Morrill Cody (AC 1921) Papers, 1930-1969 (bulk 1958-1962)

Morrill Cody (AC 1921) Papers, 1930-1969 (Bulk: 1958-1962)

1 archives box (0.5 linear ft.)

Abstract:

Journalist, editor and diplomat. The collection consists mostly of incoming correspondence, concerning social affairs, editorial work, and publishing. Among the correspondents are a number of literary figures, including Sylvia Beach, e. e. cummings, Marcel Duchamp, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Raymond Queneau, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edith Sitwell, Alice B. Toklas, and William Carlos Williams.

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Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the Morrill Cody Papers for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

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Requests for permission to publish material from the Morrill Cody Papers should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Amherst, MA

Biographical Note

Morrill "Bill" Cody was born in Lake Forest, Illinois on April 10, 1901, the son of Sherwin Cody (AC 1889) and Marian Hurley. He attended secondary school in France. After graduating from Amherst College in 1921, he returned to Paris as a journalist, living and working with the American artists and writers of the "Lost Generation." In the 1930s, Cody worked as a magazine editor and writer in New York, contributing to the Literary Digest among other publications. He published This Must Be the Place, a memoir of Montparnasse, in 1934, and Passing Stranger, a novel, in 1936. At the time of his marriage to Marion Holbrook in 1935, he had a son, Malcolm Peter (b. 1925). His daughter, Judith Alden, was born in 1936. Cody joined the Foreign Service in 1941, holding diplomatic posts in Paraguay, Argentina, Mexico, Washington, Paris, Stockholm, and Madrid. In 1960 he married Jane Hoster, and had another daughter, Gabrielle Hamilton Cody. Before retiring from the Service in 1963, he served as assistant director of the United States Information Agency under Edward R. Murrow. In his later years, Cody headed the Paris bureau of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, and wrote two more books, The Favorite Restaurants of an American in Paris (1966) and The Women of Montparnasse (1984). Morrill Cody died in Maryland on November 23, 1987.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Incoming and some outgoing correspondence with American writers, mostly concerning social affairs, editorial work, and publishing. Correspondents include Sylvia Beach, e. e. cummings, Marcel Duchamp, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Raymond Queneau, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edith Sitwell, Alice B. Toklas, and William Carlos Williams.

This collection is organized into one series:

Morrill Cody Papers

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the Morrill Cody Papers for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

Restrictions on use:

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Morrill Cody (AC 1921) Papers [Box #, folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library.

History of the Collection

Gift of Morrill Cody, 1965.

Processing Information

The collection originally formed part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection but was removed to form its own collection in 2011.

Additional Information

Contact Information

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Robert Frost Library
PO Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002-5000

Phone: (413) 542-2299
Fax: (413) 542-2692

Email Reference Form: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/askus
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Language

English

Contents List

SERIES 1: MORRILL CODY (AC 1921) PAPERS	1930-1969 (bulk 1958-1962)
Arrangement: Folders are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Anderson, Margaret, LeCannet, France, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p. plus carbon	1959 Feb 18	Box 1: folder 1

Anderson, Margaret, LeCannet, France, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 21	Box 1: folder 2

Anderson, Margaret, LeCannet, France, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p. plus TM copy of preface	[1959] Mar 21	Box 1: folder 3

Anderson, Margaret, LeCannet, France, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p. plus envelope	1959 Apr 17	Box 1: folder 4

Anderson, Margaret, LeCannet, France, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1959 Nov 23	Box 1: folder 5

Antheil, Boski, (Mrs. George Antheil), New York, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, France, TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 21	Box 1: folder 6

Barnes, Djuna, New York, to [Dorothea] Speyer, n.p., TLS 1p. (given by E. Morrill Cody)	1959 May 12	Box 1: folder 7

Barnes, Djuna, [New York], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p. plus envelope	[1859 Jun 3]	Box 1: folder 8

Beach, Sylvia, Greenwich, Connecticut, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, ALS 2p.	1959 Feb 10	Box 1: folder 9

Beach, Sylvia, Paris, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p.	1959 Apr 17	Box 1: folder 10

Beach, Sylvia, Paris, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, ALS 2p. plus envelope	1959 May 23	Box 1: folder 11

Beach, Sylvia, New York, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p. plus envelope and news clipping	1959 Jun 19	Box 1: folder 12

Beach, Sylvia, Paris, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 2p.	1959 Jul 19	Box 1: folder 13

Beach, Sylvia, Paris, to E. Morrill Cody, [Paris], ANS 1p.	1959 Sep 26	Box 1: folder 14

Beach, Sylvia, Paris, to E. Morrill Cody, [Paris], ALS 2p. plus envelope	1960 Jan 1	Box 1: folder 15

Beach, Sylvia, Paris, to E. Morrill Cody, Washington D.C., TLS 1p.	1962 Jun 6	Box 1: folder 16

Beach, Sylvia, Les Deserts, Savoie, [France], to E. Morrill Cody, Washington D.C., ALS 2p. plus envelope	[1962 Jul?]	Box 1: folder 17

