 | Louise Bryant |
The personal papers of Louise Bryant -- one of the first women to become a famous foreign correspondent and who is noted for her reporting on the Russian Revolution -- are now part of the Sterling Memorial Library's collection, acquired in an unexpected manner.
Believed by Bryant's biographers to be lost, the papers unexpectedly turned up among the papers of William C. Bullitt, the first ambassador to the Soviet Union and later ambassador to France, who was Bryant's third husband. Anne Moen Bullitt, the daughter of Bryant and Bullitt, donated her father's papers to Yale. When boxes of his papers arrived from Ireland, library archivists were astonished by the quantity and quality of materials relating to Bryant, and realized that they had stumbled upon Bryant's "lost" papers.
The papers contain Bryant's notes on what she witnessed in Russia during the communist revolution of 1917, as well as several poems written by Eugene O'Neill -- with whom Bryant had had a short but intense affair -- when he was a young playwright.
In addition, the papers include an extensive collection of letters to Bryant, photographs, journalism notes and many of her unpublished poems, plays and short stories.
Bryant was born in 1885. Her reporting on the Russian Revolution appeared in hundreds of American newspapers and, for a brief period, she was one of the leading authorities in the United States on the new Soviet government, publishing two books on the subject. She knew personally and interviewed many of the leading figures of revolutionary Russia, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Alexandr Kerensky. Her second husband was the radical journalist John Reed, a close friend of Lenin's and author of "Ten Days That Shook the World," about the Russian Revolution. Reed and Bryant are the subject of the 1981 motion picture "Reds," starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.
The Louise Bryant collection is now open to researchers in the Manuscripts and Archives collection at Sterling Library. For further information, contact William Massa at william.massa@yale.edu or (203) 432-1735. A guide to the Bryant papers may be found at http://mssa.library.yale.edu/findaids/stream.php?xmlfile=mssa.ms.1840.xml.
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