
(13 folders)
BOX 11 "1964"-"1972"
(15 folders)
BOX 12 "1973"-"1975-1978"
(4 folders)
Death of Flanner
Condolence letters, 1978-1979
(3 folders)
Memorial service and miscellany, 1978
Obituaries, 1978
Literary representative
Awards sought
French Legion of Honor, 1972
Journalism award, Columbia
University, New York, N.Y., 1972
BOX 13 Posthumous publication of Janet Flanner's
World: Uncollected Writings, 1932-1975,
1980
(3 folders)
Other papers
Correspondence
Boyle, Kay, 1946-1951
McCullers, Carson, 1946, 1951, n.d.
(includes poem typescripts)
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous, 1947-ca. 1980, n.d.
(2 folders)
Murphy, Noel Haskins, 1962-1975, n.d.
(3 folders)
Interview transcript, "La Donna del Mondo," ca.
1950
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