Beach, Sylvia, Les Deserts, Savoie, [France], to E. Morrill Cody, Washington D.C., ALS 2p. plus envelope	1962 Jul 18	Box 1: folder 18

Beach, Sylvia, New York, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, telegram annotated by unknown	1969 Mar 4	Box 1: folder 19

Benét, Stephen Vincent, New York, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ANS 1p. plus clipping mounted	[1938]	Box 1: folder 20

Bird, William, Tangier, Morocco, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 2p. plus envelope	1958 Nov 21	Box 1: folder 21

Bird, William, Tangier, [Morocco], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1958 Dec 6	Box 1: folder 22

Bird, William Tangier, [Morocco], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p. plus preface 4p., and corresponding letters from Cody	1958 Dec 12	Box 1: folder 23

Bird, William, Tangier, Morocco, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1959 Mar 13	Box 1: folder 24

Bird, William, Tangier, Morocco, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TNS 1p. PC	1959 Jun 11	Box 1: folder 25

Bird, William, Tangier, Morocco, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TNS 1p. plus envelope	1959 Dec 19	Box 1: folder 26

Bird, William, Tangier, Morocco, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TNS 1p.	1960 Nov 9	Box 1: folder 27

Boyle, Kay, Rowayton, Connecticut, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 27	Box 1: folder 28

Bryher, Winifred, Vaud, [Switzerland], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 26	Box 1: folder 29

Bryher, Winifred, Vaud, [Switzerland], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 2p.	1959 Mar 20	Box 1: folder 30

Bryher, Winifred, Vaud, [Switzerland], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1959 Nov 29	Box 1: folder 31

Carter, John, [London], to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 17	Box 1: folder 32

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to Margaret Anderson, Le Cannet, (A.M.) [France], carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Apr 15	Box 1: folder 33

Cody, Morrill, Paris, France, to Margaret Anderson, Le Cannet, [France], carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Nov 6	Box 1: folder 34

Cody, Morrill, Paris, France, to Margaret Anderson, Le Cannet, [France], carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Nov 30	Box 1: folder 35

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to Margaret Anderson, Le Cannet, [France], carbon copy TS 1 p.	1962 May 29	Box 1: folder 36

Cody, Morrill, Paris, to Djuna Barnes, New York, carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 May 26	Box 1: folder 37

Cody, Morrill, Paris, to Sylvia Beach, n.p., carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Dec 28	Box 1: folder 38

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to William Bird, Tangier, Morocco, carbon copy TS 2p.	1958 Dec 2	Box 1: folder 39

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to William Bird, Tangier, Morocco, carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Feb 3	Box 1: folder 40

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to William Bird, Tangier, Morocco, carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Mar 16	Box 1: folder 41

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to William Bird, n.p., carbon copy TS 1p.	1960 Jan 12	Box 1: folder 42

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to Nancy Cunard, London, carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Mar 25	Box 1: folder 43

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to Nancy Cunard, London,carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Apr 30	Box 1: folder 44

Cody, Morrill, n.p., to Langston Hughes, New York, carbon copy TS 1p.	1959 Oct 19	Box 1: folder 45

cummings, e.e., [New York], PC to E. Morrill Cody, Paris	1959 Feb 16	Box 1: folder 46

Cunard, Nancy, London, to Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 2p.	1959 Mar 1	Box 1: folder 47

Cunard, Nancy, London, to Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 3p.	1959 Mar 20	Box 1: folder 48

Cunard, Nancy, London, to Morrill Cody, Paris, France, TLS 1p. plus env.	1959 Apr 1	Box 1: folder 49

Cunard, Nancy, London, to Morrill Cody, Paris, France, TLS 2p. plus env.	1959 Apr 13	Box 1: folder 50

Cunard, Nancy, Gourdon, France, to Morrill Cody, Paris, France, ANS 1p. postcard	1959 Dec 1	Box 1: folder 51

Cunard, Nancy, Nice, Grimaldi, France, to Morrill Cody, Paris, France, TLS 2p. plus env.	1959 Dec 15	Box 1: folder 52

de Falla, Manuel, Alta Gracia, Argentina, to Morrill Cody'21, Buenos Aires, TLS	1945 Oct 25	Box 1: folder 53

de Falla, Manuel, Alta Gracia, Argentina, to Morrill Cody'21, Buenos Aires, TLS	1946 Jun 14	Box 1: folder 54

de Falla, Manuel, Alta Gracia, Argentina, to Morrill Cody'21, Buenos Aires, TLS	1946 Aug 15	Box 1: folder 55

de Falla, Manuel, Alta Gracia, Argentina, to Morrill Cody'21, Buenos Aires, TLS	1946 Oct 23	Box 1: folder 56

Dos Passos, John, Westmoreland, Virginia, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TNS 1p.	1959 Feb 16	Box 1: folder 57

Duchamp, Marcel, á bord de Champlain, á [E. Morrill Cody], n.p., ALS 1p.	[1933 Nov]	Box 1: folder 58

Duchamp, Marcel, New York, á E. Morrill Cody, Paris, ALS 2p.	1957 Jan 30	Box 1: folder 59

Duchamp, Marcel, Cadaques, Gerona, [Spain], á E. Morrill Cody, Paris, ANS 1p. PC	1959 Jun 20	Box 1: folder 60

Dudley, Katherine, n.p., to E. Morrill Cody, n.p. ALS 1 p.	1959 Nov 24	Box 1: folder 61

Hemingway, Ernest, Nairobi, Kenya, to Morrill Cody, Dobbs Ferry, New York, ANS 1p. plus envelope	1934 Jan 2	Box 1: folder 62

Hemingway, Ernest, Paris, to [E. Morrill Cody], n.p., ANS 1p.	1933 Nov 20	Box 1: folder 63

Hemingway, Ernest, [Paris], to [E. Morrill Cody, Paris], ALS 1p.	[1933 Sep]	Box 1: folder 64

Hiler, Hilaire, New York, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 1p.	1959 Feb 21	Box 1: folder 65

Hiler, Hilaire, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, France, TLS 1p. plus envelope	1960 Jan 8	Box 1: folder 66

Huddleston, Sisley, Saint-Pierre-D'Autils to E. Morrill Cody, n.p. ALS 1p.	1930 Jul 29	Box 1: folder 67

Huddleston, Sisley, Saint-Pierre-D'Autils to E. Morrill Cody, n.p. TNS 1p.	1933 Oct 13	Box 1: folder 68

Hughes, Langston, [New York, NY], to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, France TLS 1p. plus env.	1959 Oct 8	Box 1: folder 69

Hughes, Langston, [New York], to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, France TLS 1p.	1959 Nov 4	Box 1: folder 70

Kahler, Woodland, [Paris], to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p.	1959 Mar 18	Box 1: folder 71

Le Breton, Andre, [Paris] á [E. Morrill Cody], n.p., ALS 1p.	1959 Nov 22	Box 1: folder 72

Masson, Andre, Paris, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, ALS 1p. plus envelope	1958 Feb 3	Box 1: folder 73

McAlmon, Robert. Caldetas, Barcelona, Spain, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 2p.	1933 Jul 16	Box 1: folder 74

Mauriac, Francois, [St. Maixant-Gironde, France], to [Morrill Cody], n.p., ANS 1p. PC	[1959?]	Box 1: folder 75

Maurois, André, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, á Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p.	1959 Nov 20	Box 1: folder 76

Milhaud, Darius, Oakland, California, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 1p.	[1959] Apr 15	Box 1: folder 77

Milhaud, Darius, [Paris], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 1p.	[1959] Nov 19	Box 1: folder 78

Miller, Eve, Big Sur, California, to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 16	Box 1: folder 79

Moore, Marianne, [Brooklyn, New York], to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 15	Box 1: folder 80

Moore, Marianne, [New York], to E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p. plus envelope	1959 Apr 12	Box 1: folder 81

Picabia, Gabriel, Laval, Mayenne, [France], á E. Morrill Cody, [France], ANS 1p.	1959 Dec 31	Box 1: folder 82

Poulenc, Frances, n.p., á E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 1p.	1959 Nov 24	Box 1: folder 83

Pound, Ezra, Siena, [Italy], to E. Morrill Cody, Figueras, Cadaques, Spain, ANS 1p. PC	[1933 Jul 18]	Box 1: folder 84

Queneau, Raymond, n.p., to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ANS 1p.	1959 Nov 18	Box 1: folder 85

Reyes, Alfonso, n.p., to Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 1p.	[1947]	Box 1: folder 86

Romains, Jules, Paris, á E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1959 Nov 26	Box 1: folder 87

Roosevelt, Eleanor, Hyde Park, New York, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TNS 1p. plus envelope	1948 Sep 1	Box 1: folder 88

Saillet, Maurice, Paris, á E. Morrill Cody, Paris, TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 12	Box 1: folder 89

Sitwell, Edith, Florence, Italy, to E. Morrill Cody, Davis, France, ALS 2p. plus envelope	1959 Feb 25	Box 1: folder 90

Slocombe, George, [Paris], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 1p.	1959 Apr 1	Box 1: folder 91

Stewart, Donald Ogden, [London], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., ALS 2p.	1959 Feb 14	Box 1: folder 92

Supervielle, Jules, [Paris], to [Morrill Cody], n.p., ALS 1p.	1959 Nov 20	Box 1: folder 93

Toklas, Alice B., Paris, France, to E. Morrill Cody '21, Paris, France, ALS 1p. plus env.	1959 Mar 25	Box 1: folder 94

Toklas, Alice B., Paris, France, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p. ALS 1p. plus env.	1959 Mar 3	Box 1: folder 95

Vail, Laurence, Solda, Prov. di Bolagno, Italy, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p.	1933 Jul 27	Box 1: folder 96

Vail, Laurence, Altmünster, Transea, Austria, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p.	1933 Sep 5	Box 1: folder 97

Williams, William Carlos, [Rutherford, New Jersey], to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TLS 1p.	1959 Feb 13	Box 1: folder 98

Wilson, Edmund, Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to E. Morrill Cody, n.p., TNS 1p.	1959 Feb 16	Box 1: folder 99

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Contributors

Beach, Sylvia.
Cody, Morrill, 1901-
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Toklas, Alice B.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.

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